Patents Assigned to LLC
  • Patent number: 11939900
    Abstract: Methods and systems for reducing emissions of an internal combustion engine are described. In one example, an electric heater and a passive NOx absorber or other emissions control device are positioned in a passage downstream of a combustor so as to process emissions from the combustor before an engine is started.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Jason Martz, Michiel J. Van Nieuwstadt, Eric Kurtz, Paul Tennison, Brien Lloyd Fulton, Daniel Styles
  • Patent number: 11942082
    Abstract: Techniques described herein relate to facilitating end-to-end multilingual communications with automated assistants. In various implementations, speech recognition output may be generated based on voice input in a first language. A first language intent may be identified based on the speech recognition output and fulfilled in order to generate a first natural language output candidate in the first language. At least part of the speech recognition output may be translated to a second language to generate an at least partial translation, which may then be used to identify a second language intent that is fulfilled to generate a second natural language output candidate in the second language. Scores may be determined for the first and second natural language output candidates, and based on the scores, a natural language output may be selected for presentation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: James Kuczmarski, Vibhor Jain, Amarnag Subramanya, Nimesh Ranjan, Melvin Jose Johnson Premkumar, Vladimir Vuskovic, Luna Dai, Daisuke Ikeda, Nihal Sandeep Balani, Jinna Lei, Mengmeng Niu, Hongjie Chai, Wangqing Yuan
  • Patent number: 11942642
    Abstract: Provided herein is an apparatus. The apparatus can include a battery cell. The battery cell can include an electrode. The apparatus can include a first solid electrolyte interphase on the electrode. The first solid electrolyte interphase can be formed from a first electrolyte having a salt concentration greater than or equal to 1 M. The apparatus can include a second solid electrolyte interphase on the electrode. The second solid electrolyte interphase can be formed from a second electrolyte different from the first electrolyte.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Rivian IP Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Judith Alvarado Kim, Liyuan Sun, Soo Kim, Tae Kyoung Kim, Ki Tae Park
  • Patent number: 11940238
    Abstract: Provided herein are bolt carriers, firearms, and related methods, devices, and assemblies. A bolt carrier for a firearm of an example embodiment includes a cam slot configured to receive a cam pin of a bolt, the cam slot defining a cam path along which the cam pin is configured to travel, the cam path comprising a locked dwell, an unlocked dwell, and a transition section disposed between the locked dwell and the unlocked dwell, wherein the locked dwell defines a portion parallel to a first axis of the bolt carrier that is greater than 0.070 inches long.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: WHG PROPERTIES, LLC
    Inventors: Frank Robinson, William Geissele
  • Patent number: 11942453
    Abstract: A 3D integrated circuit device can include a substrate, a thermal interface layer and at least one die, at least one device layer bonded between the thermal interface layer and the at least one die, wherein the thermal interface layer enhances conductive heat transfer between the at least one device layer and the at least one die, and a heat sink located adjacent to a heat spreader, wherein the thermal interface layer, the at least one die and the at least one device layer are located between the heat spreader and the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Kambix Innovations, LLC
    Inventors: Kambiz Vafai, Andisheh Tavakoli, Mohammad Reza Salimpour
  • Patent number: 11939815
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a guide system includes a first member configured to be fixed to a structure. A coupling element is fixed to the first member. A second member is moveable relative to the first member. The second member is configured to receive the coupling element to couple the first member to the second member. There is a channel between the first member and the second member when the first member is coupled to the second member. The channel is configured to receive a portion of a closure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: CornellCookson, LLC
    Inventors: James Janick, Daniel Frack
  • Patent number: 11940204
    Abstract: A modular box assembly includes a box defining a box cavity within the box, the box further defining a top end and a bottom end, the top end defining a box opening connected to the box cavity, the box including a side panel extending from the top end to the bottom end; a shoulder attached to the side panel, the shoulder extending inward from the side panel and into the box cavity, the shoulder including a first sub-shoulder and a second sub-shoulder, the first sub-shoulder, the second sub-shoulder, and the side panel defining a shoulder channel; and an inner box disposed in the box cavity, the inner box including a channel tab, the channel tab frictionally engaging the shoulder channel to secure and suspend the inner box within the box cavity between the top end and the bottom end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Pratt Retail Specialties, LLC
    Inventors: Jamie Waltermire, Paul Ott, Greg Sollie
  • Patent number: 11943854
    Abstract: A load control device adapted to be coupled between an AC power source and an electrical load for controlling the power delivered to the load includes a controller, an actuator for turning the electrical load on and off, an occupancy detection circuit, and an ambient light detector. The load control device automatically turns on the electrical load in response to the presence of an occupant only if the detected ambient light is below a predetermined ambient light level threshold. After first detecting the presence of an occupant, the load control device monitors actuations of the actuator to determine whether a user has changed the state of the load. The load control device automatically adjusts the predetermined ambient light level threshold in response to the user actuations that change the state of the load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Lutron Technology Company LLC
    Inventors: Ryan S. Bedell, James P. Steiner
  • Patent number: 11941443
    Abstract: Workloads, e.g., synthetic workloads, on one or more storage systems in an dynamic, automated manner, for example, to load test the one or more storage systems. A distributed system may be employed in which a workload information server (WIS) serves one or more clients referred to herein as workload control components (WCCs) that analyze workload information of the one or more storage systems, and control the modification of workloads thereon based on this analysis, through the WIS. The WIS also may serve one or more clients referred to herein as workload generation controllers (WGCs) that monitor workloads on the one or more storage systems, report workload information to the WIS and generate, modify or remove workloads on the one or more storage systems according to instructions received from the WIS in response to requests (e.g., hints) from the one or more WGCs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventor: Garvin O'Brien
  • Patent number: 11941093
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an identity network that provides a universal, digital identity for users to be authenticated by an identity provider for relying parties upon sign-in to the relying party. The identity network receives the sign-in request from a relying party for a user using a user device. The identity network can provide a session identifier to the relying party for the request and launch an identity provider application associated with the user via a software development kit in the relying party application. The user may sign-in to the identity provider via the software development kit, thereby authenticating the user for the relying party. Additionally, the identity provider may generate a risk validation score and provide it to the relying party that provides a confidence value that the user is validly using the user device and a risk score based on device activity on the identity network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Early Warning Services, LLC
    Inventors: Gregory Slowiak, Eric Woodward, Philip Lam, Jeff Shultz
  • Patent number: 11941736
    Abstract: Systems and methods can enable the control the motion of an animated character based on imagery (e.g., captured by an image capture device such as a web camera or “webcam”) which shows a person in motion. Specifically, the animated character can be automatically rendered to have the same motion as the entity shown in the imagery (e.g., in real time). According to one aspect of the present disclosure, the animated character can be rendered by iteratively transforming (e.g., including deforming the actual geometry of) a vector-based surface illustration. Specifically, the systems and methods present disclosure can leverage the scalable and transformable nature of a vector-based surface illustration to provide more realistic motion-controlled animation, in which the underlying geometry of the animated character is able to be adjusted to imitate human motion more realistically (e.g., as opposed to basic rotations of fixed character geometry).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventor: Shan Huang
  • Patent number: 11939095
    Abstract: System for heat shrink sealing open-topped containers wherein the system includes a housing or enclosure wherein a majority of a bulk roll of film material is accessible when the cover is open. The system preferably includes two opposing rollers that are configured to engage the film and cause it to move to a dispensing position. In a preferred aspect, the system includes a movable sealing unit that accommodates use of the lidding system with open ended containers having various sizes and shapes. In a more preferred aspect, the system includes an indicia generating device operable to label sealed containers and a knife that generates a perforation in the film during sealing operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: GPCP IP Holdings LLC
    Inventor: Kimmo Vari
  • Patent number: 11942816
    Abstract: An electric utility distribution system in which power is supplied by a distribution transformer through an electric utility meter including an apparatus for detecting the presence of a back-feed voltage source connected to the load. The apparatus includes a virtual neutral established in the electric utility meter at ground potential and a remote switch that is opened to interrupt electric power flow from the distribution transformer to the load. The apparatus further includes a balanced voltage divider circuit including a connection point established between a pair of series connected resistive elements. In addition, the apparatus includes a detection circuit configured to monitor a voltage signal at the connection point to detect a back-feed voltage source connected between a neutral conductor of the electric utility distribution system and one of a first or second power line at the load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Aclara Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Curtis W. Crittenden, Carl Oppenheimer
  • Patent number: 11940788
    Abstract: A system and method includes a wireless receiver and/or receiver-transceiver integrated into one of a powertrain electrical system, ECU, MCU, and vehicle speed output sensors of the high-performance vehicle, a speed command control device integrated into the wireless receiver and/or receiver-transceiver to automatically turn ON at a predetermined vehicle speed, and a transmitter and/or transmitter-transceiver operable by law enforcement to transmit RF messaging packets to the wireless receiver and/or receiver-transceiver when the speed command control device is activated by the transmitter and/or transmitter-transceiver to reduce the speed of the high-performance vehicle. The method may implement Vehicle Speed Ship Mode (VSSM) with the same, similar, or different RF receiver and/or receiver-transceiver by turning ON the speed bit indefinitely by use of custom factory software and or factory tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: WOW Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Robert Carollo, Catherine Kirk, Timothy P. Lyon
  • Patent number: 11943338
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, system, or computer-readable medium for performing object-level encryption and key rotations is disclosed. A service platform may store data items organized into one or more asset clusters. A first content encryption key may be set as the active encryption key for an asset cluster. The active encryption key may be encrypted using the master encryption key. A first subset of data items may be encrypted using the active encryption key (e.g., the first content encryption key). After the number of data items encrypted using the active encryption key satisfies a threshold value, the first content encryption key may be set as an inactive encryption key and a second content encryption key may be set as the new active encryption key for the asset cluster. A second subset of the plurality of data items may be encrypted using the active encryption key (e.g., the second content encryption key).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Rocky Gray, Jeremy Green, Justin Bachorik, Irakli Nadareishvili
  • Patent number: 11942725
    Abstract: A tamper resistant nightlight for placement in an electrical receptacle, the nightlight includes a body that has a base with an LED circuit and plug blades extending from the body. A housing includes a locking element configured to restrict a child from removing the nightlight from the electrical receptacle through a flange that extends away from the body to be positioned behind a rear surface of an electrical wall plate associated with the electrical receptacle to prevent the tamper resistant nightlight from being removed from the electrical receptacle while the electrical wall plate is coupled to the electrical receptacle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Titan3 Technology LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey P. Baldwin, John E. Klein
  • Patent number: D1019255
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: SHARKNINJA OPERATING LLC
    Inventors: Da Deng, Diego Jasso, Nathan Lyell
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    Patent number: D1019281
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: MiiR Holdings, LLC
    Inventor: Bryan Pape
  • Patent number: D1019400
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: AVÉ IMPORTS USA, LLC
    Inventor: Eduardo Cortez
  • Patent number: D1019908
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: The Fit RV, LLC
    Inventor: James N. Adinaro