Patents Assigned to LLC
  • Patent number: 11114002
    Abstract: A waveguide display includes a source assembly, an output waveguide, and a controller. The source assembly includes a light source and an optics system. The light source includes source elements arranged in a 1D or 2D array that emit image light. The optics system includes a scanning mirror assembly that scans the image light to particular locations based on scanning instructions. The output waveguide receives the scanned image light from the scanning mirror assembly and outputs an expanded image light. In some embodiments, the waveguide display includes a source waveguide and the 1D array of source elements. The source waveguide receives a conditioned image light from the source assembly. The controller generates the scanning instructions and provides the scanning instructions to the scanning mirror assembly. In some embodiments, the controller provides the scanning instructions to an actuator assembly of the source waveguide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Wanli Chi, Pasi Saarikko, Hee Yoon Lee
  • Patent number: 11115346
    Abstract: A packet forwarding network may include switches that forward network packets between end hosts. A monitoring network may be coupled to the forwarding network. A controller may control switches in the monitoring network to forward network packets tapped from the forwarding network to network flow information generation circuitry. The controller may provide configuration information such as record description information to the network flow information generation circuitry. Based on the configuration information, the network flow information generation circuitry may dynamically generate instructions that generate network flow information records. A set of network flow information records may be stored in a repository at the network flow information generation circuitry. The repository may include hash values associated with each of the stored network flow information records.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Big Switch Networks LLC
    Inventors: Michael Theodore Stolarchuk, Sandip K. Shah
  • Patent number: 11111731
    Abstract: Methods of forming earth-boring tools including one or more instrumented cutting elements may involve placing a cutting element partially within a pocket extending into a body of an earth-boring tool. The cutting element may include a first hole extending partially through a cutting element from a back side of the cutting element toward a cutting face and a second, shorter, wider hole extending partially through the cutting element from the back side toward the cutting face. The second hole may be in fluid communication with the first hole. An extension including a passageway extending through the extension may be located at least partially within the second hole, such that the passageway may be in fluid communication with the first hole. A thermocouple may be inserted through the passageway and into the first hole after affixing the cutting element in the pocket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC
    Inventors: Wanjun Cao, Juan Miguel Bilen, Steven W. Webb
  • Patent number: 11111781
    Abstract: A system for deploying sensors throughout a vertical section and a horizontal section of an unconventional well comprises a mandrel comprising a set of extendable arms; a conductivity sensor mounted on a first predetermined subset of the set of movable arms; a strain sensor mounted on a second predetermined subset of the set of movable arms; a first downhole tool configured to be placed in the horizontal section of the unconventional well; a second downhole tool placed in a vertical section of the well, the first downhole tool and the second downhole tool adapted to operate simultaneously; a navigation package; a real time communications short hop data communicator; a data communicator; a downhole power source; and a surface system configured to collect and process data obtained in the well. The system can be used to provide data to evaluate conditions in the well and its reservoirs as well as frac height and frac width.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Tubel LLC
    Inventor: Paulo Tubel
  • Patent number: 11114853
    Abstract: A micro grid system comprises a secondary energy source and a power controller. The secondary energy source is associated with the micro grid, and the secondary energy source is configured to generate first DC power signal. The power controller is in communication with the secondary energy source and an electric grid, and configured to receive first AC power signal from the electric grid and the first DC power signal from the secondary energy source and to output a second AC power signal to loads in communication with the power controller. The power controller comprises a frequency converter configured to change frequency of the second AC power signal, a processor, and a memory configured to store instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to control the frequency converter to change the frequency of the second AC power signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: NEWORLD.ENERGY LLC
    Inventors: Paul W. Donahue, Ryan Paul Donahue, Jeffrey Alan Dankworth
  • Patent number: 11114952
    Abstract: A device, such as an electroactive device, may include primary electrode and a secondary electrode overlapping at least a portion of the primary electrode. An electroactive polymer element may include a composite polymer material and is disposed between and abuts each of the primary electrode and the secondary electrode. A phase change or other deformable medium such as a liquid, a gas, or a liquid-gas mixture may be disposed as inclusions within the polymer material. The device can be actuated by the application of a voltage between the electrodes and the attendant formation of a Maxwell stress, exposing the deformable medium to a source of radiation, changing a pressure of the deformable medium, or changing a temperature of the deformable medium, e.g., about a phase transformation temperature of the phase change medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Wallin, Austin Lane, Christopher Yuan Ting Liao, Jack Lindsay, Tanya Malhotra, Andrew John Ouderkirk, Katherine Marie Smyth, Yigit Mengue
  • Patent number: 11115504
    Abstract: A system for batched User Datagram Protocol (UDP) processing, on a send operation, combines multiple UDP packets into a plurality of packet batches to indicate on a plurality of sockets based at least in part on a packet batch size. Each packet batch is to be indicated to a corresponding one of the plurality of sockets to convey the plurality of packet batches to a network stack. One call is performed for each indicated socket of the plurality of sockets based on the packet batch size to convey each packet batch to the network stack. The network stack performs a single look up operation and a single network security inspection operation once per packet batch. In response to performing the one call, the plurality of packet batches are then sent to a network adapter or an application. The system thereby operates more efficiently and/or is more scalable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Praveen Balasubramanian, Matthew A. Olson, Nicholas A. Banks, Sourav Das, Nicholas J. Grifka
  • Patent number: 11110095
    Abstract: The invention provides compounds of formula (I): wherein the variables are defined in the specification, or a pharmaceutically-acceptable salt thereof, that are inhibitors of JAK kinases. The invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds, methods of using such compounds to treat gastrointestinal and other inflammatory diseases, and processes and intermediates useful for preparing such compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Theravance Biopharma R&D IP, LLC
    Inventors: Ryan Hudson, Jennifer Kozak, Melissa Fleury, Paul R. Fatheree, Anne-Marie Beausoleil, Dante D. Podesto, Xiaojun Huang
  • Patent number: 11112223
    Abstract: An apparatus comprising a bore cleaning device operable to clean a bore of a firearm is provided. The apparatus includes a cylindrical cleaning pad including a periphery portion including a radial outer surface of the cylindrical cleaning pad, a center portion including a remainder of the cylindrical cleaning pad contained radially within the periphery portion, and a compression expansion cut disposed in the center portion and extending from a first flat end of the cylindrical cleaning pad to a center of the cylindrical cleaning pad. The apparatus further includes a propellant located in a bore-rearward position of the cylindrical cleaning pad providing a force to push the cleaning pad down the bore of the firearm and a payload located in a bore-forward position of the cylindrical cleaning pad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Midwest Outdoor Holdings, LLC
    Inventor: James Curtis Whitworth
  • Patent number: 11115668
    Abstract: This application relates to video encoding and decoding, and specifically to tools and techniques for using and providing supplemental enhancement information in bitstreams. Among other things, the detailed description presents innovations for bitstreams having supplemental enhancement information (SEI). In particular embodiments, the SEI message includes picture source data (e.g., data indicating whether the associated picture is a progressive scan picture or an interlaced scan picture and/or data indicating whether the associated picture is a duplicate picture). The SEI message can also express a confidence level of the encoder's relative confidence in the accuracy of this picture source data. A decoder can use the confidence level indication to determine whether the decoder should separately identify the picture as progressive or interlaced and/or a duplicate picture or honor the picture source scanning information in the SEI as it is.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Gary J. Sullivan, Yongjun Wu
  • Patent number: 11110467
    Abstract: A material processing machine for material reducing operations. The material processing machine comprises an infeed system, a reducing system, and a discharge system. The reducing system comprises a rotor having processing tools to reduce the material within a reducing chamber. A colorizer system directs colorant from a colorant source towards the material reducing system within an outlet zone. The colorant colorizes the material being reduced within an inlet zone. The reduced material may be discharged through one or more screens within the outlet zone such that negligible colorant is applied directly to the reduced material. The material reducing operations may comprise a two-stage reducing operation in which the colorizer system is inoperable for the first stage and operable for the second stage. The screens may be selectively interchangeable between stages to incrementally reduce the material to provide substantially uniform colorizing and material size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Smoracy, LLC
    Inventors: Kyle Douglas Kimbell, Chad Dale Cross
  • Patent number: 11112802
    Abstract: An automated steering system for an agricultural vehicle operating in a row crop field. The automated steering system includes a correction system having a controller and an alignment sensor. The alignment sensor is disposed between two adjacently spaced crop rows and generates output signals indicative of the alignment sensor's lateral position relative to the two adjacently spaced crop rows as the vehicle advances in the forward direction of travel. The controller receives the generated output signals from the alignment sensor and determines an offset distance of said alignment sensor from a centerline between the two adjacently spaced crop rows. The controller outputs a modified vehicle position signal corresponding to the latitude and longitude position received from said GPS receiver shifted by the offset distance. The vehicle's on board navigation controller causes the vehicles on-board steering control system to steer the vehicle based on the modified vehicle position signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: 360 Yield Center, LLC
    Inventors: Reid J. Aberle, Jonathan T. Welte, Timothy Sauder
  • Patent number: 11113724
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus include computer programs encoded on a computer-readable storage medium for delivering content. A method includes: identifying a webview; providing a script for execution when the webview is initiated, the script causing a device associated with the webview to retrieve a unique identifier associated with the device, encode the unique identifier, construct a URL that includes an advertising system domain and the encoded unique identifier, and pass the encoded unique identifier to the advertising system; passing a cookie for the advertising domain back to the webview for inclusion in the cookie space of the webview; storing information related to interactions of a user of the device when accessing content through different browsers or applications so as to unify the cookie spaces of the different browsers; identifying a request for content as being associated with the device; and using the information to determine content for delivery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Gang Wang, Yong Yao
  • Patent number: 11111719
    Abstract: A two unit barrier or three unit barrier. The two unit barrier includes a first end frame portion and a second end frame portion as a first unit and a gate as a second unit. The three unit barrier includes a first end frame as a first unit, a second end frame as a second unit, and a gate as a third unit. In each of the barriers, the gate is swingably engaged and swingable over a lower connection arrangement. The lower connection arrangement may include one or more of a mortise and tenon connection, clamp connection, swinging connection, flush and hidden connection, and telescoping connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Regalo International, LLC
    Inventors: Mark A. Flannery, Brian M. McMahon, Caleb Summers
  • Patent number: 11111739
    Abstract: A drill string stabilizer for use in a well bore includes a tubular body with a stabilizer axis, a first roller including a first roller axis spaced apart from the stabilizer axis of the tubular body, and at least a second roller spaced longitudinally apart from the first roller, the at least a second roller including a second roller axis spaced apart from the stabilizer axis of the tubular body. The first roller is angularly offset from the at least the second roller around a circumference of the tubular body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: EXTREME TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Joshua J. Smith, Joseph Aschenbrenner, Gilbert Troy Meier
  • Patent number: 11113084
    Abstract: This application concerns methods, apparatus, and systems for performing quantum circuit synthesis and/or for implementing the synthesis results in a quantum computer system. In certain example embodiments: a universal gate set, a target unitary described by a target angle, and target precision is received (input); a corresponding quaternion approximation of the target unitary is determined; and a quantum circuit corresponding to the quaternion approximation is synthesized, the quantum circuit being over a single qubit gate set, the single qubit gate set being realizable by the given universal gate set for the target quantum computer architecture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Vadym Kliuchnikov, Jon Yard, Martin Roetteler, Alexei Bocharov
  • Patent number: 11111614
    Abstract: A method for tuning characteristics of a polyamide nanofiber nonwoven comprising the step of targeting a specific average nanofiber diameter and/or a specific relative viscosity for the polyamide nanofiber nonwoven. The specific average nanofiber diameter is within a range from 100 nm to 1000 nm and/or the specific relative viscosity is within a range from 5 to 75, e.g., from 15 to 50. The process further comprises the steps of extruding a polyamide composition having a moisture content with a pressurized gas through a fiber forming channel having a channel temperature to form the polyamide nanofiber nonwoven having the target average nanofiber diameter and/or relative viscosity and controlling the moisture content, the pressure of pressurized gas, and/or the channel temperature based on the specific average nanofiber diameter and/or the specific relative viscosity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Ascend Performance Materials Operations LLC
    Inventors: Wai-Shing Yung, Chris Schwier, Albert Ortega, Scott E. Osborn
  • Patent number: 11112497
    Abstract: A vehicle, system for navigating the vehicle and method of operating the vehicle. The system includes a radar system and a processor. The radar system transmits a linear frequency modulated signal into an environment of the vehicle and receives a reflection of the linear frequency modulated signal from an object in the environment. The processor partitions the reflection into a plurality of streams to obtain a Doppler frequency that exceeds a maximum Doppler frequency of the radar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Shahar Villeval, Oren Longman, Igal Bilik
  • Patent number: 11111740
    Abstract: A downhole system includes a first tubular having a terminal end including a first connector portion, an inlet, an inner surface, an outer surface, and a first conduit extending between the inner surface and the outer surface fluidically exposed at the terminal end. A second tubular including a terminal end section having a second connector portion coupled to the first connector portion to form a joint, an inner surface section, an outer surface section, and a second conduit extending between the inner surface section and the outer surface section and fluidically exposed at the terminal end section. The first conduit is fluidically connected to the second conduit across the joint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Ronald J. Garr, Darrell D. Jones, Dale W. Schubert, Daniel S. McWherter
  • Patent number: D929710
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: COLE HAAN LLC
    Inventors: Pablo Chao, Kyle Jenkins