Patents Assigned to LLC
  • Immersive content production system with multiple targets
    Patent number: 11132837
    Abstract: An immersive content presentation system and techniques that can detect and correct lighting artifacts caused by movements of one or more taking camera in a performance area consisting of multiple displays (e.g., LED or LCD displays). The techniques include capturing, with a camera, a plurality of images of a performer performing in a performance area at least partially surrounded by one or more displays presenting images of a virtual environment. Where the images of the virtual environment within a frustum of the camera are updated on the one or more displays based on movement of the camera, and images of the virtual environment outside of the frustum of the camera are not updated based on movement of the camera. The techniques further include generating content based on the plurality of captured images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: LUCASFILM ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY LTD. LLC
    Inventors: Roger Cordes, Nicholas Rasmussen, Kevin Wooley, Rachel Rose
  • Acknowledgment authentication system and method
    Patent number: 11132426
    Abstract: The present invention is a system for and method of enabling an initiating party to capture, store, and retrieve an image of at least one acknowledging party performing an acknowledgement requested by the initiating party where the acknowledging party(s) may be remotely located from the initiating party.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: LAD Verification Services, LLC
    Inventor: David Ruma
  • System for capturing images from applications rendering video to a native platform with a graphics rendering library
    Patent number: 11132973
    Abstract: A method, system and computer-usable medium are disclosed for capturing an image rendered by a target application. One general aspect includes a computer-implemented method for capturing an image, the method including: intercepting API calls made by a target application to a graphics display driver, where the API calls made to the graphics display driver by the target application are made using a graphics rendering API library; and using the intercepted API calls to construct a copy of a frame buffer of the image, where the copy of the frame buffer is constructed independent of the graphics display driver. Certain embodiments may include corresponding stand-alone and/or network computer systems, apparatus, and computer programs recorded on one or more computer storage devices, each configured to perform one or more of these actions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: Forcepoint, LLC
    Inventor: Benjamin Tyler
  • System and methods for reconstructing medical images using deep neural networks and recursive decimation of measurement data
    Patent number: 11133100
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for reconstructing images from measurement data using one or more deep neural networks according to a decimation strategy. In one embodiment, a method for reconstructing an image using measurement data comprises, receiving measurement data acquired by an imaging device, selecting a decimation strategy, producing a reconstructed image from the measurement data using the decimation strategy and one or more deep neural networks, and displaying the reconstructed image via a display device. By decimating measurement data to form one or more decimated measurement data arrays, a computational complexity of mapping the measurement data to image data may be reduced from O(N4), where N is the size of the measurement data, to O(M4), where M is the size of an individual decimated measurement data array, wherein M<N.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC
    Inventors: Hariharan Ravishankar, Dattesh Dayanand Shanbhag
  • Expandable canopy tent frame
    Patent number: 11131112
    Abstract: An expandable canopy tent frame includes two sets of four-bar linkage with overlapping and staggered central axial lines. The central axial hinge point and the side edge hinge point of the two linkage sets are aligned. The central axial hinge points have a lateral bar. The two ends of the lateral bar pass through the slide bushings on the side edge hinge points, and the slide bushings form the support with both sides of the lateral bar. The main structure has at least one fixed end and can be fixed on objects by utilizing that fixed end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: Zenithen USA, LLC
    Inventors: Andrew David Frankel, Shi-Ping Zheng, Tian-Xia Zheng
  • Use of light transmission through tissue to detect force
    Patent number: 11132057
    Abstract: Various embodiments relate to apparatuses and methods that can determine an amount of force on a tissue. An apparatus can include an optical fiber including a first end and a second end. An electronics module of the apparatus is coupled to the first end of the optical fiber. The electronics module can include a light emitter that can transmit light to the tissue over the optical fiber and a light sensor that can receive light over the optical fiber. The received light includes a component of the transmitted light reflected by the tissue. The electronics module can include a processor that can determine the amount of force on the tissue based on characteristic(s) of the reflected light. The apparatus can also include an end cap coupled to the second end of the optical fiber. The end cap can introduce the transmitted light into the tissue and receive the reflected light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: APPLIED INVENTION, LLC
    Inventor: Michael Keesling
  • Data-driven scheduling of automated software program test suites
    Patent number: 11132288
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for data-driven scheduling of automated software program test suites. An exemplary method comprises: obtaining a plurality of test cases that test software programs; obtaining a failure likelihood for each of the plurality of test cases; and scheduling the test cases in an order based on the failure likelihoods. Generally, test cases that are more likely to fail are scheduled before test cases that are less likely to fail. Dependencies and/or priorities among the plurality of test cases are also optionally obtained and the scheduling of the test cases is based on the dependencies and/or priorities. The dependencies among the plurality of test cases comprise, for example, an indication of whether a given test case constrains one or more additional test cases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Avitan Gefen, Omer Sagi, Ran Taig
  • Universal coupler and sports towel system with universal coupler
    Patent number: 11129504
    Abstract: A sports towel system has been described that includes a towel, a universal coupling device, and a universal coupler. The towel is coupled to the universal coupling device. The universal coupling device is removably coupled to the universal coupler. The universal coupler includes a pouch that holds a magnet. The magnet is used to removably couple the universal coupler and the towel to a metal surface. The sports towel system can be used by golfers and can be magnetically coupled to a golf cart or a golf club, for example. The universal coupler has a first and a second flap coupled to the pouch. The first flap has a first flap coupling element and the second flap has a second flap coupling element. The flap coupling elements are used to removably couple the universal coupler to the universal coupling device to attach the towel to the universal coupler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: MONUMENT GOLF LLC
    Inventors: Chad Gamblin, Jeff Eggen
  • Method and system of sensor feedback for a scent diffusion device
    Patent number: 11129917
    Abstract: The disclosure herein concerns a method including receiving at a computer at least one target value of a scent parameter for an environment that is remote from the computer, receiving at the computer a sensed parameter of the environment, and controlling, via the computer, diffusion of a liquid from a source of the liquid in fluid communication with at least one scent diffusion device to achieve the target value of the scent parameter, wherein controlling includes setting or adjusting an operation parameter of the at least one scent diffusion device in response to the sensed parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: SCENTBRIDGE HOLDINGS, LLC
    Inventor: Todd H. Becker
  • Post-batching CMA dosing into concrete
    Patent number: 11130714
    Abstract: Disclosed are dosing methods for mitigating the deleterious effect of clays, which are born or conveyed by sand aggregates, crushed rock, gravel, and other aggregates used in the manufacture of concrete, upon the dosage efficiency of cement dispersants added into concrete. Instead of introducing the entire clay mitigation agent (CMA) into the aggregate material before or during batching in the cement batch plant in a singular, upfront dose, the present invention comprises administering CMA doses on at least two instances in a rotatable truck-mounted mixer drum, wherein at least 21%-100% of the total CMA added into the concrete is added after initial batching of water, cement binder, and clay-bearing aggregates in the rotatable truck-mounted mixer drum during the transit portion of the delivery between initial batching at the cement batch plant and the pour event at the job site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: Verifi LLC
    Inventors: Nathan A. Tregger, Mark F. Roberts, Kati Hazrati
  • Data classification using probabilistic data structures
    Patent number: 11132400
    Abstract: According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a computing device is provided, including non-volatile memory storing a database including a plurality of database entries. The computing device may further include a processor configured to sort the plurality of database entries into a plurality of database entry length sets. For each database entry length set, each database entry included in the database entry length set may be within a predefined length range. For each database entry length set, the processor may be further configured to generate a probabilistic data structure based on the one or more database entries included in the database entry length set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Aditya Gupta, Saikat Guha, Steven Peter Herbert, Boris Asipov
  • Aminopyrimidine compound
    Patent number: 11130752
    Abstract: The present invention provides a compound having a CaMKII inhibitory action, which is expected to be useful as an agent for the prophylaxis or treatment of cardiac diseases (particularly catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia, postoperative atrial fibrillation, heart failure, fatal arrhythmia) and the like. The present invention relates to a compound represented by the formula (I): wherein each symbol is as defined in the specification, or a salt thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: Cardurion Pharmaceuticals, LLC
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Matsunaga, Yasufumi Miyamoto, Junya Shirai, Takashi Nakahata, Zenyu Shiokawa, Tomohiro Okawa, Akito Shibuya, Malcolm MacCoss
  • Doorbell communities
    Patent number: 11132877
    Abstract: Doorbells can send data to each other to enable a first doorbell user to warn a second doorbell user regarding a suspicious visitor. A first user can indicate a first trait of a visitor via a first remote computing device. The first user can create a user group to enable the members of the user group to use their doorbells to take pictures of suspicious visitors and to send the pictures of the suspicious visitors to other members of the user group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: SkyBell Technologies IP, LLC
    Inventors: Joseph Frank Scalisi, Andrew Paul Thomas, Gregory Saul Harrison, Desiree Mejia
  • Stacked-die image sensors with shielding
    Patent number: 11133346
    Abstract: A stacked-die image sensor may be provided with an array of image pixels. The stacked-die image sensor may include at least first and second integrated circuit dies stacked on top of one another. Some of the pixel circuitry in each pixel may be formed in the first integrated circuit die and some of the pixel circuitry in each pixel may be formed in the second integrated circuit die. Coupling structures such as conductive pads may electrically couple the pixel circuitry in the first integrated circuit die to the pixel circuitry in the second integrated circuit die. A shielding structure may partially or completely surround each conductive pad to reduce parasitic capacitive coupling between adjacent conductive pads. The shielding structure may be a metal wire coupled to a ground voltage. The shielding structure may extend between columns of image pixels and/or between rows of image pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLC
    Inventors: Raminda Madurawe, Richard Mauritzson
  • System and method for employing kinetic typography in CMC
    Patent number: 11132494
    Abstract: A computer system for allowing user to communicate with text enhanced with emotional preset having attributes and kinetics including computer readable instructions that, when executed by a processor, perform the steps of: receiving a set of text characters, receiving an emotional preset selection information, creating a unlined animated text message or unlined social message, transmitting the unlined messages to a recipient using CMC or social media to receive the message to convey to the recipient the emotional communications selected by the sender.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: Expressy LLC
    Inventor: Lisa Milas
  • System and method for distribution of routes in a telecommunications network
    Patent number: 11134003
    Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to the distribution of routes in a telecommunications network. A networking device may receive a plurality of routing information from the plurality of edge devices of a telecommunications network, each of the plurality of routing information comprising a local preferred route for a corresponding edge device. The networking device may generate a plurality of routing tables, each of the plurality of routing tables associated with a corresponding edge device of the plurality of edge devices and comprising the local preferred route for the corresponding edge device. The networking device may update the local preferred route of a first routing table of the plurality of routing tables with the local preferred route of a second routing table of the plurality of routing tables.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLC
    Inventor: Logan Rawlins
  • Container life cycle management with session dilution time
    Patent number: 11134098
    Abstract: The life cycle of one or more containers related to one or more containerized applications is managed by determining that a predefined retention time for a first container of a plurality of containers has elapsed; in response to the determining, suspending new session traffic to the first container; and waiting for a predefined session dilution time before terminating the first container and/or changing a role of the first container. In some embodiments, the session dilution time allows existing sessions to complete before the first container is disconnected from a service platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Amit Lieberman, Oron Golan, Raul Shnier, Assaf Natanzon
  • Method of assembling vehicle including an integrated interior module and top-hat
    Patent number: 11130536
    Abstract: A vehicle assembly method includes assembling a chassis platform, mounting a floor pan to the platform, mounting a modular interior to the floor pan, assembling a body top-hat separate from the platform and the floor pan, and mounting the body top-hat to the platform and the floor pan after mounting the modular interior to the floor pan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Christian Hosbach, Ari Caliskan, John Jaranson, Christopher Bondanza, Jonathan Weiler, Peter A. Friedman
  • Hydraulic fluid pump and retainer assembly for same
    Patent number: 11131295
    Abstract: A fluid end assembly of a hydraulic fluid pump includes a housing having a first housing bore and a second housing bore offset axially from the first housing bore. A plate is fastened to the housing. The plate has a first plate bore axially aligned with the first housing bore and a second plate bore axially aligned with the second housing bore. A first removable valve cover closes the first housing bore and a second removable valve cover closes the second housing bore. A first retainer engages the first plate bore and abuts the first removable valve cover and a second retainer engages the second plate bore and abuts the second removable valve cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: GARDNER DENVER PETROLEUM PUMPS, LLC
    Inventors: Chance Ray Mullins, Konner Casey Kay
  • Systems and methods for automated identity verification
    Patent number: 11132685
    Abstract: A system and method in accordance with examples may include an identity verification kiosk. The identity verification kiosk may include a display comprising a user interface; a card reader; a document scanner; a printer; and a processor in data communication with a server and a database storing user information. The processor may be configured to receive an identification verification request from the user interface; receive user information via the document scanner or the card reader; retrieve user information from the database; verify the identity of a user; and print a unique identifier on a document using the printer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: CAPITAL ONE SERVICES, LLC
    Inventors: Austen Novis, Eric Loucks