Patents Assigned to LLC
  • Patent number: 12298975
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosed technologies include receiving a first query including at least one first query term and configuring at least one prompt to cause a large language model to translate the at least one first query term into a set of functions that can be executed to obtain at least one second query term and generate and output a plan that is executable to create a modified version of the first query based on the at least one second query term. The plan is obtained by applying the large language model to the at least one prompt as configured. The plan is executed to determine the at least one second query term and create the modified version of the first query. The modified version of the first query is executed to provide, via the user interface, a response to the first query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Manish R. Baldua, Daniel K. Hewlett, Gregory E. Pounds, Xie Lu, Jonathan Pohl, Peter Rigano
  • Patent number: 12298967
    Abstract: A system can include one or more processors and one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computing instructions that, when executed on the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations: receiving a new notification; determining, using a binary search algorithm, a number of one or more notifications, wherein an interval of the binary search algorithm comprises a time period between a reclamation pointer and an ingestion pointer; when the number of the one or more notifications is greater than a maximum number of notifications, removing, from a central data store, at least one notification of the one or more notifications; and storing the new notification in the central data store. Other embodiments are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: WALMART APOLLO, LLC
    Inventors: Sandeep Malik, Chintan Pankajkumar Shah
  • Patent number: 12299643
    Abstract: Examples provide acceptance-based meeting insights and action recommendations associated with a meeting prior to a scheduled occurrence of the meeting using meeting invitee responses. A meeting insights manager analyzes meeting response data for meeting invitees a threshold time-period prior to the start time of the meeting. A score is generated based on the number of accept and decline responses received from the invitees. A meeting insights notification including a recommended action is generated and provided to the meeting organizer if the score indicates an insufficient number of invitees have accepted the meeting invitation. The recommendation includes a recommendation to cancel the meeting, reschedule the meeting and/or send a reminder to unresponsive meeting invitees. A recommendation to reschedule can include one or more proposed alternative meeting times for use in rescheduling the meeting. The recommendation is selected based on the amount of time remaining until the scheduled start of the meeting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC.
    Inventor: Yaming Liu
  • Patent number: 12297647
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides embodiments of a kit for supplying reinforced porcelain panel products for use in shower enclosures. In an embodiment, a kit includes a container and one or more reinforced porcelain panel products positioned to be associated with a container. Each of the reinforced porcelain panel products includes a) a porcelain slab having a top surface with a first surface area, and b) a structural core board including a foam-core material and having a second surface area greater than the first surface area of the porcelain slab. The structural core board is positioned in abutting contact with the porcelain slab with adhesive material therebetween. The structural core board extends beyond outer peripheries of the porcelain slab to be visible and to enhance protection from cracking when the reinforced porcelain panel product is handled and is further to be attached to a mounting surface when installed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2025
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: Moderno Porcelain Works, LLC
    Inventors: Roberto Contreras, Armin Thomas Deutsch
  • Patent number: 12301060
    Abstract: An example rotor includes a rotor yoke having an outer circumference and an inner circumference. The rotor further includes a plurality of rotor ribs on a surface the rotor yoke and extending between the outer circumference and the inner circumference. The rotor further includes a plurality of magnets, each of the plurality of magnets being disposed adjacent to and between two of the plurality of rotor ribs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Jian Yao, Vincent Fedida, Alan G. Holmes, Chengwu Duan, Yusheng Zou
  • Patent number: 12296839
    Abstract: A system for learning-model predictive control (LMPC) with multi-step prediction for motion control of a vehicle includes sensors and actuators. One or more control modules each having a processor, a memory, and input/output (I/O) ports are in communication with the sensors and actuators, the processor executing program code portions stored in the memory. The program code portions cause the sensors and actuators to obtain vehicle state information, receive a driver input, and generate a desired dynamic output based on the driver input and the vehicle state information. A program code portion estimates actions of the actuators based on the vehicle state information and the driver input, and utilizes the vehicle state information, the driver input, and the estimated actions of the actuators to select one or more models of a physics-based vehicle model and a machine-learning model of the vehicle to selectively adjust commands to the actuators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignees: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Amir Khajepour, Chao Yu, Yubiao Zhang, Qingrong Zhao, SeyedAlireza Kasaiezadeh Mahabadi
  • Patent number: 12301024
    Abstract: A device for inductively charging an electronic accessory includes a first portion, a second portion, and a spacer. The first portion includes a first transmission coil in a first plane where the first transmission coil is configured to generate a first magnetic field, and the second portion includes a first transmission coil in a second plane where the second transmission coil is configured to generate a second magnetic field. The spacer is positioned between the first transmission coil and the second transmission coil and between the first plane and the second plane. The spacer material magnetically insulates the second transmission coil from the first magnetic field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Casey Sean Callan, Stefan Jon Kristjansson, Daniel Thomas Nevistic, George Karavaev, Michael Francis Deily, David William Voth, Srinivas Reddy Nagampet
  • Patent number: 12299196
    Abstract: The various implementations described herein include methods and systems for tracking user movements. In one aspect, a method includes, while a user is interacting with a virtual object, obtaining tracking information by tracking, via a sensor, a position of an arm of a user. The method also includes, in conjunction with tracking the position of the arm, obtaining wrist information by detecting, via a neuromuscular-signal sensor, a movement of a wrist of the arm. The method further includes assigning one or more motion characteristics to the virtual object in accordance with the tracking information and the wrist information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Peter Walkington, Zaina Edelson
  • Patent number: 12296785
    Abstract: A seat system includes a seat having a seatback and a seat bottom extending in a seat-forward direction from the seatback. A seatbelt retractor is mounted to the seatback and an anchor is carried by the seat bottom and movable seat-rearward and seat-forward between a retracted position and an extended position. A seatbelt webbing extends from the seatbelt retractor and is attached to the anchor. An actuator is operatively coupled to the anchor to move the anchor between the retracted position and the extended position. A lock is operable to selectively retain the anchor in the retracted position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Dean M. Jaradi, S.M. Iskander Farooq, Mohammad Omar Faruque
  • Patent number: 12297025
    Abstract: A connector assembly controllably couples a box having a plurality of containers containing a liquid, is provided. Each container has a fitment. The connector assembly includes a housing, a valve assembly, actuator and a locking plate. The valve assembly includes a plurality of fitment receptacles. The actuator is rotatably coupled to the housing and is movable between an open position, a closed position and an engaged position. The locking plate assembly includes a plurality of opening corresponding to each fitment. The opening has a first diameter when the actuator is in the open position. The first diameter of the opening is configured to allow entry of the fitments into the opening. Movement of the actuator from the open position to the closed position closes the opening to a second diameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: Bar Evolution LLC
    Inventors: Peter DeRaedt, Bernd Witzany, Felix Ballendat
  • Patent number: 12301615
    Abstract: Some embodiments help protect an organization against ransomware attacks by combining incrimination logics. An organizational-level incrimination logic helps detect alert spikes across many machines, which collectively indicate an attack. Graph-based incrimination logics help detect infestations of even a few machines, and local incrimination logics focus on protecting respective individual machines. Graph-based incrimination logics may compare monitored system graphs to known ransomware attack graphs. Graphs may have devices as nodes and device network connectivity, repeated files, repeated processes or actions, or other connections as edges. Statistical analyses and machine learning models may be employed as incrimination logics. Search logics may find additional incrimination candidates that would otherwise evade detection, based on files, processes, IP addresses, devices, accounts, or other computational entities previously incriminated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Arie Agranonik, Shay Kels, Amir Rubin, Charles Edouard Elie Bettan, Yair Tsarfaty, Itai Kollmann Dekel
  • Patent number: 12296213
    Abstract: A fire suppression system has a tank unit (40, 42, 44, 46). A tank body has a first port and an interior for storing at least one of fire suppressant and driver gas. A discharge assembly is mounted to the first port and has a discharge valve (50, 52) and a first monitoring switch or sensor (230 240) having a normally closed output (532) and a normally open output (534). A first monitoring system (100) is coupled to one of the normally closed output and the normally open output. A second monitoring system (340) is coupled to the other of the normally closed output and the normally open output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: Kidde-Fenwal, LLC
    Inventors: Marcin Piech, Thomas Carl Kjellman
  • Patent number: 12296744
    Abstract: An accessory attachment system includes a baseplate that provides an attachment interface on a support surface. The baseplate is configured to engage with at least one accessory via the attachment interface to secure the accessory to the support surface. The attachment interface provides a plurality of different mounting positions for the at least one accessory. At least one mounting foot is associated with the at least one accessory and is configured to be selectively coupled to the attachment interface to provide a desired one of the plurality of different mounting positions. The at least one mounting foot includes an adjustment feature to account for any warpage of the support surface when the at least one accessory is mounted in the desired one of the plurality of different mounting positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Stuart C. Salter, Matthew B. Rutman, Michael M. Azzouz, Michael Lozano, Jeffrey R. Sturges, William Wurz, David Brian Glickman, Eric Scott Levine
  • Patent number: 12301378
    Abstract: A load control system may include control devices for controlling power provided to an electrical load. The control devices may include a control-source device and a control-target device. The control-target device may control the power provided to the electrical load based on digital messages received from the control-source device. The control devices may include a load control discovery device capable of sending discovery messages configured to discover control devices within a location. The discovered control devices may be organized by signal strength and may be provided to a network device to enable association of the discovered control devices within a location. The discovery messages may be transmitted within an established discovery range. The discovery range may be adjusted to discover different control devices. Different control devices may be identified as the load control discovery device for discovering different control devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: Lutron Technology Company LLC
    Inventors: Kyle Thomas Barco, Bryan Robert Barnes, Erica L Clymer, Brian Michael Courtney, Jordan H. Crafts, William Bryce Fricke, Galen Edgar Knode, Sanjeev Kumar, Jonathan T. Lenz, Stephen M. Ludwig, Jr., Sandeep Mudabail Raghuram, Richard M. Walsh, III
  • Patent number: 12298760
    Abstract: A method for optimizing a vehicle system involves using a neural network to optimize at least one operating parameter of a transmission portion of a continuously variable powertrain based at least in part on a classified current state of a vehicle, wherein the current state is associated with a predicted future vehicle state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: STRONG FORCE TP PORTFOLIO 2022, LLC
    Inventor: Charles Howard Cella
  • Patent number: 12300059
    Abstract: Consumer operated kiosks for recycling electronic devices are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, the kiosk includes a rotatable inspection plate configured to receive an electronic device when the inspection plate is in a first position. The kiosk can include a camera having a field of view including at least a portion of the inspection plate. The kiosk can include a wired and/or wireless connectivity device configured to connect to the electronic device and one or more processors configured to: receive characteristic information about the electronic device via the wired and/or wireless connectivity device; cause the inspection plate to rotate to a second position; receive one or more images of the electronic device via the camera when the inspection plate is in the second position; and facilitate determination of an offer price for the electronic device based at least in part on the characteristic information and the one or more images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: ecoATM, LLC
    Inventors: Babak Forutanpour, Jeffrey Ploetner, Robert O'Neil, Neil Vesco
  • Patent number: D1074381
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: GEM Products, LLC
    Inventor: Jason Sarnowski
  • Patent number: D1074712
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Jesse Hong Lee, Mohamad Hasan Ahmadi, John Oliver Por, Dhruva Bhaswar, Tina Lin Zeng, John Taechin Lee, Stephanie Ann Brisendine, Ajay Subramanyam, Justin Gabriel Donnelly
  • Patent number: D1074750
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: H&SMotorsports, LLC
    Inventor: Zane Koch
  • Patent number: D1074956
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: Zachary Alan Designs LLC
    Inventor: Zachary Alan Smith