Patents Assigned to LLC
  • Patent number: 11838518
    Abstract: Improved video compression and video streaming systems and methods are disclosed for environments where camera motion is common, such as cameras incorporated into head-mounted displays. This is accomplished by combining a 3D representation of the shape of the user's environment (walls, floor, ceiling, furniture, etc.), image data, and data representative of changes in the location and orientation (pose) of the camera between successive image frames, thereby reducing data bandwidth needed to send streaming video in the presence of camera motion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Forrest Power Trepte
  • Patent number: 11839001
    Abstract: Ceiling fan having an electric lamp which has continuous color temperature control. A ceiling fan includes an electric motor which rotates blades; and an electric lamp, which is an integrated component of the ceiling fan and is co-located beneath the blades. The motor and the lamp receive electric power from a mains electric socket via a single electric power cord that provides Alternating Current. The lamp is configured to emit visible light having light warmth at a user-configurable level along a continuous spectrum of light warmth, between a lower-bound value and an upper-bound value. The electric lamp includes a first set of LEDs and a second set of LEDs. The first set of LEDs is capable of emitting visible light at a first, fixed, light warmth value, which is the lower-bound value of that continuous spectrum of light warmth levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: OLIBRA LLC
    Inventors: Christopher Andrew Merck, Zohar Shinar
  • Patent number: 11832589
    Abstract: Data is received identifying an interaction by an animal with a communication device, where the communication device includes a plurality of scent elements, each of the plurality of scent elements includes a different respective different scent, and a combination of the scents of the plurality of scent elements produces a combined scent, where the combined scent implements a scent marker, and the interaction is based on the scent marker. A meaning associated with the scent marker is determined based on the interaction. A communication by the animal is determined based on the interaction based on the meaning. Communication data is generated to identify the communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Wuffer, LLC
    Inventors: Colleen Lewis, Jeff Lewis
  • Patent number: 11832610
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides for an agrochemical emulsion with reduced spray drift that includes an emulsion pre-mix concentrate, an acrylate-based copolymer, and an aqueous based agrochemical composition. The agrochemical emulsion includes 0.05 to 5 weight percent (wt %) of the emulsion pre-mix concentrate, 0.05 to 5 wt. % of the acrylate-based copolymer and 90 to 99.9 wt. % of the aqueous based agrochemical composition. The emulsion pre-mix concentrate includes 40 to 70 wt. % of an alkylene glycol ether, 10 to 40 wt. % of a vegetable-oil, and a surfactant, where the wt. % of the surfactant is 0.5 to 2 times the wt. % of the vegetable-oil wt. %, where the wt. % values are based on the total weight of the emulsion pre-mix concentrate and the wt. % of the alkylene glycol ether, the vegetable-oil and the surfactant total 100 wt. % of the emulsion pre-mix concentrate. The acrylate-based copolymer has a weight average molecular weight of 0.5 to 1.5 million.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Adam L Grzesiak, Matthew D. Reichert, Christopher J. Tucker, Stephen L. Wilson, Holger Tank, Sudhakar Balijepalli, Milton H. Repollet-Pedrosa
  • Patent number: 11833161
    Abstract: A pharmaceutical composition for treating skin infections is described herein. A method using a pharmaceutical composition for treating skin infections is described herein. A pharmaceutical composition for treating skin infections may comprise, in 100 parts of the composition, 1-99 parts of a pharmaceutically acceptable excipient; 99-1 parts of a keratolytic; 99-1 parts ethyl pyruvate; and 99-1 parts povidone iodine. A method for treating skin infections may comprise topical application of a composition to an infected skin cell for a treatment period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Pedicis Research LLC
    Inventors: Robert Alonso, Lawrence Stoll
  • Patent number: 11836336
    Abstract: Embodiments may relate to a graphical user interface (GUI). The GUI may include a first portion that displays an image related to images of a location. The GUI may also include a second portion that displays an image related to detection and ranging information of the location. The two images may be linked such that an interaction with an object in one portion of the GUI causes changes in the other portion of the GUI. Other embodiments may be described or claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: GM Cruise Holdings LLC
    Inventor: Cecile Lanza Parker
  • Patent number: 11832719
    Abstract: A furniture assembly can include a tabletop with removable legs. The removable legs can be attached to the tabletop with a socket having a threaded member mounted in a non-fixed and anti-rotation registration at the bottom of the socket. The legs can be mounted to the socket by insertion and turning for threaded engagement. The floating engagement mechanism can allow the threaded fastener member to move during installation to provide for enhanced alignability between the leg and the threaded fastener member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Exemplis LLC
    Inventors: Paul DeVries, Peter Jeffery, Shane Schaffer, Ryan Dibble
  • Patent number: 11835387
    Abstract: A spectral beam combining system includes a spectral channel splicer comprising a plurality of reflectors and a spectral beam combiner comprising a diffraction optical element such as a diffraction grating. This spectral beam combining system may facilitate combining an increased number of spectral channels thereby producing higher optical power of the combining beam system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC
    Inventors: Hoang T. Nguyen, Michael C. Rushford
  • Patent number: 11836658
    Abstract: In some embodiments, systems and methods are provided herein useful to assess or determine available cargo capacity for multiple commercial product delivery vehicles (“delivery vehicles”). In some embodiments, systems are provided to assess delivery vehicles and may include multiple electronic user devices each having a delivery agent interface operating thereon and an association with one or more delivery agents. At least one control circuit is communicatively coupled to the electronic user devices. By one approach, the control circuit may estimate delivery requirements for purchased orders, which includes volume requirements and geometric configurations of purchased orders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: WALMART APOLLO, LLC
    Inventors: Bruce W. Wilkinson, Todd D. Mattingly
  • Patent number: 11833875
    Abstract: A ground plane detection system for a motor vehicle and a motor vehicle with enhanced maneuverability characteristics of a type including a frame structure, a pair of front road engaging wheels, a pair of rear road engaging wheels. The detection system includes, a body controller configured for determining a ground plane including receiving at least one of a GPS signal and an inertial navigation system signal. The body controller is further configured for providing a roll and a pitch signal with respect to the ground plane; and the body controller combining the signals with inputs from one or more sensors detecting displacement of the front and rear road engaging wheels. The body controller is also configured to determine a terrain plane reference to the ground plane, and providing control signals to cause the vehicle to undertake an earth level orientation mode or a terrain following orientation mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: PRATT & MILLER ENGINEERING AND FABRICATION, LLC
    Inventors: Christopher M. Morgan, John Edward Ustick, Guido Francesco Ritelli
  • Patent number: 11835755
    Abstract: An optical fibre assembly comprises a hollow core optical waveguide comprising a hollow core surrounded by a structured arrangement of longitudinally extending capillaries providing an inner cladding surrounded by an outer cladding; a diagnostic solid core optical waveguide comprising a solid core surrounded by a cladding, and extending substantially parallel to the hollow core optical waveguide; and a jacket surrounding both the hollow core optical waveguide and the solid core optical waveguide and forming a common mechanical environment for the hollow core optical waveguide and the solid core optical waveguide. The optical fibre assembly may be or may comprise or be included in an optical fibre cable, and may be used in a method for testing hollow core optical waveguides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Thomas Harker, Andrew Paul Appleyard, Raymond John Horley, Ian Dewi Lang
  • Patent number: 11832569
    Abstract: An automated crop production system for controlled environment agriculture that includes a horizontal-to-vertical grow tower interface between a vertical grow structure that includes vertical grow towers and associated conveyance mechanisms for moving the vertical grow towers through a controlled environment, and a processing system that performs one or more processing operations—such as harvesting, cleaning and/or transplanting—on the grow towers in a substantially horizontal orientation. The present disclosure also describes an automated crop production system for controlled environment agriculture that selectively routes grow towers through various processing stages of an automated crop production system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: MJNN LLC
    Inventors: Gage Goodspeed Coffin, Michael Peter Flynn, Brice Leon Klein, Alexandre Le Roux, Nathaniel R. Storey, Tamara Tahir Hasoon, Merritt Jonathan Jenkins, Maria Alexandria Malone, Matthew James Matera, Anna Olson, Nadav Sahar Hendel
  • Patent number: 11838248
    Abstract: A serverless function execution system enables fast, efficient and flexible deployment and execution of serverless functions. User commands are received from external messaging systems that cause functions to be executed. A serverless function associated with the user command is determined and the serverless function is executed in an isolation container at a function computation server. A response from the execution of the serverless function is sent to the external messaging system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: DigitalOcean, LLC
    Inventor: Eric Sven-Johan Swildens
  • Patent number: 11839004
    Abstract: A driving circuit and a method for operating the driving circuit is provided for a lamp, the lamp includes a lighting unit, and a first and a second pair of connection pins for coupling the driving circuit to a power supply unit. The driving circuit includes a pre-heating detection circuit and a protection circuit. The pre-heating detection circuit is coupled to the first pair of connection pins and configured to detect a voltage between the first pair of connection pins and output a reference voltage. The protection circuit includes a switching circuit connected in series with the lighting unit, the protection circuit is configured to compare the reference voltage with an input voltage of the lamp and turn on the switching circuit to light the lighting unit when the input voltage of the lamp is greater than the reference voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: SAVANT TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventors: Yin Zhi, Junhua Huang, Zhichao Liu, Junxian Chu, Dengfeng He
  • Patent number: 11839035
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a housing, a component cradle, and a plurality of towers. The housing generally has an inner mounting surface. The component cradle may be formed on the inner mounting surface of the housing. The plurality of towers may be formed on and extending from the inner mounting surface of the housing around the component cradle. The towers are generally deformable into a form-fitting engagement with an electronic component placed on the component cradle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: VEONEER US SAFETY SYSTEMS, LLC
    Inventor: Demetri Stilianos
  • Patent number: 11835272
    Abstract: A cooling system drains oil from low side heat exchangers to vessels and then uses compressed refrigerant to push the oil in the vessels back towards a compressor. Generally, the cooling system operates in three different modes of operation: a normal mode, an oil drain mode, and an oil return mode. During the normal mode, a primary refrigerant is cycled to cool one or more secondary refrigerants. As the primary refrigerant is cycled, oil from a compressor may mix with the primary refrigerant and become stuck in a low side heat exchanger. During the oil drain mode, the oil in the low side heat exchanger is allowed to drain into a vessel. During the oil return mode, compressed refrigerant is directed to the vessel to push the oil in the vessel back towards a compressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Heatcraft Refrigeration Products LLC
    Inventors: Shitong Zha, Augusto Zimmermann
  • Patent number: 11836070
    Abstract: During an execution of a first executable entity, a computer system determines that a target chunk of executable instructions is to be recorded during the execution. Prior to executing the target chunk of executable instructions, the computer system identifies one or more input(s) of the target chunk of executable instructions, and adjusts a page table entry to cause a page fault based on an access by a second executable entity to a first memory page that corresponds to an identified input, and/or an access by the first executable entity to a second memory page that does not correspond to any identified input. Based on detecting an occurrence of a page fault during an execution of the target chunk of executable instructions, the computer system detects that there an interference with an identified input by the second executable entity and/or an incompleteness of the identified inputs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Jordi Mola
  • Patent number: 11835591
    Abstract: An electric aircraft battery pack that includes an integrated battery management component, which determines if a power supply connection between the battery pack and the electric aircraft should be terminated due to a failure, defect, or malfunction of the battery pack, such as a failure of a battery module of the battery pack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: BETA AIR, LLC
    Inventors: Braedon Lohe, Cullen Jemison, Andrew Giroux, Tom Hughes
  • Patent number: 11835148
    Abstract: A control valve features a first housing and a second housing. The first housing includes a first inlet port having a first inlet port orifice member with a first inlet port orifice size configured to provide a first inlet fluid with a first inlet volumetric flow rate, the first inlet port orifice member being detachably coupled inside the first inlet port; includes a second inlet port having a second inlet port orifice member with a second inlet port orifice size configured to provide a second inlet fluid with a second inlet volumetric flow rate, the second inlet port orifice member being detachably coupled inside the second inlet port; and includes a first housing rim configured to extend from the first fixed inlet and the second fixed inlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: FLOW CONTROL LLC
    Inventors: Akshaykumar Patel, Derrick Tran
  • Patent number: 11838498
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and computer readable storage medium for intra bi-prediction and multiple reference line intra prediction in video decoding. The method includes receiving, by a device, a coded video bitstream for a block. The method also includes determining, by the device, whether a single directional intra prediction or an intra bi-prediction applies to the block, based on mode information of the block, the mode information of the block comprising at least one of: a reference line index of the block, an intra prediction mode of the block, and a size of the block; in response to determining that the single directional intra prediction applies to the block, performing, by the device, the single directional intra prediction to the block; and in response to determining that the intra bi-prediction applies to the block, performing, by the device, the intra bi-prediction to the block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLC
    Inventors: Liang Zhao, Xin Zhao, Shan Liu