Patents Assigned to LLC
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Patent number: 12289012Abstract: An apparatus includes a controlled field alternator or utility source of electrical power, a conversion device, and a controller. The conversion device includes a first power input associated with a first power source, a second power input associated with a second power source, and circuitry configured to perform a first conversion of power from a first format from the first power source to a second format for charging the second power source and perform a second conversion of power from the second format for the second power source to a third format for supplying a load.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2022Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: Discovery Energy LLCInventors: Robert J. Danforth, III, Adam Larson, Isaac S. Frampton
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Patent number: 12288267Abstract: A charging management system includes a network interface, a memory, and a processing circuit including a processor. The processing circuit is configured to determine monetary information related to an energy price, determine an electrical vehicle (EV) power limit PLIM for a total amount of EVs in an EV charging network, transmit the monetary information to two or more agents, each of the two or more agents associated with an EV in the EV charging network, receive, from each of the two or more agents, a bid including: an agent monetary value, a desired charging rate PD, and a charging interval, and allow the EVs associated with the two or more agents to be charged based on each of the bids.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2020Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: UCHICAGO ARGONNE, LLCInventors: Daniel S. Dobrzynski, Jason D. Harper
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Patent number: 12287827Abstract: Implementations relate to identifying actions performed by a user while the user is interacting with multiple applications and providing a routine suggestion to the user based on the identified actions. While a user is interacting with one or more applications, the user actions are determined. The user actions are compared to one or more template routines and a template routine is selected that matches the actions of the user and provided to the user as a suggested routine. The suggested routine can be implemented by an automated assistant to perform the actions of the template by providing a corresponding command.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2023Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Diana Avram, Mugurel-Ionut Andreica, Alice Liang, Andrea D'olimpio, Cliff Kuang, Andre Elisseeff, Dana Ritter, Florian Hasler, Radu Voroneanu
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Patent number: 12285970Abstract: A vehicle wheel for the purpose of slow speed temporary movement of the vehicle whereby the inner portion of the wheel disc includes a curved surface disposed in rotating contact with the beveled surface of the cylinder element of the attachment hub. The wheel disc and the attached tire extend outwardly from the attachment hub. The attachment hub includes the cylinder with a securing ring affixed to the inwardly extending portion of the cylinder and disposed in abutting relation with the inner surface of the wheel disc wherein the outer surface of the cylinder is disposed between the securing ring and a flange.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2022Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: IW Technologies, LLCInventors: Thomas E. Morris, Virginia Nye, Marcel Smeding
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Patent number: 12287021Abstract: A modular integration kit for a positioning system, like a positioning system on a vehicle, includes a configurable foundation plate, a dampened bolting structure, and a modular vibration isolation assembly. The configurable foundation plate is configured to attach to the positioning system. The dampened bolting structure is affixed to the configurable foundation plate. The dampened bolting structure is configured to attach a payload to the positioning system, like for attaching a payload of a rifle, an optic and/or a rocket launcher onto a positioning system of a vehicle. The modular vibration isolation assembly is arranged between the configurable foundation plate and the dampened bolting structure. The modular vibration isolation assembly is configured to dampen the dampened bolting structure from movements of the configurable foundation plate attached to the positioning system.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2021Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: MSI Defense Solutions, LLCInventors: William Donald Ferguson, Jr., David John Holden
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Patent number: 12285417Abstract: Methods for treating chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in a patient are disclosed. In the methods, a patient having COPD is selected for treatment based on the patient's peak inspiratory flow rate (PIFR) and percent predicted force expiratory volume in one second (FEV1); and a bronchodilator is administered to the selected patient using a nebulizer. Administration of a bronchodilator to patients having low PIFR and a percent predicted FEV1 less than 50 percent using a nebulizer as the inhalation delivery device provides significantly greater improvements in trough FEV1 and trough forced vital capacity (FVC) compared to administration of a bronchodilator to such patients using a dry powder inhaler.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2023Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: THERA VANCE BIOPHARMA R&D IP, LLCInventors: Christopher Noel Barnes, Glenn D. Crater, Edmund J. Moran, Srikanth Pendyala
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Patent number: 12289158Abstract: Disclosed is a data transmission method in a mobile communication system. The data transmission method through a code sequence in a mobile communication system includes grouping input data streams into a plurality of blocks consisting of at least one bit so as to map each block to a corresponding signature sequence, multiplying a signature sequence stream, to which the plurality of blocks are mapped, by a specific code sequence, and transmitting the signature sequence stream multiplied by the specific code sequence to a receiver.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2022Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: EQUO IP LLCInventors: Yeong Hyeon Kwon, Seung Hee Han, Hyun Hwa Park, Dong Cheol Kim, Hyun Woo Lee, Min Seok Noh
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Patent number: 12287484Abstract: A display system includes a source of unpolarized image light, and a stack of polarization-selective optical elements operable to switchably convert the unpolarized image light into two orthogonally polarized light beams, each of which being switchable in at least one beam characteristic. An output polarizer selects one of the two orthogonally polarized light beams for providing to a user. A depolarizer may be disposed between an electronic display emitting polarized light and the stack. The depolarizer may be in the form of an LC bilayer with randomized in-plane optic axis.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2023Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLCInventors: Yang Zhao, Afsoon Jamali, Junren Wang, Wai Sze Tiffany Lam, Lu Lu, Douglas Robert Lanman
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Patent number: 12285160Abstract: The present technology relates generally to devices and methods for closing percutaneous punctures, and more particularly to a multi-lumen tamper for such a device. A vascular closure device for sealing a percutaneous puncture in a wall of a body passageway is disclosed, the vascular closure device including a plug configured to engage a surface of the puncture; a suture configured coupled to the plug; a locking member configured to engage the plug; and a tamper comprising a first lumen and a second lumen.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2021Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: Teleflex Life Sciences LLCInventors: Greg Alan Walters, Samuel Nardone
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Patent number: 12285282Abstract: According to one aspect of an exemplary embodiment of the disclosure, a system and method for providing an indication of the mode of operation of an X-ray imaging system operable in a fixed mode or an automatic optimization of parameter (AOP) mode, and an operational mode indication system including at least one of a visual indicator and an audio indicator. The selection of an operational mode for the X-ray system enables a control processing unit to activate the operational mode indication system in a first manner and in a second manner at least during the operation of the radiation source and the detector to provide an indication of a current mode of operation of the imaging system, wherein the first manner is readily discernable from the second manner.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2022Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: GE Precision Healthcare, LLCInventors: Michelle Branson, Beth Heckel, Eric Hart, Adam Pluim, Ping Xue
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Patent number: 12286156Abstract: A system for assisting in aligning a vehicle for hitching with a trailer includes a vehicle steering system, a detection system outputting a signal including scene data of an area to a rear of the vehicle, and a controller that controls the vehicle steering system to maneuver the vehicle according to an initial alignment maneuver that positions the vehicle relative to the trailer, such that the trailer is within the area to the rear of the vehicle. The controller further receives the scene data and identifies the trailer within the area to the rear of the vehicle, derives a backing path to align a hitch ball mounted on the vehicle to a coupler of the trailer, and controls the vehicle steering system to maneuver the vehicle including reversing along the backing path.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2020Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Luke Niewiadomski, George Edmund Walley, Arnav Sharma, Roger Arnold Trombley, Frederic Christen, Kyle Simmons, Li Xu, Eric Hongtei Tseng
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Patent number: 12287380Abstract: Sensor-based privacy-event detection for a mounted electronic device is described. In aspects, a security system includes a head assembly removably and magnetically coupled to a mounting device having a magnet. The electronic device also includes a camera module and a sensor disposed within the housing. The sensor detects a magnetic field associated with the magnet when the head assembly is coupled to the mounting device. When a user detaches the head assembly from the mounting device (e.g., to recharge the electronic device), the sensor no longer detects the magnetic field and determines the occurrence of a privacy event, which is used to deactivate the camera module to prevent unintentional recordings during the privacy event.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2022Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Mark Benjamin Kraz, Aditya Shailesh Ghadiali, Kok Yen Cheng, Félix Ambroise Étienne Senepin, Chi-Ming Lin
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Patent number: 12285753Abstract: A universal chemical processor (UCP) including a reactor vessel with a main chamber, comprises inlets for feedstock, a fluidizing medium and reactants. The UCP further includes a reactive X-ray chemical processor (RXCP) having a large area hollow cylindrical cold cathode in the main chamber, a grid positioned concentrically with respect to the cathode, and an anode positioned concentrically with respect to the cathode and grid. In operation, when activated, the cathode of the RXCP emits electrodes onto the anode, which then emits X-rays into a radiation zone within the main chamber capable of ionizing feedstock and reactants, inducing chemical reactions, and sterilizing and decomposing organic materials within the radiation zone, and wherein, a fluidized bed is supported in the main chamber when the fluidizing medium and feedstock are supplied. The RXCP and the fluidized bed portions can be operated separately or in conjunction to achieve unanticipated results.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2022Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: Advanced Fusion Systems LLCInventors: Curtis Birnbach, William Joyce
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Patent number: 12286285Abstract: An insulated box assembly can include a box including a pair of opposing side box panels, a pair of opposing main box panels, and a bottom box panel, the box defining an internal box cavity with a box opening defined opposite from the bottom box panel; and an insulated liner positioned within the internal box cavity, the insulated liner including a pair of opposing main liner panels and a pair of opposing side liner panels, the pair of opposing main liner panels and the pair of opposing side liner panels defined by a single blank liner panel including a blank sheet and an insulation batt, the insulation batt positioned between the blank sheet and the box.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2022Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: Pratt Retail Specialties, LLCInventors: Jamie Waltermire, Paul Ott
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Electromechanical mechanism for a spark-free electrical connection in an elevated oxygen environment
Patent number: 12288978Abstract: A system includes a plurality of electro-mechanical connectors disposed on a first electrical system. The plurality of electro-mechanical connectors includes at least a ground connector, an output power connector, a return power connector, and at least one signal connector. A power supply line in the first electrical system is connected through a current-limiting element to the output power connector. The system further includes a circuit detecting a loopback signal received from a second electrical system via the at least one signal connector indicating presence of a power connection between the first electrical system and the second electrical system, and a switch activable in response to a detected loopback signal to bypass the current-limiting element to pass a full unrestrained current and voltage on the power supply line to the output power connector.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2022Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: GE Precision Healthcare LLCInventors: Russell James Kuzelka, Donald L. Beduhn, Chetankumar Amrutlal Modi -
Patent number: 12284968Abstract: A soybean cultivar designated 16150010 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 16150010, to the plants of soybean cultivar 16150010, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 16150010, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 16150010. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 16150010. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 16150010, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 16150010 with another soybean cultivar.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2022Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignees: Monsanto Technology LLC, Stine Seed Farm, Inc.Inventor: William H. Eby
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Patent number: 12285067Abstract: A method of installing and attaching a hidden row of hand-tied natural human hair extensions onto the wearer's hair to supplement hair thickness, volume, and length, wherein the method minimizes stress and tension on the wearer's hair and scalp, thereby increasing comfort and reducing adverse scalp health impacts.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2022Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: MANE LUXE LLCInventor: Michaela Breci
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Patent number: 12286157Abstract: A drive unit includes mounts coupled to an existing structure (e.g., steering rack) in a vehicle. The steering rack may provide mass damping to the drive unit during operation, thus providing NVH performance. The mounts may include an isolator designed to provide isolation for a component from vibration generated by the drive unit. Alternatively, a steering rack housing may carry isolators, and the mounts may couple to the isolators in the steering rack housing. Using an existing structure in the vehicle, the number of components and manufacturing complexity may be reduced.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2023Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: Rivian IP Holdings, LLCInventors: Caleb Alex Morris, Mason Verbridge, Fernando Figueroa Pilz
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Patent number: 12286990Abstract: A fastener system for quick and easy assembly of an article of slatted furniture is used to join multiple slats and connects a support thereto. A flange inserted into one of the slats receives a stud connected to the support. A rod connects a plurality the slats, and mates with the flange. The flange and rod are rotatable within the slats to properly position and tighten the fastener system.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2023Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: E. LEET WOODWORKING, LLCInventor: Patrick John Leet
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Patent number: 12289869Abstract: A dynamically adjustable cooling system is discussed and a system configuration design method is disclosed for cooling airflow management and dispatching. The system includes a first and second IT rooms that include electronic racks with IT components. The system also includes cooling units configured to provide cooling air to the IT components. The system also includes a cooling air supply channel to distribute the cooling air to the IT components. The system also includes multiple louvers installed at different locations such as on supply ports of the cooling units, within the cooling air supply channel, and on entrance ports to the IT rooms which are used for configuring the airflow within the supply channel. Each louver is capable of being opened and closed independently to create multiple different air flow combinations for cooling the IT components.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2019Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: BAIDU USA LLCInventor: Tianyi Gao