Patents Assigned to LLC
  • Patent number: 11654484
    Abstract: A method of forming a part includes metal binder jet printing a first green component with a first attachment interface, de-powdering the first green component, assembling the first green component with a second component comprising a second attachment interface and forming an assembly such that the first attachment interface and the second attachment interface are adjacent to each other. The assembly is sintered such that volumetric shrinkage of at least the first green component creates a compressive force across the first attachment interface and the second attachment interface, and the compressive force across the first attachment interface and the second attachment interface and heat from the sintering results in a metallurgical bond across the first attachment interface and the second attachment interface such that a monolithic part is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: John Cornell, Mark Meinhart, Jason Powell, Wolfram Buschhaus
  • Patent number: 11655028
    Abstract: A method of surveying roads includes generating a dynamic flight plan for a drone using a vehicle traveling on a road as a target. The dynamic flight plan includes instructions for movement of the drone. The method includes controlling the drone as a function of position of the vehicle based on the dynamic flight plan. The method includes maintaining, based on the controlling, line of sight with the drone while the drone with an onboard camera follows the vehicle and captures images of the road being traveled by the vehicle using the onboard camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: General Motors LLC
    Inventors: Mohammed H. Al Qizwini, David H. Clifford
  • Patent number: 11653994
    Abstract: A therapeutic device includes a generally rigid but elastically deformable sheet body including a bridge portion, first and second support portions extending outwardly from the bridge portion in opposite directions along a longitudinal dimension, and adhesive or an adhesion member on a first surface along the bridge portion that is adapted for adhesion to skin of a user above a target site. The therapeutic device also includes first and second projections on the first surface proximate to lateral edges of the sheet body. The sheet body is configured to assume a neutral configuration in which the first and second projections space the bridge portion and the adhesive or the adhesion member apart from the target site by an air gap, a depressed position during affixation of the first surface to the target site, and an adhesion configuration after affixation of the first surface to the target site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: CARPAL AID, LLC
    Inventor: Joseph Nazari
  • Patent number: 11655821
    Abstract: A cutting blade assembly establishes a bidirectional and/or multifaceted scissor-type cutting action to efficiently and effectively process various types of debris encountered by the cutting blade assembly. The assembly includes a cutting plate and a cutting hub configured for relative rotation. A cutting slot is formed in the cutting plate and intersects the axial face to define a cutting edge at the intersection of the cutting slot and the axial face. The cutting hub has a cutting arm positioned adjacent to the axial face. When the cutting plate and the cutting hub undergo relative rotation, the cutting arm passes adjacent to the cutting edge to perform a scissor-type cutting action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: PENTAIR FLOW TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Shane Robert Vallen, Douglas Richard Rogers
  • Patent number: 11657087
    Abstract: A system includes a display, and a database including surgical videos, images of organs in a human body obtained from a medical imaging device, and images of disease in a human body obtained from the medical imaging device. A controller including a processor is coupled to memory, the database, and the display, and the memory stores information that when executed by the processor causes the system to perform operations. For example, the processor may determine first organ information from the images of the organs, and first disease information from the images of the disease. The processor my calculate a similarity score between the first organ information and the first disease information and second disease information and second organ information indexed to the surgical videos. The processor selects one or more of the surgical videos based on the similarity score, and displays the surgical videos on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Verily Life Sciences LLC
    Inventors: Martin Habbecke, Joƫlle K. Barral, Lin Yang, Xing Jin
  • Patent number: 11658661
    Abstract: A push button switch assembly for a vehicle includes an elastic button that is moveable between a first unactuated position and a second actuated position. An actuator is disposed adjacent a plate and is pivotable between a first position and a second position. The actuator includes a magnetic element. When the elastic button is in the first unactuated position the magnetic element biases the actuator into the first position, and when the elastic button is moved to the second actuated position, a force applied to the elastic button is transmitted to the actuator such that the force overcomes the magnetic attraction and permits the actuator to pivot to the second position while providing a tactile haptic response. When the actuator is moved to the second position, a hall sensor senses a change in the magnetic field of the magnetic element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: ARENS CONTROLS COMPANY, LLC
    Inventors: Roy F. Vollkommer, Andrew A. Vogel
  • Patent number: 11656948
    Abstract: Techniques described herein relate to a method for managing data protection services for data clusters. The method includes identifying, by a mapping module of a data protection manager, an initial discovery event associated with a data cluster; in response to identifying the discovery event, by the mapping module: sending a request for currently deployed components to a data cluster manager associated with the data cluster; obtaining data cluster component inventory information associated with the data cluster from the data cluster manager; mapping protection policy types to data cluster components of the data cluster using the data cluster component inventory information and component data protection information; and initiating performance of data protection services for the data cluster components based on the mapped protection policy types.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Mohammed Abdul Samad, Prakash Appayya Acharya, Shelesh Chopra
  • Patent number: 11659242
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to estimate an audience population. An example apparatus includes at least one memory; instructions in the apparatus; and processor circuitry to execute the instructions to: determine whether respective ones of respondents are associated with a characteristic; detect unique instances of the respective ones of the respondents; in response to the respective ones of the respondents being associated with the characteristic, increase a sample capture count by one; in response to detecting the unique instances of the respective ones of the respondents exhibiting the characteristic, increase a unique capture count by one; determine a seed population estimate based on the unique capture count; and determine a population estimate having the characteristic based on the sample capture count, the unique capture count, the seed population estimate, and a number of available samples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Michael Sheppard, Ludo Daemen, Edward Murphy, Molly Poppie
  • Patent number: 11653691
    Abstract: A sensor apparatus may include a conduit structure including an inner surface defining a conduit extending through an interior of the conduit structure, an inlet structure coupled to an end of the conduit structure, and a plurality of sensor devices in hydrodynamic contact with the conduit. The inlet structure may couple with an outlet end of an external tobacco element to hold the outlet end of the external tobacco element in fluid communication with an inlet opening of the conduit structure, such that the conduit structure may receive a generated aerosol from the external tobacco element at the inlet opening, and draw an instance of aerosol through the conduit towards an outlet opening. The instance of aerosol may include at least a portion of the generated aerosol. Each sensor device may generate sensor data indicating a pressure of the instance of aerosol through a separate portion of the conduit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Altria Client Services LLC
    Inventors: Georgios Karles, Jeffery S. Edmiston, William A. Rees, David B. Kane
  • Patent number: 11657209
    Abstract: For generating visual enhancement suggestions for source content, a system performs storing, in a data storage, a plurality of context data sets, each context data set including a set of visual enhancements and a context for selecting the set of visual enhancements; receiving the source content including source content data and source attribute data; providing, to an artificial intelligence (AI) engine, the received source content, the AI engine configured to select, based on the source content and the context data sets, a first set of visual enhancements and apply the selected first set of visual enhancements to the source content to generate a first visual enhancement suggestion for the source content; extracting, from the AI engine, the first visual enhancement suggestion; and causing the first visual enhancement suggestion to be displayed via a display of a user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Ji Li
  • Patent number: 11657036
    Abstract: In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a memory associated with an instance of a distributed database at a compute device configured to be included within a first group of compute devices. The apparatus is configured to determine an order for each event from the set of events based on different configurations of an event consensus protocol. The different configurations are logically related to different configurations of compute devices that implement the distributed database. The apparatus is configured to determine a current state of the instance of the distributed database based on the order determined for each event from the set of events and generate a signed state associated with the instance of the distributed database based on a hash value associated with the current state. The apparatus sends a signal to post into the instance of the distributed database an event that includes a transaction indicative of the signed state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Hedera Hashgraph, LLC
    Inventor: Leemon C. Baird, III
  • Patent number: D986584
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: The Gillette Company LLC
    Inventors: Rory Frederick Wellington McGarry, Christopher Ramm, Brian Patrick Watson, Oliver Felix Grabes
  • Patent number: D986792
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Wheel Pros LLC
    Inventor: Eric Greiving
  • Patent number: D986811
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations, LLC
    Inventors: Richard S. Parr, David M. Severyn
  • Patent number: D986844
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Boucquey, Matias Conti
  • Patent number: D986865
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: BobjGear, LLC
    Inventor: Robert James Shannon, III
  • Patent number: D986907
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventor: Christopher Norman
  • Patent number: D986965
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Packaging Technology Group, LLC
    Inventors: William C. Blezard, Muhammad Kashif Azeem
  • Patent number: D986999
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: PARSONS XTREME GOLF, LLC
    Inventor: Matthew T. Andrews
  • Patent number: D987179
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: GIG PROPERTIES LLC
    Inventor: Michael Broussard