Patents Assigned to LLC
  • Two-wheeled vehicle dolly and method of moving same
    Patent number: 11110950
    Abstract: A dolly comprising a front segment and a rear segment, each with wheels at both ends thereof, wherein the wheels are movable between lowered and lifted settings, at least two connecting members between the front segment and the rear segment, and at least one towing ring on the front segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: V & R LLC
    Inventor: Robert Hurd
  • Storing activated aluminum
    Patent number: 11111141
    Abstract: A system for hydrogen formation includes a container and at least one object. The container defines a reservoir and is flexible along the reservoir. The container forms a gas-tight seal between the reservoir and an atmosphere outside of the container. The at least one object includes aluminum in an activated form. The at least one object is disposed in an inert environment in the reservoir, and the activated form of the aluminum reactable to produce hydrogen in the reservoir upon exposure to water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: LTAG SYSTEMS LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan T. Slocum, Alexander H. Slocum
  • Downhole anchor with strengthened slips for well tool
    Patent number: 11111745
    Abstract: A well tool can include a downhole anchor with at least one outwardly extendable slip including longitudinally spaced apart grip structures, and a longitudinally extending beam which connects the grip structures to each other. The beam has a radial thickness which is greater than a lateral width of the beam. A slip retainer retains the slip, and a spring inwardly biases the slip relative to the slip retainer. The spring surrounds the slip and the slip retainer. An area moment of inertia of the beam with respect to a lateral axis through a centroid of the beam is greater than an area moment of inertia of the beam with respect to a radial axis through the centroid of the beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Weatherford Technology Holdings, LLC
    Inventor: Justin R. Scruggs
  • Luminaire
    Patent number: 11112617
    Abstract: A spreading optics system distributes electromagnetic (EM) waves emitted by an emitter having an emission vector. The spreading optics system includes reflective surfaces. The reflective surfaces include concave first reflector having a concave cross section in a plane substantially perpendicular the emission vector. The reflective surfaces further include a convex second reflector arranged further from the emitter than the concave first reflector. The convex second reflector has a convex cross section in a second plane substantially parallel the first plane. The reflective surfaces are configured to divergently redirect the EM waves into a vector fan at a predetermined angle relative to the emission vector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH START-UP PLATFORM NORTH AMERICA, LLC, SERIES 1
    Inventors: Todd Louis Harris, William Weber, Audrey Steever
  • Custom data indicating nominal range of samples of media content
    Patent number: 11115691
    Abstract: A media processing tool adds custom data to an elementary media bitstream or media container. The custom data indicates nominal range of samples of media content, but the meaning of the custom data is not defined in the codec format or media container format. For example, the custom data indicates the nominal range is full range or limited range. For playback, a media processing tool parses the custom data and determines an indication of media content type. A rendering engine performs color conversion operations whose logic changes based at least in part on the media content type. In this way, a codec format or media container format can in effect be extended to support full nominal range media content as well as limited nominal range media content, and hence preserve full or correct color fidelity, while maintaining backward compatibility and conformance with the codec format or media container format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Yongjun Wu, Naveen Thumpudi, Shyam Sadhwani
  • Vehicle maneuver planning based on predicted battery power
    Patent number: 11110806
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a traction battery and a controller. The controller, responsive to a command to enter a highway, confirmation the traction battery can output power to accelerate the vehicle to enter the highway via an entrance at a same speed as traffic on the highway in a vicinity of the entrance, and an increase in temperature beyond a threshold of the traction battery predicted to occur on the highway due to expected commands to maintain the same speed on the highway with power from the traction battery, increases cooling of the traction battery prior to entering the highway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Yanan Zhao, Xiaohong Nina Duan, Mark Steven Yamazaki, William David Treharne
  • Archery release
    Patent number: 11112206
    Abstract: An archery release is provided in the form of a back tension archery release having an adjustable pawl which includes a paddle that can be selectively engaged by an adjuster element, for example a fastener, to set a release point of the release. The pawl can be selectively rotatable about a pivot axis by engaging the adjuster element against a surface of the paddle, which paddle can project away from the pivot axis a first distance to provide a lever that the adjuster element can act against. The release can include a second adjuster element opposing the first and engaging an opposite side of the paddle to cooperate with the other one and further secure the paddle and thus the pawl in a fixed location to set the release point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: H.I.T. Outdoors, LLC
    Inventor: Brian K. Jones
  • Roll-molding
    Patent number: 11110632
    Abstract: Discrete male touch fastener elements are molded of thermoplastic resin extending from a common, flexible base sheet, by introducing molten resin to a molding nip between two counter-rotating rolls consisting of a mold roll and a pressure roll arranged such that their rotation axes are parallel and together define a common plane containing each of the rotation axes. Solidified resin is stripped from molding cavities of the mold roll after the cavities have passed a rotating reaction roll forming a pressure nip with the mold roll. The reaction roll is spaced from the pressure roll by a distance less than an outer diameter of the mold roll, and the mold roll is simultaneously held against both the pressure roll and the reaction roll in a non-planar roll stack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Velcro IP Holdings LLC
    Inventor: Jerry G. Hodsdon
  • Apparatus, system, and method for shale pyrolysis
    Patent number: 11111440
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods are disclosed for shale pyrolysis. A retort may include a first side and a second side opposite the first side, where the first side and the second side include descending angled surfaces at alternating angles to produce zig-zag motion of shale descending through the retort. Steam distributors may be coupled to the first side, with collectors coupled to the second side, to produce crossflow of steam and heat across the descending shale. A steam temperature control subsystem may be coupled to the steam distributors and may deliver higher-temperature steam to an upper portion of the retort and lower-temperature steam to a lower portion of the retort.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: PYRO DYNAMICS, LLC
    Inventor: Gary G. Otterstrom
  • Angle sensor using eddy currents
    Patent number: 11112230
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for a sensor with a main coil to direct a magnetic field at a rotating target for inducing eddy currents in an end of the target and a sensing element to detect a magnetic field reflected from the target, wherein the target end comprises a conductive surface. The reflected magnetic field can be processed to determine an angular position of the target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Allegro Microsystems, LLC
    Inventors: Alexander Latham, Maxim Klebanov
  • Delivery tool for tubular placement of an adaptive seat
    Patent number: 11111747
    Abstract: A delivery tool creates relative axial movement to retract a retaining sleeve from an adaptive seat so that the adaptive seat can release from the delivery tool and find support in a tubular string. The relative movement is created directly with a power charge acting on a piston attached to the retaining sleeve. Movement of the retaining sleeve releases support dogs that position the delivery tool when releasing the adaptive seat. The adaptive seat is protected for running in with a collapsible ring structure that passes through the adaptive seat opening when the delivery tool is pulled out of the hole. The retaining sleeve is replaced and the power charge is renewed to allow the delivery tool to be used more than once.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: DISRUPTIVE DOWNHOLE TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventor: Stephen L. Crow
  • Methods for loading or unloading substrate with evaporator planet
    Patent number: 11114329
    Abstract: Implementations of methods of loading an evaporator may include, using a robotic arm, removing a substrate from a cassette and centering the substrate on a substrate aligner. The method may include aligning the substrate using the substrate aligner. The substrate may also include removing the substrate from the substrate aligner using the robotic arm and loading the substrate into a first available pocket of a planet of an evaporator using the robotic arm. The method may also include rotating the planet to a second available pocket after detecting a presence of the substrate in the first available pocket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLC
    Inventors: Michael J. Seddon, Heng Chen Lee
  • Subscription to dependencies in smart contracts
    Patent number: 11115804
    Abstract: The disclosed technology is generally directed to smart contract technology. In one example of the technology, responsive to a smart contract subscription request from a requestor to a first smart contract, a registry entry is added to a first smart contract registry such that the added registry entry includes requestor information associated with the requestor, and subscription information associated with at least one exposed interface of the first smart contract. Responsive to a change occurring that is associated with at least one exposed interface of the first smart contract, based on the registry, any subscribers to the first smart contract that have a subscription to which the change pertains are determined. Responsive to determining subscribers to the first smart contract that have a subscription to which the change pertains, the determined subscribers are caused to be notified of the change.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Marc Edward Mercuri
  • Jewelry case
    Patent number: 11109656
    Abstract: A jewelry case that is portable, secure, prevents tangling, inexpensive, and easy to use, comprising a box containing a plurality of display surfaces and indentations, and a lid containing a plurality of compression bars.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: MEDORA DESIGNS, LLC
    Inventor: Dusty Sanchez
  • Integrated battery sensor for multiple battery modules
    Patent number: 11112463
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes a method that includes receiving, via a processor disposed within a lithium ion battery module, a voltage signal associated with a resistor coupled to a negative terminal of the lithium ion battery module. The negative terminal of the lithium ion battery module is coupled to a negative terminal of a lead acid battery module. The method also includes determining, via the processor, one or more properties associated with the lead acid battery module based on the voltage signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: CPS TECHNOLOGY HOLDINGS LLC
    Inventor: Ronald J. Dulle
  • Capacitance reduction in battery systems
    Patent number: 11114725
    Abstract: A battery system includes a battery cell, a thermally insulating layer, and a thermally conducting layer which includes a fin. The fin pushes against an interior surface of a case which surrounds the battery cell, the thermally insulating layer, and the thermally conducting layer. The thermally conducting layer includes a discontinuity where the discontinuity is configured to reduce a capacitance associated with the thermally conducting layer compared to when the thermally conducting layer does not include the discontinuity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: WISK AERO LLC
    Inventors: John Melack, Thomas P. Muniz, Nihal Murthy, Sampson Lau
  • Systems and methods for protecting user identity within online content providing environments
    Patent number: 11113776
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for protecting user identity within online content providing environments uses a security content management system (CMS) including at least one processor and a memory. The method includes identifying a request for an online content item associated with an online device. The online device is associated with actual device data. The method also includes determining a first characteristic value associated with the actual device data of the online device. The method further includes generating, by the processor, substitute device data. The substitute device data represents at least the first characteristic value. The method also includes providing the substitute device data to an online content provider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Gang Wang, Matthew Young-Lai, Zoltan Szamonek
  • Lithium metal synthesis
    Patent number: 11111590
    Abstract: System and methods for producing lithium metal from an anodic half-cell and a cathodic half-cell with a lithium permeable membrane therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: UChicago Argonne, LLC
    Inventors: John N. Hryn, Patricia Anne Ignacio-deLeon, Li Tang, Daniel Yoav Arenas
  • Infrared source for airport runway light applications
    Patent number: 11112087
    Abstract: An airport runway light for use as a runway approach light for a runway lighting system, the runway light having a light body with a base configured to support the runway light in a light socket of a runway lighting system, the base having an electrical connection to electrically connect the runway light to the runway lighting system, the light further including one or more output windows wherein the runway light has a high-efficiency infrared source and one or more infrared reflectors to direct the infrared source outwardly through the one or more output windows, the infrared source including a silicon nitride element wherein the infrared source produces virtually no detectable visible light and with much less power consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Surface Igniter, LLC
    Inventors: Edward Carome, George C. Hanna
  • Animal bedding
    Patent number: D930268
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Leaphigh Animals LLC
    Inventors: Si Hyung Lee, Sean Sangil Hahn