Patents Assigned to LLC
  • Snowsport equipment positional stabilization
    Patent number: 11273361
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods are disclosed for positionally stabilizing snowsport equipment such as snowboards while in use on snow or ice. The apparatus includes a position establishing unit having an interface and a guide situated in an angular relation to one another and a tether connectable between the establishing unit and either the equipment or an article associated with the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: AJAJA, LLC
    Inventor: Avery C. Johnson
  • Intelligent control of cache
    Patent number: 11275691
    Abstract: A method and system for intelligent control of read-ahead cache for a client application is provided. The method receives an application profile of the client application, the application profile indicating thresholds for determining a plurality of access patterns of the client application. The method also determines a current access pattern of the client application based on the thresholds and a historical access pattern of the client application. The current access pattern and the historical access pattern are one of the plurality of access patterns. The method further dynamically enables and disables read-ahead cache for the client application based on a transition between the historical access pattern and the current access pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
    Inventor: Keyur Desai
  • Providing media to a user based on a triggering event
    Patent number: 11275483
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus related to determining a triggering event of a user, selecting media relevant to the triggering event, and providing the selected media to the user. Some implementations are directed to methods and apparatus for determining a past event of the user that is indicative of past interaction of the user with one or more past entities and the triggering event may be determined to be associated with the past event. The media selected to provide to the user may contain media that includes the one or more past entities associated with the past event and the media may be provided to the user in response to the triggering event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Matthew Kulick, Aparna Chennapragada, Albert Segars, Hartmut Neven, Arcot J. Preetham
  • Fender flare
    Patent number: 11273873
    Abstract: A fender flare has a mounting plate portion, a fender portion, and a plurality of strut plates. The mounting plate portion is configured to be mounted to a wheel well of a vehicle body. The plurality of strut plates support the fender portion relative to the mounting plate portion. A step assembly and modular bumper assemblies are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: BODYGUARD PRODUCTS LLC
    Inventors: Charles Grant Mallicote, Kelli Renee Mallicote, Caleb Michael Hix
  • Rivet block including integrated rivet feed bores
    Patent number: 11273484
    Abstract: A method and rivet apparatus comprise a rivet block, the rivet block comprising a rivet block, a pin bore, and a rivet feed bore. The rivet block is comprised of a top end and a bottom end. The pin bore includes a top end and a bottom end and is disposed within the rivet block. The pin bore extends from the top end to the bottom end of the rivet block and guides a rivet pin that slides downward within the pin bore to push a head of a rivet into a workpiece. The rivet feed bore includes a top end and a bottom end and is disposed within the rivet block. The rivet feed bore extends from the top end to the bottom end of the rivet block, accepts the rivet at the top end of the rivet feed bore, and guides the rivet to the bottom end of the rivet feed bore. The rivet feed bore intersecting the pin bore between the top end and the bottom end of the pin bore at an oblique angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: JR Automation Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Joseph Robert Russell, Jason R. Turman, Ryan Nathan Anderson, Marcos Merino, Gabriel C. Van't Land
  • Channel state information reference signal
    Patent number: 11277186
    Abstract: In a Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) system including a large number of antenna ports, a base station such as a Node B communicates a total number of antenna ports by communicating the number of antenna ports per Channel State Information Reference Signal (CSI-RS) configuration and one or more CSI-RS configurations. A User Equipment determines the number of antenna ports from the information communicated by the base station by determining the number of CSI-RS configurations sent by the base station and multiplying that number by the number of antenna ports per CSI-RS configuration indicated by the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignees: Technology In Ariscale, LLC, Ariscale Inc.
    Inventors: Choong Won Cho, Jeonghwan Park
  • Systems and methods for providing a packaged plurality of application data within a group-based communication system
    Patent number: 11275572
    Abstract: Various embodiments are directed to apparatuses, systems, and methods for authorizing within a group-based communication interface a bundled plurality of applications to be collectively installed in a group-based communication workspace enabling communications between client devices via a group-based communication system. Various embodiments are directed to apparatuses, systems, and methods for collectively installing within a group-based communication system a bundled plurality of applications associated with an application bundle. Various embodiments are directed to apparatuses, systems, and methods for generating within a group-based communication interface application bundle data associated with a plurality of applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Slack Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Hahn, Salman Suhail, Saurabh Sahni, Maria-Ivmer Real Kalalang, Giacomo DiGrigoli
  • Acoustic insulator for smart speaker devices
    Patent number: 11276383
    Abstract: A housing for a smart speaker device, is formed, at least in part, from a sound absorbing material, a sound reflecting material, or both. The housing includes one or more doors which can be selectively opened or closed by an authorized person to permit the transmission of an externally generated voice signal to be received by the smart speaker device when the door is opened, and to prevent the receipt of any voice signal by the smart speaker device when the door is closed. The door can be controlled manually, or remotely by an external signal from a remote actuating device. The housing includes an internal electrical receptacle for electrically actuating the smart speaker device enclosed within the housing, and the internal electrical receptacle is coupled to a source of external electrical energy for powering the smart speaker device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Hive Security, LLC
    Inventors: Braunislaw Barski, Karen Vanessa McIntosh-Hill
  • Value map generation and processing
    Patent number: 11276090
    Abstract: A system receives value data to generate a value data object based on input received from a user. The input may include indications of priorities, descriptors, and descriptions related to known and unknown properties. The system uses the generated value data object and associated value gap score to generate property valuation prompts. The valuation prompts are utilized by the user to input evaluation data. Based on the evaluation data and the value data object, the user generates a value score for each visited property.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: REIMAGINE SELLING LLC
    Inventor: Richard Alan Heaston
  • Whole coffee based processes
    Patent number: 11272720
    Abstract: A process for preserving the organoleptic characteristics of coffee-based products and extending their shelf lives, having the steps of roasting the green coffee beans and placing it in a chamber with an inert gas atmosphere, first milling of the roasted coffee beans under inert gas conditions to a size between seventy five (75) and five hundred (500), second milling the previously milled roasted coffee beans under refrigerated conditions to ensure that the size of the bean particles fall between ten (10) and thirty (30) microns and jet milling the first and second milled coffee beans using a closed, or semi-closed, loop of inert gas jet mill to bring the bean particles' size between one tenth (0.1) and less than ten (10) microns resulting in an ultrafine powder. Micro-encapsulating or agglomerating the ultrafine powder with food ingredients, resulting in coated roasted whole coffee granules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: THE WHOLE COFFEE COMPANY LLC
    Inventor: Luiz Fernando Ribeiro De Miranda
  • Oral and/or buccal delivery pouch and method of making same
    Patent number: 11273965
    Abstract: A vertical form, fill, and seal (VFFS) machine and method for producing an oral sachet designed to be placed in a users mouth, the oral sachet. The oral sachet includes permeable paper that does not contain fiberglass. The permeable paper forms a pouch that includes a top seal arranged at first end of the pouch, a bottom seal arranged at a second end of the pouch opposite from the first end, a vertical seal that extends from the top seal to the bottom seal, and a cavity located between the top seal and the bottom seal. Granular contents, including at least one granular or powdered component, are arranged within the cavity of the permeable-paper pouch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: PRO-DIP, LLC
    Inventor: Peter St. Lawrence
  • Flame retardant clear coatings for building panels
    Patent number: 11274439
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to flame-retardant building panels comprising a body having a first major surface opposite a second major surface; an inorganic coating atop the first major surface, the inorganic coating being optically transparent and flame retardant and comprising a blend of a borate compound and a phosphate compound, and wherein the inorganic flame retardant coating is substantially transparent such that the first major surface of the body is visible through the inorganic coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: AWI Licensing LLC
    Inventors: John E. Hughes, Michelle X. Wang
  • Section mill and method for abandoning a wellbore
    Patent number: 11274514
    Abstract: A mill for use in a wellbore includes a tubular housing having a bore therethrough, a plurality of pockets formed in a wall thereof, and a blade disposed in each pocket. Each blade includes a body having a first side opposite a second side, wherein the first side faces in a direction of rotation of the mill. The blade also includes a blade portion disposed on the first side of the body, wherein the blade portion has a first cutting face stepped relative to a second cutting face. Each blade is movable between a retracted position and an extended position, wherein a portion of the first side and the second side protrude from the housing in the extended position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Weatherford Technology Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Richard J. Segura, Thomas F. Bailey, David J. Brunnert, Ram K. Bansal, Andrew Antoine
  • Active gain control for power factor correction
    Patent number: 11277896
    Abstract: An active gain control circuit includes a voltage divider having a variable resistance configured to attenuate a rectified input line voltage to produce a reference signal, a filter circuit configured to extract a DC-level reference voltage from the reference signal, and an operational amplifier configured to receive the DC-level reference voltage and a comparison voltage, and to generate a gate control signal based on a difference between the comparison voltage and the DC-level reference voltage, wherein a resistance of the voltage divider is controlled by the gate control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: ERP POWER, LLC
    Inventor: James H. Mohan
  • Systems and methods for verifying photomask cleanliness
    Patent number: 11275312
    Abstract: The present application relates to contact immersion lithography systems and methods of their use. An example immersion lithography system includes a photomask substrate and at least one sensor disposed along a surface of the photomask substrate. The immersion lithography system also includes a controller having at least one processor and a memory. The at least one processor is configured to execute program instructions stored in the memory so as to carry out operations. The operations include receiving, from the at least one sensor, information indicative of an electric field proximate to the at least one sensor. The operations also include determining, based on the received information, at least one of: a thickness of a liquid layer adjacent to the photomask substrate or a distance to a further substrate adjacent to the photomask substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Waymo LLC
    Inventors: James Dunphy, Hongqin Shi, David Hutchison, Yeh-Jiun Tung, Eric Copenhaver, Nao Chuei
  • Table saw insert with lock-down mechanism
    Patent number: 11273504
    Abstract: Inserts for table saws are disclosed. The table inserts are equipped with a toolless locking mechanism that mechanically holds the insert in place and which allows for the installation and removal of the insert without the use of tools. The locking mechanism is easy to lock and unlock and yet robust enough to hold a zero-clearance insert in place.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: SawStop, Holding LLC
    Inventors: John P. Nenadic, James F. W. Wright, Stephen F. Gass
  • Water cooler
    Patent number: D945809
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: LVD ACQUISITION, LLC
    Inventor: Jared Robert Gates
  • Mouse pad
    Patent number: D946005
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignees: EUREKA LLC.
    Inventor: Yajun Hu
  • Natural surface balance and movement standing mat
    Patent number: D946095
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: THE WILD GYM COMPANY LLC
    Inventors: David Hunt, Daniel Vinson
  • Ventilation grille
    Patent number: D946137
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Broan-NuTone LLC
    Inventors: Benjamin Puffer, Anup Nikam, Kwame Appiahene-Agyei, David Jennings Lucas