Patents Assigned to LLC
  • Systems and methods for logging temperatures of food products
    Patent number: 11933674
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for logging temperatures of food products using a temperature assembly including a housing and one or more temperature sensors, e.g., an infrared sensor for surface temperatures and an elongate probe for acquiring a temperature within a food product, and a mobile electronic device including a camera, a communication interface for communicating with the temperature assembly, a processor configured to acquire a temperature reading from the temperature assembly and an image from the camera when the temperature reading is acquired, and memory for storing the temperature reading and image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Avery Dennison Retail Information Services LLC
    Inventor: Daniel Riscalla
  • Columnar-carbon and graphene-plate lattice composite
    Patent number: 11932539
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are pristine graphene sheets with columns formed of fullerene nanotubes between the graphene sheets for use as body armor, semiconductor, battery anode, solar panels, heat sinks, structural concrete members, structural steel members, precast concrete structural members, bridges, highways, streets, skyscrapers, sidewalks, foundations, dams, industrial plants, canals, airports, structural composites, aircraft, military equipment, and civil infrastructure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Graphul Industries LLC
    Inventor: Brian Michael Parker
  • Multi-core polymer optical fibre and the fabrication thereof
    Patent number: 11931977
    Abstract: A method of fabricating a multi-core polymer optical fibre comprises arranging optical fibre preforms in a stack, the optical fibre preforms each comprising a polymer core and polymer cladding surrounding the polymer core; and drawing and bonding the stack to form the multi-core polymer optical fibre. Any contaminants or impurities which collect on outer surfaces of the preforms may be confined to boundaries between the preforms, which may avoid attenuation of signals passed through the cores while at the same time reducing crosstalk between cores of the final manufactured fibre. Also provided is a multi-core polymer optical fibre obtainable by the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Paolo Costa, Gilberto Brambilla, Kai Shi, Hitesh Ballani, Richard James Baca
  • Gas spring and damper assemblies as well as suspension systems including same
    Patent number: 11932067
    Abstract: End member assemblies having a longitudinal axis are dimensioned for securement to a flexible spring member. The end member assemblies include a first end member with a first surface portion and a plurality of projections disposed in peripherally-spaced relation to one another about the longitudinal axis. A second end member includes a plurality of grooves dimensioned to receive one of projections. Gas spring and damper assemblies include a damper assembly and a gas spring assembly that includes an end member assembly as well as an end member assembly with a flexible spring member secured between the end member assemblies. A suspension system including one or more gas spring and damper assemblies is also included.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Firestone Industrial Products Company, LLC
    Inventor: Peter W. Lauzon
  • Cooling system with oil return to accumulator
    Patent number: 11933527
    Abstract: A cooling system drains oil from low side heat exchangers to vessels and then uses compressed refrigerant to push the oil in the vessels back towards a compressor. Generally, the cooling system operates in three different modes of operation: a normal mode, an oil drain mode, and an oil return mode. During the normal mode, a primary refrigerant is cycled to cool one or more secondary refrigerants. As the primary refrigerant is cycled, oil from a compressor may mix with the primary refrigerant and become stuck in a low side heat exchanger. During the oil drain mode, the oil in the low side heat exchanger is allowed to drain into a vessel. During the oil return mode, compressed refrigerant is directed to the vessel to push the oil in the vessel back towards a compressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Heatcraft Refrigeration Products LLC
    Inventor: Shitong Zha
  • Adaptive vehicle motion control system
    Patent number: 11934194
    Abstract: Systems and methods for controlling the motion of an autonomous are provided. In one example embodiment, a computer implemented method includes obtaining, by one or more computing devices on-board an autonomous vehicle, data associated with one or more objects that are proximate to the autonomous vehicle. The data includes a predicted path of each respective object. The method includes identifying at least one object as an object of interest based at least in part on the data associated with the object of interest. The method includes generating cost data associated with the object of interest. The method includes determining a motion plan for the autonomous vehicle based at least in part on the cost data associated with the object of interest. The method includes providing data indicative of the motion plan to one or more vehicle control systems to implement the motion plan for the autonomous vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: UATC, LLC
    Inventors: Albert Costa, Michael L. Phillips, Michael Bode
  • Biocarbon blends with optimized fixed carbon content, and methods for making and using the same
    Patent number: 11932814
    Abstract: In some variations, the invention provides a biocarbon composition comprising a low fixed carbon material with a fixed carbon concentration from 20 wt % to 55 wt %; a high fixed carbon material with a fixed carbon concentration from 50 wt % to 100 wt % (and higher than the fixed carbon concentration of the low fixed carbon material; from 0 to 30 wt % moisture; from 0 to 15 wt % ash; and from 0 to 20 wt % of one or more additives (such as a binder).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: CARBON TECHNOLOGY HOLDINGS, LLC
    Inventors: James A. Mennell, Dustin Slack, Daren Daugaard
  • Method, electronic device and computer program product for processing data
    Patent number: 11934287
    Abstract: A method, electronic device, and computer program product for processing data is disclosed. The method includes acquiring a configuration file for generating and sending a structured report, the structured report involving analysis of an application. The method also includes acquiring, based on an address of a data source in the configuration file, data from the data source to add the data to the structured report, the data source including the same type of data generated by the application. The method includes sending, based on an identifier of a target server in the configuration file, the structured report to the target server for analyzing the application. With this method, the format of a structured report to be acquired can be adjusted at any time without version upgrade, thereby saving time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
    Inventors: Weiyang Liu, Yongbing Xue, Jinjin Wang, Mengze Liao, Qi Wang
  • Data management and de-duplication at a storage server
    Patent number: 11934367
    Abstract: A management server is configured to detect that a request to add a new column of data to a storage server has been received, determine that the new column of data is a duplicate of a column of data already stored at the storage server by comparing metadata describing the new column and the metadata describing the tables stored at the storage server, and, in response to the new column of data being the duplicate of the column of data already stored in the storage server, generate, by an interceptor application of the management server, an indication that the new column of data is already stored at the storage server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: T-Mobile Innovations LLC
    Inventor: Varsha Borhade
  • Variable trace width for individual vertical cavity surface emitting laser channels for time of flight illuminators
    Patent number: 11936158
    Abstract: In some implementations, a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) array may comprise a plurality of channels, a plurality of traces, and a plurality of emitters. A channel, of the plurality of channels, may include a set of emitters, of the plurality of emitters, arranged in a row of emitters. The channel may include a trace, of the plurality of traces, that has a trace width that is tapered along a length of the trace. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Lumentum Operations LLC
    Inventors: Mohammad Ali Shirazi Hosseini Dokht, Ajit Vijay Barve, Matthew Glenn Peters
  • Additive manufactured cushioned component
    Patent number: 11932142
    Abstract: A seat assembly includes a cushioned component having a lattice matrix. An air bladder assembly is covered by the lattice matrix. The air bladder assembly includes a plurality of air bladders supported on a platform assembly. Each air bladder includes a body portion operable between deflated and inflated conditions. Each air bladder includes a connection stem. A support plate includes a plurality of access apertures disposed therethrough. The air bladder assembly is operably coupled to the support plate. Each air bladder is aligned with at least one access aperture of the plurality of access apertures. A carrier assembly includes a plurality of mounting apertures disposed through an outer surface thereof. The carrier assembly receives the connection stem of each air bladder through at least one mounting aperture of the plurality of mounting apertures of the carrier assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Megan Romelfanger, Victoria Leigh Schein, Brian Boland, Patrick Maloney, Alex Perkins, Marcos Silva Kondrad
  • Adjustable support stand
    Patent number: 11933569
    Abstract: An adjustable support stand can include a front support on a first end of the adjustable support stand having a grip comprised of a first, front support material; and a rear support on an opposing, second end of the adjustable support stand having a grip comprised of a first, rear support material, wherein the front and the rear supports can each have at least two vertical arms, at least one of the supports can have vertically stacked chevron voids on each arm, and the chevron voids can be deformable by the object being worked upon to secure and grip the object in place.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: New Revo Brand Group, LLC
    Inventors: Ryan Chernik, Matthew C. Morris, Ryan Jacobson, Mike Rhode
  • Extrusion nozzle for additive manufacturing
    Patent number: 11931958
    Abstract: A nozzle for additive manufacturing having a body having a thermally conductive material, a front side opposite a back side, a first side opposite a second side, the first side and the second side connected to and between the front side and the back side. The nozzle further has a top end opposite an extrusion end, and the body tapers at the extrusion end to a nozzle opening. A first conduit extends through the body from an opening in the top end to the nozzle opening in the extrusion end. A heater conduit, adjacent to the first conduit, extends from a heater opening in the top end and into the body towards the extrusion end and a sensor conduit, adjacent to the first conduit, extends from a sensor opening in the top end and into body towards the extrusion end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: PRISAM LLC
    Inventors: Pritam Poddar, Adam Foster, Xavier Tarr, Justin Kon
  • Apparatus, computer-readable medium, and method for channel change detection-based short content identification
    Patent number: 11936945
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed that improve short content identification in an audio stream through channel change detection and audio block realignment. Example instructions cause one or more processors to form a first audio block from an audio stream, detect whether the first audio block contains a channel change, the first audio block being one of a plurality of audio blocks the accessed audio, determine an offset of time from a beginning of the first audio block to when the channel change occurs in response to the channel change being detected in the first audio block, and create a new audio block aligned to start at the offset of time beyond the beginning of the first audio block using audio information from the audio stream, the new audio block to include a single channel of audio stream data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventor: Kevin Keqiang Deng
  • One-piece neck tube
    Patent number: 11933457
    Abstract: A dewar for storing a cryogenic fluid includes an inner vessel, an outer vessel, and a one-piece neck tube. The outer vessel includes an outer upper jacket and an outer lower jacket configured to be joined and define an interior chamber. The inner vessel is positioned within the interior chamber so that an insulation space is defined. The insulation space is at least partially evacuated of air. The one-piece neck tube extends between the inner vessel and the central region of the outer upper jacket. The one-piece neck tube includes a first portion configured to couple with the outer upper jacket, and a second portion configured to couple with the inner vessel such that the second portion extends into the inner vessel. The second portion is integrally formed with the first portion as one-piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: MVE Biological Solutions US, LLC
    Inventor: Jeffry S. Dresow
  • Embeddable form for non-profit layer data capture for online donation transactions
    Patent number: 11935096
    Abstract: A system and method according to which a donation transaction is conducted. The method includes providing, via a network, an embeddable form, wherein the embeddable form is associated with a non-profit, and wherein the embeddable form is adapted to be displayed on a graphical user interface to receive payment data and payment metadata associated with the payment data. The method also includes: transmitting, via the embeddable form and the network, the payment data to a third-party server for tokenization of the payment data; receiving, by a software development kit (“SDK”) and via the network, a unique token associated with the payment data, and the payment metadata associated with the payment data; executing, by the SDK, the donation transaction in accordance with the unique token and the payment metadata; and storing, by the SDK, the unique token associated with the payment data and the payment metadata.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: IDONATE LLC
    Inventor: Raymond J. Gary, Jr.
  • Adapting automated assistant functionality based on generated proficiency measure(s)
    Patent number: 11935527
    Abstract: Implementations relate to generating a proficiency measure, and utilizing the proficiency measure to adapt one or more automated assistant functionalities. The generated proficiency measure is for a particular class of automated assistant actions, and is specific to an assistant device and/or is specific to a particular user. A generated proficiency measure for a class can reflect a degree of proficiency, of a user and/or of an assistant device, for that class. Various automated assistant functionalities can be adapted, for a particular class, responsive to determining the proficiency measure satisfies a threshold, or fails to satisfy the threshold (or an alternate threshold). The adaptation(s) can make automated assistant processing more efficient and/or improve (e.g., shorten the duration of) user-assistant interaction(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Matthew Sharifi, Victor Carbune
  • Swappable retractable tool tip (SRTT)
    Patent number: 11931820
    Abstract: Systems and techniques are directed to a Swappable Retractable Tool Tip (SRTT), which is designed as a next generation of friction stir welding tools and retractable tool tips. The disclosed SRTT may be “swappable,” having different types of retractable tool tips that can be assembled and employed as a part of the SRTT. A SRTT system can include at least: a blank tool holder, a piston, and a retractable tool tip. In operation, the blank tool holder allows air to flow to cause movement of the piston and the retractable tool tip. For example, compressed air can push up on the piston and the retractable tool tip, retracting it into a “home” position inside of the blank tool holder. Also, the SRTT can include springs that push down on the piston and the retractable tool tip, extending the tip into an “extended” position outside of the blank tool holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: MERCURY MISSION SYSTEMS, LLC
    Inventors: Kang Lee, Matthew Neil, Wayne Chan, Anthony Lai, Andrew Kostrzewski
  • Removable oil well seal
    Patent number: 11933134
    Abstract: A method of sealing a well having a casing wall comprises transporting a camera into the casing wall making a visual recording by visually recording perforations, microfractures or other breach type damages of the wall and vertical location thereof on the wall. Selecting a vertical location for sealing the well, the vertical location being determined from the visual recording. Transporting an expandable sealing device being made of an expandable metal and a hydraulic cylinder attached to the sealing device by a shear pin into the well. Expanding the sealing device to engage the casing wall such that a gas seal is made between the sealing device and the casing wall, the sealing device being expanded through engagement by the hydraulic cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: CAN Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Neil Rustin, Ann Copple, Craig Brown
  • Air starter with offset interface
    Patent number: 11933227
    Abstract: An air starter for an engine, such as a turbine engine, that includes a turbine for rotatably extracting mechanical power from a flow of fluid. The turbine includes a drive shaft that can be coupled to an output shaft to provide a rotational output. The interface between the drive shaft and the output shaft can be offset and include piloted portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Unison Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Sharad Pundlik Patil, Subrata Nayak, David Allan Dranschak, Shiloh Montegomery Meyers, Bajarang Agrawal, Jasraj Asdev, Ravindra Shankar Ganiger