Patents Assigned to LLC
  • Patent number: 11218975
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and systems are described for wireless communications. A wireless device may determine a first transmission power for a first signal and a second transmission power for a second signal. Based on a calculated transmission power and an overlap of the signals, a power control mechanism may be employed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventor: Esmael Hejazi Dinan
  • Patent number: 11217024
    Abstract: The disclosure describes artificial reality systems and techniques for providing artificial reality content to a user. For example, an artificial reality system includes a head-mounted display (HMD) configured to output artificial reality content, the HMD including a set of second image capture devices configured to capture image data indicative of a focal point of a gaze of the user and a varifocal display having a focal length that is modifiable based on the focal point of the user. Additionally, the system includes a depth engine configured to generate, based on the real-world image data and depth data associated with the real-world image data, a three-dimensional (3D) scene of the physical environment of the user and generate artificial reality content as an overlay to the 3D scene of the physical environment for display on the varifocal display of the HMD based on the focal point of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Sebastian Sztuk, Saara Khan
  • Patent number: 11217142
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a computing system may determine degradation levels for an array of light emitting elements of a display. The system may determine, based on the degradation levels, a scaling factor for each light emitting element of the array of light emitting elements. The system may access pixel values of an image to be output by the array of light emitting elements of the display. The system may adjust a luminance of each of the pixel values according to the scaling factor associated with the light emitting element configured to output that pixel value. The system may output the adjusted pixel values of the image using the array of light emitting elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC.
    Inventors: Edward Buckley, Michael Yee
  • Patent number: 11213665
    Abstract: A microneedling device includes a microneedle cartridge that extends needles at a predetermined angle, rather than perpendicular to the centerline of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Esthetic Education LLC
    Inventors: Kristin Groop, Lawrence Groop
  • Patent number: 11214296
    Abstract: Steer-by-wire steering systems for vehicles and related methods are described herein. An example steer-by-wire steering system includes a steering wheel angle sensor to detect a current steering wheel angle (?) of a steering wheel of the motor vehicle, a steering actuator to generate a variable steering torque on a steerable wheel of the motor vehicle, a steering angle sensor to detect a current steering angle (?) of the steerable wheel, and a steer-by-wire controller to process signals from the steering wheel angle sensor and the steering angle sensor and control the steering actuator based on the signals. The steer-by-wire controller is configured to vary a transmission ratio between a change in the steering wheel angle (?) and a change in the steering angle (?).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Frank Peter Engels, Oliver Nehls, Sergio Codonesu, Florian Rath
  • Patent number: 11215610
    Abstract: This invention is in the field of medical devices. Specifically, the present invention provides portable medical devices that allow real-time detection of analytes from a biological fluid. The methods and devices are particularly useful for providing point-of-care testing for a variety of medical applications. In particular, the medical device reduces interference with an optical signal which is indicative of the presence of an analyte in a bodily sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Labrador Diagnostics LLC
    Inventors: Ian Gibbons, Michael O'Connell
  • Patent number: 11218367
    Abstract: Provided herein are devices, systems, methods and various means, including those related to providing a community internet drive that may utilize a centrally-managed hub as well as storage devices distributed among various networked machines. In some embodiments, the community internet drive can also include features to enable its users to promote and utilize the user's trusted personal relationships while also enabling an open platform for peer-to-peer and/or other types of sharing schemes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: PLANETARY DATA LLC
    Inventor: Robert Alan McEntee
  • Patent number: 11213431
    Abstract: A tympanostomy tube includes a nitinol body having a first configuration and a second configuration. In the first configuration, the nitinol body has a first cylindrical shape defining a first end, a central region, a second end, a longitudinal axis, and a lumen extending longitudinally through the nitinol body. In the second configuration, the nitinol body is expanded and has a second cylindrical shape different than the first cylindrical shape and defines the first end, the central region, the second end, the longitudinal axis, and the lumen. A diameter of the lumen at one of the first end, the central region, and the second end is larger in the second configuration than the diameter of the lumen at the corresponding first end, central region, or second end in the first configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Ear Tech, LLC
    Inventor: Michael H. Fritsch
  • Patent number: 11214291
    Abstract: A seat adapter removably mounts a child seat to a wagon having two opposing walls and an interposed connecting wall, and includes two latch components that mount to the wagon's opposing walls. In some embodiments, the seat adapter includes a cross-member extending between the latch components so that the cross-member provides structural integrity to the wagon if the connecting wall is displaced from its upright use position. In some embodiments, the seat adapter and the child seat can be mounted to the wagon for use with the connecting wall in its upright use position, and in some embodiments the seat adapter and the child seat can be mounted to the wagon for use whether the connecting wall is in its upright use position or its displaced position, with no mechanical interference between any part of the wagon and any part of the adapter or the child seat mounted to it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: VEER GEAR, LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Bowman, Brady Schroeder
  • Patent number: 11216579
    Abstract: A natural language query can be received at a main natural language processor inside a data protection compliance boundary in a computer system. The natural language query can be processed via the main natural language processor. The data from the query can be transmitted to a data protection computer component. It can be determined via the data protection component whether the data from the query includes protected data whose transmission to a computerized extension would violate a computer-readable data protection rule. The extension is outside the compliance boundary in the computer system and is configured to participate in responding to natural language queries received by the main natural language processor. In response to determining that the data from the query includes the protected data, transmission of the protected data from the main natural language processor to the extension as part of responding to the query can be inhibited.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Hubert Van Hoof, David J. Brennan, Vidyaraman Sankaranarayanan, Ruchita Bhargava, Roberto Sonnino
  • Patent number: 11214313
    Abstract: Vehicle assemblies may include a plurality of loose layered build components. One or more of the loose layered build components may include locating features for locating and supporting the component relative to other components of the assembly while still permitting movement of the component or one of the other components in at least one direction during the assembly process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: David Brian Glickman, Steve Michael Lakatos, Kevin Berington Johnson, Adam Michael Polito, Vince S. Carnes
  • Patent number: 11218640
    Abstract: In aspects of telephoto camera viewfinder, a multi-camera device has a digital camera to capture a digital image of a camera scene as viewable with the digital camera in a wide view. The multi-camera device also has a telephoto camera to capture digital content of the camera scene as viewable with the telephoto camera in a zoom view. The multi-camera device has a display screen to display a viewfinder user interface that includes the zoom view displayed as a zoom preview image captured by the telephoto camera, and the wide view displayed as a camera preview image captured by the digital camera. The viewfinder user interface also includes, displayed over the camera preview image, a bordered outline of a region of the camera scene that indicates the zoom view relative to the wide view of the camera scene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventor: Xiaofeng Zhu
  • Patent number: 11219048
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for scheduling transmission of data. One apparatus (200) includes a receiver (212) that receives (402) a first signal from a base unit for scheduling a transmission of first data. The first data includes first multiple code blocks and each code block of the first multiple code blocks is independently decodable. The apparatus (200) includes a transmitter (210) that transmits (404) the first data. The receiver (212) receives (406) a second signal from the base unit for scheduling a transmission of second data, the second data includes second multiple code block groups of the first data, each code block group of the second multiple code block groups includes third multiple code blocks, and the transmitter (210) transmits (408) the second data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventors: Haipeng Lei, Zhi Yan, Lianhai Wu, Xiaodong Yu
  • Patent number: 11213460
    Abstract: Improved feeding set connectors and cassettes are disclosed for use with peristaltic infusion pumps for safely delivering enteral nutritional fluids to a patient. The connectors provide an easy to use “pump-to-set” integration or “keying” system for specific reusable infusion pumps and their matching feeding sets, and can be utilized by medical professionals having various skill levels. The inventive feeding set cassettes can prevent accidental free flow of enteral fluids into a patient, even upon inadvertent release of the connector from the pumping mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: VESCO MEDICAL LLC
    Inventors: Christopher O'Keefe, Joseph Ryan, Rachel Kunzweiler, Aaron Szabo
  • Patent number: 11214090
    Abstract: A binding device and method that allows pages or documents to be secured in a binder while providing a recyclable, transparent and printable cover. The binding device includes a flexible sheet having a front surface, a rear surface, a first, second, third and fourth edge, a fold parallel to the first edge on the flexible sheet that extends from the second edge to the fourth edge, a plurality of spaced apart die cuts adjacent the fold shaped to form tabs, a transparent flexible front cover having a front surface, rear surface, a first, second, third and fourth edge, the first edge of the front cover overlapping and affixing to the front surface of the flexible sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Spiral Binding LLC
    Inventor: Humberto Luis
  • Patent number: 11214722
    Abstract: A portable, heated scent, odor, and/or molecule dispense system is provided, as well as devices and methods for doing the same. The portable systems and methods to dispense molecules may contain a liquid, gel, solid, foam, or other material-based formulation so as to attract, repel, kill, mask, or otherwise use the molecules. The portable system and methods may include a housing; a molecule holding pad in the housing; a first chemical reaction heat source in the housing; and a second chemical reaction heat source in the housing, wherein the molecule holding pad is arranged between the first chemical reaction heat source and the second chemical reaction heat source, and wherein the first chemical reaction heat source and the second chemical reaction heat source are each reactive to oxygen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Vapor Technologies LLC
    Inventors: John D. Crawford, Sr., John D. Crawford, Jr., David G. Fulk
  • Patent number: 11216215
    Abstract: Systems and methods presented herein provide a controller that is operable to monitor a plurality of background commands to a storage device over a pre-determined period of time and to determine how often each of the background commands is issued during the pre-determined period of time. The controller is further operable to establish a time interval for each of the background commands, and to issue each of the background commands at their respective time intervals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventors: David Scott Ebsen, Dana Simonson
  • Patent number: 11218386
    Abstract: Techniques for managing support computing services in computing systems are disclosed. One example technique includes analyzing data representing a service ticket having data representing multiple messages exchanged between the user and a support entity of a support tier in the computing system. Based on the analysis, an interaction pattern in the multiple messages can be identified. The interaction pattern includes a sequence of words or phrases arranged in a chronological order. The method can further include determining whether the identified interaction pattern matches one or more interaction patterns corresponding to previously escalated service tickets and triggering a notification of the immediate escalation of the service ticket to another support entity in another support tier in response to determining that the interaction pattern matches one of the one or more interaction patterns corresponding to previously escalated service tickets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Udayan Kumar, Nishant R. Bhatt, Rakesh Namineni, Manoj Kumar, Michael David Helm, Cole Robert Fornia, Chitra Mandyam, Ramanathan Muthiah
  • Patent number: 11219098
    Abstract: A power supply section for an e-vapor device includes a power supply section housing including a power supply portion and a heater assembly portion. The power supply portion includes a power supply, and the heater assembly portion includes a heating element and a support. The power supply is configured to selectively supply power to the heating element. The heating element includes a planar portion and first and second lead portions. The planar portion includes at least one filament. The first and second lead portions extend away from the planar portion. The support may support the heating element in the power supply section housing. The support includes a first slot and a second slot, and the first lead portion extends through the first slot, and the second lead portion extends through the second slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Altria Client Services LLC
    Inventor: Arie Holtz
  • Patent number: D939922
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: FULL RISE LLC
    Inventors: Yongjun Xin, Xiaoe Xu