Patents Assigned to LLC
  • Patent number: 12184115
    Abstract: The present application relates to a system for managing electrical power drawn from a vehicle alternator to supply power to an auxiliary system The system comprises a controller configured to: determine an output voltage of the vehicle alternator; perform a comparison of the output voltage of the vehicle alternator to a threshold; and adjust a power demand of the auxiliary system according to the result of the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: THERMO KING LLC
    Inventors: Andreu Vidal Clos, Ryan Wayne Schumacher
  • Patent number: 12182004
    Abstract: Implementations are directed to developing and facilitating a data collaboration using a debug mode that permits debugging a data pipeline without exposing collaborator data. In an example implementation, collaborators that contribute production data into a data pipeline specify sample data such as mock, random, or expired data for each production dataset they contribute. When one of the collaborators triggers the data pipeline in debug mode, a modified data pipeline that substitutes the production data for the sample data is executed to generate sample derived data in a data trustee environment, without exposing the production data. Since debug mode does not use production data, a data pipeline may run in debug mode even if a governing contract has not been signed (and entitlements have not been granted), and/or diagnostic logs generated by the modified data pipeline in debug mode may be exposed to the collaborators for debugging purposes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Yisroel Gershon Taber, Ittay Levy Ophir, Lev Rozenbaum, Nerya Cohen
  • Patent number: 12182602
    Abstract: Disclosed are various examples of provisioning a data processing unit (DPU) management operating system using a capsule. A management hypervisor installer executed on a host device receives a listing DPU device from a baseboard management controller (BMC). A preinstalled DPU management operating system image is identified for a DPU device from the listing, and is wrapped with a capsule that specifies the capsule as a DPU management operating system image capsule. A server component provides the DPU management operating system image capsule at a particular URI, and the URI is transmitted to the BMC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: VMware LLC
    Inventors: Andrei Warkentin, Karthik Ramachandra, Timothy P. Mann, Jared Mcneill, Sunil Kotian, Cyprien Laplace, David A Dunn
  • Patent number: 12182834
    Abstract: A system that analyzes a user's communications to select a promotion that is presented to the user. The analysis may occur in two stages: a first stage analyzes a single communication from a user to determine whether the user is a potential target for a promotion; for potential targets, a second stage analyzes a history of communications from the user to generate a user profile. The system may then select a promotion based on the profile. The profile may include a set of profile tags that are considerably more detailed and granular than traditional demographic data; tags may for example indicate user affiliations with groups or ideas (such as religions or political parties), or user life cycle stages. Using these rich, detailed user profile tags, the system may achieve promotion response rates far above those from traditional advertising, which relies on cookies or simple demographic categories.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Kaptivating Technology LLC
    Inventors: Michael Palmer, Steven Tulk, Thomas Galido
  • Patent number: 12182990
    Abstract: A system for inspecting a battery component includes a heating device configured to heat a surface of the battery component to a selected temperature, an optical-visible imaging device configured to take an optical image of the surface, a thermal imaging device configured to take a thermal image of the surface, and a processor configured to acquire the optical image and the thermal image. The processor is configured to correlate the thermal image with the optical image, identify a feature of interest in at least one of the optical image and the thermal image, determine a geometric characteristic and a temperature characteristic associated with the feature of interest, and determine whether the feature of interest is a defect based on the geometric characteristic and the temperature characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Wei Zeng, Scott E. Parrish, Jing Gao, Brian J. Koch, Xingcheng Xiao
  • Patent number: 12182885
    Abstract: The present invention provides a system and method for presenting global issues to users and followers of a social media platform, allowing the users and followers to provide viewpoints on the global issues, ensuring that the users providing the viewpoints are authentic, and analyzing the various viewpoints to develop statistical data including the location of those providing viewpoints. The present invention also allows a user to present a global issue for consideration by users of the platform, for example, a social media internet-based website, and allows followers of the user to provide their viewpoints on such global issue. Simultaneously, the location of the followers will be collected and collated along with their responses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: WORLD ANSWER ZONE LLC
    Inventors: Abdulrhman Khald Mohammedkhalil, Talead Saaty
  • Patent number: 12182628
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including an apparatus for generating clusters of building blocks of compute nodes using an optical network. In one aspect, a method includes receiving request data specifying requested compute nodes for a computing workload. The request data specifies a target n-dimensional arrangement of the compute nodes. A selection is made, from a superpod that includes a set of building blocks that each include an m-dimensional arrangement of compute nodes, a subset of the building blocks that, when combined, match the target n-dimensional arrangement specified by the request data. The set of building blocks are connected to an optical network that includes one or more optical circuit switches. A workload cluster of compute nodes that includes the subset of the building blocks is generated. The generating includes configuring, for each dimension of the workload cluster, respective routing data for the one or more optical circuit switches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Nishant Patil, Xiang Zhou, Andrew Swing
  • Patent number: 12179122
    Abstract: A mechanical advantage device includes a base, a beam pivotably connected to the base at a fulcrum between a first end of the beam and a second end of the beam, a seat at the first end of the beam, and a load at the second end of the beam. In some embodiments, the mechanical advantage device includes structure, such as a linkage, for effecting oscillation of the beam by shifting weight along the beam. The mechanical advantage device may be a single-person seesaw. In some embodiments, the mechanical advantage device may be used to move a car or to generate power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2024
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: People Levers LLC
    Inventor: John H. Bevis, Jr.
  • Patent number: 12182073
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are scientific instrument support systems, as well as related methods, computing devices, and computer-readable media. For example, in some embodiments, a support apparatus for a scientific instrument comprises first, second, and third logics. The first logic is configured to acquire a first data file via detectors of the instrument. The second logic is configured to convert the first data file into a plurality of second data files stored in an object storage. Each of the second files is named using a suitable file naming convention. The third logic is configured to process a request for a data portion of the first data file and to provide the data portion by accessing one or more of a first memory cache, a second memory cache, and the object storage to obtain a corresponding portion of a corresponding one of the second data files identified based on the file naming convention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: THERMO FINNIGAN LLC
    Inventor: Neal Borelli
  • Patent number: 12181777
    Abstract: An aesthetic camera housing including a base and a mount. The base and mount each define one or more fastener holes sized and shaped to accept a fastener. The base defines a camera channel with two openings positioned proximate the rear and bottom surfaces and the mount defines a camera hole through its top and bottom surface. When the bottom surface of the base and the top surface of the mount are flush with one another, the camera channel and mount camera hole are in fluid communication with each other, and a camera can be inserted therein. The fastener holes of the base and mount are in fluid communication allowing the base and mount to be fastened together. The base also includes an aesthetically pleasing feature. The mount is formed from a transparent material and retains a LED within whose light penetrates the mount and also increases aesthetic appeal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: MSD Racing, LLC
    Inventor: Mark Dyer
  • Patent number: 12181352
    Abstract: A low power force detection system includes variable capacitors, a drive sense module, and a processing module. A drive sense circuit of the drive sense module is operable to provide an analog and frequency domain signal to a variable capacitor. The drive sense circuit is further operable to detect a characteristic of the variable capacitor based on the analog and frequency domain signal and to generate a representative signal of the characteristic. The processing module is operable to generate a digital value based on the representative and to write the digital value to memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: SIGMASENSE, LLC.
    Inventors: Michael Shawn Gray, Kevin Joseph Derichs, Richard Stuart Seger, Jr., Timothy W. Markison
  • Patent number: 12183088
    Abstract: Among other things, techniques are described for controlling, using a control circuit, motion of a vehicle based objects identified using LiDAR. For example, respective classes of points of a point cloud are determined, and based on the determined respective classes of the points of the point cloud, objects in the vicinity of the vehicle are identified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Motional AD LLC
    Inventors: Venice Erin Baylon Liong, Tho Thi Ngoc Nguyen
  • Patent number: 12178594
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for detecting and/or validating a detection of a state change by matching the shape of one or more of an cardiac data series, a heart rate variability data series, or at least a portion of a heart beat complex, derived from cardiac data, to an appropriate template.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Flint Hills Scientific, LLC
    Inventors: Ivan Osorio, Mark Frei
  • Patent number: 12184713
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a system for indicating a program boundary in an adaptive bitrate media stream, where the system includes a memory and a processor that performs operations including generating multiple transcoded media output streams of different bit rates from an input linear media stream, fragmenting the multiple transcoded media output streams into chunks, detecting a program boundary in the input linear media stream, and supplying a program change indicator in a manifest file for implementing program change features in mobile communication devices. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2024
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: DIRECTV, LLC
    Inventors: Binny Asarikuniyil, Kiran Vokkarne
  • Patent number: 12179749
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for controlling a first vehicle autonomously are disclosed. For instance, one or more processors may plan to maneuver the first vehicle to complete an action and predict that a second vehicle will take a particular responsive action. The first vehicle is then maneuvered towards completing the action in a way that would allow the first vehicle to cancel completing the action without causing a collision between the first vehicle and the second vehicle, and in order to indicate to the second vehicle or a driver of the second vehicle that the first vehicle is attempting to complete the action. Thereafter, when the first vehicle is determined to be able to take the action, the action is completed by controlling the first vehicle autonomously according to whether the second vehicle begins to take the particular responsive action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Waymo LLC
    Inventors: Nathaniel Fairfield, Vadim Furman
  • Patent number: 12182511
    Abstract: A personalized natural language processing system tokenizes a plurality of sets of raw text data to generate a plurality of sets of tokenized text data for the plurality of users, respectively. The tokenized text data includes a sequence of tokens corresponding to the raw text data, the tokens at least identifying distinct words or portions of words in the raw text. The system appends predetermined user-specific tokens to the sets of tokenized text data from the users, respectively. Each predetermined user-specific token corresponds to one of the users. The system processes the sets of tokenized text data using the NLP model in accordance with the appended predetermined user-specific tokens to predict a personalized classification for the sets of tokenized text data from each of the users, and outputs the personalized classifications of the tokenized text data for each of the users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Dimitrios Basile Dimitriadis, Vaishnavi Shrivastava, Milad Shokouhi, Robert Alexander Sim, Fatemehsadat Mireshghallah
  • Patent number: 12184601
    Abstract: A computing system and method that can be used for organizing product-related emails, wherein product-related emails can pertain to products such as objects/items or otherwise pertain to entities such as experiences, subscriptions, services etc. In particular, example aspects of the present disclosure involve computing systems and computer-implemented methods for organizing product-related emails based on historical user data and characteristics extracted from the product-related emails. The systems and methods of the present disclosure allow for use of email that more conveniently conveys pertinent information contained in product-related emails through presentation of various information predicted as more valuable to a user and methods to more easily find product-related emails associated with a user's particular desires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Chenmin Liang, Rachel Elizabeth Derkits-Gelman, Xiaonan Zhang, Jiye Huang, Dirk John Stoop
  • Patent number: 12182843
    Abstract: Efficient systems and methods for multiple-term searching and product ordering. A method includes receiving a plurality of independent search requests from a user and executing a product search for each of the plurality of independent search requests to generate a plurality of independent product results. The method includes providing at least a portion of the plurality of independent product results to the user simultaneously. The method includes receiving a product selection from the user and adding the product selection to a virtual shopping cart for the user while continuing to display at least a portion of the plurality of independent product results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: 2ByFast, LLC
    Inventor: Brian E. Edholm
  • Patent number: 12180751
    Abstract: An exemplary access control device includes a locking member having a locked position and an unlocked position; an electronic actuator operably connected with the locking member; a switch connected between the electronic actuator and a power supply, the switch having a closed state in which the electronic actuator is connected to the power supply and is operable to maintain the locking member in the unlocked position, the switch having an open state in which the electronic actuator is disconnected from the power supply; and a manual actuator operable to transition the switch between the open state and the closed state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Schlage Lock Company LLC
    Inventors: Jason Fodstad, Jack R. Lehner, Jr., John Stalter
  • Patent number: 12179449
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a transfer system is configured to move a portion of a strip within a belt forming system. The transfer system may comprise a first segment comprising a main body adapted to engage a strip. A plurality of slots may be disposed in a surface of the main body. Fluid communication may be provided from a fluid supply to the plurality of slots, such that the fluid communication with the plurality of slots enables holding the strip against the main body or blowing the strip off the main body. The plurality of slots may be arranged in a series of rows, wherein a first slot in a first row is positioned directly adjacent to a second slot in the first row. First and second strips of different dimensions may be transferred without any mechanical adjustments being made to the main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: The Steelastic Company, LLC
    Inventor: Eric William Gorham