Patents Assigned to LLC
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Patent number: 12183904Abstract: A vehicle battery assembly having a battery stack that includes a plurality of modules. The plurality of modules fastened by vertical and horizontal bolts. The battery stack includes cooling plates that is configured to be flexible and non-rigid placed between the modules. The cooling plates have improved isolation of structural stresses from the battery assembly.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2023Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: Karma Automotive LLCInventors: Nadim F. Ramadan, Bailey Erin Fagan, Edward Djrbashian
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Patent number: 12178310Abstract: A personal care product dispensing system with a body defining a cavity configured to retain a spreadable personal care product. A spreadable material is positioned within the cavity. A cover is mounted to the body. The cover defines a first aperture extending from a top surface of the cover to a bottom surface of the cover. A flexible applicator pad is mounted to the top surface of the cover with a valve positioned over the first aperture. The flexible applicator pad has a plurality of projections and a projection density of 10 to 40 projections per square centimeter.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2023Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: The Gillette Company LLCInventors: Jonathan William Staudt, Jack C. Chang
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Patent number: 12179528Abstract: A trailer for towing a watersport vehicle that includes a depth sensor. The depth sensor can detect when the trailer is within a suitable depth of water to launch and/or retrieve the watersport vehicle. The trailer can include one or more sensors to assist in positioning the watersport vehicle on the trailer. Use of the trailer can enable a user to efficiently and properly load and unload the watersport vehicle onto and from the trailer.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2021Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: Malibu Boats, LLCInventors: James Darryl Wilson, Derrick Wayne Bowerman, Cory Wade Duggar, Donna Jean Tallent, Rachael Marie Green
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Patent number: 12182364Abstract: Systems and methods for automated interaction with a touch-screen device are described. A system for automated interaction with a touch-screen device may include at least one optical sensor configured to sense at least a first portion of a touch-screen of the touch-screen device; at least one solenoid including an end effector that is tactilely detectable by the touch-screen, wherein operation of the at least one solenoid causes the end effector to tactilely engage with a second portion of the touch-screen; and a controller that is operatively connected to the at least one optical sensor and the at least one solenoid, and that is configured to operate the at least one solenoid in response to detecting a predetermined characteristic of the touch-screen via the at least one sensor.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2023Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: JACKPOCKET LLCInventors: Eric Parker, Peter J. Sullivan, Elias Bachaalany, Imad Maalouf, James Mansour, Redza Shah
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Patent number: 12182200Abstract: Systems, methods, and related techniques and apparatus containing instructions which when executed by one or more computing devices for determining dataset rankings by determining, from the lineage order requirement, one or more first lineage level datasets from the collection of datasets, generating one or more first lineage level asset ranks respectively for each one of the one or more first lineage level datasets, determining at least one second lineage level dataset having an outflow to the one or more first lineage level datasets, and generating a first dataset rank for the at least one second lineage level dataset as a first function of the outflow and at least one of the one or more first lineage level asset ranks.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2023Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: INFORMATICA LLCInventors: Awez Syed, Gaurav Pathak
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Patent number: 12184684Abstract: The methods and systems relate to improvements to threat modeling systems through the use of crowdsourcing. Specifically, the methods and systems relate to generating recommendations based on crowdsourced threat modeling contributions. For example, the methods and systems automate the threat modeling process by leveraging data in order to drive consistent and measurable quality of threat models and enable threat models to provide aggregated views of risk concentration at any altitude.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2021Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: Capital One Services, LLCInventors: Jonathan Underwood, Neil Barlow, Fraser Richard Scott
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Patent number: 12180219Abstract: The application is directed to efficient and economical processes as described in more detail below for the preparation of the beta 3 agonists of the formula of I-7 and intermediate compounds that can be used for making these agonists. The present disclosure relates to a process for making beta-3 agonists and intermediates using ketoreductase (KRED) biocatalyst enzymes and methods of using the biocatalysts.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2024Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: MERCK SHARP & DOHME LLCInventors: Feng Xu, Zhuqing Liu, Richard Desmond, Jeonghan Park, Alexei Kalinin, Birgit Kosjek, Hallena Strotman, Hongmei Li, Johannah Moncecchi
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Patent number: 12182417Abstract: Address range memory mirroring in a computer system, and related methods and computer-readable media. The computer system includes one or more memory mirror agents that are each configured to be programmed to mirror write data of a write request to a memory address mapped to the memory mirror agent. The memory mirror agent is configured to mirror write data to a redundant memory space in memory if the write memory address is within a programmed memory space to be mirrored by the memory mirror agent. The memory mirror agent can be programmed to perform memory mirroring based on specific address ranges to provide flexibility in controlling and changing the exact memory space of the memory system to be mirrored. If an error is detected in read data in response to a memory read request, the memory mirror agent can retrieve the stored redundant data to maintain data integrity.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2022Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: Ampere Computing LLCInventors: Sebastien Hily, Nagi Aboulenein, Matthew Robert Erler, Shivnandan Kaushik, Donald Scott Phillips
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Patent number: 12184527Abstract: According to implementations of the subject matter described herein, there is provided a solution of providing a health index of a service. In this solution, a plurality of incident information sets associated with a plurality of services are obtained. The plurality of services are provisioned in a computing environment. An incident information set indicates at least one incident reported during operation of a service. Respective health indices are determined for the plurality of services based on respective ones of the plurality of incident information sets and a health classification policy. The respective health indices indicate respective health statuses of the plurality of services and being determined from a same health index range. Through unified use of incident information, the determined health indices can indicate universal and consistent health statuses for different services.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2020Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Yu Kang, Rulei Yu, Bo Qiao, Pu Zhao, Qingwei Lin, Jian Sun, Li Yang, Xiaofeng Gao, Pochian Lee, Dongmei Zhang, Zhangwei Xu, Liqun Li, Xu Zhang
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Patent number: 12180820Abstract: A method for preparing a geothermal system involves preparing a wellbore that extends into an underground magma reservoir. Characteristics of the drilling process and the borehole are monitored to detect when the magma reservoir is reached, such that specially configured drilling operations can be performed to drill to a target depth within the magma reservoir.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2023Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: EnhancedGEO Holdings, LLCInventors: Benjamin Chris Smith, James Michael Browning, Randall Howard Hornbaker, Kevin Martin Stone, Georgios Evangelatos, Shamsul Abedin Al-Tomal, Andrew Nguyen
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Patent number: 12184910Abstract: Methods and systems of narrowcasting to a service group having one or more one-way set top boxes are shown and disclosed. The method may include receiving encrypted single program transport streams (SPTSs) from an encryptor, and receiving one or more session control signals for the SPTSs from a switched digital video (SDV) control system. The method may additionally include receiving service information (SI) packet identifiers (PIDs) for the SPTSs from a conditional access (CA) system, and updating the SI PIDs based on the one or more session control signals. The method may further include converting the SPTSs to narrowcast multiprogram transport streams (MPTSs) based on the one or more session control signals, and transmitting the narrowcast MPTSs and the updated SI PIDs to a plurality of edge quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) devices.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2023Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises LLCInventors: Steven J. Moscirella, Robert Mack, Michael Labouliere, Roger Gahman
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Patent number: 12182425Abstract: This document describes techniques for storing virtual disk payload data. In an exemplary configuration, each virtual disk extent can be associated with state information that indicates whether the virtual disk extent is described by a virtual disk file. Under certain conditions the space used to describe a virtual disk extent can be reclaimed and state information can be used to determine how read and/or write operations directed to the virtual disk extent are handled. In addition to the foregoing, other techniques are described in the claims, figures, and detailed description of this document.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2023Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: John A. Starks, Dustin L. Green, Todd William Harris, Mathew John, Senthil Rajaram, Karan Mehra, Neal R. Christiansen, Chung Lang Dai
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Patent number: 12179635Abstract: A seating system for a vehicle includes a first sidewall and a second sidewall. A second sidewall opposes the first sidewall. The first sidewall and the second sidewall at least partially define a cargo space. A first seating assembly is coupled to the first sidewall. A second seating assembly is coupled to the first sidewall. A bench seat is configured to be selectively adjustable between an adjacent support position and a cross support position. The bench seat is coupled to the first seating assembly and the second seating assembly when in the adjacent support position. The bench seat is coupled to the first sidewall and the second sidewall in the cross support position.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2022Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Johnathan Andrew Line, Robert Allen Bastuba, Jr., Collin Joshua Smith, Robert Charles Shipley, Francisco Edgar Guizar Ramirez, Scott Culver Anderson
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Patent number: 12182620Abstract: Systems and methods related to integrated memory pooling and direct swap caching are described. A system includes a compute node comprising a local memory and a pooled memory. The system further includes a host operating system (OS) having initial access to: (1) a first swappable range of memory addresses associated with the local memory and a non-swappable range of memory addresses associated with the local memory, and (2) a second swappable range of memory addresses associated with the pooled memory. The system further includes a data-mover offload engine configured to perform a cleanup operation, including: (1) restore a state of any memory content swapped-out from a memory location within the first swappable range of memory addresses to the pooled memory, and (2) move from the local memory any memory content swapped-in from a memory location within the second swappable range of memory addresses back out to the pooled memory.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2022Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventor: Ishwar Agarwal
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Patent number: 12182922Abstract: To compute an image of a dynamic 3D scene comprising a 3D object, a description of a deformation of the 3D object is received, the description comprising a cage of primitive 3D elements and associated animation data from a physics engine or an articulated object model. For a pixel of the image the method computes a ray from a virtual camera through the pixel into the cage animated according to the animation data and computes a plurality of samples on the ray. Each sample is a 3D position and view direction in one of the 3D elements. The method computes a transformation of the samples into a canonical cage. For each transformed sample, the method queries a learnt radiance field parameterization of the 3D scene to obtain a color value and an opacity value. A volume rendering method is applied to the color and opacity values producing a pixel value of the image.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2022Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Julien Pascal Christophe Valentin, Virginia Estellers Casas, Shideh Rezaeifar, Jingjing Shen, Stanislaw Kacper Szymanowicz, Stephan Joachim Garbin, Marek Adam Kowalski, Matthew Alastair Johnson
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Patent number: 12184559Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and computer readable media for reducing placement conflicts between allocation agents tasked with allocating computing resources on a computing zone. For example, systems disclosed herein may identify placement conflicts between multiple allocation agents processing incoming placement requests on a computing zone. The systems disclosed herein may further modify a placement policy based on the number of placement conflicts by reducing one or more restrictions on rules for allocating computing resources. For example, the systems disclosed herein may enlarge a placement zone of server nodes when allocating computing resources to prevent or otherwise reduce conflicts between multiple allocation agents implementing the same placement policies.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2021Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Abhisek Pan, Eric Zhao Hao, Esaias Englebertus Greeff
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Patent number: 12183340Abstract: Systems and methods of intent identification for customized dialogue support in virtual environments are provided. Dialogue intent models stored in memory may each specify one or more intents each associated with a dialogue filter. Input data may be received from a user device of a user. Such input data may be captured during an interactive session of an interactive title that provides a virtual environment to the user device. The input data may be analyzed based on the intent models in response to a detected dialogue trigger and may be determined to correspond to one of the stored intents. The dialogue filter associated with the determined intent may be applied to a plurality of available dialogue outputs associated with the detected dialogue filter. A customized dialogue output may be generated in accordance with a filtered subset of the available dialogue outputs.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2022Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignees: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT LLC, SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventors: Benaisha Patel, Alessandra Luizello, Olga Rudi
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Patent number: 12182849Abstract: A method for generating a related product interface portion in an electronic user interface based on user-generated text includes identifying, for each product of a plurality of products, one or more respective characteristics from end user-generated text associated with the product, whereby a plurality of characteristics are identified for the plurality of products. The method further includes determining a plurality of characteristic groups, each group comprising two or more of the plurality of characteristics, wherein the characteristics within a group are similar to each other; receiving, from a user through the electronic user interface, an input related to a product category; and in response to receiving the user input, generating and presenting the related product interface portion that includes a respective product from each of the two or more of the characteristic groups related to the category.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2024Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: Home Depot Product Authority, LLCInventors: Tianlong Xu, Haozheng Tian, Nian Yan, Harish Nair
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Patent number: 12184013Abstract: A vehicle plug for transmitting power and signals between a vehicle and a trailer includes a power conductor and one or more video signal conductors. The power conductor is configured to provide power to one or more electrical components of the trailer, the one or more electrical components of the trailer includes one or more video cameras. The one or more video signal conductors are configured to receive video signals from the one or more video cameras of the trailer.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2021Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: Kageta Tech LLCInventor: Scott Kageta
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Patent number: 12178720Abstract: The present invention includes a novel procedure and corresponding medical devices for a Purcutaneous Spinal Interbody Fusion (PSIF). In PSIF, the surgeon performs the entire operation percutaneously without the use of a microscope, endoscope, or magnifying loupes. An adjustable retractor system is disclosed that enables the surgeon to percutaneously perform the surgery through accessing the facet joint (and later disc space) that was created by said retractor system. This retractor system provides the surgeon a safe area to work and operate without fear of damaging nerves, blood vessels, or other tissue. An expanding trial may be inserted into and removed from the disc space through the interior of the retractor system to determine the proper size for the expandable cage. The retractor system also enables the expandable cage to be inserted into the disc space.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2022Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: MIS Spine IP, LLCInventor: Ludwig David Orozco Castillo