Patents Assigned to LLC
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Patent number: 11609279Abstract: Vehicles and related systems and methods are provided for monitoring health of a power conversion module. A method involves operating the power conversion module to conduct a heating current until reaching a steady-state temperature, obtaining measurement data for an electrical characteristic associated with the power conversion module after reaching the steady-state temperature, determining a current thermal characterization curve for the power conversion module based on the measurement data and comparing the current thermal characterization curve to one or more reference thermal characterization curves for the power conversion module to identify a deviation associated with the current thermal characterization curve.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2022Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventor: Jinming Xu
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Patent number: 11610608Abstract: Systems and methods for recording personalized digital images on film are described. In some embodiments, a system may include a length of film, a film recorder, and a server. The system may be configured to record in a first frame of the length of film one or more digital images associated with a first user. The system may further be configured to record in a second frame of the length of film one or more digital images with a second user. As a result, the length of film may include a plurality of frames having respective sets of images, or renderings thereof, associated with respective users, and at least two frames of the length of film may include sets of images, or renderings thereof, associated with respective users that are different from one-another.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2021Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: Projectagram LLCInventors: Gordon Randolph Whitehouse, Guy Shahine
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Patent number: 11611122Abstract: A battery coolant heater assembly including a coolant manifold having liquid coolant pathways and a heat transfer surface for transferring heat to liquid coolant flowable within the coolant manifold, an electric heater element thermally contacted to the heat transfer surface of the manifold, and a cover sealably enclosing the heating element between the heat transfer surface and the cover via a gasket. The electric heater element is electrically connected via an electrical connector extending through and formed integrally with the gasket.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2020Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: Dana Automotive Systems Group, LLCInventors: Timothy W. Daughrity, Christopher M. Cook
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Patent number: 11608224Abstract: The present disclosure is a soft-shell cargo container that is ideal for “do-it-yourself” transport. The cargo container, which may be useful in a pickup truck bed, includes a single piece of a flexible shell material that defines a base panel, a front wall panel, back wall panel, two side wall panels, a top cover panel, and a tailgate panel. The cargo container is flexible and therefore adaptable to cover bulky or awkwardly shaped cargo. The cargo in the cargo container can be secured via interior fasteners, like loops, hooks, straps, and dividers. The cargo container can also be waterproof, fire retardant, puncture proof, and lockable. Thus, the cargo container protects belongings therein from weather damage, debris, and theft.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2021Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: Seguro Products, LLCInventors: Randall Fluke, Emily Fluke, Caroline Erck, John Erck, Austin Fluke
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Patent number: 11608228Abstract: A warehouse storage and retrieval system including an array of multilevel storage racks having at least one transfer deck, picking isles and storage areas disposed along picking isles, the storage areas being configured to hold differing loads, and a controller including a management module configured to variably size the storage areas of the array of multilevel storage rack modules and assign each of the variably sized storage areas to a corresponding one of the differing loads, wherein the storage and retrieval system is arranged to transport the differing loads for placement in the variably sized storage areas assigned by the controller.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2020Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: Symbotic LLCInventors: John Lert, Stephen Toebes, Robert Sullivan, Foster D. Hinshaw, Nathan Ulrich, Eric Peters
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Patent number: 11610147Abstract: An entangled quantum cache includes a quantum store that receives a plurality of quantum states and is configured to store and order the plurality of quantum states and to provide select ones of the stored and ordered plurality of quantum states to a quantum data output at a first desired time. A fidelity system is configured to determine a fidelity of at least some of the plurality of quantum states. A classical store is coupled to the fidelity system and configured to store classical data comprising the determined fidelity information and an index that associates particular ones of classical data with particular ones of the plurality of quantum states and to supply at least some of the classical data to a classical data output at a second desired time. A processor is connected to the classical store and determines the first time based on the index.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2022Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: Qubit Moving and Storage, LLCInventors: Gary Vacon, Kristin A. Rauschenbach
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Patent number: 11611451Abstract: A method for detecting a movement path in a monitored environment generates a first movement path record by collecting first node information for each of a first series of nodes including at least one of a sensor ID or a device ID, and a trigger time. The method further determines a first movement path total duration time from a difference between a time of the ending node and a time of the starting node of the first series of nodes. The method further stores the first movement path record and subsequently compares a second movement path record with the first movement path record by comparing the first node information with second node information for each of a second series of nodes of the second movement path record, and the first movement path total duration time with a second movement path total duration time.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2020Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Marci Meingast, Adam Cutbill
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Patent number: 11610091Abstract: Provided are compact transaction cards. In some approaches, a body of the card includes first and second sections rotatably coupled together, wherein the first and second sections define a first main side opposite a second main side, an insertion end perimeter opposite a second end perimeter, and a first side perimeter opposite a second side perimeter. The body may include a chip along the first main side, the chip being located on the first section of the body. A magnetic stripe may be provided along the second main side of the body, wherein the magnetic stripe is located on the second section, wherein the magnetic stripe extends parallel to the insertion end perimeter when the first and second sections are in a first configuration, and wherein the magnetic stripe extends perpendicular to the insertion end perimeter when the first and second sections are in a second configuration.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2021Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: Capital One Services, LLCInventors: Bryant Yee, Tyler Maiman, Viraj Chaudhary
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Patent number: 11611881Abstract: A passive authentication method includes, in response to receiving a requested action from a first user, obtaining a set of sensor data and categorizing first sensor data of the set of sensor data into a first modality of a set of modalities. The method includes, for the first modality of the set of modalities, determining a distance value by applying a first modality model to the first sensor data and comparing the distance value to a first verified value of the first user for the first modality. The method includes, based on the comparison, determining a first authentication decision of the distance value. The method includes, in response to the first authentication decision indicating the first sensor data corresponds to the first user, performing the requested action.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2019Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignees: Board of Trustees of Michigan State University, Ford Global Technologies LLCInventors: Arun Ross, Anil K. Jain, Debayan Deb, Kwaku O. Prakah-Asante, Krishnaswamy Venkatesh Prasad
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Patent number: 11609956Abstract: Techniques for annotating electronic content items include receiving over a communication network a first request to associate a first tag from among a plurality different of tags with first electronic content, wherein each tag from among the plurality of tags is: configured to label electronic content, and associated with a respective task from among a plurality of tasks; recording, in response to receiving the first request, a first association between the first electronic content and the first tag; and transmitting over the communication network to a first recipient client: the first electronic content, and an instruction to the first recipient client to cause the first recipient client to execute, in response to receiving the first electronic content, the respective task associated with the first tag on the first electronic content.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2021Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Mitali Jain, Praveen Upadhyay, Mahesh Sridharan, Rajiv Kumar, Sanjib Biswas, Arun Rajappa, Sunny Mitra, Aloka Sanjib Kumar Mitra
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Patent number: 11610675Abstract: A computer-implemented method for dynamically reallocating resources to users of a coaching service. The method can include initially allocating resources to users of the coaching service, receiving indications of activities of the users relative to their allocated resources, and comparing the activities relative to a reference value to produce an outcome including a likelihood that a target user will benefit from a target resource. Upon identifying the target user, a dynamic reallocation process deallocates the target resource from another user and reallocates the target resource to the target user.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2020Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: Verily Life Sciences LLCInventors: Aaron Haywood Stoertz, Nikhil Roy, David Wright, Peilun Shan, Katherine Nadell, Sarah Abramson, Jesse Elds
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Patent number: 11607132Abstract: An exemplary system includes a photodetector configured to generate a plurality of photodetector output pulses over time as a plurality of light pulses are applied to and scattered by a target, a TPSF generation circuit configured to generate, based on the photodetector output pulses, a TPSF representative of a light pulse response of the target, and a control circuit configured to direct the TPSF generation circuit to selectively operate in different resolution modes.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2021Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: HI LLCInventors: Bruno Do Valle, Ryan Field, Rong Jin, Jacob Dahle
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Patent number: 11608192Abstract: This disclosure is generally directed to systems and methods for lifting drones to a desired height before launching. In one exemplary embodiment, a drone elevator system includes a looped cable that is engaged to a pair of pulleys. A first pulley of the pair of pulleys is coupled to a lighter-than-air craft and the second pulley is attached to a motor. The lighter-than-air craft moves upwards so as to raise the first pulley skywards and place the looped cable at an angle with respect to the ground. The motor is then operated to rotate the second pulley for moving the looped cable. The cable includes a set of tethers each of which is used to tether a drone. Each tether includes an extension arm that prevents the tethered drone from making contact with the cable when being lifted. Each tethered drone can be launched after being lifted to a desired height.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2019Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Thomas Leone, Kenneth Miller, Aed M. Dudar
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Patent number: 11608820Abstract: A belt guard for an air compressor that includes an air compressor silencer. The guard includes a housing that includes a front cover and a back cover, and an accommodation portion. The air compressor silencer is provided inside the housing in the accommodation portion, where the air compressor silencer includes a spirally shaped silencer core, and the spirally shaped silencer core includes at least one spiral chamber comprising a core inlet and a core outlet. Additionally, a compressor installation that includes a motor, a compressor, a belt connected to a compressor shaft of the compressor element and a motor shaft of the motor, and a belt guard that includes a front cover and a back cover, and an accommodation portion, where the compressor silencer is provided inside the housing in the accommodation portion.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2019Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: QUINCY COMPRESSOR LLCInventors: Tingrong Ren, Steve Centers, Gerald Kalapos, Byron Walker, Erik Baccin
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Patent number: 11608591Abstract: A textile fabric having improved properties, variously including surface stability, abrasion resistance, resistance to edge fraying, moisture control, and resistance to fluid penetration is created by introducing a polymeric solution or a plurality of low-melting particles suspended in a liquid into the textile fabric while leaving a plurality of surface fibers exposed and maintaining a textile feel on the surface.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2019Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: ENGINEERED FLOORS LLCInventors: John Joseph Matthews Rees, Stephen Horace Tsiarkezos, Dimitri Zafiroglu, Anthony Daniell
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Patent number: 11609847Abstract: Methods that can facilitate more optimized relocation of data associated with a memory are presented. In addition to a memory controller component, a memory manager component can be employed to increase available processing resources to facilitate more optimal execution of higher level functions. Higher level functions can be delegated to the memory manager component to allow execution of these higher level operations with reduced or no load on the memory controller component resources. A uni-bus or multi-bus architecture can be employed to further optimize data relocation operations. A first bus can be utilized for data access operations including read, write, erase, refresh, or combinations thereof, among others, while a second bus can be designated for higher level operations including data compaction, error code correction, wear leveling, or combinations thereof, among others.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2021Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: MONTEREY RESEARCH, LLCInventors: Walter Allen, Robert France
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Patent number: 11607620Abstract: A ride system includes ride vehicles. Each ride vehicle includes a rider support configured to carry a rider, a support actuator coupled to the rider support and a base of the ride vehicle and configured to move the rider support relative to the base, and a ride vehicle movement system integrated with the base and configured to move the ride vehicle relative to a ride area. The ride system also includes a controller configured to control the support actuator and the ride vehicle movement system of each ride vehicle individually based on a choreographed routine and an input received from a selected ride vehicle. The input is indicative of an adjustment to the support actuator, the ride vehicle movement system, or both, of each ride vehicle. The input is based on a correlative adjustment to the support actuator, the ride vehicle movement system, or both, of the selected ride vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2020Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: Universal City Studios LLCInventors: Andrew Evan Bloomfield, Kevin B. Primm
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Patent number: 11607933Abstract: An automotive panel assembly according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes a first panel, a second panel, and a flange of the first panel folded over an edge region of the second panel to hem together the first and second panels. The flange of the first panel includes a textured geometry that interlocks with a textured geometry of the edge region.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2019Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Michael J Gardynik, Steven Frank, Kevin Joseph Favero, Michael Joseph Lee, Ronald Machin
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Patent number: D981156Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2020Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: Austin Group Furniture, LLCInventor: Joseph Gilbert
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Patent number: D981292Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2021Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Kemal Curic, Earl Lucas, Shawn Wehrly, Ahmad Ahmadalkhorasani
