Patents Assigned to LLC
  • Patent number: 11685893
    Abstract: A system comprising a collocated thermal plant, water source, CO2 source and biomass growth module is disclosed. A method of improving the environment by utilizing the system is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Brisa International, LLC
    Inventors: Kevin C. Harmon, Shannon M. Johnson, Eugene T. Holmes
  • Patent number: 11686276
    Abstract: Methods and systems for diagnosing operation of an evaporative emissions system are described. The methods and systems may include increasing an amount of vacuum stored in an evaporative emissions system during discontinuously operating an engine in a boosted operating mode. Storing vacuum allows the evaporative emissions system to reach a desired vacuum level to verify absence of an evaporative emissions system breech.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Aed Dudar
  • Patent number: 11687313
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for managing audio files of a user to reduce latencies in play start times on local devices. The audio files are stored on cloud storage managed by a server. One method includes processing a plurality of audio files associated with a user, where the processing is configured to create audio snippet files from each of the plurality of audio files. The audio snippet files representing a beginning part of each of the plurality of audio files. The method also includes transmitting the audio snippet files to a client device and detecting a request from the client to begin playing a first audio file from the plurality of audio files of the user. The first audio file being stored on the cloud storage managed by the server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Neel B. Parekh
  • Patent number: 11687896
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments include systems and methods for executing a point of sale deposit. In one embodiment, a system may include one or more memory devices storing software instructions, and one or more processors configured to execute the software instructions to receive deposit information related to a point of sale deposit from a mobile device, and generate a deposit token retaining at least the deposit information and deposit authorization information. The one or more processors may also be configured to transmit the deposit token to the mobile device for displaying a readable code generated based on the deposit token, receive a point of sale deposit authorization notification from the merchant device indicating at least receipt by the merchant device of the deposit token from the mobile device, and transfer funds to a financial service account based on the received deposit information and authorization notification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventor: Dennis S. Brennan
  • Patent number: 11689561
    Abstract: Various embodiments discussed herein enable the detection of malicious content. Some embodiments do this by determining a similarity score between content, computer objects, or indications (e.g., vectors, file hashes, file signatures, code, etc.) known to be malicious and other content (e.g., unknown files) or indications based on feature weighting. Over various training stages, certain feature characteristics for each labeled malicious content or indication can be learned. For example, for a first malware family of computer objects, the most prominent feature may be a particular URL, whereas other features change considerably for different iterations of the first malware family of computer objects. Consequently, the particular URL can be weighted to determine a particular output classification corresponding to malicious behavior.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Christian Seifert, Jack Wilson Stokes, III, Kristian Holsheimer
  • Patent number: 11685408
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide for the generation of a driving difficulty heat map for autonomous vehicles. For instance, log data generated by a vehicle being driven in a manual driving mode for a segment of a route may be input into a disengage model in order to generate an output identifying a likelihood of a vehicle driving in an autonomous driving mode requiring a disengage from the autonomous driving mode along the segment of the route. The log data may have been collected within a geographic area. A grid for the geographic area may be generated. The grid may include a plurality of cells. The output is assigned to one of the plurality of cells. The plurality of cells and assigned output may be used to generate a driving difficulty heat map for the geographic area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: WAYMO LLC
    Inventors: Xiaoyue Zhao, Henning Hohnhold, Yin-Hsiu Chen, Xiang Gao, Ajay Joshi, Kevin Cao
  • Patent number: 11687970
    Abstract: Embodiments are described for a system and method for providing a list of current offers from retailers to a user operating a mobile client device. Aspects of the method comprise analyzing a transaction history of the user to identify a vendor who has transacted with the user; determining a present geographic location of the user based on a location of the mobile client device; determining a location of the vendor proximate the user based on the transaction history and the present geographic location of the user; searching for a current promotion offered by the vendor; and facilitating the serving of the current promotion to the user through the mobile client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: CAPITAL ONE SERVICES, LLC
    Inventors: Joshua M. Greenough, Cameron M. Geiser
  • Patent number: 11684000
    Abstract: Garden tools are provided to enable easier gardening with increased gardening and landscaping functionality. The garden tools allow the passing of material through the tool to enable improved landscaping. Certain garden tools include gratings to sift material. Certain garden tools allow material to pass through to allow easier performance of the desired gardening or landscaping function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Garden Pros Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Gloria Schultz, Elton K Ongley, Vincent H Anderson
  • Patent number: 11684304
    Abstract: A non-invasive system and method are provided. Brain activity of a user is detected using a non-invasive brain interface when the user is exposed to an external stimulus. The user is determined to be negatively primed by the external stimulus based on the detected brain activity. An alert that the user is being negatively primed by the external stimulus is automatically provided. A tagged training session may be automatically provided to the user in response determining that the user has a negative mental state, thereby promoting a positive mental state of the user. A training session list containing the tagged training session may be automatically modified based on the determined mental state of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: HI LLC
    Inventors: Bryan Johnson, Husam Katnani
  • Patent number: 11685973
    Abstract: An apparatus, material and method for forming a brazing sheet has a high strength core bonded with corrosion protection layer on the coolant side and/or layers on both airside and coolant side. The material enables heat exchanger components, such as tube, header, plate, etc., for applications, such as automotive heat exchangers, that require high fatigue life as well as high service life in a corrosive environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: ARCONIC TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventor: Baolute Ren
  • Patent number: 11687809
    Abstract: A method for providing at least one of the following information to an athlete during a race such as a running or a cycling race: a race time prediction; a probability to achieve a target time at the end of the race; and/or an indication whether the pace followed by the athlete is too fast, adequate or too slow in order to achieve a target time. The method includes measuring during the race a plurality of intermediate times with an inertial sensor and/or a positional sensor in a wearable device; causing a processing unit in the wearable device to retrieve, based on the intermediate time and on previous races of other athletes, a race profile as non-linear function of time over distance (t=f(d)); and using the retrieved race profile for determining the information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Slyde Analytics LLC
    Inventors: Cyrille Gindre, Frederic Lamon, Christophe Ramstein, Patrick Flaction
  • Patent number: 11688248
    Abstract: A security device or apparatus for use with an ATM includes a pair of base assemblies selectively connected by a beam assembly. The beam assembly is designed to prevent access to one or more service doors of the ATM. In one version of the device the beam assembly includes a horizontally extending beam with vertically oriented posts extending from the beam. The device allows for the beam of the beam assembly to be moved from a locked position or state to an unlocked position or state. In the locked position access to the one or more service doors of the ATM is restricted or prevented, while in the unlocked position access to the one or more service doors of the ATM is permitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Synergy Group LLC
    Inventor: Tate T. Anderson
  • Patent number: 11687745
    Abstract: This invention is for tracking at least one plant. A method of this invention comprises: putting at least one seed or at least one stem in a corresponding at least one pot; positioning a corresponding at least one RFID tag with respect to the seed or stem in a manner, wherein the RFID tag comprises a strap; packaging a harvested material into a packaged product and attaching the RFID tag from the potted plant, or a product RFID tag that is associated with the plurality of tags to the packaged product; confirming a request for authorization by a RFID buy card; and after confirming ID information, transferring at least one product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: METRC LLC
    Inventors: Dilek Dagdelen Uysal, Jeffrey Lane Wells
  • Patent number: 11689150
    Abstract: In an example, a clamp assembly for a glass on glass solar module for a tracker is included. The assembly has a lower clamp structure characterized by a top-hat shaped rail structure having a length extending from a first end to a second end. In an example, the assembly has an upper clamp structure configured to sandwich a pair of edges of a pair of solar modules with a portion of the lower clamp structure. In an example, the assembly has a locking spacer configured to the pair of edges of the pair of solar modules. In an example, the pair of edges comprises substantially glass material. In an example, the assembly has a pair of key structures configured with the locking spacer. Each of the key structures is affixed to each of the solar modules to physically lock each of the solar modules to the upper clamp structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: NEXTRACKER LLC
    Inventor: Alexander W. Au
  • Patent number: 11689769
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus to measure exposure to streaming media are disclosed. An example apparatus includes an event listener to listen for an event notification based on a playback position of a first media segment of a multi-segment media. The example apparatus includes a metadata handler to update a multi-file counter with an offset based on a duration of the first media segment, detect that a second media segment is a segment of the multi-segment media, determine a playback time within the second media segment, add the playback time to the multi-file counter to determine a corresponding playback time of the multi-segment media, and attempt to perform a lookup of a metadata tag in a table based on the playback time of the multi-segment media. The example apparatus includes and a transmitter to transmit the metadata tag corresponding to the playback time of the multi-segment media to an audience measurement entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventor: Jan Besehanic
  • Patent number: 11686599
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus that can include a rotatable target to generate a sinusoidal signal in a magnetic field sensor, wherein the target includes a plurality of sinusoidal teeth to reduce angular error. A magnetic field sensor can be configured to determine a position of the target. In embodiments, a rotatable target to generate a sinusoidal signal in a magnetic field sensor can include a plurality of sinusoidal teeth and a number of harmonics to reduce angular error.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Allegro MicroSystems, LLC
    Inventors: Rémy Lassalle-Balier, Jeffrey Eagen, Damien Dehu, Paul A. David, Andrea Foletto, Maxime Rioult
  • Patent number: 11684211
    Abstract: A griddle having a grease management system and independent cooking zones is disclosed. The griddle may have a cooking surface back wall with an opening provided therein for grease removal. A grease drip flange may extend away from the cooking surface at a downward angle at or near the back wall opening. A removable grease receptacle having a pivotable handle, as well as a squeegee element, may be provided below the grease drip flange. The independent cooking zones may be provided by burner assemblies having front and rear burners that provide different levels of heat using a single dual gas control valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: HALO PRODUCTS GROUP, LLC
    Inventors: Paul J. Simon, Michael R. Giebel
  • Patent number: 11685234
    Abstract: A control system includes a refrigerant recovery module and at least one of a valve control module and a compressor control module. The refrigerant recovery module is configured to generate a refrigerant recovery signal to initiate a recovery of refrigerant from a first heat exchanger of a thermal system for an electric vehicle, and to stop the refrigerant recovery based on a temperature of refrigerant circulating through the first heat exchanger. The valve control module is configured to open a first valve to allow refrigerant to flow through the first heat exchanger in response to the refrigerant recovery signal. The compressor control module is configured to increase a speed of a compressor disposed upstream from the first heat exchanger in response to the refrigerant recovery signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Devin C. Richardson, Cameron Paul Smith, Anthony James Donatelli, Nathan John English, Tanay Kalpej Patel
  • Patent number: 11684113
    Abstract: A footwear warming system and device includes a boot and a footwear warming device. The footwear warming device may include a cap and be generally shaped to fill a void inside the boot. Hot water, or other liquid, may be poured into the footwear warming device to warm a boot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: MOUNTAIN VENTURE HOLDINGS, LLC
    Inventors: Austin Badger, Robert Jesse Taylor Badger, John Badger, Robert David Badger
  • Patent number: 11685638
    Abstract: A system and method for fabricating, hauling, and deploying an industrial crane mat constructed from recycled windmill turbine spars. The system and method comprising: removing outer covering from a wind turbine blade with a trimmer, cutting the wind turbine blade into a plurality of uniform boards using a cutter, connecting the plurality of the plurality of uniform boards side by side into two rows of the plurality of uniform boards, using a plurality of rings, wherein the two rows each have a first end and a second end, and wherein the plurality of rings connects a first end of the first row to a second end of the second row together to form a crane mat, bifolding the crane mat onto itself in half along a latitudinal axis of the crane mat using a loader, loading the bifolded crane mat onto a trailer using a line attached to the bifolded crane mat to pull the bifolded crane mat onto the trailer and pulling the bifolded crane mat onto the trailer using a winch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Best Blade Recycling, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Ray Denson, Marcus Brandon Denson