Patents Assigned to LLC
  • Patent number: 11614794
    Abstract: Adapting an automated assistant based on detecting: movement of a mouth of a user; and/or that a gaze of the user is directed at an assistant device that provides an automated assistant interface (graphical and/or audible) of the automated assistant. The detecting of the mouth movement and/or the directed gaze can be based on processing of vision data from one or more vision components associated with the assistant device, such as a camera incorporated in the assistant device. The mouth movement that is detected can be movement that is indicative of a user (to whom the mouth belongs) speaking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Kenneth Mixter, Yuan Yuan, Tuan Nguyen
  • Patent number: 11615485
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention include a computer program product, a computer system, and a computer-implemented method for generating a data model that machine learns from social media postings to determine whether social media postings will gain traction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Strategic Communication Advisors, LLC.
    Inventor: David Kenneth Albert
  • Patent number: 11613970
    Abstract: A liner hanger system includes a mandrel and an extension disposed radially outwardly of the mandrel at least in part. The extension is disposed to urge a seal/anchor to a set position. A running tool is disposed radially inwardly of the mandrel and a ring is resiliently engagable with the mandrel and the extension simultaneously upon being deflected radially outwardly by the running tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Joseph Ramirez, Frank Maenza
  • Patent number: 11616468
    Abstract: A mounting assembly for use in mid-grab and/or edge-grab applications may include a clamp secured to a stanchion by a clamping fastener. The mounting assembly may also include a mounting plate which may be secured to a mounting device by the stanchion. The mounting assembly may be used, for example, to secure photovoltaic modules (or other devices or structures) of varying heights to a roof or other building surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: RMH Tech LLC
    Inventors: Dustin M. M. Haddock, Nikolaus Jo Holley, Paul Benjamin Leitch
  • Patent number: 11614025
    Abstract: A system is provided that may include a pressure sensor coupled to a radiator. The pressure sensor may determine plural pressure readings of a radiator fluid in the radiator. The system may also include a vehicle controller of a vehicle system that includes one or more processors. The one or more processors may repeatedly determine the plural pressure readings of the radiator fluid, and determine a pressure variance of the plural pressure readings that is repeatedly determined. The one or more processors may further be configured to identify a pressure condition based on the pressure variance that is determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Transportation IP Holdings, LLC
    Inventor: Wioleta Wocial
  • Patent number: 11612946
    Abstract: A blade assembly is formed from multiple blades assembled adjacent each other with openings in respective blades arranged to form a passageway passing through adjacent blades.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: BARON INVESTMENTS, LLC
    Inventor: Anthony Baratta
  • Patent number: 11614854
    Abstract: Examples provide an accessibility manager enabling a persistent floating secondary stage for presentation of user-configurable content during a video conferencing meeting. A primary stage is provided during each video conferencing meeting. The primary stage includes a roster of meeting attendees and an area for displaying shared content. The user creates configurable settings which are used at every meeting to generate a customized secondary stage. The secondary stage is an overlay which persists on the user interface even if the primary stage is minimized as the user multi-tasks during the meeting. The secondary stage displays video feed for one or more selected meeting attendees, such as an interpreter. When an interpreter speaks on behalf of the user, the user receives the active speaker attribution. The configurable settings permit the user to control the secondary stage video feed quality, sizing, aspect ratio, display location, captioning, role designation and active speaker designation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Toby Jonathan Fitch, Christopher Michael Sano
  • Patent number: 11613184
    Abstract: A system for disabling an electric vehicle during charging, including an energy storage device, the energy storage device attached to an electric vehicle. T The system including a charging port, wherein the charging port is configured to engage with a charging connector, the charging port disposed on the electric vehicle and electrically connected to the energy storage device. The system also including a presence sensor, the presence sensor communicatively connected to the charging port, the presence sensor configured to detect whether the charging connector is engaged with the charging port. Additionally, the system including an interlock component, the interlock component configured to disable the electric vehicle when the charging connector is engaged with the charging port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: BETA AIR, LLC
    Inventor: Herman Wiegman
  • Patent number: 11613418
    Abstract: A trilobular packaging element, including at least some of a sheet extending from a first terminal end to a second terminal end and including one or more alternating ridges and grooves, wherein the length of the sheet is defined between a terminating proximal end and a terminating distal end; a first extension portion defined along a portion of the sheet; a central portion defined along a portion of the sheet, extending from the first extension portion; and a second extension portion defined along a portion of the sheet, extending from the central portion to the terminating distal end, wherein the sheet is formed to be bent or folded between the first extension portion and the central portion and between the central portion and the second extension portion such that a portion of the second extension portion overlaps a portion the first extension portion to form a deformable hollow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: RATIONAL PACKAGING LLC
    Inventor: Samuel C. Voorhees
  • Patent number: 11614186
    Abstract: A modified API buttress threaded casing connection is disclosed for use in drilling oil and gas wells in lieu of using conventional drill pipe. The coupling threads only are modified to include a reduced thread height thread form to relieve thread stresses at axial ends of the coupling. The reduced thread height thread form may be mated with standard single tapered API buttress thread forms formed on the pin ends. The axial length of the coupling may be generally shortened to permit abutment of the mating pins at the center of the coupling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: PTC Liberty Tubulars LLC
    Inventor: Robert S. Sivley, IV
  • Patent number: 11616579
    Abstract: A communication device is provided that estimates one or more disturbance values associated with one or more components of the communication device, and adjusts the communication device to change a received power of the output signal. The communication device includes a transmitter having a seed laser configured to provide an amount of bandwidth for an output signal, an Erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) configured to increase an amplitude of the output signal, and a single mode variable optical attenuator (SMVOA) configured to decrease the amplitude of the output signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: X Development LLC
    Inventors: Paul Csonka, Travis Lantz
  • Patent number: 11615454
    Abstract: Certain example embodiments described herein relate to systems and/or methods for presenting user-interactive, dynamically-generated contextual content for individual articles of clothing. A QR or other code is provided to the article of clothing. The QR or other code is scannable by an electronic device, causing the electronic device to access a webpage or the like. The webpage (or similar information display) includes information typically found on a tag or label, together with additional dynamically-generated and organized content relevant to the article and/or person for whom the article was made. The techniques described herein are usable in connection with mass-produced, small batch/boutique items, as well as custom articles of clothing. Thus, it becomes possible to quickly and easily convey a broad scope of information about an article of clothing directly from that article of clothing, without having to include large and potentially irritating tags or labels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: KNOT STANDARD LLC
    Inventor: Matthew Mueller
  • Patent number: 11614741
    Abstract: A vehicle control system is provided that includes a control unit that can be disposed onboard a vehicle to control movement of the vehicle; and one or more transceiver devices that can emit plural signals from the vehicle, with at least one of the plural signals containing a vehicle identifier, and, responsive to a receiver unit disposed off-board the vehicle receiving at least one of the plural signals, the control unit can determine a location of the vehicle and can communicate a signal to the one or more transceiver devices based on the location. The control unit can change the movement of the vehicle based on the vehicle location information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Transportation IP Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Avinash Hassan Manjunath, Steven Guy Clifton
  • Patent number: 11615167
    Abstract: A media creation system is provided for creating photographs and videos that include assets sourced from different geographic locations. The media creation system may parsing media, transposition the media, and/or perform additional modifications to the media. A method for creating photographs, videos, and live streams of one or more assets sourced from different geographic locations using the audiovisual media composition system is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Grupiks LLC
    Inventor: Sam Juma
  • Patent number: 11615508
    Abstract: A method for automatic selection of display settings for a medical image is provided. The method includes receiving a medical image, mapping the medical image to an appearance classification cell of an appearance classification matrix using a trained deep neural network, selecting a first WW and a first WC for the medical image based on the appearance classification and a target appearance classification, adjusting the first WW and the first WC based on user preferences to produce a second WW and a second WC, and displaying the medical image with the second WW and the second WC via a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: GE Precision Healthcare LLC
    Inventors: German Guillermo Vera-Gonzalez, Najib Akram, Ping Xue, Fengchao Zhang, Gireesha Chinthamani Rao, Justin Wanek
  • Patent number: 11614978
    Abstract: Deep reinforcement learning techniques and provenance-based simulation are employed for resource allocation in a shared computing environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Vinícius Michel Göttin, Daniel Sadoc Menasché, Alex Laier Bordignon
  • Patent number: 11614792
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a first controller that sends a request to enter a lower power mode, and a plurality of second controllers. The second controllers each periodically send the first controller signals indicating operation in a normal power mode while being powered by a primary power converter, and responsive to receiving the request, do not send the signals during the low power mode while being capable of powered by an auxiliary power converter that has a maximum power limit less than the primary power converter. Also, the first controller, responsive to not receiving the signals for a predetermined period of time, disconnects the first and second controllers from the primary power converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Alexander Anderson, John Patrick New
  • Patent number: 11616919
    Abstract: Many embodiments can comprise a system. The system can comprise one or more processors and one or more storage devices. The one or more storage devices can be configured to store computing instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to receive a plurality of images of an object, the plurality of images comprising different views of the object from around the object; iteratively align one or more images within one or more subsets of the plurality of images until the object is aligned from image to image within the one or more subsets of the plurality of images; and selectively align respective images of the one or more subsets to each other to produce a surround image. Other embodiments are disclosed herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Carvana, LLC
    Inventors: Bruno Francois, Grant Schindler
  • Patent number: 11614345
    Abstract: Examples are disclosed that relate to sensing a position of a surface proximate to a resonant LC sensor. One example provides a method on a sensing device comprising one or more resonant LC sensors each configured to output a signal responsive to a position of a surface proximate to the resonant LC sensor. The method comprises, for each LC sensor, generating an oscillating signal on an antenna of the resonant LC sensor and detecting a near-field response of the resonant LC sensor at a selected frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Jouya Jadidian, Scott Francis Fullam, Rune Hartung Jensen
  • Patent number: 11614677
    Abstract: A panoramic device includes a base member and a clamp member rotatably interconnected within a single plane of rotation with the base that includes a first rotatable knob to selectively inhibit the rotation of the clamp member with respect to the base. The upper surface includes a central region that is at a different elevation than another portion of the upper surface. The clamp includes a pair of opposed surfaces suitable to detachably secure a camera thereto. The one of the opposed surfaces is maintained in a fixed relationship with respect to the clamp member. The other one of the opposed surfaces is in a movable relationship with respect to the clamp member using a second rotatable knob. The first knob and the second knob are rotatably connected with respect to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Really Right Stuff, LLC
    Inventor: Joseph M. Johnson, Sr.