Patents Assigned to LLC
  • Patent number: 11260709
    Abstract: A tow hook has a front portion extending forwardly from a front side of a side frame rail of an automotive vehicle and a rear portion received in a channel of the frame rail. The tow hook is releasably mounted to the side frame rail so that it releases at low impact force. The rear portion of each tow hook has at least one open slotted mounting member having a slot therein that extends rearwardly from an open front end of the slot. Each open slotted mounting member of the rear portion of each tow hook is secured to a wall of the side frame rail to which it is mounted. A vehicle has the tow hook mounted to a left side frame rail and another such tow hook mounted to a right side frame rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: FCA US LLC
    Inventors: Matthew Gorman, Charles R Buttler, Jagan M Mummadi, Eric A Darin
  • Patent number: 11265612
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for allowing responses to offers displayed with digital content. The responses may be provided on a receiver system via a conventional feedback through the same distribution channel through which the content and offer were provided, or through an alternative channel, with data being transmitted from an alternative channel device to a transacting entity. For time-shifted playback, content is identified and time-adapted offers may be provided, taking into account factors such as the content, the time of play back, the date of play back, and so forth. The alternate response channel may be more suitable for time-adapted offer responses then for contemporaneously transmitted offers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: NBCUniversal Media, LLC.
    Inventors: Daniel Berkowitz, Christopher J. Falkner, Sheau Bao Ng, Myra Einstein
  • Patent number: 11262213
    Abstract: Examples include systems and methods for decomposition of error components between angular, forward, and sideways errors in estimated positions of a computing device. One method includes determining an estimation of a current position of the computing device based on a previous position of the computing device, an estimated speed over an elapsed time, and a direction of travel of the computing device, determining a forward, sideways, and orientation change error component of the estimation of the current position of the computing device, determining a weight to apply to the forward, sideways, and orientation change error components based on average observed movement of the computing device, and using the weighted forward, sideways, and orientation change error components as constraints for determination of an updated estimation of the current position of the computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Etienne Le Grand, Brian Patrick Williams
  • Patent number: 11262517
    Abstract: An adapter panel arrangement including a chassis and a panel of adapters. The adapters defining open rearward cable connections and open forward cable connections of the panel arrangement. The adapters being arranged in arrays that slide independently of other adapter arrays to provide access to the open rearward and open forward cable connections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Mark Smrha, Hutch Coburn, Chad Sjodin
  • Patent number: 11266038
    Abstract: Superconducting computing system housed in a liquid hydrogen environment and related aspects are described. An example superconducting computing system includes a housing, arranged inside a liquid hydrogen environment, where a lower pressure is maintained inside the housing than a pressure outside the housing. The superconducting computing system further includes a substrate, arranged inside the housing, having a surface, where a plurality of components attached to the surface is configured to provide at least one of a computing or a storage functionality, and the substrate further comprises a plurality of circuit traces for interconnecting at least a subset of the plurality of the components. The housing is configured such that each of the plurality of components is configured to operate at a first temperature, where the first temperature is below 4.2 Kelvin, despite the liquid hydrogen environment having a second temperature greater than 4.2 Kelvin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Mark Monroe, Christian L. Belady
  • Patent number: 11260867
    Abstract: A computer includes a processor and a memory storing instructions executable by the processor to detect a potential hydroplaning area of a roadway based on topographic data and based on vehicle sensor data, and to actuate a component of a vehicle based on a location of the potential hydroplaning area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Somak Datta Gupta, Mahmoud Yousef Ghannam, Brian Bennie
  • Patent number: 11262873
    Abstract: Systems and methods for interactive textiles including conductive fibers are provided. An interactive textile may comprise a flexible substrate, an embroidered thread-pattern defining an ornamental feature on a first surface of the flexible substrate, and a touch input sensor comprising a set of conductive threads coupled to a second surface of the flexible substrate at a corresponding area of at least a portion of the embroidered thread pattern. The set of conductive threads form a conductive thread-pattern on the second surface that is conformal to the ornamental feature on the first surface at the portion of the embroidered thread pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Shiho Tremmel, Ivan Poupyrev, Munehiko Sato
  • Patent number: 11263265
    Abstract: Data are maintained in a distributed computing system that describe a graph. The graph represents relationships among items. The graph has a plurality of vertices that represent the items and a plurality of edges connecting the plurality of vertices. At least one vertex of the plurality of vertices includes a set of label values indicating the at least one vertex's strength of association with a label from a set of labels. The set of labels describe possible characteristics of an item represented by the at least one vertex. At least one edge of the plurality of edges includes a set of label weights for influencing label values that traverse the at least one edge. A label propagation algorithm is executed for a plurality of the vertices in the graph in parallel for a series of synchronized iterations to propagate labels through the graph.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Matthew H. Austern, James C. Dehnert, Aart J. C. Bik, Grzegorz J. Czajkowski, Grzegorz Malewicz
  • Patent number: 11263353
    Abstract: This disclosure describes systems on a chip (SOCs) that prevent side channel attacks (SCAs). An example SoC of this disclosure includes an engine configured to encrypt transmission (Tx) channel data using an encryption operation set configured with a first polynomial, and to decrypt encrypted received (Rx) channel data using a decryption operation set configured with a second polynomial different from the first polynomial. The SoC further includes a security processor configured to multiplex the encryption operation set against the decryption operation set with a varied sequence of selection inputs on a round-by-round basis to generate a mixed sequence of encryption rounds and decryption rounds, and to control the engine to encrypt the Tx channel data and decrypt the encrypted Rx channel data in a combined datapath according to the mixed sequence of encryption rounds and decryption rounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Sudhir Satpathy, Wojciech Stefan Powiertowski, Neeraj Upasani
  • Patent number: 11261192
    Abstract: Compounds of Formula (I) are provided herein. Such compounds, as well as pharmaceutically acceptable salts and compositions thereof, are useful for treating diseases or conditions, including conditions characterized by excessive cellular proliferation, such as breast cancer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Recurium IP Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Peter Qinhua Huang, Kevin Duane Bunker, Brant Clayton Boren, Sayee Gajanan Hegde, Hui Liu, Aditya Krishnan Unni, Sunny Abraham, Chad Daniel Hopkins, Sunil Paliwal
  • Patent number: 11263682
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed herein for providing shopping recommendations. Amounts and timing of user purchases are recorded and analyzed to determine consumption rates for various products. A list of recommended products is generated for a user including previous purchases. Expected runout dates for products may be determined based on previous purchases and consumption rates. The list of recommended products may be prioritized based on expected runout dates. A listing of products may be presented with one or both of validation and alternative indicators associated with items of the list. A validation indicator indicates that the product satisfies a criteria and an alternative indicator indicates that an alternative product satisfies the criteria better than the product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Anirvan Karmakar, Sreenu Valeti, Sreejith Sreedharan, Ananda Pillareddy
  • Patent number: 11262204
    Abstract: Data to initiate movement of a vehicle is received from a first user. The first user is identified. A determination is made whether to initiate the movement of the vehicle based at least in part on the data and the one or more characteristics of the first user. The movement of the vehicle is initiated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Nicholas Alexander Scheufler, David A. Herman, Nunzio Decia, Stephen Jay Orris, Jr., David Joseph Orris
  • Patent number: 11262735
    Abstract: Methods and systems for a monitoring system for data collection in an industrial environment including a data collector communicatively coupled to a plurality of input channels, wherein at least one input channel is connected to a high data rate source; a data storage structured to store detection parameters for the plurality of input channels, wherein a high data rate detection parameter is stored, wherein the high data rate detection parameter comprises at least a portion of data from the high data rate source; a data analysis circuit structured to analyze the plurality of detection values by evaluating a data handling constraint of the monitoring system with respect to the high data rate detection parameter; and a response circuit structured to adjust a data selection parameter to thereby adjust a data volume handled by the monitoring system in response to the data handling constraint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Strong Force IoT Portfolio 2016, LLC
    Inventors: Charles Howard Cella, Gerald William Duffy, Jr., Jeffrey P. McGuckin, Mehul Desai
  • Patent number: 11262638
    Abstract: A liquid crystal (LC) mixture for a pitch variable optical element is provided. The LC mixture includes a host LC and one or more LC dimers dissolved as a guest in the host LC. The host LC and the one or more LC dimers have respective dielectric anisotropies of opposite signs in nematic phase. A net dielectric anisotropy of the LC mixture is substantially neutral.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: FACEBOOK TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Yingfei Jiang, Afsoon Jamali, Changwon Jang, Adrian Travis, Andrew Maimone, Lu Lu
  • Patent number: 11260294
    Abstract: A computing system includes an input driver and a virtual input controller. The input driver is configured to receive input data from a first controller of a recognized data protocol and to provide the input data to an API of an application to control actions of a first participant in the gaming application. The virtual input controller is, in contrast, configured to receive input data from a second controller of a protocol incompatible with the input driver, translate the input data to the recognized data protocol; request a broadcast application identifier for a currently-broadcasting application from the broadcasting agent, and provide the translated input data to the input driver in association with the broadcast application identifier for controlling actions of a second participant in the application via the API of the gaming application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Gregory M. Smith, Heather Grantham Brodie, Chad Gibson, Jonathan J. Caruana, Hamze M. Kalache, Gersh Payzer, Samantha E. Vim, Christopher M. McAllen
  • Patent number: 11265261
    Abstract: Access path management is provided based on one or more path conditions in an information processing system. For example, an apparatus comprises a storage system comprising a processor coupled to a memory. The storage system is configured to communicate over a network with one or more host devices. The storage system is further configured to obtain notification from one of the one or more host devices that a first path through the network between the storage system and the given one of the one or more host devices is at least temporarily unreliable. The storage system is further configured to cause a path state change for the first path from a first state to a second state and a path state change for a second path to the first state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Peniel Charles, Joseph G. Kanjirathinkal, Manikandan Sethuraman
  • Patent number: 11265354
    Abstract: A server operates between a patron (user), a subscriber (e.g., owner of a venue of exhibits and its website; museum, stadium, zoo, theme park, etc.), and possibly third parties such as a content distribution network (CDN). Access and content delivery are based on 1) control information provided to a patron device by physical objects at the venue and sent by the patron device to the server as part of a mutual authentication to one another, 2) user-specific information corresponding to the patron device, and 3) a pre-authorization exchange granting user-device access to physical objects and the server with the server receiving access to the user-specific information in order to locate requested information and select a subset thereof adapted in accordance with the user information. Moving physically between exhibits, a patron device rapidly disengages and re-engages the server, based thereon, without repeated logins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: INCLUSIVE TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS, LLC
    Inventors: Andrea J. Hansen Sorensen, Ben Whitaker, John Waite, Adam Thomas, Nora Kitchen, Dallas James
  • Patent number: 11261984
    Abstract: A combination regulator valve for conveying fluid is disclosed. The valve comprises a bonnet, a body, a flexible diaphragm, a first spring, and a spindle unit. The spindle unit comprises a pin, a first seat disc, and a seat screw. The bonnet is secured to the body. The flexible diaphragm is compressed between the bonnet and the body. The first spring is disposed in the bonnet. The spindle unit is disposed in the body. The first seat disc is disposed between the pin and the diaphragm. The first seat disc and the pin define a first void. The first spring biases the diaphragm toward the first seat disc. The seat screw is engaged with the body and is slidably engaged with the pin. The seat screw and the pin define a fluid passage in fluid communication with the first void.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Engineered Controls International, LLC
    Inventors: Guangbin Cao, Patrick N. Morefield
  • Patent number: 11259607
    Abstract: A hook comprising a body having a first coil on a first end and a second coil on a second end. The coils may be spirals curving in opposite directions. The body may be constructed of filament, such as metal wire, and may be hypoallergenic. The coils may be disposed on opposite ends of the body. An aperture may be disposed on the lower side of the body, and may be defined by a loop. A base may interface with the aperture, the interfacing base configured to interface on one side with the body and interface with a jewelry on the opposite side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Eleven Graces, LLC
    Inventor: Lisa Kelley
  • Patent number: 11263449
    Abstract: An automated communication design analysis and construction system that includes one or more intelligent communication design servers, comprising: a normalization module that converts communication content files for different recipients to normalized intermediate format files; an objects identification and quantification module that identifies text objects and image objects in the normalized intermediate format files; a cross-recipient group analysis module configured to identify static global objects that are invariant between recipients, data variables, and variable global objects that vary between recipients in the normalized intermediate format files; and an intelligent communication content learning and constructing engine that can construct standard communication design files based on the static global objects, the data variables, and the variable global objects. A data storage stores the communication content files and the standard communication design files.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Shutterfly, LLC
    Inventors: Aaron P. Reihl, Sairam Vangapally, Aaron Gregory Rasset