Patents Assigned to LLC
  • Patent number: 12187862
    Abstract: A thin, freestanding, microporous polyolefin web with good heat resistance and dimensional stability includes an inorganic surface layer. A first preferred embodiment is a microporous polyolefin base membrane in which colloidal inorganic particles are present in its bulk structure. Each of second and third preferred embodiments is a thin, freestanding microporous polyolefin web that has an inorganic surface layer containing no organic hydrogen bonding component for the inorganic particles. The inorganic surface layer of the second embodiment is achieved by hydrogen bonding with use of an inorganic acid, and the inorganic surface layer of the third embodiment is achieved by one or both of hydrogen bonding and chemical reaction of the surface groups on the inorganic particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Amtek Research International LLC
    Inventors: Richard W. Pekala, Daniel K. Lee, James E. Emanuel, Robert Waterhouse, Weston J. Wood, Andrew Wimer
  • Patent number: 12192212
    Abstract: A device may provide a verification indicator to a device associated with a website. The verification indicator may be associated with verifying access to the website. The device may detect that the verification indicator has been associated with code associated with the website based on processing the code. The device may provide a script to the device. The script may be included in the code. The script may be associated with monitoring operations of the website. The device may receive data related to the operations. The device may analyze the data using a model. The model may be associated with making a prediction related to at least one of: a value to be received via the website, or traffic associated with the website. The device may perform one or more actions related to the website based on a result of the analyzing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Joshua Edwards, Abdelkadar M'Hamed Benkreira, Michael Mossoba
  • Patent number: 12187738
    Abstract: This disclosure is directed to substituted Imidazolo[2,1-b]oxazole, Imidazolo[2,1-b]thiazole, Imidazolo[2,1-b]oxadiazole, Imidazolo[2,1-b]oxadiathiazole derivatives of compounds that are antagonists of orexin receptors, and which are useful in the treatment or prevention of neurological and psychiatric disorders and diseases in which orexin receptors are involved or implicated. The invention is also directed to pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds and the use of these compounds and compositions in the prevention or treatment of such diseases in which orexin receptors are involved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Hager Biosciences, LLC
    Inventors: Belew Mekonnen, Hemantbhai Patel
  • Patent number: 12192852
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses for presence detection are described herein. A first computing device may emit an inaudible audio signal. A second computing device may detect the inaudible audio signal. The second computing device may send an indication of detecting the inaudible audio signal. The first computing device may cause presentation of content to be modified based on the indication sent by the second computing device and a user profile associated with a user of the second computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Larry Wolcott, Zane Vella, Ken Klaer, Andrew Frederick
  • Patent number: 12193339
    Abstract: An integrated qubit readout circuit is presented, which includes a superconducting parametric amplifier, a circuit board arranged to mount the superconducting parametric amplifier, a circulator mounted on the circuit board and connected to the superconducting parametric amplifier, wherein the circulator comprises a termination port electrically connected to a termination resistor arranged to terminate a pump tone received by the superconducting parametric amplifier, and wherein the termination resistor is mounted on the circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Theodore Charles White, John Martinis
  • Patent number: 12186720
    Abstract: A system for mixing acid and water can include a tank for holding acid, an acid pump for pumping acid out of the tank, an acid flow meter, an acid control valve, a water pump for pumping water, a water flow meter, a water control valve, a flush valve to selectively flush the system with water, and a controller to monitor the flow meters and control the pumps and the valves. The acid control valve and/or the water control valve can be an electronically controlled valve. The flush valve can be an electronically controlled valve to selectively permit water to flow from downstream of the water pump to upstream of the acid pump. The acid control valve, the water control valve, the flush valve, or any combination thereof can be throttled by the controller to control flow therethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Texas Integrity Acid Solutions, LLC
    Inventors: Britton Siegert, Gregory Johnson
  • Patent number: 12187502
    Abstract: A bottle assembly has a bottle and a removable cap. The cap includes a nozzle and a vent arrangement. The vent arrangement can include a vent conduit that extends into an air cavity present at the bottom of the bottle assembly when the bottle assembly is inverted. The vent arrangement allows for pressure equalization within the bottom assembly in response to liquid being dispensed from the bottle assembly to permit high flow rates of the dispensed liquid without squeezing of the bottle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: BIVO, LLC
    Inventors: Carina Mary Hamel, Robert Hart Ringer, Peter William Hazelett, Casey J. Davis, Christopher Ian Jones, Daniel William Peter, Mark Callen Beard
  • Patent number: 12187530
    Abstract: A corrugated storage container is provided that includes a box section with a top wall and corrugated side walls and end walls, a tapered funnel section extending downwardly from the box section and a frame supporting the box section and the funnel section. The frame includes vertical posts that are integrally joined with the box section and a base section formed at the lower end of the vertical posts and supporting the funnel section. The configuration of the corrugated storage container provides approximately 600 cubic feet of enclosed interior volume capable of storing between 50,000 and 51,000 pounds of bulk material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: SANDBOX ENTERPRISES, LLC
    Inventor: Justin Shepherd
  • Patent number: 12188070
    Abstract: A method for providing a C5/C6 product from a lignocellulosic material is disclosed, said method comprising the steps: (i) pretreatment of the lignocellulosic material; (ii) solid/liquid separation of the pretreated lignocellulosic material from step (a) into a first solid fraction and a first liquid fraction; (iii) enzymatic fiber hydrolysis of said first solid fraction from step (b) by use of an enzyme composition capable of degrading lignocellulosic material, thereby providing a C5/C6 fiber slurry comprising C5 and/or C6 sugars; (iv) solid/liquid separation of the C5/C6 fiber slurry from step (c) into a second solid fraction and a second liquid fraction; and optionally (v) combining said first liquid fraction and said second liquid fraction for enzymatic mixed sugar hydrolysis (MSH), whereby a MSH C5/C6 product is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: New Energy Blue LLC
    Inventors: Martin Dan Jeppesen, Jan Larsen, Kit Haubjerg Mogensen, Anna Frederike Gossmann, Anna Granly Hansen, Laila Thirup, Lars Villadsgaard Toft, Hanne Risbjerg Sørensen
  • Patent number: 12188498
    Abstract: Baffle plate devices, exhaust gas aftertreatment apparatuses, and methods for controlling airflow in exhaust gas aftertreatment apparatuses are disclosed. In some examples, a baffle plate device is mounted within an outlet conduit via which the exhaust gas treated by an exhaust gas aftertreatment apparatus exits to the environment. The baffle plate device impacts the flow path of the treated exhaust gas within the outlet conduit to deflect a portion of the treated exhaust gas toward tips of sensors, which extend into the flow path toward the baffle plate device, in order to mitigate the impact of the recirculation region, improve the flow characteristics (e.g., rate, direction, and/or field) of the treated exhaust gas at the tips, and thereby improve the accuracy of the sensors. By improving sensor accuracy, the disclosed technology advantageously reduces false positives and improves engine performance and emissions compliance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: DAIMLER TRUCK NORTH AMERICA, LLC
    Inventors: Peng Quan, Jeffrey Asaro, Kevin Sisken
  • Patent number: 12190374
    Abstract: A device may receive application questions for an individual applying for credit with an organization. The device may broadcast the application questions to additional devices that have access to a distributed ledger for sharing credit worthiness information to cause at least one of the additional devices to generate an application response to the application questions and to process the application response using a smart contract. The device may receive one or more application responses that have been encrypted. Each of the application responses may include particular credit worthiness information relating to the individual. The device may decrypt the application responses. The device may determine a credit worthiness score for the individual using the application responses. The device may perform one or more actions that allow the device or another device associated with the organization to use the credit worthiness score to determine whether to approve the individual for credit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Jeremy Phillips, Kurry Tran
  • Patent number: 12190723
    Abstract: A system for prioritizing traffic having a traffic signal controller (TSC), a processor, a database, and one or more detectors configured to detect the presence of a vehicle having a vehicle identifier. The system is configured so that the processor is in communication with the TSC and at least one detector, and the detectors are configured to detect passing vehicles having a vehicle identifier. In a case the vehicle identifier has a record within the database, the processor an approximate travel time of the vehicle identifier between a location of the detector where the vehicle identifier is detected and a traffic signal connected to the TSC, and a command is set to be sent from the processor to the TSC to change the traffic signal connected to the TSC in a direction of travel of the vehicle identifier if one or more conditions are met. The command sent from the processor to the TSC has a delay of between zero seconds and the approximate travel time calculated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: THRUGREEN, LLC
    Inventor: David H Nguyen
  • Patent number: 12191518
    Abstract: Presented are active thermal management (ATM) systems with multi-purpose reservoirs for liquid-immersion cooled battery assemblies, methods for making/using such systems, and motor vehicles equipped with such systems. An ATM system for a battery assembly includes a coolant reservoir that stows a liquid immersion cooling (LIC) fluid, and an inlet manifold that fluidly connects the reservoir to the battery assembly's battery case to transfer LIC fluid into an immersion compartment within the battery case. An outlet manifold fluidly connects the battery case to the reservoir to transfer fluid out from the immersion compartment. An auxiliary vent manifold selectively fluidly connects the battery case to the reservoir responsive to a predefined thermal event to thereby transfer LIC fluid and battery cell vent gases from the immersion compartment to the reservoir. A gas valve, which is fluidly connected to the reservoir, selectively evacuates therefrom the vent gases at a predefined internal reservoir pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventor: Ryan P. Hickey
  • Patent number: 12192342
    Abstract: This document relates to using secure MPC to select digital components in ways that preserve user privacy and protects the security of data of each party that is involved in the selection process. In one aspect, a method includes receiving, by a first computing system of a secure MPC system and from a client device, a digital component request and a nonce. The first computing system generates, based on the nonce and a function, an array including a share of a Bloom filter representing user group identifiers for user groups that include a user of the client device as a member. For each of multiple user group identifiers, the first computing system calculates, in collaboration with one or more second computing systems of the secure MPC system and using the array, a respective first secret share of one or more user group membership condition parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Gang Wang, Sarvar Patel, Marcel M. Moti Yung, Karn Seth, Kevin Wei Li Yeo, Benjamin Kreuter, Mariana Raykova, Tancrède Lepoint
  • Patent number: 12192403
    Abstract: Systems and methods of caller identity verification and notification are disclosed. In one embodiment, an exemplary computer-implemented method may include: configuring a notification application, executing at a first computing device associated with a first user, the first user associated with an entity; receiving, from the notification application executing on the first computing device, an indication when the first user initiates a particular call to a second user; determining an application associated with the entity and installed on the second computing device of the second user, the application having an icon displayed at a screen of the second computing device; and instructing the application, executing on the second computing device, when the second computing device has received the particular call from the first user, to update an appearance of the icon associated with the application to display an indicator with regard to that the first user is associated with the entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Tyler Maiman, Lin Ni Lisa Cheng, Dwij Trivedi, Asher Smith-Rose, Salik Shah
  • Patent number: 12192480
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide a method and an apparatus for video decoding. The apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry applies an intra prediction mode with a multiple reference line (MRL) prediction to a current block. For each weight candidate combination including a respective first weight candidate and a respective second weight candidate in a plurality of weight candidate combinations, a subset of samples in the current block is predicted using intra prediction fusion that is based on a first reference line weighted by the respective first weight candidate and a second reference line weighted by the respective second weight candidate. The subset of samples includes top samples in a top-most row and left samples in a left-most column. A gradient cost is determined based on the predicted subset of samples and reconstructed samples outside the current block. A weight candidate combination is selected based on the gradient costs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Tencent America LLC
    Inventors: Lien-Fei Chen, Xin Zhao, Guichun Li, Shan Liu
  • Patent number: 12192620
    Abstract: A system for opportunistic imaging includes an imaging device that generates data comprising a plurality of sequential image frames. The system also includes a control module that causes the imaging device to generate standard-resolution image frames at a standard-frame rate and a standard-resolution, such that there is a processing time lull between the generation of sequential standard-resolution image frames. The control module also causes the imaging device to generate one or more burst-resolution image frames at a burst-frame rate and a burst-resolution within the processing time lull.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: RM ACQUISITION, LLC
    Inventors: Andreas U. Kuehnle, Zheng Li
  • Patent number: 12189134
    Abstract: A beam expander for a display in an enhanced reality headset is provided. The beam expander includes a first optical element configured to receive a collimated beam input and to provide a first expanded beam in a first direction, and a second optical element configured to receive the first expanded beam in the first direction and to provide a second expanded beam in a second direction to a display for an enhanced reality headset. An enhanced reality headset and a method for making a beam expander therein with the above features are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Wai Sze Tiffany Lam, Jian Xu, Wanli Chi
  • Patent number: 12187980
    Abstract: A liquid laundry additive is provided, comprising a cleaning booster polymer having structural units of a monoethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid monomer; structural units of an ethylenically unsaturated monomer of formula (I) wherein a is an average of 1-3; wherein b is an average of 1-3; wherein c is an average of 0-5; wherein d is 4-100; wherein A is an anion; and wherein M is a cation charge balancing the anion; and optionally, structural units of an ethylenically unsaturated monomer of formula (II) wherein each R2 is independently selected from a —C1-4 alkyl group; and wherein each R3 is independently selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen and a methyl group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignees: Dow Global Technologies LLC, Rohm and Haas Company
    Inventors: Asghar A. Peera, Stephen J. Donovan, Roy Roberts
  • Patent number: 12189493
    Abstract: Methods, computer program products, computer systems, and the like are disclosed that provide for improved deduplication performance using prefetched backup information. For example, such methods, computer program products, and computer systems can include generating new feature information for a new backup image, (for each existing backup image in a plurality of existing backup images) comparing the new feature information with existing feature information for the each existing backup image, identifying one or more existing backup images of the plurality of existing backup images, and prefetching the one or more existing backup images. The feature information is generated as an output of a machine learning process. The machine learning process receives at least a portion of data of the new backup image as an input. The one or more existing backup images are identified based, at least in part, on a result of the comparing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Veritas Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Yaobin Qin, Xianbo Zhang