Patents Assigned to LLC
  • Patent number: 12291136
    Abstract: Described is a passenger seat having a seat member moveable between a stowed position and a deployed position and at least one actuator coupled to at least one portion of the seat member, wherein the at least one actuator is activable without direct contact with a passenger's hand to change a lock state of the seat member, and wherein an unlocked state of the seat member permits movement of the seat member between the stowed position and the deployed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Safran Seats USA LLC
    Inventors: Kristyan Khalil Escobar, Nicolas Chauland, Mark Anil Mathew
  • Patent number: 12292320
    Abstract: A sensor assembly for determining yield of grain harvested by a harvesting machine during harvesting operations. The sensor assembly includes a sensor housing, a displaceable sensor member and a displacement sensor. The sensor housing is mounted to the grain elevator housing above an upper sprocket of a conveyor disposed within the grain elevator housing. The sensor member is displaceably supported via the sensor housing within the elevator housing above the upper sprocket and along a direction of travel of the grain piles thrown by the conveyor flights rotating around the upper sprocket. The thrown grain piles produce a grain force on the sensor member causing a displacement of the sensor member in relation to the grain force. The displacement sensor generates a grain force signal corresponding to the displacement of the sensor member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Precision Planting LLC
    Inventors: Michael Strnad, Justin L Koch
  • Patent number: 12290128
    Abstract: A helmet and suit apparatus comprising a helmet with a lens that is connected to a yoke, a neck dam, or other garment via a seal ring assembly. In some embodiments, the apparatus has an air control system permitting air flow into and out of the helmet and for maintaining positive air pressure in the helmet. In further embodiments, the air control system has a series of passages and lens ports that permit air flow on to the inside surface of the lens for anti-fogging purposes, as well as a series of head ports for cooling the wearer's head. The apparatus further comprises a communication system, accessory rails for mounting equipment, and attachment points in the inside of the helmet for receiving hard hats and chin straps as needed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: BULLDOG SAFETY SYSTEMS, LLC
    Inventors: Bram Williams, Bradley Shoulders
  • Patent number: 12291715
    Abstract: Provided herein are genetic markers and a coding sequence associated with a low- or ultra-low anatabine trait in tobacco.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Altria Client Services LLC
    Inventors: Chengalrayan Kudithipudi, Alec J. Hayes, Robert Frank Hart, III, Yanxin Shen, Jesse Frederick, Dongmei Xu
  • Patent number: 12291946
    Abstract: A downhole perforating gun system provides wireless electrical communication between an inner body conductor, a switch, a detonator, and a feedthrough. Ends on gun carriers of the system couple together end-to-end at end connections. Internal tapered thread is defined in an interior of each carrier's first end, and external tapered thread is defined externally on each carrier's second end. The internal tapered thread of one carrier can thread to the external tapered thread of another carrier. A metal-to-metal contact and/or an annular seal can seal the carriers' interiors from an external environment, and bulkheads can seal between the carrier's interiors at the end connections. Each bulkhead can have a feedthrough conductor to electrically conduct across the end connections. A bulkhead flange can be captured between a distal face and an internal shoulder at the end connection, and a switch can be disposed on the bulkhead.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: SWM International, LLC
    Inventors: David C. Parks, Dan Salkhai Ang
  • Patent number: 12294204
    Abstract: A stripping tool for cutting the armor sheathing of a cable. The stripping tool includes a cable receiving handle and a saw handle movably mounted to the cable receiving handle. A saw assembly, including at least one saw blade, is supported by the saw handle and moveable relative to the cable receiving handle. The saw assembly configured to simultaneously cut the armor sheathing of the cable in two places.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Southwire Company, LLC
    Inventor: Juan Alberto Galindo Gonzalez
  • Patent number: 12292502
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to limitation of noise on light detectors using an aperture. One example embodiment includes a system. The system includes a lens disposed relative to a scene and configured to focus light from the scene onto a focal plane. The system also includes an aperture defined within an opaque material disposed at the focal plane of the lens. The aperture has a cross-sectional area. In addition, the system includes an array of light detectors disposed on a side of the focal plane opposite the lens and configured to intercept and detect diverging light focused by the lens and transmitted through the aperture. A cross-sectional area of the array of light detectors that intercepts the diverging light is greater than the cross-sectional area of the aperture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Waymo LLC
    Inventors: Pierre-Yves Droz, Blaise Gassend, Caner Onal, David Hutchison
  • Patent number: 12292939
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described that include determining an intent from an intent library that matches a received query, identifying, based on the intent, at least one mini-app from a first provider and at least one mini-app from a second provider, ranking the identified mini-apps, and triggering rendering of search results, the search results including at least a first ranked mini-app in an expanded state and the remaining ranked mini-apps in a collapsed state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Jared Zimmerman, Heather Campbell
  • Patent number: 12294217
    Abstract: Examples relate to adjusting load power consumption based on a power option agreement. A computing system may receive power option data that is based on a power option agreement and specify minimum power thresholds associated with time intervals. The computing system may determine a performance strategy for a load (e.g., set of computing systems) based on a combination of the power option data and one or more monitored conditions. The performance strategy may specify a power consumption target for the load for each time interval such that each power consumption target is equal to or greater than the minimum power threshold associated with each time interval. The computing system may provide instructions the set of computing systems to perform one or more computational operations based on the performance strategy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: LANCIUM LLC
    Inventors: Michael T. McNamara, Raymond E. Cline, Jr.
  • Patent number: 12293375
    Abstract: Systems and methods for using machine learning to assess eligibility for product certification are disclosed. According to certain aspects, a server computer may train a set of machine learning models using a set of training data, where the set of machine learning models may be specific to products and certifications for the products. The server computer may access product specifications associated with a set of products sought to be certified, and may analyze the product specifications using the an appropriate machine learning model(s), the output of which may indicate whether the set of products is eligible for certification, the set of products is ineligible for certification, or the product specifications need further review.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: UL LLC
    Inventors: Scot Webster, Mahmood Tabaddor, John C. Jones, Mario Xerri
  • Patent number: 12291118
    Abstract: A system and method for managing residual energy in a charging component is disclosed herein. Managing residual energy includes detecting an electrical parameter of the charging component and the electrically connected battery pack and generating a residual datum. The residual datum is transmitted to a computing device. The computing device identifies a residual element, generates an alert datum, and executes a security measure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: BETA AIR, LLC
    Inventor: Herman Wiegman
  • Patent number: 12290389
    Abstract: A distributed data collection architecture for a PET system includes a plurality of data collection boards, wherein each data collection board is coupled to a respective gantry segment of the PET system. The PET system includes a modular gantry having a plurality of gantry segments that are physically separate from each other, and each gantry segment includes a plurality of detector modules coupled to a respective data collection board. Each respective data collection board is configured to acquire all detector event data from a respective plurality of detector modules of the respective gantry segment the respective data collection board is coupled to. Only one data collection board of the plurality of data collection boards is configured to act as a master data collection board that collects all of the detector event data from each data collection board and to generate coincidence pairs from all of the detector event data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: GE Precision Healthcare LLC
    Inventors: Mahesh Raman Narayanaswamy, Mark David Fries, Jorge Uribe, Avichay Bdolah, Avihai Radi
  • Patent number: 12291091
    Abstract: A riding lawn mower comprising, a pair of rear drive wheels, a pair of front wheels, a deck positioned between the pair of front wheels and the pair of rear drive wheels, a rotatable cutting blade, and multiple battery packs removably coupled to the riding lawn mower and structured to provide power to the riding lawn mower, each battery pack graspable and removable by a user, wherein the multiple battery packs sequentially provide power to the riding lawn mower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Briggs & Stratton, LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey Zeiler, Robert John Koenen, Jacob Schmalz, Albert Liu, Nick Zeidler, Scott Funke, David Procknow
  • Patent number: 12291231
    Abstract: A system for a host vehicle operating on a road surface includes a polarimetric camera, a global positioning system (“GPS”) receiver, a compass, and an electronic control unit (“ECU”). The camera collects polarimetric image data of a drive scene, including a potential driving path on the road surface. The ECU receives the polarimetric image data, estimates the Sun location using the GPS receiver and compass, and computes an ideal representation of the road surface using the Sun location. The ECU normalizes the polarimetric image data such that the road surface has a normalized representation in the drive scene, i.e., an angle of linear polarization (“AoLP”) and degree of linear polarization (“DoLP”) equal predetermined fixed values. The ECU executes a control action using the normalized representation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Michael Baltaxe, Tzvi Philipp, Tomer Pe'er, Dan Levi
  • Patent number: 12293825
    Abstract: In some aspects, a method of using a virtual medical assistant to assist a medical professional, the virtual medical assistant implemented, at least in part, by at least one processor of a host device capable of connecting to at least one network is provided. The method comprises receiving free-form instruction from the medical professional, providing the free-form instruction for processing to assist in identifying from the free-form instruction at least one medical task to be performed, obtaining identification of at least one impediment to performing the at least one medical task, and inferring at least some information needed to overcome the at least one impediment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC.
    Inventors: Guido Remi Marcel Gallopyn, Justin Hubbard, Reid W. Coleman
  • Patent number: 12293926
    Abstract: An inorganic substrate with an improved via shape and methods for facilitating formation of such improved via shape are disclosed. A double-sided opening process may be applied to an inorganic substrate to form openings at the ends of a damage track previously formed in the inorganic substrate. One side of the inorganic substrate may then be sealed, such as by being temporarily bonded to a carrier or blocking substrate, so that a single-sided opening process may be applied to the other unsealed or unblocked surface of the inorganic substrate. The single-sided opening process may enlarge at least one of the openings formed by the double-sided opening process and may enlarge a channel between the openings to form a via having an advantageous shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: MOSAIC MICROSYSTEMS LLC
    Inventors: Shelby Forrester Nelson, David Howard Levy
  • Patent number: 12294619
    Abstract: The techniques disclosed herein provide controlled user interface transitions for private breakout communication sessions. A system provides a Together Mode user interface that gives participants of a communication session a feeling that they are in the same room. When a person joins a communication session, a system uses a seating policy to determine a location of that user. That user is placed near or next to a select user. A policy is applied when users meet one or more conditions. If a number of people join the communication session, each person is ranked according to an organizational chart and each person is positioned and ordered relative to the select user according to each person's rank. The system configures the updated user interface arrangement to maintain the position of the select group of the participants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Jaron Lanier
  • Patent number: 12291562
    Abstract: Modified integrin polypeptides are provided. Methods of identifying binding agents that bind to a modified integrin polypeptide are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignees: Rush University Medical Center, 149 Bio, LLC
    Inventors: Vineet Gupta, Antonio J. Barbosa
  • Patent number: 12291379
    Abstract: In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to contain and dispense a fluid, such as a thixotropic fluid. In some embodiments, a bottle having a closure cap includes a control device, a base, and a disk, where the base and disk define a mixing chamber configured to facilitate mixing of any serum or liquid separated from the fluid back therein. In some embodiments, a dispensing bottle includes a non-removable closure cap with a tamper evident feature that indicates whether the cap was previously opened. By one approach, the dispensing bottle includes discontinuous threads on a bottle neck and ratchet projections on a closure cap that engage the discontinuous thread(s) to prevent or inhibit manual removal of the cap from the bottle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: H.J. Heinz Company Brands LLC
    Inventors: Balint Hiltser, Guus Lueb, Charlotte Catherine Erik Devries, Kim Bertens-Vlems, Thomas Cox, Jamie Fox
  • Patent number: 12293493
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for intelligently accessing one or more different hardware-based mechanisms for cropping out, blurring or blocking private content in a live preview image generated for the camera and in media recorded by the camera. The technique incudes receiving input regarding a plurality of objects to be concealed in media captured by an imaging device and identifying at least one of the plurality of objects in a field of view of the imaging device. Further, the technique includes modifying the at least one of the plurality of objects in a live preview image or media captured by the imaging device using one or more hardware-based actuators, where the modifying the at least one of the plurality of objects causes the one of the plurality of objects to be concealed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Shaomin Xiong, Lidu Huang, Michael Andrew Brookmire, Dongmin Yang, Fei Liu, Yizhi Xiong, Zhaochun Yu