Patents Assigned to LLC
  • Patent number: 11617354
    Abstract: A method for shrimp aquaculture, in which, all growth phases and essential operations are modularized and integrated to form a multi-phasic synchronous super-intensive shrimp production system controlled by a custom designed cyber-physical platform. Modular components include, for example, post-larvae nursery modules, grow-out production modules, recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) modules, feed distribution modules, and regulatory elements comprised of Program Logic Controllers (PLCs) integrated with Human Interface Modules (HIMs).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: ROYAL CARIDEA LLC
    Inventors: Maurice C. Kemp, Anthony P. Brand
  • Patent number: 11617371
    Abstract: A dough press includes a handle and a press unit that includes a base seat, a lower press-plate and an upper press-plate. The base seat has a first recess sub-unit and a second recess sub-unit, each having at least one recess. A depth of the at least one recess of the second recess sub-unit is different from that of the at least one recess of the first recess sub-unit. The lower press-plate has an engaging sub-unit removably engaged with the at least one recess of a selected one of the first and second recess sub-units. The handle is pivotable relative to the base seat to drive pivot movement of the upper press-plate toward the lower press-plate, thereby compressing and flattening a dough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: FRESHLINK PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT, LLC
    Inventors: Dean Chapman, Michael Dicocco
  • Patent number: 11622304
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for supporting a preferred cell mode of a telecommunications network includes a user device and a cell site. The cell site includes a cell mode system communicatively coupled to the user device. The cell mode system is structured to receive a preferred cell mode request and a management notification, generate a cell switch request based on the preferred cell mode request and the management notification, receive a cell switch confirmation based on the cell switch request, and provide a handoff request responsive to the cell switch confirmation. The handoff request is structured to initiate the handoff of the user device to at least one preferred cell, the at least one preferred cell structured to adjust an uplink data speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: T-Mobile Innovations LLC
    Inventor: Sanghoon Sung
  • Patent number: 11619727
    Abstract: A calibration device and method of calculating a global multi-degree of freedom (MDF) pose of a camera affixed to a structure is disclosed. The method may comprise: determining, via a computer of a calibration device, a calibration device MDF pose with respect to a global coordinate system corresponding to the structure; receiving, from an image system including the camera, a camera MDF pose with respect to the calibration device, wherein a computer of the image system determines the camera MDF pose based on an image captured by the camera including at least a calibration board affixed to the calibration device; calculating the global MDF pose based on the calibration device MDF pose and the MDF pose; and transmitting the global MDF pose to the image system such that a computer of the image system can use the global MDF pose for calibration purposes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Sagar Manglani, Punarjay Chakravarty, Shubham Shrivastava
  • Patent number: 11622178
    Abstract: This document describes a speaker-integration system and associated devices and systems. The speaker-integration system includes a speaker that is re-workably mounted, via an elastomeric gasket, to an intermediate structure that is mountable to an outer enclosure of an electronic device. The intermediate structure forms a cavity in which the speaker is sealed, effective to use the cavity as the speaker's back volume to contain acoustic waves without impacting other structures in the electronic device. The front of the speaker is sealed against the outer enclosure by a gasket that controls, based on its placement and geometry, axial and radial directions of the speaker relative to the intermediate structure to prevent the speaker from buzzing against surrounding rigid parts. The speaker has wires that exit the back volume via a detachable grommet, which controls positioning of the wires to prevent rub and buzz against surrounding parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Cindy Ngoc-Tran Au, Gordon Robert Dix, Luis Chau, William Raeming Dong, Laurie Man Sum Kwan
  • Patent number: 11617309
    Abstract: An automated plant cultivation system operating seed or plant capsule(s) and/or capsule(s) retaining casing(s) capable of controlling the growing environment of each plant capsule throughout the plant life cycle wherein the capsule(s) can be adapted to operate under any irrigation method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: URBAN PLANTER, LLC
    Inventor: Daniel S. Spiro
  • Patent number: 11621663
    Abstract: A solar tracker system is a system and method to integrate the solar cells to a greenhouse. The solar tracker system comprises solar tracker modules that include solar cells, racks, gears, pinons, motors, and mounting brackets to efficiently and conveniently be installed to the roofs and walls of a new greenhouse and/or an existing greenhouse for retrofit application. Additionally, the solar tracker system uses various sensors to provide real-time conditions to the greenhouse. The method uses actual or system default values to adjust the angle and position of solar cells according to various environmental factors, such as DLI, weather, date, time, direction of sunlight, or type of plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: TSO GREENHOUSES, LLC
    Inventor: David Fredrick Hinson
  • Patent number: 11617572
    Abstract: A soft tissue repair device. The device includes an inserter having a distal portion, a first anchor carried externally onto the distal portion, a second anchor carried externally onto the distal portion, and a flexible strand coupling the first and second anchors and forming an adjustable knotless loop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Biomet Sports Medicine, LLC
    Inventors: Kevin T. Stone, Ryan A. Kaiser, Nathan M. Sautter, Andrew Holst
  • Patent number: 11620101
    Abstract: Methods and systems for performing automatic speed-based audio control. One method includes receiving, with an electronic control unit included in a vehicle, a speed of the vehicle and receiving, with the electronic control unit, an audio signal. The method also includes accessing, with the electronic control unit, a plurality of equalization curves based on the speed of the vehicle, each of the plurality of equalization curves associated with the speed of the vehicle and each of the plurality of equalization curves defining a gain adjustment for one of a plurality of frequencies, and, for each curve of the plurality of equalization curves, applying the gain adjustment defined by the curve to one of the plurality of frequencies of the audio signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Harley-Davidson Motor Company Group, LLC
    Inventors: Bryan Thieme, Thomas E. Strunsee, Jack Postuchow, Judson Riggins, Justin Zazzi, Erik Gundersen
  • Patent number: 11620286
    Abstract: Runtime statistics from the actual performance of operations on a set of data are collected and utilized to dynamically modify the execution plan for processing a set of data. The operations performed are modified to include statistics collection operations, the statistics being tailored to the specific operations being quantified. Optimization policy defines how often optimization is attempted and how much more efficient an execution plan should be to justify transitioning from the current one. Optimization is based on the collected runtime statistics but also takes into account already materialized intermediate data to gain further optimization by avoiding reprocessing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Nicolas Bruno, Jingren Zhou
  • Patent number: 11622357
    Abstract: Adaptive packet scheduling for interference mitigation is disclosed. Current spectral information can be compared to historical spectral information to determine a likelihood of a future interference event. Based on the furfure interference event, a data frame can be adapted to mitigate the effect of the future interference event on wireless communication. The interference event can be related to an unintentional interference source that can have distinct interference characteristics distinguishing it from an intentional interference source. Comparison can be facilitated by a data store storing historical interference information related to one or more historical interference events.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignees: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P., AT&T MOBILITY II LLC
    Inventors: James Gordon Beattie, Jr., Haywood S. Peitzer, James Hollister
  • Patent number: 11620143
    Abstract: Interface and mode selection for digital action execution is provided. For example, a system loads a script library embedded in an electronic resource. The system determines a historic level of engagement between a client computing device and one or more digital assistants. The system selects, based on a first property of the client computing device and the historic level of engagement, a type of digital interface. The system generates, based on the type of digital interface, a digital interface with the call-to-action. The system determines, responsive to an instruction to execute the call-to-action, a mode of execution. The system selects a digital assistant and a second client device to execute the call-to-action. The system transmits the call-to-action to the second client device for execution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Prithvi Balaram, Nikhil Rao, Ian Baker, Adam Coimbra
  • Patent number: 11621770
    Abstract: A field-programmable gate array includes a memory, a firmware state machine, a register, and an interconnect structure. The memory is configured to store a plurality of configurations. Each of the plurality of configurations has at least one parameter associated therewith. The firmware state machine is configured to read the parameters stored in the memory. The register is configured to have the parameters associated with the plurality of configurations written thereto. The interconnect structure is configured to transmit the parameters between the firmware state machine and the register. The interconnect structure is configured to receive the parameters associated with the plurality of the configurations simultaneously and the interconnect structure is configured to transmit the received parameters associated with the plurality of configurations to the register simultaneously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: HUGHES NETWORK SYSTEMS, LLC
    Inventor: Yogesh Sethi
  • Patent number: 11620455
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to methods, non-transitory computer readable media, and systems apply machine-learning techniques and computational sentiment analysis to summarize sentences extracted from a group of textual responses or to select representative-textual responses from the group of textual responses. By using a response-extraction-neural network to extract (and sometimes paraphrase) sentences from textual responses, the disclosed methods, non-transitory computer readable media, and systems can generate a response summary of textual responses based on sentiment indicators corresponding to the textual responses. By applying a machine-learning classifier to generate textual quality scores for textual responses, the disclosed methods, non-transitory computer readable media, and systems select representative-textual responses from a group of textual responses based on relevancy parameters and sentiment indicators corresponding to the textual responses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Qualtrics, LLC
    Inventors: R. David Norton, Jamie Morningstar, Zheng Fang
  • Patent number: 11621301
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a display device and a signal processing device that have made it possible to actively utilize maximumly a color gamut that a display panel can express. Provided is a display device, including: a display section in which display pixels that each include a first subpixel, a second subpixel, and a third subpixel that emit three-basic-color light and a fourth subpixel that emits non-basic-color light are arranged two-dimensionally; a first signal processing section that expands a video signal being input and corresponding to the basic-color light and adapts the video signal to a color gamut that the display section can express; and a second signal processing section that converts an expanded video signal being the video signal having been expanded into a first signal, a second signal, and a third signal that correspond to the basic-color light and a fourth signal that corresponds to the non-basic-color light, and outputs the signals to the display section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventor: Yasuo Inoue
  • Patent number: 11620629
    Abstract: A sensor device for conducting electronic transactions from a vehicle including a housing including an RFID circuit operably connected to an RFID antenna, a short range communication device, the RFID circuit and short range communication device operably connected to a processor, and a power supply. The sensor device is wirelessly connectable to a mobile communication device via the Bluetooth chip and the mobile communication device runs a software application. The RFID antenna is adapted to receive a wireless signal from a transmitter. Responsive to the wireless signal, the processor causes the short range communication device to wirelessly communicate with the mobile communication device to initiate a transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Highway Toll Administration, LLC
    Inventors: David Centner, Pinku Kurian
  • Patent number: 11621497
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an antenna assembly for a beamforming antenna, comprising a reflector and an antenna array that includes a plurality of first radiating elements that are arranged as a first vertically extending array, the first radiating elements extending forwardly from the reflector; and a plurality of second radiating elements that are arranged as a second vertically extending array, the second radiating elements extending forwardly from the reflector. Two adjacent first radiating elements are spaced apart from one another by a first distance, and a first radiating element and an adjacent second radiating element are spaced apart from one another by a second distance. The first distance is substantially equal to the second distance. The antenna assembly further comprises a plurality of parasitic elements that are placed along sides of the first and second of the vertically extending arrays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLC
    Inventor: Xun Zhang
  • Patent number: 11617492
    Abstract: Systems and methods for three-dimensional imaging, modeling, mapping, and/or control capabilities in compact size suitable for integration with and/or augmentation of robotic, laparoscopic, and endoscopic surgical systems. The systems including at least one optical source configured to project onto a surgical or endoscopic environment, and at least one camera positioned to capture at least one image of the surgical or endoscopic environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Optecks, LLC
    Inventors: Hakki Refai, Badia Koudsi
  • Patent number: 11617945
    Abstract: A video game controller is provided with at least one rotatable input mechanism such as a “scroll wheel”. The rotatable input mechanism is disposed within the body of the controller but protrudes partially through an aperture to allow a user to rotate the mechanism using a finger or thumb. The rotatable input mechanism may be positioned so that the user may rotate the mechanism while gripping the controller body with the same hand. The input from the rotatable input mechanism may be used to control various software functions, such as video game functions. In some versions the controller comprises a Gamepad style controller with a scroll wheel disposed at the thumb area of one or both of the hand grips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: QTECH INNOVATIONS LLC
    Inventor: Quincy Box
  • Patent number: 11618481
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for agent trajectory prediction using anchor trajectories.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Waymo LLC
    Inventors: Yuning Chai, Benjamin Sapp, Mayank Bansal, Dragomir Anguelov