Patents Assigned to LLC
  • Patent number: 11858299
    Abstract: A real time tire pressure sensing system includes sensors to collectively generate signals corresponding to a contained tire air temperature, a contained inflation pressure, and an ambient temperature associated with a tire mounted on a vehicle. A processor determines an effective tire inflation pressure based on the generated signals and further at least on a calculated moving average of the ambient temperature (e.g., over a defined time period such as 24 hours) and generates real time notifications associated with the determined effective tire inflation pressure to specified user interfaces. At least one sensor may be an inflation pressure sensor configured to generate event-based signals corresponding to detected changes per unit pressure. The processor may further generate real time feedback control signals to an automatic tire inflation device, based on the determined effective tire inflation pressure, or enable and prompt manual control of the tire inflation device via the user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations, LLC
    Inventors: David O. Stalnaker, Robert Palmer, Kirk S. Rutherford, Cameron C. Martinez
  • Patent number: 11860955
    Abstract: A computing device hosting a website of a business may be operable to receive a first search input comprising a term submitted via a search bar on the website. Upon performing an internal search for the term with no result, the computing device may output information on the no-result. The computing device may then perform, using one or more external search engines, a search for the term. Search results of the search, performed using the external search engine(s), may be analyzed. Based on a result of the analysis, one or more particular character strings related to the term may be identified. The computing device may generate and store, based on the identifying of the particular character string(s), one or more alternative search suggestions. Upon subsequently receiving an input comprising at least a portion of the term entered in the search bar, the computing device may output the alternative search suggestion(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: TRANSFORM SR BRANDS LLC
    Inventors: Rongkai Zhao, Zhenyu Lu, Kenneth Katschke
  • Patent number: 11861848
    Abstract: A system and method of generating trackable frames from a broadcast video feed are provided herein. A computing system retrieves a broadcast video feed for a sporting event. The broadcast video feed includes a plurality of video frames. The computing system generates a set of frames for classification using a principal component analysis model. The set of frames are a subset of the plurality of video frames. The computing system partitions each frame of the set of frames into a plurality of clusters. The computing system classifies each frame of the plurality of frames as trackable or untrackable. Trackable frames capture a unified view of the sporting event. The computing system compares each cluster to a predetermined threshold to determine whether each cluster comprises at least a threshold number of trackable frames. The computing system classifies each cluster that includes at least the threshold number of trackable frames as trackable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: STATS LLC
    Inventors: Long Sha, Sujoy Ganguly, Xinyu Wei, Patrick Joseph Lucey, Aditya Cherukumudi
  • Patent number: 11857722
    Abstract: A vaporizing assembly for an aerosol generating system includes a sheet heating element and a delivery device configured to deliver a liquid aerosol-forming substrate from a liquid storing portion to the sheet heating element. The sheet heating element is spaced apart from the delivery device and is configured to heat the delivered liquid aerosol forming substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Altria Client Services LLC
    Inventors: Rui Nuno Batista, Dani Ruscio
  • Patent number: 11858742
    Abstract: An automated storage and retrieval system includes a first independently operable section having a first number of predetermined storage and retrieval transactions, and a second independently operable section in communication with the first independently operable section and having a second number of predetermined storage and retrieval transactions. The first and second independently operable sections are configured to provide a respective number of predetermined storage and retrieval transactions so that the first number of predetermined storage and retrieval transactions substantially matches the second number of predetermined storage and retrieval transactions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Symbotic LLC
    Inventors: Larry Sweet, Kil Kwak, Kirill Pankratov, Russell G. Barbour, William Johnson, Juergen D. Conrad, Juergen Baumbach, Ronald Kyslinger
  • Patent number: 11862256
    Abstract: A non-volatile storage apparatus that comprises a plurality of planes of non-volatile memory cells is capable of concurrently programming memory cells in multiple planes. In order to screen for failure of the programming process in a subset of planes, the completion of programming of a fastest plane to a particular data state is used as a trigger to test for program failure of other planes to a different data state. In one embodiment, the test for program failure of other planes to the different data state comprises determining if the memory cells of the other planes that are targeted for programming to the different data state have successfully completed verification of programming for the different data state. The programming process is stopped for those planes that fail the test.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: SanDisk Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Shota Murai, Hideto Tomiie
  • Patent number: 11861698
    Abstract: A device receives transaction data associated with an individual that is participating in a transaction for a vehicle. The device identifies transaction term values relating to the transaction. The device determines scores indicating likelihoods of the transaction term values contributing to prevention of completion of the transaction. The device receives vehicle inventory data describing vehicles. The device identifies one or more recommended vehicles, of the vehicles, based on performing a vehicle search of the vehicles described by the vehicle inventory data, where the vehicle search identifies the one or more recommended vehicles based on one or more filters. The device provides vehicle offer data for the one or more recommended vehicles to one or more other devices to permit the one or more other devices to use the vehicle offer data as part of another transaction for a particular vehicle of the one or more vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Jason Hoover, Micah Price, Qiaochu Tang, Stephen Wylie, Geoffrey Dagley
  • Patent number: 11858026
    Abstract: A ram drive assembly for a can bodymaker includes a mounting assembly and a number of forming assemblies supported thereon, each including: a stationary assembly, having a die pack and a domer, and a moving assembly having a ram assembly and a cam follower assembly. The die pack defines a passage having a proximal and a distal end, with the domer disposed adjacent the distal end. The ram assembly includes a ram body having a proximal and a distal end, with the cam follower assembly coupled to the proximal end. The ram body is structured to reciprocate through the passage between a retracted and an extended position. The ram drive assembly includes: a cam having a body with a number of surfaces for engaging each cam follower assembly; and a motor having a rotating output shaft operatively coupled to the cam body for rotating the cam body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Stolle Machinery Company, LLC
    Inventors: Karl S. Fleischer, Ian Kenneth Scholey, Leonardo Antonio Butolo Ribeiro, Sylvan Mario Praturlon
  • Patent number: 11862758
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a lighting component which may comprise a light emitting diode (LED) or laser diode (LD) for generating at least one of blue light or ultraviolet light. A fluoride phosphor matrix may be included, which may be consolidated into a phosphor ceramic structure including at least one of a transparent fluoride ceramic structure or a translucent fluoride ceramic structure, and positioned adjacent to the LED or LD. The phosphor ceramic structure generates at least one of red or orange light when irradiated by the light emitted from the LED or LD. The phosphor ceramic structure exhibits reduced thermal quenching relative to a fluoride particulate structure irradiated by the LED or LD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignees: Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC, Current Lighting Solutiosn, LLC
    Inventors: Nerine Cherepy, Ross Allen Osborne, Stephen A. Payne, Zachary Seeley, Alok Srivastava, William Winder Beers, William Erwin Cohen
  • Patent number: 11862900
    Abstract: Various techniques are provided for displacing air from partial discharge sensitive regions of a connector of a low partial discharge high voltage connector to other regions of the low partial discharge high voltage connector where electrical flux is reduced. A plug member is mated with a receptacle member to provide the connector, with a seal member disposed in a cavity provided by the plug member and/or the receptacle member. In response to the mating, the seal member is compressed at an initial contact region between an innermost layer and an outermost layer of the seal member. In response to the compressing, air is forced radially inward toward the innermost layer and radially outward toward the outermost layer away from the initial contact region to reduce partial discharge associated with the connector. Additional methods and systems are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Teledyne Defense Electronics, LLC
    Inventors: Samnang Bou, Hamahito Hokyo, Rafael A. Montalvo, Jeffrey K. Barcza, Gary S. Yoshioka
  • Patent number: 11863817
    Abstract: A method and system for controlling implementation of dynamic content modification. The disclosure provides for using at least one steganographically-encoded timestamp in a media stream transmitted to a media client as a basis to determine a transmission delay for media-stream transmission to the media client, and for providing the determined transmission delay as a basis to facilitate control over whether to have the media client implement dynamic content modification. In addition, the disclosure provides for receiving respectively from each of various media clients a report indicating transmission delay determined for the media client based on such steganographically-encoded timestamp data, and using the transmission delays for the media clients to establish a dynamic-content-modification footprint that could be used to control whether, where, and to what extent dynamic content modification will be applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Benjamin J. Ropke, Shashank C. Merchant, John S. Stavropoulos
  • Patent number: 11863993
    Abstract: A method for automatic pairing of two devices for wireless communication includes detecting, by a first device, that a second device is in a communicable range of the first device, where the first device has not been paired with the second device for wireless communication. The method may include determining, by the first device, by communicating with a third device, that the second device is paired with the third device. The first device and the third device are also paired previously. The method may include transmitting, by the third device, a key material to the second device. The method may include confirming, by the first device and by the second device, that the key material matches. The method may include establishing, by the first device, a communication link with the second device for wireless communication in response to the key material being a match.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Mohamed A. Layouni, Kiana Karimpoor, Haroon Ali Akbar, David N. Yang
  • Patent number: 11857120
    Abstract: Embodiments relate generally to a heated towel rack that includes at least one lateral support, at least one forced air heating unit in fluid communication with a channel within a lateral support, and at least one cross bar coupled to the at least one lateral support. The at least one cross bar including at least one vent that traverses into a conduit within the cross bar. The channel is in fluid communication with the at least one vent by way of the conduit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: VISTAROCK HOLDINGS LLC
    Inventor: James Joseph Wallander
  • Patent number: 11861299
    Abstract: Methods and systems are described herein for populating application-specific information using overlay applications. For example, in order to relieve some of the difficulties users face in inputting information into mobile devices which may have smaller screen sizes and may not feature dedicated input mechanisms, the methods and systems described herein automatically populate application-specific information. The methods and systems do this using an application that presents an application overlay feature. That is, the application is accessible while a user is using another application (e.g., on the mobile device) and/or while a user is scrolling through other applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Matthew Adler, Casey Barrett, Madeline Beyl
  • Patent number: 11860202
    Abstract: Devices, methods and systems for meter setup verification are provided. In one aspect, a device is provided including a communication interface and at least one processor. The communication interface receives a wiring setup configuration of at least one electronic power meter and at least one measured and/or calculated parameter from the at least one electronic power meter. The at least one processor determines if the at least one electronic power meter is wired correctly based on the wiring setup configuration of the at least one electronic power meter and the at least one measured and/or calculated parameter from the at least one electronic power meter. The device may be implemented in a separate client device or in the at least one electronic power meter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: EI ELECTRONICS LLC
    Inventor: Erran Kagan
  • Patent number: 11860424
    Abstract: A fiber optic and electrical connection system includes a fiber optic cable, a ruggedized fiber optic connector, a ruggedized fiber optic adapter, and a fiber optic enclosure. The cable includes one or more electrically conducting strength members. The connector, the adapter, and the enclosure each have one or more electrical conductors. The cable is terminated by the connector with the conductors of the connector in electrical communication with the strength members. The conductors of the connector electrically contact the conductors of the adapter when the connector and the adapter are mechanically connected. And, the conductors of the adapter electrically contact the conductors of the enclosure when the adapter is mounted on the enclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Trevor D. Smith, Yu Lu
  • Patent number: 11863220
    Abstract: A network access device placed between one or more distribution devices and multiple premises may remotely or wirelessly monitor and/or analyze signal characteristics at the network access device and or of equipment at the multiple premises. The network access device may adjust switchably-filtered signal paths between the distribution device(s) and the multiple premises to remove or mitigate signal interference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventor: Deven Vazirani
  • Patent number: 11857027
    Abstract: A device for use in a shoe includes a first foot, a second foot, a third foot, a fourth foot, a first flexible leg, a second flexible leg, a third flexible leg, and a fourth flexible leg. The first flexible leg extends from the first foot and is curved. The second flexible leg extends from the second foot and is curved. The third flexible leg extends from the third foot and is curved. The fourth flexible leg extends from the fourth foot and is curved. The first flexible leg, second flexible leg, third flexible leg, and fourth flexible leg are joined together with each other at a common area. The first flexible leg, second flexible leg, third flexible leg, and fourth flexible leg are configured to store energy when a force is applied to the common area, and to return energy when the force is removed from the common area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Athletic Propulsion Labs LLC
    Inventors: Mark R. Goldston, Ryan Goldston, Adam Goldston
  • Patent number: 11857819
    Abstract: A device for use with an exerciser device, such as a reformer, which permits adjustment of a resistance system, even when connected to a resistance source, by selectively relieving a resistance force imparted on the resistance adjustment system when changing a resistance and automatically reengaging the resistance force when exercising. A strain relief is coupled to a linkage between the resistance source and a resistance adjuster. When engaged, the strain relief selectively reduces the resistance force transmitted through the linkage to the resistance adjuster to permit movement of the resistance adjuster relative to a purchase. When disengaged the strain relief permits transmission of the resistance force through the linkage to the resistance adjuster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: ROCKIT BODY LLC
    Inventor: Judith Aronson
  • Patent number: 11858376
    Abstract: In an aspect, a system for monitoring a battery system in-flight. The system includes at least a battery pack and a pack monitoring unit (PMU) communicatively connected with a battery pack. The battery pack includes a plurality of battery packs. The PMU may include at least a sensor and a controller. At least a sensor is configured to detect battery datum. A controller is communicatively connected with at least a sensor. A controller is configured to receive battery datum, detect a significant event as a function of battery datum, and transmit the significant event to a remote device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: BETA AIR, LLC
    Inventors: Braedon Lohe, Cullen Jemison, Andrew Giroux, Tom Michael Hughes