Patents Assigned to LLC
  • Patent number: 11231062
    Abstract: A system is provided for attaching a layer of a metal to other layers in a material stack-up using a metal mechanical fastener that does not allow for direct contact between the fastener and the metal layer, thereby neutralizing any galvanic reaction between the metal sheet and the fastener and avoiding corrosion. The metal layer may be any of several metals, including magnesium. The fastener is a rivet, a screw or a bolt. The disclosed inventive concept uses an insulating layer to insulate the magnesium layer. In one embodiment, a layer of a thin metal is formed over the insulating layer. Where the fastener is a rivet and the metal is magnesium, the insulating layer and thin metal provide a barrier between the magnesium layer and the rivet prongs following rivet insertion, thus isolating the rivet. The system enables a greater application of fastener joining, particularly with magnesium and mixed material joining.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Amanda Kay Freis, Vlad Bogachuk, Aindrea McKelvey Campbell, Jason Balzer, Kim Lazarz, Joy Hines Forsmark
  • Patent number: 11232012
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method that includes monitoring execution of program code by first and second processor components. A computing system detects that a trigger condition is satisfied by: i) identifying an operand in a portion of the program code; or ii) determining that a current time of a clock of the computing system indicates a predefined time value. The operand and the predefined time value are used to initiate trace events. When the trigger condition is satisfied the system initiates trace events that generate trace data identifying respective hardware events occurring across the computing system. The system uses the trace data to generate a correlated set of trace data. The correlated trace data indicates a time ordered sequence of the respective hardware events. The system uses the correlated set of trace data to analyze performance of the executing program code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Norrie, Naveen Kumar
  • Patent number: 11232292
    Abstract: An activity recognition system is disclosed. A plurality of temporal features is generated from a digital representation of an observed activity using a feature detection algorithm. An observed activity graph comprising one or more clusters of temporal features generated from the digital representation is established, wherein each one of the one or more clusters of temporal features defines a node of the observed activity graph. At least one contextually relevant scoring technique is selected from similarity scoring techniques for known activity graphs, the at least one contextually relevant scoring technique being associated with activity ingestion metadata that satisfies device context criteria defined based on device contextual attributes of the digital representation, and a similarity activity score is calculated for the observed activity graph as a function of the at least one contextually relevant scoring technique, the similarity activity score being relative to at least one known activity graph.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Nant Holdings IP, LLC
    Inventors: Kamil Wnuk, Nicholas J. Witchey
  • Patent number: 11229900
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods to rejuvenate a deactivated hydroformylation catalyst solution wherein the solution comprises rhodium, polyphosphoramidite ligands, and polyphosphoramidite ligand degradation products. In some embodiments, such methods comprise adding a peroxide to the deactivated hydroformylation catalyst solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Dow Technology Investments LLC
    Inventors: Michael A. Brammer, Marinus A. Bigi
  • Patent number: 11230705
    Abstract: Genetically modified isopropylmalate isomerase enzyme complexes (e.g., LeuCD? enzyme complexes), microbial organisms including genetically modified isopropylmalate isomerase enzyme complexes (e.g., LeuCD?), and processes for preparing C7-C11 2-ketoacids with genetically modified isopropylmalate isomerase enzyme complexes (e.g., LeuCD?). The genetically modified isopropylmalate isomerase enzyme complexes (e.g., LeuCD? enzyme complexes), microbial organisms, and processes for preparing C7-C11 2-ketoacids can be used to produce C6-C10 aldehydes, alkanes, alcohols, and carboxylic acids, both in vivo and in vitro.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Paresh Sanghani, Eric C. Shiue, Scott A. Greenwalt
  • Patent number: 11231967
    Abstract: A cloud worker management system has a worker management unit. The worker management unit manages a plurality of cloud workers. The worker management unit dynamically allocates and manages deployment of the cloud workers to a plurality of servers. A request handling unit communicates with the worker management unit. The request handling unit receives job request, creates a job data structure object for the job request and forwards the job request with the job data structure object to an available cloud worker. A user interface allows users of the system to view and edit job statutes; track jobs; monitor status, load and operating parameters of each cloud worker; set and change rules for cloud worker and server deployments, and perform analytics on job results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: STRATUM, LLC
    Inventors: Narendran Muraleedharan, Clayton Brown
  • Patent number: 11229167
    Abstract: Provided are methods for growing a plant under certain stressed conditions that alter the morphology of the plant. In certain aspects, however, although the plant is altered and may be undesirable for commercial purposed, the plant still produces an adequate number of seeds for breeding purposes. Further, because plants may be smaller in size, they can be grown at higher densities, allowing the production of large populations of plants to be brought under controlled conditions which can exclude pollinating insects and thus increase the genetic purity achievable in a breeding program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC
    Inventors: Juan Cordero, Daniel Ovadya, Kyle B. Smith, Adrian Vargas
  • Patent number: 11234293
    Abstract: A system is disclosed for providing low data rate broadcast services. Different types of broadcast packets are detected among data packets received an external network. The different types broadcast packets contain different a different broadcast content. When a particular type of broadcast packet is detected, a transmit data rate is selected and Walsh codes are assigned for achieving the transmit data rate. Data packets corresponding to the broadcast packets are compressed, and at least one RLC block containing the compressed data packets is created. The RLC blocks are transmitted from a satellite using the assigned Walsh codes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: HUGHES NETWORK SYSTEMS, LLC
    Inventor: Channasandra Ravishankar
  • Patent number: 11232875
    Abstract: A feedwater sparger repair assembly includes a cover plate having a partial cylindrical shape and having a nozzle opening and a pair of bolt openings extending through the cover plate. A nozzle is attached to the cover plate and surrounds the nozzle opening. A pair of T-bolts extend through a respective one of the pair of bolt openings and each include a shank having a threaded portion extending from an exterior side of the cover plate and a partial cylindrical head portion disposed at an end of the shank on an interior side of the cover plate. A pair of nuts are engaged with the threaded portion of the pair of T-bolts. The feedwater sparger repair assembly is adapted to be mounted to an opening that is cut into a core spray pipe in order to repair/replace a sparger that becomes cracked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas LLC
    Inventors: Bruce John Lentner, Adrian M. Mistreanu, Jack Toshio Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 11231310
    Abstract: A fluid sensor system comprises a radio frequency transmitter with adjustable output power, a radio frequency detector proximal to the radio frequency transmitter; a constant current source, and a switch coupled between the radio frequency detector and the constant current source. A method of determining the identity of a fluid using the fluid sensor system includes immersing the sensor system in a first fluid, increasing a transmit power of a radio frequency (RF) transmitter of the fluid sensor system until an RF signal is detected by a RF detector of the fluid sensor system, and determining the transmit power of the RF transmitter that first resulted in a detection of the RF signal by the RF detector to be the transmit power that is required for detecting the RF signal in the first fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Tigmill Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Bobby David Strong
  • Patent number: 11232043
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a processing device configured to generate log records each representing a pointer from a leaf page in a logical address space of a storage system to a virtual block address and comprising a leaf page address of the leaf page. The processing device is also configured to identifying a subset of the log records representing pointers to a given virtual block address to determine a first reference count, and to determine whether the first reference count is different than a second reference count obtained from a given virtual entry of a given virtual block structure that corresponds to the given virtual block address. The processing device is further configured, responsive to determining that the first and second reference counts are different, to modify pointers to the given virtual block address in leaf pages with associated leaf page addresses in the identified subset of the log records.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Dixitkumar Vishnubhai Patel, Rohit K. Chawla, Soumyadeep Sen
  • Patent number: 11233342
    Abstract: An electrical assembly that includes a substrate having an aperture. A flat conductor is mounted to the substrate and extends over at least a portion of the aperture, with a ring terminal in contact with the flat conductor adjacent to the aperture. A lead wire connects to the ring terminal and is spaced from the substrate, and a fastener extends through the ring terminal and flat conductor, secured in the aperture, and securing the ring terminal against the flat conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Gabrielle Elizabeth Moilanen Vuylsteke, David Jeffeory Berels
  • Patent number: 11234095
    Abstract: An audio system (e.g., of an artificial reality headset) determines a position of the headset relative to a position of a head of a user wearing the headset. The determination is based in part on an image of a portion of the head from a tracking camera (e.g., eye tracking and/or face tracking) on the headset. The audio system adjusts an acoustic parameter based in part on the determined position of the headset. The audio system performs an action that uses the adjusted acoustic parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Sang-Ik Cho, Pablo Francisco Faundez Hoffmann, Karol Constantine Hatzilias, Gregory Olegovic Andreev
  • Patent number: 11232862
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product for predictive maintenance. A method may include receiving operation data associated with one or more injection systems, wherein the operation data includes one or more operation parameters associated with one or more operations of the one or more injection systems; determining one or more prediction scores for the one or more injection systems based on the operation data, wherein the one or more prediction scores include one or more predictions of one or more operation failures or misuses for the one or more injection systems; and providing maintenance data associated with the one or more operation failures or misuses, wherein the maintenance data is based on the one or more prediction scores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: BAYER HEALTCARE LLC
    Inventors: Ralph Schriver, Arthur Uber, III, Janele Archibald, Matthew Brewer, Amy Chaya, Christopher Fiorentini, David Griffiths, Jacob Hartmann, Joseph Hulbert, Susan Michel, Janel Petrilli, Michael Pogozelec, Barry Skirble
  • Patent number: 11233800
    Abstract: Methods of secure resource authorization for external identities using remote principal objects are performed by systems and devices. An external entity creates a user group and defines entitlements to an owning entity's secure resource as a set of permissions for the group. An immutable access template with the permissions and an access policy for the secure resource are provided to the owning entity for approval. On approval, a remote principal object is created in the owner directory according to the permissions and access policy. A remote principal that is a group member requests access via an interface to the owner domain using external domain credentials. The identity of the remote principal is verified against the remote principal object by a token service. Verification causes generation and issuance of a token, with the enumerated entitlements, to the remote principal interface affecting a redirect for access to the secure resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Charles Prakash Rao Dasari, Maksym Yaryn, Debashis Choudhury, Jeffrey A. Staiman
  • Patent number: D941940
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Hero Board America LLC
    Inventor: Donald McIntyre
  • Patent number: D941948
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Razor USA LLC
    Inventor: Ian Desberg
  • Patent number: D941963
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: WATERMARK DESIGNS, LLC
    Inventor: Avi Abel
  • Patent number: D942062
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Energizer Brands, LLC
    Inventor: Eliza Ma
  • Patent number: D942086
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Campanelli Products, LLC
    Inventor: Joseph Campanelli