Patents Assigned to LLC
  • Low power liquid purifier
    Patent number: 11786070
    Abstract: Described herein includes sample liquid purification apparatus, systems, and techniques of use. The purification apparatus generally can operate to reduce a temperature of a precursor liquid within a beverage machine or appliance. For example, a thermally conductive body can define a heat sink having a tortuous path for propagation of the precursor therethough, facilitating temperature reduction. The purification apparatus can further generally operate to sanitize or otherwise reduce a level of contaminants in the precursor liquid. For example, an energy source, such as a light emitting diode, can be arranged or integrated with the thermally conductive body to emit ultraviolet radiation toward the precursor liquid within the thermally conductive body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Bedford Systems LLC
    Inventor: Joseph Damigella
  • Methods and systems for indicating a driving situation to external users
    Patent number: 11790775
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for indicating a driving situation including at least one vehicle. The system includes a first processor, a second processor and an external device. A first processor obtains driving information, encodes the driving information and communicates the encoded driving information to the second processor. The second processor receives and decodes the encoded driving information. The second processor further allocates a predefined indication pattern to the decoded driving information, wherein the predefined indication pattern includes a graphical representation of an upcoming driving event involving the vehicle. An external device visualizes a current driving situation including the vehicle together with the predefined indication pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Prakash Mohan Peranandam, Ramesh Sethu, Arun Adiththan, Joseph G D Ambrosio
  • Magnetically repositionable cassettes within a data storage drive
    Patent number: 11790946
    Abstract: The presently disclosed technology is directed to maximizing cleanliness, reliability, and space efficiency within a jukebox-style HDD, while minimizing overall cost of the HDD. In an effort to reduce the movement of a robotic arm assembly, cassettes within a jukebox-style HDD may be configured to be magnetically repositionable to replace some of the movement of the robotic arm assembly, without adding another significant source of potential mechanical failure within the HDD enclosure. Further, the overall number of moving parts is reduced, which may improve reliability of the HDD, as well as cleanliness within the HDD enclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC
    Inventors: Brett R. Herdendorf, Riyan Alex Mendonsa, Krishnan Subramanian
  • Solid-state circuit interrupters
    Patent number: 11791616
    Abstract: A circuit interrupter includes a solid-state switch and a mode control circuit. The solid-state switch is serially connected between a line input terminal and a load output terminal of the circuit interrupter. The mode control circuit is configured to implement a first control mode and a second control mode to control operation of the circuit interrupter. The first control mode is configured to generate a self-bias turn-on threshold voltage for the solid-state switch during power-up of the circuit interrupter, while maintaining the solid-state switch in a switched-off state until the self-bias turn-on threshold voltage is generated. The second control mode is configured to disrupt the self-bias turn-on threshold voltage and place the solid-state switch into a switched-off state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Intelesol, LLC
    Inventor: Mark Telefus
  • Personal mobility assistance devices with light sets and light set kits
    Patent number: 11788693
    Abstract: A personal mobility assistance device includes lights that accent the shape of the device. The lights include a battery, a wire, and a plurality of light emitting devices connected to the wire and powered by the battery. The light emitting devices are spaced sufficiently close to each other along the wire such that, when the vehicle is observed in low light conditions, the shape of the personal mobility assistance device is discernable to the observer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: BeDazzleit LLC
    Inventors: Leo A. Spriggins, Charles D. Gavrilovich, Jr.
  • Raman depressing fiber
    Patent number: 11789335
    Abstract: In some implementations, a monolithic optical fiber may comprise a tapered core having a first diameter at an input end and a second diameter at an output end. The tapered core may comprise a first tapered region at the input end, a second tapered region at the output end, and a central region having a constant diameter that is larger than the first diameter and the second diameter. The first tapered region expands monotonically from the first diameter to the constant diameter of the central region along a length of the first tapered region, and the second tapered region contracts monotonically from the constant diameter of the central region to the second diameter along a length of the second tapered region. The monolithic optical fiber may be used as a delivery fiber to deliver a laser beam from a fiber laser engine to a process head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Lumentum Operations LLC
    Inventors: Richard D. Faulhaber, Martin H. Muendel, Patrick Gregg
  • Monitoring system for a component in a cutting edge
    Patent number: 11788925
    Abstract: A monitoring system that monitors at least one component of a cutting edge supported on an implement, the monitoring system comprising a monitor controller; at least one sensor in sensing communication with the at least one component, the at least one sensor configured to monitor wear of the at least one component; wherein the at least one sensor is connected to the monitor controller to communicate a sensor signal indicative of the wear of the at least one component to the monitor controller; the monitor controller including an output, wherein upon receiving a selected signal from the at least one sensor, the monitor controller is configured to communicate an alert via the output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: IronHawk Industrial Distribution LLC
    Inventors: Patrick Hawkins, Erik Wolfe, Shannon V. McCue
  • Position-based media pipeline for volumetric displays
    Patent number: 11790599
    Abstract: Position based media pipeline systems and methods for volumetric displays provide content to a volumetric display having at least two pixels arranged in a 3D coordinate space. A three-dimensional (3D) pixel position dataset and a 3D animation are provided and a first volume representation based on the 3D animation is created. A second volume is created based on the first volume and including color data. A texture atlas is assembled based on the second volume and volumetric image data is generated based on the texture atlas. The position based media pipeline outputs the volumetric image data to one or more graphic controllers. The volumetric image data can be output whereby a user can preview the volumetric image data in addition to output to the volumetric display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: MSG Entertainment Group, LLC
    Inventors: Kurt Kaminski, Landon Thomas Humphreys
  • Branched amino acid surfactants for inks, paints, and adhesives
    Patent number: 11787967
    Abstract: Inks, paints, adhesives, and paint strippers may be formulated to include one or more branched surfactants, from one or more surfactant classes, such as derivatives of amino acids that have surface-active properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: AdvanSix Resins & Chemicals LLC
    Inventor: Edward Asirvatham
  • Two-environment game play system
    Patent number: 11786810
    Abstract: A game-play environment includes a tee box, a range surface, and a monitor. The tee box is configured to permit a player to hit a golf ball onto the range surface. The range surface has a plurality of physical markers. The monitor depicts a virtual environment that includes a plurality of virtual components. Some of the virtual components are visual cues that correspond to the physical markers. A player can play the game by targeting the appropriate physical marker that corresponds to the desired visual cue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: FlyingTee Tech, LLC
    Inventors: Ryan Tawwater, John Vollbrecht, James Vollbrecht
  • Methods and systems for NVH-based vehicle powertrain control
    Patent number: 11787412
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for adjusting noise, vibration, and harshness (NVH) limits for a vehicle based on an occupancy level of the vehicle. The occupancy level is inferred based on a number of occupants and their position within a vehicle, and further based on a degree of interaction of a primary occupant with vehicle controls. As the occupancy level decreases, NVH constraints for operating the vehicle are reduced and one or more vehicle operating parameters nay be based on the reduced NVH constraints.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Stuart N. Ford, Adam Nathan Banker
  • Battery monitor system and method
    Patent number: 11791637
    Abstract: A remote controlled battery cell monitoring and control system that utilizes empirical and theoretical data to compare performance, sensor data, stored patterns, historical usage, use intensity indexes over time and tracking information to provide a sophisticated data collection system for batteries. This tracking is designed to better the specifications, designs, training, preventative maintenance, and replacement and recycling of batteries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Global Battery Solutions LLC
    Inventors: David W Baarman, Henry W. Sybesma, Jennifer S. Sierra, Cathy L. Wiler, Ellington L. Ellis, Kristine A. Hunter, Lynne A. Sybesma
  • Compositions having reduced thermal conductivities and methods of making the same
    Patent number: 11787697
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a composition that includes a film having a network of randomly aligned carbon nanotubes, where the carbon nanotubes have an average diameter between about 0.6 nm and about 2.0 nm and the carbon nanotubes form bundles having an average diameter between about 3 nm and about 50 nm. In addition, the composition is characterized by a power factor ?2? between 1 ?W/mK2 and about 3500 ?W/mK2 and by ZT=?2?T/k between about 0.02 and about 2.0 over a temperature range between about 100 K and about 500 K.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignees: Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC, University of Denver
    Inventors: Jeffrey Lee Blackburn, Andrew John Ferguson, Barry Lee Zink
  • Olefin multi-block copolymer / silicone rubber / tackifier compositions and foams
    Patent number: 11787924
    Abstract: A composition comprising at least the following: A) an olefin multi-block copolymer; B) a silicone rubber; C) a tackifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Xiaolian Hu, Haiyang Yu, Kyle G. Kummer, Wanfu Ma, Hongyu Chen
  • Polylactic resin compositions for paperboard coating and paperboard coating processes using the compositions
    Patent number: 11787932
    Abstract: A polyester blend is made in a reaction of a linear polylactide resin and a thermoplastic epoxy group-containing polymer. The polyester blend is blended with a polyester having a glass transition temperature below 0C to form a polyester blend that is particular useful for making paperboard coatings in a melt extrusion process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: NatureWorks LLC
    Inventors: Aman Kulshrestha, Eric Meierdierks, Joshua Weed, Nicole Whiteman
  • Converged data communications in satellite networks
    Patent number: 11791890
    Abstract: In some implementations, a satellite communication system is a capable of utilizing converged data transmissions over a satellite network to improve various aspects of services provisioned through the satellite network. For example, the system includes multiple electronic components that operate within a common software application framework to enable the ability to perform monitored operations in real-time. The system uses the monitored data to dynamically and intelligently adjust network configurations of the satellite network configuration to dynamically and intelligently improve to the provisioning of network-based services under varying network conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Stitel Networks, LLC
    Inventors: Noor A Chowdhury, Nahid Hossain
  • Passive pedal force emulator pedal assembly
    Patent number: 11787373
    Abstract: Embodiments herein are directed to an emulator assembly. The assembly includes a housing with a cavity, a pedal arm, an elongated member, a carrier, an end plate and a compressible member. The pedal arm is at least partially received in the cavity and has a pedal pad on one end. The elongated member extends and couples to the pedal arm on one end and couples to a carrier on an opposite other end. The end plate is spaced apart from the carrier. The compressible member is positioned in the space between the carrier and the end plate. When the pedal pad is depressed, the elongated member moves the carrier in a direction towards the end plate which drives the carrier into the compressible member such that the compressible material compresses to generate a force feedback onto a foot positioned on the pedal pad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: KSR IP HOLDINGS, LLC
    Inventor: Dan O'Neill
  • Retail packaging for angular brush
    Patent number: 11787593
    Abstract: Packaging for protecting a brush comprises a box and a brush. The brush has bristles forming a particular shape, and the box defines a nose with a corresponding shape for accommodating the bristles without bending or impacting the bristles, whereby the brush holds its form while packaged. The brush preferably is an angular brush. The box includes a lid by which the brush is secured, with a handle of the brush extending through an opening in the lid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: ZIBRA, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Milton Sherman, William Lane Ball
  • Method and apparatus to recover cores from downhole environments
    Patent number: 11788369
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for recovering cores from downhole environments where down hole environmental parameters are measured during coring operations to maximize the success of core recovery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: PROFESSIONAL CORING ENTERPRISES, LLC
    Inventors: Jamie Mark Alleman, Karen L. O'Neal, William Harold Scott, III
  • Systems and methods of generating electricity using heat from within the earth
    Patent number: 11788516
    Abstract: Systems and methods for producing energy from a geothermal formation. A heat exchanger can be disposed within a well to absorb heat from a geothermal formation. The heat exchanger can be supported within the well using a high thermal conductivity material. The heat exchanger is connected to an organic Rankine cycle engine including a secondary heat exchanger and a turbine. The primary and secondary heat transfer fluids are chosen to maximize efficiency of the organic Rankine cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: HMFSF IP HOLDINGS, LLC
    Inventor: Theodore S. Sumrall