Patents Assigned to LLC
  • Drawer lock assemblies
    Patent number: 11976497
    Abstract: A drawer lock assembly is provided including a housing having a front face and a rear face; a barrel having a first end extending perpendicularly from the front face of the housing and a second end extending through the rear face of the housing; a locking actuation member disposed through the first end of the barrel; a driver disposed through the second end of the barrel to engage the locking actuation member; a bolt including a first member offset from a second member in a parallel relationship, the first member includes a slot configured to receive a cam of the driver; and an endplate configured to retain the driver and bolt in the housing, the endplate including a channel configured to receive the second member of the bolt, wherein upon actuation of the locking actuation member, the second member extends beyond the housing to engage a recess of a structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Innovation Lock, LLC
    Inventors: William H. Bullwinkel, Robert Ludwig, David R. Wachsman, Alvin Ma
  • Multi-phrase responding in full duplex voice conversation
    Patent number: 11979360
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides method and apparatus for responding in a voice conversation by an electronic conversational agent. A voice input may be received in an audio upstream. In response to the voice input, a primary response and at least one supplementary response may be generated. A primary voice output may be generated based on the primary response. At least one supplementary voice output may be generated based on the at least one supplementary response. The primary voice output and the at least one supplementary voice output may be provided in an audio downstream, wherein the at least one supplementary voice output is provided during a time period adjacent to the primary voice output in the audio downstream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Li Zhou
  • Lightweight passenger privacy screen
    Patent number: 11975839
    Abstract: Described are privacy screens and privacy assemblies for passenger seats including a frame defining a perimeter of the privacy screen and shaped to partially wrap around a portion of a passenger seat, a textile shell connected with and surrounding the frame, and a sound-absorbing layer positioned within the frame and surrounded by the textile shell for conferring physical, visual, and sound privacy for an occupant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Safran Seats USA LLC
    Inventor: Arthur Glain
  • Modular storage system for barrels
    Patent number: 11974667
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a modular storage system for barrels. The modular storage system includes a base rick module, an aisle rick module, and an end rick module, whereby a plurality of each module type may be assembled to construct a rickhouse.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Koetter-Rax, LLC
    Inventors: Robert J. Koetter, Jr., Kenneth E. Koetter, Gerald T. Koetter, Raymond Todd Magner, Brian S. Keith, Greg Schmidt, Anthony Ferrera, Mark Duane Cooke, Clark Gregory, Darr Scott Thompson, Adam Ray
  • High density server chassis packaging
    Patent number: 11980008
    Abstract: A server chassis can include a first pair of connectors on a rear side of the server chassis arranged to face in a rear direction to engage with connectors of a server rack. Upon engaging of the connectors, the server chassis fluidly connects to a supply line and a return line of the server rack. The server chassis includes a second pair of connectors on a front side of the server chassis, to fluidly connect to a cooling system of a server node housed within the server chassis. The second pair of connectors are held to the server chassis with one or more movable attachments that enable coupling and decoupling of the second pair of connectors to the cooling system of the server node. Fluid channels fluidly connect the first pair of connectors to the second pair of fluid connectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: BAIDU USA LLC
    Inventor: Tianyi Gao
  • Device and method for monitoring social distancing and contact tracing
    Patent number: 11979817
    Abstract: Wireless device for use with a second wireless device in a communication network to: detect the unique identifier broadcast from the second wireless device; determine a distance from the second wireless device based on the unique identifier broadcast; and instruct the indicator to provide an alert when the distance from the second wireless device is less than a predetermined distance threshold for a predetermined period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: ARRIS ENTERPRISES LLC
    Inventor: William Jennings
  • Deployment of pod cohorts
    Patent number: 11977926
    Abstract: Techniques are described for orchestrating a cohort deployment in a computing network comprising a plurality of computing nodes implementing a virtualized computing network managed by an orchestrator. The cohort deployment is managed by a deployment broker configured to coordinate the cohort deployment. The cohort deployment includes multiple deployments, where the cohort deployment comprises a parent deployment and a spawned deployment that includes a dependency on the parent deployment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Ajay Punreddy, Piotr Galecki, Dinesh Kumar Ramasamy, Thuy Phuong Fernandes, Huanglin Xiong
  • Water-based compositions that resist dirt pick-up
    Patent number: 11976207
    Abstract: Water-based compositions containing a low VOC coalescent, a latex or water-dispersible polymer, and a water-insoluble UV-VIS (preferably, ultraviolet) absorber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: SWIMC LLC
    Inventors: Mary Jane Hibben, Mike Wildman, T. Howard Killilea, Iain Harvey
  • Systems and methods for matching color and appearance of target coatings
    Patent number: 11978233
    Abstract: A system and method include receiving target image data associated with a target coating. A feature extraction analysis process is applied to the target image data to determine a target image feature. The feature extraction analysis process includes dividing the target image into sub-images which contains a plurality of target pixels. A machine learning model identifies one or more types of flakes present in the target coating using target pixel features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: AXALTA COATING SYSTEMS IP CO., LLC
    Inventors: Larry E. Steenhoek, Dominic V. Poerio
  • Systems and methods for predicting television viewership patterns for advanced consumer segments
    Patent number: 11979623
    Abstract: Systems and methods create new viewership estimates to drive linear ad schedule optimizations. The systems use machine learning techniques to predict granular-level television viewership metrics for any consumer segment measurable at a national level. The systems provide capabilities beyond merely estimating and forecasting television viewership for age- and gender-based demographic segments. The systems accurately estimate viewership for any consumer segment, including behavioral, demographic, and other segmentation techniques and provide reliable viewership predictions. The systems model viewership by training an ensemble of machine learning models using historical consumer segments data and TV viewership data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS, LLC
    Inventor: Diana Saafi
  • Methods, systems, and media for synchronizing video streams
    Patent number: 11979619
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and media for synchronizing video streams are provided. In some embodiments, the method comprises: identifying a target video stream and a reference video stream, wherein the target video stream and the reference video stream are two different broadcasts of a program; generating, for the target video stream, a sequence of fingerprints; determining a time shift at which the sequence of fingerprints appears within the reference video stream; determining whether the target video stream is synchronized with the reference video stream by determining whether the time shift exceeds a predetermined threshold; and, in response to determining that the target video stream is not synchronized with the reference video stream, causing an electronic programming guide that includes an indication of the target video stream to be modified based on the time shift.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Jue Wang, James Sye Jiang Wong
  • Systems and methods for indicating a profitability of an asset of a service business
    Patent number: 11978128
    Abstract: Data associated a plurality of user interface elements may be retrieved from at least one database associated with a service business, such as a casino. At a first time, a first indication to turn on a first subset of the plurality of user interface elements may be received. The user interface elements may include content management, task management, property management, action management, player profiling, comp management, player development, asset tagging and flagging, profitability and comparative analysis, etc. Each of the first subset of user interface elements may be populated with the respective data associated that user interface element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: OPTX SOLUTIONS, LLC
    Inventor: Ashley Brooke Fiumara
  • Data anonymization for service subscriber's privacy
    Patent number: 11977659
    Abstract: An IoT/M2M service layer may be provided with the capability to protect user privacy. This functionality may allow the IoT/M2M service layer to anonymize user data, particularly when user data is shared with third party consumers. A privacy policy service may enable the IoT service layer system to generate anonymization (e.g., privacy) policies based on inputs such as legal obligations, subscriber privacy preferences, and an authorization level of the data consumer. Data anonymization policies may be output from the privacy policy service and may be sent to a data anonymization service, where raw data may be anonymized based on the one or more data anonymization policies. The output from the data anonymization service function may be a privatized (e.g., anonymized) version of data that may prevent the data consumer from discovering one or more identifying characteristics of a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Convida Wireless, LLC
    Inventors: Jiwan L Ninglekhu, Michael F. Starsinic, Dale N. Seed, Catalina Mihaela Mladin, William Robert Flynn, IV, Zhuo Chen, Quang Ly, Lu Liu
  • Method for synchronizing a virtual remote display screen of an application executing on a hardware device with a physical remote device and using the display screen and remote device to record information regarding human behavior
    Patent number: 11977727
    Abstract: A virtual remote display screen of an application executing on a hardware device is synchronized with a physical remote input device to allow a user to record information regarding human behavior for a program. The synchronization allows the information regarding human behavior to be recorded during a session by using either the virtual remote display screen or the physical remote input device, or a combination of both the virtual remote display screen and the physical remote input device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: SCRIBE SUPPORT SERVICES, LLC
    Inventor: Joseph A. Paoline
  • Object tracking with feature descriptors
    Patent number: 11978220
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for using feature descriptors to track objects depicted in images. One of the methods includes receiving hue, saturation, value data for an image and data that indicates an object detected in the image, generating a feature descriptor that includes hue data and saturation data, determining, for each of two or more tracked objects that each have a historical feature descriptor that includes historical hue data and historical saturation data, a distance between (i) the respective historical feature descriptor and (ii) the feature descriptor, associating the feature descriptor for the object with a tracked object from the two or more tracked objects, and tracking the tracked object in one or more images from a video sequence using the feature descriptor and the historical feature descriptor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: ObjectVideo Labs, LLC
    Inventors: Sung Chun Lee, Gang Qian, Sima Taheri, Sravanthi Bondugula, Narayanan Ramanathan, Allison Beach
  • Method and control system for controlling baler power-take-off speed
    Patent number: 11974522
    Abstract: A method for forming a bale of crop material in an agricultural baler. The method includes rotating a baler power-take-off (PTO) shaft at a rotational speed, rotating a bale of crop material in a bale chamber, and sensing, by at least one sensor, at least one bale ejection condition. The at least one sensor is configured to provide at least one bale ejection condition value corresponding to the at least one sensed bale ejection condition. The method further includes receiving, by a controller, the at least one bale ejection condition value, and adjusting, by the controller, the rotational speed of the baler PTO shaft responsive to the at least one bale ejection condition value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLC
    Inventors: Kevin M. Smith, John R. McClure
  • Treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and lung degeneration using activated fibroblasts and exosome derivatives thereof
    Patent number: 11975030
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure include methods and compositions for treatment of lung disease, including at least chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). In particular cases, fibroblasts (including activated fibroblasts) and/or exosomes thereof are provided to an individual for the treatment of COPD. In particular cases the fibroblasts are activated and/or express one or more particular markers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Figene, LLC
    Inventors: Pete O'Heeron, Thomas Ichim
  • Chainsaw clutch cover
    Patent number: D1025736
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Westcoast Saw, LLC
    Inventor: Gordon Perrigo
  • Vehicle front lower grille
    Patent number: D1025848
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Joel Piaskowski, Doyle Letson, Christopher Walter, Omead Dorandish
  • Clutch extension arm
    Patent number: D1025855
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: SOWELL & SON LLC
    Inventor: Jeffrey Eugene Sowell