Patents Assigned to LLC
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Patent number: 11830637Abstract: A hybrid nuclear reactor that is operable to produce a medical isotope includes an ion source operable to produce an ion beam from a gas, a target chamber including a target that interacts with the ion beam to produce neutrons, and an activation cell positioned proximate the target chamber and including a parent material that interacts with the neutrons to produce the medical isotope via a fission reaction. An attenuator is positioned proximate the activation cell and selected to maintain the fission reaction at a subcritical level, a reflector is positioned proximate the target chamber and selected to reflect neutrons toward the activation cell, and a moderator substantially surrounds the activation cell, the attenuator, and the reflector.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2017Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: SHINE Technologies, LLCInventor: Gregory Piefer
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Patent number: 11831536Abstract: Described is a method performed by a downloadable agent, the method comprising: collecting WAN performance information, wherein the downloadable agent is executable on a computing device coupled to a LAN of a broadband subscriber, wherein the LAN is coupled by another device to a WAN; and transmitting the WAN performance information to a machine; wherein the machine is operable to: store and analyze the performance information to generate an analysis result; and report the analysis result to at least one of the broadband subscriber and its service provider. Described is a corresponding system which comprises a database; and a server coupled to the database, the server operable to: receive WAN performance information from a downloadable agent; store the information in the database, analyze the information to generate an analysis result; and report the analysis result to at least one of the broadband subscriber and the broadband subscriber's service provider.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2021Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: ASSIA SPE, LLCInventors: Leonardo Dagum, Philip Bednarz, Marc Goldburg, Ardavan Maleki Tehrani, Wonjong Rhee
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Patent number: 11829566Abstract: A touch sensor device (TSD) includes TSD electrodes associated with a surface of the TSD. Also, an overlay that includes marker electrode(s) is also associated with a region of the surface of the TSD. The TSD also includes drive-sense circuits (DSCs) operably coupled to the plurality of TSD electrodes. A DSC is configured to provide a TSD electrode signal to a TSD electrode and simultaneously to sense a change of the TSD electrode signal based on a change of impedance of the TSD electrode caused by capacitive coupling between the TSD electrode and the marker electrode(s) of the overlay. Processing module(s) is configured to process a digital signal generated by the DSC and other digital signals generated by other DSCs determine the region of the surface of the TSD that is associated with the overlay and to adapt sensitivity of the TSD within that region.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2021Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: SigmaSense, LLC.Inventors: Patrick Troy Gray, Gerald Dale Morrison, Daniel Keith Van Ostrand, Richard Stuart Seger, Jr., Kevin Joseph Derichs, Shayne X. Short, Timothy W. Markison
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Patent number: 11832073Abstract: A system and method for providing improved content casting audio management. In particular, the disclosed technology enables a user to selectively direct the audio associated with cast video content to an alternate wireless audio device or system, such as a set of wireless headphones. The technology provides for the sensing of a user's utilization of a wireless audio device prior to the initiation of the casting, and responsively route the casted content audio to those same headphones. The technology also provides for querying a user as to their desire to utilize a wireless audio device prior to initiating content casting.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2021Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises LLCInventor: Sundaramoorthy Balasubramanian
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Patent number: 11830233Abstract: In some aspects, the disclosure is directed to methods and systems for detection and classification of stamps in documents. The system can receive image data and textual data of a document. The system can pre-process and filter that data, and covert the textual data to a term frequency inverse document frequency (TF-IDF) vector. The system can detect the presence of a stamp on the document. The system can extract a subset of the image data including the stamp. The system can extract text from the subset of the image data. The system can classify the stamp using the extracted text, the image data, and the TF-IDF vector. The system can store the classification in a database.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2022Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Nationstar Mortgage LLCInventors: Won Lee, Goutam Venkatesh, Ankit Kumar Sinha, Sudhir Sundararam
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Patent number: 11826683Abstract: A modular filtration platform having at least one manifold head and at least one respective filter cartridge assembly. Each manifold head is connected to one another to establish a water flow in a series or parallel manner. Each filter cartridge assembly is releasably secured from rotation relative to the manifold head by a locking mechanism. An aperture on the filter cartridge assembly annular collar mates with a protruding resilient extension on either the manifold head or support bracket. Alternatively, an aperture on the filter cartridge assembly annular collar and an aperture on the manifold head annular collar mate with a protruding member from a locking ring extending through both apertures. An integrated sensor package may be integrated with the system for true managed water visible/audible indications and Wi-Fi interface to facilitate virtually instantaneous response times for filtration needs.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2021Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: ECOWATER SYSTEMS LLCInventors: Lori Foix, Michael J. Sherman, Steve Wilson, James B. Larson, Erik Klimpel, Richard A. Kirchner, Chad Tousley, Steven J. Haehn, Jeff Ehlers
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Patent number: 11831359Abstract: Various embodiments are directed to dynamically and temporarily adjusting power to an NFC reader of a computing device from a first power level to a second power level based on a feedback mechanism between a contactless card and the computing device. The contactless card may provide a message containing a checksum. The computing device may receive the message and calculate a checksum based on the received message. By comparing these two checksums, it may be determined whether the entire message has been correctly received. If not, the power to the NFC reader may be temporarily increased to allow better communication between the contactless card and the computing device.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2022Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Capital One Services, LLCInventors: Jeffrey Rule, Rajko Ilincic
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Patent number: 11829374Abstract: Document embedding vectors for each document of a corpus may be generated by combining embedding vectors for document subparts, thereby yielding a final embedding vector for the document. A machine learning model is trained using a query corpus and the document corpus, where the model generates a ranking score for a given (query, document) pair. During training, rankings scores are generated using the model, such that the training dataset is further refined using the generated ranking scores. For example, top documents and a negative document may be determined for a given query and subsequently used as training data. Multiple negative documents may therefore be determined for a given query. A negative document for a given query may be determined from the negative documents using noise-contrastive estimation. Such determined negative documents may be evaluated using a loss function during model training, thereby yielding a more robust model for search processing.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2021Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Junaid Ahmed, Li Xiong, Arnold Overwijk, Chenyan Xiong
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Patent number: 11830056Abstract: The present disclosure provides method and apparatus for determining a food item from a photograph and a corresponding restaurant serving the food item. An image is received from a user, the image being associated with a consumable item. One or more ingredients of the consumable item in the image is identified along with a location of the user and using a neural network, determining one or more similar images from a database. A restaurant associated with each of the one or more similar images is determined along with a similarity score indicating a similarity between the restaurant and the identified content of the image. The one or more restaurants and/or associated similar food items are ranked based on the similarity score and a list of ranked restaurants is provided to the user.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2020Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Julia X. Gong, Jyotkumar Patel, Yale Song, Xuetao Yin, Xiujia Guo, Rajiv S. Binwade, Houdong Hu
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Patent number: 11828353Abstract: An axle assembly that has an electric motor, a countershaft, a planetary gear set, a drive pinion, and a differential assembly. The electric motor has a rotor that is rotatable about a rotor axis. The planetary gear set operatively connects the rotor to the countershaft. The drive pinion operatively connects the differential assembly to the countershaft.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2022Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: ArvinMeritor Technology, LLCInventors: Roberto Gianone, Marco Fratelli
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Patent number: 11827318Abstract: A submersible marine lighting apparatus is provided that includes voltage up-conversion and that is configured to intensify emitted light by reducing a transmission angle of the light through one or more techniques including increasing the distance between the light emitter and an optical lens. The submersible marine lighting apparatus includes a circular base, an LED array positioned in a recess in the base, an optical lens, a lens gasket, and a retaining ring. The lens gasket cooperating with the circular base, optical lens and retaining ring to form a waterproof seal between the circular base and the retaining ring. When attached to a watercraft, the interior of the lighting apparatus is sealed from water.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2020Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Liquid Lumens, LLCInventors: K. Ryan Christensen, Eric Nofsinger, Robert D. Christensen
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Patent number: 11826950Abstract: An additive manufacturing apparatus includes a stage configured to hold a component. A radiant energy device is operable to generate and project radiant energy in a patterned image. An actuator is configured to change a relative position of the stage relative to the radiant energy device. A resin management system includes a material deposition assembly upstream configured to deposit a resin on a resin support. The material deposition assembly includes a reservoir configured to retain a first volume of the resin and define a thickness of the resin on the resin support as the resin support is translated in an X-axis direction. The material deposition assembly further includes a vessel positioned above the reservoir in a Z-axis direction and configured to store a second volume of the resin. In addition, the material deposition assembly includes a conduit configured to direct the resin from the vessel to the reservoir.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2021Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignees: General Electric Company, Unison Industries, LLCInventors: Meredith Elissa Dubelman, Trent William Muhlenkamp, Kevin Robert Dickson, Christopher David Barnhill, Brian Thomas Thompson
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Patent number: 11827231Abstract: A system according to the present disclosure includes an actuator control module and a damping ratio module. The actuator control module is configured to control an actuator of a vehicle to cause the vehicle to perform a yaw maneuver by rotating about its yaw axis. The damping ratio module is configured to determine a damping ratio based on an operating parameter measured during the yaw maneuver. The operating parameter includes at least one of a yaw rate of the vehicle, a yaw rate of a trailer connected to the vehicle, a lateral acceleration of the vehicle, a lateral acceleration of the trailer, a heading angle of the vehicle, and a hitch angle between a longitudinal axis of the vehicle and a longitudinal axis of the trailer.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2020Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Wen-Chiao Lin, Bo Yu
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Patent number: 11827430Abstract: A tray for holding at least one food product includes a plurality of panels extending at least partially around an interior of the tray, the plurality of panels including a bottom panel, a front panel, a back panel, and at least one side panel, a plurality of end flaps foldably connected to a respective panel of the plurality of panels and cooperating to form a rim extending outwardly from the plurality of panels, and locking features comprising at least one male locking feature extending from at least one end flap of the plurality of end flaps, the at least one male locking feature at least partially inserted through at least one female locking feature in a respective panel of the plurality of panels to reinforce the rim.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2021Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Graphic Packaging International, LLCInventors: Thomas Brink, Elliot Hithersay
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Patent number: 11827283Abstract: A tailgate stop apparatus. The apparatus includes a base member configured to be fixed with respect to a primary gate assembly of a multiple-gate tailgate. The apparatus includes a stop member coupled to the base member, wherein the stop member is movable between a tailgate-engaged position configured to inhibit an inner gate panel of an inner gate assembly of the multiple-gate tailgate from being moved to a closed position, and a tailgate-disengaged position configured to allow the inner gate panel to be moved to the closed position.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2020Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Banks Morrison Innovations LLCInventors: James E. Banks, Jr., Michael A. Morrison
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Patent number: 11828506Abstract: A refrigeration system includes a dedicated defrost-mode compressor that delivers high pressure, high temperature refrigerant to one or more evaporators to defrost the evaporators.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2021Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Heatcraft Refrigeration Products LLCInventors: Saravana Vaithilingam Sakthivel, Karthick Kuppusamy
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Patent number: 11827138Abstract: In one embodiment a clasp assembly includes a main body with a receptacle formed in therein and adapted to receive a flexible element and a bail rotatably coupled to the main body. The bail includes a cam portion configured to engage the flexible element in a first rotational configuration, a lock assembly configured to releasably engage the main body to secure the cam portion in the first rotational configuration.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2022Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Hoch Brands LLCInventors: Bruce A Hoch, Charles V. Hoch
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Patent number: 11825840Abstract: Herbicidal compositions for reducing off-site movement or drift of herbicides are described. The herbicidal compositions can include an auxin herbicide, an oil or an ester of the oil, and a polymeric emulsifying agent, such as glycerol ethoxylate-polyricinoleate, glycerol ethoxylate-poly-(12-hydroxystearate), polyethylene glycol (PEG)-polyricinoleate, PEG-poly-(12-hydroxystearate), and a combination thereof. Methods of making such compositions and methods of making such polymeric emulsifying agents are also described.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2021Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLCInventors: Jingsi Gao, Ganiyu Jimoh, Alison MacInnes, David Morgenstern
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Patent number: 11831045Abstract: A cell plate assembly of a redox flow battery has a frame body and a cell plate in fluidic communication. Cell plates, electrolyte pathways and other components of the frame plate assembly may be overmolded inside a frame. Plates, frames and tubes may all be robustly sealed. One piece bonded plug and frames enable reduced use of O-rings and other wear items.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2022Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: STRYTEN CRITICAL E-STORAGE LLCInventor: Garrett Scott Kato
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Patent number: 11829342Abstract: Storage management techniques involve determining, if it is determined that lock information associated with a lock operation performed on an object is to be inserted into a storage device, a target digest for representing the lock information; determining whether an idle index not associated with a historical digest exists in an index array for indicating a plurality of storage positions in the storage device; and inserting, if it is determined that an idle index exists in the index array, the lock information into a target storage position in the plurality of storage positions by associating the target digest with the idle index. Accordingly, lock information can be quickly inserted and cleared, thereby improving the system performance.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2020Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLCInventors: Ming Zhang, Shuo Lv, Lei Gao