Patents Assigned to LLC
  • Patent number: 11615658
    Abstract: Vehicle fuel tank modeling systems and methods are provided herein. An example method includes introducing known volumes of fuel into the fuel tank, determining correlations of fuel level percentage values relative to the known volumes of fuel placed into the fuel tank, offsetting the correlations to compensate for unusable fuel volume of the fuel tank, selecting a non-linear fuel tank model that fits the offset correlations, and applying the non-linear fuel tank model to a target vehicle having a fuel tank with a fuel tank part number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Hyongju Park, Ben Bulat, Richard Gordon, Arnold Babila
  • Patent number: 11615072
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to processing operations that assess the impact of data invalidations and manage remediation of the data invalidations based on results of an assessment of the impact of the data invalidation on operation of an application/service. Identified data invalidations may be aggregated and analyzed. In one non-limiting example, types of data invalidations are aggregated over a temporal count to identify recent data invalidations. Analysis of aggregated types of data invalidations comprises evaluating an intensity of the types of data invalidations identified within the temporal count. Identified data invalidations may be ranked based on intensity analysis identifying impact on presentation of content through an application/service during the temporal count. Remediation of data invalidations may be managed based on the ranking processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventor: Sameeksha Suresh Subhedar
  • Patent number: 11616762
    Abstract: A method, a system, and a non-transitory computer readable medium are disclosed for a voice based application blocker. The method includes receiving, on a gateway, a text message from a mobile device; tokenizing, on a processor of the gateway, the text message into at least a user and a purpose, the purpose being denying or granting access of the user to one or more applications from the gateway; and creating, on a firewall of the gateway, blocking rules for the user to the one or more applications from the gateway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises LLC
    Inventor: Banala Venkat Rao
  • Patent number: 11613280
    Abstract: A deflector for use with railcars and containers. The deflector may be used to retrofit railcars and other container to reduce aerodynamic drag. The deflector may be collapsible for use with stacked containers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Deflect LLC
    Inventors: Spencer Wheatley Maynes, Wayne Kennedy, Ren Hansen, Kevin Anthony Golsch
  • Patent number: 11612538
    Abstract: The present invention relates to tactile warning panels, and in particular to tactile warning panels that are designed and built with multifunction/multipurpose capabilities that serve the visually impaired and enable the deployment of smart city technology by integrating tactile warning systems and subsurface enclosures that can withstand pressures of five (5) tons up to and exceeding sixty (60) tons and incorporate small cells, beacons, sensors, Fog Computing, electric energy generation, rechargeable power supplies, wireless M2M communication and a plethora of other smart city technologies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Brandbumps, LLC
    Inventors: Christopher Gary Henshue, Gary LaVerne Henshue, James Cyrus Rice
  • Patent number: 11617175
    Abstract: An access system for a wireless local area network is provided. The access system initiates operation in a first frequency band of a plurality of frequency bands of the wireless local area network to provide one or more wireless client devices of the wireless local area network with access to a wireless wide area network. The access system also processes one or more association requests received in the first frequency band to identify one or more associated wireless client device. The access system also determines whether each of the one or more associated wireless client devices supports a second frequency band. The access system also sends a request to the one or more associated wireless client devices to transition from the first frequency band to the second frequency band based on determining that each of the one or more associated wireless client devices supports the second frequency band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Paul James Husted, Nihar Jindal
  • Patent number: 11615198
    Abstract: A method and apparatus encrypting data for use by an application includes receiving a first clear data in a security application running concurrently with the application. The security application encrypts the first clear data to generate a first encrypted package and distributes the encrypted package for use by the application or by other applications running concurrently with the application. The security application also receives and decrypts encrypted packages from the application or one of the other applications to provide clear data for use by the application. The security application may be implemented as a data entry utility that can be accessed directly by the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Arebus LLC
    Inventors: Edwin Zargarian, Andrew Robert Rolfe
  • Patent number: 11616813
    Abstract: A secured exploration agent for reinforcement learning (RL) is provided. Securitizing an exploration agent includes training the exploration agent to avoid dead-end states and dead-end trajectories. During training, the exploration agent “learns” to identify and avoid dead-end states of a Markov Decision Process (MDP). The secured exploration agent is utilized to safely and efficiently explore the environment, while significantly reducing the training time, as well as the cost and safety concerns associated with conventional RL. The secured exploration agent is employed to guide the behavior of a corresponding exploitation agent. During training, a policy of the exploration agent is iteratively updated to reflect an estimated probability that a state is a dead-end state. The probability, via the exploration policy, that the exploration agent chooses an action that results in a transition to a dead-end state is reduced to reflect the estimated probability that the state is a dead-end state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Harm Hendrik Van Seijen, Seyed Mehdi Fatemi Booshehri
  • Patent number: 11616589
    Abstract: Exemplary methods include a processor executing instructions stored in a memory for generating an electronic count-in, binding it to a first performance to generate a master clock and transmitting a first musician's first performance and first timing information to a network caching, storage, timing and mixing module. The first musician's first performance may be recorded locally at full resolution and transmitted to a full resolution media server and the first timing information may be transmitted to the master clock. The first musician's first performance is transmitted to a sound device of a second musician and the second musician creates a second performance, transmits it and second timing information to a network caching, storage, timing and mixing module. The first and second performances are mixed along with the first and the second timing information to generate a first mixed audio, which can be transmitted to a sound device of a third musician.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC
    Inventor: Albhy Galuten
  • Patent number: 11614308
    Abstract: A weapon mountable illumination device configured to mount to existing firearm mounting rails to provide illumination of potential targets while mitigating problems associated with snagging, and shadow casting. It is an aspect of the present invention to provide a rapidly mountable device to provide increased lighting capability while obviating the need to remove back up iron sights.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: In-Extremis Design and Development, LLC
    Inventors: Dennis DeBobes, Ryan Neel, Jeffrey Jakubowski
  • Patent number: 11616329
    Abstract: A circular power connector that can accommodate plugs of varying diameters includes a plurality of electrical terminals that include a contact beam extending from and monolithic with base, where the contact beam includes a contact portion, and a mounting portion that extends from and monolithic with a base for mounting the terminal to a substrate. The terminals are cylindrically arranged to receive a plug. Alternatively, each electrical terminal includes a frame portion, a first contact beam extending from the frame in a first direction, and a second contact beam extending from the frame in a second direction. Multiple electrical terminals are oriented so that the first and second contact beams for one terminal extend at an angle, preferably perpendicular, to the first and second contact beams of another electrical terminal, in a still further embodiment, an electrical terminal having two halves is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: FCI USA LLC
    Inventors: Charles Copper, Thomas Brungard
  • 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: 11616270
    Abstract: A battery includes a plurality of battery cells, each battery cell including a core, a source of thermal control fluid in fluid communication with the core, and a first pressure sensitive valve positioned between the core and the source of thermal control fluid, the first pressure sensitive valve adapted to open when pressure within the core exceeds a first pre-determined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventor: Xiaofeng Yang
  • Patent number: 11615291
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and computer readable media related to combining and/or training one or more neural network modules based on version identifier(s) assigned to the neural network module(s). Some implementations are directed to using version identifiers of neural network modules in determining whether and/or how to combine multiple neural network modules to generate a combined neural network model for use by a robot and/or other apparatus. Some implementations are additionally or alternatively directed to assigning a version identifier to an endpoint of a neural network module based on one or more other neural network modules to which the neural network module is joined during training of the neural network module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: X DEVELOPMENT LLC
    Inventors: Adrian Li, Mrinal Kalakrishnan
  • Patent number: 11613108
    Abstract: Packaging material formed from a substrate and three coating layers or in some instances at least three coating layers, each coating including an aqueous polymeric solution or dispersion dried to form a continuous film such that the packaging material is provided with tailored performance attributes including desired moisture vapor transmission rates, oxygen permeation rates, oil and grease resistance peel strength. The materials forming the packaging material may be compostable or biodegradable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: GPCP IP Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Lori Jeanne Fortin, Ana Michel Retzlaff, Andrew Paul Balliet, Gary Harold Knauf
  • Patent number: 11614012
    Abstract: A system for removing particulate matter from the gas in a gas discharge laser includes one or more nonwoven screens which are optimized for, among others, manufacturability and feature integration. The nonwoven screens are configured for precisely directing the flow to optimize the separation of particles from the gas flow and provide sufficient surface area for improved dust adherence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Cymer, LLC
    Inventors: Ulrich Niemann, Walter Dale Gillespie
  • Patent number: 11616237
    Abstract: A battery plate having a substrate with opposing surfaces and one or more nonplanar structures and one or more active materials disposed on at least one of the opposing surfaces; wherein the battery plate includes one or more of: i) one or more projections disposed within but do not extend beyond the active material; ii) one or more projections which project beyond the active material and substantially free of the active material or dust formed from the active material; and/or iii) a frame about the periphery of the substrate which projects beyond the active material and is substantially free of the active material or dust formed from the active material; and wherein the battery plate is adapted to form part of one or more electrochemical cells in a battery assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Advanced Battery Concepts, LLC
    Inventors: Edward O. Shaffer, II, Donald Hobday, Brian R. Sturdavant, Jeffrey L. Adkins, Adam V. Cadena
  • Patent number: D981725
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Mr. Bar-B-Q Products LLC
    Inventors: Marc Zemel, Joanne Rudis
  • Patent number: D981828
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: SPECTRUM DIVERSIFIED DESIGNS, LLC
    Inventor: Bridget Hunt
  • Patent number: D981918
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Ege Arguden, Dong H. Park, Paul Wraith, William Mangan, Damon G. DePeyster, Heath W. Hillard