Patents Assigned to LLC
  • Patent number: 11613980
    Abstract: A system and method for operating a fleet of pumps for a turbine driven fracturing pump system used in hydraulic fracturing is disclosed. In an embodiment, a method of operating a fleet of pumps associated with a hydraulic fracturing system includes receiving a demand Hydraulic Horse Power (HHP) signal. The demand HHP signal may include the Horse Power (HP) required for the hydraulic fracturing system to operate and may include consideration for frictional and other losses. The method further includes operating all available pump units at a percentage of rating below Maximum Continuous Power (MCP) level, based at least in part on the demand HHP signal. Furthermore, the method may include receiving a signal for loss of power from one or more pump units. The method further includes operating one or more units at MCP level and operating one or more units at Maximum Intermittent Power (MIP) level to meet the demand HHP signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: BJ Energy Solutions, LLC
    Inventors: Tony Yeung, Ricardo Rodriguez-Ramon, Diankui Fu, Warren Zemlak, Samir Nath Seth, Joseph Foster
  • Patent number: 11614158
    Abstract: A hydraulic gerotor pump for an automatic transmission may comprise a housing and a gear set rotatably disposed within the housing. The gear set may comprise an inner gear and an outer gear having radially opposed intermeshing teeth that together define a plurality of circumferentially disposed variable volume pumping chambers therebetween. The housing may be made of a first aluminum-based material, and the inner gear and the outer gear of the gear set may be made of a second aluminum-based material. The linear coefficient of thermal expansion of the first aluminum-based material may be substantially the same as that of the second aluminum-based material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Robert Parrish, Wenying Yang, Zhe Li, Abir R. Das, Chad M. Huls, Anil K. Sachdev
  • Patent number: 11615457
    Abstract: A system may include a platform for an application to support processing flows for a service provider, such as ordering, sales, support, service delivery, and related process flows. The system may provide a limited set of application programming interfaces (APIs) that map to an application's user-experience page flows. The APIs may always appear to the application that the interaction process completed successfully—even if human intervention is required—to allow the application to complete the transaction. The system may have the ability to recognize the same user, and leverage that user's behavior across interactions with multiple sales channels. The system may thus provide, in one aspect, an enhanced user experience for ordering and maintaining complex service and equipment offerings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Catherine Avgiris, Amy Stipandic, Kevin Rhatigan, Kevin O'Brien
  • Patent number: 11612926
    Abstract: A method of forming a shaped steel object is provided. The method includes cutting a blank from an alloy composition including 0.05-0.5 wt. % carbon, 4-12 wt. % manganese, 1-8 wt. % aluminum, 0-0.4 wt. % vanadium, and a remainder balance of iron. The method also includes heating the blank until the blank is austenitized to form a heated blank, transferring the heated blank to a press, forming the heating blank into a predetermined shape to form a stamped object, and decreasing the temperature of the stamped object to a temperature between a martensite start (Ms) temperature of the alloy composition and a martensite final (Mf) temperature of the alloy composition to form a shaped steel object comprising martensite and retained austenite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Jiachen Pang, Qi Lu, Jianfeng Wang
  • Patent number: 11614170
    Abstract: A new system for negative pressure wound therapy is described. The system includes a patient tube set connecting the wound dressing to the suction container. The patient tube set provides separate channels for applying suction to the wound site and sensing the therapeutic pressure at the wound site. A restrictor valve may also be included in order to introduce a small air leak into the system to prevent occlusions in the patient tube set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Innovative Therapies, LLC
    Inventors: David Malcolm Tumey, Tianning Xu, Alan John Martin, Brent Lee Burchfield, Raymond Reade Harpham
  • Patent number: 11615248
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes maintaining a reminder store comprising one or more reminders for a first user, wherein each reminder is associated with an initial activation-condition, determining a context associated with the first user based on signals from a client system associated with the first user, determining a suppression-condition associated with at least one of the reminders is met based on the context, and suppressing the at least one reminder for the first user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Francislav P. Penov, Eric Xiao, Honglei Liu, Lisa Xiaoyi Huang, Xiaohu Liu
  • Patent number: 11614862
    Abstract: A system comprising: one or more processors; and program instructions for providing a user interface. Execution of the program instructions by the one or more processors causes the one or more processors to display a user interface comprising: an entry mechanism for entering an input comprising at least one character, symbol, numeral or punctuation mark; a typing pane configured to display the input entered via the entry mechanism; wherein, in response to selection of a prediction based on the input entered via the entry mechanism, the typing pane is configured to replace the input entered via the entry mechanism by the prediction; and an undo button, wherein in response to user selection of the undo button, the typing pane is configured to replace the selected prediction by the input entered via the entry mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Adam Clements, Richard Tunnicliffe, Benjamin William Medlock
  • Patent number: 11612346
    Abstract: In the present invention, a right leg drive RLD monitoring system is employed on a medical computing system/computer, such as an ECG, HEMO and/or EP monitoring, mapping and/or recording system, that includes a number of RLD circuits to be utilized for different procedures or monitoring states to be performed using the system. The RLD monitoring system operates to actively monitor and/or record the feedback voltage to the RLD isolated from the patient. Using the measured feedback voltage data, the RLD monitoring system can identify and determine if the RLD circuit in use is approaching saturation, has reached saturation and the duration the RLD circuit was in saturation. The RLD monitoring system can concurrently and/or subsequently select and/or provide selection information regarding an optimal RLD circuit to be utilized to most effectively perform the desired function of the RLD in the procedure being performed using the monitoring, mapping and/or recording system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: GE Precision Healthcare LLC
    Inventors: Adrian F. Warner, Daniel R. Schneidewend, Rodger F. Schmit, Timothy P. Stiemke
  • Patent number: 11612140
    Abstract: A chew resistant, adjustable animal collar having a semi-rigid but flexible insert affixed therein to increase durability thereof. The chew resistant, adjustable animal collar including a first metal wire affixed to a first peripheral edge of and spanning substantially an entire length of a longitudinal axis of the insert. The chew resistant, adjustable animal collar further including a second metal wire affixed to a second peripheral edge of the insert on an opposing side thereof relative to the first peripheral edge of the insert with the second metal wire also spanning substantially the entire length of the longitudinal axis of the insert.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Vendition 360 LLC
    Inventor: Robert Levi
  • Patent number: 11613675
    Abstract: A tackifier composition comprising at least one thermoplastic hydrocarbon resin and an antioxidant composition is provided; wherein a portion of the volatile organic compounds in the thermoplastic hydrocarbon resin has been removed; wherein the antioxidant composition comprises at least one primary antioxidant and at least one secondary antioxidant; and wherein the levels of individual volatile organic compound monitored in the tackifier composition are less than about 0.5 ppm as measured by GC/MS headspace analysis. Processes for producing the tackifier composition are also provided as well as adhesives comprising the tackifier compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Synthomer Adhesive Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Bing Yuan, James Palmer Dickerson, Bee Kim Liew, Christopher Wayne Osborne, Jacobus Siera
  • Patent number: 11615366
    Abstract: Artificial intelligence (AI)-based techniques are provided that predict a quality score for a product-related data structure associated with one or more products. One method comprises obtaining data for a given product-related data structure; evaluating a plurality of first features related to a customer account associated with the given product-related data structure using the obtained data; evaluating a plurality of second features related to the given product-related data structure using the obtained data; processing at least some of the first features and the second features using at least one model that provides a predicted quality score for the given product-related data structure; and applying one or more thresholds to the predicted quality score to determine an acceptance status related to the given product-related data structure. A weighting of the first features and the second features can be learned during a training phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Amihai Savir, Arthur Wensing, Noga Gershon, Marcel Bernard Körner, Ivan Mlynek, Jorge Luis Perez, Michael Rupert James Thatcher, Dhev George Kollannur, Omer Sagi
  • Patent number: 11613964
    Abstract: An insert safety valve includes a valve body having a valve member, and a control fluid conduit fluidically connected to the valve body. The insert safety valve being responsive to a control fluid at a first pressure to shift the valve member and open the valve body to a fluid flow and at a second pressure to add the control fluid to the fluid flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Todd Christophe Jackson, Christopher William Hales
  • Patent number: 11612881
    Abstract: A process for preparing a silver-containing catalyst for the oxidation of ethylene to ethylene oxide (EO) including the steps of: providing a support having pores; providing a silver-containing impregnation solution; adding an amount of surfactant to the impregnation solution; contacting the support with the surfactant-containing impregnation solution; and removing at least a portion of the impregnation solution prior to fixing the silver upon the carrier in a manner which preferentially removes impregnation solution not contained in the pores. The use of the surfactant results in improved drainage of the silver impregnation solution from the carrier exteriors during the catalyst synthesis. As a result, the amount of silver-containing impregnation solution necessary for the synthesis of the EO catalyst was reduced by up to 15% without reducing the catalyst performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Dow Technology Investments LLC
    Inventors: Daniel Grohol, Thomas Z. Srnak, Cathy L. Tway, George L. Athens, Kyle R. Essenmacher, Gary M. Seabolt, Tim D. Munro
  • Patent number: 11613669
    Abstract: A system for applying a first coating composition and a second coating composition. The system includes a first high transfer efficiency applicator defining a first nozzle orifice and a second high transfer efficiency applicator defining a second nozzle orifice. The system further includes a substrate defining a target area. The first high transfer efficiency applicator is configured to expel the first coating composition through the first nozzle orifice to the target area of the substrate to form a first coating layer. The second high transfer efficiency applicator is configured to expel the second coating composition through the second nozzle orifice to the first coating layer to form a second coating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: AXALTA COATING SYSTEMS IP CO., LLC
    Inventors: John R. Moore, Michael R. Koerner, Christian Jackson, Bradley A. Jacobs, Shih-Wa Wang, Matthew Irwin
  • Patent number: 11613967
    Abstract: A method of positioning a bottom hole assembly in a wellbore includes lowering the bottom hole assembly into the wellbore. The bottom hole assembly has a whipstock, a downhole tool, and a cleaning tool having a cleaning element. The method also includes cleaning at least a portion of a wall of the wellbore using the cleaning tool, and activating the downhole tool to engage the cleaned portion of the wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: WEATHERFORD TECHNOLOGY HOLDINGS, LLC
    Inventors: Kenneth D. Hora, Michael Smalley, David W. Teale, James H. Taylor, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11616427
    Abstract: A motor comprising: (a) a stator having a plurality of ferrous cores surrounded by a plurality of windings; (b) a pair of rotors positioned on opposing sides of the stator, each rotor including a ring gear; and (c) a drive shaft extending through a cutout of the stator, the drive shaft having a pinion gear positioned near an end of the drive shaft in communication with the ring gears of the rotors; wherein the rotors rotate in opposing directions so that the ring gears translate a movement of the rotors to the drive shaft through the pinion gear to rotate the drive shaft in a direction substantially orthogonal to a direction of rotation of the rotors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: CSAW Studios LLC
    Inventor: Seanan R. Holland
  • Patent number: 11613272
    Abstract: Systems and methods involve obtaining observation points of a lane line using one or more sensors of a vehicle. Each observation point indicates a location of a point on the lane line. A method includes obtaining uncertainty values, each uncertainty value corresponding with one of the observation points. A lane model is generated or updated using the observation points. The lane model indicates a path of the lane line. An uncertainty model is generated or updated using the uncertainty values corresponding with the observation points. The uncertainty model indicates uncertainty associated with each portion of the lane model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Alon Raveh, Shaul Oron, Bat El Shlomo
  • Patent number: D981803
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: FREEDOMWARE LLC
    Inventors: Brock Warner Langley, Zackary Ryan Roth, Jackson Alan Williams
  • Patent number: D981921
    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
  • Patent number: RE49473
    Abstract: A personal vaporizer has an atomizer module having a heating element and an atomizer cup for receiving vaporizing medium. A flow module is releasably attached to the atomizer module. The flow module intakes ambient air and directs the air into a vaporizing chamber at and adjacent the atomizer cup, where the air mixes with atomized medium to form a vapor. The vapor exits the vaporizing chamber via one or more exit passages defined through the flow module. Vapor is directed from the exit passages into a mouthpiece and further into the user's mouth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: LUBBY HOLDINGS, LLC
    Inventor: J. Christian Rado