Patents Assigned to LLC
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Patent number: 11097646Abstract: A securing and opening system for a vehicle includes, among other things, a structural metallic member of a vehicle, and a bottle opener provided by an opening in the structural metallic member.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2019Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Sean Dietrich, Forrest Eddings
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Patent number: 11101559Abstract: Receive diversity combining uses signals received at multiple antennas and combine them to obtain a higher overall signal to noise ratio. Multi-level ranking is employed to determine the weight assigned to each channel and, once the channels are weighted the weighted signals are added together. In a two-level example the first level ranks the signals according to fidelity of the signal. This is done by calculating cross correlation coefficients, where highest coefficient indicates best fidelity. The second level ranks the channels according to peak to average power ratio. The lowest value indicates the best channel. The two rankings are combined to generate the weight coefficient for each channel prior to combining the signals from all the channels.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2020Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: WAFER LLCInventors: Greg Wyler, Kevin Shun-Chieh Chuang
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Patent number: 11102350Abstract: Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for delivering content to a client device placed on hold. A communication system establishes a communication session between a client device placed on an initial hold and a content delivery service, during which the client device placed on the initial hold may place a subsequent hold, resulting in multiple concurrent holds. The communication system allocates a unique identifier to the subsequent hold and updates records associated with the initial and subsequent holds to include an indication that the client device that ends the hold should be placed on hold. The communication system terminates the communication session between the client device placed on the initial hold and the content delivery service and returns the unique identifier allocated to the subsequent hold to the client device that initiated the subsequent hold.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2019Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Abhilash Chandrasekharan Nair, Namendra Kumar
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Patent number: 11102054Abstract: Systems and methods for evaluating a customer premise equipment (CPE) device. A network element management system may send an alteration request to a configurable coaxial tap that cause the configurable coaxial tap to alter the characteristics of the configurable coaxial tap and/or to manipulate the radio frequency (RF) characteristics of a customer premise device (CPE) coupled to the configurable coaxial tap. The network element management system may then receive impaired operation reports from a cable modem termination system, sending an un-alteration request to the configurable coaxial tap to undo the alterations, and receive restored operation reports from the cable modem termination system. The network element management system may use any or all of the received information to generate and use modem-tap-port correlations to determine the physical location of the CPE.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2021Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: Charter Communications Operating, LLCInventors: David Claussen, Matthew Petersen
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Patent number: 11096482Abstract: A vertically adjustable desk benching system wherein a plurality of desks may be joined together. The vertically adjustable desks may each have a planar work surface and telescoping support legs which are operable to raise and lower the work surface. The vertically adjustable support legs may be telescoping legs. The benching system may include a main bracket which attaches to a plurality of adjoining vertically adjustable desks while a first and a second end bracket may attached front facing desks on either side of the centrally adjoining main bracket.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2019Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: SQUAREGROVE, LLCInventors: Eric W. Anderson, Jon Daniel Paulsen
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Patent number: 11096423Abstract: An e-vapor device may include a reservoir, a heater, and a bimetallic actuator. The reservoir is configured to hold a pre-vapor formulation. The reservoir defines an outlet configured to release the pre-vapor formulation therefrom. The heater is configured to heat the pre-vapor formulation released from the reservoir to generate a vapor. The bimetallic actuator may be configured to seal the outlet of the reservoir when vaping is not occurring and configured to unseal the outlet when vaping is occurring.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2017Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: ALTRIA CLIENT SERVICES LLCInventor: Jason Andrew Macko
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Patent number: 11098940Abstract: An ice-making container having a base and a freestanding side extending from the base to define a mouth opposite the base, and having a divider extending from the base and/or freestanding side so as to divide the container into at least two ice-making compartments. The container is a closable container via zipper members extending from the interior sides of the mouth, wherein the mouth is deformable between open and closed configurations and the first and second zipper members are disengagable when the mouth is open and engagable when the mouth is closed. The container may be molded from platinum silicone as a unitary whole without assembled parts. The molding process may comprise liquid injection molding, compression molding, or transfer molding.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2019Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: ZIP TOP LLCInventor: Rebecca Finell
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Patent number: 11099448Abstract: A switchable backlight for a switchable privacy display apparatus comprises a collimated backlight arranged to provide two off-axis beams and at least one polar control liquid crystal retarder arranged between parallel polarisers. The alignment layers of the liquid crystal retarder are rotated with respect to the electric vector transmission direction of the polarisers. In use in the centre stack of a vehicle, in one mode of operation high image luminance and high image visibility is provided for the passenger while the image is invisible to the driver. In another mode of operation an image is provided to the driver with low stray light to the passenger for night time operation. In a third mode of operation both passenger and driver can see an image with high luminance and image visibility.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2020Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: RealD Spark, LLCInventors: Graham J. Woodgate, Michael G. Robinson, Jonathan Harrold
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Patent number: 11100047Abstract: Techniques delete snapshots. The techniques involve: in response to a data block to which a plurality of snapshots of a file to be deleted point being shared, determining whether a physical address of the data block to which the plurality of snapshots to be deleted point is the same as a target physical address of a data block to which a target snapshot of the file points. The techniques further involve: in response to the physical address of the data block to which the plurality of snapshots to be deleted point being the same as the target physical address, setting flag bits associated with the plurality of snapshots to be deleted to a first state. The techniques further involve: in response to detecting the first state, updating a target weight with a sum of weights of the plurality of snapshots to be deleted (e.g., respective quotas).Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2019Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLCInventors: Shuo Lv, Huan Chen, Guoyu Hu, Chao Han, Qiaosheng Zhou, Jian Liu, Chen Gong, Congyue Gu
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Patent number: 11102648Abstract: Within a mobile device, a method and system to produce a probability the mobile device is in possession of a known person, the first user. Sensors are used to detect and quantify the behavioral biometrics of the human traits of the person in possession of the device. On a continuous basis, a machine learning process collects the biometrics of several traits of the first user memorizing the artifacts of neural networks used for learning. Subsequently, a prediction neural network provisioned with these artifacts and processing new biometric inputs of the present user of the device produces a probability the present user of the device is the first user. Affirmation of identity can then be made based on that probability.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2019Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: ProteqsIT LLCInventor: Richard James Hallock
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Patent number: 11097659Abstract: The vehicle rear occupant alert system provides alerts corresponding to occupancy of rear seats. The system comprises a door position sensor, an ignition sensor, and an alert system. Further, the alert system comprises a processor and a memory. The door position sensor determines a rear door status between an ajar position and a closed position. The ignition sensor determines an ignition state between an ON state and an OFF state. The alert system is coupled with the sensors. The processor adjusts status of the alert system as armed if the rear door transitions from ajar to closed position and the ignition transitions from OFF to ON state. The alert system notifies and alerts a driver to check the rear seat when the ignition transitions to OFF state. The processor rearms the alert system after the ignition transitions from OFF to ON state within a predefined time.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2020Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Mahmoud Abdelhamid, Meisam Yousif, Sonya (S. D.) Bentley, Nathan Rinderer, Saeed Barbat
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Patent number: 11096978Abstract: An improved method for making a P. vulgaris bean extract that results in an extract having high ?-amylase inhibitory activity and low hemagglutinin activity. The method involves treating the beans to selectively denature the hemagglutinin. A P. vulgaris bean extract is provided, having high ?-amylase inhibitory activity and low hemagglutinin activity. A treatment for diabetes or method for reducing blood glucose level is disclosed using the P. vulgaris bean extract disclosed herein.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2018Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: MELLITAS HEALTH FOODS, LLCInventors: Sha Zhang, Zhong Zhang
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Patent number: 11099025Abstract: An interactive two-dimensional digital map is provided via a user interface. A request to obtain travel directions to a destination is received. An indication of a ride from a pick-up location to a drop-off location to traverse at least a portion of the route is obtained from a third-party provider of a ride service. Street-level imagery for the pick-up location is obtained and displayed on the digital map. In response to detecting a selection of the street-level imagery via the user interface, the two-dimensional digital map is transitioned to an interactive three-dimensional panoramic display of street-level imagery.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2018Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Jon Øvrebø Dubielzyk, Scott Ogden
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Patent number: 11101922Abstract: A wireless communications device comprises a transmitter configured to distribute a data stream as a plurality of sub-streams, allocate power to each sub-stream of the plurality of sub-streams, and convert the sub-streams into one or more transmit signals. The wireless communications device also comprises a processor which is configured to obtain channel-quality indicators corresponding to the sub-streams and adjust one or more power allocations of one or more sub-streams to reduce a collective error rate of the data stream based on the channel-quality indicators, subject to a total power limit.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2020Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLCInventors: Sigurd Schelstraete, Reza Hoshyar
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Patent number: 11097475Abstract: Methods and systems for 3D printing use a 3D printing device defined by a polar coordinate frame including an r-axis, a z-axis, and a rotational theta axis. The device includes a base, a rotatably attached printing stage is rotatably attached, a z-axis aligned pair of towers, an r-axis aligned rail slidably coupled to the towers, a print head slidably disposed on the rail, a printing tool coupling component (“master”) joined to the print head, and a rotatable tool carousel with bays housing printing tools, each including a printing tool body (“slave”). The slave may be coupled with and locked to or unlocked from the master to form a coupled tool assembly through a mechanical actuation assembly. With the coupled tool assembly, a printing tool is removable from a respective bay when the coupled tool assembly moves along the r-axis in a direction opposite from the rotatable tool carousel.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2018Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: ADVANCED SOLUTIONS LIFE SCIENCES, LLCInventors: Scott Douglas Cambron, Dakota Waldecker
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Patent number: 11097438Abstract: Adjustable weight striking device can be selectively loaded with weighting material to temporarily increase striking force during use and unloaded to reduce weight while carrying. The tool has body made of low density material and working end for striking tool, handle extending from the body made of low density material, striking tool at working end, and apparatus for holding weighting material adjacent to the body. The weight holding apparatus can be platform with straps or other securing feature for temporarily holding weighting material and/or an interior chamber within the body for receiving weighting material. Weighting material can be sand, water, dirt, gravel, rock, or metal and can temporarily increase the weight of the striking tool by 50%, 100%, 200% 250%, 300%, 400%, 500% or more depending on volume and/or density of weighting material as compared to striking device.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2014Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: TECH SWERVE, LLCInventors: John M. Guynn, Branden D. Rosenhan
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Patent number: 11097151Abstract: A locking device for an exercise system may include a locking member having a contact portion and configured to move between a first position and a second position. When in the first position, the contact portion of the locking member is not in mechanical communication with the resistance mechanism of the exercise system, thereby allowing movement of the at least one moveable assembly. When in the second position, the contact portion of the locking member is in mechanical communication with the resistance mechanism of the exercise system, thereby preventing movement of the at least one moveable assembly.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2018Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: NuStep, LLC.Inventors: Matthew P. Weber, Neil M. Cole, Daniel C. Shnidman, Robert A. Law, Douglas R. Hennigar, Walter N. Cole
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Patent number: 11100577Abstract: A computerised method of trading a fungible instrument, the method comprising: receiving orders from traders for a fungible instrument. The orders each comprise an amount of the fungible instrument to buy or sell, but no price. The orders are matched. The price of matched orders is then fixed at a price based on an outside source at a predetermined time.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2011Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: NEX Services North America LLCInventors: James A. O'Hagan, Brian Andreyko
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Patent number: 11097731Abstract: In one embodiment, driving faster than a speed limit can be avoided. In response to a current speed being greater than a local speed limit of the vehicle, a vehicle can determine a current vehicle pitch and determine a compensation acceleration to maintain constant velocity of the vehicle at the current vehicle pitch. A threshold control command is determined based on the current speed of the vehicle, and the compensation acceleration. The threshold control command determines whether the vehicle will accelerate or decelerate given the current vehicle pitch of the vehicle. If a driver's control command is greater than the threshold control command, the driver's control command can be overridden or modified to reduce the current speed of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2019Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: BAIDU USA LLCInventor: Fan Zhu
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Patent number: 11097614Abstract: A ride-on toy with electronic speed controller for superior user experience is described herein. A ride-on toy as described herein may be in the form of a ride-on toy car, truck, jeep, motorcycle or the like and may be used with up to a 24-volt power source as opposed to a 12-volt power source as is common in the art. An electronic speed controller of the present disclosure provides variable speed control to at least one and preferably at least two motors from separate accelerator and brake mechanisms such as pedals. Conventional ride-on toys such as those described herein typically contain a single-pole switch such as pedal that provides all-or-nothing power to a motor as opposed to modulation of two motors by two actuation means. A ride-on toy as described herein may combine various controller components in unique ways to achieve the superior results as described herein.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2019Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: ML Toys, LLCInventor: Alan Placer
