Patents Assigned to LLC
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Publication number: 20250135138Abstract: The present invention is directed to a new and novel articulating stylet medical device that facilitates endotracheal intubation. During an intubation procedure, the present device uniquely guides a distal portion of a standard, non-proprietary endotracheal tube (ETT) mounted thereover within the narrow confines of a patient's pharynx under visual control via a laryngoscope and then through the larynx and then in to the trachea. Thus, the articulating stylet of the present invention facilitates a faster and safer intubation procedures compared to prior art stylet medical devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2024Publication date: May 1, 2025Applicant: SmartAirway LLCInventor: Richard Rutgers
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Publication number: 20250135838Abstract: A monitoring system and method monitor one or more parameters of at least a first component of a compressed air system of a vehicle while a speed of a compressor motor of the compressed air system is modified over time. The one or more parameters are monitored based on signals generated by one or more sensors. The monitoring system and method determine a condition of at least the first component of the compressed air system based on an analysis of the one or more parameters that are monitored.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2024Publication date: May 1, 2025Applicant: Transportation IP Holdings, LLCInventors: Vinay Bavdekar, Shankar Chandrasekaran, Ananthalakshmi Thiruvannamalai Viswanathan, Munishwar Ahuja
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Publication number: 20250135808Abstract: In one aspect, a tire assembly is provided, the tire assembly comprising: a tire having a tread, two shoulders, two sidewalls, and two bead portions, wherein the sidewalls are oriented radially between the respective shoulders and the respective bead portions, wherein each of the sidewalls are cantilevered in shape, with each respective shoulder projecting axially outward from the entirety of its respective sidewall, a flexible sidewall support structure oriented axially outward of and in contact with each sidewall and its respective bead portion, wherein the flexible sidewall support structure has an annular shape, wherein the flexible sidewall support structure is external to and separate from the tire, and a flexible panel oriented axially outward of an in contact with each of the tire and the flexible sidewall support structure in the region of each shoulder.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2023Publication date: May 1, 2025Applicant: BRIDGESTONE AMERICAS TIRE OPERATIONS, LLCInventor: Kevin E. Scheifele
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Publication number: 20250136361Abstract: A system for holding food waste includes a first housing forming a chamber to hold the food waste, the chamber comprising at least a first port, and a second housing comprising at least a second port configured to couple with at least the first port, and a fan to provide airflow into the chamber through at least the second port, the first housing removably coupled with the second housing such that removal of the first housing from the second housing decouples at least the first port from at least the second port.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2023Publication date: May 1, 2025Applicant: SharkNinja Operating LLCInventor: Travis Marks
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Publication number: 20250138575Abstract: A programmable drive-sense unit includes a drive-sense circuit operably coupled to a load, the drive-sense circuit being configured to drive and simultaneously to sense the load via a single line, and produce an analog output based on the sensing the load in accordance with a first set of programmable operational parameters. The programmable drive-sense unit also includes an analog to digital circuit operably coupled to the drive-sense circuit, where the analog to digital circuit is operable to generate a digital output based on the analog output and in accordance with a second set of programmable operational parameters.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2025Publication date: May 1, 2025Applicant: SigmaSense, LLC.Inventors: Richard Stuart Seger, JR., Daniel Keith Van Ostrand, Patrick Troy Gray, Michael Shawn Gray, Timothy W. Markison
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Publication number: 20250134466Abstract: Various examples describe a livestock monitoring bolus. A sensor signal may comprise a rotational component describing a rotation of the sensor within an animal and a linear component describing a linear movement of the sensor within the animal. The rotational component may be used to identify an animal respiration signal. The animal respiration signal and the linear component may be used to generate a respiration-corrected linear component. An animal heart signal may be detected from the respiration-corrected linear component.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2025Publication date: May 1, 2025Applicant: ST Reproductive Technologies, LLCInventors: Nicholas P. Rettedal, Stephen M. Weilnau, Joseph J. Janus, IV, Randall Bond
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Publication number: 20250134490Abstract: A device and system for and methods of using an ultrasound probe housing containing ultrasound probes configured to produce images inside the body of a patient for procedures requiring needle or probe insertion. The ultrasound probe housing can be configured with a guide channel cut-out or aperture between the ambient side and body side of a patient. A needle guide assembly may be pivotally connected internal to the guide channel cut-out or aperture of the ultrasound probe housing at a pivot point such that during use the needle enters the patient through the needle guide assembly within the ultrasonic probe housing so that the needle can be visualized by the ultrasonic probes in real time. The ultrasound probe housing may also provide an adhesion or suction quality to the body side of the device to facilitate aspects of the invention.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 31, 2024Publication date: May 1, 2025Applicant: Dandelion Technologies, LLCInventors: Paul ADAMS, Christopher VETTER, Michael Andrew HOLTMAN
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Publication number: 20250135926Abstract: A system includes: an alternating current (AC) to direct current (DC) converter (AC-DC converter), the AC-DC converter connectable to a line voltage; and a DC to DC converter (DC-DC converter) connected to the AC-DC converter, the DC-DC converter including: a high voltage buck-boost converter having a secondary side connectable to a high voltage battery; a low voltage buck-boost converter having a secondary side connectable to a low voltage battery; and one or more transformers having a primary side connected to the AC-DC converter, a secondary side connected to a primary side of the high voltage buck-boost converter, and a tertiary side connected to a primary side of the low voltage buck-boost converter.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2023Publication date: May 1, 2025Applicant: BorgWarner US Technologies LLCInventors: Venkata Jaya Sai Praneeth Ammanamanchi, Alexandre M. S. Reis, Joseph A. Engel, Scott E. Bauer
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Patent number: 12285215Abstract: An analytic tool for supporting alignment of an optical component in preparation for an interferometric test and performance of such a test. Apparatus and methods involve employment of the datum features on the optical component and/or metrology frame supporting such component. The metrology frame may include a secondary set of holograms (provided for use with a conventional system already employing a primary hologram that forms the testing optical wavefront). The conventional primary hologram is preferably substituted with a set of primary holograms (contained in the same, unitary or spatially-complementary housing sets) that perform different but complementary functions and that facilitate the alignment of the metrology frame with or without the tested optical component.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2024Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: ARIZONA OPTICAL METROLOGY LLCInventors: James Burge, Chunyu Zhao
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Patent number: 12285875Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for calibrating a robotic workcell. One of the methods includes obtaining an initial model of a workcell having a plurality of calibration entities including a plurality of robots and a plurality of sensors configured to observe movements by one or more calibration entities. executing a calibration program that generates movement data representing movements by the plurality of robots. A plurality of different constraint pairs are generated from sensor data, the constraint pairs specifying a relationship between poses of calibration entities that are observed in different coordinate frames each defined by a calibration entity and is represented in the sensor data. One or more optimization processes are performed on the plurality of different constraint pairs to generate a plurality of calibration values.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2020Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: Intrinsic Innovation LLCInventor: Dirk Holz
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Patent number: 12289690Abstract: Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, and machine-readable mediums in which interference is mitigated on a wireless radio frequency channel used by multiple computing devices by adjusting (e.g., lowering) the power level of one or more computing devices (e.g., mobile devices such as User Equipment (UE) devices) and using successive interference cancellation to decode the combined signals. Successive interference cancellation may first decode a strongest signal of a combined signal of all computing devices. The decoded signal is then subtracted from the combined signal. The strongest signal of that combined signal is then decoded and then subtracted and so on until all signals are decoded.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2022Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Amer Aref Hassan, Roy D. Kuntz
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Patent number: 12285557Abstract: According to some embodiments, a system may treat blood outside the body of a patient. The system may include one or more pumps configured to pump blood in a fluid flow path at a collective rate over 5 liters per minute. The system may include one or more heat exchangers operable to heat at least a portion of the blood to a temperature of at least 42 degrees Celsius and to allow the blood to cool one or more degrees following heating. The system may include one or more convection dialysis modules configured to perform convection dialysis on at least a portion of the blood at least after the one or more heat exchangers allow the blood to cool one or more degrees.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2020Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: HUMANITY LIFE EXTENSION LLCInventor: Patrick Richard Spearman
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Patent number: 12285071Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for a helmet shell mounting assembly. A system includes a mounting component and a locking slider configured to interface with the mounting component when the locking slider is in an engaged position to secure an outer helmet shell to an inner helmet. In another embodiment, the system also includes an anchor that is configured to pass through the outer helmet shell via a through hole and be received by the mounting component, and the locking slider is configured to retain the anchor within the mounting component when the locking slider is in the engaged position.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2022Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: MSA Technology, LLCInventors: Kevin R. Ketterer, David J. Losos
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Patent number: 12289636Abstract: A wireless device may receive packets according to a protocol, such as Bluetooth, and may rapidly react to receive an interfering RF packet instead of dropping the first RF packet and the interfering RF packet, to decrease message delay due to collisions in high device density environments. When a received signal strength indicator (RSSI) difference between the interfering RF packet and the first RF packet exceeds a threshold, the device may detect the interfering packet and resync a portion of its circuitry to lock on to and receive the interfering packet. The wireless receiver may detect the interfering RF packet by detecting one or more of: a specific resync byte sequence, an increase in RSSI, or a phase shift. Additionally, a wireless device may add the specific resync byte sequence to an RF packet of a standard protocol.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2024Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: Lutron Technology Company LLCInventors: Ankit Bhutani, Richard S. Camden, Galen E. Knode
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Patent number: 12285566Abstract: A universal respiratory detector for detecting a respiratory gas. The universal respiratory detector may include a plurality of layers with a visual indicator to quickly and reversibly change color to detect a respiratory gas parameter such as carbon dioxide. The color change may be visible from both sides of the detector. In some examples, the respiratory detector may be a biocompatible and conformable sticker for mounting on a person's face or an oxygen delivery device.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2024Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: Affirm Medical Technologies II, LLCInventors: Janice Cain, Brian Scott Cain, Alicia B. Dreger, Mark J. Bernhard, Avinash A. Mohan
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Patent number: 12286191Abstract: Vehicles (10) comprise a forward assembly (14) and a rearward assembly (22) coupled to and extending rearward from the forward assembly (14). The rearward assembly (22) comprises a deck (24) having an upper side (26) for supporting a rider in a standing position, and a lower side (27) opposite the upper side (26), and a rear wheel assembly (28) operably coupled to the deck (24). The rear wheel assembly (28) comprises a caster assembly (30) operably coupled to the deck (24) and a truck assembly (32) operably coupled to the deck (24) rearward of the caster assembly (30).Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2024Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: Dryft Board LLCInventors: Ralph Zipper, Nicholas Bartolotta, Skyler Olsen
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Patent number: 12286060Abstract: A head unit system for controlling an object includes a head unit device that include shear thickening fluid (STF) and a chamber configured to contain the STF. The chamber further includes a set of gates between a front channel and a back channel. The set of gates includes a bypass opening set. The head unit device further includes a piston housed at least partially radially within the chamber. The set of gates is configured to control flow of the STF between the front channel and the back channel to control rotational movement of the object. An accessory module assists in control of the object.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2024Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: Moshun, LLCInventors: Richard Michael Lang, David Schuda, Jason K. Resch, John Edward Buchalo, Gary W. Grube, Terence Michael Lydon, Steven Michael Barger, Timothy John Boundy, Eric McHugh
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Patent number: 12285717Abstract: Processes and apparatuses for operating a centrifugal gas compressor. A storage tank containing a liquid buffer material is provided and used to offset density fluctuations in the gas stream passed to the compressor. The storage tank may contain a component of the high-pressure gas stream provided by the compressor, such as carbon dioxide.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2022Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: UOP LLCInventors: Bradley Russell, Michael R. Van de Cotte, William Cady, Nasser Khazeni
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Patent number: 12287062Abstract: Improvements in an access point through a wall or ceiling for gaining access through the wall or ceiling using only one side of the wall or ceiling. After cutting a home the housing or frame for can then be pushed into the opening for installation and the installer can compress one-way retaining arms to secure the frame without requiring the use of any additional tools or requiring access to the back of the wall, ceiling or floor. The frame has locating key(s) ensures that the cover or electronics is installed in the preferred rotational orientation. One or plurality of locating keys that ensures the internal electronics can be installed in one or more than one orientation to minimize confusion regarding an acceptable orientation. The rotation positions can also be used to ensure that a logo or internal feature or cover is properly oriented.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2023Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: Origin Acoustics, LLCInventors: Joseph Whitaker, Michael Hopkins
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Patent number: 12289486Abstract: Methods, systems, and media for presenting notifications indicating recommended content are provided. A notification of recommended content can be provided. An indication that a user device has initiated a casting session with a display device can be received. A request for recommended content to be presented on the display device can be received. A media content item can be identified based on at least one media content item that has been previously selected by a user account associated with the user device. A notification can be generated that includes an indication of the identified media content item and a selectable input that, when selected, causes the identified media content item to begin being presented on the display device.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2024Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Justin Lewis, Richard Rapp
