Patents Assigned to LLC
  • Patent number: 11938802
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for electric motorized wheel assemblies. An example wheel assembly for use with an electric vehicle disclosed herein includes an electric motor, a suspension assembly, and a frame mounting interface to attach the wheel assembly to a frame of the electric vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Michael John Harmon, Hussain Z. Tajmahal, Marielle Conrad, Benjamin Jordan Curtis, David Earl Ooms, Yejin Han
  • Patent number: 11942735
    Abstract: A ganged connector assembly includes: first, second, third and fourth coaxial cables; first, second, third and fourth coaxial connectors, each of the coaxial connectors connected with a corresponding one of the coaxial cables; a shell surrounding the coaxial connectors, the shell configured to electrically isolate each of the coaxial connectors from the other coaxial connectors, wherein the coaxial connectors are arranged in a generally square pattern; and a strain relief boot comprising: first and second cover pieces that are assembled to create a cover around portions of the coaxial cables and the coaxial connectors; and first and second braces that reside within the cover, the first brace being positioned between first and second of the coaxial connectors, and the second brace being positioned between third and fourth of the coaxial connectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: COMMSCOPE TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventor: Jeffrey D. Paynter
  • Patent number: 11942080
    Abstract: Systems and methods for improved Spoken Language Understanding (“SLU”) are provided. The methods may comprise receiving an utterance from a user, contextualizing a plurality of words in the utterance, providing the contextualized words to the slot detector to determine the probability of a word forming the beginning or end of a slot to determine slots and nested slots, an intent classifier to determine the probability of a word conveying a user intent, and a slot classifier that applies specific labels to each slot and nest slot. The SLU method may employ a model and jointly trains the model for each task (determining beginning and end of slots, intents, and slot classifications) using a combined loss function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventor: Seyed Iman Mirrezaei
  • Patent number: 11941843
    Abstract: A method for determining a location of a trailer in an image includes obtaining at least one real-time image from a vehicle. The at least one real-time image is processed with a controller on the vehicle to obtain a feature patch describing at least one real-time image. A convolution is performed of the feature patch and each filter from a set of filters with the filter being based on data representative of known trailers. A location of a trailer is determined in the at least one real-time image based on the convolution between the feature patch and each filter from the set of filters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Continental Autonomous Mobility US, LLC
    Inventors: Eduardo Jose Ramirez Llanos, Dominik Froehlich, Brandon Herzog, Ibro Muharemovic
  • Patent number: 11943446
    Abstract: A method, device, and computer-readable medium for decoding an encoded video bitstream using at least one processor, including obtaining a flag indicating that a conformance window is not used for reference picture resampling; based on the flag indicating that the conformance window is not used for the reference picture resampling, determining whether a resampling picture size is signaled; based on determining that the resampling picture size is signaled, determining a resampling ratio based on the resampling picture size; based on determining that the resampling picture size is not signaled, determining the resampling ratio based on an output picture size; and performing the reference picture resampling on a current picture using the resampling ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLC
    Inventors: Byeongdoo Choi, Stephan Wenger, Shan Liu
  • Patent number: 11942619
    Abstract: In various aspects, the present disclosure provides a method of manufacturing an electrode for an electrochemical cell. The method includes contacting a solid electrode material and a substrate at an interface. The method further includes preparing a liquid electrode material at the interface by heating at least a portion of the solid electrode material to a first temperature. The first temperature is greater than or equal to a melting point of the solid electrode material. The method further includes creating a layer of the liquid electrode material on the substrate by moving at least one of the solid electrode material and the substrate with respect to the other of the solid electrode material and the substrate. The method further includes forming the electrode by cooling the liquid electrode material to a second temperature. The second temperature is less than or equal to the melting point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Erik Damon Huemiller, Shaomao Xu, Ryan Curtis Sekol, Wayne Cai, Michael P. Balogh, Xiaowei Yu
  • Patent number: 11939158
    Abstract: A storage and retrieval system including a vertical array of storage levels, each storage level having, picking aisles, storage locations, disposed within the picking aisles, and at least one transfer deck providing access to the picking aisles, a multilevel vertical conveyor system configured to transport the uncontained case units to and from the vertical array of storage levels, each storage level being configured to receive uncontained case units from the multilevel vertical conveyor system, at least one autonomous transport located on each storage level for transporting the uncontained case units between respective storage locations and the multilevel vertical conveyor system, and a controller configured to create a primary access path through the transfer decks and picking aisles to a predetermined one of the storage locations and at least one secondary access path to the predetermined one of the storage locations when the primary path is impassable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Symbotic LLC
    Inventors: John Lert, Stephen C Toebes, Robert Sullivan, Foster Hinshaw, Nathan Ulrich
  • Patent number: 11943328
    Abstract: A vehicular communication controller includes a microcontroller (MCU) located within a vehicle to generate, by a software component, a find service request to discover an offered service from one or more systems on a chip (SoC). The MCU may generate a service message packet that includes the find service request inserted into a payload of the find service message packet where the payload is bound to an automotive/embedded communication protocol. Using unicast or multicast, the find service message packet may be sent to one or more SoC receiving devices. The SoC receiving devices may deserialize the header and payload of the find service message packet to retrieve the find service request and generate a service directory message based on service metadata and publish a cloud event including a solicited response that is sent back to the software component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventor: Steven Hartley
  • Patent number: 11941929
    Abstract: A movable barrier operator comprising a motor, communication circuitry configured to receive a control signal and communicate with a door lock associated with a passageway door, and a controller. The controller is configured to authenticate the control signal, wherein authenticating the control signal includes associating the signal with a first level of access or a second level of access. The controller is further configured to communicate with the door lock via the communication circuitry to permit opening of the passageway door in response to associating the control signal with the first level of access and inhibit opening of the passageway door in response to associating the control signal with the second level of access. The controller is configured to cause the motor to open the movable barrier regardless of association of the control signal with the first level of access or the second level of access.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: THE CHAMBERLAIN GROUP LLC
    Inventors: David R. Morris, James Scott Murray, Robert J. Olmsted
  • Patent number: 11941082
    Abstract: Systems and methods for classifying product feedback by an electronic device are described. According to certain aspects, an electronic device may receive consumer feedback entries associated with various products, where each entry may include an initial classification. The electronic device may analyze each entry using a machine learning model to determine a subsequent classification for the entry. When there is a mismatch between classifications, the electronic device may present information associated with the entry for review by a user, where the user may specify a final classification for the entry, and the electronic device may update the machine learning model for use in subsequent analyses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: UL LLC
    Inventors: Christian Dorn Anschuetz, Surekha Durvasula, Spencer Sharpe, Kyle Michael Caulfield
  • Patent number: 11940415
    Abstract: A fluidic device includes at least one bulk acoustic wave (BAW) resonator structure with a functionalized active region, and at least one first (inlet) port defined through a cover structure arranged over a fluidic passage containing the active region. At least a portion of the at least one inlet port is registered with the active region, permitting fluid to be introduced in a direction orthogonal to a surface of the active region bearing functionalization material. Such arrangement promotes mixing proximate to a BAW resonator structure surface, thereby reducing analyte stratification, increasing analyte binding rate, and reducing measurement time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Zomedica Biotechnologies LLC
    Inventors: Gernot Fattinger, Rio Rivas
  • Patent number: 11942620
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a solid-state electrochemical cell having a uniformly distributed solid-state electrolyte and methods of fabrication relating thereto. The method may include forming a plurality of apertures within the one or more solid-state electrodes; impregnating the one or more solid-state electrodes with a solid-state electrolyte precursor solution so as to fill the plurality of apertures and any other void or pores within the one or more electrodes with the solid-state electrolyte precursor solution; and heating the one or more electrodes so as to solidify the solid-state electrolyte precursor solution and to form the distributed solid-state electrolyte.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Yong Lu, Zhe Li, Xiaochao Que, Haijing Liu, Meiyuan Wu
  • Patent number: 11943843
    Abstract: A network device includes: a radio configured to operate in a 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi band; a 32 bit double data rate (DDR) memory having instructions stored therein; a system clock configured to operate at 533 MHz; and a processor. The processor is configured to execute the instructions stored on the memory to cause the network device to: operate the 32 bit DDR memory at 1067 MHz; instruct the radio to transmit data to be transmitted in the 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi band; and instruct the radio to receive data to be received in the 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: ARRIS ENTERPRISES LLC
    Inventors: Billy R. Whiten, David James Williams, Chad Lord
  • Patent number: 11940950
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computer system for identifying, by a computing device, a number of extents needed for a create snapshot operation to create a snapshot. The number of extents may be added to an in-memory cache. The number of extents needed for the create snapshot operation may be allocated from the in-memory cache to execute the create snapshot operation. Freed extents may be added to the in-memory cache based upon, at least in part, executing a delete snapshot operation to delete the snapshot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company, LLC
    Inventors: Vamsi K. Vankamamidi, Ronen Gazit
  • Patent number: 11941969
    Abstract: Systems and methods for enabling a system to rapidly respond to wireless instructions being transmitted by a personal device over one of several communications networks that share a common RF medium are provided. During operation of the system, certain network communications may take priority over other network communications. Rapid response communications enable a user to communicate with the system, using the personal device, in a manner that does not collide or interfere with higher priority network communications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Hirofumi Honjo, Prashanth Ramachandran, Mikko Sannala, Naveen Singh, Wes Calidonna, Arjuna Sivasithambaresan, Harry Tannenbaum, Scott Hong
  • Patent number: 11943101
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a method for implementing a software-defined private mobile network (SD-PMN) for an entity. At a physical location of the entity, the method deploys a first set of control plane components for the SD-PMN, the first set of control plane components including a security gateway, a user-plane function (UPF), an AMF (access and mobility management function), and an SMF (session management function). At an SD-WAN (software-defined wide area network) PoP (point of presence) belonging to a provider of the SD-PMN, the method deploys a second set of control plane components for the SD-PMN that includes a subscriber database that stores data associated with users of the SD-PMN. The method uses an SD-WAN edge router located at the physical location of the entity and a SD-WAN gateway located at the SD-WAN PoP to establish a connection from the physical location of the entity to the SD-WAN PoP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: VMware LLC
    Inventors: Anand Srinivas, Xiao H. Gao, Sameer Naik
  • Patent number: 11937568
    Abstract: A cat litter scoop is provided, which includes a handle component, and a user replaceable scoop attachment. When a scoop attachment is inserted into the handle component, a scoop body contacts with a grip area within the body of the handle component. Further insertion force deflects the grip allowing the body of the scoop attachment to pass over grip teeth. The force of the deflection in concert with the geometry of the grip teeth help to retain the scoop attachment within the handle portion When a button is depressed, a protrusion beneath the button is translated into contact with the grip via a contact surface. As the button is further depressed, it deflects the grip in the same direction as the travel of the button. This move's the grip's teeth away from the scoop allowing the scoop to release from the handle component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: ELVI 9, LLC
    Inventors: Elva Janese Morris, Michael Starkey
  • Patent number: D1019345
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Ricetti Holdings LLC
    Inventor: Tarcicio Giovani Ricetti
  • Patent number: D1019399
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Fosforo LLC
    Inventor: Tom Lane
  • Patent number: D1019792
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Beta Air, LLC
    Inventor: Edward Robert Hall