Patents Assigned to LLC
  • Patent number: 12284346
    Abstract: The various implementations described herein include methods and systems for coding video. In one aspect, a method includes determining whether multiple transform units are within the video block in accordance with a determination that the inter-prediction mode is enabled; and in accordance with a determination that multiple transform units are within the video block: determining a transform unit of the multiple transform units to apply a secondary transform based on a relative location of the transform unit within the video block, applying the secondary transform to the transform unit, and reconstructing/processing the video block based at least on the secondary transform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLC
    Inventors: Xin Zhao, Madhu Peringassery Krishnan, Shan Liu
  • Patent number: 12281291
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to miniaturized chambers for automatically conducting cell culture under controlled environment conditions. In some implementation examples, a system includes a first chamber, a second chamber, and a control subsystem. The control subsystem detects a first environment condition associated with the first chamber and a second environment condition associated with the second chamber. Based at least on the first environment condition and a first airflow mode, the control subsystem supplies a first airflow to the first chamber to adjust the first environment condition toward a first target environment condition. Based at least on the second environment condition and a second airflow mode, the control subsystem supplies a second airflow to the second chamber to adjust the second environment condition toward a second target environment condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: IVFpro LLC
    Inventor: Ta-Chin Lin
  • Patent number: 12282071
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for predicting a quality of a battery includes receiving a first battery measurement data for a first duration of soaking the battery, the first duration shorter than or equal to the soaking. The method further includes computing a plurality of features based on the first battery measurement data. The method further includes predicting, based on the plurality of features, a state of the battery after completion of the soaking. The method further includes outputting suitability of the quality of the battery based on the state of the battery as predicted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Yusheng Zou, Ibrahim Haskara, Bharatkumar Hegde, Chunhao J Lee
  • Patent number: 12282855
    Abstract: According to implementations of the present disclosure, there is provided a solution for auto-formatting of a data table. A computer-implemented method comprises obtaining values of at least one attribute for a plurality of cells in a data table, the values of the at least one attribute indicating at least one of a semantic meaning of data filled in the cells or a structure of the data table, the cells being arranged in rows and columns in the data table; extracting a feature representation of the values of the at least one attribute In using a first learning network; and determining respective formats for the cells based on the feature representation using at least the first learning network. In this way, it is possible to implement automatic mapping from attribute settings of cells to cell formats by using a learning network, thereby achieving auto-formatting of the data table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Haoyu Dong, Zhouyu Fu, Shi Han, Dongmei Zhang
  • Patent number: 12282030
    Abstract: Methods are provided for detecting the amount of one or more HRT panel analytes (i.e., estrone (E1), estrone sulfate (E1s), 17?-estradiol (E2a), 17?-estradiol (E2b), estradiol sulfate (E2s), estriol (E3), equilin (EQ), 17?-dihydroequilin (EQa), 17?-dihydroequilin (EQb), Equilenin (EN), 17?-dihydroequilenin (ENa), 17?-dihydroequilenin (ENb), and ?8,9-dehydroestrone (dE1)) in a sample by mass spectrometry. The methods generally involve ionizing one or more HRT panel analytes in a sample and quantifying the generated ions to determine the amount of one or more HRT panel analytes in the sample. In methods where amounts of multiple HRT panel analytes are detected, the amounts of multiple analytes are detected in the same sample injection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Quest Diagnostics Investments LLC
    Inventors: Mildred Goldman, Nigel J. Clarke
  • Patent number: 12281273
    Abstract: An improved process for removing acid gases from raw biogas streams, such as biogas from landfills or biogas from controlled anaerobic digestion, provides for efficient H2S removal combined with carbon dioxide removal. The biogas is treated in a biological hydrogen sulfide removal system integrated with a membrane gas separation system. The combined system provides for efficient acid gas removal while simultaneously limiting oxygen carryover into the treated product stream by beneficially utilizing oxygen in the biological desulfurization system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Unconventional Gas Solutions, LLC
    Inventor: Benjamin Bikson
  • Patent number: 12280832
    Abstract: A vehicle closure module overtravel accommodating system includes a closure module of a vehicle. The closure module is pivotably coupled to a vehicle frame and is configured to pivot relative to the vehicle frame back-and-forth between a closed position and an open position. The system further includes a breakaway mount of the vehicle, and a bumper assembly having a head disposed on a base. The bumper assembly engages the breakaway mount to secure the bumper assembly within the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Michael J. Gardynik, David Brian Glickman, Mark Joseph Courtright
  • Patent number: 12284349
    Abstract: A method and apparatus comprising computer code configured to cause a processor or processors to obtain an input mesh comprising volumetric data of at least one three-dimensional (3D) visual content, derive a plurality of submeshes of the input mesh from a frame of the volumetric data, set bitdepths to a first submesh and a second submesh from the submeshes, a first bitdepth being different than a second bitdepth, quantize the first submesh and the second submesh based on respective ones of the first bitdepth and the second bitdepth, and signal a result of quantizing the first submesh and the second submesh.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLC
    Inventors: Thuong Nguyen Canh, Xiaozhong Xu, Xiang Zhang, Shan Liu
  • Patent number: 12280021
    Abstract: In an embodiment of the invention, a composition for treating a cell population comprises an Affinity Medicant Conjugate (AMC). The medicant moiety can be a toxin including an acylfulvene or a drug moiety. The affinity moiety can be an antibody, a binding protein, a steroid, a lipid, a growth factor, a protein, a peptide or non peptidic. The affinity moiety can be covalently bound to the medicant via a linker. Novel linkers that can be directed to cysteine, arginine or lysine residues based on solution pH allow greater flexibility in preserving and/or generating specific epitopes in the AMC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: AF CHEMICALS, LLC
    Inventor: Michael Kelner
  • Patent number: 12280727
    Abstract: A method is provided for operating a vehicle having an interior control setting system with a computer. One or more occupant input devices generate an occupant input signal associated with sensor data, which indicates a total number of occupants, a classification, and a current emotion for each occupant disposed in the vehicle. One or more processors uses multiple occupant profiles, with each occupant profile mapped to a unique occupant identification and a plurality of actuated interior control settings, to determine an n-occupant emotion vector based on the total number of the occupants and the classification for each occupant. The processor maps the n-occupant emotion vector to interior control settings and determines a predicted interior control setting for the occupant. The processor generates an actuation signal associated with the predicted interior control setting, such that one or more actuators actuate a vehicle component based on the predicted interior control setting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Aravind Gangumalla, Vikramaditya Nimmagadda, Arun Adiththan
  • Patent number: 12279879
    Abstract: A method for assessing nerve health during a spinal decompression procedure includes: accessing a database containing historical patient data; receiving patient data of a target patient; identifying a subset of historical patients with similar pre-operative characteristics; generating an individualized target range for at least one nerve function parameter based on the subset; measuring an actual nerve function parameter of the target patient during the procedure; and displaying a graphical representation of the measured parameter relative to the individualized target range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: NEURALYTIX, LLC
    Inventors: David S. Nay, Christopher Wybo
  • Patent number: 12280683
    Abstract: An energy transfer system includes a charge cord configured to electrically connect a battery system to an energy source or an energy storage system, the battery system configured to power an electric motor of a vehicle. The energy transfer system also includes a display system including at least one light source attached to the charge cord, and a controller configured to control the display system to generate a visual indicator on the charge cord, the visual indicator indicative of a condition related to an energy transfer operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Sabrina Elaine Ridenour, Michael Anthony Manning
  • Patent number: 12280433
    Abstract: A method includes applying a material coating to a surface of a machine component, wherein the material coating is formed from a combination of a hardfacing material, aluminum-containing particles, and a braze material. The method also includes thermally treating the material coating at a temperature to generate an oxide layer comprising aluminum from the aluminum-containing particles, wherein the oxide layer is configured to reduce oxidation of the hardfacing material, and the braze material is configured to facilitate binding between the material coating and the surface of the machine component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: GE Infrastructure Technology LLC
    Inventors: Surinder Singh Pabla, Srikanth C. Kottilingam, David Vincent Bucci, Biju Dasan
  • Patent number: 12279918
    Abstract: A surgical tray efficiency system comprising a vertical rack assembly for holding and displaying a plurality of surgical instrument trays, a sterile barrier covering the vertical rack assembly and including tray location identifiers, and a standardization software platform including a customizable interactive planogram is described. The customizable interactive planogram software helps operating room staff arrange the instrument trays on the vertical rack assembly according to a predetermined customizable location ID, and create/load/access information related to the surgical procedure/trays/instruments before, during, and after the surgery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Flex Operating Room, LLC
    Inventor: Jeffrey Gerstner
  • Patent number: 12279541
    Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatus for adjusting the depth of a trench opened by a row unit of an agricultural planter. The row unit includes a trench depth adjustment assembly configured to modify the furrow depth. In one embodiment, the depth adjustment assembly may include a gear box having one or more gears which engage with a gear rack. The gear box may be pivotally connected to a depth adjustment body supporting a rocker that adjusts upward travel of gauge wheel arms. In another embodiment, the depth adjustment assembly may include a depth adjustment arm having a screw receiver that cooperates with a driven screw that adjusts the position of the depth adjustment arm acting on the gauge wheels to adjust trench depth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Precision Planting LLC
    Inventors: Dillon Sloneker, Todd Swanson, Dale Koch
  • Patent number: 12280953
    Abstract: In accordance with one or more aspects of the disclosed embodiment, a lift includes at least one load handling device configured so as to reciprocate along a lift axis, the load handling device including a frame forming a payload section with a payload support surface having a common elevation configured to hold one or more pickfaces at the common elevation of the payload support surface, at least one transfer arm movably mounted to the frame, and a drive section connected to the load handling device and being configured to move the load handling device along the lift axis, wherein the one or more pickfaces carried in unison by the payload support surface of the at least one load handling device, define an order sequence of pickfaces on the at least one load handling device according to a predetermined case out order sequence of mixed cases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Symbotic LLC
    Inventors: Kirill K. Pankratov, Juergen D. Conrad, Robert Hsiung, William Johnson, Jr., Edward A. Macdonald, Larry M. Sweet
  • Patent number: 12281891
    Abstract: An alignment checking apparatus holder to assist checking of the alignment of a motor vehicle headlamp installed in a body of a motor vehicle includes a base body, at least one reference marking on the base body, and a multiple of form-fit elements. The base body is visually perceptible from the outside in a checking position. The multiple of form-fit elements are rigidly connected to the base body and are intended to form form-fit connections with parts of the motor vehicle headlamp or of the body of the motor vehicle. The at least one reference marking has a predetermined position with respect to the multiple of form-fit elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Marcel Ponier
  • Patent number: 12282501
    Abstract: A system for automatically generating responses to user queries includes one or more processors, operable when executing instructions to: receive a query from a user, determine a first set of similarity scores between the query and a plurality of stored queries stored in a data store, and determine whether a first similarity score of the first set of similarity scores meets a first threshold. In accordance with a determination that the first similarity score meets the first threshold, the processors are further operable to obtain a set of case information for the current case; retrieve case information for at least one precedent case; determine a second set of similarity scores between the current case and the at least one precedent case; determine whether a second similarity score of the second set of similarity scores meets a second threshold; and generate a response to the query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: PwC Product Sales LLC
    Inventors: Paul Sheward, Chung-Sheng Li, Scott Likens, Saverio Fato, Joseph Doyle Harrington, Joseph David Voyles, Jonathan B. Rhine, Alexander Nicholas Boldizsar, Winnie Cheng, Todd Christopher Morrill, Yuan Wan, William Spotswood Seward
  • Patent number: D1071791
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: I AM THE OCEAN, LLC
    Inventor: Siddhi Desai
  • Patent number: D1071856
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: SharkNinja Operating LLC
    Inventors: Kyu Lee, Owen R. Johnson