Patents Assigned to LLC
  • Hot surface igniters for cooktops
    Patent number: 11788728
    Abstract: Hot surface igniter assemblies used in cooktops are shown and described. The hot surface igniters include a silicon nitride ceramic body with an embedded, resistive, heat-generating circuit. The igniters are less than 0.04 inches thick, and when energized, they reach surface temperatures in excess of 2000° F. in under 4 seconds to ignite combustible gas such as propane, butane, or natural gas. Examples of cook top burner systems are also provided which allow the igniter to remain on after ignition at a power level that is lower than during ignition but high enough to ignite the cooking gas should a flame out occur. Examples are also provided of burners that ignite on a low flow setting (e.g., simmer) as opposed the high flow settings that are common in cook top industry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: SCP R&D, LLC
    Inventors: Jack A. Shindle, Bruce C. Sprowl, Yin Liu
  • Blockchain foundry built into integrated circuit
    Patent number: 11791983
    Abstract: A method of establishing a blockchain. The method comprises receiving an activation message that comprises micro code, building an activation block of a blockchain by a block foundry implemented in a processor of an integrated circuit (IC), wherein the activation block comprises a hash of a genesis block of the block chain that is stored in a non-volatile portion of a memory of the IC and a data portion that comprises the micro code, providing a copy of the activation block of the blockchain by the block foundry to a blockchain application executing in the processor of the IC, storing the copy of the activation block by the blockchain application in the non-volatile portion of the memory of the IC, and transmitting a copy of the genesis block and a copy of the activation block by the blockchain application to a wireless communication service provider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: T-Mobile Innovations LLC
    Inventors: Ronald R. Marquardt, Lyle W. Paczkowski, Ivo Rook
  • Inflatable balloon over catheter with bypass passageway
    Patent number: 11786707
    Abstract: A medical device that delivers therapeutic agent to the tissue within the bodily passageway while simultaneously permitting flow of bodily fluids past the location of treatment. The medical device includes an inflatable balloon and optionally one or more balloon wall openings that are configured to allow fluid in the interior of the inflatable balloon to flow through the inflatable balloon when the inflatable balloon is pressurized by the fluid in the interior of the inflatable balloon. During the inflation of the inflatable balloon at the treatment site, the flow of blood through the blood vessel is maintained across the treatment site by use of one or more bypass passageways in the medical device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Astikay Medical LLC
    Inventor: Udayan Patel
  • System and method of determining content similarity by comparing semantic entity attributes
    Patent number: 11790014
    Abstract: A method for identifying documents that are similar in content to an input document includes receiving a request for identifying similar documents from among a plurality of candidate documents, retrieving document classification attributes for the input document and the candidate documents, where the document classification attributes are document level attributes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Matthew Vincent Panico, Ashwini Lakshmi Narasimhan, Frederick David Jones
  • Selectively inflatable airbag side chambers
    Patent number: 11787361
    Abstract: An assembly includes a vehicle seat. The assembly includes an airbag supported by the vehicle seat and inflatable to an inflated position. The airbag includes a main chamber, a first side chamber, and second side chamber spaced downwardly from the first side chamber. The assembly includes a computer including a processor and a memory storing instructions executable by the processor to determine a size of an occupant seated in the vehicle seat and, based on the size of the occupant, selectively inflate one of the first side chamber from an uninflated position to an inflated position or the second side chamber from an uninflated position to an inflated position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Deepak Patel, Zhibing Deng, Joseph E. Abramczyk
  • Network resource oriented data communication
    Patent number: 11792245
    Abstract: A method of transmitting rendering data of a computer image to a client terminal via a communication channel includes: receiving rendering results of the computer image from at least one computer of a plurality of computers; identifying a partial region of the computer image based on transmission information; processing a subset of the rendering results, the subset corresponding to the identified partial region of the computer image; and transmitting, at a particular time, the processed subset of the rendering results to the client terminal via the communication channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: DreamWorks Animation LLC
    Inventors: Toshiaki Kato, Robert Wilson, Andrew Pearce
  • Conveyor system for delivery using autonomous vehicles
    Patent number: 11787323
    Abstract: An autonomous vehicle (AV) includes a conveyor system arranged within its main cabin. The conveyor system includes attachment points for attaching transport bags to the conveyor system, and a motor to move the transport bags to different positions along the conveyor system. The AV includes a door that can open and close to provide access to the transport bags. The AV further includes a conveyor system controller that identifies a transport bag associated with a user and issues an instruction to the motor to move the transport bags along the conveyor system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: GM CRUISE HOLDINGS LLC
    Inventors: Timothy Jon Meador, Alexis De Stasio
  • System and method for temporal dispersion compensator
    Patent number: 11789333
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a system for modifying temporal dispersion in an optical signal. The system makes use of a segmented array including a plurality of independently controllable, reflective optical elements. The optical elements are configured to segment a received input optical signal into a plurality of beamlets, and to reflect and steer selected ones of the plurality of beamlets in predetermined angular orientations therefrom. A variable optical dispersion subsystem is used which has a plurality of optical components configured to receive and impart different predetermined time delays to different ones of the received beamlets, and to output the plurality of beamlets therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignees: Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC, Bright Silicon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Matthew Panas, Frank Ravizza, Robert McHenry
  • Plane programming scheme for non-volatile memory with large block sizes
    Patent number: 11789612
    Abstract: For a non-volatile memory system with a multi-plane memory die having a large block size, to be able to more readily accommodate zone-based host data using zones that are of a smaller size that the block size on the memory, the memory system assigns data from different zones to different subsets of the planes of a common memory die. The memory system is configured to accumulate the data from the different zones into different write queues and then assemble the data from the different write zones into pages or partial pages of data that can be simultaneously programmed into memory cells connected to different word lines that are in different sub-blocks of different blocks in the corresponding assigned planes of the die.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: SanDisk Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Karin Inbar, Sahil Sharma, Grishma Shah
  • Rotary engine, parts thereof, and methods
    Patent number: 11788462
    Abstract: A rotary engine, parts thereof, and methods associated therewith is provided. The engine is modular and adjustable to accommodate a variety of requirements and preferences. The system includes a combustion assembly having a housing and a power rotor positioned therein. The power rotor rotates in a first direction from the beginning of each combustion process through the end of each exhaust process. The system also includes a compression assembly linked to the combustion assembly such that the compression rotor rotates in the first direction from the beginning of each intake process through the end of each compression process. A tank assembly in fluid communication with the compression assembly and the combustion assembly provides stability to the system while eliminating or otherwise reducing transitional loses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: ASTRON AEROSPACE LLC
    Inventor: Matthew T. Riley
  • Dynamic evaluation and use of global and contextual personas
    Patent number: 11790399
    Abstract: A system and method for content selection and presentation is disclosed. A plurality of content elements configured for presentation in at least one content container is received and one of the plurality of content elements is selected for presentation in the at least one content container. The one of the plurality of content elements is selected by a trained selection model configured to select one of an individual context or a global context. An interface including the selected one of the plurality of content elements is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Yang Deng, Omkar Deshpande, Afroza Ali, Abhimanyu Mitra, Kannan Achan
  • Systems and methods for privacy preserving determination of intersections of sets of user identifiers
    Patent number: 11790116
    Abstract: At least one aspect is directed to determining an estimate of an intersection of user identifiers in a first set of user identifiers and a second set of user identifiers. The first and second sets of user identifiers can be populated with user identifiers that have interacted with the same content item or content item campaign. Estimates of intersections of the first and the second sets can be determined based on a binomial vector approach, a vector of counts approach, or a hybrid approach. The binomial vector approach generates vectors based on k hashes of each user identifier in the first set and summing the vectors to generate a first vector. The intersection can be determined based on a dot product of the first vector and a second vector similarly generated from the second set of user identifiers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Michael Daub, Scott Schneider, Joseph Sean Cahill Goodknight Knightbrook, Sheng Ma, Laura Book
  • Method and system for augmented reality Wi-Fi coverage map
    Patent number: 11790620
    Abstract: A method, device, and computer program product for determining quality of a wireless network, includes: connecting, by a mobile device, to one or more access points of the wireless network in a physical environment; capturing, via a camera of the mobile device, a live rendering of the physical environment; generating, by the mobile device, a rendering of the physical environment; detecting, via the mobile device, a signal quality of the connection to each of the one or more access points; storing, in memory of the mobile device, each current position and a plurality of previous positions of the mobile device in the physical environment in association with the detected signal quality; and generating, in a processor of the mobile device, a virtual path graphic by linking the current positions and the plurality of previous positions of the mobile device in the physical environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises LLC
    Inventors: Charles Ross Denneler, Joseph D. Jacobs, Satyasree Muralidharan, Steven Nicolai
  • Rule-based network-threat detection
    Patent number: 11792220
    Abstract: A packet-filtering device may receive packet-filtering rules configured to cause the packet-filtering device to identify packets corresponding to network-threat indicators. The packet-filtering device may receive packets and, for each packet, may determine that the packet corresponds to criteria specified by a packet-filtering rule. The criteria may correspond to one or more of the network-threat indicators. The packet-filtering device may apply an operator specified by the packet-filtering rule. The operator may be configured to cause the packet-filtering device to either prevent the packet from continuing toward its destination or allow the packet to continue toward its destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Centripetal Networks, LLC
    Inventors: David K Ahn, Keith A. George, Peter P. Geremia, Pierre Mallett, III, Sean Moore, Robert T. Perry, Jonathan R. Rogers
  • Mapping data to generate simulation road paint geometry
    Patent number: 11790604
    Abstract: The disclosed technology provides solutions for generating accurate virtual representations of real-world environments. A process of the disclosed technology can include steps for: receiving map data corresponding to a geographic region, receiving image data for at least a portion of the geographic region that includes one or more images of road paint, and rendering one or more road paint mesh objects corresponding to the one or more images of the road paint, wherein a shape of the one or more road paint mesh objects is based on the map data. In some aspects, the process can further include generating a virtual environment corresponding to the geographic region that includes the one or more road paint mesh objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: GM CRUISE HOLDINGS LLC
    Inventors: Richard Stenson, Joel Gross
  • Dual junction LED with non-overlapping segmentation
    Patent number: 11789341
    Abstract: An illumination system can include a dual junction light-emitting diode (LED) array including first and second junctions that extend in a plane. The first junction can emit first light from a plurality of first light-emitting areas that are separated by first boundaries. The second junction can be disposed on the first junction such that the first light passes through the second junction. The second junction can emit second light from a plurality of second light-emitting areas. The second light-emitting areas can be separated by second boundaries that correspond in a one-to-one correspondence to the first boundaries. The second boundaries can be offset in the plane from the corresponding first boundaries. The offset can help reduce or eliminate dark bands in the combined first and second light, which could be present if the second boundaries were not offset from the first boundaries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Lumileds LLC
    Inventors: Arjen Gerben Van der Sijde, Nicola Bettina Pfeffer, Erik William Young
  • Footwear upper
    Patent number: D1001458
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: SR Holdings, LLC
    Inventor: Nabi D. Salomon
  • GPS tracking pod with mounting bracket
    Patent number: D1001658
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: MICRON ELECTRONICS LLC
    Inventor: Jun Xu
  • Computer mouse
    Patent number: D1001803
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Glorious LLC
    Inventor: Shazim Mohammad
  • Light fixture
    Patent number: D1002064
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: W SCHONBEK LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Schuyler, Chad Recore, Gaetano Ling, Elger Oberwelz, Courtney Song, Tobias Toft, Aaron Wansch, Brian Wong