Patents Assigned to LLC
  • Patent number: 11399458
    Abstract: An agricultural header including a belt that wraps around rollers. A cutter bar assembly that cuts a crop and delivers the crop to the belt. The cutter bar assembly includes a cutter bar, a stationary blade assembly that couples to the cutter bar, a moving blade assembly that couples to the cutter bar. The moving blade assembly moves relative to the stationary blade assembly to cut the crop. A skid couples to the cutter bar and maintains a distance between the ground and the stationary blade assembly and the moving blade assembly. The cutter bar defines a recess that receives debris from the belt and directs the debris to the skid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLC
    Inventors: Benjamin D. Kemmerer, Blaine R. Noll, Scott P. Deichmann
  • Patent number: 11405727
    Abstract: A speaker includes a shell, a speaker housing, and a heat sink. The heat sink is fixed inside the shell. The speaker housing is mounted to the heat sink such that the speaker housing is suspended from the heat sink inside the shell. An interior of the speaker housing is spheroidal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: ARRIS ENTERPRISES LLC
    Inventor: Stuart Gunn
  • Patent number: 11400546
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to a welding process for a battery module. In an embodiment, a system for welding two components in a battery module includes a laser source configured to emit a laser beam onto a workpiece having a first battery module component and a second battery module component. The system also has an actuator coupled to the laser source and configured to move the laser beam along a first axis and a second axis and a controller electrically coupled to the laser source and the actuator. The controller is configured to send a signal to the laser source and the actuator to form a sinusoidal lap weld on a surface of the workpiece, such that the first battery module component is electrically coupled to the second battery module component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: CPS Technology Holdings LLC
    Inventor: John P. Dinkelman
  • Patent number: 11405615
    Abstract: There is included a method and apparatus comprising computer code configured to cause a processor or processors to perform receiving video data in an AOMedia Video 1 (AV1) format comprising data of at least two chroma prediction-residual signal blocks, a transformation between at least one signal block, having a size less than or equal to a combination of the chroma prediction-residual signal blocks, and the chroma prediction-residual signal blocks, and decoding the video data based on an output of the transformation comprising the at least one signal block having the size less than or equal to the combination of the chroma prediction-residual blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLC
    Inventors: Sehoon Yea, Xin Zhao, Shan Liu
  • Patent number: 11402990
    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: April 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: SIGMASENSE, LLC.
    Inventors: Patrick Troy Gray, Gerald Dale Morrison, Daniel Keith Van Ostrand, Richard Stuart Seger, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11400621
    Abstract: A barrier wall is formed by rotating a mold to a horizontal orientation so that a rear wall of the mold is horizontally disposed and an encircling sidewall upstands from the rear wall, the floor and encircling sidewall at least partially bounding a compartment, an upper end of the encircling sidewall at least partially bounding a first access opening to the compartment. A first material is disposed into the compartment through the first access opening, at least a portion of the material being curable. A cover is placed over the first access opening to enclose the compartment. The mold is then rotated from the horizontal orientation to a vertical orientation. A portion of the sidewall is then moved to form a second access opening to the compartment. A second material is then dispensed into the compartment, at least a portion of the second material being curable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Intellectual Property Management, LLC
    Inventor: Gale J. Stott
  • Patent number: 11403155
    Abstract: Devices and methods are disclosed relating to user management services for a vehicle. One of more processors of a device may execute a first operating system to provide user management services to the vehicle. The first operating system may present an interface to a second operating system by which the second operating system may invoke user management operations. The first operating system may generate a first message relating to user management. The interface may provide the first message to the second operating system. The interface may receive a second message from the second operating system. The second message may be related to synchronizing user management between the first operating system and the second operating system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Felipe Leme, Keun young Park
  • Patent number: 11404624
    Abstract: In a masking phase, a first segment of an amorphous mask is formed on an underlying layer of a substrate. The first segment comprises a first set of trenches exposing the underlying layer. In the masking phase, a second segment of the amorphous mask is formed on the underlying layer. The second segment comprises a second set of trenches exposing the underlying layer. The segments are non-overlapping. An open end of one of the first set of trenches faces an open end of one of the second set of trenches, but the ends are separated by a portion of the amorphous mask. In a semiconductor growth phase, semiconductor material is grown, by selective area growth, in the first and second sets of trenches to form first and second sub-networks of nanowires on the underlying layer. The first and second sub-networks of nanowires are joined to form a single nanowire network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Pavel Aseev, Philippe Caroff-Gaonac'h
  • Patent number: 11400261
    Abstract: A preformed guidewire particularly well-suited for use in percutaneous medical procedures, such as transcatheter aortic valve replacement, includes an inner corewire of discontinuous, tapered stiffness that is surrounded along a portion of its length by a flexible, outer casing of uniform cross-section, such as a tightly wound, stainless steel, spring coil wire. The inner corewire is constructed of a shape-memory material, such as a nickel-titanium alloy, that is preformed into an encircled S-shaped configuration in its atraumatic distal region. Specifically, the distal region includes an enlarged, stiffened, proximate segment that encircles a smaller, more flexible, distal segment. As a feature of the invention, the distal and proximal segments project along fixed-radial arcuate paths that extend in opposite directions from one another. As a result, the distal region is optimally configured to limit the risk of trauma to the immediate site of treatment when inserted through a straightened guide catheter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: CONCERT MEDICAL, LLC
    Inventors: Eric D. Mathews, John R. Panicci, Mark W. I. Webster
  • Patent number: 11405114
    Abstract: An optical receiver includes an optical amplifier that is optically connected to a local oscillator (LO) and a plurality of optical hybrid mixers of the optical receiver and that is electrically connected to a controller. The optical amplifier is configured to receive an optical LO signal from the LO, receive a voltage value associated with an optical input signal of the optical receiver, control a power of the optical LO signal based on the voltage value, and provide, after adjusting the power of the optical LO signal, the optical LO signal to the plurality of optical hybrid mixers. The controller, is configured to determine the voltage value associated with the optical input signal and cause the voltage value to be provided to the optical amplifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Lumentum Operations LLC
    Inventor: Stefano Bottacchi
  • Patent number: 11404821
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a first connector, a second connector and an electrical connector assembly. The first connector includes a connector main body, an elastic latching member and a position assurance slider. A positioning post and two locking protrusions protrude from an upper surface of the housing of the connector main body; two locking protruding portions protrude from inner sides of the two locking protrusions respectively toward each other. The elastic portion of the elastic latching member is suspended above the upper surface of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: MOLEX, LLC
    Inventor: Yun-Fang Yang
  • Patent number: 11405631
    Abstract: Decoding a current frame includes identifying a first reference frame and a second reference frame for decoding the current frame; storing reference motion vectors of reference blocks of the first reference frame, where other reference frames are used to decode the first reference frame; identifying motion trajectories that pass through the current frame by projecting the reference motion vectors of the reference blocks of the first reference frame onto the current frame using at least a third reference frame of the other reference frames, where the projecting identifies, for a first current block of the current frame a corresponding first reference block in the first reference frame, and a corresponding reference motion vector of the reference motion vectors is associated with the corresponding first reference block; and projecting the corresponding reference motion vector onto the second reference frame to obtain a second reference block in the second reference frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Jingning Han, Yaowu Xu, James Bankoski, Jia Feng
  • Patent number: 11403191
    Abstract: Implementations of the present disclosure provide a method for backup destination selection, an electronic device, and a computer program product. In one method, in a storage device set, a first group of candidate subsets is obtained, and the number of storage devices included in candidate subsets in the first group of candidate subsets is determined based on the number of copies specified by a backup task. A first group of subset codes of the first group of candidate subsets is determined. A second group of subset codes is generated according to the first group of subset codes, and codes in the second group of subset codes uniquely identify the candidate subsets. Based on the first group of candidate subsets and a second group of candidate subsets corresponding to the second group of subset codes, a target subset is selected as a backup destination of the backup task.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
    Inventors: Ren Wang, Zhen Jia, Jing Yu, Qi Wang, Yun Zhang
  • Patent number: 11403956
    Abstract: Passenger drone air traffic control and monitoring systems and methods implemented by a consolidated system include communicating with an Air Traffic Control (ATC) system which is executed on a plurality of servers, wherein the ATC system is configured to communicate with a plurality of passenger drones in a geographic or zone coverage; consolidating data from the plurality of servers to provide a visualization of a larger geography comprising a plurality of geographic or zone coverages; providing the visualization via a Graphical User Interface (GUI); and performing one or more functions via the GUI for air traffic control and monitoring at any of a high-level and an individual passenger drone level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Metal Raptor, LLC
    Inventor: Lee Priest
  • Patent number: 11405338
    Abstract: In certain embodiments, document-based resolution of user inquiries may be facilitated. A predicted intent of the user is determined based on chat activity information associated with the user. A response to a user inquiry may be provided to the user via a chat interface based on the predicted intent. User response may be obtained for the response, which may indicate a failure in providing a resolution to the user (e.g., regarding a user inquiry). Upon detecting a failure in providing the resolution, a document associated with the user and matching the predicted intent may be obtained and presented to via the chat interface. The document may have content related to the predicted intent. The document may be presented as a response to the user response to seek a confirmation from the user regarding its relevance to the user inquiry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Anh Truong, Austin Walters
  • Patent number: 11403677
    Abstract: Provided herein are systems and methods of inserting video content. An application may receive a video content item identifying a plurality of segments. The plurality of segments may have a first segment to play primary video content and a second segment to play supplemental video content. The application may identify the second segment from the plurality of segments. The application may generate, responsive to identifying the second segment, a request for the supplemental video content to play in the second segment of the video content item. The request may include selection parameters. The application may transmit, to at least one server, the request for the supplemental video content to cause the at least one server to select a supplemental video content item using the selection parameters. The application may play the supplemental video content received from the at least one server in the second segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Jason S. Bayer, Ronojoy Chakrabarti, Keval Desai, Manish Gupta, Jill A. Huchital, Willard V T Rusch, II
  • Patent number: 11402919
    Abstract: This document describes techniques and systems that enable input methods for mobile devices. A radar field enables an electronic device to accurately determine that a part of a user is within a gesture zone around the device. Further, the device can determine whether an application configured to receive input through radar-based gestures (radar gestures) is operating on the device. Using these techniques, the device can present a feedback indicator on a display when the user's hand is within a gesture zone around the device. The feedback indicator alerts the user that the user's hand is close enough to the device to make specific radar gestures. This allows the device to provide the user with feedback, which can educate the user about the device's capabilities and allow the user to take advantage of additional functionality and features provided by the availability of the radar gestures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Devon James O'Reilley Stern, Leonardo Giusti, Vignesh Sachidanandam
  • Patent number: 11402174
    Abstract: A self-stabilizing small arm having a barrel assembly rigidly connected to a stock assembly. The small arm includes at least one shooter interface surface and a stabilization assembly controlling the relative position of the shooter interface surface and the barrel assembly or stock assembly. The stabilization assembly includes (i) at least one movement sensor; (ii) at least one actuator; and (iii) a controller using signals from the movement sensor to operate the actuator in order to compensate for unintended movement of the small arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: MAJR MECHATRONICS LLC
    Inventor: Matthew G. Angle
  • Patent number: 11401720
    Abstract: A trim piece for sealing a work surface including a body having a first side, a second side, and a span disposed between the first side and the second side, wherein the first side and the second side are joined at a junction defining an angle between the first side and the second side of between 80 degrees and 100 degrees, a topcap is affixed to the span of the body, wherein the topcap includes a left side having a first wing and a right side having a second wing, an adhesive is bonded to the first side of the body and an aperture is disposed within the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Amundson Technology, LLC
    Inventor: Gregory A. Amundson
  • Patent number: 11405099
    Abstract: Effects of communications blockages can be mitigated. A wireless communication transmitter comprises a processor and a memory. The memory stores instructions executable by the processor to, upon receiving a current data packet in a sequence of data packets, wirelessly transmit a burst to a second computer. The burst includes the current data packet and a previous data packet in the sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Hughes Network Systems, LLC
    Inventors: James Jehong Jong, Channasandra Ravishankar, Billy James Whitmarsh