Patents Assigned to LLC
  • Patent number: 11939767
    Abstract: A cap and tube or seal setting apparatus comprises an anchor holding fixture having a surface for receiving a post tension anchor. An actuator is operably mounted to one side of the anchor holding fixture and in some embodiments has a cap setter attached to a movable part of the actuator. In some embodiments a tube or seal holding fixture is mounted to a support base and disposed on an opposed side of the anchor holding device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: P. T. Atlas Manufacturing LLC
    Inventor: Nate Mikulsky
  • Patent number: 11943494
    Abstract: Systems and methods for adaptively adjusting a slew rate of a dejitter buffer in a remote device in a distributed access architecture. The slew rate may be adjusted based on measurements of a fullness state of a buffer made over time. The measurements may be used to calculate a frequency offset value between the rate at which data leaves the buffer relative to the rate at which data enters the buffer and/or used to calculate a current working depth of the buffer. The adaptive slew rate adjustments may be based on the frequency offset value and/or the current working depth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises LLC
    Inventors: Kevin Garvey, Yair Neugeboren, Humphrey Looney, Stephen Graham Dunning, Christopher T. Harrison, Damien Tuffy
  • Patent number: 11937596
    Abstract: An improved ultra-fast cooling system is disclosed for cryopreservation of biomaterials. The ultra-fast cooling system is designed to uniformly vitrify or partially vitrify biomaterials, including but not limited to, human biomaterials, proteins, peptides, cells, stem cells, antibodies, neurons, human tissue, organs, cornea, skin, retina, eggs, sperm, embryos, body fluids, blood, serum, lymph fluid, animal tissue, plant biomaterials, plant tissue, germ plasma, pollen, plant sap, and bioengineered tissue, without cryoprotectants or with a low concentration of cryoprotectants. Cooling rates are sufficient to uniformly cryopreserve biomaterials, and can be used in diagnostic cytology and biological cryofixation applications. Other materials also can be cooled uniformly, such as inorganic materials for processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignees: THE CURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI, CRYOCRATE LLC
    Inventors: Xu Han, Henry W. White, Peter Koulen
  • Patent number: 11938638
    Abstract: Active utilization of a robotic simulator in control of one or more real world robots. A simulated environment of the robotic simulator can be configured to reflect a real world environment in which a real robot is currently disposed, or will be disposed. The robotic simulator can then be used to determine a sequence of robotic actions for use by the real world robot(s) in performing at least part of a robotic task. The sequence of robotic actions can be applied, to a simulated robot of the robotic simulator, to generate a sequence of anticipated simulated state data instances. The real robot can be controlled to implement the sequence of robotic actions. The implementation of one or more of the robotic actions can be contingent on a real state data instance having at least a threshold degree of similarity to a corresponding one of the anticipated simulated state data instances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Yunfei Bai, Tigran Gasparian, Brent Austin, Andreas Christiansen, Matthew Bennice, Paul Bechard
  • Patent number: 11939589
    Abstract: The present invention relates to control of pest infestation by inhibiting one or more biological functions. The invention provides methods and compositions for such control, By feeding one or more recombinant double stranded RNA molecules provided by the invention to the pest, a reduction in pest infestation is obtained through suppression of gene expression. The invention is also directed to methods for making transgenic plants that express the double stranded RNA molecules, and to particular combinations of transgenic pesticidal agents for use in protecting plants from pest infestation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventors: James A. Baum, Claire A. CaJacob, Pascale Feldmann, Gregory R. Heck, Irene Maria Antonia Nooren, Geert Plaetinck, Wendy T. Maddelein, Ty T. Vaughn
  • Patent number: 11942094
    Abstract: A speaker verification method includes receiving audio data corresponding to an utterance, processing a first portion of the audio data that characterizes a predetermined hotword to generate a text-dependent evaluation vector, and generating one or more text-dependent confidence scores. When one of the text-dependent confidence scores satisfies a threshold, the operations include identifying a speaker of the utterance as a respective enrolled user associated with the text-dependent confidence score that satisfies the threshold and initiating performance of an action without performing speaker verification. When none of the text-dependent confidence scores satisfy the threshold, the operations include processing a second portion of the audio data that characterizes a query to generate a text-independent evaluation vector, generating one or more text-independent confidence scores, and determining whether the identity of the speaker of the utterance includes any of the enrolled users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Roza Chojnacka, Jason Pelecanos, Quan Wang, Ignacio Lopez Moreno
  • Patent number: 11938051
    Abstract: Cervical collars, components thereof, and methods of using them overcome issues with conventional cervical collars.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: DJO, LLC
    Inventors: Alexis Doty, Tara VandenBerg, Robert Bejarano, Kevin Patrick Larmer, J. Andrew Moulds, Jeffrey M. Mullally, Paul J. Klock
  • Patent number: 11942655
    Abstract: A separator for a lead acid battery is a porous membrane having a positive electrode face and a negative electrode face. A plurality of longitudinally extending ribs, a plurality of protrusions or a nonwoven material may be disposed upon the positive electrode face. A plurality of transversely extending ribs are disposed upon the negative electrode face. The transverse ribs disposed upon the negative electrode face are preferably juxtaposed to a negative electrode of the lead acid battery, when the separator is placed within that battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Daramic, LLC
    Inventors: Eric H. Miller, J. Kevin Whear
  • Patent number: 11939974
    Abstract: A methods and system to operate hydraulic fracturing units may include utilizing hydraulic fracturing unit profiles. The system may include hydraulic fracturing units may include various components. The components may include an engine and associated local controller and sensors, a transmission connected to the engine, transmission sensors, and a pump connected to the transmission and powered by the engine via the transmission and associated local controller and sensors. A supervisory controller may control the hydraulic fracturing units. The supervisory controller may be in communication with components of each hydraulic fracturing unit. The supervisory controller may include instructions to, for each hydraulic fracturing units, obtain hydraulic fracturing unit parameters, determine a hydraulic fracturing unit health assessment, and build a hydraulic unit profile including the health assessment and parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: BJ Energy Solutions, LLC
    Inventors: Tony Yeung, Ricardo Rodriguez-Ramon, Andres Alvarez, Joseph Foster
  • Patent number: 11941530
    Abstract: The present invention concern systems and methods for maintaining diversity in AI and ML environments through the cooperation of various AI and ML systems such that they optimize for social and cultural diversity. The examination of behavior, infrastructure, and governance, mimicking of genetic biodiversity, and application of the foregoing to machine reasoning mitigates the tendency of systems to find optimized or single best solutions. AI and ML environments may thus derive multiple diverse solutions that contribute to richer ecosystems in which human beings may function and thrive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT LLC
    Inventor: Albhy Galuten
  • Patent number: 11938392
    Abstract: A bar jack device incorporated with a bottle, specifically a water bottle, is disclosed. The bar jack device may be part of the bottle lid or may be a separate add-on component that may be coupled to the bottle lid. The bar jack device may have one or more grooves designed to receive the central shaft of an exercise bar and orientate such bar in different orientations. The different created orientations of the exercise bar by the bar jack device may allow a user to load or unload weight plates on the sleeves of the exercise bar. Method of use of the bar jack device incorporated with the bottle to make a bar jack assembly is also disclosed. Among other things, the method of use lifts the exercise bar and the weight plates off the ground by using the bar jack device incorporated with the bottle as a pivoting mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: GENTOO LLC
    Inventor: Peterson Nguyen
  • Patent number: 11940172
    Abstract: A plenum slot diffuser includes a plenum box having five walls formed by joining edges of a C-shaped bracket having first, second, and third walls of the five walls with additional edges of an L-shaped bracket having fourth and fifth walls of the fives walls. An air input opening of the plenum box is disposed in one of the five walls and is configured to be coupled to a duct, and an open end of the plenum box defines an air output opening. The plenum slot diffuser includes at least one blade and a blade holding rod comprising a neck, wherein the neck faces away from the air output opening of the plenum box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Air Distribution Technologies IP, LLC
    Inventors: Mayank Awasthi, Vikas H. Dhote, Tushal Verma, Curtis A. Peters, Sethuram Parameswaran
  • Patent number: 11938810
    Abstract: A transmission system for a vehicle includes a first helical pinion gear having a helix angle coupled to a first shaft and configured to receive an input torque. The transmission system includes a second helical pinion gear having a first helix angle coupled to a second shaft and configured to receive the input torque. The second shaft is disposed within the first shaft and rotatable within the first shaft. The transmission system includes a differential assembly having a third helical gear having the first helix angle coupled to the first helical pinion gear, and a fourth helical gear having the helix angle coupled to the second helical pinion gear. The third helical gear and the fourth helical gear are coupled to a differential gear set to drive a first output shaft and a second output shaft associated with the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventor: Peter Tomsa
  • Patent number: 11943343
    Abstract: A server can receive a device public key and forward the device public key to a key server. The key server can perform a first elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman (ECDH) key exchange using the device public key and a network private key to derive a secret X1. The key server can send the secret X1 to the server. The server can derive an ECC PKI key pair and send to the device the server public key. The server can conduct a second ECDH key exchange using the derived server secret key and the device public key to derive a secret X2. The server can perform an ECC point addition using the secret X1 and secret X2 to derive a secret X3. The device can derive the secret X3 using (i) the server public key, a network public key, and the device private key and (ii) a third ECDH key exchange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: IoT and M2M Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: John A. Nix
  • Patent number: 11938461
    Abstract: The present description provides adsorbent compositions and materials, and systems comprising the same that provide low DBL bleed emission performance. The described materials provide unexpected production advantages as compared to currently available materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: INGEVITY SOUTH CAROLINA, LLC
    Inventors: Cameron I. Thomson, Marta Leon Garcia
  • Patent number: 11941500
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system and a method for engagement of human agents for decision-making in a dynamically changing environment. An information request related to a problem requiring a decision is received. Further, problem data comprising metadata associated to the problem, and decision-making data is received. Then, an information type is determined for the information request. Subsequently a set of human agents from a list of one or more human agents is determined using an engagement model. Further, a request elicitation type is determined for the set of human agents using an elicitation model. Further, an input is received from the set of human agents. Further, the input is used to retrain the engagement model and the elicitation model. Finally, the decision-making data is continuously enhanced based on the input received, the request elicitation type, and the information type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: AGILE SYSTEMS, LLC
    Inventors: Satyendra Pal Rana, Ekrem Alper Murat, Ratna Babu Chinnam
  • Patent number: 11938459
    Abstract: Processes for removing arsenic compounds from a feed stream using an adsorbent in disclosed. The process includes contacting a feed stream comprising at least arsenic and sulfur compounds with an adsorbent comprising an low-crystallinity manganese oxide, at least one halide and a binder, to provide a treated effluent substantially free of the arsenic and sulfur compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: UOP LLC
    Inventors: Stephen R. Caskey, Michael B. Hamoy
  • Patent number: D1019176
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: NICKOLAS BRANDS, LLC
    Inventor: Nickolas Reinhart
  • Patent number: D1019833
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Vikingstrength, LLC.
    Inventors: Erik Almendingen, Unhjem Johansen
  • Patent number: D1019887
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: SMART, LLC
    Inventor: Paul Schneider