Patents Assigned to LLC
  • Patent number: 11161383
    Abstract: A process for correcting longitudinal roll from an offset load using active roll control within a vehicle is provided. The process includes, within a computerized controller using axle-based control to control a suspension system, operating programming to control pneumatic pressure supplied to each of a plurality of air spring devices within the suspension system to execute a vehicle leveling event including one of adjusting a height of the vehicle or maintaining the height of the vehicle. The process further includes operating programming to, simultaneously with the controlling the pneumatic pressure, utilize a plurality of active sway bars to provide an offset torque to the vehicle body. Each of the plurality of active sway bars is associated with one of a plurality of axles. Providing the offset torque is based upon a number of moles of air in each of the plurality of air spring devices and reducing the longitudinal roll.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Brian K. Saylor, Larry G. Gepfrey, Adam D. Stanton, Robert G. Izak, Bo Yu
  • Patent number: 11161756
    Abstract: A vacuum airlift system for treating an aqueous effluent includes an upflow liquid portion, where the upflow liquid portion is configured to retain a fluid, and a fluid inlet, the fluid inlet being fluidly coupled with the upflow liquid portion, where the fluid inlet is positioned at about a bottom of the upflow liquid portion. The vacuum airlift system can also include a downflow liquid portion, where the downflow liquid portion is fluidly coupled with the upflow liquid portion, and a fluid outlet, the fluid outlet being fluidly coupled with the downflow liquid portion, where the fluid outlet is positioned at about a bottom of the downflow liquid portion. The vacuum airlift system can also include a photobioreactor fluidly coupled with the downflow liquid portion such that the fluid is configured to pass through the upflow liquid portion, into the downflow liquid portion, and into the photobioreactor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Searen, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Wood Andrews, Emmanuel Pierre Pascal Briquet, John Rodgers Brooks, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11162056
    Abstract: A method of encapsulating an active comprising preparing a first mixture comprising the active, a compound that functions as a Michael donor, and a compound that functions as a Michael acceptor, preparing a second mixture comprising water and an emulsifier; preparing a reaction mixture by combining the first mixture, the second mixture, and a compound that functions as a Michael catalyst; agitating the reaction mixture; wherein the active has a water solubility of at most 0.5% (w/w) at 25° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: DOW GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventors: Xue Chen, Xin Jin, An Kaga
  • Patent number: 11160391
    Abstract: A child containment system or playard can include a frame and soft goods panels. The frame can include a top frame assembly and one or more legs extending down therefrom in a use configuration. The legs can be pivotable with respect to the top frame assembly to a stored configuration, where the legs are substantially parallel with portions of the top frame assembly. The playard can also include top rail soft goods attached to at least a portion of the top frame assembly. A first portion of the bassinet base can be stored in a cavity of a first portion of the top rail soft goods and a second portion of the bassinet base can be stored in another cavity of a second portion of the soft goods. The first and second base portions can be coupled together when needed and stored in the cavities when not in use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: BABY JOGGER LLC
    Inventors: Alexis J. Schaffer, Annette C. Stella, Corey Barnes, Rachel Bennett, Nathan Christopher Causey, Harlan Seth Dannenberg, Ryan David Luecke
  • Patent number: 11160864
    Abstract: A pain relief device and method or system to aid in the resolution of pain in a body including at least one layer of PVDF film and at least one other layer for directional purposes, as well as a polarizing layer. The device can be packaged in various ways.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignees: E.K. Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Emery Korpas, Jack William Shirlin
  • Patent number: 11163987
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods that include or otherwise leverage use of a facial expression model that is configured to provide a facial expression embedding. In particular, the facial expression model can receive an input image that depicts a face and, in response, provide a facial expression embedding that encodes information descriptive of a facial expression made by the face depicted in the input image. As an example, the facial expression model can be or include a neural network such as a convolutional neural network. The present disclosure also provides a novel and unique triplet training scheme which does not rely upon designation of a particular image as an anchor or reference image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Raviteja Vemulapalli, Aseem Agarwala
  • Patent number: 11162653
    Abstract: A modular LED string, an LED lighting assembly containing the LED string, and a method of manufacturing the lighting assembly are described. In various embodiments, the LED string contains LED module groups mounted on a carrier. Each module group has a series-connected row of LED modules, commencing with a first LED module followed by at least one inner LED module and terminated by a final LED module. Each main contact pad is electrically connected to a main supply track formed on the carrier and is arranged between neighbouring modules. Each secondary contact pad is electrically connected to a secondary supply track formed on the carrier and is arranged on either side of an inner module. An anode contact of each first module is electrically connected to the main supply track, and an anode contact of each remaining module is electrically connected to a secondary supply track.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Lumileds LLC
    Inventors: Manuel Grave, Nikolai Timm
  • Patent number: 11164463
    Abstract: Vehicle brake performance monitoring is provided. The braking capabilities are dynamically learned or otherwise calculated or determined in each vehicle and shared between the vehicles of the platoon. The platoon may be reorganized based on differences between the learned or otherwise calculated or determined relative braking capabilities. Desired gaps between the platooning vehicles may be modified in accordance with the learned or otherwise calculated or determined relative braking capabilities as necessary or desired. During every vehicle stop, the vehicle and axle loads together with information on the time from brake apply to when the vehicle decelerates is monitored and entered as a data point defining the vehicle response delay. The axle loads and the ABS Activation of a wheel end for a given pressure is further selectively used to create another data point. The data points are selectively used to develop overall performance (e.g., quality score) of the brake system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: BENDIX COMMERCIAL VEHICLE SYSTEMS LLC
    Inventors: Scott Szymczak, Andrew J. Pilkington, Timothy Carritte, Jr., T. Stephen Miller, Jr., William P. Amato
  • Patent number: 11162748
    Abstract: An upper receiver assembly of a firearm is disclosed. The upper receiver assembly contains a barrel, an extension block removably coupled with the barrel, an upper receiver removably coupled with the extension block, a handguard mounting block removably coupled with the barrel, and a handguard removably coupled with the handguard mounting block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Firearm Consulting Group, LLC
    Inventors: Paul T. Noonan, Dean Earl Sylvester
  • Patent number: 11165876
    Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed for providing location services. Consistent with disclosed embodiments, disclosed systems and methods may include a beacon registering device for providing location services. The beacon registering device may include a non-transitory memory storing instructions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Lawrence Douglas, Thomas Christopher Clarke, Deborah Nally
  • Patent number: 11165668
    Abstract: Methods, systems and computer program products are described for obtaining deployment signals comprising information relating to deployments of software components to a plurality of computing devices, obtaining fault signals comprising information relating to faults encountered by the plurality of computing devices, and obtaining device type information that describes a device type of each of the plurality of computing devices. Based on the deployment signals, fault signals, and device type information, a correlation score for each combination of software component, fault, and device type is obtained. Based on the correlation scores, attribution level decisions, fault type level decisions and device type level decisions are made. Based on these decisions, an overall decision is rendered whether to proceed or not proceed with a future deployment of the software component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Ken Hsieh, Pankaj Kumar Singh, Sree Krishna Chaitanya Vadrevu, Ze Li, Murali Mohan Chintalapati, Yingnong Dang
  • Patent number: 11165877
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture to monitor mobile Internet usage are disclosed. Example apparatus disclosed herein to monitor application usage associated with a device means for differentiating between foreground requests and background requests included in a burst of logged requests. Disclosed example apparatus further include means for calculating a presentation duration for a first application executed by the device based on at least a subset of the foreground requests identified in the burst of logged requests.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Achilleas Papakostas, Susan Cimino
  • Patent number: 11164418
    Abstract: Various systems and methods for streaming an impromptu community are described herein. In one example, a system for streaming impromptu communities includes a data storage device, a community analyzer, and a publisher. In an example, the data storage device can store a number of incoming data sets, wherein each data set identifies a time and location for the origin of the data, a media instance, and an identification of an origin device or origin user. In an example, the community analyzer can operate from the data storage device to use a processor in order to calculate an IC boundary and generate an impromptu community (IC) indicator based on the proximity and temporality of the number of incoming data sets. In an example, the processor can modify the number of data sets to include the IC indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Gina D. Venolia, John C. Tang, Kori Inkpen, William A. Hamilton
  • Patent number: 11163362
    Abstract: An electronic device may include a housing (100), a display (102) disposed in the housing (100) and including an interface surface (112) arranged for user contact and a reference haptic (108). The interface surface (112) includes an active haptic output that provides a time-dependent haptic output and a reference haptic (108) disposed on the housing or the interface surface to provide a time-independent haptic output related to the time-dependent haptic output. The combination of active and reference haptics on an electronic device, such as a wearable display device, can convey information to a user without requiring the user to look at the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Hong Z. Tan, Zhaoyuan Ma
  • Patent number: 11163471
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing system for compartmentalizing a plurality of RAID extents, within a RAID system, into a plurality of rotation subgroups. A first logical data portion is written to a first rotation subgroup chosen from the plurality of rotation subgroups. A wear imbalance condition is sensed in a first rotation subgroup, chosen from the plurality of rotation subgroups, that is associated with a plurality of logical data portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Nickolay Dalmatov, Michael P. Wahl, Jian Gao
  • Patent number: 11165085
    Abstract: Flow batteries can be constructed by combining multiple electrochemical unit cells together with one another in a cell stack. High-throughput processes for fabricating electrochemical unit cells can include providing materials from rolled sources for forming a soft goods assembly and a hard goods assembly, supplying the materials to a production line, and forming an electrochemical unit cell having a bipolar plate disposed on opposite sides of a separator. The electrochemical unit cells can have configurations such that bipolar plates are shared between adjacent electrochemical unit cells in a cell stack, or such that bipolar plates between adjacent electrochemical unit cells are abutted together with one another in a cell stack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Lockheed Martin Energy, LLC
    Inventors: Curtis Warrington, Thomas H. Madden, Srivatsava Puranam
  • Patent number: 11164404
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for diagnosing an active grille shutter (AGS) system. In one example, a method may include indicating degradation of an AGS system of a vehicle based on an infrared image information obtained from a camera coupled to the vehicle and adjusting one or more engine operating parameters responsive to the indicating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Aed Dudar
  • Patent number: D934533
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Not-Knot, LLC
    Inventor: Worthington White
  • Patent number: D934657
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Master Lock Company LLC
    Inventors: Evan P. Thompson, Eric Sanford, Joseph Daniel Massam, Thomas William Murray, Scott Stevens
  • Patent number: D935080
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: WEBER-STEPHEN PRODUCTS LLC
    Inventors: Carmen Lira-Nunez, Romualdo Sonny Siazon