Patents Assigned to LLC
  • Patent number: 11175731
    Abstract: An apparatus for directional acoustic sensing may include a wearable dimensioned to be donned by a user of an artificial reality system. The wearable may include a signal generator that propagates an acoustic wave via a body of the user toward a specific body part. The wearable may also include an acoustic sensor that detects an acoustic reflection of the acoustic wave propagated by the signal generator. The wearable may further include at least one processing device that is communicatively coupled to the acoustic sensor. The processing device may determine that the specific body part has made physical contact with an object based at least in part on the acoustic reflection. In response, the processing device may generate an input command for the artificial reality system that accounts for the specific body part making physical contact with the object. Various other apparatuses, systems, and methods are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Eric Michael Whitmire, Wolf Kienzle, David R. Perek, Hrvoje Benko
  • Patent number: 11176448
    Abstract: An exemplary computing environment having a DNN module can maintain one or more bandwidth throttling mechanisms. Illustratively, a first throttling mechanism can specify the number of cycles to wait between transactions on a cooperating fabric component (e.g., data bus). Illustratively, a second throttling mechanism can be a transaction count limiter that operatively sets a threshold of a number of transactions to be processed during a given transaction sequence and limits the number of transactions such as multiple transactions in flight to not exceed the set threshold. In an illustrative operation, in executing these two exemplary calculated throttling parameters, the average bandwidth usage and the peak bandwidth usage can be limited. Operatively, with this fabric bandwidth control, the processing units of the DNN are optimized to process data across each transaction cycle resulting in enhanced processing and lower power consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Chad Balling McBride, Timothy Hume Heil, Amol Ashok Ambardekar, George Petre, Kent D. Cedola, Larry Marvin Wall, Boris Bobrov
  • Patent number: 11173340
    Abstract: In a first aspect, a method for monitoring a golf swing is provided that includes coupling a mobile telephone to a golf club and employing the mobile telephone coupled to the golf club to monitor acceleration of the mobile telephone as the mobile telephone swings while a user swings the golf club, collect acceleration information based on the monitored acceleration of the mobile telephone as the mobile telephone swings, analyze the collected acceleration information to determine one or more characteristics of the golf swing based on the collected acceleration information, and output information regarding the one or more characteristics of the golf swing on the display of the mobile telephone. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Dugan Patents, LLC
    Inventor: Brian M. Dugan
  • Patent number: 11175887
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and media for rewinding media content based on detected audio events are provided. In some embodiments, a method for providing media guidance is provided, the method comprising: causing media content to be presented; receiving, using an audio input device, audio data that includes ambient sounds in an environment in which the media content is being presented; receiving a user command to rewind the media content; detecting that a portion of the audio data corresponds to an audio event that occurred during the presentation of the media content in response to receiving the user command to rewind the media content; determining a playback position in the media content based on the audio event; and causing the media content to be presented from the determined playback position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: James Stout
  • Patent number: 11174208
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and systems suitable for chemical production by dehydrogenation of ethane utilizing carbon dioxide as a soft oxidant. Ethane and carbon dioxide are reacted in a catalytic reactor to produce a reaction product stream comprising at least ethylene and carbon dioxide. The carbon dioxide can be separated for recycling back into the catalytic reactor, and the ethylene can be upgraded using a variety of process units. Heat from the reaction product stream can be recycle for further uses, including reducing the amount of added heating needed in the catalytic reactor. Additional materials, such carbon monoxide, hydrogen, syngas, methanol, methane, ethane, and even heavier hydrocarbons can be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: 8 Rivers Capital, LLC
    Inventors: Damian Beauchamp, Xijia Lu, Mohammad Rafati
  • Patent number: 11177637
    Abstract: An item and an associated method utilizing an elongated core defining an outer surface having a series of axially-disposed regions about which windable materials can be wound involves anchoring locations at which the terminal ends of windable materials are anchorable. The series of regions are arranged along the core of the item in a sequential fashion with a first region being disposed adjacent a first end of the core, and the anchoring location of each subsequent region in the series of regions subsequent to the first region is circumferentially spaced about the outer surface of the core from the anchoring location of the region which immediately precedes the subsequent region by a predetermined distance and in a circumferential direction therealong which is opposite the direction in which the item is rotated during a material unwinding process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: iTool Equipment Holding LLC
    Inventors: David S. Jordan, Michael C. Jordan
  • Patent number: 11177921
    Abstract: A mobile terminal camps in a first cell associated with a first reference signal with a first physical structure that relates to a first Time Division Duplex (TDD) allocation of sub-frames for uplink and downlink transmission. The first reference signal is carried by the downlink sub-frames. The mobile terminal detects a broadcast indication of a second physical structure for carrying a second reference signal that relates to a second allocation of sub-frames for uplink and downlink transmissions that differs from the first allocation. The downlink sub-frames according to the second allocation carry the second reference signal. The mobile terminal measures the second reference signal of a neighbor cell as carried by the second physical structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Optis Wireless Technology, LLC
    Inventors: Stefan Parkvall, David Astely, Erik Dahlman
  • Patent number: 11174967
    Abstract: Techniques for implementing a pipe transport system. The pipe transport system includes a tow vehicle that moves a pipe trailer on which a pipe segment is loaded, in which the pipe segment includes tubing that defines a pipe bore and a fluid conduit implemented in an annulus of the tubing, and the tow vehicle includes a ripper assembly having a ripper shank. Additionally, the pipe transport system includes a hitch assembly to be secured to the ripper shank of the tow vehicle to enable the tow vehicle to be coupled to a trailer coupler of a tongue assembly implemented on the pipe trailer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Trinity Bay Equipment Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Christopher Sean Lee, John Paul Leger, Sergio Rodriguez, Alexander Lee Winn
  • Patent number: 11177965
    Abstract: A system for providing quality of service (QoS) levels to clients requesting certificates from a certificate management service is provided. The system includes an application programming interface (API) operable to receive certificate requests from each of a plurality of clients, each certificate request including a client identifier, a QoS manager operable to distribute the certificate requests to a corresponding client queue of a plurality of client queues based on the client identifier, select, based on at least one of a workflow and a client priority level, one or more of the certificate requests distributed to the plurality of client queues, and transmit the selected one or more certificate requests to a QoS queue of the certificate management service for processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: INTEGRITY SECURITY SERVICES LLC
    Inventors: Alan T. Meyer, Daniel R. Fynaardt
  • Patent number: 11175409
    Abstract: In a method for accurately estimating gait characteristics of a user, first parameters indicative of user movement, including a GNSS-derived speed and step count, are monitored. Values of the first parameters are processed to determine values of second parameters indicative of movement of the user. The processing includes using values of at least one monitored parameter to generate one or more inputs to an estimator (e.g., Kalman filter) having the second parameters as estimator states. At least two of the second parameters are collectively indicative of a mapping between step frequency and step length of the user. A graphical user interface may display values of at least one of the second parameters, and/or at least one parameter derived from one or more of the second parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Frank Van Diggelen, Ke Xiao, Gustavo Moura, Wyatt Riley
  • Patent number: 11178409
    Abstract: A method for coding a frame of a video stream includes selecting a first initial probability distribution for coding at least a first portion of the frame; updating, to obtain an updated first initial probability distribution and using backward adaptivity, the first initial probability distribution while coding the first portion of the frame; mapping the updated first initial probability distribution to a second initial probability distribution; and coding a second portion of the frame using the second initial probability distribution as an initial probability distribution. The first values of the first initial probability distribution are described using M bits, wherein M is a first positive integer. Second values of the updated first initial probability distribution are described using N bits, where N is a second positive integer that is greater than M. Third values of the second initial probability distribution are described using M bits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Joseph Young, Dake He
  • Patent number: 11178418
    Abstract: A method of efficient signalizing of picture size and partitioning information in a video bitstream, is performed by at least one processor and includes obtaining, from a sequence parameter set (SPS) to which a coded picture refers, a flag indicating whether the picture size and partitioning information of the coded picture is included in the SPS, and determining whether the obtained flag indicates that the picture size and partitioning information is included in the SPS. The method further includes based on the flag being determined to indicate that the picture size and partitioning information is included in the SPS, obtaining, from the SPS, the picture size and partitioning information, and based on the flag being determined to indicate that the picture size and partitioning information is not included in the SPS, obtaining, from a video parameter set (VPS), the picture size and partitioning information that is included in the VPS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLC
    Inventors: Byeongdoo Choi, Stephan Wenger, Shan Liu
  • Patent number: 11172792
    Abstract: A paper towel product that can be capably separated from the paper towel roll as a full sheet, a half sheet or a quarter sheet is disclosed. A method of making a paper towel with machine direction perforations is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: GPCP IP Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Steven R. Olson, David A. Hoadley, Thomas J. Daul
  • Patent number: 11174616
    Abstract: A wall block, wall block system, method of constructing a wall or other structure and a method of manufacturing a block wherein the wall block has a front, a rear, and two side surfaces, as least one of the surfaces consisting of multiple vertically planar surfaces of differing shapes and sizes and multiple faceted surfaces of differing shapes, sizes and contours.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: KEYSTONE RETAINING WALL SYSTEMS LLC
    Inventors: Dominic T. Riccobene, Thomas S. Riccobene, David M. LaCroix
  • Patent number: D935753
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: TBL Licensing LLC
    Inventors: Anna Regan Natowich McPhee, Norman Gress
  • Patent number: D935759
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Scholl's Wellness Company LLC
    Inventors: Alexander Fromholtz, Daniel L. Miranda, Harold A. Howlett
  • Patent number: D935810
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Walker Edison Furniture Company LLC
    Inventors: Matthew Davis, Brad Bonham, Richard A. Packer, Alexa Naylor
  • Patent number: D935877
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: SPS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventor: Cristinel Cobzaru
  • Patent number: D936016
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Chiu-Ming Lu, Ronald C. Hodge, Pierre Perez
  • Patent number: D936231
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: MONOVO LLC
    Inventors: Jarom Shurtliff, Jonathan Muñoz, Steven Taylor