Patents Assigned to LLC
  • Patent number: 12248061
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein are directed to tracking objects using a cognitive heterogeneous ad hoc mesh network. A first participant receives a notification signal from a second participant. The first participant determines first positioning information from the notification signal and second positioning information from characteristics of the received signal. If the difference between the first and second positioning information is below a first threshold, then the second participant is within line-of-sight of the first participant. If the difference is above the first threshold and below a second threshold, then the second participant may have a malfunctioning sensor. But if the difference is above the second threshold, then the second participant is not within line-of-sight of the first participant and the received signal was reflected off another object. The positioning information can then be refined or transmitted to other participants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: QUIXOTIC HOLDINGS, LLC
    Inventor: Ryan Scott Luther
  • Patent number: 12249248
    Abstract: Educational book covers including a spine, a cover member, and a pull mechanism. The cover member pivotally couples to the spine. The cover member has an outer face. The pull mechanism is attached to the outer face. The pull mechanism includes a track and a knob. The track is coupled to the outer face. The track defines fixed pull positions along the length of the track. The knob is complementarily configured with the track to selectively rest within the fixed pull positions. The cover member includes unique indicia aligned with each fixed pull position to identify and differentiate the fixed pull positions for educational purposes. More force is required to pivot the cover member relative to the spine by pulling the knob when the knob is selectively translated within the track closer to the spine than when the knob is selectively translated within the track farther from the spine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: SchoolX LLC
    Inventor: Saranya Ramasubbu
  • Patent number: 12250401
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and computer readable storage medium for offset refinement for intra 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 device includes a memory storing instructions and a processor in communication with the memory. The method further includes determining, by the device, whether offset refinement for intra prediction applies to the block, based on mode information of the block, the mode information of the block comprising at least one of the following: a reference line index of the block, an intra prediction mode of the block, and a size of the block; and in response to determining that the offset refinement for intra prediction applies to the block, performing, by the device, the offset refinement to generate an intra predictor for intra prediction of the block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLC
    Inventors: Liang Zhao, Xin Zhao, Shan Liu
  • Patent number: 12249101
    Abstract: A sensor system includes: a radar system configured to emit a radar beam and receive reflected radar signals from in a field of view of the radar system; a camera system including one or more cameras, at least one camera including a linear polarization filter in an optical axis of the camera, a field of view of the camera system overlapping the field of view of the radar system; and a processing system including a processor and memory, the memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to: receive radar data based on the reflected radar signals captured by the radar system; receive polarization raw frames captured by the camera system; and compute a track of a target in the field of view of the camera system and the field of view of the radar system based on the radar data and the polarization raw frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Intrinsic Innovation LLC
    Inventors: Achuta Kadambi, Abhijit Ghosh, Kartik Venkataraman, Agastya Kalra
  • Patent number: 12246836
    Abstract: Described is a passenger seat assembly that may include a seat back including a rearward surface, a seat shroud positioned proximate to the rearward surface of the seat back and fixedly coupled to a seat frame, wherein the seat shroud remains stationary as the seat back moves between a stowed position and a deployed position, and at least one moveable shroud member coupled to the seat shroud at an attachment point and positioned proximate a rearward surface of the seat shroud, wherein a location of the attachment point is adjustable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Safran Seats USA LLC
    Inventors: Igor Chak, Reza Mansouri, Romain Tranier, Charles Michael Parker, Amen Omoragbon, Gokul Ramarathnam, Anthony Tran
  • Patent number: 12250224
    Abstract: An application for dynamic, granular access permissions can include a database interface, a user interface, a login process, an administrator, an event handler and an authorization process. The database interface can be an interface to an access control permissions database that stores roles, actions, or policies for users of the application. The login process can authenticate a user and determine a default set of access control permissions for that user when they are using the user interface. The administrator can provide access control permissions for a user by using the database interface. The event handler can dynamically modify access to functionality in the user interface based on an event. The authorization process can determine whether a request from the user interface is authorized before process the request. The authorization process can use access control permissions from the administrator and either a scope limited or a temporally limited access permission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: CAPITAL ONE SERVICES, LLC
    Inventors: Brian Childress, Sean Stokely
  • Patent number: 12246952
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems, apparatuses, and methods to deploy and stow a deployable equipment to and from a hoist, to control a load on a suspension without transfer of torque to the suspension cable, for the deployable equipment to obtain data and electrical services from a dock of a carrier, and for the deployable equipment to control the hoist, such as a reel of a hoist, to control a z-axis of a terminal end of the suspension cable. Control of the z-axis may be, for example, to control an elevation of a load, such as relative to carrier, ground, or an objective or target, to control a tension on or of suspension cable. Control of the z-axis may be, for example, to control a rate of ascent or descent of a terminal end of suspension cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Vita Inclintata IP Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Derek Sikora, Logan Goodrich, Daniel Stehling, Jonathan Zeller Oster, Caleb B. Carr, Patrick Carr
  • Patent number: 12248834
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a product management system includes at least one receiving location configured to receive a product associated with at least one smart device encoded with a unique identifier. The product management system further includes a reader system configured to receive a first signal transmitted from the at least one smart device, determine a time measurement, determine a state of the product based at least in part on a time measurement, and transmit a second signal based on the state of the product. The product management system further includes at least one display associated with the product and configured to receive the second signal from the reader system, and generate a visual indication of the state of the product based at least in part on the second signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Avery Dennison Retail Information Services LLC
    Inventor: Mark W. Roth
  • Patent number: 12248973
    Abstract: A system for geographically tracking nourishment selection including a computing device configured to receive a location from a user device associated with a user; determine a plurality of nourishment possibilities within the location; locate a performance character associated with the user, wherein the performance character contains a nourishment score; generate a user profile wherein the user profile comprises the location, the plurality of nourishment possibilities, and the performance character; generate a selector machine-learning process, wherein the selector machine-learning process utilizes the user profile as an input, and outputs a plurality of corresponding nourishment possibility indexes; and grade the plurality of nourishment possibilities using the plurality of corresponding nourishment possibility indexes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: KPN INNOVATIONS LLC
    Inventor: Kenneth Neumann
  • Patent number: 12248837
    Abstract: A method of optimizing a RFID reader system to increase the percentage of RFID tags successfully inventoried in a container comprising a relatively large number of RFID tagged items in close proximity to one another. To achieve the greater percentage of successfully inventoried RFID tagged items, a transmitting system capable of reading an RFID tag and a receiving system capable of determining how much of the transmitted power propagates through the volume of RFID tagged items is positioned on either side of the container. A host system in communication with both the transmitting and receiving systems then utilizes one or more parameters of the transmitting system to maximize propagation of the RFID signal through the container and, therefore, increase the percentage of RFID tags successfully inventoried with the ultimate goal being 100%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Avery Dennison Retail Information Services LLC
    Inventor: Ian J. Forster
  • Patent number: 12247760
    Abstract: An energy recovery ventilation unit includes an energy recovery ventilation core and a dehumidification system comprising an evaporation unit and a condensing unit. The energy recovery ventilation core receives a first and second airflow and discharges the first and second airflow after the first and second airflow experience heat and mass transfer. The evaporation unit generates a first output airflow comprising a lower relative humidity than the first airflow and directs the first output airflow into a building. The condensing unit generates a second output airflow at a higher temperature than the second airflow and discharges the second output airflow to an unconditioned space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: THERMA-STOR LLC
    Inventors: Weizhong Yu, David Treleven, Todd R. DeMonte, Kevin Lawrence Askling, Timothy S. O'Brien, Jenee LaPlace Mobley, Robert John Motiff
  • Patent number: 12246210
    Abstract: A monolift assembly includes a carriage assembly configured to be releasably secured to a post of a rack for weightlifting equipment. A pivoting piece is pivotally connected to the carriage assembly and has a hook at a first end thereof and a counterweight at a second end thereof. The pivoting piece includes a central plate, a first exterior plate abutting a first side of the central plate and a second exterior plate abutting a second side of the central plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Coulter Ventures, LLC.
    Inventors: Charlie Tighe, Ahmik Jones, Tyler McClure, Donnell Carrington, III, Martin Pritchett, Nash Dunahay
  • Patent number: 12248454
    Abstract: A method of training an index filter for an index tuning system includes receiving a plurality of different workloads and a plurality of different databases, each database including different tables and each workload including a plurality of queries; generating labeled training by making optimizer calls to a query optimizer using query and index configuration pairs from the plurality of databases and the plurality of workloads; training an index filter model to identify signals in the labeled training data, the signals being indicative of a potential performance improvement associated with using an index configuration for a given query; training the index filter model to learn rules over the signals for identifying spurious indexes; and storing the index filter model in a memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Tarique Ashraf Siddiqui, Vivek Ravindranath Narasayya, Surajit Chaudhuri, Wentao Wu
  • Patent number: 12250114
    Abstract: Some embodiments of the invention provide a method of deploying a tenant deployable element to one public cloud. The method identifies first and second candidate resource elements respectively of first and second resource element sub-types to deploy in a public cloud to implement the tenant deployable element. The method identifies, for the first and second candidate resource elements respectively first and second sets of performance metric values to evaluate. The method evaluates the identified first and second sets of metrics to select one candidate resource element to implement the tenant deployable element in the public cloud. The method uses the selected resource element to implement the tenant deployable element in the public cloud.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: VMware LLC
    Inventors: Raghav Kempanna, Rajagopal Sreenivasan, Sudarshana Kandachar Sridhara Rao, Kumara Parameshwaran, Vipin Padmam Ramesh
  • Patent number: 12245690
    Abstract: A storage rack for a plurality of water bottles, including: a plurality of shelves; a plurality of levelers each being configured to support the storage rack, each leveler of the plurality of levelers is operably coupled to one of a plurality of potentiometers that is located between the each leveler of the plurality of levelers and a portion of the storage rack, the plurality of potentiometers are operably coupled to a analog to digital converter that sums signals of the plurality of potentiometers and provides an indication of an amount of weight being supported by the storage rack, the amount of weight being associated with an amount of water bottles being supported by the storage rack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: ZEPHYR FLUID SOLUTIONS, LLC
    Inventors: Patrick Wind, Tim Marshall
  • Patent number: 12247504
    Abstract: An exhaust system comprises an engine, a three-way catalytic converter including a first catalyst and a second catalyst, a tailpipe adjacent to the three-way catalytic converter, a first oxygen sensor disposed between the engine and the catalytic converter, a nitrogen oxides (NOx) sensor disposed in the three-way catalytic converter, and an engine control module (ECM) configured to obtain first oxygen sensor data from the first oxygen sensor, second oxygen sensor data from the NOx sensor, and NOx sensor data from the NOx sensor, the ECM being configured to perform catalyst health diagnostic operations and adjust one or more characteristics of the exhaust system based on at least the first oxygen sensor data, the second oxygen sensor data, and the NOx sensor data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Chengke Liu, Rafat F. Hattar, Janean Ellen Potter, Erika L Pruski
  • Patent number: 12247794
    Abstract: A liquid cooling distribution system can be installed to an information technology (IT) rack to deliver and distribute fluid to IT equipment. The liquid cooling system can include a fluid manifold and a container that is arranged to capture a fluid that leaks from the fluid manifold. A first fluid sensor can be arranged to detect the fluid at a first position in the container. A controller can be configured to reduce a flow of the fluid into the fluid manifold and pump out fluid from the fluid manifold, in response to the fluid in the container being detected at the first position. Further remedial measure can be taken based on various detected leak scenarios.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: BAIDU USA LLC
    Inventor: Tianyi Gao
  • Patent number: 12249317
    Abstract: A method includes receiving audio features and generating a latent speech representation based on the audio features. The method also includes generating a target quantized vector token and a target token index for a corresponding latent speech representation. The method also includes generating a contrastive context vector for a corresponding unmasked or masked latent speech representation and deriving a contrastive self-supervised loss based on the corresponding contrastive context vector and the corresponding target quantized vector token. The method also include generating a high-level context vector based on the contrastive context vector and, for each high-level context vector, learning to predict the target token index at the corresponding time step using a cross-entropy loss based on the target token index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Bo Li, Junwen Bai, Yu Zhang, Ankur Bapna, Nikhil Siddhartha, Khe Chai Sim, Tara N. Sainath
  • Patent number: 12250257
    Abstract: Systems and methods for sharing content between devices are disclosed. To request a shared piece of media content, a playback device generates and sends a request to content server. The playback device includes information in the request that indicates the playback capabilities of the device. The content server receives the request and determines the playback capabilities of the playback device from the information in the request. The content server then determines the assets that may be used by the playback device to obtain the media content and generates a top level index file for the playback device that includes information about the determined assets. The top level index file is then sent to the playback device that may then use the top level index file to obtain the media content using the indicated assets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: DIVX, LLC
    Inventors: Song Cen, Reza Emdad
  • Patent number: 12246189
    Abstract: A light-emitting, antimicrobial tuber, instrument or catheter includes a thin, flexible tube having an optically transparent wall; and a light transmitter configured and arranged to emit light through the tube, which may be ultraviolet C (UVC) irradiation, photodynamic therapy (PDT), violet-blue light therapy, and other light-based therapies. In one embodiment, violet-blue light from 400-500 nm in wavelength, such as 405 nm, for instance, is used. The device is used on a patient and a therapeutic amount of light is administered to the patient, thereby reducing the risk of infections being transmitted from the instrument, tube or catheter to the patient, generally. The device may be configured for use in the urinary tract or as intravascular, and may be indwelling or temporary. Light may be administered for the duration of use or another time period effective to halt, inhibit, or reduce microbial or fungal growth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Luminary, LLC
    Inventor: Adam E. M. Eltorai