Patents Assigned to LLC
  • Patent number: 11098940
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: ZIP TOP LLC
    Inventor: Rebecca Finell
  • Patent number: 11097731
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: BAIDU USA LLC
    Inventor: Fan Zhu
  • Patent number: 11099025
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Jon Øvrebø Dubielzyk, Scott Ogden
  • Patent number: 11101922
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLC
    Inventors: Sigurd Schelstraete, Reza Hoshyar
  • Patent number: 11097174
    Abstract: The invention includes apparatus and methods for a novel modular self-returning batting tee. In one preferred embodiment, a modular self-returning batting tee may have one or more extension arms that are compatible with a variety of different batting attachments and/or aids, and may further be secured to a receiver tube positioned within a flexible boot. This receiver tube may be coupled with a weighted base through a novel recoil joint. In this embodiment, when the tee is struck, such as may occur during batting practice, the extension arm may bend forward engaging the flexible boot and/or novel recoil joint and causing the extension arm to self-return to a pre-determined position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: HotTEE Enterprises, LLC
    Inventors: Lanny D. Paulson, Kenny O. Sackett, Randall S. Tuell
  • Patent number: 11100077
    Abstract: The storage of events of multiple types in a queriable table. The queriable table has at least one common column that corresponds to a field that is common across events regardless of event type. The queriable table also has at least one field-varying column that corresponds to a type-dependent field that depends on event type. The queriable table is populated using multiple events. For instance, the event could be at least some log events that are received from multiple computing systems. The population occurs by assigning each event to a row of the queriable table. The common column is populated with values taken the same common field across event types. On the other hand, the field-varying column is populated with values of different fields from those events depending on the event type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Georgi Chkodrov, Russell Biles, Vidhi Agarwal, Anjani Kumar Lavania, Jeffrey Scott Shaw, Jose Wilson Morris, Jonathan Peary Morris
  • Patent number: 11098961
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a dual loop coolant system used to control an engine temperature. In one example, cooling capacity is transferred from a low temperature loop to a heat exchanger, and cooling capacity stored in the heat exchanger is transferred to a high temperature loop (e.g., an engine coolant loop). The flow of coolant from the dual loop coolant system to the heat exchanger may be regulated responsive to a temperature of the coolant in each of the low temperature loop and the high temperature loop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Ravi Gopal
  • Patent number: 11096636
    Abstract: A nuclear imaging system and method for performing three-dimensional imaging of anatomical structures. The system and method includes two or more gamma ray detectors each used in combination with a variable-slant hole collimator. The detectors are positioned in close proximity to, or in contact with, the structure being imaged. The detectors remain in a stationary position during the data collection process. An imaging or reconstruction method is then used to reconstruct a three-dimensional image from the data derived from the detectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: JEFFERSON SCIENCE ASSOCIATES, LLC
    Inventors: Brian Kross, Andrew Weisenberger, Ben Welch, David Gilland, Seung Joon Lee
  • Patent number: 11102079
    Abstract: Virtual networks located in different regions of cloud provider are peered using unique regional identifiers for the virtual networks. The regional identifiers and other information are pushed down a network management stack to implement the peering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Anavi Arun Nahar, David M. Brumley, Harish Kumar Chandrappa, Neeraj Motwani, Nisheeth Srivastava, Rishabh Tewari, Vaibhav Kumar, Vishal Taneja, Vladimir Serov, Xinyan Zan, Deepak Bansal, Narayan Annamalai, Milan Dasgupta
  • Patent number: 11102518
    Abstract: Coding schemes for coding a spatially sampled information signal using sub-division and coding schemes for coding a sub-division or a multitree structure are described, wherein representative embodiments relate to picture and/or video coding applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: GE Video Compression, LLC
    Inventors: Heiner Kirchhoffer, Martin Winken, Philipp Helle, Detlev Marpe, Heiko Schwarz, Thomas Wiegand
  • Patent number: 11102164
    Abstract: A virtual network comprising virtual machines executing at a computing environment is implemented. A software defined networking (SDN) appliance is configured to provide a connection to computing resources via a virtual network of a virtual computing environment. The SDN appliance is configured to apply policies of the virtual computing environment to data traffic on the virtual network. The SDN appliance is operable to interact with multiple network devices that are configured to act as a hardware acceleration device for processing data traffic. Virtual addresses are assigned to the network devices. The SDN appliance executes a virtual switch configured to identify data traffic sent to or received from a host and act as a proxy for the network devices and respond on their behalf.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Avijit Gupta, Anish Sagar Narsian, Hang Kwong Lee, Sumit Sharad Dhoble, Manasi Deval, James Wesley Boerner, Rishabh Tewari, Pranjal Shrivastava, Sonia Sharma, Deepak Bansal
  • Patent number: 11096722
    Abstract: An external fixator system includes a proximal frame configured to restrict motion in a lower extremity of a subject, and a frame connector assembly. The proximal frame includes a first, second, and third component. The first component can support a first clamp to secure a first pin inserted within a bone extending between a foot and a knee of the lower extremity. The third component extends from a second end of the second component. The first, second and third components have longitudinal axes that are substantially coplanar. The third component includes an extension to extend over a dorsal portion of the foot of the subject and to support a second clamp to secure a second pin inserted within a bone of the foot. The frame connector assembly extends from the second component to support a third clamp to secure a third pin inserted within a third bone of the foot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: FOOT INNOVATIONS, LLC
    Inventors: Roy W. Sanders, Sergio Gutierrez
  • Patent number: 11096813
    Abstract: A method of performing angioplasty includes accessing an artery, inserting a tubular balloon into to the artery in a low-profile operating mode, the tubular balloon constrained in a generally helical shape, and forming a lumen within the generally helical shape by expanding the tubular balloon into a high-profile operating mode. A system for creating a lumen is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Accumed Radial Systems, LLC
    Inventors: William W. O'Neill, Joseph R. Korotko
  • Patent number: 11100134
    Abstract: Representative embodiments disclose mechanisms for data and identity migration, such as from an on-premises environment to a cloud environment. The system comprises multiple data collectors, each tailored to collect data from a data source. In a representative example, data collectors for a source application, a source identity repository and a target identity repository are utilized. Once the data is collected, it is stored in a database and methods are used to identify correlations (i.e., matches) between the source application data, the source identity repository data and the target identity repository data. The correlations are memorialized and presented to a user for rationalization. The process is stateful so that prior decisions are remembered. Once the user is satisfied with the rationalization, the system exports files that are consumed by a migration process to perform the actual data migration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Jerry Kane Orman, Seth Scruggs, Balakrishnan Shanmugam, Shopen Patel, Joel Tipke, Ulric Tyson Dihle, Nicholas Claunch, Ralph Foster, Chrystal Danielle Comley, Daniel Ward, Peter Theeuwen, Jacob Orchard
  • Patent number: 11100243
    Abstract: Technologies are described for selective persistence of data utilized by software containers. A configuration policy is defined that includes data that specifies one or more data stores for which data is not to be persisted following accesses to a software container and one or more data stores for which data is to be persisted following accesses to the software container. When the software container is first accessed, the data stores identified in the configuration policy are attached to the software container. Upon a subsequent access to the container, such as at the conclusion of a user session or upon destruction of the container, the data in the attached data stores is persisted or deleted based upon the configuration policy. When the software container is once again accessed, the data store containing the persisted data can be re-attached to the software container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Margarit Simeonov Chenchev, Benjamin M. Schultz, Giridhar Viswanathan, Balaji Balasubramanyan, Yanan Zhang, Frederick Justus Smith, Hari R. Pulapaka, David Weston
  • Patent number: 11098663
    Abstract: An illustrative fuel delivery system for an engine can include a fuel type indicator device and a flow management device. The flow management device can be configured to receive fuel from an auxiliary fuel tank and to direct it based on the type of fuel in the auxiliary fuel tank. If the type of fuel in the auxiliary fuel tank is a primary fuel type (such as diesel or gasoline), the flow management device can deliver the primary fuel to a piston cylinder of the engine. If the type of fuel in the auxiliary fuel tank is an auxiliary fuel (such as a mixture of ethanol and water the flow management device can deliver the auxiliary fuel to an air intake system of the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Hydrolyze, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel W. Sonnek, Patrick E. Spethman
  • Patent number: 11097133
    Abstract: A method and system for treating tissue with a combined therapy profile is disclosed. In one exemplary embodiment, ultrasound energy is used to treat numerous depths of tissue within a region of interest and the spatial and temporal properties of the ultrasound energy are varied for more effective treatment. The method and system of the present invention are configured to treat all of the tissue from the surface on down and not spare intervening tissue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Guided Therapy Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Michael H. Slayton, Peter G. Barthe
  • Patent number: 11097285
    Abstract: A centrifugal separator for separating blow-by gases into cleaned air and liquid for recirculation through an engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Kuhn Performance Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: John William Kuhn
  • Patent number: 11102310
    Abstract: Systems and methods for facilitating user interaction such as within a social network are described. In one implementation, location-based display of images and/or other information associated with other users or entities may be provided. The information may be provided in association with mapping or other positional data or information such as personal interests.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Grindr LLC
    Inventors: Joel Joseph Simkhai, Scott Ryan Lewallen, Morten Bek Ditlevsen
  • Patent number: D929055
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: SHARKNINJA OPERATING LLC
    Inventors: Gary V. Palladino, Owen Rhys Alban Johnson, Junghwan Chei