Patents Assigned to LLC
  • Autonomous agricultural system user interface interlock
    Patent number: 11169689
    Abstract: A control system for an autonomous agricultural system includes a display configured to display at least one control function associated with at least one operation. The display is configured to output a first signal indicative of a first input. The control system includes a controller comprising a processor and a memory. The controller is communicatively coupled to the display and configured to receive the first signal indicative of the first input and to send a second signal to the display indicative of instructions to display a second control in an unlocked state. The display is configured to output a third signal to the controller indicative of the second input. The controller is configured to receive the third signal and to output a fourth signal indicative of instructions to control the at least one operation of the autonomous agricultural system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignees: CNH Industrial America LLC, Autonomous Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Alan Foster, John Henry Posselius, Bret Todd Turpin, Daniel John Morwood, Brandon Chamberlain Adams, James Allen Bradford, Kim Richardson Barker
  • Wheat cultivar 01071548
    Patent number: 11166426
    Abstract: The invention relates to the wheat cultivar designated 01071548. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the wheat cultivar 01071548. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the wheat cultivar 01071548 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing wheat plants by crossing the wheat cultivar 01071548 with itself or another wheat cultivar and plants produced by such methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventor: Sidney Perry
  • Cover interlock mechanism
    Patent number: 11169581
    Abstract: A cover interlock mechanism for drawer in a rack enclosure includes a first protrusion and a second protrusion coupled to opposing sides of the drawer, the protrusions being urged outward from the drawer, at least one structural component of the rack enclosure that engages the protrusions to prevent the drawer from being inserted into the rack enclosure, and a cover for the drawer having cavities that align with the protrusions when the cover is placed on the drawer to urge the protrusions toward the drawer to allow the drawer to be inserted into the rack enclosure. The protrusions may be urged outward from the drawer by flexible members attached to the drawer. The flexible members may be attached to bottom portions of sides of the drawer. The structural component may be a rail of the rack enclosure. The rail may be part of the framework of the rack enclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey Michael Lewis, Joseph L. Brigham, Jr.
  • Spatially multiplexed volume Bragg gratings with varied refractive index modulations for waveguide display
    Patent number: 11169379
    Abstract: A waveguide display includes a waveguide transparent to visible light, a first volume Bragg grating (VBG) on the waveguide and characterized by a first refractive index modulation, and a second reflection VBG on the waveguide and including a plurality of regions characterized by different respective refractive index modulations. The first reflection VBG is configured to diffract display light in a first wavelength range and a first field of view (FOV) range such that the display light in the first wavelength range and the first FOV range propagates in the waveguide through total internal reflection to the plurality of regions of the second reflection VBG. The plurality of regions of the second reflection VBG are configured to diffract the display light in different respective wavelength ranges within the first wavelength range and the first FOV range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: FACEBOOK TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Wanli Chi, Dominic Meiser, Yang Yang, Wai Sze Tiffany Lam, Pasi Saarikko, Ningfeng Huang
  • Wireless lighting control system with universal driver control interface
    Patent number: 11171699
    Abstract: A luminaire includes a universal driver control interface to control various types of driver circuits. The luminaire receives, via a voltage divider, an analog voltage feed as a first driver control signal from at least one driver control wire connected to a driver circuit. The luminaire converts, via an analog-to-digital converter, the analog voltage feed into a digital voltage value. The luminaire compares the digital voltage value with a respective range of unique voltage values in a voltage lookup table for each type of driver circuit to determine a respective type of driver circuit protocol. Based on the determined respective driver circuit protocol identifier and a light source control setting, the luminaire outputs a second driver control signal, via the at least one driver control wire, to the driver circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: ABL IP HOLDING LLC
    Inventors: Tyler B. Fultz, James Krafcik
  • Allocation of electrical energy within a storage cell
    Patent number: 11167659
    Abstract: Systems and methods for allocating electrical energy within a storage cell. Energy stored in an energy storage cell is allocated to multiple energy sub-partitions. Each energy sub-partition is associated with a user. A request to buy an amount of energy from an energy sub-partition assigned to another user is sent by a present user to at least one respective user in the plurality of users. Based on sending the request to sell an amount of energy, at least one response with an offer to sell energy to the present user is received. Acceptance of a selected offer within the at least one response is received, where the selected offer was sent by a winning user. The amount of energy is re-allocated from an energy sub-portion allocated to the winning user to an energy sub-portion associated with the present user based on receiving the acceptance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Inventus Holdings, LLC.
    Inventors: Rachana Vidhi, Prasanna Shrivastava, Daniel M. Brake, Matthew S. Handel
  • Supervised domain adaptation
    Patent number: 11170581
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for training a feature extraction neural network to generate domain-invariant feature representations from domain-varying input images. In one aspect, the method includes obtaining a training dataset comprising a first set of target domain images and a second set of real domain images that each have pixel-wise level alignment with a corresponding target domain image, and training the feature extraction neural network on the training dataset based on optimizing an objective function that includes a term that depends on a similarity between respective feature representations generated by the network for a pair of target and source domain images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Intrinsic Innovation LLC
    Inventors: Martina Marek, Stefan Hinterstoisser, Olivier Pauly, Hauke Heibel, Martin Bokeloh
  • Variable valve actuation system
    Patent number: 11168592
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for variable valve actuation assembly. In one example, the variable valve actuation assembly may include a first pressure reservoir with a first pressure fluidly coupled to valve actuators and positioned below an engine valve. A second pressure reservoir with a second pressure is arranged directly below the first pressure reservoir and a hydraulic medium flows between the first and second pressure reservoirs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Christopher Donald Wicks
  • Distributed work data management
    Patent number: 11169970
    Abstract: A device may receive, from a user device, a transaction request associated with a first entity and identify a distributed ledger associated with the first entity, the distributed ledger including a set of blocks recording work data associated with the first entity. The set of blocks may include: a first subset of blocks including data specifying work performed by the first entity, and a second subset of blocks including data verifying a portion of the work performed by the first entity and specified by the data included in the first subset of blocks. The device may determine that a transaction, associated with the transaction request, is associated with the first subset of blocks and the second subset of blocks. Based on predetermined instructions that correspond to the transaction and the distributed ledger, the device may perform the transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Walter Miller, Robert Martin, Bradley Smith
  • System and method for conveyor maintenance
    Patent number: 11167937
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for conveyor operation and maintenance that employ a “smart shoe” technology where one or more conveyor shoes incorporate features, such as an RFID tag, allowing selective wireless tracking and identification capability. A conveyor system comprises a shoe management system allowing interactions directly with a reader where interface between this application and the reader can be implemented via a socket interface. An open platform communications (OPC) wrapper can be created around the interface so that a Human Machine Interface (HMI) could interact directly with shoe management system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Aegis Sortation LLC
    Inventor: Kenneth Jay Ice
  • Chips, detectors, and methods of making and using the same
    Patent number: 11169150
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are chips, devices, methods of making the same, and methods of detecting a target analyte, and methods of diagnosing an individual with a disease or condition when a target analyte associated with the disease or condition is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Sentilus Holdco LLC
    Inventors: Ashutosh Chilkoti, Angus Hucknall
  • Compositions, methods and kits for diagnosis of a gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasm
    Patent number: 11168372
    Abstract: Methods are provided for diagnosing, detecting, or prognosticating a GEP-NEN based on the expression level score of biomarkers exhibiting differential expression in subjects having a GEP-NEN relative to a reference or control sample. The invention also provides compositions and kits comprising these biomarkers and methods of using these biomarkers in subsets or panels thereof to diagnose, classify, and monitor GEP-NEN and types of GEP-NEN. The methods and compositions provided herein may be used to diagnose or classify a subject as having a GEP-NEN, to distinguish between different stages of GEP-NENs, e.g., stable or progressive, to provide a measure of risk of developing a progressive GEP-NEN, and to gauge the completeness of treatments for GEP-NEN including, but not limited to surgery and somatostatin therapy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Clifton Life Sciences LLC
    Inventors: Irvin Mark Modlin, Mark Kidd, Ignat Drozdov
  • Computer-based methods and systems for managing private data of users
    Patent number: 11170124
    Abstract: A method includes receiving a data capture event affecting personal data of a user stored in at least one storage device of a computing system and mapped in a privacy graph database. Personal data of the user may be identified in the data capture event and classified into the data categories. In response to the data capture event, a mapping of user-centric nodes associated with the at least one user associated with other users in the privacy graph database is automatically updated using the classified personal data in the data capture event. A request by a requester for personal data of at least one specific user stored in the at least one storage device is received. The privacy graph database is queried to provide the requested personal data and locations of the requested personal data of the at least one specific user in the request stored in the computing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Anindya Misra, Eckow Fred Ayison, Sripal Togaru
  • Systems and methods for party authentication and information control in a video call with a server controlling the authentication and flow of information between parties whose identities are not revealed to each other
    Patent number: 11170784
    Abstract: Example embodiments of systems and methods for providing a video call between a first party and a second party. The method includes detecting an attempt to establish the video call by monitoring a voice call between the first party and the second party; authenticating the first and second parties; receiving from the first and second parties respective voice acceptances to invitations to establish the video call; retrieving video call identifications of the first and second parties; and establishing the video call without revealing the video call identification of the first party to the second party and the video call identification of the second party to the first party. A server uses credentials of a first party to request if that party would allow access of his identifying information to a second party and use that credential to further authenticate the first party.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: CAPITAL ONE SERVICES, LLC
    Inventors: Anh Truong, Reza Farivar, Vincent Pham
  • Method to make carbon molecular sieve hollow fiber membranes
    Patent number: 11167248
    Abstract: An asymmetric hollow fiber (CMS) carbon molecular sieve is made by providing a dope solution comprised of a polvimide and a solvent, at a temperature greater than 250° C. that is less than the storage modulus at a temperature of 250° C., but no more than ten times less as measured using dynamic mechanical thermal analysis from 250° C. to a temperature where the polyimide carbonizes. The polvimide is shaped into a hollow polvimide fiber, the solvent removed and the polyimide hollow fiber is heated to pyroiyze the polvimide and form the asymmetric hollow carbon molecular sieve. The asymmetric hollow fiber carbon molecular sieve has a wall that is defined by an inner surface and outer surface of said fiber and the wall has an inner porous support region extending from the inner surface to an outer raicroporous separation region that extends from the inner porous support region to the outer surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Liren Xu, Rahul Sharma, William J. Harris, Mark K. Brayden, Marcos V. Martinez
  • Dim-to-warm LED circuit
    Patent number: 11172558
    Abstract: Various embodiments include apparatuses and methods enabling a dim-to-warm circuit operation of an LED multi-colored array. In one example, an apparatus includes a hybrid driving-circuit coupled to the LED array and to a single control-device to receive an indication of a luminous flux desired from the LED array. A color temperature for the LED array is determined based on the desired luminous flux of the LED array. In various embodiments, the hybrid driving-circuit includes an analog current-division circuit to produce current for at least two LED current-driving sources and a multiplexer array coupled between the analog current-division circuit and the LED to provide periodically, for a predetermined amount of time, current from at least one of the at least two LED current-driving sources to at least two colors of the LED array. Other apparatuses and methods are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Lumileds LLC
    Inventor: Yifeng Qiu
  • Devices and methods for performing anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction using patient-specific drill guide
    Patent number: 11166732
    Abstract: A guide for drilling a tunnel in a knee joint having intercondylar roof and tibial eminence. The guide can comprise a guide assembly having a positioning member including an inferior end, and a guide arm extending from the positioning member including a trochlear tip; and a drill sleeve having a body attached to the inferior end, an aperture extending along a drilling axis, and a distal end having a patient-specific surface configured to engage an anterior surface of the tibia. A method of producing a tibial tunnel can comprise inserting a trochlear tip of a guide arm between the tibial eminence and the intercondylar roof, adjusting a position of a positioning member connected to the guide arm, engaging a patient-specific tip of a drill sleeve connected to the positioning member with a surface of a tibia, and inserting a drill bit through the drill sleeve to drill a tibial tunnel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Biomet Manufacturing, LLC
    Inventors: William Maxson, Kevin T. Stone, Jason D. Meridew, Nathan M. Sautter
  • Combinations of anti-antibodies
    Patent number: 11168133
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to anti-Staphylococcus aureus antibody combinations including combinations of antibodies that bind to S. aureus alpha toxin (AT) protein, clumping factor A protein (ClfA), and/or at least one leukotoxin protein. Methods of treating and preventing infections comprising administering the antibody combinations are also provided herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: MedImmune, LLC
    Inventors: Christine Tkaczyk, Bret Sellman, Qun Du, Melissa Damschroder, Taylor Cohen
  • Anti-PDL1, IL-15 and TGF-beta receptor combination molecules
    Patent number: 11168138
    Abstract: The invention features multi-specific protein complexes with one domain comprising IL-15 or a functional variant, a cytokine receptor or cytokine ligand, and a binding domain specific to a disease antigen, immune checkpoint or signaling molecule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Altor Bioscience, LLC
    Inventors: Qiongzhen Li, Xiaoyun Zhu, Hing C. Wong
  • Glazing with a light guide laminate stack
    Patent number: 11167531
    Abstract: A vehicle glazing (10) wherein a light guide stack (22) is located between a portion of the inner transparency (26) and the outer transparency (28). The light guide stack includes a polycarbonate film (32) that is bonded to the transparencies by layers of PET (38, 40) that are secured to the polycarbonate film on one side by silicone (34, 36) and that are secured to the transparencies on the other side by PVB (42, 44). The terminal end of an extending tab of the polycarbonate film forms an edge that is connected to a light bar (14) that such visible light propagates through the light bar and into the polycarbonate film through the edge. Visible light propagates through etchings in the smooth surface of the polycarbonate film to form an image. An extension of one of the transparencies protects the polycarbonate tab and supports the light bar during installation of the glazing into the vehicle portal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Pittsburgh Glass Works, LLC
    Inventor: Lauren Black