Patents Assigned to LLC
  • Patent number: 12172564
    Abstract: A mobile delivery apparatus is provided. Another aspect provides a software program used with a mobile delivery apparatus. Still another aspect includes a mobile delivery system utilizing a smart carousel dispenser. An aspect of the mobile delivery apparatus includes a delivery vehicle having a motor operable to drive terrestrial wheels of the delivery vehicle, a cargo box section, a carousel positioned in the cargo box section, and a plurality of storage bins positioned on the carousel. A further aspect includes at least one scanner positioned adjacent a first access door and configured to scan the bins and the parcels held in the bins as the carousel rotates. Yet another aspect employs a controller to rotate the carousel and selectively align one or more of the storage bins with a second access door.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Neapco Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Kenneth Lee Hopkins, Paul Beringer Wilbur
  • Patent number: 12173925
    Abstract: A ventilating system includes a main housing defining an inlet configured to receive air into the main housing and an outlet configured to allow the air to exit the main housing. The system further includes a fan in the main housing and configured and arranged to generate a flow of air into the main housing through the inlet and from the main housing through the outlet. The system further includes a grille configured to be coupled to the main housing, a plate configured to be coupled to the grille, and a lens coupled to the plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2024
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Broan-NuTone LLC
    Inventors: Mirko Zakula, Corey Scott Jacak, Anup Nikam, Thomas Dare, James Bohn, Santosh Narasimhan
  • Patent number: 12175754
    Abstract: A system and method for generating a play prediction for a team is disclosed herein. A computing system retrieves trajectory data for a plurality of plays from a data store. The computing system generates a predictive model using a variational autoencoder and a neural network by generating one or more input data sets, learning, by the variational autoencoder, to generate a plurality of variants for each play of the plurality of plays, and learning, by the neural network, a team style corresponding to each play of the plurality of plays. The computing system receives trajectory data corresponding to a target play. The predictive model generates a likelihood of a target team executing the target play by determining a number of target variants that correspond to a target team identity of the target team.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Stats LLC
    Inventors: Sujoy Ganguly, Long Sha, Jennifer Hobbs, Xinyu Wei, Patrick Joseph Lucey
  • Patent number: 12171680
    Abstract: An article of manufacture suitable for addressing a problem in a human body includes a material in sheet form including first and second adhesive-coated parts releasably retained on a cover layer. Each of the first and second adhesive-coated parts includes a support layer of synthetic microfiber fabric having a greater resistance to stretching in a first test direction than in a second test direction and an adhesive intermittent across the support layer. Each of the first and second adhesive-coated parts is elongated with straight sides and rounded end portions and is configured to be removable from the cover layer and adhered to an outer skin surface of the human body. The support layer allows the passage of moisture vapor, and the adhesive being intermittent across the support layer increases permeability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Applied BioKinetics LLC
    Inventor: Donald P. Bushby
  • Patent number: 12172096
    Abstract: Locking fastener for a toy construction playset includes an elongate, unitary body having two parts and a living hinge between the parts extending longitudinally between opposite ends of the body. The parts define an arrowhead tip at both ends when in an expanded state. Each tip is formed by a barb on each part that extends in opposite directions relative to the hinge. There is a flange on each part that extends in opposite directions from the hinge. By manipulating the flanges, the barbs are brought against one another to reduce a size of the tips and bring the tips into an insertion state in which each is insertable into a portal of a component of the toy construction playset, such as a log or a panel each of which preferably includes a row of such portals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: ImaginNoodles, LLC
    Inventors: Michael James Gallagher, Christopher Gerard Gallagher
  • Patent number: 12173653
    Abstract: A fuel conditioning system includes a heater for selectively adjusting an operating temperature of the fuel and a controller communicatively coupled to the heater. The controller configured to determine a dew point temperature of the fuel and maintain the operating temperature of the fuel at least at the determined dew point temperature of the fuel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: GE Infrastructure Technology LLC
    Inventors: Jesus Daniel Castillo Campos, Jose Carlos Sanchez Herrera, Joe F. Schornick, Tuy C Huynh
  • Patent number: 12173146
    Abstract: A polymer composition has been developed that provides low viscosity oil-in-water polymer emulsions that release the polymer in the emulsion at a faster rate and without an additional surfactant when the emulsion is added to a hydrocarbon stream. Use of a temperature-sensitive emulsifying surfactant facilitates inversion of the oil-in-water polymer emulsion when applied to a hydrocarbon composition at a temperature sufficiently high to destabilize the emulsion. These compositions are particularly useful as drag reducers for delivery to a subsea flowline via an umbilical line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: ChampionX LLC
    Inventors: Tri T. Phan, Kerry Charles Brinkman, Xiaojin Harry Li, Nicolas J. Leflemme, Jeremy Moloney, Michael Cash
  • Patent number: 12174719
    Abstract: A disclosed example meter to monitor a media device includes a touch sense circuit including a circuit input and a circuit output, the circuit input to electrically couple with a first power line of the meter and a capacitor, the circuit output to provide a first value based on the capacitor when the first power line of the meter is not electrically coupled with a second power line of the media device, the circuit output to provide a second value different from the first value when the first power line of the meter is electrically coupled with the second power line of the media device. The disclosed example meter also includes at least one processor to detect the first power line of the meter is not electrically coupled with the second power line of the media device when the circuit output of the touch sense circuit provides the first value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventor: Andrej Barbis
  • Patent number: 12177382
    Abstract: Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing automated robocall detection. In various embodiments, a computing system may compare first abstracted raw data, obtained from a portion of call data from a first call from a first originating party, with each of a plurality of abstracted raw data, obtained from portions of call data from a plurality of calls from a corresponding plurality of originating parties. In some instances, the plurality of abstracted raw data and the first abstracted raw data may each include at least one of word count data, phoneme count data, inter-word timing data, voice pitch estimation data, and/or background noise data. The computing system may determine whether the first abstracted raw data is indicative of the first call being a suspected unsolicited or unwanted communication, based at least in part on the comparison. If so, the computing system may perform one or more tasks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2024
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC
    Inventors: Patrick Giagnocavo, Michael Stillman
  • Patent number: 12174934
    Abstract: In some implementations, a system may transmit information that identifies behavioral data to be collected by a user device in connection with completion of a digital maze via user interaction with a user device. The maze may include starting and finishing points and an authentication path therebetween. The maze may include digital landmarks, a subset of which may be along the authentication path. The system may receive the behavioral data, and may provide the behavioral data and a task identifier identifying the maze as a feature set that is input to a machine learning model. The system may receive an output from the machine learning model, and may cause a recommended action to be performed with respect to verifying an identity of a user of the user device based on the output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Mossoba, Ryan Christopher Farber, Bryant Yee
  • Patent number: 12171696
    Abstract: A support assembly for use during a medical or surgical procedure. The support assembly includes a base structure and a support structure removably connectable to the support structure through attachment features. In illustrated embodiments, the support structure is attached to the base structure in an upright orientation to form a sideboard or guard and attached to the base structure in a horizontal orientation to form an arm support platform. In illustrated embodiment one or both of the base structure or base board and support structure include attachment features to removably connect a radiation shield for protection against radiation exposure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: LP Medical LLC
    Inventors: Carmelo J. Panetta, Yunxing Liu
  • Patent number: 12172214
    Abstract: The present application provides a container for use in manufacturing a metal billet from a metal powder in a hot isostatic pressing process. The container may include a top, a bottom, a wall extending between the top and the bottom, an enhanced directional consolidation feature in the wall, and a sleeve positioned about the enhanced directional consolidation feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: GE Infrastructure Technology LLC
    Inventors: Steve J. Buresh, Shenyan Huang
  • Patent number: 12171312
    Abstract: A watch system may include a watchband including a flexible member configured to be mounted onto a wrist of a user, and a puck including watch functionality. The watchband may have an end that has a concave curved shape. The puck may have a connection interface that has a convex curved shape. The connection interface may be to be removably coupled to the end of the watchband. The watchband and the puck may have corresponding locking features that are configured to rotationally and translationally fix the puck to the watchband. The corresponding locking features may be configured to be engaged when the watchband is translated relative to the puck and rotated relative to the puck by a predetermined rotation angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Peter Michael Cazalet, Christoph Gredler, Eric Dayringer
  • Patent number: 12171730
    Abstract: Salts of hexylamine, for example, hexylamine succinate and tri-hexylamine citrate and their method of production are described. The disclosure also relates to compositions comprising hexylamine, for example, for reducing appetite in a human subject, treating obesity in a human subject, preventing obesity in a human subject, preventing weight gain in a human subject, increasing fat loss in a human subject, treating an overweight human subject, increasing athletic performance in a human subject, increasing endurance in a human subject, increasing muscle strength in a human subject, improving cognitive function in a human subject, treating ADHD in a human subject, increasing sweating in a human subject, reducing reaction time of a human subject, increasing psychomotor vigilance of a human subject, enhancing memory in a human subject, increasing central nervous system activity in a human subject, and enhancing alertness, attention, concentration, and/or memory in a human subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: ThermoLife International, LLC
    Inventors: Ronald Kramer, Alexandros Nikolaidis
  • Patent number: 12177749
    Abstract: A system includes a processor configured to receive a plurality of reports identifying file-chunk distribution among reporting vehicles. The processor is also configured to determine reseeding file chunks to improve distribution characteristics, responsive to the reports. The processor is further configured to determine a plurality of candidate delivery vehicles and responsive to determining that a distribution threshold has passed, send the reseeding file chunks to the determined delivery vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Chad Evert Esselink, Jovan Milivoje Zagajac, Michael Joseph Morgan, Safeeul Bashir Safee
  • Patent number: 12177269
    Abstract: The techniques described herein provide the ability for an owner of a content object to send an ephemeral link to participants in a meeting instance. An ephemeral link is a link to a content object that provides access to the content object for a time period associated with the meeting instance. In one example, the time period starts when the content object is shared during the meeting instance and ends when the meeting instance is scheduled to end. Thus, access to the content object via the link expires based on a scheduled end time of the meeting instance. However, in further examples described herein, the owner of the content object can dynamically adjust, via user input, the period of time during which the link provides access to the content object. The dynamic adjustment can extend the access or shorten the access to the content object via the link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Stephen Lincoln Rice, Sean Lamont Grant Livingston, Zhenguang Chen, Shiguang Dong
  • Patent number: 12172405
    Abstract: A method of forming a tray includes obtaining a blank, positioning the blank in a blank feeder assembly of a system for forming a tray, moving the blank from the blank feeder assembly to a nipping assembly, and moving the blank to a tray forming assembly, the tray forming assembly including a tray forming apparatus. The method further includes positioning the blank between a first tray forming portion of the tray forming apparatus and a second tray forming portion of the tray forming apparatus, the first tray forming portion includes a forming block that defines an interior, and the second tray forming portion includes a tray forming member, and driving the forming block into engagement with the blank and the tray forming member such that the blank and the tray forming member are at least partially received in the interior of the forming block to form a tray.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Graphic Packaging International, LLC
    Inventors: Joseph C. Walsh, Robert L. Conatser, Mark Woodward
  • Patent number: 12173009
    Abstract: This invention is directed to compounds of formula (I): where r, q, R, R2, R3, R4, R5a, R5b, R5c, R6a, R6b, R6c, R7, R8, and R9 are described herein, as single stereoisomers or as mixtures of stereoisomers, or pharmaceutically acceptable salts, solvates, clathrates, polymorphs, ammonium ions, N-oxides or prodrugs thereof; which are leukotriene A4 hydrolase inhibitors and therefore useful in treating inflammatory disorders. Pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds of the invention and methods of preparing the compounds of the invention are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Celltaxis, LLC
    Inventors: Damian O. Arnaiz, Greg Brown, Emmanuel Claret, Arwed Cleve, David Davey, William Guilford, Seock-Kyu Khim, Thomas Kirkland, Monica J. Kochanny, Amy Liang, David Light, John Parkinson, Guo Ping Wei, Bin Ye
  • Patent number: 12172379
    Abstract: A cleaning system for an additively manufactured component includes a tank storing a cleaning fluid. A fluid circuit is operably coupled with the tank. A pump is coupled with the fluid circuit. A manifold is configured to receive fluid from the fluid circuit through the pump. At least one of a coupler defined by the manifold or a hose is coupled with the manifold. The at least one of the coupler defined by the manifold or the hose is further configured to couple with said additively manufactured component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignees: General Electric Company, Unison Industries, LLC
    Inventors: James Patrick Lewis, Johnny DeLeon, Brian Paul Sechrist, Mary Kathryn Thompson, Christopher David Barnhill, Meredith Elissa Dubelman
  • Patent number: 12172603
    Abstract: Various vehicle systems are proposed for accessing and utilizing vehicle cargo spaces on vehicles equipped with a tailgate assembly. The vehicle systems may include deployable and/or rotatable stairgate systems, deployable step systems, etc. designed for the accessing the vehicle cargo spaces. The proposed systems may include various deployment mechanisms that enable the stairgate/step systems to slide, pivot, rotate, swing, and/or otherwise adjust for providing ease of access and increased flexibility when stepping up to access the vehicle cargo space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Stuart C. Salter, David Brian Glickman, Dawn Piechocki, Dennis Yee, Darshan Arun Nayak