Patents Assigned to LLC
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Patent number: 11940731Abstract: Photoresist topcoat compositions comprise: a matrix polymer and a surface active polymer, wherein the surface active polymer comprises polymerized units of the following general formula (I): wherein: R1 represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a C1-C4 alkyl group, or a C1-C4 haloalkyl group; R2 independently represents a hydrogen atom or an optionally substituted alkyl group, wherein at least one R2 is not a hydrogen atom, wherein the R2 groups taken together optionally form a cyclic structure, and wherein the total number of carbon atoms for the R2 groups taken together is from 2 to 20; R3 represents an optionally substituted C1-C4 alkylene group, wherein an R2 group optionally forms a cyclic structure with R3; and R4 independently represents C1-C4 fluoroalkyl groups; wherein the total polymerized units of general formula (I) are present in the surface active polymer in an amount of 95 wt % or more based on total polymerized units of the surface active polymer; and wherein the surface active polymer iType: GrantFiled: June 24, 2019Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials LLCInventors: Irvinder Kaur, Cong Liu, Doris Kang, Chunyi Wu
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Patent number: 11941240Abstract: A plurality of video items comprising a first subset of video items and a second subset of video items are received at a client device. A graphical user interface comprising a scrollable area to present the plurality of video items and a focus area to present one of the plurality of video items is presented. Video items of the second subset of video items are presented in or adjacent to the focus area when the first subset of video items is visible in the scrollable area and prior to the second subset of video items becoming visible in the scrollable area, and a size of the video items from the second subset of video items presented in or adjacent to the focus area is smaller than a size of video items of the first subset of video items presented in the scrollable area.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Olayinka Sylvia Nguessan, Samuel Edward Russell, Jr., Christopher Griffin
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Patent number: 11942099Abstract: Disclosed example people monitoring methods include detecting a first watermark in a first audio signal obtained from an acoustic sensor, the first watermark identifying media presented by a monitored media device, determining whether a second watermark, different from the first watermark, is embedded in the first audio signal obtained from the acoustic sensor, the second watermark identifying at least one of a mobile device or a user of the mobile device, classifying the second watermark as a media watermark or a people monitoring watermark based on a characteristic of the second watermark, and when the second watermark is determined to be embedded in the first audio signal, reporting at least one of the second watermark or information decoded from the second watermark to identify at least one of the mobile device or the user of the mobile device as being exposed to the media presented by the monitored media device.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLCInventors: Alexander Topchy, Padmanabhan Soundararajan, Venugopal Srinivasan
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Patent number: 11941952Abstract: A method of providing different customized display presentations for a sports contest that includes generating a different customized presentation for each respective user account of a plurality of user accounts including one or both of a representation of at least one user sports player for the sports contest and a representation of at least one opponent sports player for the sports contest. Each of the different customized presentations are different based on one or both of the identity and different real-time game actions of the different plurality of user sports players and the identity and different real-time game actions of the at least one opponent sports player. The different customized presentations include one or both of an animation depicting the representation of the at least one user sports player for the sports contest and the representation of the at least one opponent sports player for the sports contest.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: DRAFTBOARD, LLCInventors: Philip Galfond, Dan Quinn
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Patent number: 11940098Abstract: Disclosed are gas cylinder assemblies for containing pressurized gas. The gas cylinder assembly has a polymeric liner and a low-permeability barrier layer. The polymeric liner a first end portion, a second end portion and a central body. The central body comprises an outer surface and an inner surface disposed between the first end and the second end. The gas cylinder assembly comprises a reinforcement structure wound over the central body. The gas cylinder assembly further comprises a metal foil interposed between the reinforcement structure and central body. The metal foil is configured to reduce permeation of contents of the polymeric liner.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Agility Fuel Systems LLCInventors: Michael Gregory Volkmer, Dustin Joseph John, Chad Alvin Cederberg, David Neil Morgan, John David Makinson
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Patent number: 11940125Abstract: An adaptive lighting system comprises an array of independently controllable LEDs, and a metalens positioned to collimate, focus, or otherwise redirect light emitted by the array of LEDs. The adaptive lighting system may optionally include a pre-collimator positioned in the optical path between the array of LEDs and the metalens.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2023Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Lumileds LLCInventors: Venkata Ananth Tamma, Toni Lopez, Nicola Bettina Pfeffer, Marcel Rene Bohmer
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Patent number: 11943416Abstract: A redundantly printed security-enhanced document, printing method, and system for better ensuring that the meaning of the information imparted by variable indicia printed by redundant printing indicia on a document protected by a removable Scratch-Off Coating (SOC). By printing the variable indicia with multiple colors, redundancy and integrity of the intended indicia is achieved relative to the perception of human eye photoreceptor cones. The redundantly printed document, methods, and systems enhance the overall appearance of the redundantly printed document, and reduce possible consequences resulting from misprinted variable indicia.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2023Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Hydragraphix LLCInventors: Kenneth Earl Irwin, Jr., Fred W Finnerty
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Patent number: 11943270Abstract: A method, apparatus, and system to provide the ability for a user to make audio and/or audio-video phone calls simultaneously while watching (co-viewing) provider video content in remote locations. A control system is provided to set up call, direct provider video content, and provide for the phone calls and video content to be delivered and then synchronized. The phone calls may be routed by the control system to PSTN destinations or Internet based destinations and calls made or received may be bridged to other Internet based sources. The provider video content may be provided directly from its source or routed through NAT traversal or through the control system.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: NT IP Holdings, LLCInventors: Garry M Paxinos, Anastasios Kyriakides, Kenneth Alvin Hosfeld, Anastasios Nicholas Kyriakides, II
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Patent number: 11943087Abstract: A station is provided. The station includes one or more memories and one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to one or more of process a first request for buffer status received from an access point and transmit, during the first uplink multi-user transmission to the access point and in response to the first request for buffer status, a first uplink null data packet and that includes a signal that indicates existence of data to be sent from the station to the access point. The first request for buffer status schedules a first uplink multi-user transmission and indicates a plurality of resources that indicates existence of data to be sent to the access point. The one or more processors transmits the first uplink null data packet includes the one or more processors configured to transmit the signal on a first resource of the plurality of resources.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Atlas Global Technologies LLCInventors: Daewon Lee, Sungho Moon, Ahmad Reza Hedayat, Yujin Noh
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Patent number: 11939785Abstract: A shelter system is shown and described. A hub for a shelter system is shown and described. A frame for a shelter system is shown and described. In one embodiment, the shelter system includes a frame and cover. The shelter may include a hub system. The frame may be collapsible. The cover is configured to fit with the frame. The hub may include a receiver slot, a receiver sleeve and an attachment projection. The result is a shelter system with reduced set up time, effort and requirements and improved strength and ease of use. The inventions may also be considered a shelter kit and/or a shelter and hub method.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: DLX Enterprises, LLCInventors: Jonathan Urhausen, Adam Barr, Donald Bierman
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Patent number: 11937685Abstract: A backpack that has a front pocket with an outer shell with an opening that is sealed by a closure mechanism. The closure mechanism can include magnetic strips that are configured to partially or wholly seal the opening, and have hinged couplings of the magnetic strips to internal surfaces of the container.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2018Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: YETI Coolers, LLCInventors: Kyle Edward Rogers, Jeffrey Charles Munie
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Patent number: 11943734Abstract: In one embodiment, a method executed by at least one processor includes receiving first historical location information identifying a first location area at which a first user was present at a first time and receiving second location information identifying a second location area at which a second user was present at a second time. The method includes determining that the first historical location information and the second location information each correspond to a particular location area and determining that a characteristic related to the first user corresponds to a preference related to the second user. In response to these determinations, the method includes causing information related to the first user to be presented to the second user. The information related to the first user includes the first location area of the first user relative to the second location area of the second user.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: MATCH GROUP, LLCInventors: Robinne Burrell, Anna M. Schneider, Sharmistha Dubey, Shane Henderson, Deryl Dorsett
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Patent number: 11942587Abstract: A semiconductor light-emitting device includes a junction or active layer between doped semiconductor layers coextensive over a contiguous device area, corresponding sets of electrical contacts connected to the semiconductor layers, and multiple nanostructured optical elements at a surface of one semiconductor layer opposite the other semiconductor layer. Composite electrical contacts of one set include a conductive layer, a transparent dielectric layer between the conductive and semiconductor layers, and vias through the dielectric layer connecting the conductive and semiconductor layers. The nanostructured elements redirect light, propagating laterally in optical modes supported by the semiconductor layers, to exit the device. The composite electrical contacts can be independent and define independently addressable pixel areas of the device. The nanostructured elements and thin semiconductor layers can yield high contrast between adjacent pixel areas without trenches between them.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2023Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Lumileds LLCInventors: Toni Lopez, Aimi Abass
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Patent number: 11940860Abstract: Systems and methods for managing a power budget are provided. The method includes designating, by a power budget manager implemented on at least one processor, each of one or more applications with an individual quality of service (QoS) designation, the one or more applications executable by the at least one processor, assigning, by the power budget manager, a throttling priority to each of the one or more applications based on the individual QoS designations, determining, by the power budget manager, whether a platform mitigation threshold is exceeded, and responsive to determining that the platform mitigation threshold is exceeded, throttling, by the power budget manager, processing power allocated to at least one application of the one or more applications based on the throttling prioritization.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC.Inventors: Sandeep Prabhakar, Mark Allan Bellon, Mika Megan Latimer, Tristan Anthony Brown, Christopher Peter Kleynhans, Rahul Narayanan Nair
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Patent number: 11937603Abstract: Compounds of general formula (I), isomers, salts, or hydrates thereof. Herbicide compositions including: at least one compound of general formula (I); at least one solvent and/or at least one diluent; and, optionally, at least one agronomically acceptable excipient.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2019Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: GOWAN COMPANY, LLCInventors: Silvia Mormile, Marilena Gusmeroli, Paolo Boggio, Paolo Bellandi, Ivan Bondoni, Gabriele Piazzon, Riccardo Liguori
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Patent number: 11938082Abstract: Exemplary embodiments of massaging devices are disclosed herein. One exemplary embodiment includes a piston having a longitudinal axis, a massaging head connected to the piston, a motor located on a first side of the longitudinal axis and a handle located on a second side of the longitudinal axis. A drive mechanism for moving the piston and massage head is also included.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2023Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: HYPERICE IP SUBCO, LLCInventors: Philip C. Danby, John Charles Danby
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Patent number: 11940254Abstract: A projectile designed to be lead-free and have a ballistic coefficient ranging from about 0.13 to about 0.80 or greater for enhanced energy/performance at extended ranges may have an elongated body formed with a jacket including a wall having an end defining an ogive portion and a cavity or recess defined within the jacket and in which a core is received. The projectile can be configured in various calibers and sizes. The projectile core may be formed from a plurality of core sections, and at least one of the plurality of core sections may include tungsten powder and a lead-free binder material pressed together to form a substantially cylindrical shape or compact. One or more of the core sections further can be sintered, and the one or more core sections may be received in an end-to-end relationship within the cavity defined by the jacket to form a stacked, sectional core.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Barnes Bullets, LLCInventors: Jason Wesley Robbins, Carl Carter, Christopher Creed Crosby, Gregory S. Christensen, Mitchell Dean Kukson, Brian James Simons, Greggory Sloan, Michael Painter
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Patent number: 11938670Abstract: A method of forming a thermoplastic plastic component includes applying an amount of pigmented powder to a sheet of thermoplastic, heating the sheet of thermoplastic to a selected temperature, melting the amount of pigmented powder on the sheet of thermoplastic to form a coating, re-heating the sheet of thermoplastic to another selected temperature, positioning the sheet of thermoplastic over a pattern, and vacuum forming the sheet of thermoplastic to form the sheet of thermoplastic into the pattern.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Thomas E. Houck, Martin Aaron Butkovich
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Patent number: 11941857Abstract: An illustrative method includes accessing, by a computing device, a model simulating light scattered by a simulated target, the model comprising a plurality of parameters. The method further includes generating, by the computing device, a set of possible histogram data using the model with a plurality of values for the parameters. The method further includes determining, by the computing device, a set of components that represent the set of possible histogram data, the set of components having a reduced dimensionality from the set of possible histogram data.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: HI LLCInventors: Hamid Dehghani, Ryan Field, Julian Kates-Harbeck, Viktoria Rojkova, Ashutosh Chaturvedi
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Patent number: 11941560Abstract: Provided herein is a construct computing system including a construct computing device including a processor in communication with at least one memory device. The processor is programmed to: (i) receive construction data associated with a construction project, wherein the construction data includes scheduling data, budgeting data, and drawing data, (ii) store, in the memory, the construction data, (iii) generate a schedule and a budget for the construction project based upon the construction data, (iv) receive, from a user computing device, input associated with the construction data, wherein the input includes a modification to at least one of the scheduling data, the budgeting data, and the drawings, and (v) modify at least one of the schedule, the budget, and the drawings based upon the input.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: BFS Operations LLCInventors: Prakriti Khanna, Arumuganainar Ramaswamy, Kevin Prasanna Rajendran Racheal, Alfred Rhyne, Andrew Garrett