Patents Assigned to LLC
  • Patent number: 11144915
    Abstract: Example embodiments of systems and methods for data transmission system between transmitting and receiving devices are provided. In an embodiment, each of the transmitting and receiving devices can contain a master key. The transmitting device can generate a diversified key using the master key, protect a counter value and encrypt data prior to transmitting to the receiving device, which can generate the diversified key based on the master key and can decrypt the data and validate the protected counter value using the diversified key. Example embodiments of systems and methods can be used to provide further authentication and added levels of security for transactions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: CAPITAL ONE SERVICES, LLC
    Inventors: Kevin Osborn, Jeffrey Rule, James Ashfield, Srinivasa Chigurupati
  • Patent number: 11144469
    Abstract: Distributed computing system functionality is enhanced. Transmission of data changes may be incremental, thus reducing bandwidth usage and latency. Data changes may be propagated over geographic distances in an outward-only manner from a central data store to one or more servers or other remote nodes, using proactive updates as opposed to making cache updates only in reaction to cache misses. Cache expiration and eviction may be reduced or avoided as mechanisms for determining when cached data is modified. A central computing environment may proactively push incremental data entity changes to place them in remote data stores. Remote nodes proactively check their remote data store, find changes, pull respective selected changes into their remote node caches, and provide current data in response to service requests. Data may be owned by particular tenants. Data pulls may be limited to data in selected categories, data of recently active tenants, or both.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Amir Geri, Asher Budik, Daniel Senderovich
  • Patent number: 11145191
    Abstract: A flash light module (1) can include a housing (30) carrying at least a visible flash light emitter (10) to emit a flash light beam along an optical axis (OA) and at least one additional emitter (20) emitting non-visible light arranged at a second distance (D2) perpendicular to the optical axis (OA), where position and orientation of the additional emitter (20) and at least the second distances (D2) are suitably adapted as well as the housing (30) is suitably shaped in order to enable the additional emitter (20) to emit non-visible light (22) along a non-visible light emitting direction (IRD), wherein the additional emitter (20) is adapted to emit the non-visible light (22) to the environment suitable to remote communicate to, preferably to remote control, external electronic devices (5) comprising corresponding receivers for the non-visible light (22). A mobile device (100) can include the flash light module (1) and a method to operate the mobile device (100).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Lumileds LLC
    Inventors: Thierry De Smet, James Tarne, Arjen van der Sijde, Nicola Bettina Pfeffer, Olivier Meilhon
  • Patent number: 11145774
    Abstract: A photovoltaic cell may include a substrate configured as a single light absorption region. The cell may include at least one first semiconductor region and at least one second semiconductor region arranged on or in the substrate. The cell may include a plurality of first conductive contacts arranged on the substrate and physically separated from one another and a plurality of second conductive contacts arranged on the substrate and physically separated from one another. Each first conductive contact may be configured to facilitate electrical connection with the at least one first semiconductor region. Each second semiconductor conductive contact may be configured to facilitate electrical connection with the at least one second semiconductor region. Each of the first conductive contacts may form at least one separate cell partition with at least one of the second conductive contacts, thereby forming a plurality of cell partitions on or in the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Solar Inventions LLC
    Inventor: Benjamin Mark Damiani
  • Patent number: 11140808
    Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatus are provided for determining the depth of a trench opened by an agricultural planter. Sensors are provided for detecting the position of a ground-engaging element of the planter such as a gauge wheel or seed firmer of a row unit of the planter. Apparatus and methods are provided for installing such sensors onto a row unit of the planter. Systems, methods and apparatus are provided for controlling downpressure on a row unit based on the trench depth. Methods are provided for mapping trench depth measured by the depth sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Precision Planting LLC
    Inventors: Derek Sauder, Jason Stoller, Ian Radtke, Kent Levy
  • Patent number: 11145922
    Abstract: A solid-state battery cell having a capacitor interlayer is disclosed. The solid-state battery includes an anode, a cathode spaced from the anode, a solid-state electrolyte layer disposed between the anode and the cathode, and a capacitor assisted interlayer sandwiched between at least one of (i) the anode and solid-state electrolyte layer, and (ii) the cathode and the solid-state electrolyte layer. The capacitor assisted interlayer comprise at least one of a polymer-based material, an inorganic material, and a polymer-inorganic hybrid material; and a capacitor anode active material or a capacitor cathode active material. The polymer-based material includes at least one of a poly(ethylene glycol) methylether acrylate with Al2O3 and LiTFSI, a polyethylene oxide (PEO) with LiTFSI, and a poly(vinylidene fluoride) copolymer with hexafluoropropylene (PVDF-HFP)-based gel electrolyte. The inorganic material includes a 70% Li2S-29% P2S5-1% P2O5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Zhe Li, Xiaochao Que, Haijing Liu, Qili Su, Yong Lu
  • Patent number: 11140997
    Abstract: A pop up cover for a crib is provided for providing a safe, comfortable and isolated environment for a child in a crib. The pop-up cover may be made of breathable fabric panels having an integrated frame, for example a flexible frame, which can be folded (collapsed) on itself, for example when folded in specific ways if appropriate force is applied and which keeps the fabric in a taught, open position when unfolded (preventing the panels form falling inwards onto each other). The pop up cover can be lightweight and compact, quick and easy to set up, dark inside and breathable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: DOVETAIL ESSENTIALS, LLC
    Inventors: Kathryn Beck Mallory, Louise Wingfield Childs
  • Patent number: 11142335
    Abstract: A passenger unit for use on-board a passenger vehicle (e.g., an in-flight entertainment device) includes a display, a memory storing a passenger unit identifier, a network interface, and a connector configured to physically couple to a connector on a mounting unit, where the mounting unit is installed on, or proximate to, a particular seat of a plurality of seats on-board the passenger vehicle. The passenger unit also includes a controller configured to obtain a seat location code of the particular seat from the mounting unit, and to cause the seat location code and the passenger unit identifier to be transmitted, via the network interface, to a server on-board the passenger vehicle. The server is configured to map the passenger unit to the particular seat using the seat location code and the passenger unit identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: GOGO BUSINESS AVIATION LLC
    Inventor: Bryan Adrian Lauer
  • Patent number: 11142436
    Abstract: A portable gantry crane formed of composite members includes a composite material I-beam. Two or more support members are formed of a composite material and each support member supports the I-beam when the portable gantry crane is in an upright position. Two or more end housings are included, each end housing enclosing a top end of one of the two or more support members and coupled thereto using adhesive. A plurality of latch structures are coupled with the I-beam, each latch structure including a latch, and each end housing having a latch receiver, each latch in combination with a latch receiver allowing one of the latch structures to be releasably fixedly coupled with an end housing. In implementations a plurality of latch structures are coupled with the I-beam, each latch structure having a latch structure enclosure and each latch structure enclosure at least partially enclosing one of the end housings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: OZ Lifting Products, LLC
    Inventors: Steve Napieralski, Gregory Lucas
  • Patent number: 11142841
    Abstract: Methods for electropolishing and coating aluminum on a surface of an air and/or moisture sensitive substrate, including: in a vessel, submerging the substrate in a first molten salt bath and applying an anodizing current to the substrate at a first temperature to electropolish the surface of the substrate; wherein the first molten salt bath includes one of a first organic salt bath and first inorganic salt bath; wherein, when used, the first organic salt bath includes one of (a) aluminum halide and ionic liquid, (b) a combination of an aluminum halide and halogenatedmethylphenylsulfone (C6(H5?y,Xy)SO2CX3, where y is a number from 0-5), (c) a combination of an aluminum halide, an ionic liquid, and halogenatedmethylphenylsulfone (C6(H5?y,Xy)SO2CX3), and (d) AlF3-organofluoride-hydrofluoric acid adduct; wherein, when used, the first inorganic salt bath includes aluminum halide and alkali metal halide; and wherein the anodizing current is 10-30 mA/cm2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC
    Inventors: John W. Freiderich, Tasha L. Boyd
  • Patent number: 11143059
    Abstract: A tappet assembly including an outer cup having a substantially cylindrical side wall, an annular lip portion disposed at a first end of the side wall, and an annular ledge disposed on the side wall, the annular ledge being disposed in a plane that is transverse to a longitudinal center axis of the tappet assembly. An inner cup includes an annular lip extending outwardly therefrom and a pair of shaft apertures, and is disposed in the outer cup so that the lip abuts the annular ledge of the outer cup and is non-rotatably fixed thereto by the annular lip of the outer cup which abuts the lip of the inner cup. A shaft is received in the shaft apertures, and a roller tappet is rotatably received on the shaft such that a portion of the roller tappet extends axially outwardly beyond the annular lip portion of the outer cup, and an anti-rotation feature formed in the outer cup, wherein the outer surface of the outer cup is an unground surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Koyo Bearings North America LLC
    Inventors: Scott Abrahamson, Mark Brandolin
  • Patent number: 11144651
    Abstract: A combined object associated with a data chunk included in a request file is determined. An encryption key associated with the combined object and a corresponding chunk hash value associated with the data chunk are used to determine a corresponding chunk key associated with the data chunk. At least a locator to be used to retrieve the combined object and the corresponding chunk key associated with the data chunk are provided to a requesting system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Manville, Julio Lopez, Rajiv Desai, Nathan Rosenblum
  • Patent number: 11145207
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for requesting and granting priority between a host vehicle and other vehicles, and to a system which implements the method. The host vehicle, through the use of on-board vehicle sensors, detects and identifies an impeding vehicle which interferes with the host vehicle's path. The host vehicle transmits a priority request to the impeding vehicle. The priority request includes a remuneration offer. The impeding vehicle evaluates the priority request, including the sufficiency of the host vehicle's remuneration offer, and grants or denies the host vehicle's priority request. If granted, the impeding vehicle modifies its path to be less impeding to the host vehicle, for example by assuming a cooperative path that lets the host vehicle pass the impeding vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Swoppz, LLC
    Inventor: Peter Jumpertz
  • Patent number: 11145242
    Abstract: An apparatus for efficiently driving visual displays via light-emitting devices may include (1) at least one light-emitting device, (2) a buck driver circuit electrically coupled to the light-emitting device, wherein the buck driver circuit includes an inductor, and (3) a boost circuit electrically coupled between the buck driver circuit and a power source, wherein the boost circuit includes an additional inductor. Various other apparatuses, systems, and methods are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Yuming Liu, Xiaobei Li, Lawrence Chang-Yung Wang, Sam Sarmast, Phillip Freeman King, Benjamin Nicholas Jones
  • Patent number: 11146805
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for video encoding/decoding. In some examples, an apparatus for video decoding includes receiving circuitry and processing circuitry. In some embodiments, the processing circuitry decodes prediction information of a current block in a current coding from a coded video bitstream. The prediction information is indicative of an intra block copy mode. Then, the processing circuitry determines a block vector that points to a reference block in a same picture as the current block. The reference block is restricted within a coding region with reconstructed samples buffered in a reference sample memory. The coding region is one of multiple predefined regions of a coding tree unit (CTU). Then, the processing circuitry reconstructs at least a sample of the current block based on the reconstructed samples of the reference block that are retrieved from the reference sample memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Tencent America LLC
    Inventors: Xiaozhong Xu, Xiang Li, Shan Liu
  • Patent number: 11146024
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an electrical connector. The electrical connector comprises a tongue, a plurality of terminals comprising a plurality of first terminals and a plurality of second terminals and at least one common grounding member. Each terminal has a plate-shape contact portion. The terminals comprise ground terminals. The plate-shape contact portion of each first terminal is provided on a first face of the tongue. The plate-shape contact portion of each the second terminal is provided on a second face of the tongue. The common grounding member comprises a plurality of connection portions. The connection portion extends in a thickness direction and is connected to the plate-shape contact portion of the corresponding ground terminal. Therefore, it can shorten the loop inductance of the signal and shorten the return path to improve signal integrity (SI).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Weng-Heng Liong, Chie-Meng Wong
  • Patent number: 11145778
    Abstract: An optical system may include a substrate and a plurality of silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) monolithically integrated with the substrate. Each SiPM may include a plurality of single photon avalanche diodes (SPADs). The optical system also includes an aperture array having a plurality of apertures. The plurality of SiPMs and the aperture array are aligned so as to define a plurality of receiver channels. Each receiver channel includes a respective SiPM of the plurality of SiPMs optically coupled to a respective aperture of the plurality of apertures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Waymo LLC
    Inventors: Caner Onal, Pierre-Yves Droz, Nirav Dharia
  • Patent number: D932891
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: ALL PACKAGING COMPANY LLC
    Inventors: Christopher Chambers, Eric Gilger
  • Patent number: D933016
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: MODUS TEST, LLC
    Inventors: Lynwood Adams, Jack Lewis
  • Patent number: D933148
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: PARSONS XTREME GOLF, LLC
    Inventors: Michael R. Nicolette, Bradley D. Schweigert