Patents Assigned to LLC
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Publication number: 20230056191Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure include methods, apparatuses, and non-transitory computer-readable storage mediums for video encoding/decoding. An apparatus includes processing circuitry that decodes prediction information of a current block in a current picture that is a part of a coded video sequence. The prediction information indicates one of a plurality of intra prediction directions for the current block. The processing circuitry determines a subset of a plurality of reference lines based on (i) a reference line index of each of the subset of the plurality of reference lines and (ii) a tangent value of a prediction angle associated with the one of the plurality of intra prediction directions indicated in the prediction information. The processing circuitry performs an intra prediction of the current block based on the determined subset of the plurality of reference lines, and reconstructs the current block based on the intra prediction of the current block.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2022Publication date: February 23, 2023Applicant: Tencent America LLCInventors: Xin ZHAO, Liang ZHAO, Shan LIU
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Publication number: 20230058992Abstract: A system for electric aircraft fleet management for at least an electric aircraft is provided. the system includes a computing device communicatively connected to at least an electric aircraft, wherein the computing device is configured to receive a plurality of measured aircraft operation datum from a sensor disposed on the at least an electric aircraft, select a training set as a function of each measured aircraft operation datum of the plurality of measured aircraft operation datum and the at least an electric aircraft, wherein each measured aircraft operation datum of the plurality of measured aircraft operation datum is correlated to an element of modeled aircraft data, and generate, using a machine-learning algorithm, an aircraft performance model output based on the plurality of measured aircraft operation datum and the selected training set, wherein generating an aircraft performance model includes generating a performance alert.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2022Publication date: February 23, 2023Applicant: BETA AIR, LLCInventor: Vincent Moeykens
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Publication number: 20230058568Abstract: Operation data from one or more vehicle subsystems are input to a vehicle dynamics model. Predicted operation data of the one or more vehicle subsystems are output from the vehicle dynamics model. The operation data and the predicted operation data are input to an optimization program that is programmed to output control directives for the one or more vehicle subsystems. One or more vehicle subsystems are operated according to the output control directives.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2021Publication date: February 23, 2023Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Yan Wang, Kai Wu, Dimitar Petrov Filev, Brandon M. Dawson
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Publication number: 20230057769Abstract: A folding wagon with a footwell for carrying small children or other articles. The folding wagon has a solid frame with scissor connections, that allow it to be compacted for storage and expanded for use. The footwell allows children a place to rest their feet within the wagon. The folding wagon has a fabric paneling system, from which portions can be removed for the cleaning of the wagon and the footwell. The folding wagon also has two canopies, allowing the carrying of two children with the canopies protecting them from the sun or the elements. The folding wagon can use attachments that expand its capabilities.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2022Publication date: February 23, 2023Applicant: Dynamic Motion, LLCInventor: Mark Zehfuss
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Publication number: 20230055384Abstract: Novel tools and techniques might provide for implementing combined broadband and wireless self-organizing network (“SON”) for provisioning of services. In some embodiments, a computing system might receive, from one or more first sensors and one or more second sensors, first operational states of fixed broadband network nodes and second operational states of wireless network nodes, respectively. The computing system might analyze the received first and second operational states, might determine an optimal network pathway and/or an optimal network backhaul pathway, and might establish the optimal network pathway and/or the optimal network backhaul pathway, through a determined combination of fixed and wireless network nodes, thereby implementing the combined broadband and wireless self-organizing network (“SON”) for provisioning of services.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2022Publication date: February 23, 2023Applicant: CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLCInventors: Thomas Schwengler, Stephen Opferman
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Publication number: 20230055066Abstract: A driver command predictor includes a controller, multiple sensors, and a command prediction unit. The controller is configured to command an adjustment of multiple motion vectors of a vehicle relative to a roadway in response to multiple actual driver commands and multiple future driver commands. The actual driver commands are received at a current time. The future driver commands are received at multiple update times. The update times range from the current time to a future time. The sensors are configured to generate sensor data that determines multiple actual states of the vehicle in response to the motion vectors as commanded. The command prediction unit is configured to generate the future driver commands at the update times in response to a driver model. The driver model operates on the actual driver commands and the actual states to predict the future driver commands at the update times.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2021Publication date: February 23, 2023Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Ehsan Asadi, Seyedeh Asal Nahidi, SeyedAlireza Kasaiezadeh Mahabadi, Kausalya Singuru, Bakhtiar B. Litkouhi, Isaac Tabatschnic
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Publication number: 20230055024Abstract: A power SiC MOSFET with a built-in Schottky rectifier provides advantages of including a Schottky rectifier, such as avoiding bipolar degradation, while reducing a parasitic capacitive charge and related power losses, as well as system cost. A lateral built-in channel layer may enable lateral spacing of the MOSFET gate oxide from a high electric field at the Schottky contact, while also providing current limiting during short-circuit events.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2022Publication date: February 23, 2023Applicant: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLCInventor: Andrei KONSTANTINOV
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Publication number: 20230058757Abstract: A driver circuit drives an output terminal with an input/output voltage using an NMOS transistor and a PMOS transistor. A pre-driver for the NMOS transistor supplied with a drive voltage and receives a data signal referenced to the drive voltage. A pre-driver for the PMOS transistor has a positive supply input connected to the positive supply rail, a negative supply input receiving a second drive voltage equal to the supply voltage minus the drive voltage. A level shifter circuit, shifts the data signal to be referenced between the supply voltage and the second drive voltage. A charge pump circuit for providing second drive voltage, the charge pump circuit driven with a variable switching frequency proportional to a current of the PMOS transistor.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2022Publication date: February 23, 2023Applicant: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLCInventor: Alexander HEUBI
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Publication number: 20230056037Abstract: A mobile cement batch mixing plant includes at least one slurry tank, a cement storage tank, at least one slurry pump and at least one clean pump supported on a transportable frame. The slurry tanks and cement storage tank are connected by a plumbing system. The flow of water and cement slurry between the tanks and within the plumbing system is controlled by a series of valves and pump controls. A cement slurry is formed by adding water and cement to the slurry tank through a fluid vortex within the slurry tank. The cement slurry can be pumped out of the slurry tank into a well.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2021Publication date: February 23, 2023Applicant: Legion P&ATools, LLCInventors: Matthew Rone, John Couch, Rocky Vines
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Publication number: 20230054621Abstract: Described herein are folding storage containers and methods for making and assembling same that may be assembled and disassembled to provide for convenient storage and handling of various materials including foodstuffs, products, gifts, tools, kits, etc., wherein the folding storage container may include surface enhancements to render it versatile to holding a wide variety of components, as well as to provide for biocompatibility/biodegradability.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2022Publication date: February 23, 2023Applicant: Serve Craft, LLCInventor: Joseph A. Brown
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Publication number: 20230054062Abstract: The present disclosure provides a roof for a vehicle upper body structure. The roof includes a body extending between a first side and a second side, and extending between a front end and a back end. The front end is configured to be coupled to a header. The body includes a polymer and a plurality of fibers. At least a portion of the body has a transparency of greater than or equal to about 4%.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2021Publication date: February 23, 2023Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Bradley A. NEWCOMB, Joung Min CHOI, Julien P. MOUROU
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Publication number: 20230054415Abstract: Mechanisms and techniques are employed for managing the allocation and load balancing of storage system resources for the containerized, distributed execution of applications on a storage system. A control component executing on a processing component of the storage system may control reserving the necessary resources on one or more processing components to implement an application, and control a container management module to create, deploy and/or modify one or more containers on one or more processing components of the storage system. The one or more containers then may be executed to implement the application. Multiple processing components of the storage system may have a resource management module executing thereon. The control component may exchange communications with the one or more resource management modules of each processing component to determine the resources available within the processing component; e.g.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2022Publication date: February 23, 2023Applicant: EMC IP Holding Company LLCInventors: Adarsh Pradhan Jmt, Maneesh Singhal
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Publication number: 20230057474Abstract: A connector for charging an electric vehicle that includes a housing configured to mate with an electric vehicle port of an electric vehicle, at least a sensor configured to detect an attachment datum as a function of the housing mating with an electric vehicle port, and transmit the attachment datum to a computing device, a computing device configured to receive the attachment datum from the at least a sensor, receive an identification datum from the electric vehicle, generate a verification datum as a function of the identification datum and the attachment datum, and determine an authorization status as a function of the verification datum.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2022Publication date: February 23, 2023Applicant: BETA AIR, LLCInventor: Herman Wiegman
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Publication number: 20230055958Abstract: The disclosure generally pertains to systems and methods to repossess a vehicle. In an example method, a first computer sends to a second computer, a message pertaining to a notice of delinquency of a vehicle-related payment. The message includes a request to an individual, such as a purchaser or a lessee of the vehicle, to acknowledge receipt of the message. The first computer may be associated with a financing agency (a bank or a lender) and the second computer may be a vehicle computer of the vehicle or a smartphone owned by the individual. When an acknowledgement is not received within a reasonable period of time, the first computer may disable a functionality of a component of the vehicle or may place the vehicle in a lockout condition. The lockout condition may be lifted momentarily in case of an emergency to allow the vehicle to travel to a medical facility.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2021Publication date: February 23, 2023Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Anthony Maraldo, Brendan Diamond, Keith Weston, Michael Alan Mcnees
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Publication number: 20230057469Abstract: Various embodiments are directed to methods, apparatus, systems and the like for managing distributed radio access network (RAN) elements within a network associated with a network core, wherein for each of a plurality of distributed RAN elements (DREs) within the network associated with the network core a respective virtualized proxy element is configured to communicate with the DRE and mirror each of a plurality of functional elements (FEs) associated with the DRE.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2021Publication date: February 23, 2023Applicant: CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS OPERATING, LLCInventors: Elliott Hoole, Diwelawatte P. Jayawardene, Alec Hampton
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Publication number: 20230054134Abstract: A computer includes a processor and a memory storing instructions executable by the processor to receive optical data from an optical sensor of a vehicle, adjust the optical data using an adjustment model, measure a first value from the optical data over a duration, predict a second value from the optical data over the duration based on the first value, measure the second value from the optical data over the duration, and modify the adjustment model using the predicted second value and the measured second value. The first value and the second value are time-varying and aggregated from the optical data per time step.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2021Publication date: February 23, 2023Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: David Michael Herman, Venkatesh Krishnan, Catherine Marie Amodeo, Maher Ghneim
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Publication number: 20230058695Abstract: A packaged current sensor integrated circuit includes a primary conductor having an input portion and an output portion configured to carry a current to be measured by a magnetic sensing element supported by a semiconductor die adjacent to the primary conductor. The primary current path contains a mechanical locking feature. The thickness of the molded body of the package is reduced to improve vibration immunity.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2022Publication date: February 23, 2023Applicant: Allegro MicroSystems, LLCInventors: Bradley Boden, Rishikesh Nikam, Robert A. Briano
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Publication number: 20230057692Abstract: A system partitions files, including segments identified by fingerprints. into clusters. The system counts common fingerprints by counting fingerprints which correspond to both a file cluster and another file cluster. The system counts unique fingerprints by counting fingerprints which correspond to the file cluster and/or the other file cluster. The system uses the common and unique fingerprint counts to approximate the distance between the file cluster and the other file cluster. The system identifies the smallest of distances which are approximated between all file clusters. The system merges the file cluster and the other file cluster into a merged file cluster if the approximated distance is the smallest of distances. The system determines an index corresponding to the smallest and next smallest of distances. The system determines indexes which correspond to merges of all file clusters. The system uses the maximum of indexes to identify the optimal file clustering.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2021Publication date: February 23, 2023Applicant: EMC IP Holding Company LLCInventors: Tony Tzeming Wong, Smriti Thakkar
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Publication number: 20230056244Abstract: A medical device for warming a patient. The medical device includes bed configured to support the patient thereon and a heater configured to produce heat for the patient when supported on the bed. A temperature sensor is configured to detect an ambient air temperature apart from the bed. A controller is provided in communication with the temperature sensor, where the controller produces a signal based on the ambient air temperature from the temperature sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2021Publication date: February 23, 2023Applicant: GE Precision Healthcare LLCInventor: Karen P. Becker
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Publication number: 20230058364Abstract: A floral arrangement product includes a pouch comprising a membrane, and an expandable medium in a compressed state contained within the pouch. The expandable medium expands upon hydration and fills the pouch, and the membrane has an interface for inserting plants and/or flower stems into the expandable medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2022Publication date: February 23, 2023Applicant: VANTHUS TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: JUAN CARLOS VAN DIJK, KIRSTEN VAN DIJK