Patents Assigned to LLC
  • Patent number: 11893530
    Abstract: Systems, method and computer readable medium are provided for automated storage and retrieval. User authentication information is received via a user interface for a dynamic storage and retrieval device. The user identity is verified based upon the authentication information and previously stored authentication data. Order information is retrieved for an order associated with the user following the verifying of user identity, the order information indicating one or more locations for items associated with the order. Instructions are transmitted to initiate a physical opening of at least one of the dynamic storage and retrieval device and at least one static storage location to enable the user to retrieve at least one item of the order, the static storage location including a controller controlling a locking mechanism and communicatively coupled to the dynamic storage and retrieval device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Paul Edward Durkee, Stuart William Clark, Colin Holmes, Jason Shaffer, Mark Ibbotson, John Suarez
  • Patent number: 11895343
    Abstract: Example solutions for video frame action detection use a gated history and include: receiving a video stream comprising a plurality of video frames; grouping the plurality of video frames into a set of present video frames and a set of historical video frames, the set of present video frames comprising a current video frame; determining a set of attention weights for the set of historical video frames, the set of attention weights indicating how informative a video frame is for predicting action in the current video frame; weighting the set of historical video frames with the set of attention weights to produce a set of weighted historical video frames; and based on at least the set of weighted historical video frames and the set of present video frames, generating an action prediction for the current video frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Gaurav Mittal, Ye Yu, Mei Chen, Junwen Chen
  • Patent number: 11891786
    Abstract: A carrier assembly for supporting a water closet having an outlet. The carrier assembly including a faceplate defining an opening therethrough, where the opening includes a first end configured to form a water-tight seal with the outlet of the water closet and a second end opposite the first end, and a fluid coupler defining a fluid pathway therethrough, where the fluid pathway includes an inlet and an outlet opposite the inlet, where the outlet is configured to be coupled to and form a water-tight seal with a wastewater pipe while the fluid pathway is in fluid communication with an internal volume of the wastewater pipe, and where the outlet has at least one degree of adjustability relative to the wastewater pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: ZURN INDUSTRIES, LLC
    Inventors: John Matthew Lawrence, Frank Schaetzke
  • Patent number: 11893216
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for implementing a multi-function control element in a Graphical User Interface (GUI). The method includes responsive to a cursor being away from a control element, present the control element in a compact state in the Graphical User Interface (GUI) within a display. The method also includes responsive to the cursor being over the control element, present the control element in an expanded state. The method includes responsive to receiving the selection of the option and determining the cursor is away from the control element, return the control element to the compact state from the expanded state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Cinthya Rossana Urasaki, Zachary Paul Maier
  • Patent number: 11891988
    Abstract: A fluid end assembly of a hydraulic fluid pump includes a housing having a first housing bore and a second housing bore offset axially from the first housing bore. A plate is fastened to the housing. The plate has a first plate bore axially aligned with the first housing bore and a second plate bore axially aligned with the second housing bore. A first removable valve cover closes the first housing bore and a second removable valve cover closes the second housing bore. A first retainer engages the first plate bore and abuts the first removable valve cover and a second retainer engages the second plate bore and abuts the second removable valve cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: GD ENERGY PRODUCTS, LLC
    Inventors: Chance Ray Mullins, Konner Casey Kay
  • Patent number: 11890473
    Abstract: An apparatus, system and technique selectively eliminates the noxious signal components in a neuronal signal by creating an interfering electrical signal that is tuned to a given frequency corresponding to the oscillatory pattern of the noxious signal, resulting in a modified neuronal signal that substantially reproduces a normal, no-pain neuronal signal. The disclosed system and technique of pain relief is based on the hypothesis that the temporal profile of pain signals encodes particular components that oscillate at unique and quantifiable frequencies, which are responsible for pain processing in the brain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Lumbrera LLC
    Inventors: Ricardo Vallejo, David Leonardo Cedeno, William J. Smith
  • Patent number: 11893363
    Abstract: A unit test generation system employs a neural transformer model with attention to generate candidate unit test sequences given a focal method of a programming language. The neural transformer model is pre-trained with source code programs and natural language text and fine-tuned with mapped test case pairs. A mapped test case pair includes a focal method and a unit test case for the focal method. In this manner, the neural transformer model is trained to learn the semantics and statistical properties of a natural language, the syntax of a programming language and the relationships between the code elements of the programming language and the syntax of a unit test case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC.
    Inventors: Dawn Drain, Neelakantan Sundaresan, Alexey Svyatkovskiy, Michele Tufano
  • Patent number: 11895071
    Abstract: Disclosed embodiments pertain to filtering application notifications from one or more applications on an electronic device. A request can be received from an application installed on the electronic device to present a notification. In response, a machine learning model is invoked that is trained to generate a relevancy score for a notification based on historical behavior of the user with respect to previous notifications from the application as well as the active context of the user. The relevancy score can be compared with a threshold to determine whether the threshold is satisfied. Notification filtering can be performed based on whether or not the threshold is satisfied. The method can filter out the notification from presentation if the threshold is satisfied and present the notification if the threshold is unsatisfied, or vice versa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Kathryn Tikoian, Joshua Edwards, Tyler Maiman
  • Patent number: 11889818
    Abstract: In a method and system for managing a social group, the method includes determining a group member behavior from a member position relative to the social group, and inferring a member state from the member behavior. Spatial, spatio-temporal, and biometric data may be used. A social group management system includes an inference engine that infers a member state from the behavior of a monitored member. Another social group management method includes characterizing a first monitored member of the social group as a first discrete element; characterizing at least a second monitored member of the social group as at least a second discrete element; and determining a characteristic displacement between the first monitored member and at least the second monitored member in accordance with a discrete element method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: FORT SUPPLY TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Malcolm Randall Harvey, Ian Robert Harvey, Nephi Taylor Harvey
  • Patent number: 11894112
    Abstract: A method for improving a physician's workflow by optimizing the physician's access to patient data during a visit of patients to a medical facility includes an electronic medical record (EMR) processor implementing a Health Value Analytics (HVA) component and receiving inputs from EMR/HVA devices. In response, the EMR processor creates value baselines for patient visits, generates a health care value continuum based on a visit of a first patient to the medical facility, and generates a comparison of the health care value continuum to a value baseline, detects a location, on a display screen of the EMR/HVA device, of an EMR record for the first patient; provides the comparison for display in a location adjacent to the displayed EMR record for the first patient; detects replacement of the EMR record with an EMR record for a second patient; and in response to the replacement, discontinues display of the HVA page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Healthcare Value Analytics, LLC
    Inventors: George Fidone, G. Edward Powell, N. Edward White, Van Marshall, Mark Lane, Brett M. Rader, Justin Fidone
  • Patent number: 11895351
    Abstract: A multiple-identity secure device (MISD) persistently may store an identification code. The identification code may be stored in an integral memory of the device, or on an interchangeable card received in a physical interface of the MISD. The MISD may generate one or more unique identities (e.g., network addresses) from the stored identification code. The generated identities may be dynamically generated or may be securely stored in the MISD for subsequent retrieval. The generated identities may generate in accordance with an addressing scheme, a global/network setting, or as determined from a received data transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventor: Steven J. Reynolds
  • Patent number: 11890678
    Abstract: Systems and methods for removing an oxide layer in an additive manufacturing process are provided. A direct write machine may be used to create wire bonds for semiconductors. The direct write machine may deposit a conductive print material between bond pads to create interconnections. The bond pads may comprise aluminum and an aluminum oxide layer on an outer surface. The presence of an aluminum oxide layer may decrease the electrical connection between the wire bond and the aluminum substrate. To remove the aluminum oxide layer, an abrasive tool is provided to ultrasonically abrade the aluminum oxide layer while the conductive print material is being deposited. The conductive print material may include abrasive additives materials to further aid in abrading the aluminum oxide layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Barbara D. Young, Jeffery J. Warger
  • Patent number: 11891077
    Abstract: Implementations relate to enabling of authorization of certain automated assistant functions via one or more modalities available within a vehicle. Implementations can eliminate wasting of computational and communication resources by at least allowing other users to authorize execution of certain input commands from a user, without requesting the user to re-submit the commands. The vehicle can include a computing device that provides access to restricted data, which can be accessed in order for an action to be performed by the automated assistant. However, when a restricted user requests that the automated assistant perform an action involving accessing the restricted data, the automated assistant can be authorized or unauthorized to proceed with fulfilling the request via a modality controlled by an unrestricted user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Vikram Aggarwal, Moises Morgenstern Gali
  • Patent number: 11893459
    Abstract: A method includes identifying records in a database for labeling; presenting one of the records in the database to a first labeling entity; and receiving a first observation on an information source in the one of the records from the first labeling entity. The first observation has one of a plurality of observation types associated therewith. The plurality of observation types including a validation observation type in which the first observation comprises a confirmation of whether a second observation on the information source in the one of the records from another labeling entity is accurate and an edit for the second observation when the second observation is confirmed as inaccurate. The one of the records is updated in the database with the first observation on the information source in the one of the records from the first labeling entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: CHANGE HEALTHCARE HOLDINGS LLC
    Inventors: Christopher Jacoby, Thomas Chase Corcoran, Adrian Lam
  • Patent number: 11893311
    Abstract: A method includes determining, by an assistant executing at one or more processors, a default group of actions that the assistant is configured to execute in response to receiving a particular audible command. The method includes determining, by the assistant, based on the default group of actions and a user profile associated with a particular user, a custom group of actions that the assistant is configured to execute in response to receiving the particular audible command from the particular user. The method also includes receiving, by the assistant, an indication of the particular audible command, and determining, by the assistant, whether the indication of particular audible command originated from the particular user. The method further includes, responsive to determining that the indication of particular audible command originated from the particular user, executing, by the assistant, each action from the custom group of actions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Vikram Aggarwal, Michael Andrew Goodman
  • Patent number: 11891538
    Abstract: This disclosure provides corrosion-resistant coatings that significantly improve corrosion resistance compared to the prior art. The corrosion protection system senses gradients in electrical potential, pH, and metal ion concentration, and then automatically halts corrosion. Some variations provide a gradient-responsive corrosion-resistant coating comprising: a first layer comprising a transition metal oxide and mobile cations; a second layer comprising a biphasic polymer, wherein the biphasic polymer contains ionic groups, wherein the biphasic polymer comprises a discrete phase and a continuous transport phase, wherein the continuous transport phase is capable of delivering oligomers in response to corrosion byproducts, and wherein the oligomers are ionically crosslinkable with metal cations from a base metal substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: HRL Laboratories, LLC
    Inventors: Adam Gross, John Vajo, Jason Graetz
  • Patent number: 11890960
    Abstract: Configuring chargers at a charging site is provided. A data processing system can include a processor coupled with memory and configured to identify a configuration. The configuration can indicate a plurality of chargers coupled with a first line of an electrical panel to conduct power at a first phase and a second line of the electrical panel to conduct power at a second phase different than the first phase. The one or more processors can cause, based on the configuration and operational characteristics associated with one or more of the plurality of chargers, a controller to deliver power to a charger of the plurality of chargers via the first line and the second line based on the power capacity of the electrical panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Rivian IP Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Jaivardhan S. Bhati, Lingxiao Ma, Siqing Lee, Cecilia An Zhou, Yixin Cao, Bryan Duc Duong
  • Patent number: 11895074
    Abstract: An email ranking system assigns scores to emails of a user based on actions that other recipients of the emails have taken with respect to the emails. In determining the scores, the email ranking system may weight each recipient's action based on how closely connected the recipient is to the user and a type of connection the recipient has to the user. Each email's score may represent a likelihood that the email contains content that is important to the user. A client device may display the user's emails based on the scores. The client device may list the emails in descending order based on the scores, enabling the user to prioritize review of emails that are more likely to be important to the user. In this way, the email ranking system improves the client device by helping the user more quickly identify important emails.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Maurizio Cibelli
  • Patent number: 11892689
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an optical fiber alignment device that has an alignment housing that includes first and second ends. The alignment housing defines a fiber insertion axis that extends through the alignment housing between the first and second ends. The alignment housing includes a fiber alignment region at an intermediate location between the first and second ends. First and second fiber alignment rods are positioned within the alignment housing. The first and second fiber alignment rods cooperate to define a fiber alignment groove that extends along the fiber insertion axis. The first and second fiber alignment rods each having rounded ends positioned at the first and second ends of the alignment housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: COMMSCOPE TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventors: Michael Gurreri, Robert Charles Flaig, Randall Bobby Paul, Danny Willy August Verheyden, David Donald Erdman, Dwight A. Bretz
  • Patent number: 11892699
    Abstract: A cable assembly includes a cable and a cable mounting clamp. The cable mounting clamp includes a base removably connectable to a surface. The base may include a tab removably insertable into an aperture defined in the surface and a lock releasably connectable to the surface. The base further includes an outer body which defines an inner channel and a support ramp disposed within the inner channel, the inner channel extending along a longitudinal axis. The cable mounting clamp further includes a cap connectable to the base to further define the inner channel therebetween. The cable mounting clamp further includes a roller tube disposed within the inner channel and rotatably mounted on the support ramp, the roller tube rotatable about the longitudinal axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: AFL Telecommunications LLC
    Inventors: Wilfred J. Courchaine, Shirley Ball