Patents Assigned to LLC
  • Patent number: 11792556
    Abstract: Implementations described and claimed herein provide systems and methods for a configurable optical peering fabric to dynamically create a connection between participant sites without any physical site limitations or necessity of specialized client and network provider equipment being located within such a facility. Client sites to a network may connect to a configurable switching element to be interconnected to other client sites in response to a request to connect the first client site with a second site, also connected to network, via the switching element. A request may trigger verification of the requested and, upon validation, transmission of an instruction to the switching element to enable the cross connect within the switching element. The first site and the second site may thus be interconnected via the switching element in response to the request, without the need to co-locate equipment or to manually install a jumper between client equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Laurel Clark, Clyde David Cooper, III, Andrew Dugan
  • Patent number: 11790469
    Abstract: Systems or methods for collective purchasing by controlled-environment facility residents may employ a plurality of controlled-environment facility resident communication and/or media devices, each associated with a respective controlled-environment facility resident. These devices, disposed within one or more controlled-environment facilities, may each present an interface for purchasing goods and/or services via the device. The devices may each offer, via the interface, an option to collectively purchase a single good or service by a number of controlled-environment facility residents and may accept an indication of partial payment from the resident associated with the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Securus Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Connor Pickens, Alexander Noland
  • Patent number: 11790809
    Abstract: Certain example embodiments relate to a box or other viewer that accommodates one or more glass-inclusive samples and that is usable in a plurality of different configurations to facilitate evaluation of the sample(s) from indoor and outdoor viewing perspectives. The sample viewer is “convertible” between a transportation configuration and the indoor and outdoor viewing perspective configurations. For example, certain example embodiments may be used as glass-inclusive sample shipping and storage containers that transform into miniature mockup walls with little manual effort and with little risk of human viewers looking at glass the wrong way (e.g., a manner that would lead to a false impression of the visual aesthetic of the sample(s) therein). The glass-inclusive sample(s) may include one or more uncoated or coated glass sheets, insulated glass (IG) units, vacuum insulated glass (VIG) units, laminated products, and/or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: GUARDIAN GLASS, LLC
    Inventor: Alexander Sobolev
  • Patent number: 11789225
    Abstract: An adapter panel arrangement including a chassis and a panel of adapters. The adapters defining rearward cable connections and forward cable connections of the panel arrangement. Openings permitting access to the rearward and forward cable connections of the adapters are provided. The chassis further including a removable rear chassis portion to provide access to cable routing areas within the chassis interior.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Mark Smrha, Hutch Coburn, Chad James Sjodin
  • Patent number: 11786901
    Abstract: A container may include a storage volume configured to store a payload. A thermal insulation layer may surround the storage volume. A thermoregulation layer may surround the thermal insulation layer. There may be activation of a chemical reaction in the thermoregulation layer. The thermal insulation layer may have R-value per inch configured to expose the payload to a desired temperature to ensure viability of the payload and dampen a temperature spike of the chemical reaction. A system of containers may include a system storage volume with N containers in the system storage volume, wherein N is a whole number of 2 or more. A method of making an insulated container may include preparing an outer skin barrier layer, stacking a thermoregulation layer on the outer skin barrier layer, stacking a thermal insulation layer on the thermoregulation layer, and stacking an inner skin barrier layer on the thermal insulation layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: MaxQ Research LLC
    Inventors: Saravan Kumar Shanmugavelayudam, Arif Rahman, Tyler Rapp, Shoaib Shaikh, Balaji Jayakumar
  • Patent number: 11792988
    Abstract: A memory die includes an alternating stack of insulating layers and electrically conductive layers through which memory opening fill structures vertically extend. The memory die includes at least three memory array regions interlaced with at least two contact regions, or at least three contact regions interlaced with at least two memory array regions in the same memory plane. A logic die including at least two word line driver regions can be bonded to the memory die. The interlacing of the contact regions and the memory array regions can reduce lateral offset of boundaries of the word line driver regions from boundaries of the contact regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Ogawa, Fumiaki Toyama
  • Patent number: 11789463
    Abstract: Unmanned autonomous vehicle (UAV) selection information identifying a UAV, flight path information, and a relative elevation difference value that is a difference between a first elevation value of a start location and a second elevation value of a drop location are received. Navigation of the UAV is initiated using the UAV selection information and the flight path information. A relative altitude difference value is obtained using a first altitude value of the UAV associated with the start location and a second altitude value of the UAV associated with the drop location. In response to a difference between the relative elevation difference value and the relative altitude difference value being outside a predefined threshold, UAV is caused to adjust the second altitude value such that an updated difference between the relative elevation difference value and an updated relative altitude difference value is within the predefined threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Drone Up, LLC
    Inventors: John Vernon, Oleksii Naboichenko
  • Patent number: 11792167
    Abstract: Techniques for a flexible data security and machine learning system for merging third-party data are provided. In one technique, the system receives a data set from a third-party entity and receives selection data that indicates that the third-party entity selected a set of data security policies that includes an encryption option and a data mixing option from among multiple data mixing options. In response to receiving the selection data, the system stores data that associates the set of data security policies with the data set, encrypts the data set according to the encryption option, and persistently stores the encrypted data set. Later, the system decrypts the encrypted data set in volatile memory, generates, based on the data mixing option, training data based on the decrypted version of the data set, trains a machine-learned model based on the training data, and stores the machine-learned model in association with the data set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Haifeng Zhao, Yang Chen, Jiashuo Wang, Xiaojing Chen, Chencheng Wu, Souvik Ghosh, Ankit Gupta, Jing Wang, John Patrick Moore, Henry Heyburn Pistell, Mira Thambireddy, Haowen Cao, Keyi Yu
  • Patent number: 11792490
    Abstract: A content management system and method for use of same is disclosed. In one embodiment of the system, the set-top box is configured to receive a source signal which includes a stream of network programming having time slots interposed therein. The set-top box detects signaling data indicative of a designated time slot within the network programming and responsive thereto, interposes content stored at the set-top box at the designated time slot within the network programming. The set-top box then forwards the interposed content to the display. Following the forwarding of the interposed content, the set-top box returns to receiving network programming and forwarding the network programming to the display. The set-top box also provides confirmation of the displayed interposed content to a server, which may map the confirmation information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Enseo, LLC
    Inventors: Vanessa Ogle, William C. Fang
  • Patent number: 11787218
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for manufacturing embossed laminated hardcover book cases and embossed laminated hardcover books. The method of manufacturing an embossed laminated hardcover book case may comprise: receiving a book printing request from a user; printing a desired cover design on a cover sheet based at least in part on the received book printing request; applying a laminate sheet to the cover sheet using a laminating apparatus; embossing the laminate sheet using a textured roller of the laminating apparatus to define an embossed laminated cover sheet; providing a spine board and front and rear cover boards based at least in part on the received book printing request; and combining the spine board, the front and rear cover boards, and the embossed laminated cover sheet to define the embossed hardcover book case. Adding a book block converts the case into an embossed laminated hardcover book.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Lightning Source LLC
    Inventors: John Kwiatkowski, James Hartzell, Kenneth M. McDonald
  • Patent number: 11792894
    Abstract: A cartridge for an aerosol-generating system may include a first chamber housing defining a first chamber and a second chamber housing defining a second chamber that is separate from the first chamber. The first chamber may contain an aerosol-forming substrate in the form of a gel, and the second chamber may contain a source of a desired compound. The first and second chamber housings may be separate or separable structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Altria Client Services LLC
    Inventors: Gerard Zuber, Jean-Yves Vollmer
  • Patent number: 11789430
    Abstract: A method for creating a digital twin for a vehicle assembled on at least one assembly line includes assembly of a modular vehicle subassembly (MVS) in a plurality of MVS assembly zones by assembling at least one component at each MVS assembly zone, scanning the at least one component at each MVS assembly zone and acquiring scanned data, and storing the scanned data in a MVS temporary digital file assigned to the pre-assembled MVS. The method also includes updating a MVS permanently digital file assigned to the pre-assembled MVS after the at least one component at each of the MVS assembly zones has been assembled and storing the MVS permanent digital file when assembly of the MVS is complete.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Galen Keith Thomas, Kerry Lance Paskell
  • Patent number: 11791837
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for neural network model compression/decompression. In some examples, an apparatus for neural network model decompression includes receiving circuitry and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry decodes, from a bitstream corresponding to a representation of a neural network, at least a syntax element to be applied to multiple blocks in the neural network. Then, the processing circuitry reconstructs, from the bitstream, weight coefficients in the blocks based on the syntax element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Tencent America LLC
    Inventors: Wei Wang, Wei Jiang, Shan Liu
  • Patent number: 11790324
    Abstract: In non-limiting examples of the present disclosure, systems, methods and devices for initiating and managing electronic focus sessions are provided. A focus session window may be displayed. The focus session window may comprise a timer pane comprising a focus session duration input element; a task pane comprising an identity of at least one task object created by a task management application; a music pane comprising an identity of at least one music playlist; and/or a daily progress pane that includes a goal display element indicating a duration of time spent in focus sessions for a current day. An indication to initiate a focus session may be received. The initiating may comprise causing a timer for the duration of time to be initiated and displayed in the timer pane and causing one of the music playlists to be automatically played.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Liang Chen, Rian Keith McCormack, Herrick Heath Spencer, Eric Hwa-Wei Wong, David Grochocki, Jr., Marcus Henry Perryman
  • Patent number: 11788393
    Abstract: Thermal energy delivery and oil production arrangements and methods thereof are disclosed which heat a subterranean formation, and which comprises positioning concentric tubing strings in a wellbore; heating a heat transfer fluid using a surface thermal fluid heater; flowing a liquid or feedwater downward through an extremely hot innermost tubing string that is inside and concentric to an outermost tubing string and a casing/annulus, which extends below a thermal packer positioned in the wellbore, and continually circulating the heat transfer fluid through the outermost tubing string and the casing/annulus above the thermal packer such that the liquid or feedwater flowing through the innermost tubing string is heated thereby and injected into the wellbore below the thermal packer and out of perforations to heat the subterranean formation to temperatures that allow for hydrocarbon production from the subterranean formation. Emissions may be injected into the subterranean formation with the liquid or feedwater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Future Energy, LLC
    Inventor: Kent B. Hytken
  • Patent number: 11789541
    Abstract: A method is presented for providing haptic feedback through a touch-sensitive input device configured to provide input to a touch-sensitive computing device. The method comprises determining a haptic perception factor based on a set of computing device inputs received from sensors of the touch-sensitive computing device, the computing device inputs including at least a posture of the touch-sensitive computing device. A haptic response profile is determined based on the haptic perception factor. Haptic devices of the touch-sensitive input device are actuated based on the determined haptic response profile. Responsive to determining a change in the haptic perception factor based on a change in the posture of the touch-sensitive computing device the haptic response profile is then adjusted based on the changed haptic perception factor. The haptic devices of the touch-sensitive input device are then actuated based on the adjusted haptic response profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Uri Ron, Vadim Mishalov, Shoham Dekel, Arie Yehuda Gur
  • Patent number: 11792477
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus to detect user attentiveness to portable devices are disclosed. An example portable device includes memory, computer readable instructions, and processor circuitry to execute the computer readable instructions to at least download an exposure measurement application from a first server via a network, and execute the exposure measurement application to detect at least one of a first orientation change of the portable device or a first position change between the portable device and a user, compare the at least one of the first orientation change or the first position change to a plurality of spatial condition change combinations associated with respective likelihoods indicative of user attentiveness related to the portable device to determine user attentiveness data associated with a presentation on the portable device, and cause the user attentiveness data to be transmitted via the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventor: Jan Besehanic
  • Patent number: 11786893
    Abstract: A method of equipment decontamination may include: introducing a cleaning stream comprising hydrogen and a solvent comprising a fatty acid methyl ester and an oxygenated solvent into the equipment; and introducing a stream comprising nitrogen into the equipment, wherein the equipment comprises deposits and other contaminants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: United Laboratories International, LLC
    Inventors: Stephen D. Matza, Elisa Rice
  • Patent number: 11792403
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide methods, apparatuses, and non-transitory computer-readable storage mediums for video encoding/decoding. An apparatus includes processing circuitry that partitions a current block of a current picture based on a geometric partitioning mode (GPM). The current block is partitioned into two partitions in the GPM mode. Each of the partitions is associated with a respective predictor. A weighting index for a sample of the current block is determined based on a position of the sample. A weighting factor is calculated based on the weighting index of the sample according to an equation that converts the weighting index to the weighting factor. The sample is encoded based on the weighting factor and the predictor corresponding to the sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLC
    Inventors: Lien-Fei Chen, Xiang Li, Guichun Li, Shan Liu
  • Patent number: 11790216
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for predicting likelihoods of conditions being satisfied using recurrent neural networks. One of the systems is configured to process a temporal sequence comprising a respective input at each of a plurality of time steps and comprises: one or more recurrent neural network layers; one or more logistic regression nodes, wherein each of the logistic regression nodes corresponds to a respective condition from a predetermined set of conditions, and wherein each of the logistic regression nodes is configured to, for each of the plurality of time steps: receive the network internal state for the time step; and process the network internal state for the time step in accordance with current values of a set of parameters of the logistic regression node to generate a future condition score for the corresponding condition for the time step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Gregory Sean Corrado, Ilya Sutskever, Jeffrey Adgate Dean