Patents Assigned to LLC
  • Composition, polymer composite article formed therewith, and method of preparing same
    Patent number: 11884821
    Abstract: A composition and a method for preparing a polymer composite article. The composition comprises (A) a filler in an amount of from 10 to 90 wt. The composition also comprises (B) a polymer in an amount of from 10 to 90 wt. %, wherein the (B) polymer is selected from polyolefins, polyamides, polyesters, or combinations thereof. Further, the composition comprises (C) an organopolysiloxane in an amount of from greater than 0 to 10 wt. %; the (C) organopolysiloxane having at least one silicon-bonded hydroxyl group and a viscosity of from 1,000 to 60,000 mPa·s at 25° C. The ranges for components (A)-(C) are based on the total weight of components (A), (B) and (C) in the composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignees: Dow Silicones Corporation, Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Keith Bruce, Igor Chorvath, Marc-Andre Courtemanche, Jon V. Degroot, Jr., Sean Gaal, Craig Gross, James Keenihan, Shawn Mealey, Scott Miller, Tom Parsons, Andrew Schlader, Cristina Serrat, Lauren Tonge
  • Camera-based in-cabin object localization
    Patent number: 11887385
    Abstract: Performing object localization inside a cabin of a vehicle is provided. A camera image is received of a cabin of a vehicle by an image sensor at a first location with respect to a plurality of seating zones of a vehicle. Object detection on the camera image is performed to identify one or more objects in the camera image. A machine-learning model trained on images taken at the first location is utilized to place the one or more objects into the seating zones of the vehicle according to a plurality of bounding boxes corresponding to the plurality of seating zones for the first location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Faizan Shaik, Robert Parenti, Medha Karkare
  • LED array with light intensity adaptive LED sidewalls
    Patent number: 11888100
    Abstract: A first LED with a first LED sidewall is disclosed. A second LED with a second LED sidewall facing the first LED sidewall is also disclosed. A first dynamic optical isolation material between the first LED sidewall and the second LED sidewall and configured to change an optical state based on a state trigger such that a light behavior at the first LED sidewall for a light emitted by one of the first LED and the second LED is determined by the optical state, is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Lumileds LLC
    Inventors: Kentaro Shimizu, Marcel Rene Bohmer, Daniel Estrada, Jacobus Johannes Franciscus Gerardus Heuts
  • Reducing scintillation noise in free-space optical communications
    Patent number: 11888533
    Abstract: System, method, and instrumentalities are described herein for transmitting information optically. The optical source may be configured to generate a beam. The beam may include a series of light pulses. The beam of light may be modulated. A modulator may be configured to modulate the series of light pulses in response to a data transmission signal, thereby encoding transmission data into the series of light pulses. The modulated beam of light may be received and both amplified and filtered. The filtered beam of light may be transmitted from to a detector having a photoreceiver. The photoreceiver may be configured to extract the transmission data from the filtered beam of light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Attochron, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas M. Chaffee, Wayne H. Knox, Alexander B. LeBon, Brian M. Gregory, Taz M. Colangelo
  • Data retrieval from hierarchical industrial asset datasets
    Patent number: 11886415
    Abstract: In some implementations, the method includes receiving data characterizing a user request indicative of retrieval of a portion of a hierarchical dataset associated with a hierarchical industrial asset and stored in a partition of a database. The user request includes pagination criteria and a search parameter. The method also includes selecting the portion of the hierarchical dataset based on the search parameter. The method further includes generating a plurality of data subsets from at least the portion of the hierarchical dataset. The searching is based on a threshold data subset size included in the pagination criteria. The generating includes dividing the portion of the hierarchical subset into the plurality of data subsets. The size of each data subset of the plurality of data subsets is less than the threshold data subset size. The method further includes providing the plurality of data subsets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Baker Hughes Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Karan Sonawane, Shreyas Lele, Mangesh Dashmukhe, Sandeep Patil
  • Adjustable support system for a building structure and a wall structure having an adjustable support system
    Patent number: 11885122
    Abstract: An adjustable support system has a base bracket member, a clip member, and an outer bracket. The base bracket member has a first end wall that overlays a substrate, a body wall extending outwardly therefrom and a second end wall opposite the first end wall. The clip member has a base bracket member coupling, and a projecting arm. The base bracket member coupling is attached to the first end wall and overlies a portion of the body wall. The projecting arm is spaceable apart from the body wall. The outer bracket has a spanning wall with inner and outer sides. An outer end wall extends from the outer side. The spanning wall is slidably positionable between the body wall of the base bracket member and the at least one clip member, to sandwich the same. Wall assemblies and methods are likewise disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: ADVANCED ARCHITECTURAL PRODUCTS, LLC
    Inventor: G. Matt Krause
  • Adjustable mount for securing fan accessory
    Patent number: 11885344
    Abstract: A mount is for attaching an accessory to a fan including a downtube. The mount includes a receiver adapted for connecting to the downtube. A retainer is adapted to receive the accessory. The retainer is adapted to support and rotate about the receiver so as to position the accessory in a desired orientation. Related methods of attaching an accessory to a fan are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: DELTA T, LLC
    Inventors: Gregory Willis Peterson, Vance Elliot Willis, David Matthew Ladnier, Richard Downey, Edmundo Monti Cortez, Brian Michael Borgel
  • User-equipment coordination set beam sweeping
    Patent number: 11889322
    Abstract: This document describes techniques and apparatuses for user-equipment coordination set (UECS) beam sweeping. In aspects, a user equipment (UE) receives an indication to coordinate beam sweeping with a UECS. The UE directs each UE in the UECS to perform a beam-training procedure by receiving a set of downlink beam transmissions, and forwards beam report information to a base station. In implementations, the UE receives an indication of one or more beam identities and one or more assigned time slots, and directs at least two UEs in the UECS to use specific beams indicated by the beam identities at specific time slots indicated by the assigned time slots, such as by transmitting a respective beam identity and a respective time slot to each UE of the at least two UEs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Jibing Wang, Erik Richard Stauffer
  • Methods of receiving data transmitted using unequally spaced constellations that provide reduced SNR requirements as compared to equally spaced constellations
    Patent number: 11889326
    Abstract: Communication systems are described that use unequally spaced constellations that have increased capacity compared to conventional constellations operating within a similar SNR band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Constellation Designs, LLC
    Inventors: Maged F. Barsoum, Christopher R. Jones
  • Two-part load control system mountable to a single electrical wallbox
    Patent number: 11889604
    Abstract: A load control system includes a load control device and a remote control for configuring and controlling operation of the load control device. The load control device and remote control may be mounted to an electrical wallbox. The system may be configured by associating the remote control with the load control device, and actuating a button on the remote control to configure the load control device. A second remote control device may be directly or indirectly associated with the load control device. The load control device and remote control may communicate via inductive coils that are magnetically coupled together. The remote control may be operable to charge a battery from energy derived from the magnetic coupling between the inductive coils. The load control device and remote control may include near-field communication modules that are operable to communicate wirelessly via near-field radiation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Lutron Technology Company, LLC
    Inventor: Lawrence R. Carmen, Jr.
  • Flame retardant compound on cable central member
    Patent number: 11886027
    Abstract: An optical fiber cable includes a central strength member, a bedding compound surrounding the central strength member, a plurality of buffer tubes stranded around the central strength member and the bedding compound such that the bedding compound forms to the buffer tubes and occupies substantially the entirety of an inner core area between the buffer tubes and the central strength member. At least one of the buffer tubes contains a plurality of optical fibers and a jacket surrounds the plurality of buffer tubes. The cable may further include a second bedding compound that fills interstices in an outer core area between the buffer tubes and the jacket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: CORNING OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS LLC
    Inventor: Michael Alexander Heinz
  • Resin, positive photosensitive resin composition and use
    Patent number: 11886115
    Abstract: A positive photosensitive resin composition comprises a resin, a diazonaphthoquinone compound and a solvent. The resin comprises a combination of any one or more of polyamic acid, polyamic ester and polyimide of a segment shown in the following structure; . The resin film formed by the positive photosensitive resin composition is applied to a semiconductor passivation film, a semiconductor element protective film, an insulating layer of an organic electroluminescent element, a flat film of a thin film transistor (TFT) substrate, a wiring protective insulating film of a circuit board and a flat film for displays and solid camera elements. The photosensitive resin film formed by the positive photosensitive resin composition has the characteristics of low shrinking rate and excellent heat resistance and resolving power, and has good application effect in electronic elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: YANTAI SUNERA LLC
    Inventors: Zhiguo Wang, Xuesong Jiang, Guangqiang Shao, Xinyu Qiu, Hongyin Dai, Baohua Hu
  • Deploying cloud-native services across control planes
    Patent number: 11886929
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and computer-readable media for deploying cloud-native services across a plurality of cloud-computing platforms. For example, systems disclosed herein identify resource identifiers associated with cloud-computing services (e.g., types of services) to be deployed on one or more resources capable of executing or otherwise providing cloud-native services. The systems disclosed herein further generate resource bindings including deployment specifications that include data for deploying cloud-native services on corresponding platform resources (e.g., cloud resources, edge resources). Using the resource bindings, the systems disclosed herein can deploy cloud-native services across multiple platforms via control planes configured to manage operation of resources on the different platforms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Haishi Bai, Mark Eugene Russinovich, Boris Markus Scholl, Yaron Schneider
  • Systems and methods for identifying wireless channels
    Patent number: 11889542
    Abstract: A network device may receive data for multiple wireless channels. The network device may determine an activity level or score for one or more of the wireless channels based on the received data. The network device may determine, based on the activity level for each wireless channel, a portion of the wireless channels that satisfy an activity level threshold. The network device may generate a ranking of the portion of the wireless channels that satisfy the activity level threshold. The ranking may be based on the activity level or score of each wireless channel. The network device may determine a wireless channel based on the ranking and may send an indication of the wireless channel to a user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Allen Huotari, Charles Moreman
  • Reducing hardware resource utilization for residual neural networks
    Patent number: 11886983
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure include systems and methods for reducing hardware resource utilization by residual neural networks. In some embodiments, a first matrix is received at a layer included in a neural network. The first matrix is compressed to produce a second matrix. The second matrix has a reduced dimensionality relative to a dimensionality of the first matrix. The second matrix is processed through a network block in the layer included in the neural network. The processed second matrix is expanded to produce a third matrix. The third matrix has a dimensionality that is equal to a dimensionality of the first matrix. The third matrix is added to the first matrix to produce a fourth matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Andy Wagner, Tiyasa Mitra, Marc Tremblay
  • Using machine learning for iconography recommendations
    Patent number: 11887226
    Abstract: In some implementations, a recommendation system may input text into a machine learning model that was trained using input specific to an organization associated with the text and was refined using input specific to a portion of the organization. The recommendation system may receive, from the machine learning model, a recommendation indicating one or more visual components, stored in a database associated with the organization, to use with the text. The machine learning model may use natural language processing and sentiment detection to parse the text. Accordingly, the recommendation system may receive the one or more visual components from the database and generate an initial draft including the text and the one or more visual components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Briana Shaver, Mark Morrison
  • Frequency band selection in a wireless access node
    Patent number: 11889543
    Abstract: A wireless access node serves wireless User Equipment (UE) over radio frequency bands. In the wireless access node, radio circuitry wirelessly receives signaling from the wireless UE that indicates received signal strengths and Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) layers for the radio frequency bands. Processing circuitry in the wireless access node selects one of the radio frequency bands based on the received signal strengths and the MIMO layers. The radio circuitry wirelessly exchanges user data with the wireless UE over the selected one of the frequency bands. In some examples, the processing circuitry also uses sector locations of the wireless UE for the frequency bands to select the one of the frequency bands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: T-MOBILE INNOVATIONS LLC
    Inventor: Sreekar Marupaduga
  • Pouch material for smokeless tobacco and tobacco substitute products
    Patent number: 11882866
    Abstract: A melt-blown fabric for pouching smokeless tobacco or a smokeless tobacco substitute can include melt-blown polymer fibers. The fabric can have a basis weight of less than 10 gsm and a tensile strength of at least 4 mJ in at least one predetermined direction. Method of making the fabric can include melt-blowing a polymeric material against a support surface and bonding the fibers or arranging them in a predetermined orientation. Pouched smokeless tobacco or tobacco substitute products including the fabrics provided herein can provide desirable flavor and tactile experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Altria Client Services LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Nathan Carroll, Shannon Maxwell Black, Yan Helen Sun, William J. Burke
  • Pharmaceutically acceptable salts of [3-(4- {2-butyl-1-[4-(4-chloro-phenoxy)-phenyl]-1H-imidazol-4-yl} -phenoxy)-propyl]-diethyl-amine
    Patent number: 11883383
    Abstract: The present invention relates to pharmaceutically acceptable salts of [3-(4-{2-butyl-1-[4-(4-chloro-phenoxy)-phenyl]-1H-imidazol-4-yl}-phenoxy)-propyl]-diethylamine (“COMPOUND I”) useful in the treatment of RAGE mediated diseases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: VTV THERAPEUTICS LLC
    Inventor: Juan Hu
  • Enhanced vehicle operation
    Patent number: 11884287
    Abstract: Operation data from one or more vehicle subsystems are input to a vehicle dynamics model. Predicted operation data of the one or more vehicle subsystems are output from the vehicle dynamics model. The operation data and the predicted operation data are input to an optimization program that is programmed to output control directives for the one or more vehicle subsystems. One or more vehicle subsystems are operated according to the output control directives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Yan Wang, Kai Wu, Dimitar Petrov Filev, Brandon M. Dawson