Patents Assigned to LLC
  • Electric bicycle
    Patent number: 11787489
    Abstract: A bicycle includes a frame, a storage compartment, a battery pack, a pedal assist unit, and a lighting system. The frame includes a head tube, a stem, a down tube, a central hub, and a pair of chain stays. The central hub defines an internal cavity. The down tube and the central hub cooperatively define a battery opening connected to the internal cavity. The storage compartment includes a door positioned to selectively enclose an opening in the down tube. The battery pack is releasably received by the battery opening. The pedal assist unit is disposed within the internal cavity. The lighting system includes one or more taillights integrated into the chain stays, a conspicuity lamp integrated into the head tube, and/or a headlight integrated into to at least one of the stem or the head tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: SERIAL 1 CYCLE COMPANY, LLC
    Inventors: Benjamin Raymond Bass, Ben M. Lund, Andrew Schmidt
  • Methods and systems for electrospinning using low power voltage converter
    Patent number: 11788207
    Abstract: An electrospinning system, method, and apparatus comprises a dual polarity high voltage power supply with much less power out for safe operation, a solution dispensing assembly held at high positive potential by the dual polarity power supply, a Corona discharge assembly held at high negative potential by the dual polarity power supply, and a drum collector held at ground potential wherein a solution is drawn from the solution dispensing assembly to the drum collector thereby forming a fiber mat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Fermi Research Alliance, LLC
    Inventor: Sujit Bidhar
  • Bottom grading apparatuses for aquaculture systems
    Patent number: 11785921
    Abstract: Bottom grading apparatuses for aquaculture systems are disclosed herein. An example system includes a vessel filled with water that receives fish, the vessel having a bottom surface with drain; a plenum in fluid communication with the vessel; a multiway valve in fluid communication with the plenum, a mortality pipe, and a grading pipe; and a mortality container in fluid communication with the mortality pipe and the vessel, wherein the fish can re-enter the vessel through the mortality container and deceased fish remain in the mortality container, wherein when the multiway valve is closed to the mortality pipe, the fish will divert through the grading pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: ATLANTIC SAPPHIRE IP, LLC
    Inventor: Thue Holm
  • Insulated food and beverage container
    Patent number: 11786061
    Abstract: An insulated container is described. The insulated container includes a double-walled structure having a closed end, an open end, and a side wall extending between the closed and open ends. The side wall and the closed end of the insulated container together form a hollow interior. A glass structure may be arranged within the hollow interior. The glass structure includes a body having an open upper end and a base end, and a sipping portion extending from the upper end. The sipping portion may include a sipping end and a shoulder end spaced apart from the sipping end. The sipping portion protrudes from the open end of the double-walled structure. A collar is positioned over the sipping portion of the glass structure thereby forming a sipping surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Vinglace LLC
    Inventor: Colton Bryan Haas
  • Multi-component sample holder
    Patent number: 11786903
    Abstract: A sample holder for holding a liquid sample for laboratory processing, such as PCR thermal cycling. The sample holder includes at least one vessel having a bottom and sidewall defining an interior volume and a rim defining an opening to the interior volume. The vessel has a first portion that defines at least a part of the bottom and sidewall of the vessel and is made of a first material, and a second portion that defines the rim of the vessel and is made of a second material different from the first material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Covaris, LLC
    Inventors: James A. Laugharn, Jr., Jeremy Terry, Todd Anthony Basque
  • Analysis of marketing and entertainment effectiveness using central nervous system, autonomic nervous system, and effector data
    Patent number: 11790393
    Abstract: An example system includes an analyzer to identify a degree of amplitude synchrony between a first pattern in a first frequency band in first neuro-response data and a second pattern in a second frequency band in the first neuro-response data, the first neuro-response data gathered via a first modality of collection from a subject while the subject is exposed to media, and modify the degree of amplitude synchrony in response to activity in second neuro-response data, the second neuro-response data gathered via a second modality of collection from the subject while the subject is exposed to the media, the activity corresponding in time to at least a portion of the first pattern or the second pattern. The example system includes an estimator to determine an effectiveness of the media based on the modified degree of amplitude synchrony.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Nielsen Consumer LLC
    Inventors: A. K. Pradeep, Robert T. Knight, Ramachandran Gurumoorthy
  • Liquid filter apparatus for gas/solid separation for semiconductor processes
    Patent number: 11786858
    Abstract: A liquid filter apparatus for gas/solid separation includes a housing with a filter chamber, a semiconductor process gas inlet, and a process gas outlet. The filter chamber forms a liquid reservoir, and the semiconductor process gas inlet and the process gas outlet are in communication with the filter chamber. The housing further includes a filter liquid inlet and a filter liquid outlet, which are in communication with the liquid reservoir for delivering and removing filter fluid, respectively, to and from the liquid reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Edwards Vacuum LLC
    Inventor: Imad Mahawili
  • Parathyroid hormone receptor 1 (PTH1R) antibodies and uses thereof
    Patent number: 11787876
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates, in general, human antibodies against human parathyroid hormone receptor 1 (PTH1R) and methods of use of such antibodies in the treatment of cancer, Humoral Hypercalcemia of Malignancy (HHM), or Primary Hyperparathyroidism (PHPT) and Secondary Hyperparathyroidism (SHPT) and cachexia.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: XOMA (US) LLC
    Inventors: Raphael D. Levy, Hassan Issafras, Agnes Choppin Holmes, Kirk W. Johnson, Amer M. Mirza, Daniel H. Bedinger, Rachel A. Hunt, Toshihiko Takeuchi, Kiranjit Kaur Ahluwalia, Robyn Cotter
  • Zwitterionic monomers, polyzwitterionic polymers formed therefrom, surface functionalization and surface modification
    Patent number: 11787952
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are zwitterionic monomers, non-zwitterionic monomers, polyzwitterionic polymers formed therefrom; surface functionalization; surface modification; and articles containing any such compositions or surfaces formed therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: ABF Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Laurie Lawin, Anthony Gerten, Logan Sanow
  • Paging in a wireless network
    Patent number: 11792769
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is configured to determine paging occasions based on a discontinuous reception (DRX) and a UE identification. Further, the UE is configured to monitor control channel signals in the paging occasions for an identifier associated with paging which is based on one of the control channel signals having the identifier associated with paging and to recover an indication of a shared channel resource from the one control channel. The UE is further configured to recover a paging message for the UE from a shared channel signal received using the indication of the shared channel resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Intellectual Ventures II LLC
    Inventor: Chandrika K. Worrall
  • High total denier cellulose acetate tow for hollow filters and non-wrapped filters
    Patent number: 11785983
    Abstract: Disclosed are cellulose acetate tows, bales, and filter rods having at least 3 denier per filament and at least 50,000 total denier, or at least 6 denier per filament and at least 40,000 total denier, for use as hollow filters, non-wrapped filters, or combinations thereof, in smoking devices and aerosol-generating devices, such as an electrically heated cigarette. The cellulose acetate tow may comprise at least 3-6 denier per filament and may have a total denier of at least 50,000 to 100,000. The cellulose acetate tow comprises at least 6-12 denier per filament and may have a total denier of at least 40,000 to 90,000. The hollow filter may comprise a non-wrapped cellulose acetate hollow filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Acetate International LLC
    Inventors: Austin P. Banks, Christopher M. Bundren, Melissa Tsai
  • Artificially-structured materials with smart elements
    Patent number: 11789200
    Abstract: According to various embodiments, an array of elements forms an artificially-structured material. The artificially-structured material can also include an array of tuning mechanisms included as part of the array of elements that are configured to change material properties of the artificially-structured material on a per-element basis. The tuning mechanisms can change the material properties of the artificially-structured material by changing operational properties of the elements in the array of elements on a per-element basis based on one or a combination of stimuli detected by sensors included in the array of tuning mechanisms, programmable circuit modules included as part of the array of tuning mechanisms, data stored at individual data stores included as part of the array of tuning mechanisms, and communications transmitted through interconnects included as part of the array of elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Elwah LLC
    Inventors: Daniel Arnitz, Patrick Bowen, Seyedmohammadreza Faghih Imani, Joseph Hagerty, Roderick A. Hyde, Edward K. Y. Jung, Guy S. Lipworth, Nathan P. Myhrvold, David R. Smith, Clarence T. Tegreene, Yaroslav A. Urzhumov, Lowell L. Wood, Jr.
  • Jam free dual-redundant actuator lane changer system and process
    Patent number: 11787528
    Abstract: A jam free dual redundant actuator lane changer system includes a primary lane system and a secondary lane system. The primary lane system is configured to provide actuation of a component during a normal operation while the secondary lane system remains in a standby configuration; and the secondary lane system is configured to provide an actuation of the component when the primary lane system fails or jams, but freed from its output to the component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Whippany Actuation Systems LLC
    Inventors: Shijie Liu, Kurt Goldhammer, Douglas Campbell, Philip DeMauro, Michael Doyle, Alan Powers, Philip Chivily
  • Propulsor assembly powered by a dual motor system
    Patent number: 11787550
    Abstract: In an aspect this disclosure is directed at a propulsor assembly powered by a dual motor system. The aircraft may comprise a propulsors. The electric aircraft may also include a driveshaft that is mechanically coupled to the propulsor, wherein a driveshaft is configured to provide mechanical power to the propulsor. The aircraft includes a plurality of electric motors. The electric motors may be configured to impart rotational energy to the driveshaft. Wherein each electric motor includes a stator and a rotor. Each electric motor is selectively engaged to the driveshaft by a freewheel clutch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: BETA AIR, LLC
    Inventors: Manon Danielle Belzile, David Churchill
  • Vehicle parking data collection system and method
    Patent number: 11790773
    Abstract: A method of collecting vehicle parking data includes preprocessing images of a parking area, identifying a vehicle in a parking spot shown in one or more of the images, and detecting a vehicle change in the parking spot in the images collected at different times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: QUANTIFLY LLC
    Inventors: Daniel Brooks, Zachary Holbert, Adrianna Jordan, Zimeng Lyu, Javad Roostaei
  • Antenna cap and method of installing the same
    Patent number: 11791549
    Abstract: An antenna cap includes a housing defining an elongate continuous sidewall, the continuous sidewall defining a first end and a second end, an end wall extending from the first end, the end wall and continuous sidewall defining an interior cavity for receiving an antenna, an opening defined at the second end and configured for access to the interior cavity; and a fastener proximate the second end and configured for attaching the housing to the antenna node, the fastener formed with the continuous sidewall, wherein a length of the continuous sidewall between the first end and the fastener is greater than a length of the fastener, and wherein the continuous sidewall defines a consistent outer sidewall diameter from the first end to the fastener.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Mueller International LLC
    Inventor: Jeremy Alan McCraven
  • Composite ferrules for extension poles
    Patent number: 11788566
    Abstract: A ferrule connection interface may have a first composite ferrule having an outwardly threaded portion opposite a pole receiving portion. The interface may have a first pole bonded via an engineered adhesive to the first composite ferrule at the pole receiving portion of the first composite ferrule. The interface may also have a second composite ferrule having an inwardly threaded portion opposite a pole receiving portion, the inwardly threaded portion tightly meshing with the outwardly threaded portion of the first composite ferrule to form a tight connection. The interface may also have a second pole bonded via the engineered adhesive to the second composite ferrule at the pole receiving portion of the second composite ferrule. Both first and second composite ferrules are characterized by a lack of any metallic and/or electrically conductive materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Jameson, LLC
    Inventor: Christopher Ryan Willis
  • Verifiable consent for privacy protection
    Patent number: 11790111
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including a method for updating user consent in a verifiable manner. In some aspects, a method includes receiving, from a client device, a request including an attestation token. The attestation token includes a set of data that includes at least a user identifier that uniquely identifies a user of the client device, a token creation time that indicates a time at which the attestation token was created, user consent data specifying whether one or more entities that receive the attestation token are eligible to use data of the user, an action to be performed in response to the request. The attestation token also includes a digital signature of at least a portion of the set of data, including at least the user identifier and the token creation time. An integrity of the request is verified using the attestation token.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Gang Wang, Marcel M. Moti Yung
  • Method of making a multi-composition fiber
    Patent number: 11788213
    Abstract: A method of making a multi-composition fiber is provided, which includes providing a precursor laden environment, and forming a fiber in the precursor laden environment using laser heating. The precursor laden environment includes a primary precursor material and an elemental precursor material. The formed fiber includes a primary fiber material and an elemental additive material, where the elemental additive material has too large an atom size to fit within a single crystalline domain within a crystalline structure of the fiber, and is deposited on grain boundaries between adjacent crystalline domains of the primary fiber material to present an energy barrier to atomic diffusion through the grain boundaries, and to increase creep resistance by slowing down growth between the adjacent crystalline domains of the primary fiber material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: FREE FORM FIBERS, LLC
    Inventors: Shay L. Harrison, Joseph Pegna, Erik G. Vaaler, Ram K. Goduguchinta, Kirk L. Williams, John L. Schneiter
  • System and method for hybrid callback management with transparent user authentication
    Patent number: 11792324
    Abstract: A system and method for hybrid callback management with transparent user authentication, utilizing a callback cloud and an on-premise callback system, allowing users to be verified via his or her biometrics, and also allowing brands to utilize a hybrid system that protects against any premise outages or cloud service faults and failures by introducing redundancies and co-maintenance of data key to callback execution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Virtual Hold Technology Solutions, LLC
    Inventors: Matthew DiMaria, Kurt Nelson, Nicholas James Kennedy, Robert Harpley, Shannon Lekas