Patents Assigned to LLC
  • Patent number: 12279629
    Abstract: A mixing vessel for a frozen drink maker is described. The mixing vessel includes a curved sidewall defining a substantially cylindrical vessel chamber therein. The vessel chamber includes a front, a rear, a right side, a left side, and a top. The mixing vessel also includes at least one internal baffle configured to control slush flow within the vessel chamber. The at least one internal baffle may be a corner baffle positioned at the front top of the vessel chamber on either the right side or the left side, a side baffle extending laterally along the vessel chamber from the front to the rear, and/or a front baffle positioned at the front of the vessel chamber extending across the top from the right side to the left side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: SharkNinja Operating LLC
    Inventors: Michael Lerman, Macrae Benziger, Alexander Mularski, Vipul Mone
  • Patent number: 12283805
    Abstract: A bus bar assembly includes a first housing; a first bus bar extending through the first housing; a second bus bar extending through the first housing, the second bus bar including a second housing that defines at least one first receiver configured to engage a fastener; and a sensor assembly mounted to the receiver, the sensor assembly including a current sensor positioned between the first bus bar and the second bus bar. The sensor assembly may not include a magnetic core, and the current sensor may be a coreless sensor configured to detect a current through the bus bar assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: BorgWarner US Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Mark Alan Ebenhart, Kirk E. McClure
  • Patent number: 12281459
    Abstract: A microtrench gravel installer configured to install gravel into a microtrench at a precise gravel layer thickness using a gravel leveler and/or a premeasured gravel box. A hot patch fill wand and box surrounding the wand configured for installing a hot patch fill sealant into a microtrench. A method of filling and sealing a microtrench containing an optical fiber and/or innerduct/microduct using the microtrench gravel installer to precisely fill a microtrench to a desired gravel layer thickness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: CCIIP LLC
    Inventor: Angelo J. Pino, Jr.
  • Patent number: 12280698
    Abstract: A structural shroud assembly for a passenger seat includes a structural shroud having a first end, a second end opposite from the first end, and a central cavity between the first end and the second end. An armrest pivot may be supported at the first end of the structural shroud. In some cases, the structural shroud may be an armrest. In other cases, the structural shroud is an upper spreader for the passenger seat configured to support a seat back of the passenger seat, and a lower spreader configured to receive at least one seat beam tube is attached to the upper spreader.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Safran Seats USA LLC
    Inventors: Romain Tranier, Anthony Tran
  • Patent number: 12284164
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including a method for preventing fraud. In some aspects, a method includes: receiving, from multiple client devices, a measurement data element that includes a respective group member key and a group identifier for a given conversion as a result of displaying a digital component. Each client device uses a threshold encryption scheme to generate, based at least on network data that includes one or more of impression data or conversion data for the conversion, a group key that defines a secret for encrypting the network data and generate, based on data related to the application, the respective group member key that includes a respective share of the secret. In response to determining that at least the threshold number of measurement data elements having the same group identifier have been received, the network data is decrypted using the group member keys in the received measurement data elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Gang Wang, Marcel M. Moti Yung
  • Patent number: 12282511
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide for a database container orchestrator system for deploying and managing containerized databases running on a computing platform. A system can include a database daemon for translating first commands, such as remote procedure calls, into second commands, such as queries built from SQL statements, which cause the database to retrieve data or perform other functions otherwise unavailable to an application incompatible with the database. The first commands received by the database daemon can be defined by an interface of a computing platform running containers for both the database and the database daemon. The interface can be an Application Programming Interface (API), which can include definitions of commands for starting, configuring, and running a containerized database, regardless of the different codebases represented by the containerized database and other applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Boris Dali, Hao Hu
  • Patent number: 12284208
    Abstract: Embodiments provide system and methods for a DDoS service using a mix of mitigation systems (also called scrubbing centers) and non-mitigation systems. The non-mitigation systems are less expensive and thus can be placed at or near a customer's network resource (e.g., a computer, cluster of computers, or entire network). Under normal conditions, traffic for a customer's resource can go through a mitigation system or a non-mitigation system. When an attack is detected, traffic that would have otherwise gone through a non-mitigation system is re-routed to a mitigation system. Thus, the non-mitigation systems can be used to reduce latency and provide more efficient access to the customer's network resource during normal conditions. Since the non-mitigation servers are not equipped to respond to an attack, the non-mitigation systems are not used during an attack, thereby still providing protection to the customer network resource using the mitigation systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Smith, Shawn Marck, Christopher Newton
  • Patent number: 12282112
    Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to a phased array antenna calibration system. The system includes a radio frequency (RF) probe configured to transmit and receive an RF signal, a probe layer coupled to the RF probe via a transmission line layer and configured to transmit or receive the RF signal with the RF probe. In some aspects, the probe layer comprising a plurality of probe elements arranged in an array that corresponds to an arrangement of radiating elements in an antenna-under-test (AUT). The system also includes a foam layer coupled to the probe layer and configured to isolate the AUT from the probe layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: BDCM A2 LLC
    Inventor: Souren Shamsinejad
  • Patent number: 12284239
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices relating to video encoding for low-concurrency video channels are described herein. A video processing system may receive a manifest request for an encoded video stream associated with a selected channel. Based on the manifest request, the video processing system may request for a real-time linear (RTL) encoder to be started to encode the input compressed video stream for the channel in real-time. Also based on the manifest request, the video processing system may assign a faster-than-real-time (FTRT) encoder from a pool of already-running FTRT encoders to encode the video stream in real-time until the RTL encoder is fully started. The FTRT encoder may encode at a lower quality level to enable expedited real-time encoding. Based on the RTL encoder being fully started, the video processing system may switch the encoding from the FTRT encoder to the RTL encoder. The FTRT encoder may be returned to the FTRT encoder pool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventor: Alexander Giladi
  • Patent number: 12284850
    Abstract: A laterally heterogenous wavelength-converting optical element includes pixel regions surrounded by border regions; each includes down-converting phosphor particles bound by a coating or solid medium. The pixel regions are aligned with LEDs of an array. The phosphor regions differ with respect to one or more of compositions, particle sizes, coating thicknesses, refractive indices, or voids (size, number density, or volume fraction). Those difference(s) can result in the border regions exhibiting larger optical scattering, which can improve contrast of down-converted light emitted by adjacent pixels of the array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Lumileds LLC
    Inventors: Marcel Rene Bohmer, Toni Lopez, Ken Shimizu
  • Patent number: 12281629
    Abstract: A sealing ring gland receives a sealing ring. The sealing ring gland includes an inner wall surface which seals against an inner periphery of the sealing ring. An outer wall surface is radially offset from the inner wall surface and seals against an outer periphery of the sealing ring. The sealing ring is axially compressed between an upper wall surface and a lower wall surface of the sealing ring gland. At least one of the upper wall surface and the lower wall surface includes an expansion volume which provides space for the sealing ring to expand upon swelling of the sealing ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: PHINIA JERSEY HOLDINGS LLC
    Inventor: Alejandro Moreno
  • Patent number: 12281268
    Abstract: Methods are provided to prepare a low sulfur fuel from hydrocarbon sources, such as light tight oil and high sulfur fuel oil, often less desired by conventional refiners, who split crude into a wide range of differing products and may prefer presence of wide ranges (C3 or C5 to C20 or higher) of hydrocarbons. These fuels can be produced by separating feeds into untreated and treated streams, and then recombining them. Such fuels can also be formulated by combinations of light, middle and heavy range constituents in a selected manner as claimed. Not only low in sulfur, the fuels of this invention are also low in nitrogen and essentially metals free. Fuel use applications include on-board large marine transport vessels but also on-shore for large land based combustion gas turbines, boilers, fired heaters and transport vehicles and trains.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Mawetal LLC
    Inventors: Mohammed Wohaibi, Tom F. Pruitt
  • Patent number: 12282326
    Abstract: A system includes a processor and a memory. The memory includes instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations including perform a remote maneuver of a vehicle, and instruct a mobile device to provide a feedback to an individual.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Pietro Buttolo, Neha Singhal, Biaohe Guo, Mark Larry, Kenneth Michael Mayer
  • Patent number: 12281590
    Abstract: A lift system and method for installation and removal of a combustion can from a turbomachine are provided. The lift system includes a rail, a portable cart assembly, and a slide assembly. The portable cart assembly includes a combustion can cradle assembly coupled to a telescopic member. The combustion can cradle assembly is configured to removably couple to a combustion can of the turbomachine. The slide assembly is removably couplable to the portable cart assembly and the rail. The slide assembly is movable with the portable cart assembly along the rail to adjust a position of the combustion can cradle assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: GE Infrastructure Technology LLC
    Inventors: Humberto Sanchez Moreno, Artemio Josue Aguilar Cuellar, Juan Daniel Mendez Rodriguez, Alston Ilford Scipio
  • Patent number: 12283988
    Abstract: Systems and methods for performing operations based on LIDAR communications are described. An example device may include one or more processors and a memory coupled to the one or more processors. The memory includes instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the device to receive data associated with a modulated optical signal emitted by a transmitter of a first LIDAR device and received by a receiver of a second LIDAR device coupled to a vehicle and the device, generate a rendering of an environment of the vehicle based on information from one or more LIDAR devices coupled to the vehicle, and update the rendering based on the received data. Updating the rendering includes updating an object rendering of an object in the environment of the vehicle. The instructions further cause the device to provide the updated rendering for display on a display coupled to the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Waymo LLC
    Inventors: Salil Shree Pandit, Mark Alexander Shand, Reed Gerard Alexander Morse
  • Patent number: 12282069
    Abstract: Systems and methods for diagnosing health of a battery using in-vehicle impedance analysis. The method includes receiving a sensed current measurement for a cell of the battery; generating a current profile as a function of the sensed current measurement, including pulses to a peak current, the pulses having a pulse frequency (w); applying a current with the current profile to the cell; for each pulse in the current profile, receiving a voltage measurement for the cell that is responsive to the pulse, calculating an impedance for the cell responsive thereto, the impedance comprising a real component at the pulse frequency (RZw), and an imaginary component at the pulse frequency (IZw), identifying a battery health problem when either RZw exceeds a preprogrammed first threshold for the pulse frequency, or when IZw exceeds a preprogrammed second threshold for the pulse frequency, and storing the RZw and the IZw for the cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Yue-Yun Wang, Steven Earl Muldoon, Lei Hao, Michael P Barker
  • Patent number: 12284243
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to multi-user, multi-device gaze tracking. In examples, a system includes at least one processor, and memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, causes the system to perform a set of operations. The set of operations include identifying a plurality of computing devices, and identifying one or more users. The set of operations may further include receiving gaze input data and load data, from two or more of the plurality of computing devices. The set of operations may further include performing load balancing between the plurality of devices, wherein the load balancing comprises assigning one or more tasks from a first of the plurality of computing devices to a second of the plurality of computing devices based upon the gaze input data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Jatin Sharma, Kenneth P. Hinckley, Jay C. Beavers, Michel Pahud
  • Patent number: 12281266
    Abstract: A process for reducing the environmental contaminants in a ISO 8217:2017 Table 2 compliant Feedstock Heavy Marine Fuel Oil and resulting product, the process involving: mixing a Feedstock Heavy Marine Fuel Oil with a Activating Gas to give a feedstock mixture; contacting the feedstock mixture with one or more catalysts to form a Process Mixture; separating the Product Heavy Marine Fuel Oil from the Process Mixture and, discharging the Product Heavy Marine Fuel Oil. The Product Heavy Marine Fuel Oil complies with ISO 8217:2017 Table 2 for residual marine fuel and the Environmental Contaminants, which are selected from the group consisting of: a sulfur; vanadium, nickel, iron, aluminum and silicon and combinations thereof, are less than 0.5 wt. %. The Product Heavy Marine Fuel Oil can be used as blending stock for an ISO 8217:2017 Table 2 compliant, IMO 2020 compliant, low sulfur heavy marine fuel composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Magẽmã Technology LLC
    Inventors: Bertrand Ray Klussmann, Michael Joseph Moore
  • Patent number: 12280411
    Abstract: A metal fused deposition printer can use the thixotropic properties of a metal (e.g., alloy) to control the viscosity of the material being deposited. The viscosity of the metal can be controlled by shearing the metal before, during, or after the deposition process. Use of the thixotropic properties can allow the viscosity of the metal to be controlled independent of the temperature of the metal. This can allow for more precise control of the temperature differential between the layer being deposited and the substrate layer, for example, such that the temperatures are substantially the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: ROBOTIC RESEARCH OPCO, LLC
    Inventors: Alberto Daniel Lacaze, Karl Nicholas Murphy
  • Patent number: D1071893
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: THINKWRITE TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventor: Michael Guerena