Patents Assigned to LLC
  • Patent number: 12183061
    Abstract: A method may include applying a first machine learning model trained to perform an open-set detection by at least identifying, based at least on image data indicative of one or more objects present in at least one environment in which one or more vehicles operate, at least one new class of objects. A dataset including a plurality of classes of objects may be updated to include the at least one new class of objects. In some cases, the dataset may be further updated to include a label associated with the at least one new class of objects. A second machine learning model may be trained, or in some cases updated, based at least on the updated dataset including the at least one new class of objects. Related systems and computer program products are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Motional AD LLC
    Inventor: Edouard Francois Marc Capellier
  • Patent number: 12180153
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to pharmaceutical compositions comprising compounds found in Harderian gland secretions, a method of treating dry eye in a human comprising ophthalmically administering an effective amount of a compound, e.g. a lipid compound, found in Harderian gland secretions, pharmaceutical compositions comprising said lipid compounds, as identified by characteristic chemical data and mass spectra of said lipid compounds, said lipid compound in essentially pure form, and an ophthalmic vehicle comprising a therapeutic agent and a compound present in the secretions of the Harderian gland, e.g. a lipid compound, found in the secretions of the Harderian gland, e.g. a rabbit Harderian gland.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: RestorTears, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel M. Albert, Arthur S. Polans
  • Patent number: 12180098
    Abstract: A device insertable inline in a condensation drain line for preventing algae “plugs” from forming in the drain line. The device has an inlet, an outlet and a reaction chamber therebetween. A charge of algaecide is positioned with respect to the floor of the reaction chamber in a feed channel so that, as condensate enters the inlet of the reaction chamber and is diverted toward the algaecide the algae in the condensate can be killed. Additional flow diverters apply backflow to retain the condensate in contact with the algaecide momentarily before the condensate exist the device and is discharged to the environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Always Clear, LLC
    Inventor: William Herbkersman
  • Patent number: 12179811
    Abstract: A modular railcar includes a modular top system that is configured to hold one or more coils of material, and a railcar underframe that supports the modular top system. The modular top system includes a pair of side sills and one or more troughs disposed between the pair of side sills. Each side sill of the pair of side sills extends a longitudinal length of the modular top system. Each trough of the one or more troughs is configured to hold a coil of the one or more coils of material. The underframe includes one or more coupling apparatuses that are configured to detachably engage the modular top system when the modular top system is positioned on top of the underframe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: TRINITY RAIL GROUP, LLC
    Inventors: Suman Gachhadar, Christopher Crisafulli, Aubra D. McKisic, Konstantin I. Khenokh
  • Patent number: 12180785
    Abstract: A window treatment system includes a roller tube, a covering material, a motor drive unit, and an idler. The covering material is coupled to the roller tube such that the covering material is configured to be wound and unwound from the roller tube when the roller tube rotates. The motor drive unit is configured to rotate the roller tube. The idler includes a bearing sleeve, a bearing, a bearing retainer, and a pin. The bearing sleeve and the roller tube rotate together. The bearing sleeve includes a cavity and a flange. The bearing is disposed at least partially within the cavity and also defines a bore. The bearing retainer is disposed between the flange and an outboard face of the bearing to maintain the bearing's position. The pin is disposed in the bore such that the bearing sleeve and the roller tube rotate with respect to the pin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Lutron Technology Company LLC
    Inventor: Randy C. Seiple
  • Patent number: 12180656
    Abstract: A method of producing wet laid disposable bath tissue, facial tissue, and paper towel with enhanced properties through application of surface additives using a piezoelectrical apparatus or application device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: First Quality Tissue, LLC
    Inventors: James E. Sealey, II, Kevin Brennan, Justin S. Pence, Byrd Tyler Miller, IV, Matthew John Walkiewicz
  • Patent number: 12180814
    Abstract: System and method for conducting enhanced oil recovery by establishing a plurality of stacked, alternating slugs of gas and liquid travelling downhole into a subterranean well. The system can include a buffer tank, a gas inlet, a gas outlet, and a liquid outlet. The system can further include a pressure control configured to maintain a specified pressure in gas within the buffer tank and a fluid dispensing system in fluid communication with the gas and liquid outlet of the buffer tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: EOR ETC LLC
    Inventors: Stuart Lindsey Scott, Adrian Paul Williams
  • Patent number: 12182206
    Abstract: Examples of the present disclosure describe systems and methods for enterprise search that leverage periodically updated user context of an enterprise user for intent understanding and treat a search session as a dialog between the user and a digital assistant to allow multi-modal interaction. For example, a query input by the user may be received from a client application having search functionality and an integrated assistant. A current state of the user context may be leveraged to understand the query. Based on the understanding, one or more responsive entities may be retrieved from an enterprise search index as results. Based on the results, a response may be generated that includes the results and a prompt to cause the user to further refine the query and/or provide feedback. The response may be provided to the client application for output as part of a search session dialog between the user and assistant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Ming Wu, Yue Ma, Yong Ni
  • Patent number: 12182509
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for performing a machine learning task on a tuple of respective input sequences to generate an output. In one aspect, one of the systems includes a neural network comprising a plurality of encoder neural networks and a head neural network, each encoder neural network configured to: receive a respective input sequence from the tuple; process the respective input sequence using one or more encoder network layers to generate an encoded representation comprising a sequence of tokens; and process each of some or all of the tokens in the sequence of tokens using a projection layer to generate a lower-dimensional representation, and the head neural network configured to: receive lower-dimensional representations of a respective proper subset of the sequence of tokens generated by the encoder neural network; and process the lower-dimensional representations to generate the output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Karthik Raman, Liu Yang, Mike Bendersky, Jiecao Chen, Marc Alexander Najork
  • Patent number: 12179756
    Abstract: A method generating planning-based attention signals includes receiving driving-scene data. The driving-scene data is indicative of a driving scene around a host vehicle. The driving-scene data includes map data and localization data. The driving scene includes a plurality of actors. The method further includes converting the driving-scene data into a scene-graph. The method further includes inputting the scene-graph into a deep neural network (DNN). Further, the method includes determining an attention score for each of the plurality of actors using the DNN and the scene-graph. The attention score of each of the plurality of actors represents a priority given to each of the plurality of actors in the driving scene. The method further includes commanding the host vehicle to autonomously drive according to a trajectory determined by taking into account the attention score of each of the plurality of actors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Sayyed Rouhollah Jafari Tafti, Brent Navin Roger Bacchus
  • Patent number: 12182162
    Abstract: A device may receive information for an attribute to include in a shared attribute library. The information may include an attribute identifier, data variables needed to compute a value of the attribute, and source code for computing the value of the attribute. The source code may be written in a first programming language. The device may receive a first request to compute the value of the attribute based on a first set of data variables from a first type of data application and a second request to compute the value of the attribute based on a second set of data variables from a second type of data application that is different than the first type of data application. The device may select a computing server, which may execute the first programming language, to compute the value of the attribute based on the first and second sets of data variables.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventor: Saurabh Gupte
  • Patent number: 12182816
    Abstract: A device may receive transaction data indicating that a transaction occurred. The transaction may be between a first user of a first device and a second user of a second device. The device may receive, from the first device, first sensor data indicating a first location recorded by a first sensor of the first device at a first point in time associated with the transaction; and receive, from the second device, second sensor data indicating a second location recorded by a second sensor of the second device at a second point in time associated with the transaction. Based on the transaction data, the first sensor data, and/or the second sensor data, the device may determine whether the transaction occurred and perform an action based on the determination of whether the transaction occurred.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Jeremy Phillips, Zhe Liu, Kurry Tran
  • Patent number: 12184157
    Abstract: Systems are provided for an electronic drive unit. In one example, the electronic drive unit comprises a cooling passage integrally arranged therein, wherein the cooling passage is sealed via laminations of the stator. The laminations are further shaped to jet oil from the cooling passage onto end-windings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: DANA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS GROUP, LLC
    Inventors: Steven Vanhee, Joachim Druant, Thibault Devreese
  • Patent number: 12184700
    Abstract: Various embodiments are disclosed for a services policy communication system and method. In some embodiments, a communications device stores a set of device credentials for activating the communications device for a service on a network; and sends an access request to the network, the access request including the set of device credentials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Headwater Research LLC
    Inventor: Gregory G. Raleigh
  • Patent number: 12181568
    Abstract: The invention describes a radar system consisting of a plurality of subcomponents each individually having all components of a radar device which comprise at least transmitters, receivers, a mixer and a phase locked loop, wherein an individual phase code is generated for each transmitter; and transmitters and receivers of all subcomponents of the radar system together provide a virtual overall arrangement according to the Multiple Input Multiple Output method, wherein at least one virtual sub-arrangement of the overall arrangement, provided by a combination of transmitters of a subcomponent and receivers of a subcomponent, has at least one overlapping column or one overlapping row with another virtual sub-arrangement of the overall arrangement, wherein the at least other virtual sub-arrangement is provided by another combination of transmitters of a subcomponent and receivers of a subcomponent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: GM Cruise Holdings LLC
    Inventor: Stefan Trummer
  • Patent number: 12185044
    Abstract: A specialized audio/instrument cable with built-in digital signal processing capabilities that adds digital audio sampling capabilities that allows the user to trigger synthesized sounds or virtual musical instruments from within the cable itself to affect the sound generated from an instrument or microphone such that the cable is the only connection needed between the instrument or microphone and an output device. Using voice recognition, the specialized cable can select an audio effects chain algorithm and/or sampled sound algorithm extrapolated from a musical digital audio fingerprint (MDAF) created from a desired musician's instrument to alter the sound of the input instrument's audio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Prophet Productions, LLC
    Inventors: Bobby Elijah Aviv, David G. Aviv, Mark Schaffel, Guy Zohar
  • Patent number: 12183347
    Abstract: Processing stacked data structures is provided. A system receives an input audio signal detected by a sensor of a local computing device, identifies an acoustic signature, and identifies an account corresponding to the signature. The system establishes a session and a profile stack data structure including a first profile layer having policies configured by a third-party device. The system pushes, to the profile stack data structure, a second profile layer retrieved from the account. The system parses the input audio signal to identify a request and a trigger keyword. The system generates, based on the trigger keyword and the second profile layer, a first action data structure compatible with the first profile layer. The system provides the first action data structure for execution. The system disassembles the profile stack data structure to remove the first profile layer or the second profile layer from the profile stack data structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Anshul Kothari, Gaurav Bhaya, Tarun Jain
  • Patent number: 12179232
    Abstract: This invention provides a system and method for impregnating surfaces, which are typically porous and/or textile-based, with antiviral/antibacterial compounds in a manner that is robust, effective and straightforward. Such techniques can be employed during manufacture of the underlying item (e.g. PPE) and/or in the field. In an illustrative embodiment, a system and method for providing antiviral and antibacterial properties to a porous surface is provided. It includes a suspension consisting of a water-based solvent and an active ingredient consisting of at least one of a nanoparticulate metal and a chelated metal. The suspension is applied using an application process that immerses or sprays the suspension relative to the surface. Illustratively, the metal is at least one of silver, copper and titanium. Alternatively, or additionally, the metal can a chelated copper. The suspension can also include a salt component, such as sodium chloride. Additionally, the suspension can include a water repellant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Unique Equipment Solutions LLC
    Inventor: Oleksandr Yuriiovych Mykytiuk
  • Patent number: 12185042
    Abstract: A dual-axis swivel speaker mount assembly includes a base section for attachment to a supporting object, a central section, a speaker section for direct/indirect attachment to a speaker, a first pivot assembly pivotably connecting the base section and the central section, a second pivot assembly pivotably connecting the central section to the speaker section, and two to four securing assemblies for selectively securing the pivot assemblies against rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: MUSIC EXPRESS LLC
    Inventors: Ryan Kallas, J. Herschel Blankenship
  • Patent number: D1055781
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Coulter Ventures, LLC.
    Inventors: Dylan Jones, Patrick Burgess, Aaron Stinner