Patents Assigned to LLC
  • Patent number: 11261770
    Abstract: A vehicle engine system includes an internal combustion engine, an air induction system configured to supply intake air to the internal combustion engine, and an evaporative emissions control (EVAP) system is configured to selectively supply purge fuel vapor to the EHC for subsequent combustion and rapid heating to a predetermined catalyst light-off temperature. The system additionally includes a booster configured to charge the intake air, and an engine bypass conduit fluidly coupled between the booster and the exhaust aftertreatment system. When the internal combustion engine is off, the booster selectively supplies a flow of intake air through the engine bypass conduit to the exhaust aftertreatment system. The flow of intake air draws purge fuel vapor from the EVAP system into the exhaust aftertreatment system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: FCA US LLC
    Inventors: Matthew M Delleree, James Daley, Roger C Sager, Joseph Dekar, Nithin Baradwaj
  • Patent number: 11265904
    Abstract: A wireless device receives message(s) comprising configuration parameters of cells, a first IE for the primary PUCCH, a second IE indicating SR maximum number of transmissions, and an SR prohibit timer IE for an SR timer. The SR timer may be configured with an expiration duration value determined based on the SR prohibit timer IE regardless of which one of the primary PUCCH and a secondary PUCCH is employed for transmission of the SR.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventor: Esmael Hejazi Dinan
  • Patent number: 11265888
    Abstract: A method may include determining a set of parameters of a first wireless network that includes a first radio configured to communicate according to a first communication protocol on a plurality of overlapping channels. The method may also include determining one or more operating parameters of a second radio based on the set of parameters of the first wireless network, the second radio included in a second wireless network, co-located with the first radio, and configured to communicate according to a second communication protocol on the plurality of overlapping channels. The method may also include operating the second radio in the second wireless network according to the one or more operating parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLC
    Inventors: Debashis Dash, Bahador Amiri
  • Patent number: 11261806
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for reducing air flow to an emission control device during a fuel shut-off event. In one example, a method may include adjusting a timing of an exhaust valve and a timing of an intake valve of a cylinder during the fuel shut-off event using a common actuator. The actuator may include a planetary gear system configured to rotate a first portion of a camshaft in a first direction and a second portion of the camshaft in a second, opposite direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Gregory McConville
  • Patent number: 11263211
    Abstract: Described are methods, systems and computer readable media for data partitioning and ordering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Deephaven Data Labs, LLC
    Inventors: Ryan Caudy, David R. Kent, IV, Charles Wright, Radu Teodorescu
  • Patent number: 11263221
    Abstract: A search service executes on one or more computing systems and searches at least one index associated with content accessible through an application based on the at least one portion of the search query to provide search results associated with the application. A search results interface returns one or more search results from the search. At least one of the search results is associated with an application identifier identifying the application. The search service ranks the search results associated with the application with other search results from at least one other search of other content based on the search query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Emmett Kolba, Jr., Daniel Oliver, Max Glenn Morris, Gaurav Anand, Sandy Wong, Benjamin David Langmaid Stewart, Melitta Lorraine Geistdoerfer Andersen Riley, Shajib Sadhukha, Liwei Chen
  • Patent number: 11260744
    Abstract: A fuel system is provided that includes a fuel tank, a heat detector, and a control circuit. The digital heat detector is disposed in proximity to the fuel tank. The control circuit is coupled with the digital heat detector and is configured to detect that a thermal event has occurred. The fuel system is configured to implement an emergency countermeasure in response to the detection of the thermal event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Agility Fuel Systems LLC
    Inventors: Michael Gregory Volkmer, Chad Alvin Cederberg, David Neil Morgan, Glen Edward Lampe, Michael Dean Hawkins, Hector Adrian Ortiz, Eric M. Coupal-Sikes, Todd F. Sloan, Chris Forsberg
  • Patent number: 11264526
    Abstract: A phototransistor includes an emitter, a collector, and a base between the emitter and the collector. The base has a thickness greater than 500 nanometers and the base absorbs photons passing through the collector to the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: HRL Laboratories, LLC
    Inventors: Minh B. Nguyen, Diego Carrasco, Rajesh D. Rajavel
  • Patent number: 11261017
    Abstract: A box blank assembly includes a box blank, the box blank includes a bottom panel; a first side panel attached to the bottom panel by a first length fold line; a second side panel attached to the bottom panel by a second length fold line; and a third side panel attached to the bottom panel by a first width fold line; and an insulation batt attached to at least one of the first side panel, the second side panel, and the third side panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Pratt Retail Specialties, LLC
    Inventors: Jamie Waltermire, Paul Ott, Greg Sollie
  • Patent number: 11259560
    Abstract: An orbital plant material feed assembly includes a drum structure and hopper assembly. An external surface of the drum structure has a curved shape and includes a peripheral groove. A width of the peripheral groove varies along the external surface of the drum structure. The hopper assembly may define a compression space between the drum structure and a portion of the hopper assembly that covers a portion of the peripheral groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Altria Client Services LLC
    Inventor: Dwight David Williams
  • Patent number: 11263661
    Abstract: In an example embodiment, a bid of an impression of a piece of content, while dynamically set at impression time, may be based on a base bid that is something of a rough indicator of what the estimated price will be. That base bid then is adjusted dynamically up or down at impression time. This base bid can be determined by dividing the expected number of impressions for a day by a total daily budget. The expected number of impressions may be determined by using the empirical number of impressions from the previous day. As such, in an example embodiment, the prediction of the number of impressions for a day utilizes a corrected version of the empirical number of impressions from the prior day, with the corrected version based on a specialized formula with weights trained by a machine learning algorithm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Keqing Liang
  • Patent number: 11259843
    Abstract: An external fixation assembly for bone fusion or separation is disclosed. The assembly includes a fracture fusion tube, with a bracket slidably engaged thereon. The assembly further includes a collet clamp connected to the bracket, with a ball collet rotatably seated within the clamp, the ball collet having an aperture for receiving a bone bin therethrough and perforations for a compression engagement with a bone pin. The assembly uses a single screw for threadably engaging the ball collet, the clamp and the bracket such that the position of the bone pin, ball collet and bracket are all fixed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: DNE, LLC
    Inventor: Nicholas Riccione
  • Patent number: 11259618
    Abstract: A liquid dispensing container assembly includes a container having a container interior configured to contain a supply of liquid to be dispensed. A rotatable, liquid dispensing head is carried by the container and has a dispensing surface and a dispensing port. An opening in the liquid dispensing head may communicate with the dispensing port. The liquid dispensing head includes one or more rollers disposed in one or more respective sockets. A dispensing adaptor may be disposed in the liquid dispensing head. The liquid dispensing head may be rotatable between a dispensing position wherein the opening in the liquid dispensing head aligns or registers with an opening in the dispensing adaptor to facilitate flow of the liquid from the container onto the dispensing surface of the liquid dispensing head and a closed position wherein the opening misaligns or misregisters with the opening in the dispensing adaptor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Inventos, LLC
    Inventor: Gerardo Feterman
  • Patent number: 11262049
    Abstract: Methods, systems and devices associated with an electronic candle are described. In one example, an electronic candle comprises a housing having a through-hole at its top and a component shell. The component shell encloses a transfer mechanism including a driver motor and one or more gears positioned inside the component shell, a light emitting component coupled to the transfer mechanism such that the transfer mechanism causes the light emitting component to move vertically up or down to protrude from the housing or to retract into the housing, a lid positioned inside the component shell and movable to remain in at least one of an open configuration or a closed configuration, and a controller configured to turn on or off the light emitting component. The candle also includes a controller configured to turn on or off the light emitting component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: L&L Candle Company, LLC
    Inventor: Xiaofeng Li
  • Patent number: 11259826
    Abstract: An apparatus for removing a hook embedded within a tissue is presented. The hook has a barb extending from a point section of the hook. The apparatus includes a clamping device configured to secure the hook. A probe is coupled to the clamping device. The probe has a tip portion configured to fit within a space between the barb and the point section of the hook to allow the hook to be removed from the tissue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Gearwar LLC
    Inventor: David Gearwar
  • Patent number: 11259701
    Abstract: An ophthalmic technician is present with a patient in an exam room to operate eye examination equipment and transmit patient information to remote location. At that remote location, a skilled technician is present to provide the necessary optical care, and may operate the phoropter from the remote location. Using video and/or teleconferencing equipment and a phoropter located in the patient examination room along with management software, the system works to determine the final optical prescription for the patient. That information, coupled with findings from other devices which are integrated with the management software, and that the patient uses locally, are reviewed by a remote-based optometrist or ophthalmologist.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: DigitalOptometrics LLC
    Inventors: Howard S. Fried, Burton T. Fried, Kurt Schaeffer, William K. Van Cleave
  • Patent number: 11259770
    Abstract: Various methods and systems are provided for x-ray imaging. In one embodiment, a method for an x-ray imaging system comprises acquiring, with an x-ray detector, an image including a noise artifact caused by electromagnetic interference, inputting the image to a trained neural network model to obtain a corrected image with the noise artifact removed, and outputting the corrected image. In this way, row-correlated noise artifacts caused by electromagnetic interference at the x-ray detector are eliminated or cancelled in real time and image quality is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC
    Inventors: Feng Gao, Mahesh Narayanaswamy
  • Patent number: 11263600
    Abstract: The present automated trustee payments system implements a series of automated processes which significantly reduce, and in many cases, eliminate a creditor user's work that is required to accurately and timely process incoming Chapter 13 Trustee remittances. The automated trustee payments system also effects application of the funds to the proper bankrupt debtor accounts and accounts for the funds against the proper creditor's loan account segments (e.g., the bankruptcy estate pre-petition indebtedness or the post-petition ongoing payments).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: 4 S TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: W. C. Taylor, III, Michael S. Ackerman
  • Patent number: D944575
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignees: Abington Lane LLC, East West Basics HK, LTD.
    Inventor: John Winsted Ardington
  • Patent number: D945077
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Bellami Hair LLC
    Inventor: Nikki Eslami