Patents Assigned to LLC
  • Patent number: 12242110
    Abstract: A multi-fiber cable assembly includes a pigtail segments spliced to a trunk segment using multiple mass fusion splices. The splices are disposed at axially spaced positions within a hollow, flexible conduit. Fibers of the trunk segment are axially fixed at a first demarcation region disposed at the first end of the conduit. Fibers of the pigtail segments are axially fixed at a separate, second demarcation region disposed at the second end of the conduit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Cyle D. Petersen, Thomas Marcouiller, John Paul Anderson
  • Patent number: 12242809
    Abstract: A data processing system implements a method for training machine learning modes, including receiving a set of one or more unlabeled documents associated one or more first categories of documents to be used to train machine learning models to analyze the one or more unlabeled documents, and fine-tuning a first machine learning model and a second machine learning model based on the one or more unlabeled document to enable the first machine learning model to determine a semantic representation of the one or more first categories of document, and to enable the second machine learning model to classify the semantic representations according to the one or more first categories of documents, the first machine learning model and the second machine learning model having been trained using first unlabeled training data including a second plurality of categories of documents that do not include the one or more first categories of documents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Guoxin Wang, Dinei Afonso Ferreira Florencio, Wenfeng Cheng
  • Patent number: 12243088
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to manufacturing footwear. A first outer mold shell and a second outer mold shell may be provided. A first inner mold body and a second inner mold body may be manufactured. The first and second inner mold bodies may have respective first and second inner mold surfaces. The second inner mold surface, together with the first inner mold surface, may define an internal mold volume. The first and second inner mold bodies may be removably coupled to the respective first and second outer mold shells to form first and second hybrid side rings. The first hybrid side ring and the second hybrid side ring may be installed in an automated injection molding machine. The installed first hybrid side ring may be moved toward the installed second hybrid side ring to provide the internal mold volume. One or more liquids may be injected into the internal mold volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Superfeet Worldwide LLC
    Inventors: Eric Paris Hayes, Mike Zhuang, Daniel Wakeland
  • Patent number: 12240033
    Abstract: A multi-part conduit bender handle preferably includes at least a lower tube and an upper tube. The lower tube preferably has an outer diameter, which allows a ¾ male national pipe tap (NPT) to be formed on opposing ends thereof. One end of the lower tube is threaded into a female ¾ NPT in a conduit bender head. An inner diameter of the upper tube is preferably sized to receive a ¾ EMT conduit. A modified ¾ female NPT is formed in one end of the upper tube and an opposing end is left open for insertion of the ¾ EMT conduit. The first modification difference is the inner diameter of the upper tube is preferably enlarged to about 1.00 inch on one end and the second modification difference is the depth of the modified ¾ NPT threads is preferably increased to about 0.85 inches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: TENCO INDUSTRIAL, LLC
    Inventors: Josh L. Leber, Bryan C. Blaylock
  • Patent number: 12239854
    Abstract: Methods and systems for acoustic treatment of tissue are provided. Acoustic energy, for example ultrasound energy, under proper functional control can penetrate deeply and be controlled precisely in tissue. Some aspects provide a method configured for removal of at least a portion of targeted tissue, such as a scar, abscess, non-cancerous tumor, or fibrous knot, in a tissue of the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Guided Therapy Systems, LLC
    Inventor: Michael H. Slayton
  • Patent number: 12240994
    Abstract: An aerosol coating composition contains at least one film-forming resin, trans-1-chloro-3,3,3-trifluoropropene and at least one propellant such as CO2. The aerosol coating composition is non-flammable and compatible with polyethylene terephthalate. The film-forming resin may be acrylic resins, alkyd resins or mixtures thereof. A glycol ether solvent may be present. The coating composition may have low toxicity, be non-ozone depleting, have low or no VOC, be low in maximum incremental reactivity and/or be low in global warming potential. A method of coating a substrate with the aerosol coating composition comprises providing at least one film-forming resin selected from the group consisting of acrylic resins, alkyd resins, and mixtures thereof and trans-1-chloro-trifluoropropene in a container comprising polyethylene terephthalate, which is charged with a propellant comprising carbon dioxide. The aerosol coating composition is non-flammable. The composition is applied to a substrate and allowed to dry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: SWIMC LLC
    Inventor: Joseph F. McCarthy
  • Patent number: 12239038
    Abstract: An apparatus for measuring a soil condition includes a shank configured to engage with a drawbar, an array of movable pads carried by the shank, and a plurality of sensors. Each of the movable pads are spaced at different distances from a point at which the shank is configured to engage the drawbar. Each sensor is coupled to at least one movable pad of the array of movable pads and configured to measure deflection of the at least one movable pad relative to the shank as the shank is dragged through soil by the drawbar. A method of measuring a property of soil includes dragging the shank through soil and measuring deflection of the movable pads relative to the shank as the shank is dragged through soil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Precision Planting LLC
    Inventor: Dillon Sloneker
  • Patent number: 12241939
    Abstract: A test and measurement instrument including a voltage source configured to output a source voltage, a current sensor, and one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to determine an estimation of a load of an unknown connected device under test based on the source voltage, the current sensor, and a voltage of the connected device under test without any prior knowledge of the connected device under test.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Keithley Instruments, LLC
    Inventor: William C. Weeman
  • Patent number: 12245380
    Abstract: Methods and systems for low-force, low-temperature thermocompression bonding. The present application teaches new methods and structures for three-dimensional integrated circuits, in which cold thermocompression bonding is used to provide reliable bonding. To achieve this, reduction and passivation steps are preferably both used to reduce native oxide on the contact metals and to prevent reformation of native oxide, preferably using atmospheric plasma treatments. Preferably the physical compression height of the elements is set to be only enough to reliably achieve at least some compression of each bonding element pair, compensating for any lack of flatness. Preferably the thermocompression bonding is performed well below the melting point. This not only avoids the deformation of lower levels which is induced by reflow techniques, but also provides a steep relation of force versus z-axis travel, so that a drastically-increasing resistance to compression helps to regulate the degree of thermocompression.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: SET NORTH AMERICA, LLC
    Inventor: Eric Frank Schulte
  • Patent number: 12241390
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine includes a camshaft operably adjusted by a phaser. Another aspect includes an internal combustion engine having an actuation system for an air valve. A further aspect provides a camshaft-in-camshaft system with a cam phaser located adjacent opposite ends. In another aspect, an internal combustion engine apparatus includes multiple nested camshafts with one of the camshafts having a cam configured to actuate an air intake valve associated with a turbulent jet ignition prechamber, and another of the camshafts having a cam configured to actuate an air valve of a main piston combustion chamber, the nested camshafts being independently rotatable by separate electromagnetic actuators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignees: Board of Trustees of Michigan State University, Mid Michigan Research, LLC
    Inventors: Harold J. Schock, Thomas R. Stuecken, Jennifer Higel, Gary Hunter
  • Patent number: 12241587
    Abstract: Quick attach anchor systems and methods are provided. A system may include an anchor and a faceplate coupled to the anchor. The anchor may include a base, a plate extending from the base to define a slot between the plate and the base, and a cam rotatable between a locked position and an unlocked position. The locked position may be configured to clamp a structure within the slot to secure the device to the structure. The unlocked position may be configured to unclamp the structure within the slot. Additional systems and associated methods are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Engage Enterprises LLC
    Inventor: Matthew Crino
  • Patent number: 12243040
    Abstract: An improved savings education and management system includes a base unit including a processor, non-transitory computer-readable memory, a display, and buttons, wherein the base unit includes a housing which presents an appearance of an egg. A mobile unit includes a processor, non-transitory computer-readable memory, and a display. A computer server includes a processor and non-transitory computer-readable server memory storing a database including a user account, the user account having financial accounts and corresponding to the base unit and the mobile unit. The base unit includes instructions stored in the memory that present on the display information related to the user account which corresponds to the one of the buttons. The mobile unit includes mobile instructions stored in the memory that transmit an instruction to the computer server to debit one of the financial accounts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: My First Nest Egg, LLC
    Inventors: Nicolle S Hood, Annamarie Shoen
  • Patent number: 12242792
    Abstract: A method and system for identifying enhancement suggestions for a document and displaying the identified suggestions in a user-friendly manner may include examining the document to identify an enhancement fora portion of content in the document, enabling display of a first user interface element for previewing the identified enhancement as applied to the content, receiving a request to select the identified enhancement, and upon receiving the request enabling display of a second user interface element for accepting the identified enhancement. The first user interface element may provide a preview of the document post enhancement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Erez Kikin Gil, Benjamin David Smith
  • Patent number: 12240163
    Abstract: Improved separator film compositions, methods and systems for use in producing thermoformed dental appliances are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Bay Materials, LLC
    Inventors: Ray F. Stewart, John Lahlouh
  • Patent number: 12240113
    Abstract: Implementations utilize deep reinforcement learning to train a policy neural network that parameterizes a policy for determining a robotic action based on a current state. Some of those implementations collect experience data from multiple robots that operate simultaneously. Each robot generates instances of experience data during iterative performance of episodes that are each explorations of performing a task, and that are each guided based on the policy network and the current policy parameters for the policy network during the episode. The collected experience data is generated during the episodes and is used to train the policy network by iteratively updating policy parameters of the policy network based on a batch of collected experience data. Further, prior to performance of each of a plurality of episodes performed by the robots, the current updated policy parameters can be provided (or retrieved) for utilization in performance of the episode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Sergey Levine, Ethan Holly, Shixiang Gu, Timothy Lillicrap
  • Patent number: D1065056
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Lion Energy, LLC
    Inventors: Tyler Hortin, Thierry Caussat, Timothy Nelson
  • Patent number: D1065408
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Slick Slide LLC
    Inventor: Gary Schmit
  • Patent number: D1065457
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Fortune Brands Water Innovations LLC
    Inventor: Thomas Joseph Manion
  • Patent number: D1065587
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Suncast Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Stephen Whitehead, Robert Kopp, Torrence Anderson
  • Patent number: D1065752
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Murray Sporting Goods, LLC
    Inventors: Janson James, Jeffrey George