Patents Assigned to LLC
  • Patent number: 12243534
    Abstract: A computer implemented method processes audio streams recorded during a meeting by a plurality of distributed devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Takuya Yoshioka, Andreas Stolcke, Zhuo Chen, Dimitrios Basile Dimitriadis, Nanshan Zeng, Lijuan Qin, William Isaac Hinthorn, Xuedong Huang
  • Patent number: 12240675
    Abstract: A woven plastic bag having features that further prevent leakage of contents out of the bag, or infestation of organisms into the contents of the bag is provided. In various aspects the bag can be fabricated from a woven polymer layer and a film layer, can form a pinch bottom bag, and can have one or both sides include graphics and/or printing. The bag can also provide a top end and/or a bottom end either or both of which provide a discrete area which may contain discrete graphics and/or printing. The bag can have an end with a step cut configuration, wherein the step cut configuration includes one or more angled and/or radial cuts between separations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Polytex Fibers LLC
    Inventors: Jacobo Bazbaz, Alberto Zaroli
  • Patent number: 12241268
    Abstract: A pole cradle is disclosed. The pole cradle including a first leg; a second leg; a third leg positioned between and pivotally connected to the first and second legs by a pivot connector extending through the first, second, and third legs, wherein the third leg pivots relative to the first and second legs between a first position and a second position; and a support connector extending between the first and second legs, the support connector providing a stop for the third leg such that in the second position, the third leg abuts against the support connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: MADI, LLC
    Inventor: Aaron Shropshire
  • Patent number: 12239877
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an exercise apparatus with a mobility mat and an orthopedic device. The mobility mat can have a plurality of segments or have a single piece construction. The mobility mat includes a body provided with a plurality of assistive features, such as hand holds, foot holds, resistance bands, various exercise grips, and a contoured cushion. These assistive features can be removably attached to the mobility mat using grommets formed in the mat body and holding tabs that can be secured in the grommets. The mobility mat can be further configured to couple with the orthopedic device. The orthopedic device can have an inclined face and a plurality of remaining faces including various additional assistive features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: W2DESIGNS LLC
    Inventor: Marien J. Zanyk
  • Patent number: 12241431
    Abstract: An engine block for a vehicle includes a bore surface defining a cylinder bore. The bore surface exhibits a first microstructure and includes a pattern of a plurality of cycloidal features formed in the bore surface. The plurality of cycloidal features each exhibit a first length in a first axis and a second length in a second axis arranged 90 degrees from the first axis. The plurality of cycloidal features also exhibit a ratio of the first length to the second length in a range of 1:1.5 to 1.5:1. The plurality of cycloidal features further exhibit a second microstructure including tempered martensite, wherein the second microstructure is different from the first microstructure. The engine block is included in a vehicle. The cycloidal features are formed with a laser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Yi Liu, Qigui Wang, Richard L. Metcalf, Angela Zsidi Alksninis, Devin R. Hess, Purushotham Kunduru, Cherng-chi Chang
  • Patent number: 12241307
    Abstract: One or more embodiments includes a door assembly with a door jamb and a door header. A connection system is provided that directs the weight of the door header directly into the door jamb. Load on the fasteners is reduced by the connection system along with the potential for slippage for the door header after installation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Allegion Access Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Benjamin Marotte, James Cavanaugh, Ronald R. Laliberte, Vinay Patel
  • Patent number: 12240089
    Abstract: A battery-operated palm stapler, an insert for holding a fastener, and a method of installing a fastener using the palm stapler. The stapler includes a housing with a telescoping barrel extending outwardly therefrom. An insert is engaged in the barrel's bore and is held in place by magnets. The insert body defines a slot for receiving fasteners therein. The slot extends from a top wall of the body to a bottom wall thereof. At least one magnet is provided in the body adjacent the slot and is used to hold fasteners in a correct orientation for installation. A sensor probe provided in the body is operable to detect if voltage is carried in electrical cables adjacent which fasteners are to be installed. The probe deactivates a hammer actuating mechanism if voltage is detected. Inserts holding different types of fastener may be selectively engaged with the palm stapler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: BRAHMA INDUSTRIES, LLC
    Inventors: Mark Ferris, Eric A. Miller, Jr., John D. Fiegener, Marcus R. Hanna, Ryan Thompson, William P. Liteplo
  • Patent number: 12239217
    Abstract: An oral care implement comprises a head and a handle, the head being repeatedly attachable to and detachable from the handle. The head is at least partially made from a material having a density from about 0.5 g/cm3 to about 1.2 g/cm3, while the handle is at least partially made from a material having a density from about 2.1 g/cm3 to about 3.1 g/cm3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: The Gillette Company LLC
    Inventor: Uwe Jungnickel
  • Patent number: 12239606
    Abstract: An article or vessel is described including a vessel surface and a coating set comprising at least one tie coating, at least one barrier coating, and at least one pH protective coating. For example, the coating set can comprise a tie coating, a barrier coating, a pH protective coating and a second barrier coating; and in the presence of a fluid composition, the fluid contacting surface is the barrier coating or layer. The respective coatings can be applied by PECVD of a polysiloxane precursor. Such vessels can have a coated interior portion containing a fluid with a pH of 4 to 8. The barrier coating prevents oxygen from penetrating into the thermoplastic vessel, and the tie coating and pH protective coating together protect the barrier layer from the contents of the vessel. The second barrier coating is comparable to glass surface if needed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: SIO2 MEDICAL PRODUCTS, LLC
    Inventors: Christopher Weikart, Becky L. Clark, Adam Stevenson, John T. Felts
  • Patent number: 12242469
    Abstract: Provided are computing systems, methods, and platforms for generating training and testing data for machine-learning models. The operations can include receiving signal extraction information that has instructions to query a data store. Additionally, the operations can include accessing, using Structured Query Language (SQL) code generated based on the signal extraction information, raw data from the data store. Moreover, the operations can include processing the raw data using signal configuration information to generate a plurality of signals. The signal configuration information can have instructions on how to generate the plurality of signals from the raw data. Furthermore, the operations can include joining, using SQL code, the plurality of signals with a first label source to generate training data and testing data. Subsequently, the operations can include processing the training data and the testing data to generate the input data. The input data being an ingestible for a machine-learning pipeline.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Madhav Datt, Sukriti Ramesh
  • Patent number: 12241160
    Abstract: Methods of fabricating fiber structures with embedded sensors are provided. The method includes obtaining a scaffold fiber and forming, by 1½-D printing using laser induced chemical vapor deposition, circuitry on the scaffold fiber to provide a fiber structure with embedded sensor. The forming includes printing a solid state oscillator about the scaffold fiber, and printing a sensing device about the scaffold fiber electrically coupled to the solid state oscillator to effect, at least in part, oscillations of the solid state oscillator. The forming further includes printing an antenna about the scaffold fiber electrically connected to the solid state oscillator to facilitate in operation wireless transmitting of a signal from the fiber structure with embedded sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Free Form Fibers, LLC
    Inventors: Joseph Pegna, Thomas Philip Budka
  • Patent number: 12239307
    Abstract: A disposable or reusable length adjustable tubular retractor, a surgical system, and a tube breaker for adjusting the length of the length adjustable tubular retractor are provided. The length adjustable tubular retractor includes a cylindrical body and at least one or a plurality of grooves or through slots or a combination thereof circumferentially disposed along the cylindrical body at predetermined positions. Each of the at least one or a plurality of grooves, through slots, or a combination thereof is configured such that the cylindrical body is breakable at each of the predetermined positions to form a size-selected length adjustable tubular retractor. A surgical system includes the length adjustable tubular retractor and a retractor handle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: JGMG BENGOCHEA, LLC
    Inventors: Javier Garcia-Bengochea, John Souza, Sr.
  • Patent number: 12241717
    Abstract: A buttstock assembly configured to work in conjunction with a compact buffer assembly consisting of a buffer tube, spring and bolt carrier with an integral buffer is provided. The buttstock assembly, buffer tube and bolt carrier are configured to work with AR15/M16 type firearms and their derivatives. By incorporating the buffer onto the bolt carrier, which is used in conjunction with a buffer tube of reduced length, the overall length of the host firearm is reduced by approximately 3.2 inches. No permanent modification need be made to the host firearm in order to utilize the compact buffer assembly and buttstock assembly disclosed herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: LWRC International LLC
    Inventor: Jesus S. Gomez
  • Patent number: 12239250
    Abstract: A system and method enabling a user to removably position and secure reusable, portable, independently hung wall hangings or panels, including wood panels, in any configuration or arrangement desired on a wall surface, which may be removed with limited damage to the wall surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: TALAYA NORTH AMERICA LLC
    Inventors: Madhavi Kommula Rao, Benjamin Kyle Ericksen
  • Patent number: 12240140
    Abstract: An adjustable hold-down shoe assembly having an assembly body, a plurality of hold-down shoes movably mounted to the assembly body, a bias device that biases the plurality of hold-down shoes in a direction away from the lumber bias surface, a body mount, and a lifting/lowering mechanism movably connecting the assembly body to the body mount that moves the assembly body in relation to the body mount and in a first direction towards the lumber bias surface and in a second direction away from the lumber bias surface. A planermill trimmer having the adjustable hold-down shoe assembly mounted thereon and a method of end trimming lumber using the planermill trimmer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Timber Automation, LLC
    Inventors: James L. Anderson, Russell R. Kennedy, Douglas Monroe Tinsley, Thomas Wayne Green
  • Patent number: 12242891
    Abstract: One example method includes determining that local resources at an edge site are inadequate to support performance of a function needed by software running on the edge site, invoking a client agent, in response to invoking the client agent, receiving an execution manifest, determining, by the client agent, where to execute the function, wherein the determining comprises identifying a target execution environment for the function and the determining is based in part on information contained in the execution manifest, and transmitting, by the client agent, the execution manifest to a server agent of the target execution environment, and the execution manifest facilitates execution of the function in the target execution environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Amy N. Seibel, Victor Fong, Eric Bruno
  • Patent number: 12241708
    Abstract: An improved bolt and bolt carrier with integral gas key having an extension nozzle threadedly secured and pinned to the gas key for use with a direct gas operated firearm is provided. The extension nozzle is designed to receive a portion of the host firearm's gas operating system. The firing pin retaining pin is oriented so as to expose its widest profile to the firing pin's annular flange, increasing its service life. The bolt has a plurality of lugs extending from its forward end. The extractor recess is constructed so that the face of the bolt is round and the adjacent lugs fully supported. The extractor engages approximately 17% more of a seated ammunition cartridge's rim as compared to the prior art AR15/M16 extractor. The result is an improved bolt and bolt carrier which provides for increased operational reliability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: LWRC International LLC
    Inventor: Jesus S. Gomez
  • Patent number: 12239971
    Abstract: A system and method configured to restore ion exchange kinetic properties and purify resin is described. Degraded ion exchange kinetic properties of anion resin will eventually result in impurity slippage through resin charges. This system and method employs an acid catalyst in combination with sulfite cleaning solution to remove organic material and to protonate iron oxides for deconstruction and removal from anion resins. The cleaning solution, when applied via a cleaning vessel utilizing an eductor(s)/plenum and wedge-wire screen draw chamber, while controlling all phases of cleaning by electronic monitoring, yields complete restoration of ion exchange kinetics on usable resin. As such, the system and method provides a safe, effective, and vastly improved method for restoring anion resin kinetics and improving regeneration quality, for improved resin performance and minimizing resin replacement costs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Ionx Solutions, LLC
    Inventor: Thomas O. Miller
  • Patent number: 12243515
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for speech recognition using neural networks. A feature vector that models audio characteristics of a portion of an utterance is received. Data indicative of latent variables of multivariate factor analysis is received. The feature vector and the data indicative of the latent variables is provided as input to a neural network. A candidate transcription for the utterance is determined based on at least an output of the neural network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Andrew W. Senior, Ignacio L. Moreno
  • Patent number: 12240770
    Abstract: A discrimination system that forms a fluid column and interrogates objects within the fluid column with an excitation source. An optical arrangement collects output electromagnetic radiation emanating from the excited objects disposed within the fluid column and directs the output electromagnetic radiation to a detector. An analyzer reduces the positional dependency of the detected intensity by normalizing the value based on the position of each object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: INGURAN, LLC
    Inventors: Peter Kiesel, Todd Karin, Kenneth Michael Evans