Abstract: An insert device includes a body having an upper body portion configured to couple with a cylinder head of an engine cylinder and a lower body portion extending from the upper body portion toward a combustion chamber of the engine cylinder. The body includes an interior surface extending around a central volume positioned to receive liquid fuel from a fuel injector. The body includes gas inlet channels and fuel-and-gas mixture outlet channels. The gas inlet channels direct gas into the central volume where the gas mixes with the liquid fuel to form the fuel-and-gas mixture. The fuel-and-gas mixture outlet channels direct the mixture into the combustion chamber. The interior surface includes concave surface portions between the inlet channels and the outlet channels along a center axis of the body that are shaped to direct the gas into the central volume toward the liquid fuel in the central volume.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 12, 2021
Date of Patent:
October 10, 2023
Assignee:
Transportation IP Holdings, LLC
Inventors:
Brett Heher, Adam Edgar Klingbeil, Manuel Licon Flores, Kevin Paul Bailey
Abstract: A fixed hybrid dental attachment assembly is provided. The fixed hybrid dental attachment assembly includes an abutment member, a male member, and a cap. The abutment member has an outer locating surface portion projecting downwardly from an upper end. The male member for attachment to the abutment member has an upper end for engagement within a cap in a recess in a dental appliance, and a continuous, unbroken skirt projecting from the upper end of the male member for engagement over the outer locating surface of the abutment member. The skirt may have a rounded, convex outer surface, and the male member may be constructed from a PEEK material.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 17, 2021
Date of Patent:
October 10, 2023
Assignee:
ZEST IP HOLDINGS, LLC
Inventors:
Tom Stratton, Steven Pelote, Maxwell McKinnon, Eller Torres
Abstract: A mounting system capable of mounting objects to support structures. The mounting system includes a wall mount including a display bracket configured to hold the object, a fixed support bracket coupleable to a vertical support structure, and a linkage assembly. The linkage assembly has a low-profile stowed configuration in which the object is held in a raised position close to the support structure. Tilt adjustment mechanisms are used to adjust the tilt of the display bracket.
Abstract: Bone marrow containers are described herein. Separation systems for separating activated immune cells from other components are described herein. Methods of activating an immune cell are described herein.
Abstract: A treatment device includes a housing having a longitudinal axis extending between a proximal end and a distal end, a striking element disposed within the housing and moveable along the longitudinal axis, a tip disposed adjacent the distal end, and a nose cone disposed about at least a portion of the tip, the tip being moveable within the nose cone.
Abstract: The present invention relates to a permanent shaping composition for the permanent deformation of hair comprising, in a cosmetically acceptable carrier, at least one reducing agent comprising a mercapto functional group, at least one alkalizing agent, and a malodor suppressant system comprising at least a first malodor suppressant, herein the first malodor suppressant has a molecular weight of from 100 to 400 g/mol, and wherein the malodor suppressant system has a distribution coefficient log P (octanol/water) of 2 or more.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 14, 2017
Date of Patent:
October 10, 2023
Assignee:
WELLA OPERATIONS US, LLC
Inventors:
Moussa Barhoum, Manfred Schmitt, Christine Marie Cahen, Graham Neil McKelvey
Abstract: A seat assembly includes a cushioned component having a lattice matrix. An air bladder assembly is covered by the lattice matrix. The air bladder assembly includes a plurality of air bladders supported on a platform assembly. Each air bladder includes a body portion operable between deflated and inflated conditions. Each air bladder includes a connection stem. A support plate includes a plurality of access apertures disposed therethrough. The air bladder assembly is operably coupled to the support plate. Each air bladder is aligned with at least one access aperture of the plurality of access apertures. A carrier assembly includes a plurality of mounting apertures disposed through an outer surface thereof. The carrier assembly receives the connection stem of each air bladder through at least one mounting aperture of the plurality of mounting apertures. Each air bladder may include a release valve for releasing air therethrough.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 18, 2022
Date of Patent:
October 10, 2023
Assignee:
Ford Global Technologies, LLC
Inventors:
Megan Romelfanger, Patrick Maloney, Brian Boland, Alex Perkins, Victoria Leigh Schein, Marcos Silva Kondrad, Sangram Tamhankar
Abstract: A glucose sensor comprising an optical energy source having an emitter with an emission pattern; a first polarizer intersecting the emission pattern; a second polarizer spaced a distance from the first polarizer and intersecting the emission pattern, the second polarizer rotated relative to the first polarizer by a first rotational amount ?; a first optical detector intersecting the emission pattern; a second optical detector positioned proximal to the second polarizer, the first polarizer and the second polarizer being positioned between the optical energy source and the second optical detector, the second optical detector intersecting the emission pattern; a compensating circuit coupled to the second optical detector; and a subtractor circuit coupled to the compensating circuit and the first optical detector.
Abstract: A method of training a quantum computer employs quantum algorithms. The method comprises loading, into the quantum computer, a description of a quantum Boltzmann machine, and training the quantum Boltzmann machine according to a protocol, wherein a classification error is used as a metric for the protocol.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 19, 2019
Date of Patent:
October 10, 2023
Assignee:
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
Inventors:
Nathan O. Wiebe, Alexei Bocharov, Paul Smolensky, Matthias Troyer, Krysta Svore
Abstract: Methods and systems for tracking sources of after-hours activity based on events managed via an electronic communication application. One method includes accessing a log storing time information, receiver information, and originator information of an event managed via the electronic communication application, determining, based on the receiver information, a predetermined after-hours period of a receiver of the event, determining, based on the originator information and stored organizational data, an organizational group of an originator of the event, and determining, based on the time information, whether the event occurred during the predetermined after-hours period of the receiver.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 20, 2021
Date of Patent:
October 10, 2023
Assignee:
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
Inventors:
Jessalynn Uchacz, Aaron James Harrison, Brian S. Ruble
Abstract: The present disclosure relates to electronic devices that include a composition that actively generates a gaseous oxidizing agent component within the interior gas space of the electronic device. The present disclosure also involves related methods.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 19, 2022
Date of Patent:
October 10, 2023
Assignee:
Seagate Technology LLC
Inventors:
Silvia De Vito Luebben, Paul Beatty, Rory S. Goodman, Paul S. Tyler, Scott E. Ryun, Hassan Rezayat, Dipeshkumar J. Purani, Ted McDonald, Kenneth Eugene Schultz, Michael R. Fabry, Dale Herbert Erickson, Christopher L. Hill, Jackson W. Nichols
Abstract: The invention relates to recombinant host cells that expresses one or more genes encoding a cytochrome P450 enzyme capable of N-demethylating and/O-demethylating reticuline and/or derivatives thereof, and also methods of producing a N-demethylated and/or O-demethylated reticuline and/or derivatives thereof, comprising cultivating the recombinant host of the invention in a culture medium under conditions in which the one or more genes encoding the cytochrome P450 enzymes is/are expressed. The reticuline and derivatives thereof are useful for providing access to naturally unavailable and chemically difficult-to-produce starting materials for opioids.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 18, 2018
Date of Patent:
October 10, 2023
Assignee:
RIVER STONE BIOTECH, LLC
Inventors:
Markus Schwab, Sumire Honda Malca, Philipp Friedrich Berninger, Jon Richard Heal, Joseph Michael Sheridan, Laura Tatjer Recorda, Rubini Maya Kannangara, Esben Halkjaer Hansen, Angela Manuela Ribeiro de Carvalho
Abstract: A method to control an output component of an electronic system comprises (a) receiving a transmission from an input component of the electronic system, the transmission including a time stamp and at least one input signal; (b) storing content of the transmission including the time stamp and the at least one input signal; (c) selecting one of a plurality of noise-filtered signals based on the time stamp and on a reference time index, the selected one of the plurality of noise-filtered signals having a greatest signal-to-noise ratio among the noise-filtered signals defined at the reference time index; and (d) controlling an output component of the electronic system based in part on the selected noise-filtered signal.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 25, 2022
Date of Patent:
October 10, 2023
Assignee:
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
Inventors:
Joshua Aidan Elsdon, Salim Sirtkaya, David John McKinnon
Abstract: The disclosed techniques provide a computing device that displays video content within a comment section of a user interface. When users invoke a video display by selecting a link within a user interface comment section, a system can control a navigational position of a user interface to concurrently display the video and selected comments within the comment section. In one illustrative example, a system can display a user interface having a video display area and a comment section. The user interface may be positioned to show the comment section within a viewing area of a display device, and such a position may place the video display area outside of the viewing area. In such a scenario, when a system receives a user input indicating a selection of a comment displayed within the comment section, the system can generate a rendering of the video content for display within the comment section.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 19, 2019
Date of Patent:
October 10, 2023
Assignee:
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
Inventors:
Dongwook Yoon, Sol Sidney Fels, Matin Yarmand
Abstract: A personal care system having a treatment device for applying a treatment to the skin or hair of a user is provided. The treatment device has a camera for taking an image of the skin. The system may include or be in communication with an application programming interface (API) that can process the image. The system or an associated API can recommend the use of treatment regimens or topical products according to information determined from the digital image of the skin.
Abstract: The systems and methods described herein can include a digital assistant application that receives sensor signals from sensors installed in a vehicle and determines an entry event into the vehicle. The digital assistant application can receive, responsive to the entry event into the vehicle, a plurality authentication input signals from a plurality of sensors associated with the vehicle. The digital assistant application can determine a plurality of authentication states based on the plurality of authentication input signals and a plurality of authentication credentials. The digital assistant application can identify an access permission level of a plurality of access permission levels based at least in part on the plurality of identifies authentication states. The digital assistant application can identify, responsive to the access permission level, a subset of a set of functionalities available via the vehicle, and provide vehicular access to the subset of functionalities.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 1, 2022
Date of Patent:
October 10, 2023
Assignee:
GOOGLE LLC
Inventors:
Haris Ramic, Victor Chan, Vikas Gupta, Lingjun Li
Abstract: The present invention relates to an aircraft cabin having a longitudinal axis and comprising at least one aisle and an arrangement of seat units, a seat unit comprising, in particular, a seat provided with a base and a backrest as well as a foot area, the seat being movable between a sitting position and a lying position, the arrangement of seat units comprising: at least one rear group of two seat units, at least one front group of two seat units, each group of two seat units comprising a seat unit arranged on the side of the aisle and referred to as the “aisle-side seat unit” and a seat unit arranged on the side of a window and referred to as the “window-side seat unit”, each seat of a group of seat units having an axis forming a non-zero angle relative to the longitudinal axis of the aircraft cabin, such that the seats of each group are facing the aisle, a first passage for accessing the aisle associated with the window-side seat unit of the rear group extending between the foot area and the seat of the
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 9, 2020
Date of Patent:
October 10, 2023
Assignees:
Safran Seats, Safran Seats USA LLC
Inventors:
Florelle Rousse, Arthur Glain, Adrien Beauvais, Nguyen Foek Le, David Morales
Abstract: An apparatus and method for managing video playback for users during video streaming is disclosed. In one aspect, a server may be used to generate manifest files and updates to video players requesting video content. In addition, the manifest files and updates may be provided unique to each video player.
Abstract: Aspects described herein may use machine learning models to predict one or more remediation actions to mitigate reoccurrence of an incident that has become restored based upon previous incidents of an entity. Historical incident data is compiled into two incident datasets: one representative of incidents that were assigned a remediation action to mitigate reoccurrence of the incident, and a second representative of incidents that were not assigned a remediation action. A machine learning model matches relationships between data in the two datasets and outputs scores representative of similarities. Based on the scores, one or more remediation actions are mapped to an incident in the second dataset and the remediation action is performed for the incident.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 25, 2021
Date of Patent:
October 10, 2023
Assignee:
Capital One Services, LLC
Inventors:
Matthew Louis Nowak, Keith D. Greene, Catherine Barnes, David Walter Peters
Abstract: This disclosure describes methods, devices, systems, and procedures in a computing system for capturing a configuration state of an operating system executing on a central processing unit (CPU), and offloading resource-related tasks, based on the configuration state, to a resource management unit such as a system-on-chip (SoC). The resource management unit identifies a status of each resource based on the captured configuration state of the operating system. The resource management unit then processes tasks associated with the status of the resources, such as modifying a clock rate of a clocked component in the computing system. This can alleviate the CPU from processing those tasks thereby improving overall computing system performance and dynamics.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 3, 2022
Date of Patent:
October 10, 2023
Assignee:
Google LLC
Inventors:
Alex Levin, Todd Alan Broch, Derek Basehore