Patents Assigned to LLC
  • Patent number: 11592978
    Abstract: A touch sensor system includes touch sensors, drive-sense circuits (DSCs), memory, and a processing module. A DSC drives a first signal via a single line coupling to a touch sensor and simultaneously senses, when present, a second signal that is uniquely associated with a user. The DSC processes the first signal and/or the second signal to generate a digital signal that is representative of an electrical characteristic of the touch sensor. The processing module executes operational instructions (stored in the memory) to process the digital signal to detect interaction of the user with the touch sensor and to determine whether the interaction of the user with the touch sensor compares favorably with authorization. When not authorized, the processing module aborts execution of operation(s) associated with the interaction of the user with the touch sensor. Alternatively, when authorized, the processing module facilitates execution of the operation(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: SIGMASENSE, LLC.
    Inventors: Patrick Troy Gray, Gerald Dale Morrison, Daniel Keith Van Ostrand, Richard Stuart Seger, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11591795
    Abstract: An end cap for a ceiling panel of a ceiling system. The end cap includes a face plate having an inner surface, a bottom edge, a top edge, a first side edge, and a second side edge. A first insertion plate extends from the inner surface of the face plate at the top edge of the face plate. A second insertion plate extends from the inner surface of the face plate at the bottom edge of the face plate. A concealment portion extends from the inner surface of the face plate along the first and second side edges of the face plate. The concealment portion may include an upper section positioned above the first insertion plate and spaced from the first insertion plate by a first gap and a lower section of positioned below the second insertion plate and spaced from the second insertion plate by a second gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: AWI Licensing LLC
    Inventor: Nicholas J. Friez
  • Patent number: 11593166
    Abstract: Pooling computing resources based on inferences about a plurality of hardware devices. The method includes identifying inference information about the plurality of devices. The method further includes based on the inference information optimizing resource usage of the plurality of hardware devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Arun U. Kishan, Emily Nicole Wilson, Mohammed Nashaat Soliman, Paresh Maisuria, Shira Weinberg, Gurpreet Virdi, Jared Brown
  • Patent number: 11590959
    Abstract: A system and method for controlling a hybrid vehicle having an engine, a traction motor, and an automatic step-ratio transmission having a plurality of selectable discrete gear ratios, a torque converter, and sharing a common cooling fluid or oil with the traction motor, include a controller configured to shift the automatic step-ratio transmission to neutral in response to vehicle speed being below a threshold with the engine idling while temperatures of at least two of: the traction battery, the electric machine, and the transmission are above associated thresholds to reduce heat generation by the torque converter due to oil shear with the torque converter stalled. The controller may shift the transmission to drive in response to release of a brake pedal. A neutral shift may also be performed in response to high-voltage accessory loads or on-board generator loads exceeding a threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Kelly Johnson, Rian Edman, Gregory Dean Ognjanovski, Garrett Carlson
  • Patent number: 11594076
    Abstract: A biometric capture device is operative to adjust one or more environmental parameters to enhance a range (e.g., distance) at which a biometric may be captured from a subject. For example, a sample biometric capture device may be, include, or otherwise incorporate a retinal or iris scanner configured to capture an image of the retina or iris (e.g., a biometric) when the retina or iris is illuminated by infrared light. Generally, the amount of infrared light required to accurately image the retina or iris increases with the distance of the subject's retina or iris from the image capture device. The biometric capture device may capture a facial image using a first image sensor, identify a face in the facial image, capture an iris image using a second image sensor guided by the facial image, and identify a person using the iris image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: ALCLEAR, LLC
    Inventor: William Willis
  • Patent number: 11595282
    Abstract: A cloud network is a complex environment in which hundreds and thousands of users or entities can each host, create, modify, and develop multiple virtual machines. Each virtual machine can have complex behavior unknown to the provider or maintainer of the cloud. Technologies disclosed include methods, systems, and apparatuses to monitor the complex environment to detect network anomalies using machine learning techniques. In addition, techniques to modify and adapt to user feedback are provided allowing the developed models to be tuned for specific use cases, virtual machine types, and users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Mikhal Shemer, Roee Engelberg, Yonit Tova Halperin Worzel, Alex Gontmakher, Alexander Goldshtein, Gal Elidan, Benjamin Dov Kessler
  • Patent number: 11591984
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine includes an engine block including a cylinder a piston positioned within the cylinder and configured to reciprocate in the cylinder, an electronic throttle control system comprising a motor and a throttle plate, a fuel system for supplying a controlled amount of fuel to the cylinder including a fuel injector, and an engine control unit coupled to the fuel system and the electronic throttle control system. The engine control unit is configured to determine engine speed data comprising a current engine speed, a previous engine speed, and a desired engine speed and control a fuel injection duration based on the engine speed data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Briggs & Stratton, LLC
    Inventors: David Procknow, Jacob Zuehl
  • Patent number: 11595382
    Abstract: An account management system establishes an account for a user. The user enters user account information into the account and the account management system establishes a facial template for the user based on an image of the face of the user. The user requests to change user account information at a merchant POS (POS) device. The merchant POS device captures a facial image of the user and transmits the image the account management system, which generates a facial template and compares the generated facial template against the existing facial template associated with user account. If the generated facial template is less than a threshold difference from the existing facial template, the user may update user account information at the merchant POS device, which communicates the updated user account information to the account management system. The account management system associates the updated user account information with the user account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Sashikanth Chandrasekaran, Dmitry Kalenichenko, Timothy Raymond Zwiebel, Michal Palczewski, Varouj Chitilian, Denise Ho
  • Patent number: 11593169
    Abstract: A method of memory deallocation across a trust boundary between a first software component and a second software component is described. Some memory is shared between the first and second software components. An in-memory message passing facility is implemented using the shared memory. The first software component is used to deallocate memory from the shared memory which has been allocated by the second software component. The deallocation is done by: taking at least one allocation to be freed from the message passing facility; and freeing the at least one allocation using a local deallocation mechanism while validating that memory access to memory owned by data structures related to memory allocation within the shared memory are within the shared memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: David Thomas Chisnall, Matthew John Parkinson, Sylvan Wesley Clebsch, Roy Schuster
  • Patent number: 11592526
    Abstract: A light detection and ranging (LIDAR) sensor assembly can comprise an optics assembly that includes a LIDAR sensor and a set of dovetail joint inserts. The LIDAR sensor assembly can further include a frame comprising a set of dovetail joint septums coupled to the set of dovetail joint inserts of the optics assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: UATC, LLC
    Inventor: Daniel Ratner
  • Patent number: 11592907
    Abstract: A user may routinely wear or hold more than one computing devices. One of the computing devices may be a head-mounted computing-device configured for augmented reality. The head-mounted computing-device may include a camera. While imaging, the camera can consume power and processing resources that diminish a battery of the head-mounted computing device. To improve a battery life and to enhance a user's privacy, imaging of the camera can be deactivated during periods when the user is not interacting with the head-mounted computing device and activated when the user wishes to interact with the head-mounted computing device. The activation of the camera can be triggered by gestured data collected by a computing device other than the head-mounted computing-device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Shengzhi Wu, Alexander James Faaborg
  • Patent number: 11590717
    Abstract: A magnetic ink composition for three-dimensional (3D) printing a bonded magnet is provided. The magnetic ink composition includes magnetic particles, a polymer binder and a solvent. A 3D printing method for fabrication of a bonded magnet using the magnetic ink composition is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignees: UT-Battelle, LLC, Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Brett G. Compton, Mariappan Parans Paranthaman, Orlando Rios, Cajetan I. Nlebedim
  • Patent number: 11591946
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for maintaining a temperature of exhaust gases of an engine within a temperature range at which catalytic conversion is most efficient. In one example, a method for controlling a temperature of exhaust gases entering a Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) system for an engine comprises delivering pressurized air into the exhaust gases upstream of the SCR system, the pressurized air cooled by an air cooler; and adjusting a degree of pressurization by adjusting operation of a turbocharger pressurizing the pressurized air. In one embodiment, the air cooler may be a charge air cooler of a primary turbocharger of the engine, which may flow pressurized air both to the engine and to the SCR system. In other embodiments, the air may be pressurized by an air pump or a secondary dilution turbocharger, and cooled by a secondary charge air cooler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Shawn Spannbauer, Eric Matthew Kurtz, Stephen George Russ
  • Patent number: 11595390
    Abstract: Disclosed examples include during basic discovery, provide information from a local device to a first remote trusted device, the information to indicate the local device supports trusted discovery and to establish the local device as a second remote trusted device; during the trusted discovery, access, by the local device, a trusted discovery message received from the first remote trusted device; in response to verifying security credentials identified in the trusted discovery message for the first remote trusted device: add the first remote trusted device to a trusted network including the local device; and index, by the local device, a first service hosted by the first remote trusted device in a registry, the registry to identify second services available to the local device and corresponding locations of the second services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: McAfee, LLC
    Inventors: Ned M. Smith, Venkata Ramanan Sambandam
  • Patent number: 11593647
    Abstract: A method of generating a multi-modal prediction is disclosed herein. A computing system retrieves event data from a data store. The event data includes information for a plurality of events across a plurality of seasons. Computing system generates a predictive model using a mixture density network, by generating an input vector from the event data learning, by the mixture density network, a plurality of values associated with a next play following each play in the event data. The mixture density network is trained to output the plurality of values near simultaneously. Computing system receives a set of event data directed to an event in a match. The set of event data includes information directed to at least playing surface position and current score. Computing system generates, via the predictive model, a plurality of values associated with a next event following the event based on the set of event data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: STATS LLC
    Inventors: Matthew Holbrook, Jennifer Hobbs, Patrick Joseph Lucey
  • Patent number: 11593749
    Abstract: In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to verify accuracy of a shipment. In some embodiments, items loaded to and/or unloaded from a delivery vehicle are scanned and compared to a delivery schedule, and a unique identifier is provided to confirm proper loading/unloading at a subsequent scheduled stop of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo. LLC
    Inventors: Andrew B. Millhouse, Timothy J. Burleson, John S. Meredith, Todd D. Mattingly
  • Patent number: 11590134
    Abstract: Described herein are compounds that are inhibitors of autophagy and their use in the treatment of disorders such as cancers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Deciphera Pharmaceuticals, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel L. Flynn, Yu Mi Ahn, Timothy Caldwell, Lakshminarayana Vogeti
  • Patent number: 11595825
    Abstract: The technologies described herein are generally directed to facilitate allocating resources to zones for IOT equipment in a fifth generation (5G) network or other next generation networks. An example method discussed herein includes identifying, by carrier allocation equipment, carrier transmission information corresponding to transmission of a first carrier signal configured to support Internet of things equipment. The method can further comprise analyzing, by the carrier allocation equipment, the carrier transmission information to determine coverage information corresponding to a potential for coverage, by the first carrier signal, of an Internet of things equipment support zone corresponding to a geographic area. The method can further include, based on the coverage information, facilitating configuring transmission parameter information, representative of a transmission parameter applicable to the coverage of the Internet of things equipment support zone by the first carrier signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T MOBILITY II LLC
    Inventors: Shomik Pathak, James P. Daves, Iftekhar Alam
  • Patent number: D979268
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: RH US, LLC
    Inventor: Gary Friedman
  • Patent number: D979583
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: ESSENTIUM IPCO, LLC
    Inventors: Ana Cecilia Gallo Gallegos, Jorge Arturo Mijares Tobias, William Jack MacNeish, III, Erik John Gjovik