Patents Assigned to LLC
  • Patent number: 11517841
    Abstract: An air quality system includes an air precleaner, a filter identification component, and a control module. The air precleaner has a precleaner housing and a filter disposed inside the precleaner housing. The filter identification component is positioned within the precleaner housing at a first position and is mounted on the filter. The control module is positioned within the precleaner housing at a second position and is configured to emit an electrical field and communicate with the filter identification component via the emitted electrical field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: THE SY-KLONE COMPANY, LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey L. Moredock, James G. Moredock
  • Patent number: 11523087
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for establishing a video connection between a client device and a notary support terminal while enabling the client device and notary support terminal to notarize a digital document. In particular, the client device can display multiple panes simultaneously, the multiple panes including a first pane that displays the video chat and a second pane that displays at least one notarization interface for notarizing the digital document. While the client device displays the multiple panes and during the video chat, the disclosed systems can notarize the digital document by authenticating the user of the client device, collecting signatures from the user of the client device and the notary associated with the notary support terminal, and applying an electronic notary seal to the digital document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: POPio Mobile Video Cloud, LLC
    Inventors: Jed W. Taylor, Timothy Eugene Pranger, Kurt Forsberg, Ryanne Mayers, Robert Eric Roy, Austin Barnes
  • Patent number: 11522700
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method, system, and program product for depositing, holding and/or distributing collateral in the form of a stable value token for a security token, the tokens being on the same underlying blockchain. Furthermore, the present invention relates to methods, systems, and program products for lending digital assets, such as crypto currency and other related products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Gemini IP, LLC
    Inventors: Ira Auerbach, Tyler Howard Winklevoss, Daniel William Halley James, Cameron Howard Winklevoss, Anas Saidi, Jamie Chapman, Brandon Arvanaghi, Stephen Judkins, Alex Parkinson, Eric Neiman Winer, Michael So
  • Patent number: 11517086
    Abstract: A suitcase having a base and a lid where the lid may be rotatable about a hinge from a closed configuration to an open configuration and may be secured, via one or more latching assemblies is disclosed. The lid may comprise an upper shell, and the base may comprise a lower shell. The upper shell and the lower shell may be seamlessly formed to create a water resistant and/or waterproof suitcase. The suitcase may have an extendable trolley handle assembly that is externally attached to the base of the suitcase. The trolley handle assembly may comprise a pair of extrusion assemblies that are connected to the base of the suitcase and connected to each other by a grip. The suitcase may also have a removably secured interior liner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: YETI Coolers, LLC
    Inventors: Steve Charles Nichols, Andy Bondhus, Michael Christopher Cieszko, Nicholas James Lombardi, Kyle Edward Rogers, Dustin Bullock
  • Patent number: 11517497
    Abstract: An adjustably tensioned roller massage system provides a pair of roller massage assemblies in opposed adjustable tensioned or spaced relation to allow engagement of each one of a pair of roller massage assemblies on a corresponding massageable portion of a body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Roll Recovery, LLC
    Inventor: Jeremy J. Nelson
  • Patent number: 11522534
    Abstract: A compact solid state relay (7) is provided. Solid state devices (74, 75), such as Triacs or Thyristors are used to implement the relay functionality. The device is at least partially enclosed in a housing that has pins for mounting on an electronics board. A number of ā€œUā€ shaped jumpers (72) or other jumpers or wires are provided in the housing to act as heat sinks. A sub-miniature fan (70) is positioned to create an air flow over the heat sinks and dissipate heat from the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Zonit Structured Solutions, LLC
    Inventors: Steve Chapel, William Pachoud
  • Patent number: 11519113
    Abstract: An exemplary embroidery accessory for a sewing machine includes a stationary support attached to the sewing machine and a rotating support rotatably attached to the stationary support. A drive mechanism rotates the rotating support relative to the stationary support and a spool supported by the rotating support receives and dispenses a length of embroidery material. The removable guide is removably attached to the rotating support and includes a sewing guide with a needle opening for receiving a needle of the sewing machine, and at least one guide for guiding the length of embroidery material from the spool to the sewing guide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Singer Sourcing Limited LLC
    Inventors: Roberth Eriksson, Barbara Brindzik
  • Patent number: 11522751
    Abstract: The present application describes a detect, alert and recovery system for various cloud-based and/or network-based services. The detect, alert and recovery system receives network performance data associated with a particular namespace from various network information sources. The network performance data may be aggregated based on various scopes. The aggregated data is then analyzed to determine whether an anomaly exists. If an anomaly exists, the detect, alert and recovery system may cause the performance of various actions in order to address the anomaly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Rajesh Kumar Maskara, Srinivasachakrapani Kotipalli, Saurabh Vats, Irina Andreea Rosoiu, Malvika Modi, Fangwen Yu, Liting Zhao, Zhenguo Yang, Bradley David Rutkowski, Todd Carlyle Luttinen, Xuelin Chen
  • Patent number: 11520236
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods relating to the fabrication of light guide elements. An example system includes an optical component configured to direct light emitted by a light source to illuminate a photoresist material at one or more desired angles so as to expose an angled structure in the photoresist material. The photoresist material overlays at least a portion of a first surface of a substrate. The optical component includes a container containing a light-coupling material that is selected based in part on the one or more desired angles. The system also includes a reflective surface arranged to reflect at least a first portion of the emitted light to illuminate the photoresist material at the one or more desired angles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Waymo LLC
    Inventors: James Dunphy, David Hutchison
  • Patent number: 11520311
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a device for reading from and/or writing to a removable storage card. The device can comprise a housing including a wall defining a housing opening sized to receive a removable storage card. The device can also comprise a thermal management system attached to at least a part of the wall of the housing. Additionally, the device can comprise a biasing mechanism interoperable with the housing and configured to bias a card surface of the removable storage card into thermal communication with the thermal management system in response to insertion of the removable storage card into the housing opening. In some aspects, the biasing mechanism includes one or more elastic members configured to apply a biasing force to the removable storage card in response to the insertion of the removable storage card into the housing opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Lau, Julia Purtell
  • Patent number: 11521161
    Abstract: A system including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computing instructions configured to run on the one more processors and perform training a machine learning model based on historical input data for pickups by users that occurred during a historical time period and output data comprising actual wait times that occurred for the pickups by the users; receiving an order from a user for a pickup from a physical store during a selected time slot of a selected date; adding the order to a queue of assembled checked-in orders; determining an estimated arrival time based on geo-tracking; generating an estimated wait time using the machine learning model, as trained, and can be based on input data; and sending the estimated wait time to at least one of the physical store or the mobile device of the user. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: WALMART APOLLO, LLC
    Inventors: Shengyang Zhang, Mingang Fu, Madhavan Kandhadai Vasantham
  • Patent number: 11519313
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for expediting exhaust catalyst light-off prior to an anticipated engine cold-start event. In one example, a method may include, in anticipation of an engine cold-start, preemptively operating an electric booster and routing compressed air to the catalyst to increase a temperature of the exhaust catalyst while maintaining the engine inactive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Jason Brian Martz, Eric Matthew Kurtz
  • Patent number: 11518336
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a bulkhead and a seat rotatable to a vehicle-rearward facing direction. The seat includes a seatback having a first side, a second side spaced from the first side, and a rear side. The rear side faces the bulkhead in the away-facing direction. The vehicle includes an inflatable device that is a thermoplastic elastomer. The inflatable device has a middle chamber, a first side chamber, and a second side chamber. The middle chamber is inflatable away from the bulkhead toward the rear side of the seatback in the away-facing direction. The middle chamber is elongated cross-vehicle between the first side and the second side of the seatback. The first side chamber is inflatable vehicle-rearward from the bulkhead along the first side of the seatback in the away-facing position. The second side chamber is inflatable from the bulkhead along the second side of the seatback in the away-facing position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: S. M. Iskander Farooq, Dean M. Jaradi, Mohammad Omar Faruque
  • Patent number: 11520043
    Abstract: Techniques, systems, and devices are disclosed for synthetic aperture ultrasound imaging using a beamformer that incorporates a model of the object. In some aspects, a system includes an array of transducers to transmit and/or receive acoustic signals at an object that forms a synthetic aperture of the system with the object, an object beamformer unit to (i) beamform the object coherently as a function of position, orientation, and/or geometry of the transducers with respect to a model of the object, and (ii) produce a beamformed output signal including spatial information about the object derived from beamforming the acoustic echoes; a data processing unit to process data and produce an image of the object based on a rendition of the position, the orientation, the geometry, and/or the surface properties of the object, relative to the coordinate system of the array, as determined by the data processing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Decision Sciences Medical Company, LLC
    Inventor: Dustin E. Kruse
  • Patent number: 11520527
    Abstract: An apparatus comprises a processing device. The processing device is configured to persistently store metadata pages on a plurality of storage devices. The metadata pages are organized into buckets. The processing device is configured to access a given metadata page based at least in part on a bucket identifier where the given metadata page corresponds to a given logical volume. The bucket identifier comprises a first portion comprising an indication of a given bucket range that corresponds to the given logical volume and a second portion comprising an indication of an offset into the given bucket range that corresponds to a grouping of buckets that correspond to the given logical volume. The grouping of buckets corresponds to the given logical volume. The bucket identifier further comprises a third portion comprising an indication of an offset into the grouping of buckets that corresponds to the bucket comprising the given metadata page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Amitai Alkalay, Vladimir Shveidel, Lior Kamran
  • Patent number: 11522865
    Abstract: A service layer (SL) function may be used for managing a user profile that is associated with a SL user and using this profile to automatically configure different types of devices connected to an IoT service provider's platform. A SL function may be used to support user data privacy and security when data is imported and exported between gateways or servers temporarily.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Convida Wireless, LLC
    Inventors: Zhuo Chen, Dale N. Seed, Quang Ly, William Robert Flynn, IV, Catalina Mihaela Mladin, Jiwan L. Ninglekhu, Lu Liu
  • Patent number: 11518187
    Abstract: A coiled metal substrate with a faux galvanized surface appearance. The faux galvanized surface of the substrate including a spangle print pattern of polyvinylidene fluoride (PFDV) flexographically applied to the metal substrate. Atop the PFDV print pattern is semi-transparent coating of fluoroethylene vinyl ether (FEVE) flexographically applied atop the spangle print pattern of PFDV.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: STEELSCAPE, LLC
    Inventor: Jonathan Charles King
  • Patent number: 11518221
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a front door and a rear door. A first bracket is fixed to the front door, and a second bracket is fixed to the rear door. A front cable extends from the first bracket away from the second bracket along a vehicle-longitudinal axis. A rear cable extends from the second bracket away from the first bracket along the vehicle-longitudinal axis. A linear actuator is fixed to one of the first bracket or the second bracket and is extendable to the other of the first bracket or the second bracket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Dean M. Jaradi, S. M. Iskander Farooq, Mohammad Omar Faruque, Saeed D. Barbat
  • Patent number: 11519402
    Abstract: A gas booster for increasing a pressure of a gas includes a gas cylinder and a drive. The gas cylinder defines a chamber having an inlet and an outlet. A piston is actuatable within the gas cylinder to draw gas into the chamber through the inlet at a first pressure and to push the gas out of the chamber through the outlet at a second pressure that is higher than the first pressure. The drive includes an electric motor coupled to the piston of the gas cylinder by a mechanical connection to actuate the piston.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: HASKEL INTERNATIONAL, LLC
    Inventor: Brian A. Burrows
  • Patent number: 11517396
    Abstract: A mechanical arm assembly can include a link movable in space, an actuator, and a joint. The actuator can include a housing secured to the link and can include a cable within the housing, where the cable can be translatable relative to the housing and the link. The joint can include a main shaft, a main gear, a meshing gear, and a release plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Zimmer Biomet CMF and Thoracic, LLC
    Inventor: Saddy Garcia