Patents Assigned to LLC
  • Patent number: 11230032
    Abstract: A cable-driven additive manufacturing system includes an end effector configured for linear translation within a three-dimensional workspace, an aerial hoist suspending the end effector by at least one suspension cable, a plurality of base stations disposed below the aerial hoist, and control cables running from each of the base stations to the end effector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: UT-Battelle, LLC
    Inventors: Brian K. Post, Lonnie J. Love, Randall F. Lind, Phillip C. Chesser, Alex C. Roschli
  • Patent number: 11230542
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to therapeutic agents that may be useful as inhibitors of Integrated Stress Response (ISR) pathway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: PRAXIS BIOTECH LLC
    Inventors: Sebastian Bernales, Luz Marina Delgado Oyarzo, Gonzalo Esteban Núñez Vasquez, Gonzalo Andrés Ureta Díaz, Brahmam Pujala, Dayanand Panpatil, Bhawana Bhatt, Sarvajit Chakravarty
  • Patent number: 11231769
    Abstract: Methods, Apparatus, and Systems are discussed for a sequencer-based protocol adapter that executes a limited instruction set. The sequencer-based protocol adapter is implemented in electronic hardware and programmable registers in an integrated circuit and configured to transition a set of 1) one or more voltage sources, 2) one or more frequency sources, or 3) a combination of voltage sources and frequency sources, coupled with that sequencer-based protocol adapter. The sequencer-based protocol adapter manages power on the integrated circuit, via receiving a desired performance index at an input and then executing one or more of the limited instructions stored in the programmable registers in a proper sequence of steps in order to transition the coupled voltage sources and/or frequency sources from a current operational state to a desired operational state. Note, the desired operational state the coupled voltage sources and/or frequency sources corresponds to the received desired performance index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: FACEBOOK TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Gregory Ehmann, Drew E. Wingard
  • Patent number: 11229574
    Abstract: Disclosed embodiments provide a massager having at least one expandable chamber. In some embodiments, there is provided an expandable shaft chamber that is inflatable to push a stimulator towards the G-spot of the user to increase contact pressure in that area. This inflation can also allow for a hands-free experience by expanding the width of the shaft inside the vagina for a snug fit tight against the vaginal or rectum walls. In some embodiments, there is provided an expandable ring chamber that is inflatable to securely hold a massager device inside the vagina or rectum, allowing for a hands-free experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: UCCELLINI LLC
    Inventors: Lora LeeAnne Haddock, Lola Vars, Ada-Rhodes Short, Avery Smith, Kim Porter Henneman, Douglas S. Layman, Blake Michael Larkin, Brian Scott Gaza, Mark Hazelton, Mazie Houchens
  • Patent number: 11230226
    Abstract: A vehicle cargo area lighting system includes, among other things, a cover assembly and at least one cargo area light. The cover assembly is movable back and forth between a closed position and an open position. The cover assembly covers a cargo area of a vehicle when the cover assembly is in the closed position. The cover assembly has a top portion and a wall portion. The wall portion extends vertically downward from the top portion when the cover assembly is in the closed position. The cargo area light is secured to an interior side of the wall portion. The cargo area light is configured to illuminate the cargo area when the cover assembly is in the open position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Anthony Nicholas Aquilina, Michael Bryan VanBelle, Anthony Maraldo, Kyle Cendrowski
  • Patent number: 11233782
    Abstract: Facilitating single node network connectivity for structure automation functionality is provided herein. A system can comprise a memory that stores executable components and a processor, operatively coupled to the memory, that executes the executable components. The executable components can comprise a management component that facilitates a communication with electronic devices within a structure and an initialization component that enables a streamlined security process based on an indication that the at least one electronic device is to be registered with the management component. Further, the executable components can comprise a negotiation component that performs a certificate authentication for the at least one electronic device. The certificate authentication can be automatically performed with a certificate authority during a backend process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: RESILIENCE MAGNUM IP, LLC
    Inventors: Michael E. Giorgi, Patrick M. Mause, Steven Rosen
  • Patent number: 11234092
    Abstract: A headset comprises a frame and an audio system. The audio system includes a microphone assembly positioned on the frame in a detection region, the detection region external to an ear of a user wearing the headset, and within a threshold distance from an ear canal of the ear, the microphone assembly configured to detect an audio signal emitted from an audio source, wherein the audio signal detected at the detection region is within a threshold degree of similarity of a sound pressure wave at the ear canal of the user, and an audio controller configured to determine a set of head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) based in part on the detected audio signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Morteza Khaleghimeybodi, Pablo Francisco Faundez Hoffmann
  • Patent number: 11233478
    Abstract: A motor drive unit for driving a motor of a motorized window treatment may comprise software-based and hardware-based implementations of a process for detecting and resolving a stall condition in the motor, where the hardware-based implementation is configured to reduce power delivered to the motor if the software-based implementation has not first reduced the power to the motor. A control circuit may detect a stall condition of the motor, and reduce the power delivered to the motor after a first period of time from first detecting the stall condition. The motor drive unit may comprise a stall prevention circuit configured to reduce the power delivered to the motor after a second period of time (e.g., longer than the first period of time) from determining that a rotational sensing circuit is not generating a sensor signal while the control circuit is generating a drive signal to rotate the motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Lutron Technology Company LLC
    Inventors: Donald F. Hausman, Jr., Chen Ming Wu
  • Patent number: 11231717
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a system generates a number of sample trajectories from a trajectory sample space for a driving scenario. The system determines a reward based on a reward model for each of the sample trajectories, where the reward model is generated using a rank based conditional inverse reinforcement learning algorithm. The system ranks the sample trajectories based on the determined rewards. The system determines a highest ranked trajectory based on the ranking. The system selects the highest ranked trajectory to control the ADV autonomously according to the highest ranked trajectory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: BAIDU USA LLC
    Inventors: Haoyang Fan, Qi Kong, Zhongpu Xia, Changchun Liu, Yaqin Chen, Fan Zhu
  • Patent number: 11233178
    Abstract: A light emitting device comprises a first group of one or more LEDs each configured to emit light having a blue color point in the 1931 CIE x,y Chromaticity Diagram, a second group of one or more LEDs each configured to emit light having a cyan or yellow color point in the 1931 CIE x,y Chromaticity Diagram, and a third group of one or more LEDs each configured to emit light having a red color point in the 1931 CIE x,y Chromaticity Diagram.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: LUMILEDS LLC
    Inventors: Marcus Jozef Henricus Kessels, Hans-Helmut Bechtel, Johannes Willem Herman Sillevis Smitt, Wouter Soer
  • Patent number: 11231090
    Abstract: A transmission includes a main shaft having two or more main shaft clutches that couple gears to at least one countershaft, and an automated manual transmission coupled to the main shaft via the at least one countershaft. The automated manual transmission includes a front input shaft coupled directly to a main clutch and having a first clutch coupleable to the at least one countershaft, and a rear input shaft coupled to the front input shaft and having a second clutch coupleable to the at least one countershaft. The automated manual transmission is operable to selectively engage the first clutch and the second clutch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Eaton Cummins Automated Transmission Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Paul R. Peterson, Joseph D. Reynolds
  • Patent number: 11231861
    Abstract: An apparatus comprises at least one processing device that includes a processor coupled to a memory. The processing device is configured to control delivery of input-output (IO) operations from a host device to at least first and second storage systems over selected ones of a plurality of paths through a network, the first and second storage systems being arranged in an active-active configuration relative to one another. The processing device is further configured to identify one or more logical storage devices that are each accessible via at least first and second different ones of the paths to respective ones of the first and second storage systems, and to modify path selection for IO operations directed to the one or more identified logical storage devices relative to path selection for IO operations directed to one or more other logical storage devices. The processing device illustratively comprises at least a portion of the host device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Sanjib Mallick, Vinay G. Rao, Arieh Don
  • Patent number: 11229839
    Abstract: A cloud gaming system is disclosed. One example includes a game server that is configured to execute video games. The game server provides an interface for a remote client device to interface with the game server and request that games be played by streaming video frames to the remote client device. The game server is located in a first data center. A storage server connected to the game server over a network connection in the first data center. A save data server located in a second data center. Data selection logic of the game server is configured to retrieve save data from the save data server and cache the save data to a save data disk of the game server. The data selection logic is configured to automatically retrieve the save data from the second data center to the first data center upon detecting a session initiation for a user account used via the remote client device. The save data including a current state of game play that represents activity performed during play of a game.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC
    Inventor: Roderick Colenbrander
  • Patent number: 11229876
    Abstract: Delivery mechanisms and distribution mechanisms are varied, adjusted, or modified based on a desired fuel application. Dimensions, flow rates, pressures, viscosities, temperatures, friction parameters, and combinations thereof may be varied, adjusted or modified. The fuel application may include a scrubber application. The scrubber application uses a delivery mechanism to deliver a wet or dry scrubbing agent at a low pressure to a distribution mechanism. The distribution mechanism distributes the scrubbing agent within the scrubbing chamber. The delivery mechanism is adjustable based on properties of a feedstock utilized to deliver the scrubbing agent, properties of a propellant, or properties of the scrubbing application. The distribution mechanism is adjustable based on desired distribution characteristics including shape, size, or velocity of drops, mists, or particles distributed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: KAMTERTER PRODUCTS, LLC
    Inventors: John Alvin Eastin, David Vu
  • Patent number: 11230815
    Abstract: A dowel basket includes a metal frame with a plurality of non-metallic dowel bars having weld members secured to the dowel bars and welded to the metal frame. The dowel basket may provide wherein the weld members include weldable metal though pins extending through through-holes provided on opposed ends of each dowel bar and welded to loop wires of the metal frame, or weldable metal caps on opposed ends of each dowel bar welded to the metal frame, or weldable metal caps with at least one lug on opposed ends of each dowel bar welded to the metal frame. A method of forming a dowel basket including a metal frame with a plurality of non-metallic dowel bars comprises the steps of securing weld members to opposed ends of each of the dowel bars and welding each of the dowel bars to the metal frame via the weld members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: SAEL, LLC.
    Inventors: Chad Johnson, Monica Parker, Katey Doman, Daniel Lucas
  • Patent number: 11230887
    Abstract: A device for steering a drilling assembly including a sleeve configured to be disposed around a length of a drive shaft configured to be disposed in a borehole in an earth formation. The drive shaft is configured to be rotated. The sleeve is configured to be rotationally decoupled from the drive shaft. Two or more modules are configured to be removably connected to the sleeve. Each of the two or more modules at least partially encloses a biasing element configured to be actuated to control a direction of the drilling assembly. Each of the two or more modules at least partially encloses a communication device for wireless communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES, A GE COMPANY, LLC
    Inventor: Volker Peters
  • Patent number: 11234321
    Abstract: The control device includes a button having a backlit indicium (or indicia) indicating a function of the button. The button may comprise a button body that is translucent and configured to be backlit by a lighting element. A front surface of the button body may be opaque outside of the area of the indicium (or indicia). The button body may have a post that extends from a rear surface of the button body and is aligned with an actuator. The control device may have a plurality of such buttons. Selection of a button by a user, such as by pressing the button, results in the selected button displaying a greater illumination intensity than a button that is not selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Lutron Technology Company LLC
    Inventors: Chris Dimberg, Kevin J. Heimann, Brad Michael Kreschollek, Matthew P. McDonald
  • Patent number: D941553
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: OFF-WHITE, LLC
    Inventors: Virgil Abloh, Wayne Fitzell
  • Patent number: D941591
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: J & D Brush Co., LLC
    Inventor: Melissa Russo
  • Patent number: D941710
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignees: Rivian IP Holdings, LLC, Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Luke James Mack, Nicholas Adam Malachowski, Mohamad Jeffery Hammoud, Stephen Mark Goodrich