Patents Assigned to LLC
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Patent number: 11086311Abstract: Systems and methods of data collection and processing including a plurality of variable groups of industrial sensor inputs, each of the plurality of variable groups of industrial sensor inputs operationally coupled to an industrial environment and a multiplexer including a plurality of sensor channels, wherein each of the plurality of sensor channels is communicatively coupled to at least one of the plurality of variable groups of sensor inputs and including an expert system or a graphical user interface (GUI) to define at least one of intelligent data collection bands or diagnostics for the industrial environment.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2018Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: Strong Force IoT Portfolio 2016, LLCInventors: Charles Howard Cella, Gerald William Duffy, Jr., Jeffrey P. McGuckin, Mehul Desai
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Patent number: 11085212Abstract: An exemplary motor vehicle assembly includes a handle concealing assembly rotatable back and forth between a concealing position that blocks access to a door handle and a revealing position that permits access to the door handle. The door handle is separate from the handle concealing assembly. An exemplary method includes, among other things, rotating a handle concealing assembly back and forth between a concealing position that blocks access to a door handle and a revealing position that permits access to the door handle. The door handle is separate from the handle concealing assembly.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2018Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventor: Jorge Suarez Rivaya
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Patent number: 11086883Abstract: Systems and methods are described to suggest new content to a writer. An intelligent tool is initiated to obtain content of a document that is being written by an author. The intelligent tool then determines a topic of the content of the document, and identifies one or more predictive topics related to the determined topic. The one or more predictive topics are different from the topic. The intelligent tool then performs a content search based on the topic and the one or more predictive topics, and provides results from the content search to the author.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2016Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Kishore Papineni, Brian Kravitz, Richard Zens, Christopher Welty
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Patent number: 11087344Abstract: A method, computer system, and computer program product that aggregates sample data regarding a plurality of factors associated with employment and geographic location; performs iterative analysis on the sample data using machine learning to construct a predictive model; populates, using the predictive model, a database with predicted values of real estate demand for a selected set of predefined geographic regions; converts the predicted values of real estate demand in the database into percentages of observed values of real estate demand for geographic regions within the selected set over a specified time period to create indices of real estate demand; and rank orders the geographic regions within the selected set according to their indices of real estate demand.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2019Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: ADP, LLCInventors: Ramsay Cole, Debashis Ghosh, Kurt Newman
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Patent number: 11088549Abstract: An electronic system, a multiple charger configuration, and method of operating a multiple input, multiple charger configuration are disclosed. For example, a multiple charger configuration is disclosed, which includes a first battery charger circuit configured to receive to a first input voltage, and a second battery charger circuit configured to receive a second input voltage. A first switching transistor is coupled to an output of the first battery charger circuit, a system voltage output terminal, and a battery terminal configured to connect to a battery stack or at least one battery cell. A second switching transistor is coupled to an output of the second battery charger circuit and the battery terminal. Thus, the multiple chargers can be utilized in one system to charge or discharge a battery stack or at least one battery cell and thereby deliver power for a battery-operated system, product or device.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2016Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: Intersil Americas LLCInventors: Sungkeun Lim, Lei Zhao, Mehul Shah, Jia Wei
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Patent number: 11085246Abstract: A mobile drilling machine may include a drilling mast having a mast frame, a movable drill motor assembly, and a pivot; a machine frame including front and back portions, an engine, a ground engaging assembly, and a coupling assembly including first and second side plates, where the mast is pivotably coupled at the pivot between the first and second side plates; at least one primary fluid cylinder coupled to the machine frame to apply a force to the mast at a position above the pivot along the mast to assist in moving the mast between a stowed position to a drilling position; and a secondary fluid cylinder coupled to the machine frame to apply a force to the mast at a position below the pivot along the mast to assist the at least one primary fluid cylinder when the mast is at a negative drilling angle.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2018Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: Caterpillar Global Mining Equipment LLCInventors: Charles Taylor Hudson, Richard J. LaReau
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Patent number: 11085092Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and compositions for targeted modification of one or more endogenous plant malate dehydrogenase genes.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2019Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignees: Corteva Agriscience LLC, Sangamo Therapeutics, Inc.Inventors: Vipula Shukla, Manju Gupta, Fyodor Urnov, Dmitry Y. Guschin, Michiel Jan De Both, Paul Bundock, Lakshmi Sastry-Dent
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Patent number: 11087426Abstract: Some implementations may provide a method that includes: receiving, at a mobile device, data encoding a first digital watermark present on the identification document; extracting a first portion of personally identifiable information encoded by a spatial luminance pattern associated with the first digital watermark; receiving, at a mobile device, data encoding a second digital watermark present on the identification document; extracting a second portion of personally identifiable information encoded by a spatial luminance pattern associated with the first digital watermark; and validating the identification document based on at least one of the first portion of personally identifiable information or the second portion of personally identifiable information.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2018Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: MorphoTrust USA, LLCInventors: Daniel Poder, Robert Andrew Eckel
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Patent number: 11087762Abstract: A voice to text model used by a voice-enabled electronic device is dynamically and in a context-sensitive manner updated to facilitate recognition of entities that potentially may be spoken by a user in a voice input directed to the voice-enabled electronic device. The dynamic update to the voice to text model may be performed, for example, based upon processing of a first portion of a voice input, e.g., based upon detection of a particular type of voice action, and may be targeted to facilitate the recognition of entities that may occur in a later portion of the same voice input, e.g., entities that are particularly relevant to one or more parameters associated with a detected type of voice action.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2019Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Yuli Gao, Sangsoo Sung, Prathab Murugesan
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Patent number: 11089187Abstract: The various implementations described herein include a video camera assembly that includes: (1) a housing; (2) an image sensor positioned within the housing and having a field of view corresponding to a scene in the smart home environment; and (3) a concave-shaped front face positioned in front of the image sensor such that light from the scene passes through the front face prior to entering the image sensor; where the front face includes: (a) an inner section corresponding to the image sensor; and (b) an outer section between the housing and the inner section, the outer section having a concave shape that extends from an outer periphery of the outer section to an inner periphery of the outer section; and where the concave shape extends around an entirety of the outer periphery.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2020Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Mark Kraz, Kevin Edward Booth, Tyler Scott Wilson, Nicholas Webb, Jason Evans Goulden, William Dong, Jeffrey Law, Rochus Jacob, Adam Duckworth Mittleman, Oliver Mueller
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Patent number: 11084348Abstract: A two-piece limit strap clamp for use with a shock absorber and a limit strap retention device is provided. The pieces couple together around the upper end of a shock absorber. The clamp has a protrusion that extends outwardly and is adapted for attachment of the top end of a limit strap. The lower end of the limit strap may be attached to a mounting tab that is coupled to the lower mounting bracket of the shock absorber. Also disclosed is a limit strap with a tether coupled to a spring of the shock absorber to prevent the limit strap from bowing out when the shock absorber is compressed. A method of use of a limit strap with a tether is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2019Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: J & J Holdings and Investments, LLCInventor: Justin Smith
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Patent number: 11083128Abstract: A seed delivery apparatus having a seed meter configured to entrain seeds on a seed disc and to release said entrained seeds at a seed release location; a seed conveyor having an upper end disposed to receive released seeds from said seed meter and a lower end through which the released seeds are discharged proximate a soil surface; and a loading wheel rotatably disposed at said upper end of said seed conveyor to introduce the released seeds from said seed meter into said seed conveyor, wherein said loading wheel has a plurality of radial fingers with each of said radial fingers having a sinusoidal configuration.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2020Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: Precision Planting LLCInventors: Ian Radtke, Todd Swanson
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Patent number: 11086961Abstract: In some implementations, a method includes, for each of multiple hosts: identifying visual leaf pages hosted by the host that are each a web page including image data defining an image or a video that is prominently displayed relative to all other content of the web page, identifying a set of hub pages hosted by the host that each link to at least one of the visual leaf pages through an image-based link, and for each hub page, generating cluster data representing the visual leaf pages to which the hub page links by determining, for each visual leaf page, a set of feature values that each indicate pre-defined features of the visual leaf page, and generating, from the sets of feature values, a set of central feature values as the cluster data for the hub page that indicate a central tendency of each respective pre-defined feature.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2017Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: Google LLCInventor: Venkatesh Manickavasagam
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Patent number: 11086994Abstract: Priority scanning of files written by malicious users in a data storage system is described herein. A data storage system as described herein can include a user lookup component that obtains identities of users that have made at least one modification to a first file stored on the data storage system, resulting in a set of modifying users; a comparison component that compares respective modifying users of the set of modifying users to respective malicious users of a set of malicious users; and a scan priority component that, in response to the comparison component identifying at least one match between a modifying user of the set of modifying users and a malicious user of the set of malicious users, assigns a first scan priority to the first file that is higher than a second scan priority assigned to a second, different file stored on the data storage system.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2018Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLCInventors: Jai Prakash Gahlot, Amit Kumar Chauhan, Shiv Shankar Kumar
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Patent number: 11087968Abstract: A traveling wave multipole comprising two or more pairs of segmented electrodes arranged around a central axis; and a voltage supply. The voltage supply configured to supply the segments of each pair of electrodes with a different RF and DC potential; and match RF and DC potentials with a location of an ion of target m/z moving through the traveling wave multipole such that as the ion travels along the multipole the ion experiences the same RF and DC potentials while another ion of a second target m/z concurrently experiences a different RF and DC potentials at another location within the traveling wave multipole.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2019Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: THERMO FINNIGAN LLC.Inventors: David A. Schell, Joshua T. Maze
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Patent number: 11086558Abstract: A storage system in one embodiment comprises a plurality of storage devices and a storage controller. The storage controller is configured to receive a delete instruction for a storage volume, and responsive to receipt of the delete instruction, to suspend any further changes to address metadata for the storage volume, to transfer the address metadata for the storage volume to persistent storage, and to delete the storage volume while also at least temporarily maintaining its data pages. The storage controller subsequently receives an undelete instruction for the deleted storage volume, and responsive to receipt of the undelete instruction, retrieves the address metadata from persistent storage and recovers the storage volume utilizing the address metadata. An expiration timer may be started in conjunction with the deletion of the storage volume, and responsive to the undelete instruction being received after a specified expiration time of the expiration timer, the undelete instruction is rejected.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2018Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLCInventors: Anton Kucherov, David Meiri
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Patent number: 11087348Abstract: Disclosed are methods, systems, and non-transitory computer-readable medium for testing and applying codes to electronic shopping carts. For instance, the method may include monitoring a shopping cart associated with an e-commerce website and with a user; in response to detecting a change to the shopping cart, testing codes with respect to a present content of the shopping cart to determine valid codes; selecting at least one of the valid codes; determining a status of the session; and performing an action based on the status and the at least one selected code. The testing the codes with respect to the present content of the shopping cart may include: cloning the shopping cart to form a cloned shopping cart in a shadow session; and/or obtaining the codes; and testing the codes on the cloned shopping cart in the shadow session to determine the valid codes.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2019Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: Capital One Services, LLCInventors: William George Henderson, Robert Duke
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Patent number: 11085083Abstract: Methods and techniques to identify carcinogenesis pathways and markers for early cancer diagnosis. Cell sampling is performed on a single tumor with multiple samples being taken from the tumor and outward toward the periphery and beyond. Large scale analysis is performed, such as whole genomic sequencing, to identify the differences between the cells of the various samples. The differences are evaluated to determine which differences represent a change along the carcinogenesis pathway.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2014Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: VISIBLE GENOMICS, LLCInventors: James M. Barbeau, John S. DePaolo
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Patent number: 11086719Abstract: Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, storage devices, and machine readable mediums that utilize the ability of ECC to correct errors to actively prevent errors. The memory device determines whether a request to place data of a requested value at a requested location in the storage media is likely to interfere with other data stored at other locations on the storage media, and if so, changes the requested value to a second value that will not interfere (or has a lower probability of interfering) with neighboring data. The second value may be corrected to the requested value when a read request is made for that data using ECC.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2019Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Amer Aref Hassan, Roy D. Kuntz, David Anthony Lickorish
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Patent number: 11087612Abstract: A premises management system may monitor the location of a vehicle, and may perform an action based on the location of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2017Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLCInventor: Jim Poder