Patents Assigned to LLC
  • Panoramic camera support
    Patent number: 11163219
    Abstract: A support for an imaging device includes a first rotatable assembly supportable by a support that rotates in a generally horizontal plane and a horizontal locking member. The imaging device includes a second rotatable assembly that rotates in a generally vertical plane. imaging device includes an interconnection structure that interconnects the first rotatable assembly to the second rotatable assembly such that the second rotatable assembly is rotatable around the first rotatable assembly at an elevation higher than the first rotatable assembly and offset laterally from the first rotatable assembly. imaging device includes the first rotatable assembly including a panning structure that rotates the support in the generally horizontal plane and a leveling base that is rotatable in a non-coplanar manner relative to the panning structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Really Right Stuff, LLC
    Inventors: Joseph M. Johnson, Sr., Verent Chan
  • Apparatus, system, and method using immiscible-fluid-discrete-volumes
    Patent number: 11162137
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the teachings relate to a system or method for sample preparation or analysis in biochemical or molecular biology procedures. The sample preparation can involve small volume processed in discrete portions or segments or slugs, herein referred to as discrete volumes. A molecular biology procedure can be nucleic acid analysis. Nucleic acid analysis can be an integrated DNA amplification/DNA sequencing procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: APPLIED BIOSYSTEMS LLC
    Inventors: Linda G. Lee, Sam L. Woo, Congcong Ma, Richard T. Reel, Mark F. Oldham, David M. Cox, Benjamin G. Schroeder, Jon M. Sorenson, Willy Wiyatno
  • Energy drinks and other nutritional aids derived from agave-based spirits
    Patent number: 11160774
    Abstract: Compositions containing monoamine oxidase inhibitors prepared by removal of alcohol from agave-derived beverages are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Roar Holding LLC
    Inventor: Robert W. Brocia
  • Methods and apparatus to reduce noise and vibration in a hybrid hydraulic power steering system
    Patent number: 11161542
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus to reduce noise and vibration in a hybrid hydraulic power steering system are disclosed. A method includes receiving sensor data from sensors of a vehicle and mapping the sensor data to filter coefficients. The method further includes generating a torque demand based on an input of the filter coefficients into a polynomial filter and tuning at least one of a torque assistance or a steering damping of an assisted steering system of the vehicle based on the torque demand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Anand Pradip Naik, Bradley G. Hochrein, Timothy Gerard Offerle
  • Methods and systems for the industrial internet of things
    Patent number: 11163283
    Abstract: The system generally includes a crosspoint switch in the local data collection system having multiple inputs and multiple outputs including a first input connected to the first sensor and a second input connected to the second sensor. The multiple outputs include a first and second output configured to be switchable between a condition in which the first output is configured to switch between delivery of the first sensor signal and the second sensor signal and a condition in which there is simultaneous delivery of the first sensor signal from the first output and the second sensor signal from the second output. Multiple inputs of the crosspoint switch include a third input connected to the second sensor and a fourth input connected to the second sensor. The first sensor signal is from a single-axis sensor at an unchanging location associated with the first machine. The second sensor is a three-axis sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Strong Force IOT Portfolio 2016, LLC
    Inventors: Charles Howard Cella, Gerald William Duffy, Jr., Jeffrey P. McGuckin
  • DRAM capacitor module
    Patent number: 11164938
    Abstract: Methods of forming and processing semiconductor devices are described. Certain embodiments relate to the formation of self-aligned DRAM capacitors. More particularly, certain embodiments relate to the formation of self-aligned DRAM capacitors utilizing the formation of self-aligned growth pillars. The pillars lead to greater capacitor heights, increase critical dimension uniformity, and self-aligned bottom and top contacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Micromaterials LLC
    Inventors: Uday Mitra, Regina Freed, Ho-yung David Hwang, Sanjay Natarajan, Lequn Liu
  • Kinase inhibitor salts and compositions thereof
    Patent number: 11160805
    Abstract: The present invention relates to kinase inhibitor C8-C16 aliphatic sulfate salts, compositions containing kinase inhibitor C8-C16 aliphatic sulfate salts and uses thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: HANDA ONOCOLOGY, LLC
    Inventors: Fang-Yu Liu, K. C. Sung, Chin-Yao Yang, Chi-Cheng Lin, Yi-Hsin Lin, Li Qiao
  • Downhole tool for connecting with a conveyance line
    Patent number: 11162305
    Abstract: A downhole tool for connecting with a conveyance line. The downhole tool may include a body configured to receive the line and a fluid seal operable to seal against the line when the downhole tool is connected with the line to inhibit wellbore fluid from entering the body when the downhole tool is conveyed within a wellbore via the line. The downhole tool may include a fluid seal slidably disposed within the body and operable to seal against an inner surface of the body to inhibit wellbore fluid from entering the body when the downhole tool is conveyed within the wellbore. The body may include a first body and a second body connected together, wherein the first body is operable to move with respect to the second body when a predetermined tension is applied to the line from the wellsite surface to cause the downhole tool to release the line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Impact Selector International, LLC
    Inventors: James Patrick Massey, Brandon Martin
  • Method of providing charge for a mechanical object
    Patent number: 11165266
    Abstract: A method of charging a mechanical object using a charge storage device. The method includes determining that an initial battery has lost voltage, removing the initial battery, and installing a replacement battery. Installing the replacement battery places the replacement battery in electrical communication with an adjacent capacitor. In another embodiment, the method includes providing a capacitor in a locomotion machine, and energizing a starter in electrical communication using the capacitor. The method also includes starting an engine of the locomotion machine using a charge from the starter, and then re-charging the capacitor as the locomotion machine moves. The method further comprises determining that the capacitor has lost voltage due to insufficient recharge activity, and re-charging the capacitor with a portable power pack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Systematic Power Solutions, LLC
    Inventors: Scottie Johnson, Eric C. Ricker
  • Encoding optimization for obfuscated media
    Patent number: 11163854
    Abstract: In a device including a processor and a memory in communication with the processor, the memory includes executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to control the device to perform functions of dividing a video image into a plurality of encoding blocks, the video image including a sharing-protected portion; adjusting, based on a size or location of the sharing-protected portion, a configuration of the encoding blocks such that the sharing-protected portion is divided into a smaller number of the encoding blocks; individually encoding, based on the adjusted configuration of the encoding blocks, the encoding blocks; and transmitting, to a remote device via a communication network, the individually encoded encoding blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: William George Verthein, Amer Aref Hassan
  • Computer-implemented systems configured for providing real-time credit offers and credit negotiation for specified transactions and methods of use thereof
    Patent number: 11164247
    Abstract: In some embodiments, the present disclosure provides an exemplary technically improved method for providing real-time alerts about an app user's location and the possibility that a user may be contemplating a credit offer from a merchant for a specific credit transaction with the merchant; alerting the user of the entity's willingness to extend credit for the specific credit transaction(s) with a merchant; negotiating with the user in real-time about the credit terms that the entity may be able to provide in comparison to offers received from existing merchants; and if approved, providing the user with the same or better credit terms than those offered by the merchant for that particular transaction(s); and avoiding any negative impact to the user's credit scores from a hard inquiry by either the merchant or the entity of the user's credit history with a credit bureau.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventor: Rendheer Joshy
  • Methods, devices, and computer program products for service security protection
    Patent number: 11165761
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method, a device and a computer program product for protecting service security. The method of protecting service security comprises receiving, from a client, a deployment request to deploy a service into a cloud environment, and in response to the deployment request, deploying a service instance corresponding to the service in the cloud environment. The method further comprises setting, based on information specific to the service instance, an initial credential for accessing the service instance, and providing information associated with the initial credential to the client so as to enable the client to derive the initial credential.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Xiaoliang Zhu, Ming Zhang, Jing Yu, Jingjing Guo, Yongsheng Guo
  • Image processing device and image processing method
    Patent number: 11166024
    Abstract: An image processing device including an acquiring section configured to acquire quantization matrix parameters from an encoded stream in which the quantization matrix parameters defining a quantization matrix are set within a parameter set which is different from a sequence parameter set and a picture parameter set, a setting section configured to set, based on the quantization matrix parameters acquired by the acquiring section, a quantization matrix which is used when inversely quantizing data decoded from the encoded stream, and an inverse quantization section configured to inversely quantize the data decoded from the encoded stream using the quantization matrix set by the setting section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: VELOS MEDIA, LLC
    Inventor: Junichi Tanaka
  • Systems and methods for cardiac imaging
    Patent number: 11160523
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for generating a diagnostic cardiac image using a CT system without ECG gating techniques. In one example, a method for an imaging system includes determining a scanning duration for scanning a heart of a patient with the imaging system based on a heart rate of the patient, scanning the patient with the imaging system for the scanning duration, the scanning commenced independent of a current phase of a cardiac cycle of the heart of the patient, and reconstructing an image from data acquired during the scanning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: GE Precision Healthcare LLC
    Inventors: John Irvin Jackson, John Londt, Darin Robert Okerlund
  • Systems and methods for streaming processing for autonomous vehicles
    Patent number: 11161464
    Abstract: Generally, the present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for streaming processing within one or more systems of an autonomy computing system. When an update for a particular object or region of interest is received by a given system, the system can control transmission of data associated with the update as well as a determination of other aspects by the given system. For example, the system can determine based on a received update for a particular aspect and a priority classification and/or interaction classification determined for that aspect whether data associated with the update should be transmitted to a subsequent system before waiting for other updates to arrive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: UATC, LLC
    Inventors: David McAllister Bradley, Galen Clark Haynes
  • Methods and arrangements to process comments
    Patent number: 11163560
    Abstract: Described herein are embodiments for managing comments in a program code file. A system may select program code and compile it to an intermediary code. The system may compare the intermediary code to a library of intermediary code snippets associated with comments. Based on the comparison, a system may recognize the code to be obsolete. In some embodiments, a system may generate one or more recommendations to update a code. Based on received feedback regarding a recommendation, a system may accordingly update a code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: CAPITAL ONE SERVICES, LLC
    Inventors: Reza Farivar, Kenneth Taylor, Austin Grant Walters, Fardin Abdi Taghi Abad, Anh Truong, Vincent Pham, Jeremy Edward Goodsitt
  • Vehicle rear bumper cover
    Patent number: D934762
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: David Dewitt, Todd Willing, Max Wolff, Pedro Guarinon
  • Earphone accessory
    Patent number: D934842
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: CLASS AND CULTURE LLC
    Inventor: Ronald Mok
  • Catheter
    Patent number: D935013
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Emmy Medical, LLC
    Inventors: James Adam Greenberg, Neeraj Kohli, Ronald David Adams
  • Light
    Patent number: D935085
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: RBW STUDIO, LLC
    Inventors: Theodore Richardson, Charles Brill, Alexander Williams