Patents Assigned to LLC
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Patent number: 11938904Abstract: A cargo bed divider system for a pickup truck includes a first guide rail connectable to a first lateral side of a cargo bed, a second guide rail connectable to a second lateral side of the cargo bed, a cargo bed divider supported between the first guide rail and the second guide rail, and an adjustment mechanism connectable to a forward end of the cargo bed and the cargo bed divider. The adjustment mechanism selectively moves the cargo bed divider between a first position adjacent the forward end of the cargo bed and a second position adjacent to a rear end of the cargo bed.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Jesus Anthony Bernal, Eric James Bontrager
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Patent number: 11942076Abstract: A method includes receiving audio data encoding an utterance spoken by a native speaker of a first language, and receiving a biasing term list including one or more terms in a second language different than the first language. The method also includes processing, using a speech recognition model, acoustic features derived from the audio data to generate speech recognition scores for both wordpieces and corresponding phoneme sequences in the first language. The method also includes rescoring the speech recognition scores for the phoneme sequences based on the one or more terms in the biasing term list, and executing, using the speech recognition scores for the wordpieces and the rescored speech recognition scores for the phoneme sequences, a decoding graph to generate a transcription for the utterance.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Ke Hu, Golan Pundak, Rohit Prakash Prabhavalkar, Antoine Jean Bruguier, Tara N. Sainath
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Patent number: 11942831Abstract: Method and apparatus for providing a motor controller/driver integrated circuit package having diagnostic processing of signal(s) from a magnetic field sensor positioned in relation to a motor. The sensor signal may have a first voltage range corresponding to a valid high state and a second voltage range corresponding to a valid low state. A diagnostic module can process the received signal from the magnetic field sensor to determine whether the received signal has a voltage level within the first or second voltage ranges. An output module may generate an output signal having a state based on the whether the received signal has a voltage level within the first or second voltage ranges.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2020Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Allegro MicroSystems, LLCInventors: Ryan J. Metivier, Daniel Jacques
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Patent number: 11939103Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a label-placement module having a first feeder assembly, including a horizontal delivery platter for receiving a label, and a first drive wheel, positioned adjacent to a distal end of the horizontal delivery platter and rotatable to move the label on the horizontal delivery platter in a first direction. The label-placement module may include a second feeder assembly coupled to an actuator that moves the second feeder assembly vertically to a delivery position associated with the container. The second feeder assembly having a vertical delivery platter for receiving the label from the horizontal delivery platter and a second drive wheel rotatable to move the label forward in the first direction towards the container such that at least a portion of the label may be clamped between the container and a lid of the container thereby attaching the label to the container.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: INTELLIGRATED HEADQUARTERS, LLCInventors: Darius Scott, Joseph Joice, Jon Joseph Tribe, Satyam Ulhas Deshmukh
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Patent number: 11937633Abstract: This disclosure relates generally to vaporizing devices and components of vaporizing devices, such as mouthpiece locking structures. In various aspects, a locking structure for a mouthpiece includes a circular body extending between a proximal end and a distal end, where an interior surface of the body defines a central lumen. The locking structures may also include a clamp disposed within the central lumen, where the clamp has an angled wall extending inwardly from a rim of the interior surface of the body towards the central lumen. The clamp may additionally include a notch within the angled wall, with the angled wall of the clamp (i) encircling a substantial entirety of a circumference of the body, (ii) defining a clamp lumen, (iii) having a thickness ranging from about 0.5 mm to about 0.7 mm, and (iv) having an angle or bias of from about 100° to about 110°.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2023Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Next Level Ventures LLCInventor: Yifeng Deng
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Patent number: 11937559Abstract: A submersible member can include an elongated body defining an outer body surface, the body defining a top end and a bottom end; a base electrode extending through the outer body surface; a first conductive member extending through the body from the top end to the base electrode, the first conductive member connected in electrical communication with the base electrode; an indicator electrode extending through the outer body surface, the indicator electrode positioned between the top end and the base electrode; and a second conductive member extending through the body from the top end to the indicator electrode, the second conductive member connected in electrical communication with the indicator electrode.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Modern Garden Systems, LLCInventors: Brendan Hill, Hakki Tomanbay
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Patent number: 11941160Abstract: A method includes transmitting an instruction to a motive power supply of an elastically deformable device to drive the elastically deformable device in accordance with a drive setting; measuring a force exerted on the elastically deformable device with a sensor; outputting an observed value representative of the force; comparing the observed value with a reference value corresponding with a predetermined force to be exerted on the elastically deformable device; and adjusting the drive setting based on a determination that the observed value is outside of a predetermined range of the reference value. The method prevents slack in the elastically deformable device over time. Related apparatuses, systems, techniques and articles are also described.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2023Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLCInventors: Andrew Lee Tang, Bryan Christopher Morris, James J. Delmonico
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Patent number: 11938388Abstract: A modular game assembly includes a central platform and a plurality of peripheral boards removably attached to the central platform to facilitate a tossing game between two or more players. The central platform is supported upon a support surface such that a planar surface thereof is elevated with respect to the support surface. Each peripheral board includes a front edge that is raised and supported by the central platform such that each peripheral board is downwardly inclined. Each peripheral board is in an abutting arrangement with adjacent peripheral boards.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Richert Games LLCInventors: Todd Michael Richert, Troy Douglas Richert
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Patent number: 11942157Abstract: An apparatus is provided that includes a word line coupled to a word line driver circuit, bit lines, a plurality of non-volatile memory cells each coupled to the word line and a corresponding one of the bit lines, and a control circuit coupled to the word line and the bit lines. The control circuit is configured to program the memory cells by causing the word line driver to apply a program pulse to the word line, and biasing each bit line to a corresponding bit line voltage that has a value that varies based on a distance between the word line driver and the corresponding bit line.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: SanDisk Technologies LLCInventors: Jiacen Guo, Xiang Yang, Xiaochen Zhu
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Patent number: 11940831Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, a circuit includes: a trimmable reference current generator having a temperature dependent current output node, the trimmable reference current generator including: a proportional to absolute temperature (PTAT) current generation circuit; a first programmable current scaling circuit coupled to the PTAT current generation circuit and including a first output coupled to the temperature dependent current output node; a constant current generation circuit; a second programmable current scaling circuit coupled to the constant current generation circuit and including a first output coupled to the temperature dependent current output node; and a reference interface circuit having an input coupled to the temperature dependent current output node and an output configured to be coupled to a reference current input of a memory sense amplifier.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Infineon Technologies LLCInventor: Cristinel Zonte
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Patent number: 11943883Abstract: A magnetic bistable hinge system includes a hinge bracket, first and second magnets, and a rotatable member. The first magnet may be coupled to the hinge bracket and be configured to rotate about an axis of the hinge bracket from a first bistable position to a second bistable position. When the south pole of the first magnet is at a first angle relative to the south pole of the second magnet, the first magnet and the second magnets are in the first bistable position and the rotatable member is in a closed position relative to the hinge bracket. When the south pole of the first magnet is at a second angle relative to the south pole of the second magnet, the first and second magnets are at the second bistable position, and the rotatable member is rotated to an open position relative to the hinge bracket.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2020Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Peter Michael Cazalet, Bryan Macomber
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Patent number: 11941581Abstract: The disclosure relates to systems and methods for real-time detection of a very large number of items in a given constrained volume. Specifically, the disclosure relates to systems and methods for retrieving an optimized set of classifiers from a self-updating classifiers' database, configured to selectively and specifically identify products inserted into a cart in real time, from a database comprising a large number of stock-keeping items, whereby the inserted items' captured images serve simultaneously as training dataset, validation dataset and test dataset for the recognition/identification/re-identification of the product.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: TRACXPOINT LLC.Inventors: Moshe Meidar, Gidon Moshkovitz, Edi Bahous, Itai Winkler
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Patent number: 11940123Abstract: A portable device for generating and providing electricity is disclosed. The device includes one or more flat solar panels; one or more batteries arranged to be changed with electric power from the one or more flat solar panels; one or more lights arranged to be powered from the one or more batteries; one or more electric connectors arranged to receive electric power form the one or more batteries and to connect to combined power/data connections on portable electronic devices; and an expandable and collapsible housing holding the solar panels, batteries, and lights, and arranged to form a hollow inner volume when expanded and a flat panel when contracted.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2023Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: LuminAID LAB, LLCInventors: Andrea M. Sreshta, Anna Ruth Stork
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Patent number: 11942429Abstract: A vertical repetition of multiple instances of a unit layer stack is formed over a substrate. The unit layer stack includes an insulating layer and a sacrificial material layer. Lateral recesses are formed by removing the sacrificial material layers selective to the insulating layers. Each lateral recess is sequentially fill with at least one conductive fill material and an insulating fill material, and vertically-extending portions of the at least one conductive fill material are removed such that a vertical layer stack including a first-type electrically conductive layer, a seamed insulating layer, and a second-type electrically conductive layer are formed in each lateral recess. Memory opening fill structures including a respective vertical stack of memory elements is formed through the insulating layers and the layer stacks. Memory openings, contact via cavities, or backside trenches may be used as access points for removing the sacrificial material layers.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLCInventors: Tatsuya Hinoue, Naoki Takeguchi, Masanori Tsutsumi, Seiji Shimabukuro
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Patent number: 11939161Abstract: An autonomous rover including a frame having a first end and a second end longitudinally spaced from the first end and forming a payload bay, the payload bay being sized to support a pickface, a common active registration surface configured to engage the pickface, and a drive section connected to the common active registration surface, the drive section being configured to variably position the common active registration surface relative to at least one storage shelf of an automated storage and retrieval system to effect placement of the pickface on the storage shelf so that pickfaces are substantially continuously arranged along the at least one storage shelf with a predetermined storage spacing between the pickfaces.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Symbotic LLCInventors: Forrest Buzan, Michael Cyrulik, Aria Reynolds, Jason S. Sirois, Larry Sweet, Edward A. MacDonald, Taylor A. Apgar, Timothy Perrault, Stephen C. Toebes
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Patent number: 11937786Abstract: An imaging system is provided comprising an imaging probe and at least one delivery device. The imaging probe comprises an elongate shaft, a rotatable optical core and an optical assembly. The elongate shaft comprises a proximal end, a distal portion, and a lumen extending between the proximal end and the distal portion. The rotatable optical core is positioned within the lumen of the elongate shaft and comprises a proximal end and a distal end. The rotatable optical core is configured to optically and mechanically connect with an interface unit. The optical assembly is positioned in the elongate shaft distal portion and proximate the rotatable optical core distal end. The optical assembly is configured to direct light to tissue and collect reflected light from the tissue. The imaging probe is constructed and arranged to collect image data from a patient site. The at least one delivery device is constructed and arranged to slidingly engage the imaging probe.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2023Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Gentuity, LLCInventors: Christopher Petroff, Christopher Petersen, David W. Kolstad
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Patent number: 11941120Abstract: Novel tools and techniques might provide for implementing Internet of Things (“IoT”) functionality, and, in particular embodiments, implementing added services for OBD2 connection for IoT-capable vehicles. In various embodiments, a portable device (when connected to an OBD2 DLC port of a vehicle) might monitor wireless communications between a vehicle computing system(s) and an external device(s), might monitor vehicle sensor data from vehicular sensors tracking operational conditions of the vehicle, and might monitor operator input sensor data from operator input sensors tracking input by a vehicle operator. The portable device (or a server) might analyze either the monitored wireless communications or a combination of the monitored vehicle sensor data and the monitored operator input sensor data, to determine whether vehicle operation has been compromised.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Century-Link Intellectual Property LLCInventor: Tom Funk
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Patent number: 11939498Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a two-component bonding agent composition and a process for applying a layer of the bonding agent composition to substrate layers to make laminates.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2017Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignees: Dow Global Technologies LLC, Rohm and Haas CompanyInventors: Mai Chen, Yuanjia Pan, Xinhong Wang, Gaobing Chen, Xinchun Liu
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Patent number: D1019224Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: RH US, LLCInventor: Jose Ramón Esteve Cambra
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Patent number: D1019485Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLCInventor: Brian Malczewski