Patents Assigned to LLC
  • Patent number: 11275895
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating author vectors. One of the methods includes obtaining a set of sequences of words, the set of sequences of words comprising a plurality of first sequences of words and, for each first sequence of words, a respective second sequence of words that follows the first sequence of words, wherein each first sequence of words and each second sequence of words has been classified as being authored by a first author; and training a neural network system on the first sequences and the second sequences to determine an author vector for the first author, wherein the author vector characterizes the first author.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Brian Patrick Strope, Quoc V. Le
  • Patent number: 11276166
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for estimating patient structure prior to a scan by a medical imaging system. As one example, a method may include acquiring depth images of a patient positioned on a table of the medical imaging system, correcting the depth images based on histogram data from the depth images, and extracting a three-dimensional structure of the patient based on the corrected depth images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: GE Precision Healthcare LLC
    Inventors: Raghu Prasad, Yu Huang, Yanran Xu, Kiran Panchal
  • Patent number: 11277351
    Abstract: An electronic device (such as an access point or an eNodeB) that selectively provides prioritized communication is described. During operation, the electronic device may receive one or more packets or frames from a second electronic device using a communication protocol. Then, the electronic device may determine device-specific information based at least in part on a device profile associated with the communication protocol and/or a communication history of the second electronic device. Next, based on the determined device-specific information, the electronic device may assign additional data traffic associated with the second electronic device to a queue in a set of queues, where queues in the set of queues have different priorities, and where the queue provides a predefined latency of communication with the second electronic device corresponding to a priority of the queue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises LLC
    Inventors: Siby Mathew Tarigopla Pancras, Karthik Ranganathan, Dinesh Raman, Jari T. Malinen
  • Patent number: 11273950
    Abstract: A carton for holding one or more articles includes a plurality of panels extending at least partially around an interior of the carton, the plurality of panels including a front panel, a back panel, and at least one side panel. The carton also includes a plurality of end flaps foldably connected to respective panels of the plurality of panels and forming a closed top portion of the carton, the closed top portion of the carton is reconfigurable between a first configuration having a substantially flat profile and a second configuration forming a handle of the carton. The carton also includes locking features for engaging at least one other carton.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Graphic Packaging International, LLC
    Inventor: Steven M. Oliveira
  • Patent number: 11275427
    Abstract: In an example embodiment, a distributed power control system can include a datacenter and a remote master control system. The datacenter can include (i) computing systems, (ii) a behind-the-meter power input system configured to receive power from a behind-the-meter power source and deliver power to the computing systems, and (iii) a datacenter control system configured to control the computing systems and the behind-the-meter power input system. The remote master control system can be configured to issue instructions to the datacenter that affect an amount of behind-the-meter power consumed by the datacenter. The datacenter control system can receive, from a local station control system configured to at least partially control the behind-the-meter power source, a directive for the datacenter to ramp-down power consumption, and in response to receiving the directive, cause the computing systems to perform a set of predetermined operations correlated with the directive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: LANCIUM LLC
    Inventors: Michael T. McNamara, David J. Henson, Raymond E. Cline, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11275630
    Abstract: This document describes techniques and devices for task-related sorting, application discovery, and unified bookmarking for application managers. Through use of an application manager, multiple applications (including standalone applications, instant applications, websites, and other content) that a person can use to accomplish a single task, or multiple related tasks, are sorted into discrete groups for display in the application manager. The application manager can automatically recognize relationships between activities performed with the applications and recognize user actions with the applications that are related to the activities. Based on the relationships and user actions, the application manager can automatically determine that the activities and actions represent a task and display a task group that includes the applications that represent the task.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Golden Gopal Krishna, Carl Magnus Borg, Miroslav Bojic, Henry Owen Newton-Dunn, Jacob M. Klinker, Mindy Pereira, Devin Mancuso, Daniel June Hyung Park, Lily Sin
  • Patent number: 11276503
    Abstract: An anti-proliferation technique is disclosed to reduce the likelihood of nuclear proliferation due to the use fissionable fuel salts. The technique includes doping the fuel salt with one or more elements (referred to herein as activation dopants) that, upon exposure to neutrons such as would occur in the fuel salt when a reactor is in operation, undergo a nuclear reaction to, directly or indirectly, form highly active “protecting isotopes” (of the same element as the activation dopant or a different element). A sufficient mass of activation dopants is used so that the Figure of Merit (FOM) of the fuel salt is decreased to below 1.0 within some target number of days of fission. This allows the FOM of the fuel salt to be controlled so that the fuel becomes too dangerous to handle before to the creation of a significant amount of weaponizable isotopes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: TerraPower, LLC
    Inventors: Anselmo T. Cisneros, Jr., Ken Czerwinski, Bassem S. El-Dasher, Brian C. Kelleher, William M. Kerlin, Kevin Kramer, Jeffery F. Latkowski, Robert C. Petroski, Joshua C. Walter
  • Patent number: 11273527
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for terminating a multi-stranded, non-parallel cable. An anchor is provided on the end of each strand. A collector is provided to link the anchors and connected strands into a single unit. An alignment fixture is provided to transition the strands from the non-parallel lay within the cable to a parallel path adjacent to the anchors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Bright Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Richard V. Campbell, David W. Hilbig, Kristopher L. Wortham, David E. Sediles
  • Patent number: 11273561
    Abstract: A blade cartridge for a wet shave razor includes multiple blades that are electrically connected in series to a power source, such as a battery power source, wherein the blades are heated as a result of electrical resistance created by the electric current flow through the blades. The electric current flow through the blades creates a magnetic field around each of the blades, which is opposite in polarity to adjacent blades due to the blades being electrically connected in series, wherein current flow is in opposite direction in each adjacently positioned blade. A method of vibrating the blades includes the step of rapidly alternating direction of current flow to change the polarity of electric fields around each blade to cause momentary attraction between adjacent blades in rapid impulses (e.g., 700 hz to 75 khz) that results in vibration of the blades.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: HEATED BLADES HOLDING COMPANY, LLC
    Inventor: Louis D. Tomassetti
  • Patent number: 11275794
    Abstract: A method includes receiving a first set of documents. The method further includes generating a map of terms and words based on the first set of documents, where the map of terms and words correspond to concepts. The method further includes receiving an initial document relating to a data discovery issue. The method further includes identifying at least one of a key term, a person, a date, and a key document based on the map of terms and words. The method further includes generating a story that includes the at least one of the key term, the person, the date, and the key document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Casepoint LLC
    Inventor: Vishalkumar Rajpara
  • Patent number: 11273206
    Abstract: Provided herein are new compositions and methods to target pharmaceutical agents to pathological areas by utilizing bifunctional fusion polymers or nanoparticles. These fusion polymers and nanoparticles contain two or more domains: (i) sequences that bind to exposed collagenous (XC-) proteins present in pathological areas, including cancerous lesions and (ii) domains that bind to pharmaceutical agents. The drug-binding functionality of these fusion polymers and nanoparticles is based on high-affinity, non-covalent interactions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Counterpoint Biomedica LLC
    Inventors: Frederick L. Hall, Erlinda M. Gordon
  • Patent number: 11273460
    Abstract: An airpot beverage dispenser having a body with a beverage cavity, a lid with lower and upper lid portions, a bellows within the upper lid portion, an actuator for compressing the bellows to increase the pressure of trapped air in the bellows, a duckbill valve, a skirt valve extending fully around the duckbill valve, and a spout. The skirt valve is movable into sealing engagement with a lid lower wall to define an air flow path from the bellows to the beverage cavity, and when the pressure of the trapped air in the bellows is sufficiently increased, the duckbill valve opens and passes the trapped air to the beverage cavity to force beverage out the spout. When the spout is moved to a stored position and the dispenser is in a locked state, the skirt valve serves as a relief valve to prevent over pressure in the beverage cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Pacific Market International, LLC
    Inventors: Matthew Kenneth Dolph, Ryan Michael Smith, Stephen Lake, Andrew C. F. Wahl, Ping The Phan
  • Patent number: 11275396
    Abstract: Systems and methods dynamically assess energy efficiency by obtaining a minimum energy consumption of a system, receiving in a substantially continuous way a measurement of actual energy consumption of the system, and comparing the minimum energy consumption to the measurement of actual energy consumption to calculate a substantially continuous energy performance assessment. The system further provides at least one of a theoretical minimum energy consumption based at least in part on theoretical performance limits of system components, an achievable minimum energy consumption based at least in part on specifications for high energy efficient equivalents of the system components, and the designed minimum energy consumption based at least in part on specifications for the system components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: MELROK, LLC
    Inventors: Michel Roger Kamel, Paul W. Donahue
  • Patent number: 11275930
    Abstract: A system receives a digital representation of a biometric for a person, uses the digital representation of the biometric to determine and/or otherwise retrieve identity information associated with the person, and uses the identity information to perform one or more actions related to the person's presence in one or more areas. For example, the system may estimate a path for the person and signal an agent electronic device based on the path. In another example, the system may determine a presence of a person within the area and/or transmit information to an agent electronic device regarding the determined presence. In still another example, the system may receive a request to communicate with the person and forward the communication to the person using the identity information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: ALCLEAR, LLC
    Inventors: Joe Trelin, Matthew Snyder, Rob Wisniewski
  • Patent number: 11274319
    Abstract: The present invention provides for a mechanism to reduce glycerol production and increase nitrogen utilization and ethanol production of recombinant microorganisms. One aspect of this invention relates to strains of S. cerevisiae with reduced glycerol productivity that get a kinetic benefit from higher nitrogen concentration without sacrificing ethanol yield. A second aspect of the invention relates to metabolic modifications resulting in altered transport and/or intracellular metabolism of nitrogen sources present in corn mash.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Lallemand Hungary Liquidity Management LLC
    Inventors: Aaron Argyros, Trisha Barrett
  • Patent number: 11276033
    Abstract: Based upon the transition information for all the retail stores, a determination is made of an average cluster retention score. The average cluster retention score is a measure of how many retail stores have moved from original to different existing sales clusters in the current sales period. When the average cluster retention score is below a predetermined threshold, a complete re-organization of the existing sales clusters is performed. When the average cluster retention score is above the predetermined threshold, a determination is made as to whether each retail store should be re-classified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Somedip Karmakar, Sourit Manna, Gayatri Pal
  • Patent number: 11276105
    Abstract: A social gift registry provides tools to aid those planning for major milestones in life to engage a network of friends, family, and others in communicating information about the life event, helping to identify and track gifts for the celebrants, and enabling the management of the activities involved in the celebration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Transform SR Brands LLC
    Inventors: Marie Basa Macaisa, Katherine Susan Schneider, Varun Reddy Agasti, Sundaresan Chandrasekaran, Jose David Zayas, Gregory Drogaline, Leena Munjal
  • Patent number: 11275601
    Abstract: A method for managing virtual machines includes selecting a virtual machine (VM) on a recoverable deleted VMs List, and initiating recovery of the VM on the production host.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Priyank Tiwari, Gururaj Kulkarni
  • Patent number: 11275985
    Abstract: In an aspect, an artificial intelligence advisory system for vibrant constitutional guidance includes at least a server, a diagnostic engine configured to record at least a biological extraction from a user. and to generate, using at least a machine learning algorithm, a diagnostic output based on the at least a biological extraction, the diagnostic output including at least a prognostic label and at least an ameliorative process label. The system includes an advisory module operating on the at least a server and configured to receive at least a user input from a user client device and transmit at least a textual output to the user client device. The system includes an artificial intelligence advisor operating on the at least a server, wherein the artificial intelligence advisor is configured to generate the at least a textual output using the diagnostic output and the at least a user input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: KPN INNOVATIONS, LLC.
    Inventor: Kenneth Neumann
  • Patent number: 11272763
    Abstract: A magnetic clasp system, having a clasping assembly, which includes a top portion, a bottom portion, and a pin defining a patch configured to receive a strap, and wherein the bottom portion includes a magnetically responsive material. The magnetic clasp system also including a mounting assembly, the mounting assembly including a magnetically responsive material configured to draw the clasping assembly and the mounting assembly together when within a magnetic field thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Boston Inventions, LLC
    Inventor: Samuel David Provencher