Patents Assigned to LLC
  • Patent number: 11655848
    Abstract: Systems and methods related to hydrodynamic bearings for use in X-ray sources are provided. In one aspect, a hydrodynamic bearing system includes a sleeve assembly including a cross-member fluidically dividing a first interior cavity from a second interior cavity, a first shaft positioned in the first interior cavity, and a second shaft positioned in the second interior cavity. The hydrodynamic bearing system may further include a first journal bearing including a first fluid interface surrounding at least a portion of the first cantilever shaft and configured to support radial loads and a second journal bearing including a second fluid interface surrounding at least a portion of the second cantilever shaft and configured to support radial loads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: GE Precision Healthcare LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Triscari, Ian Hunt
  • Patent number: 11655005
    Abstract: A control device for a bicycle has a housing configured to be mountable to the bicycle and sized and shaped to be grasped by a user's hand and a battery receptacle positioned on the housing. The housing has a base portion and an extension portion. The base portion includes first and second ends, a downward facing side, an upward facing side, an inward facing side, an outward facing side, and a handlebar clamp disposed at the first end. A battery receptacle is positioned on a first side, which can be the downward facing side, of the base portion of the housing. An accessory port can be positioned on a second side of the base portion of the housing, different from the first side, and which can be the inward or outward facing side of the base portion of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: SRAM, LLC
    Inventors: Rachel Cahan, Doug Mahoney
  • Patent number: 11654371
    Abstract: A system of classifying game styles may track a play of a user of one or more media content. The tracked play of the user of one or more media content may be analyzed to characterize the play of the user based on one or more categories of user gameplay style. A plurality of categories of user gameplay style may be selected to be displayed as a visual display of the user gameplay style. The visual display of the user gameplay style may be compared to one or more visual displays of characteristics of other media content. A recommendation for other media content that share similar characteristics to the user gameplay style may be generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT LLC
    Inventor: Sarah Karp
  • Patent number: 11657653
    Abstract: A lottery ticket dispensing system includes a cabinet housing and a lottery ticket array insertable into the cabinet housing. The array includes a plurality of individual bins in a stacked configuration. A dispensing unit is inserted into each of the bins and includes a ticket compartment in which a continuous strip of lottery tickets is contained and an automatic separation module in which a leading ticket of the continuous strip of lottery tickets is automatically separated and dispensed from the bin. The bins are connected together in the stacked configuration such that the lottery ticket array is insertable into and removable from the cabinet housing as a single unit. The stacked configuration has opposite sides defined by the sides of the bins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Scientific Games, LLC
    Inventors: Sten Hallundbaek Mejenborg, James Jonathan Holbrook, Mark Andrew Thompson, Ian Robert Scott
  • Patent number: 11655090
    Abstract: A film package with a resealable access opening providing improved access to the package contents is provided. The film package may include a tray, frame, or other reinforcing structure containing or holding discrete articles disposed in a row, column, or array, a flexible film forming at least a top of the film package, an access opening disposed at least in the top defined by a cut in the film, and a sealing layer adhesively sealed to the film or a remainder of the film around the access opening. In one embodiment, the access cut forming the access opening into the film has an expanded portion that extends outward from the remainder of the access cut to facilitate easier removal of the discrete articles within the package. To further improve access, the tray may have an opening or window therein to permit the discrete articles to move longitudinally and/or laterally therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Intercontinental Great Brands LLC
    Inventors: Kristi M. Halgren, Carole A. Vogt
  • Patent number: 11658774
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for determining a resource field that carries feedback information. One apparatus (200) includes a transmitter (210) that transmits (502) data. The apparatus (200) includes a processor (202) that determines (504), based on transmission of the data, a resource field that carries feedback information corresponding to the data. The resource field is contained in control signaling. The apparatus (200) includes a receiver (212) that receives (506) the control signaling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventors: Haipeng Lei, Chenxi Zhu
  • Patent number: 11657044
    Abstract: In various example embodiments, a system and methods are presented for converting query structures for information retrieval from graph-based data structures. The systems and methods receive a natural language query including a set of terms and generate an intermediate semantic relationship of the set of terms of the natural language query. The systems and methods generate a graph query including graph terms corresponding to the set of terms of the natural language query defined by a graph database. The systems and methods search one or more datasets associated with the graph database using the graph query and return a set of results based on the graph query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: PAREXEL International, LLC
    Inventors: Kevin Reschke, Ben Peloquin, Christopher Potts, Tharun Paul
  • Patent number: 11657527
    Abstract: Generating edge-depth values for an object, utilizing the edge-depth values in generating a 3D point cloud for the object, and utilizing the generated 3D point cloud for generating a 3D bounding shape (e.g., 3D bounding box) for the object. Edge-depth values for an object are depth values that are determined from frame(s) of vision data (e.g., left/right images) that captures the object, and that are determined to correspond to an edge of the object (an edge from the perspective of frame(s) of vision data). Techniques that utilize edge-depth values for an object (exclusively, or in combination with other depth values for the object) in generating 3D bounding shapes can enable accurate 3D bounding shapes to be generated for partially or fully transparent objects. Such increased accuracy 3D bounding shapes directly improve performance of a robot that utilizes the 3D bounding shapes in performing various tasks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: X DEVELOPMENT LLC
    Inventors: Yunfei Bai, Yuanzheng Gong
  • Patent number: 11655550
    Abstract: An ink formulation and electrode that enhances hydrogen production, oxygen production, carbon dioxide reduction and other electrocatalytic reactions. Embodiments include an ink formulation with polymer binders having different catalytical precursors and a 3D electrode produced by additive manufacturing from the inventor's ink formulation. Various embodiments of the inventor's apparatus, systems, and methods provide inks that that are 3D-printed into patterns that optimize surface area and flow. The catalytic materials are imbedded into the ink matrix which is then printed into a 3D structure that has architecture that optimizes surface area and flow properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC
    Inventors: Siwei Liang, Sarah E. Baker, Theodore F. Baumann, Eric B. Duoss, Christopher M. Spadaccini, Cheng Zhu
  • Patent number: 11654517
    Abstract: A fastener welding apparatus having a frame assembly, a welding assembly, a coupling assembly and a locating assembly. The welding assembly has a welder frame and a welding electrode assembly coupled thereto. The coupling assembly has a suspension frame, a frame axle and a welding axle. The frame axle is fixedly engaged to the frame assembly and the welding axle is fixedly engaged to the welding assembly. The suspension frame is pivotably coupled to each of the frame axle and the welding axle. The locating assembly is structurally configured to selectively allow the suspension frame to pivot relative to the frame axle and the welding axle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: JR Automation Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Seth Reenders, Heath Lynnes, Robb Ripley
  • Patent number: 11655752
    Abstract: An engine system includes a charge-air cooler, a separator for separating water from an airflow, and an engine. The separator causes an airflow from the charge-air cooler to strike one or more partitions and change directions via a serpentine path such that water is separated out of the airflow before the airflow reaches the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Shawn Michael Spannbauer, Shuya Shark Yamada, Stephen George Russ
  • Patent number: 11657415
    Abstract: A system and method for online user feedback management are provided. The method includes receiving online user feedbacks for a product from a plurality of users. A plurality of topics for the product are identified from the online user feedbacks. For each topic, the received online user feedbacks are categorized into a plurality of groups based on a rating score provided in each online user feedback for the product and semantic analysis of each online user feedback for the product. A net promoter score (NPS) uplift for each topic is calculated, where the NPS uplift measures an improvement in a NPS for the product if issues related to the topic are resolved. A priority topic is identified based on the NPS uplift for each of the topics. The priority topic is then prioritized in resolving issues related to the topics included in the online user feedbacks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Manoj Kumar Rawat, Gregory Lawrence Brake, Christopher Lawrence Laterza, Erfan Najmi, Andres Felipe Salcedo, Jin Luo
  • Patent number: 11656766
    Abstract: A temporal correlation may be determined between times specified according to different time standards on different storage network components. A host system may poll a storage system periodically. In response to each poll request, the storage system may respond with the current time on the storage system (CST) according to the time standard of the storage system. The host system may store temporal correlation information (TCI) associating the CST and the current time on the host system (CHT) according to the time standard of the host system. A data structure (TCT) may be provided, where each entry may specify TCI for a CST/CHT pair, the TCI including the CST, CHT and other information corresponding to the temporal correlation between the pair. The TCI may be used to correlate the time of a phenomenon according to the host system time standard to a time according to the storage system time standard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: John R. Lynch, Arieh Don
  • Patent number: 11656865
    Abstract: Techniques are described herein that are capable of providing source control of custom code in a backend-as-a-service (BaaS) module. For instance, the custom code may be automatically loaded dynamically (e.g., on-demand) in a runtime that is hosted by the BaaS module while the runtime is running to provide custom backend features that are defined by the custom code to an application in response to receipt of a request from the application. Source control of the custom code may be provided without providing source control of host code that defines the runtime.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Henrik Frystyk Nielsen, Chen Egozi, Jason M. Allor
  • Patent number: 11656950
    Abstract: Techniques involve: acquiring a first source snapshot for a source storage object stored in a source storage device; determining first difference data between the first source snapshot and the source storage object or a second source snapshot for the source storage object, creation time of the first source snapshot being associated with creation time of the second source snapshot; and sending the first difference data to a destination storage device to enable the destination storage device to create a first destination snapshot for a destination storage object stored in the destination storage device based on the first difference data. Such techniques can migrate snapshots more efficiently to improve storage management efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Jian Kang, Chenglin Li, Ruiyang Zhang, Mingyi Luo, Hongyuan Zeng
  • Patent number: 11657650
    Abstract: Techniques for distinguishing objects (e.g., an individual or an individual pushing a shopping cart) are disclosed. An object is detected in images of a scene. A height map is generated from the images, and the object is represented as height values in the height map. Based on height properties associated with another object, it is determined whether the other object is associated with the object. If so determined, the objects are classified separately.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Sensormatic Electronics, LLC
    Inventors: Zhiqian Wang, Edward A. Marcheselli, Gary Dispensa, Thomas D. Stemen, William C. Kastilahn
  • Patent number: 11658544
    Abstract: A rotor for an electric motor includes a rotor core defining a first face, a second face, and an opening extending from the first face to the second face. The rotor also includes an output shaft received by the opening of the rotor core and a valve disposed within a passageway of the output shaft. The valve controls a flowrate of the coolant and is actuated into a fully opened position at a maximum operating temperature of the rotor. The valve includes a stem having a first end portion and a second end portion, a plug disposed at the first end portion of the stem, a valve seat disposed opposite to the plug, and a shape memory alloy actuator that expands to urge the stem of the valve and the plug away from the valve seat and into the fully opened position at the maximum operating temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Wonhee Michael Kim, SeungHwan Keum
  • Patent number: 11656526
    Abstract: A switchable light-collimating film can be used as a privacy filter for computer monitors or other display devices. The film comprises a plurality of elongated chambers having pigment particles, the position of which can be controlled by the applied electric field. Distribution of the pigment particles throughout the elongated chambers, as opposed to their concentration on one side of the chambers, narrows the viewing angle to the light passing through the film and provides privacy of the viewing images to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: E Ink California, LLC
    Inventors: Craig Lin, Xiaolong Zheng, Yih-Ming Kang, HongMei Zang
  • Patent number: 11657456
    Abstract: Provided is a system to allocate resources using an information technology infrastructure. The system receives financial and health data of a participant. The system identifies a healthcare expense prediction model to predict the future healthcare expenses of the participant. The system determines from the prediction model using the multi-dimensional feature vector of the participant, the predicted lifetime healthcare expenses of the participant. The system identifies lifetime non-healthcare expenses of the participant. The system identifies a healthcare tax benefit account to provide funds towards the predicted lifetime healthcare expenses and a non-healthcare tax benefit account to provide funds towards lifetime non-healthcare expenses. The system determines a first amount of funds to allocate to the healthcare tax benefit account and a second amount of funds to allocate to the non-healthcare tax benefit account. The system provides the first and second amount of funds to an interactive user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Alegeus Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Jennifer Irwin, John Bull, Steven Auerbach
  • Patent number: 11658840
    Abstract: A load control system may include control devices for controlling power provided to an electrical load. The control devices may include an input device and a load control device. The load control system may include a hub device. The hub device may include a communication circuit and a control circuit. The communication circuit may be configured to receive a digital message from the control device. The control circuit may be configured to determine, based on content of the digital message, whether the control device has experienced a power removal event. The hub device may send, via the communication circuit, a power removal event indication to the control device of whether the control device has experienced the power removal event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Lutron Technology Company LLC
    Inventors: Ankit Bhutani, Timothy Mann, David T. Saveri, III