Patents Assigned to LLC
  • 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: 11229763
    Abstract: A ventilator includes an enclosure, a tubing configured to receive an input gas, and a flow outlet airline in fluid communication with the tubing. The flow outlet airline includes an airline outlet. The ventilator further includes a breath detection airline including an airline inlet. The airline inlet is separated from the airline outlet of the flow outline airline. The ventilator further includes a pressure sensor in direct fluid communication with the breath detection airline. The ventilator includes a controller in electronic communication with the pressure sensor and an internal oxygen concentrator in fluid communication with the tubing. The internal oxygen concentrator is entirely disposed inside the enclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Aires Medical LLC
    Inventors: Nicholas Leonard Oddo, Shane Woody, Chad Josey, Dylan Moore
  • Patent number: 11232136
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for receiving user input that invokes digital assistant functionality; obtaining screen data indicating content displayed on a screen of the computing device; determining a classification for an entity referenced in the content indicated by the screen data; determining a suggested request that refers to the entity based on the determined classification; and providing the suggested request in response to receiving the user input that invokes the digital assistant functionality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Vikram Aggarwal, Aparna Rajan Ramchandran
  • Patent number: 11232737
    Abstract: Techniques and apparatuses are described that implement a trace design to reduce bezel area (106). An apparatus includes a pixel array (302) comprising pixel rows (112). The apparatus also includes a row line-driver (110-1) configured to provide electrical signals to at least two of the pixel rows (112-1, 112-2). The apparatus further comprises a plurality of electrical traces (202) that connect the row line-driver (110-1) to the pixel rows. At least one of the electrical traces (202) comprises a branch (210) such that a signal carried by the at least one of the electrical traces (202) enters the at least two of the pixel rows (112-1, 112-2). The branch is disposed closer to the pixel rows (112-1, 112-2) than the row line-driver (110-1). In this way, a number of the electrical traces (202) crossing a bezel area (106) is reduced compared to branching near the row line-driver (110-1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Sangmoo Choi
  • Patent number: 11230326
    Abstract: A vehicle may include an integrated connector system. The vehicle includes a body having an outer surface and a plurality of attachment ports arranged on the outer surface. The attachments ports include a recess that extends below the surrounding outer surface. Each attachment port is configured to receive and engage with an attachment plug of an accessory. In some embodiments, there are different types of attachment ports, configured to engage with respective types of attachment plugs. Various accessories may be engaged with the attachment ports, allowing a range of items and equipment to be secured to the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Rivian IP Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Christian Elder, Eric Griffith
  • 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: 11232075
    Abstract: Techniques for data processing may include: receiving a data chunk; determining a metric value denoting a degree of compressibility of the data chunk; selecting, in accordance with the metric value denoting the compressibility of the data chunk, a first size of a plurality of sizes, wherein each of the plurality of sizes denotes a different size of an amount of storage used for storing a value of said each size; and performing the data deduplication processing for the data chunk, wherein the data deduplication processing includes using a first hash value for the data chunk to determine whether the data chunk is a duplicate of another data chunk of a hash table, wherein the first hash value is stored in a storage location of the first size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Ivan Bassov, Sorin Faibish, Rustem Rafikov
  • Patent number: 11229187
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for forming food product includes a plurality of links forming a generally continuous conveyor, the plurality of links each forming at least one cavity together with a longitudinally adjacent link wherein the longitudinally adjacent link includes a pivotable tongue that pivots through the cavity as the generally continuous conveyor reaches an end of its horizontal path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: SONOMA CREAMERY, LLC
    Inventors: John E. Crean, III, Louis J. Biaggi, Dana D. Smith, Patrick L. Costello, Francisco X. Aguirre
  • Patent number: 11229357
    Abstract: A laser surgery system includes a light source, an eye interface device, a scanning assembly, a confocal detection assembly and preferably a confocal bypass assembly. The light source generates an electromagnetic beam. The scanning assembly scans a focal point of the electromagnetic beam to different locations within the eye. An optical path propagates the electromagnetic beam from a light source to the focal point, and also propagates a portion of the electromagnetic beam reflected from the focal point location back along at least a portion of the optical path. The optical path includes an optical element associated with a confocal detection assembly that diverts a portion of the reflected electromagnetic radiation to a sensor. The sensor generates an intensity signal indicative of intensity the electromagnetic beam reflected from the focal point location. The confocal bypass assembly reversibly diverts the electromagnetic beam along a diversion optical path around the optical element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: AMO Development, LLC
    Inventors: Georg Schuele, Noah Bareket, David Dewey, John S. Hart, Javier G. Gonzalez, Raymond Woo, Thomas Z. Teisseyre, Jeffrey A. Golda, Katrina B. Sheehy, Madeleine C O'Meara, Bruce Woodley
  • Patent number: 11232855
    Abstract: Implementations for providing patient physiological data to a third-party system in near-real-time include determining that a value of a data element within a data source has changed, and determining that the data element is included in a watchlist, the watchlist including one or more topics, each topic being associated with at least one data element, and in response: providing a data element tuple associated with the data element, and transmitting the data element tuple to the third-party system over a network. Other implementations of this aspect include corresponding systems, apparatus, and computer programs, configured to perform the actions of the methods, encoded on computer storage devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: AirStrip IP Holdings, LLC
    Inventor: Jean-Francois Lancelot
  • Patent number: 11230041
    Abstract: An apparatus for producing a fiber-reinforced injection molded component includes an injection mold half with a mold cavity and a receiving chamber open to the mold cavity. A band section of a fiber-reinforced plastics band is fed into the receiving chamber through a feed channel and a first clamping device arranged in an initial region of the receiving chamber and a second clamping device arranged in an end region of the receiving chamber clamp the fiber-reinforced plastics band section within the receiving chamber. A first cut-through device arranged in the initial region of the receiving chamber and a second cut-through device arranged in the end region of the receiving chamber cut the band section such that an injection molded component formed in the cavity of the mold includes the cut fiber-reinforced plastics band section and a fiber-reinforced injection molded component is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Baranowski, Maik Broda, Markus Franzen, Pascal Rebmann
  • Patent number: 11231167
    Abstract: A lighting test method that includes connecting a housing including driver electronics and a junction box to a main power source. The main power source is connected to a main power connector in the junction box. The driver electronics includes a first terminal. The method further includes connecting a power testing module to the first terminal to the driver electronics to determine whether the main power source is correctly connected to the main power connector in the junction box. The method further includes replacing the power testing module with a second terminal of a light engine housing. Connecting the first and second terminals provides that the driver electronics are in electrical communication with a light engine within the light engine housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: LEDVANCE LLC
    Inventors: Anil Jeswani, Renaud Richard, Ahmed Eissa, Valeriy Zolotykh
  • Patent number: 11232080
    Abstract: An application server receives from a user device a first request to create a data file that is to be stored at a third-party storage server. Responsive to receiving the first request to create a data file that is to be stored at the third-party storage server, the application server sends to the third-party storage server a second request indicating that the data file is to be created at the third-party storage server. An indication that the data file has been created at the third-party storage server is received from the third-party storage server. Responsive to receiving the indication that the data file has been created at the third-party storage server, the application server generates an instance of the data file that is stored at the application server. The application server provides to the user device the instance of the data file for edit via a relevant application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Joshua Danziger, Alissa Feldman, Lai Kwan Wong
  • Patent number: 11232654
    Abstract: A computer includes a processor and a memory, the memory including instructions executable by the processor to identify a diagnostic test to perform for a vehicle component, identify one of a plurality of XiL platforms on which to perform the diagnostic test, and perform the diagnostic test on the identified XiL platforms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Frederic Stefan, Alain Marie Roger Chevalier, Michael Marbaix, Evangelos Bitsanis, Turgay Isik Aslandere
  • Patent number: 11233560
    Abstract: An air-to-ground communications system includes at least one base station to be positioned on the ground and including a ground-based transceiver, a phased array antenna coupled to the ground-based transceiver, and a beamforming network coupled to the ground-based transceiver. The ground-based transceiver is configured to provide data traffic and control information to an aircraft. The beamforming network is configured to simultaneously generate at least one narrow antenna beam for the data traffic and at least one wide beam for the control information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: SmartSky Networks, LLC
    Inventors: Christopher D. Moffatt, Kevin Carl Gustke
  • Patent number: 11231102
    Abstract: A motor vehicle drive-axle includes a drive-axle housing defining a gear-set cavity and a shaft bore having first and second bearing pockets and an oil cavity arranged between the first and second bearing pockets. The housing also defines a supply channel and a return passage configured to respectively supply oil from the gear-set cavity to the oil cavity and return oil from the oil cavity to the gear-set cavity. The housing also includes an input shaft extending through the shaft bore into the differential gear-set cavity. The housing additionally includes first and second bearings arranged within respective first and second bearing pockets for supporting the input shaft. The housing additionally includes a lubrication regulating insert arranged inside the oil cavity. The insert defines first and second lubrication channels configured to direct oil from the supply passage to respective first and second bearings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Chad R. Brizendine, David S. Schulz
  • Patent number: 11231225
    Abstract: A system including: an active magnetic regenerative refrigerator apparatus that includes a high magnetic field section in which a hydrogen heat transfer fluid can flow from a cold side to a hot side through at least one magnetized bed of at least one magnetic refrigerant, and a low magnetic field or demagnetized section in which the hydrogen heat transfer fluid can flow from a hot side to a cold side through the demagnetized bed; a first conduit fluidly coupled between the cold side of the low magnetic field or demagnetized section and the cold side of the high magnetic field section; and a second conduit fluid coupled to the first conduit, an expander and at least one liquefied hydrogen storage module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignees: Battelle Memorial Institute, Emerald Energy NW, LLC
    Inventors: Jamie D. Holladay, John Barclay
  • Patent number: 11231946
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a user request from a first user from a client system associated with a first user, wherein the user request comprise a gesture-input from the first user and a speech-input from the first user, determining an intent corresponding to the user request based on the gesture-input by a personalized gesture-classification model associated with the first user, executing one or more tasks based on the determined intent and the speech-input, and sending instructions for presenting execution results of the one or more tasks to the client system responsive the user request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Xiaohu Liu, Paul Anthony Crook, Francislav P. Penov, Rajen Subba
  • Patent number: 11230624
    Abstract: Embodiments in accordance with the present invention encompass compositions containing a latent catalyst and a compound capable of generating a Bronsted acid with a counterion capable of coordinating and activating the latent catalyst along with one or more monomers which undergo ring open metathesis polymerization (ROMP) when said composition is exposed to a suitable radiation to form a three-dimensional (3D) object. The catalyst system employed therein can be sensitive to oxygen and thus inhibits polymerization in ambient atmospheric conditions. The three-dimensional objects made by this process exhibits improved mechanical properties, particularly, high distortion temperature, impact strength, elongation to break, among others. Accordingly, compositions of this invention are useful as 3D inkjet materials for forming high impact strength objects of various sizes with microscale features lower than 100 microns, among various other uses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: PROMERUS, LLC
    Inventors: Oleksandr Burtovyy, Matthew L Barchok, Wei Zhang, Larry F Rhodes