Patents Assigned to LLC
  • Publication number: 20250153586
    Abstract: An integrated synchronous motor charger includes a battery, and a synchronous motor having a set of phase windings, with each phase winding thereof having an open-ended winding configuration, the synchronous motor being electrically connected to the battery via a bidirectional inverter on a first end of at least one phase winding from the set of phase windings, and to a power source on a second end of the at least one phase winding. The synchronous motor is operably shiftable between a charging mode and a driving mode, the synchronous motor allowing electric power to flow bidirectionally between the power source and the battery in the charging mode, and allowing electric power to flow bidirectionally between the battery and the synchronous motor in the driving mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2023
    Publication date: May 15, 2025
    Applicant: Jacobi Motors, LLC
    Inventors: Ahmed Morsy, Brian Wightman
  • Publication number: 20250151943
    Abstract: An insulated container assembly and French press assembly can be configured to retain beverages. The French press assembly may be secured to a container for mixing and pouring beverages. The French press assembly may include a lid assembly and the base assembly connected by a connect rod. The lid assembly may include a handle and a lid with the handle connected to a first end of the connect rod and the lid slidably connected to the connect rod. The base assembly may be connected to a second end of the connect rod. The base assembly may include a plunger with a valve and a wiper gasket. The valve may be located on a top side of the plunger and the wiper gasket may be located around a periphery of the plunger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2023
    Publication date: May 15, 2025
    Applicant: YETI Coolers, LLC
    Inventors: Dustin R. Bullock, Daniel R. DiDomenico, Luke Schaffner
  • Publication number: 20250156790
    Abstract: A data collection and reporting system for a multinational corporation (MNC) identifies the regions with which the MNC is associated and generates region data collecting jobs to be executed in each of these regions. The jobs are executed during off-peak hours for each region. Each region data collecting job results in a region aggregate to be computed based on the data collected from the region. Once all region aggregates have been computed and stored, a global aggregate is computed from the region aggregates. The global aggregate is then processed to generate reporting data which is used to generate one or more data reports for the MNC.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2023
    Publication date: May 15, 2025
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Jose Araujo BARRETO, Uday Kumar PASUMARTHY, Lavanya Paravastu PATTARABHIRAN, Lohith Sritej MADHALA, Lukas Levon MISSIK, Zheng ZHAO, Kai Yiu LUK
  • Publication number: 20250158394
    Abstract: A control system may include a direct-current (DC) power bus for charging (e.g., trickle charging) internal energy storage elements in control devices of the control system. For example, the control devices may be motorized window treatments configured to adjust a position of a covering material to control the amount of daylight entering a space. The system may include a DC power supply that may generate a DC voltage on the DC power bus. For example, the DC power bus may extend from the DC power supply around the perimeter of a floor of the building and may be connected to all of the motorized window treatments on the floor (e.g., in a daisy-chain configuration). Wiring the DC power bus in such a manner may dramatically reduce the installation labor and wiring costs of an installation, as well as decreasing the chance of a miswire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2025
    Publication date: May 15, 2025
    Applicant: Lutron Technology Company LLC
    Inventors: Edward J. Blair, John H. Bull, Samuel F. Chambers, Stuart W. DeJonge, Joseph R. Parks
  • Publication number: 20250158395
    Abstract: There is provided a method for synchronising DC voltage performed by a converter controller. The method includes receiving an indication that a synchronisation process, in which a first DC voltage controlled by the converter controller is synchronised with a second DC voltage at a DC grid, is to be initiated; in response to receiving the indication, gradually adjusting the first DC voltage up and/or down; and while gradually adjusting the first DC voltage up and/or down, determining that the synchronisation process has been successful based on a detected DC current or rate of change of DC current being greater than a predefined threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2024
    Publication date: May 15, 2025
    Applicant: GE Infrastructure Technology LLC
    Inventors: Li ZOU, Carl BARKER, Amit KUMAR
  • Publication number: 20250159168
    Abstract: Innovations in control and use of chroma quantization parameter (“QP”) values that depend on luma QP values. More generally, the innovations relate to control and use of QP values for a secondary color component that depend on QP values for a primary color component. For example, during encoding, an encoder determines a QP index from a primary component QP and secondary component QP offset. The encoder maps the QP index to a secondary component QP, which has an extended range. The encoder outputs at least part of a bitstream including the encoded content. A corresponding decoder receives at least part of a bitstream including encoded content. During decoding, the decoder determines a QP index from a primary component QP and secondary component QP offset, then maps the QP index to a secondary component QP, which has an extended range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2025
    Publication date: May 15, 2025
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Gary J. Sullivan, Sandeep Kanumuri
  • Publication number: 20250159170
    Abstract: Innovations in use of chroma quantization parameter (“QP”) offsets when determining a control parameter for deblock filtering. For example, as part of encoding, an encoder sets a picture-level chroma QP offset and slice-level chroma QP offset for encoding of a slice of a picture. The encoder also performs deblock filtering of at least part of the slice, where derivation of a control parameter considers only the picture-level chroma QP offset. The encoder outputs at least part of a bitstream including the encoded content. As part of decoding, a corresponding decoder sets a picture-level chroma QP offset and a slice-level chroma QP offset for decoding of a slice of a picture, but derivation of a control parameter for deblock filtering considers only the picture-level chroma QP offset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2025
    Publication date: May 15, 2025
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Gary J. Sullivan
  • Patent number: 12296178
    Abstract: A device for implantation in a patient may include an electrode arrays configured to apply at least one electrical pulse to an excitable tissue, the electrode array including at least one electrode; connector contacts, each integrally wired to a particular electrode array, each configured to drive the at least one electrode of the particular electrode array integrally wired thereto with the at least one electrical pulse; a first antenna configured to: receive, from a second antenna and through electrical radiative coupling, an input signal containing electrical energy, the second antenna located outside the patient's body; and one or more circuits electrically connected to the first antenna and the connector contacts, the circuits configured to: create the one or more electrical pulses suitable for stimulation of the excitable tissue by using the electrical energy contained in the input signal; and supply the one or more electrical pulses to the connector contacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: CURONIX LLC
    Inventors: Laura Tyler Perryman, Chad David Andresen
  • Patent number: 12295789
    Abstract: Provided in the present application is an ultrasonic probe, including: an ultrasonic transducer configured to send/receive an ultrasonic signal; a housing including a top plate and a side wall that collectively define a cavity with an opening located below the cavity, wherein a top portion of the ultrasonic transducer is configured to be accommodated in the cavity via the opening; and an elastic element accommodated in the cavity, the elastic element being connected to the top portion of the ultrasonic transducer and the top plate of the housing, and the elastic element being configured to provide an elastic force to the ultrasonic transducer to enable part of the ultrasonic transducer to retract and spring back within the cavity. Further provided in the present application are a scanning assembly including the ultrasonic probe and an ultrasonic imaging device including the scanning assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: GE Precision Healthcare LLC
    Inventors: Lu Jin, Qiang Yao, Liping Chen, Sheng Xu
  • Patent number: 12298037
    Abstract: A system for delivering inactivated pathogens to an enclosure includes an air delivery system, the air delivery system comprising: (a) an air intake; (b) an air conditioning unit; (c) an air mover; (d) a UVC disinfection unit; (e) an enclosure; (f) an enclosure air entry vent; (g) an enclosure air discharge vent; and (h) an air circulation pathway going from the air intake through an air duct connected at one end to the air intake and at a second end to the enclosure air entry vent that opens into the enclosure, wherein the air duct provides a passageway through the air delivery system. A pathogen loading inlet is connected to the air circulation pathway. The enclosure is a room, a nursing home, an airplane, a train, a ship, or a critical care unit in a hospital. The enclosure can also be a free-standing and/or mobile unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: PERUMALA HOLDINGS, LLC
    Inventor: Madhavan Pisharodi
  • Patent number: 12298986
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for ranking search results and generating a presentation. In some implementations, a search system generates a presentation based on a search query. In some implementations, a search system ranks search results based on data stored in a knowledge graph. In some implementations, a search system identifies a modifying concept such as a superlative in a received search query, and determines ranking properties based on the modifying concept.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Chen Zhou, Chen Ding, David Francois Huynh, JinYu Lou, Yanlai Huang, Hongda Shen, Guanghua Li, Yiming Li, Yangyang Chai
  • Patent number: 12300840
    Abstract: A battery holding and dispensing device can hold a plurality of batteries, in a single battery size or an assortment of battery sizes. The battery holding and dispensing device includes a frame having a plurality of compartments sized and shaped to each receive a battery of a particular battery size and each having a magnetic insert for releasably retaining the battery in the compartment. A system is disclosed for inductive charging of batteries held in a caddy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: Tools Aviation, LLC.
    Inventor: Richard W Foreman
  • Patent number: 12298453
    Abstract: An in-core detector configured to measure a power distribution in a nuclear reactor is disclosed herein. The in-core detector includes a housing configured to be placed within a predetermined location of the nuclear reactor and a plurality of a gamma detectors. Each gamma detector of the plurality of gamma detectors includes a Schottky diode including an active semiconductor region and a Schottky contact, an Ohmic contact, a photoelectron source material configured to transfer electrons to the active region upon contact with gamma radiation, and a first and second lead. The plurality of gamma detectors are positioned within the housing such that each gamma detector of the plurality of gamma detectors is radially offset relative to an adjacent gamma detector of the plurality of gamma detectors, such that the first and second leads of each gamma detector are offset relative to the first and second leads of the adjacent gamma detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: Westinghouse Electric Company LLC
    Inventors: Michael D. Heibel, Jeffrey L. Arndt
  • Patent number: 12297042
    Abstract: A storage receptacle can include a storage bin and a pedal mounted to the receptacle as well as a hopper. A method of using the storage receptacle can include receiving a force on a hopper handle of a hopper of a storage receptacle, the hopper having a cable connection point connected to a cable, based on the force, rotating the hopper to enable a user to place material in a storage bin of the storage receptacle, wherein the rotating causes the cable to have slack and preventing the cable having the slack from coming out of a groove in a pulley via a shroud positioned over at least a portion of the pulley.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: BIG BELLY SOLAR LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey T. Satwicz, Kevin Menice, David J. Skocypec, Thomas Olsen, Brian Phillips, Michael E. Feldman
  • Patent number: 12302476
    Abstract: A load control system controls an electrical load provided in a space and comprises a load control device and one or more occupancy sensors. The load control device controls the load in response to the wireless control signals received from the occupancy sensors. Each occupancy sensor transmits an occupied control signal to the load control device in response to detecting an occupancy condition in the space and a vacant control signal to the load control device in response to detecting a vacancy condition. The load control device turns on the load in response to receiving the occupied control signal from at least one of the occupancy sensors, and turns off the load in response to receiving vacant control signals from both of the occupancy sensors. The load control device is operable to determine that no wireless control signals have been received from the occupancy sensors for the length of a predetermined timeout period and to subsequently turn off the load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: Lutron Technology Company LLC
    Inventors: James P. Steiner, Andrew Peter Schmalz, Andrew Ryan Offenbacher, Adam J. Schrems, Brian Raymond Valenta
  • Patent number: 12301642
    Abstract: Systems and techniques are provided for a digital collaborative workspace system. The system includes a server network node having a processor and a database accessible thereto. The server network node can include logic to register a first display identification code (DIC) with a first network node, a second DIC with a second network node and a third DIC with a third network node. The server network node can detect an input from a second user identifying the shared workspace and the registered phone number or other identifier of the first user. The server network node can transmit this data to the third network node and in dependence upon receiving a selection of one or more of the first DIC, the second DIC, and the third DIC from the third network node, start a collaboration by sending the shared digital workspace to the network nodes registered with the selected DICs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: Bluescape Buyer LLC
    Inventor: Rupen Chanda
  • Patent number: 12298203
    Abstract: An apparatus for the continuous monitoring of a pipeline or a pipeline network carrying flowing media that can not only detect the presence of a leak but also locate the source of the leak through the use of rarefraction wave detection and methods of using the same is disclosed within. The apparatus and method are specifically configured to locate the leak source within less than 36 inches using a calibration means and a noise cancellation means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: Pipesense, LLC
    Inventors: Michael David Nash, Stuart Mitchell
  • Patent number: D1074395
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: Simple Living Solutions, LLC
    Inventor: Jamie Limber
  • Patent number: D1074717
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Erik Jay Salazar De Leon, Thomas Dohan, II, Xiang Lan, Min Jung Kim, Albert Berger, John Heiner, Vivian Wang, Jennifer L. Ellison
  • Patent number: D1074718
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Erik Jay Salazar De Leon, Thomas Dohan, II, Xiang Lan, Min Jung Kim, Albert Berger, John Heiner, Vivian Wang, Jennifer L. Ellison