Patents Assigned to LLC
  • Publication number: 20230093596
    Abstract: A harness apparatus for use with a head-mounted display device is disclosed. In at least one embodiment, the apparatus provides a pair of display connector portions positioned on opposing left and right sides of the display device. A harness assembly provides at least one elongate primary head strap for engagement about a user’s head, with opposing terminal ends of the at least one primary head strap being positioned proximal a left temple and a right temple, respectively, of the user’s head, and providing a pair of strap connector portions configured for removable engagement with the pair of display connector portions. The harness assembly further provides a gasket extending between the strap connector portions and configured for being positionable in contact with a face of the user so as to be sandwiched between the display device and the user’s face when the display device is engaged with the harness assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Applicant: Boyd Entertainment Group, LLC
    Inventors: Adam Christopher Boyd, Christian Peter Burrows
  • Publication number: 20230089424
    Abstract: A system for optimization of a recharging flight plan for an electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. The system includes a recharging infrastructure. The recharging infra structure includes a computing device. The computing device is configured to receive an aircraft metric from a flight controller of an eVTOL aircraft, generate a safe approach plan for the eVTOL aircraft as a function of the aircraft metric, and transmit the safe approach plan to the eVTOL aircraft for execution by the eVTOL aircraft. A method for optimization of a recharging flight plan for an eVTOL aircraft is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Applicant: BETA AIR, LLC
    Inventor: Vincent Moeykens
  • Publication number: 20230092880
    Abstract: According to an example for virtual currency exchange management, a list of virtual currencies that can be exchanged between a first application and a second application is determined, and a virtual currency exchange rate between a first virtual currency in the first application and a second virtual currency in the second application is calculated. The user is authenticated to the first and second application, and in the event that authentication is successful, the first virtual currency associated with the user is decremented based on the exchange rate and the second virtual currency associated with the user is incremented based on the exchange rate. In some examples, a redeemable asset, digital currency, cryptocurrency, or combinations thereof may be exchanged for a virtual currency based on a calculated exchange rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Applicant: TIL TING POINT MEDIA LLC
    Inventors: J. Niklas Herriger, Andre Cohen
  • Publication number: 20230087738
    Abstract: Systems and methods including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory storage devices storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processors and perform: parsing one or more web texts; determining a respective web text sentiment score for each respective web text of the one or more web texts, as parsed; creating a ranked list of one or more match words in the one or more web texts; scoring the one or more match words in the ranked list of the one or more match words; creating a report covering a predetermined period of time using the one or more match words, as scored, in the ranked list; extracting one or more topics from the report covering the predetermined period of time; labeling the one or more match words to create labeled training data; and training a word-based classifier using the labeled training data to identify non-conforming web text submitted to a website for display, wherein the one or more web texts comprises the non-confirming web text.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2021
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Applicant: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventor: Nitin Kishore Sai Samala
  • Publication number: 20230090691
    Abstract: The described invention provides a cosmetic composition formulated for topical application containing a water-based gel component comprising hyaluronic acid; a botanical ingredient component comprising decarboxylated cannabidiol (CBD) representing about 20% of an isolate, and a cosmetic composition stabilizing system comprising arginine, p-anisic acid, and levulinic acid, wherein the composition is a slightly viscous non-occluded water based liquid; pH of the finished product ranges from about 4.0 to about 5.0; and the composition is not psychoactive. The described invention also provides methods for promoting and maintaining vaginovulval and perianal tissue vitality and tissue health in a subject in need thereof by administering the composition topically to the subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Applicant: SPINART, LLC
    Inventor: Garrett Reynolds
  • Publication number: 20230085990
    Abstract: A cast iron alloy is provided with a composition in weight percent (wt.%) of carbon between 2.6 to 3.4 wt.%, silicon between 2.4 to 3.2 wt.%, manganese between 0.3 to 0.6 wt.%, molybdenum between 0.4 to 1.2 wt.%, nickel between 0.6 to 1.75 wt.%, magnesium between 0.01 to 0.075 wt.%, aluminum between 1.8 to 3.5 wt.%, sulfur between 0.003 to 0.025 wt.%, zirconium between 0.001 to 0.02 wt.%, cerium between 0.001 to 0.03 wt.%, lanthanum between 0.0005 to 0.02 wt.%, and a balance of iron and unavoidable trace elements. A part formed from the cast iron alloy is also provided and the part has an Ac1 temperature equal to or greater than 895° C. and a thermo-mechanical fatigue lifetime of at least 10,000.00 cycles when cycled between 400° C. to 800° C. with a total cyclic strain equal to 0.001 m/m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Applicants: Ford Global Technologies, LLC, The Curators of the University of Missouri
    Inventors: Larry Alan Godlewski, Mei Li, Carlos Engler-Pinto, Simon Naymovich Lekakh
  • Publication number: 20230086950
    Abstract: An optical connector for terminating a cable containing one or more multicore fibers. The connector has a plug housing, a ferrule disposed inside the housing, a rotatable frame, and a multicore fiber (MCF) stub having a length of a first MCF a portion of which is fixed inside the ferrule so that a first endface of the fiber is exposed at the front end of the ferrule. An opposite endface of the first MCF is cleaved for fusion splicing to a second MCF in the cable to be terminated. The ferrule also has a flange, and the frame is formed to engage the flange for rotation so that cores in the first MCF can be aligned and positioned in a prescribed orientation relative to the plug housing, and cores in the second MCF can be aligned with corresponding cores in the first MCF when the first and the second MCFs are fusion spliced to one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Applicant: OFS Fitel, LLC
    Inventor: Kelvin B. Bradley
  • Publication number: 20230089708
    Abstract: A UE can enable a VoWIFI service, receive hidden SSID information, and register with a core network via a RAN. The UE can monitor a first signal strength of a first signal from the RAN. The UE can scan for a second signal from a WLAN, and when found, can measure a second signal strength of the second signal. The UE can determine whether the first signal strength is at or below a first threshold. If so, and if the WLAN is untrusted, the UE can probe it with the hidden SSID information. If the untrusted WLAN responds, the UE can send an access request to an untrusted WLAN access point. The UE can receive, via the untrusted WLAN access point, an authentication challenge from an ePDG. If the UE passes the authentication challenge, the UE can register with the core network via the untrusted WLAN and the ePDG.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Applicants: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Wood, Karen Stansbury, Nicholas Thompson
  • Publication number: 20230088730
    Abstract: A coding and modulation apparatus and method are presented. The apparatus comprises an encoder that encodes input data into cell words, and a modulator that modulates said cell words into constellation values of a non-uniform constellation. The modulator is configured to use, based on the total number M of constellation points of the constellation and the code rate, a non-uniform constellation from one or several groups of constellations each comprising one or more constellations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Applicant: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventors: Nabil LOGHIN, Lothar STADELMEIER, Jan ZOELLNER, Yuji SHINOHARA
  • Publication number: 20230088837
    Abstract: Various embodiments are directed to securely generating and managing passwords using a near-field communication (NFC) enabled contactless smart card. For example, a secure password may be generated by generating a random number via a random number generator of the contactless smart card and converting the random number to one or more human-readable characters. In another example, a secure cryptographic hash function of the contactless smart card may generate a hash output value, which may be converted to one or more human-readable characters. The human-readable characters may be used as the secure password or it may be transformed to add more layers of security and complexity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Applicant: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Kevin OSBORN, Jeffrey RULE
  • Publication number: 20230090148
    Abstract: A method for calibrating a quantum-computing operation comprises: (a) providing a trial control-parameter value to the quantum computer; (b) receiving from the quantum computer a result of a characterization experiment enacted according to the trial control-parameter value; (c) computing a decoder estimate of an objective function evaluated at the trial control-parameter value based on decoding the result of the characterization experiment; (d) consuming the trial control-parameter value and the decoder estimate in a machine trained to return a model estimate of the objective function evaluated at the trial control-parameter value; and (e) selecting a new trial control-parameter value based on the model estimate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: John King GAMBLE, IV, Christopher Evan GRANADE, Guenevere Elaine Diah Kartika PRAWIRO-ATMODJO
  • Publication number: 20230090606
    Abstract: A system for treating water for use in aquatics or recreational facilities is disclosed. The system includes a media filter vessel, a pressure sensor, and a monochromatic light source. A method of treating water for use in aquatics or recreational facilities is also disclosed. The method includes fluidly connecting a media filter vessel to a source of water for use in aquatics or recreational facilities, illuminating a media inside the media filter vessel, observing a monochromatic light source display a first indicator and observing a monochromatic light source display a second indicator. A method of retrofitting a media filter vessel is also disclosed. The method includes installing a pressure sensor on the media filter vessel, installing a monochromatic light source and operably connecting the monochromatic light source to a manual control and to the pressure sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Applicant: Evoqua Water Technologies LLC
    Inventor: Steven Nicolich
  • Publication number: 20230090677
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for mesh coding (e.g., compression and decompression). In some examples, an apparatus for mesh coding includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry decodes at least a first array and a second array from a bitstream carrying a three-dimensional (3D) mesh frame. The first array includes respective connectivity values of vertices in the 3D mesh frame according to a vertex traversal order that is consistent with the second array that includes coordinates of the vertices. The processing circuitry determines edges that connect the vertices based on at least the respective connectivity values of the vertices and the coordinates of the vertices, and reconstructs the 3D mesh frame based on at least the coordinates of the vertices and the edges.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Applicant: Tencent America LLC
    Inventors: Xiang ZHANG, Chao HUANG, Jun TIAN, Xiaozhong XU, Shan LIU
  • Publication number: 20230091192
    Abstract: Non-transform blocks of video content may be coded by selectively changing a scanning order. in some implementations, an encoder or decoder may perform a scanning process on a block according to a scanning order. When the block has not been transformed, the encoder or decoder may selectively change the scanning order to a different order. For example, if the block is associated with a particular type of prediction, the scanning order may be changed to a different order. In another example, if the non-transform. block has a size that is smaller than a predetermined size, the scanning order may be changed to a different order.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Xiulian Peng, Jizheng Xu
  • Publication number: 20230091538
    Abstract: A method includes obtaining, from a server, a filter including a set of encrypted identifiers each encrypted with a server key controlled by the server. The method includes obtaining a request that requests determination of whether a query identifier is a member of a set of identifiers corresponding to the set of encrypted identifiers. The method also includes transmitting an encryption request to the server that requests the server to encrypt the query identifier. The method includes receiving, from the server, an encrypted query identifier including the query identifier encrypted by the server key and determining, using the filter, whether the encrypted query identifier is not a member of the set of encrypted identifiers. When the encrypted query identifier is not a member of the set of encrypted identifiers, the method includes reporting that the query identifier is not a member of the set of identifiers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Kevin Yeo, Joon Young Seo, Sarvar Patel
  • Publication number: 20230091602
    Abstract: Approaches to robust encoding and decoding of escape-coded pixels in a palette mode are described. For example, sample values of escape-coded pixels in palette mode are encoded/decoded using a binarization process that depends on a constant value of quantization parameter (“QP”) for the sample values. Or, as another example, sample values of escape-coded pixels in palette mode are encoded/decoded using a binarization process that depends on sample depth for the sample values. Or, as still another example, sample values of escape-coded pixels in palette mode are encoded/decoding using a binarization process that depends on some other fixed rule. In example implementations, these approaches avoid dependencies on unit-level QP values when parsing the sample values of escape-coded pixels, which can make encoding/decoding more robust to data loss.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Bin Li, Jizheng Xu
  • Publication number: 20230092318
    Abstract: A method for a proxyless protocol includes intercepting, from a client, a first Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) connection request requesting to establish a TCP connection between the client and a proxy for routing data to a destination server. The request includes client information and a first sequence number. The method also includes transmitting, to the destination server, a second TCP connection request to establish a TCP connection between the client and the destination server. The second request includes a second sequence number less than the first sequence number. The method also includes intercepting, from the destination server, an acknowledgment message indicating acknowledgment of the second TCP connection request. The method also includes transmitting, to the destination server, a proxy protocol header message with the client information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Sonny Ben-Shimon, Uri Goren, Daniel Berkovitch, Ittai Balaban, Alok Kumar, Parveen Patel, Pierre-emmanuel Ettori, Anshuman Gupta, Idan Brown, Noam Lampert
  • Publication number: 20230092807
    Abstract: Methods, endoscopic systems, and non-transitory, machine-readable storage media for adjusting an exposure of an endoscopic system are described. In an embodiment, the methods include emitting light with a light source into a proximal end of an endoscope light pipe; generating received light signals with a photodetector based on light received through the endoscope light pipe by the photodetector; displaying, with a display module, images based on the received light signals having a current image brightness; monitoring the received light signals for changes to the current image brightness; and adjusting a light source illuminance level, and in some embodiments a photodetector gain and exposure time, based on the current image brightness to maintain a target image brightness of the display module. In an embodiment, a brightness adjustment step size is less than a just-noticeable difference in brightness of an eye and is directly proportional to the current image brightness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Applicant: Verily Life Sciences LLC
    Inventors: Nishant Verma, Ryan L. Robertson
  • Publication number: 20230087180
    Abstract: This invention relates to a method for the preparation of lithium carbonate from lithium chloride containing brines. The method can include a silica removal step, capturing lithium chloride, recovering lithium chloride, supplying lithium chloride to an electrochemical cell and producing lithium hydroxide, contacting the lithium hydroxide with carbon dioxide to produce lithium carbonate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Applicant: TERRALITHIUM LLC
    Inventor: Stephen Harrison
  • Publication number: 20230087207
    Abstract: A thermal barrier component for an electrochemical cell according to various aspects of the present disclosure includes a functional material. The functional material includes at least one of a hydrate of a metal carbonate and a hydrate of a metal phosphate. The functional material is configured to release water vapor at a first temperature of greater than or equal to about 100° C. and decompose to release a gaseous fire retardant at a second temperature of greater than or equal to about 300° C. Another thermal barrier component according to various aspects of the present disclosure includes a hydrate and a fire retardant. The hydrate is configured to release water in an amount greater than or equal to about 1 kg at a first temperature of greater than or equal to about 100° C. The fire retardant is configured to decompose at a second temperature of greater than or equal to about 300° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Xingcheng XIAO, Yangbing ZENG, Mei CAI