Patents Assigned to LLC
  • Patent number: 11891440
    Abstract: The present invention provides for recombinant antibodies having the features of ruminant early colostrum antibodies that impart resistance to proteases and intestinal digestion. It is a feature of the present invention that when administered to animals including humans, pharmaceutical compositions comprising the novel recombinant antibodies of the present invention, advantageously exhibit resistance to proteases and intestinal digestion. Thus, pharmaceutical compositions of the recombinant antibodies of the invention may be used to deliver antibody therapeutics particularly by oral delivery to the gastrointestinal tract when oral delivery is advantageous.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: CIRCLE33 LLC
    Inventor: Randall Edward Burton
  • Patent number: 11895176
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and media for selecting video formats for adaptive video streaming are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Yeping Su, Balu Adsumilli
  • Patent number: 11893878
    Abstract: An alert generation system includes an alert generating device comprising an audial indicator and a visual indicator at one end. The system further includes a handheld alert generating device comprising a second audial indicator. A computing system is in data communication with the alert generating device and the handheld alert generating device. The computing system sends a signal to the alert generating device and the handheld alert generating device, and the alert generating device activates an alert via at least one of the audial indicator and the visual indicator, in response to the signal. The handheld alert generating device activates a second alert via the second audial indicator, in response to the signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Spartan Alert, LLC
    Inventors: Darin James Burau, Nathan Robertus
  • Patent number: 11893562
    Abstract: In some implementations, a terminal device may obtain exchange information associated with an exchange initiated at the terminal device. The exchange information may identify a medium used in the exchange. The terminal device may be configured to present a terminal-side user interface for performing a signing operation of the exchange. The terminal device may selectively obtain user information associated with the medium used in the exchange. The user information may identify a user device associated with the medium. The terminal device may transmit, to the user device and based on obtaining the user information, presentation information that identifies content for a user-side user interface for performing the signing operation at the user device. The terminal device may receive, from the user device, signing information associated with a performance of the signing operation at the user device via the user-side user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Jonatan Yucra Rodriguez, Sahil Verma, Jonathan Guan, Jennifer Chu
  • Patent number: 11893483
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for generating an output sequence from an input sequence. In one aspect, one of the systems includes an encoder neural network configured to receive the input sequence and generate encoded representations of the network inputs, the encoder neural network comprising a sequence of one or more encoder subnetworks, each encoder subnetwork configured to receive a respective encoder subnetwork input for each of the input positions and to generate a respective subnetwork output for each of the input positions, and each encoder subnetwork comprising: an encoder self-attention sub-layer that is configured to receive the subnetwork input for each of the input positions and, for each particular input position in the input order: apply an attention mechanism over the encoder subnetwork inputs using one or more queries derived from the encoder subnetwork input at the particular input position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Noam M. Shazeer, Aidan Nicholas Gomez, Lukasz Mieczyslaw Kaiser, Jakob D. Uszkoreit, Llion Owen Jones, Niki J. Parmar, Illia Polosukhin, Ashish Teku Vaswani
  • Patent number: 11894284
    Abstract: A semiconductor structure having a silver-indium transient liquid phase bonding joint is provided. With the ultra-thin silver-indium transient liquid phase bonding joint formed between the semiconductor device and the heat-spreading mount, its thermal resistance can be minimized to achieve a high thermal conductivity. Therefore, the heat spreading capability of the heat-spreading mount can be fully realized, leading to an optimal performance of the high power electronics and photonics devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: LMDJ MANAGEMENT LLC
    Inventors: Yongjun Huo, Chin Chung Lee
  • Patent number: 11892433
    Abstract: An electrospray ionization system used in mass spectrometry provides for improved current measurement. The system includes a fluid union, a fluid column coupled with a first port of the fluid union, a power source coupled with the fluid union and configured to apply a voltage potential to the fluid union, and an electrospray emitter coupled with a second port of the fluid union. The power source is coupled with the first port and configured to apply the voltage potential to the first port to restrict current leakage from the fluid union. The current sensing circuit is configured to determine an electrical current flow between the power source and the at least one of the fluid union and the first port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Thermo Finnigan LLC
    Inventors: Dale Lindseth, Joshua A. Silveira, Michael L. Poltash, Eloy R. Wouters, David E. Minkler
  • Patent number: 11890167
    Abstract: An ear cleaner is provided that includes an elongated handle, a spoon, and a disc intermediate the spoon and the disc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Quest Products, LLC
    Inventor: Richard Carl Olson
  • Patent number: 11891952
    Abstract: Systems and methods to increase intake air flow to a gas turbine engine of a hydraulic fracturing unit when positioned in an enclosure may include providing an intake expansion assembly to enhance intake air flow to the gas turbine engine. The intake expansion assembly may include an intake expansion wall defining a plurality of intake ports positioned to supply intake air to the gas turbine engine. The intake expansion assembly also may include one or more actuators connected to a main housing of the enclosure and the intake expansion assembly. The one or more actuators may be positioned to cause the intake expansion wall to move relative to the main housing between a first position preventing air flow through the plurality of intake ports and a second position providing air flow through the plurality of intake ports to an interior of the enclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: BJ Energy Solutions, LLC
    Inventors: Tony Yeung, Ricardo Rodriguez-Ramon, Joseph Foster
  • Patent number: 11893978
    Abstract: An audio sample including speech and ambient sounds is transmitted to a vehicle computer. Recorded audio is received from the vehicle computer, the recorded audio including the audio sample broadcast by the vehicle computer and recorded by the vehicle computer and recognized speech from the recorded audio. The recognized speech and text of the speech are input to a machine learning program that outputs whether the recognized speech matches the text. When the output from the machine learning program indicates that the recognized speech does not match the text, the recognized speech and the text are included in a training dataset for the machine learning program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Omar Makke, Oleg Gusikhin, Haysam M. Kadry
  • Patent number: 11894719
    Abstract: A rotor of an electric machine includes a rotor core defining a magnet channel extending axially between opposing ends of the rotor core. A permanent magnet is disposed in the channel and has opposing ends and opposing major sides. The magnet includes a central piece of anisotropic magnetic material having a first magnetically easy crystallographic axis, and a corner piece of anisotropic magnetic material joined to the central piece and having a second magnetically easy crystallographic axis that is oblique to the first easy axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Chuanbing Rong
  • Patent number: 11894876
    Abstract: Systems and methods for relaying upstream signals received from a plurality of subscribers to a remote head end. Some preferred embodiments include upstream transmitters in one or more Optical Network Units that may be dynamically and individually controlled to determine whether the upstream transmission is in burst mode or continuous mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises LLC
    Inventors: Venkatesh G. Mutalik, Thomas J. Cloonan, Ayham Al-banna, Ian G. Wheelock, Charles Peter Cheevers
  • Patent number: 11890830
    Abstract: Stock material units that may be used in a dunnage conversion machine. For example, stock material units include sheet material that may be fed into the dunnage conversion machine and may be converted thereby into dunnage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Pregis Innovative Packaging LLC
    Inventors: Thomas D. Wetsch, Eric C. Wright
  • Patent number: 11892284
    Abstract: Various embodiments illustrated herein disclose a sprocket wear gauge. The sprocket wear gauge comprises a first plate having a first opening of a first diameter and a second plate having a second opening of a second diameter. The first plate is mounted on one end of adjacent sprocket teeth of a plurality of sprocket teeth of a sprocket wheel. The second plate is mounted on an opposite end of the adjacent sprocket teeth of a plurality of sprocket teeth of a sprocket wheel. The first plate and the second plate are attached to each other using screws. A cylindrical pin is placed between the adjacent sprocket teeth and is configured to pass through at least one of the first opening of the first plate and the second opening of the second plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: INTELLIGRATED HEADQUARTERS, LLC
    Inventor: Ricardo Ugas Gonzalez
  • Patent number: 11890439
    Abstract: Intravesical devices are provided that are wholly deployable within the bladder of a patient in need of treatment and are well tolerated by the patient. The device may include an elastic body having a retention shape having (i) dimensions that provide intravesical mobility and that prevent voiding of the medical device through the urethra, and (ii) dimensions, buoyancy, or both, that exclude the medical device from entering the orifices of the ureters. The elastic body may exert a maximum acting force less than 1N when compressed to a shape with a maximum dimension in any dimension of 3 cm. The device may include a drug for controlled release within the bladder, for treatment of the bladder or a regional tissue. Methods of treatment are also provided that include selecting a patient in need of treatment in the bladder where tolerability of the treatment is a primary concern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: TARIS Biomedical LLC
    Inventors: Michael J. Cima, Heejin Lee
  • Patent number: 11890996
    Abstract: A quick release securing system is disclosed. The system may include a first plate, a second plate, a third plate, and a quick-release assembly. The first plate is coupled to an inside surface of a container, such as a tool bag, and to a second plate on the outside surface of the tool bag with fastening means. The second plate is releasably secured to the third plate which is fixedly coupled to a support structure, such as a UTV or an ATV. The second plate and third plate are quickly and easily attachable and detachable from each other by user operating a quick-release assembly of the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Jackson Design and Development, LLC
    Inventor: Conor Jackson
  • Patent number: 11894595
    Abstract: Example embodiments relate to substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) transitions. An example SIW may include a dielectric substrate having a top surface and a bottom surface and a first metallic layer portion coupled to the top surface of the dielectric substrate that includes a single-ended termination, an impedance transformer, and a metallic rectangular patch located within an open portion in the first metallic layer portion such that the open portion forms a non-conductive loop around the metallic rectangular patch. The SIW also includes a second metallic layer portion coupled to the bottom surface of the dielectric substrate and metallic via-holes electrically coupling the first metallic layer to the second metallic layer. The SIW may be implemented in a radar unit to couple antennas to a printed circuit board (PCB). In some examples, the SIW may be implemented with only a non-conductive opening that lacks the metallic rectangular patch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Waymo LLC
    Inventors: Edwin Lim, Tegan Argo, Marvin Weinstein
  • Patent number: 11891949
    Abstract: A system includes a gas turbine having a turbine stage disposed in a combustion gas path, wherein the turbine stage includes turbine vanes disposed upstream from turbine blades. The system includes an isothermal expansion system coupled to the turbine stage. The isothermal expansion system includes multi-fluid injectors configured to vary axial positions of combustion within a turbine stage expansion of the turbine stage to reduce temperature variations over the turbine stage expansion, wherein at least one of the multi-fluid injectors is coupled to each of the turbine vanes. Each of the multi-fluid injectors includes a fuel port configured to inject a fuel, an oxidant port configured to inject an oxidant, and a barrier fluid port configured to inject a barrier fluid between the fuel and the oxidant, wherein the barrier fluid is configured to delay mixing between the fuel and the oxidant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: GE Infrastructure Technology LLC
    Inventors: John Farrior Woodall, Joel Meador Hall
  • Patent number: 11894163
    Abstract: One example provides a ferrule for an implantable medical device including a frame body having an upper surface and an opposing lower surface, an interior perimeter surface extending between the upper and lower surfaces for attachment to an insulator body, and an exterior perimeter surface extending between the upper and lower surfaces for attachment to a housing. A flange extends from the exterior perimeter surface and has an upper surface facing the upper surface of the frame body, the upper surface of the flange to engage an interior surface of a housing of the implantable medical device to limit a position of the housing along the exterior perimeter surface in a direction toward the bottom surface of the frame body, wherein a distance of the top surface of the flange from the top surface of the frame body is greater than and proportional to a thickness of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Heraeus Medical Components LLC
    Inventor: Harold Holmberg
  • Patent number: 11894910
    Abstract: Technology for a repeater is disclosed. The repeater can include a first-direction signal path configured to amplify and filter a signal in a first-direction band using a first bandpass filter. The repeater can include a second-direction signal path configured to amplify and filter a signal in a second-direction band using a second bandpass filter. The second-direction band can be spectrally adjacent to the first-direction band. The first bandpass filter and the second bandpass filter can provide filtering to isolate the first-direction band from the spectrally adjacent second-direction band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Wilson Electronics, LLC
    Inventors: Christopher Ken Ashworth, Dale Robert Anderson, Casey James Nordgran