Patents Assigned to LLC
  • Patent number: 11120566
    Abstract: In some implementations, a method is provided. The method includes obtaining an image depicting an environment where an autonomous driving vehicle (ADV) is located. The method also includes determining, using a first neural network, a plurality of line indicators based on the image. The plurality of line indicators represent one or more lanes in the environment. The method further includes determining, using a second neural network, a vanishing point within the image based on the plurality of line segments. The second neural network is communicatively coupled to the first neural network. The plurality of line indicators is determined simultaneously with the vanishing point. The method further includes calibrating one or more sensors based of the autonomous driving vehicle based on the vanishing point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: BAIDU USA LLC
    Inventors: Yuliang Guo, Tae Eun Choe, Ka Wai Tsoi, Guang Chen, Weide Zhang
  • Patent number: 11116871
    Abstract: Compositions comprising perforated, unseparated amnion/chorion; perforated, separated amnion; and perforated, separated chorion derived from the placenta and methods of preparing and using those compositions are provided. Perforation of placental tissue before or during processing may allow for one or more benefits such as more efficient removal of blood remnants, retention of wound healing and tissue regeneration components, better handling characteristics, or improved healing capacity. The present invention also includes methods of healing a wound of the skin, eye, nerve, tendon, or dura comprising applying the perforated compositions of the invention to the wound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: STIMLABS LLC
    Inventors: John Daniel, Sarah Griffiths, Richard Berg
  • Patent number: 11117501
    Abstract: The disclosure provides for a system that includes a seat mounted in a vehicle. The seat includes a base, a back support, a hinge, and a seat belt integrated into the seat. The back support is capable of rotating relative to the base and thereby reclining. The hinge is between the base and the back support and is configured to lock the back support in positions in relation to the base. The seat belt has a shoulder portion and a lap portion and is attached to the seat at a shoulder anchor in the back support and a base anchor in the base. When a generated torque, created from a forward force applied by the shoulder portion of the seat belt, exceeds a threshold amount of torque, the hinge is configured to unlock and back support is configured to rotate forward from a reclined position towards an upright position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Waymo LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Daniel, Daniel Lynn Larner
  • Patent number: 11119318
    Abstract: A near-eye display device includes an image source, a waveguide, and a controller. The waveguide is configured to propagate light received the image source to a user of the near-eye display device, and includes a holographic grating comprising a plurality of angularly multiplexed holograms. The controller is configured to control display of an image via the image source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Sheng Yuan, Ian Nguyen, Steve Robbins, David D. Bohn
  • Patent number: 11116283
    Abstract: A shoe includes a sole and an upper secured to the sole. The sole has a heel outsole member, a forefoot outsole member, a heel member, a chassis member, a heel cushion, a forefoot cushion, and a shank. The heel member extends downwardly from the chassis and the heel cushion is within an open top cavity in the heel member. The chassis member includes a through heel opening and a through forefoot opening with the heel opening overlying the open top heel cavity of the heel member. The heel cushion is in the heel opening of the chassis member. The forefoot cushion is in the forefoot opening of the chassis member. The shank has a through heel opening overlying the heel through opening in the chassis member. The heel outsole member is coupled to the heel member. The forefoot outsole member is in contact with the forefoot cushion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: COLE HAAN LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey Mokos, Mattias Verfl, Scott Patt
  • Patent number: 11116360
    Abstract: An outdoor cooking station configured to simultaneously and independently cook food with separate cooking modes. The cooking station includes a main body defining separate first and second cooking portions fueled by separate fuel sources for cooking food in the separate modes. The first cooking portion includes gas-fueled first heating elements configured to heat a first cooking surface associated with the first cooking portion of the main body. The second cooking portion of the main body extends to define a chamber, the chamber being accessible with a door or hood pivotably coupled to the main body. The chamber includes an upper region and a lower region separated by an inner panel, the upper region including a second cooking surface suspended within the upper region. The lower region includes a second heating element sized and configured to electrically heat pellet elements to supply heat and smoke to the upper region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: North Atlantic Imports, LLC
    Inventors: Roger Dahle, Jeffrey D. Clark, Steve L. Puertas
  • Patent number: 11122525
    Abstract: A wireless network environment includes a wireless base station and multiple mobile communication devices. A first mobile communication device transmits a first wireless communication from a first mobile communication device to establish a wireless communication link with a wireless base station. The first mobile communication device receives communication information from a second mobile communication device in the wireless network environment. The first mobile communication device uses the communication information from the second mobile communication device to establish the wireless communication link between the first mobile communication device and the wireless base station. For example, the communication information indicates a magnitude of a wireless pathloss between the second mobile communication device and the wireless base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Charter Communications Operating, LLC
    Inventor: Saran Khalid
  • Patent number: 11117093
    Abstract: A method for drying a gas sample comprises flowing purge gas over the exterior of tubes of a perfluorosulfonic acid membrane and flowing the gas sample through interior of tubes, wherein the drying operation is conducted under deep vacuum and with the purge gas flowing at a rate that is typically less than that of the gas sample being dried.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Perma Pure LLC
    Inventors: Yuan Lin, Craig Sunada, Sui Peng, Hamza Mohamed
  • Patent number: 11120031
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for data discovery and data integration in a data lake. One method comprises obtaining data files from a data lake, wherein each data file comprises multiple records having multiple fields; selecting multiple candidate fields from a data file based on a record type; determining a relevance score for each candidate field from the data file based on multiple features extracted from the data file; and clustering the scored candidate fields into clusters of similar domains using a hashing algorithm, wherein a given cluster comprises candidate fields, wherein multiple data files can be integrated based on a domain of the candidate fields in the given cluster. The relevance score for each candidate field is based on multiple features comprising, for example, features that take into account a morphological or semantic similarity between file name, file metadata and/or file records and features that consider statistics of candidate fields in a data file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Adriana Bechara Prado, Vitor Silva Sousa, Marcia Lucas Pesce, Paulo de Figueiredo Pires, Fábio André Machado Porto, Altobelli de Brito Mantuan, Rodolpho Rosa da Silva, Wagner dos Santos Vieira
  • Patent number: 11121914
    Abstract: Systems and methods for monitoring and correcting a cloud environment are disclosed. An alert associated with an active issue at a component is received and an issue object is generated based on the alert. A self-healing flow is executed based on an alert type of the alert to attempt to correct the active issue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Joshua Ledbetter, Jeremy Wayne Bowman, Michael Samuhasilp, Nathan Anderson, Maria Cecilia Bustos
  • Patent number: 11116459
    Abstract: A medical imaging system includes a first tracking detector and a second tracking detector. The tracking detectors are spaced to allow for an object to be present between the first tracking detector and the second tracking detector. The system also includes a residual range detector adjacent the first tracking detector. The residual range detector includes: (1) a scintillator material having a first surface at least partially covered with an anti-reflection material and a second surface facing the first tracking detector and (2) at least one photon detector coupled to the scintillator material at a third surface of the scintillator material different than the first surface and opposite the second surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: ProtonVDA LLC
    Inventors: Don F. Dejongh, Victor Rykalin
  • Patent number: 11119664
    Abstract: Techniques manage a storage system. The techniques involve: in response to a first control unit of the storage system receiving an access request to a target storage area in the storage system, determining whether the target storage area is located in a first storage area or a second storage area; in response to the target storage area being located in the second set of storage areas, determining that a second control unit of the storage system processes the access request, the first control unit and the second control unit sharing the storage system; and updating an access state of the first control unit to the target storage area, the access state indicating access permission for the target storage area included in the first control unit. Such techniques can effectively reduce the number of CMI messages related to a stripe lock mechanism in a dual active SP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Lei Sun, Ruiyong Jia, Jianbin Kang, Jibing Dong, Yousheng Liu
  • Patent number: 11119773
    Abstract: A method for performing a quantum-logic operation on a quantum computer. The method includes enacting classical pebbling on an initial computation graph G defining the quantum-logic operation; extracting a quantum circuit B based on a sequence of steps obtained from the classical pebbling, that sequence including at least one computation step and at least one measurement-based uncomputation step; executing the quantum circuit B on a qubit register of the quantum computer; recording at least one measurement result of the at least one measurement-based uncomputation step of the quantum circuit B as executed on the qubit register; constructing a clean-up computation graph G? based on the at least one measurement result; enacting reversible pebbling on the clean-up computation graph G?; extracting a quantum circuit B? based on a sequence of steps obtained from the reversible pebbling, that sequence including computation and uncomputation steps; and executing the quantum circuit B? on the qubit register.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Mathias Soeken, Martin Henri Roetteler, Krysta Marie Svore
  • Patent number: 11120300
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for training an event detector. The methods, systems, and apparatus include actions of obtaining frames of a video, determining whether an object of interest is detected within the frames, determining whether motion is detected within the frames, determining whether the frames correspond to motion by an object of interest, generating a training set that includes labeled inter-frame differences based on whether the frames correspond to motion by an object of interest, and training an event detector using the training set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: ObjectVideo Labs, LLC
    Inventors: Narayanan Ramanathan, Allison Beach
  • Patent number: 11118732
    Abstract: A fluid permeable heater assembly for an aerosol-generating system includes a cap and a substantially flat electrically conductive and fluid permeable heating element. The cap includes a hollow body with a first cap opening and a second cap opening. The first cap opening is opposite to the second cap opening. The heating element is configured to vaporize aerosol-forming substrate. The heating element is mounted on the cap, such that the heating element extends across the first cap opening. A cartridge for an aerosol-generating system includes the heater assembly, a liquid storage portion, a mouth piece, and a retainer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: ALTRIA CLIENT SERVICES LLC
    Inventors: Oleg Mironov, Ihar Nikolaevich Zinovik, Jean-Marc Widmer, Keethan Dasnavis Fernando
  • Patent number: 11120324
    Abstract: A planar conductor device and RFID chip are folded to create a coil to form an RFID tag. The result is the formation of a solenoid coil, not planar, which allows the device to be placed against metal. Specifically, the planar structure is folded into a concertina fold. After folding, a spiral conductor is formed in the Z direction, forming a coil with the RFID chip connected to both ends. This structure operates as a resonant RFID tag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Avery Dennison Retail Information Services, LLC
    Inventor: Ian J. Forster
  • Patent number: 11118749
    Abstract: A switchable vehicle lamp lens assembly includes a vehicle lamp assembly, which includes a lens having a first transparent layer and a second transparent layer adjacent the first transparent layer. A switchable electrochemical film is disposed between the first transparent layer and the second transparent layer, and one or more light sources is positioned behind the lens. In an active mode, the switchable electrochemical film is adapted to be substantially transparent when a voltage is provided, enabling light transmission through the lens from the one or more light sources. In a non-active mode, the switchable electrochemical film is adapted to be substantially opaque when the voltage is removed, blocking light from the one or more light sources. The switchable electrochemical film is alternately switched between the active mode and the non-active mode thereby switching the lens between a substantially transparent state and a substantially opaque state, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Flex-N-Gate Advanced Product Development, LLC
    Inventor: Todd Nykerk
  • Patent number: 11117278
    Abstract: A shaving cartridge with a housing, having a primary guard at a front of the housing and a secondary cap at a rear of the housing. A bridge member having a primary cap surface and a secondary guard surface is positioned between the primary guard and the secondary cap. The bridge member has a plurality of spaced apart ribs extending transverse to the cutting edge of the first blade and defining a plurality of openings. A first blade has a cutting edge. The first blade is mounted to the housing between the primary guard and the primary cap surface. A second blade having a cutting edge extending in the same direction as the cutting edge of the first blade is mounted to the housing between the secondary guard surface and the secondary cap. A width of the bridge member is about 2.5 mm to about 4 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: The Gillette Company LLC
    Inventor: Vincent Paul Walker, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11118584
    Abstract: A ring section pump features a low-pressure end configured to receive fluid to be pumped into the ring section pump; a high-pressure end configured to provide the fluid to be pumped from the ring section pump; and an intermediate tie rod combination having a intermediate flange with upper tie rods configured to couple together the intermediate flange and the high-pressure end and with lower tie rods configured to couple together the intermediate flange and the low-pressure end. The low-pressure end has an inlet flange; the high-pressure end has an outlet/discharge flange; and the upper tie rods couple together the intermediate flange and the outlet/discharge flange and the lower tie rods couple together the intermediate flange and the inlet flange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: ITT Manufacturing Enterprises LLC
    Inventors: Daniel S. Miller, Abhi N. Gandhi, Paul W. Behnke
  • Patent number: D930680
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Yameng Lee Thorp, Miguel Ramirez