Patents Assigned to LLC
  • Method and system for detecting and managing similar content
    Patent number: 12184906
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described herein for dynamically detecting repetitive content. The content that is detected as repetitive may be cached for longer periods of time. Subsequent re-transmissions of the repetitive content to user devices may be done by retrieving the content from a cache rather than requesting the content from a transcoder and/or a packager. The repetitive content segments may be retrieved from a cache, thereby saving transcoding and other system resources. A data file may be generated to map the stored segments to their cache locations and to indicate a predicted time for future transmission of the content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventor: Garey Hassler
  • Displaying a translucent version of a user interface element
    Patent number: 12182375
    Abstract: Electronic devices described herein are configured to display updated content associated with a first application having a first user interface element disposed in a background area of a display that is obscured by a second user interface element associated with a second application. Responsive to a command from the first application to notify the user of the updated content, the operating system displays at least a portion of a translucent version of the first user interface element with the updated content in the foreground display area, wherein the translucent version of the first user interface element obscures at least a portion of the second user interface element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Matthias Baer
  • System, apparatus, and method for storing equipment
    Patent number: 12179075
    Abstract: An apparatus for storing equipment is disclosed. The apparatus has a housing including a plurality of members configured to rotate relative to each other, about an attachment portion of the plurality of members, between a closed position forming an interior cavity and an open position, an assembly attached to the housing and configured to rotate relative to the housing, a shaping member attached to one of the plurality of members and configured to rotate relative to the one of the plurality of members, and at least one aperture extending through the one of the plurality of members. The shaping member is configured to removably receive the equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Platypus Golf Company LLC
    Inventor: Thomas Travers
  • Vision-based rotary part offset correction for weld toolpathing
    Patent number: 12179284
    Abstract: An improved laser weld process control system and method are provided. The system and method include a machine vision camera to detect a deviation between a pre-programmed laser beam toolpath and a gap centerpoint between first and second parts being welded together. The first and second parts are secured to a rotatable fixture, and the system and method cause the rotatable fixture to rotate through a corrective angle to bring the gap centerpoint into alignment with the laser beam toolpath, optionally in real time during the application of laser beam energy. The system and method can also correct for a vertical misalignment of the laser focal point due to rotation of the fixture by adjusting the vertical separation of the laser unit relative to the fixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: DM3D Technology, LLC
    Inventors: Vijayavel Bagavath-Singh, Jason Franceschina, Mark Lewan, Bhaskar Dutta
  • Article made from post consumer resin with smooth surface finish
    Patent number: 12179396
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a process. In an embodiment, the process includes providing pellets of a regrind material. The regrind material is a post-consumer recycle multilayer film (PCR multilayer film) having at least three layers. The PCR multilayer film is composed of (i) a polyethylene layer, (ii) a polyamide layer, and (iii) a tie layer. The tie layer is composed of maleic anhydride grafted substantially linear ethylene polymer (MAH-g-SLEP) having a Mw/Mn from 1.5 to less than 3.5 and a melt index from 0.5 g/10 min to less than 25 g/10 min. The process includes extruding the pellets to form an extrudate, molding the extrudate, and forming, with the extrudate, a molded article having a surface. The surface of the molded article has a surface roughness value, Sa, less than 1000 nm and a root mean square roughness value, Sq, less than 1400 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Brian W. Walther, Sachin Laddha
  • Slide assembly for a firearm
    Patent number: 12181240
    Abstract: A slide assembly for a firearm can include a slide having a top side, a proximal end, a mounting recess about the top side of the slide, a housing recess about the proximal end of the slide, and a retaining hole intersecting the housing recess; an extractor assembly mounted within the housing recess; and an optic sight positioned at least partially in the mounting recess, the optic sight coupled to the slide by a fastener received by the retaining hole, the fastener extending at least partially through the housing recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Shadow Systems LLC
    Inventors: Anthony Joseph Ribic, Richard Trevor Simpson Roe
  • Enhanced vehicle window anti-fogging strategy
    Patent number: 12179555
    Abstract: A method for defogging a window of a vehicle includes steps of automatically selecting a climate control system operating mode and determining a risk of window fogging. The climate control system operating mode is selected from an outside air mode, an air-conditioning mode, and a defrost mode. A controller determines the risk of window fogging according to one or more inputs, and the same or a different controller may automatically select the climate control system operating mode. The controller is configured to increase a climate control system blower speed to increase a rate of airflow provided by the currently-actuated climate control system operating mode. The controller may sequentially advance the climate control system operating mode through the outside air mode, air-conditioning mode, and defrost mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Alan Gutowski, Manfred Koberstein, William Stewart Johnston
  • In-call experience enhancement for assistant systems
    Patent number: 12182883
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes establishing a video call between a plurality of client systems, wherein access to an assistant system is persistently maintained during the video call, receiving, from a first client system of the plurality of client systems, a request by a first user to be performed by the assistant system during the video call, wherein the request references one or more activities associated with one or more users associated with the plurality of client systems, analyzing, by a context engine of the assistant system, images of a scene of the video call to identify the one or more activities within the scene, instructing the assistant system to execute the request based on the identified one or more activities, and sending, to one or more of the plurality of client systems, a response to the request while maintaining the video call between the plurality of client systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Xiaohu Liu, Baiyang Liu, Rajen Subba
  • Motion activated sound generating and monitoring mobile application
    Patent number: 12182470
    Abstract: The present system includes a wearable device, a user device, and a player device. The wearable device comprises a motion sensor configured to provide motion data. The user device is configured to receive a user input from a user, receive the motion data from the wearable device, and determine sound data based on the motion data, wherein the sound data includes sound volume data. The player device includes a processor in communication with a plurality of user devices and a memory, wherein the processor is configured to receive a collective sound data from the plurality of users associated with a selected subject matter and produce a collective sound output for the plurality of users at the same time based on the collective sound data, wherein the collective sound output is associated with the selected subject matter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Whisper Capital LLC
    Inventor: Russell B. Klein
  • Intervertebral cage
    Patent number: 12178709
    Abstract: A fusion cage may include an upper endplate directly hinged to a lower endplate. The fusion cage may be adjustable to provide various angles between the endplates. An insert may be coupled between the endplates to lock the endplates at a selected angle. Fasteners may extend through the fusion cage into adjacent bone portions. An instrument may couple to an endplate so that the hinged-together endplates may be inserted between bone portions. The instrument may be used to adjust the angle between the endplates and to couple the insert between the endplates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: IMDS LLC
    Inventors: Hyun Bae, Jeffery D. Arnett, Nicholas Slater
  • Seal system, method, and borehole system
    Patent number: 12180800
    Abstract: A seal system, including a first member comprising a material having a first density and the member having portions of a first density, a second member configured to be mechanically connected to the first member, an compliance portion at the first member, the compliance portion comprising the same material density and the portion having a second density, the compliance portion positioned to make contact with the second member when mechanically connected to the second member. A method for creating a sealed structure including mechanically connecting the first and second members to one another, causing a deformation at a contact area between the compliance portion and the second member, and creating a seal at the deformation. A borehole system including a borehole in a subsurface formation, a string in the borehole, and a seal disposed within or as a part of the string.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Banditrat, Claudia Leon
  • Systems and methods for secure playback of encrypted elementary bitstreams
    Patent number: 12184943
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing multimedia content from one process or component to another process or component over an unsecured connection are provided. One embodiment includes obtaining the cryptographic information, extracting the at least partially encrypted video data from the container file to create an elementary bitstream, enciphering the cryptographic information, inserting the cryptographic information in the elementary bitstream, providing the elementary bitstream to a video decoder, extracting the cryptographic information from the elementary bitstream at the video decoder, deciphering the cryptographic information, decrypting the elementary bitstream with the cryptographic information and decoding the elementary bitstream for rendering on a display device using the video decoder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: DIVX, LLC
    Inventors: Francis Yee-Dug Chan, Kourosh Soroushian, Andrew Jeffrey Wood
  • Fast and low memory usage convolutional neural network for tomosynthesis data processing and feature detection
    Patent number: 12178621
    Abstract: A convolutional neural network (CNN) is employed in an automated feature and/or anomaly detection system for analyzing images provided by X-ray imaging system. The automated detection system operates in a manner that reduces the number of full-resolution CNN convolution layers required in order to speed up the network inference and learning processes for the detection system. To do so, the detection system utilizes as an input a more compact representation of the tomographic data to alleviate the CNN memory footprint and computation time issues in prior art X-ray systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: GE Precision Healthcare LLC
    Inventors: Sylvain Bernard, Vincent Bismuth
  • Mitigation of rotating stall in turbine exhaust section using flow control vanes disposed therein
    Patent number: 12180849
    Abstract: A system includes a turbine exhaust section having an exhaust flow path, an inner exhaust wall radially disposed along the exhaust flow path, an outer exhaust wall disposed radially outward of the inner exhaust wall and along the exhaust flow path, and a flow control vane extending between a first end and a second end. The first and second ends are circumferentially offset from one another. The flow control vane is configured to move between a retracted position along the outer exhaust wall and an extended position extending from the outer exhaust wall toward the inner exhaust wall. The second end is disposed radially inward from the first end while the flow control vane is disposed in the extended position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: GE Infrastructure Technology LLC
    Inventors: Shashwat Swami Jaiswal, Moorthi Subramaniyan, Gunnar Leif Dan Siden, Nisha Singh
  • Systems and methods for determining and correcting network failures in a wireless telecommunications network
    Patent number: 12184477
    Abstract: Methods and systems for determining and correcting network failures in a wireless telecommunications network. The methods can include determining a rate of communications terminating to voicemail due to one or more network failures. The methods can also include determining if the rate of communications terminating to voicemail due to one or more network failures exceeds a threshold value. When the threshold is exceeded, an action can be performed. The action can include one or more of communicating an alert, providing a graphical representation of at least the rate of communications terminating to voicemail due to one or more network failures, or performing or recommending one or more mitigation steps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: T-Mobile Innovations LLC
    Inventor: Zain Us Salekin Mohammed
  • Using de-identified healthcare data to evaluate post-healthcare facility encounter treatment outcomes
    Patent number: 12182877
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes producing medical information that characterizes a group of individuals from a set of private data representing pre or post-encounter characteristics of the individuals, wherein the individuals have had encounters with a healthcare facility. The identity of the individuals is unattainable from the produced medical information. The method also includes providing the produced medical information to report the pre or post-encounter characteristics of the group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Vigilytics LLC
    Inventor: Andrew L. Paris
  • Network service plan design
    Patent number: 12184702
    Abstract: A technique involves modular storage of network service plan components and provisioning of same. A subset of the capabilities of a service design system can be granted to a sandbox system to enable customization of service plan offerings or other controls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Headwater Research LLC
    Inventors: Gregory G Raleigh, Jeffrey Green, James Lavine, Justin James
  • Chair
    Patent number: D1055547
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2024
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Nugget Comfort LLC
    Inventors: David S. Baron, Hannah E. Fussell
  • Reusable filter cartridge
    Patent number: D1055632
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Universal Coffee LLC
    Inventors: Jennifer Shannon Lemmer, Ralph Wegener Satterlee, Jr., Ronald Ralph DeMiglio
  • Watch
    Patent number: D1055707
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: ELC Management LLC
    Inventors: Thomas C. Ford, Brandon Little, Antoine Sandoz