Patents Assigned to LLC
  • Source side precharge and boosting improvement for reverse order program
    Patent number: 11081162
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to apparatuses and a method for retaining a bias in a NAND string channel during source-side precharge. The apparatuses include a memory array and a die controller configured to mitigate formation of a potential gradient in the channel of the memory array NAND strings during a program storage operation. To this end, a plurality of source-side select gates is activated, then each of the plurality of source side dummy word line select gates is activated. Next, a NAND string channel is biased by biasing the source line coupled to the NAND string by the plurality of source-side select gates. Finally, the plurality of source-side select gates and the plurality of source side dummy word line select gates are discharged such that the channel maintains an electrical path to the source line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: SanDisk Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Sarath Puthenthermadam, Yu-Chung Lien, Huai-Yuan Tseng
  • Transmission with selectable one-way clutch
    Patent number: 11078970
    Abstract: A vehicle transmission includes a plurality of friction clutches and a selectable one-way clutch. The transmission also includes a controller programmed to, in response to detecting a component fault, switch the selectable one-way clutch from a passive state to an active state by commanding engagement of a first subset of the friction clutches to establish a slip elimination state. The controller is also programmed to, following establishment of the slip elimination state, command the selectable one-way clutch to the active state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Dongdong Dee Li, Stephen Michael Cicala, Conor Edward Sullivan, Richard Reynolds Hathaway
  • Airbag assembly inflatable from seat bottom
    Patent number: 11077817
    Abstract: An assembly includes a seatback and a seat bottom. The seat bottom has a seat bottom frame. The seat bottom frame has a front side spaced from the seatback, a first side extending between the seatback and the front side, and a second side spaced from the first side and extending between the seatback and the front side. An airbag is supported by the front side and inflatable to an inflated position. An external tether extends from the airbag to the seatback.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Dean M. Jaradi, S. M. Iskander Farooq, Mohammad Omar Faruque, Anil Kalra
  • Electronic components enclosure located in a step structure
    Patent number: 11082314
    Abstract: Systems and methods relate to locating connectivity network components in a step structure. Connectivity network components, such as network switches, network access points, etc., are disposed within structural steps in a spectator venue, such as a sports stadium or arena. Locating network components in stadium steps allows network cabling to be brought closer to network access points, thus bringing about efficiencies in cabling costs and connectivity characteristics. Such systems and methods allow for network access points to be located in greater densities in areas with high user access rates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: AmpThink, LLC
    Inventor: William C. Anderson
  • Methods and apparatus for multi-carrier communications with variable channel bandwidth
    Patent number: 11082172
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for multi-carrier communication with variable channel bandwidth are disclosed, where the time frame structure and the OFDM symbol structure are invariant and the frequency-domain signal structure is flexible. In one embodiment, a mobile station, upon entering a geographic area, uses a core-band to initiate communication and obtain essential information and subsequently switches to full operating bandwidth of the area for the remainder of the communication. If the mobile station operates in a wide range of bandwidths, the mobile station divides the full range into sub-ranges and adjusts its sampling frequency and its FFT size in each sub-range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: INTELLECTUAL VENTURES II LLC
    Inventors: Xiaodong Li, Titus Lo, Kemin Li, Haiming Huang
  • Nuclear fuel pebble and method of manufacturing the same
    Patent number: 11081241
    Abstract: Nuclear fuel elements may include: a fuel zone including fuel particles disposed in parallel layers in a matrix including graphite powder; and a shell comprising graphite and surrounding the fuel zone. The fuel particles may include fissile particles, burnable poison particles, breeder particles, or a combination thereof. The fuel zone may include a central region and a peripheral region surrounding the central region, and a fuel particle density of the peripheral region may be greater than a fuel particle density of the central region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: X-ENERGY, LLC
    Inventors: Peter Pappano, Martin Peter Van Staden
  • Electric drilling and bolting device
    Patent number: 11078790
    Abstract: A drilling and bolting device for driving a drill element into a rock surface includes a frame, a drive unit supported for movement relative to the frame, and an actuator for moving the drive unit relative to the frame. The drive unit includes a motor and a chuck for engaging the drill element. The chuck is driven by the motor. In some aspects, the actuator includes a magnet exerting a magnetic force on the block to provide magnetic coupling between the actuator and a block supporting the motor. In some aspects, the actuator is positioned at least partially within an elongated member of the frame. In some aspects, the drive unit includes a switched reluctance motor including a stator and a rotor supported for rotation relative to the stator, and the rotor is directly coupled to the chuck.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Joy Global Underground Mining LLC
    Inventors: Robert Holdsworth, Brad Neilson, Peter Hanna
  • Product storage and retrieval
    Patent number: 11080651
    Abstract: An inventory system for storing and locating goods in a storage area. Ordered goods are placed in bag units at a central filling center. The filled bag units are shipped to local storage areas where they are placed onto rails in a storage structure. The rails include an imaging sensor at each bag receiving location defined on the rails for obtaining a bag identifier that is affixed with the bag unit. The bag identifier and the rail address for each bag unit is stored on a local computer database. When a user wants to pick up stored goods, the user inputs the identification or order information for the goods and the computer will search the inventory to locate the goods in a specific stored bag unit. The rail adjacent the bag unit will be illuminated to facilitate locating the goods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Maxor National Pharmacy Services, LLC
    Inventors: Kevin C Delaney, Kendrick S Lim, Robert G Guillermo
  • Pricing system for identifying prices for vehicles offered by vehicle dealerships and other entities
    Patent number: 11080734
    Abstract: A method includes identifying, for a specified vehicle, a competitive set of other vehicles based on input from a user. The method also includes receiving from the user one or more parameters to be used in pricing the specified vehicle. The method further includes identifying a recommended price for the specified vehicle using the competitive set and the one or more parameters. The one or more parameters could include a selection or definition of multiple pricing formulas to be used to identify the recommended price. Different pricing formulas can be associated with different lengths of time that the specified vehicle is available. A first of the pricing formulas can be used to identify a first recommended price for the specified vehicle and, after a specified amount of time has elapsed, a second of the pricing formulas can be used to identify a lower second recommended price for the specified vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: CDK GLOBAL, LLC
    Inventor: Bruce T. Thompson
  • Method to hydraulically fracture a well
    Patent number: 11078407
    Abstract: A method may comprise: determining a total dissolved solids (TDS) concentration of a water source; correlating the TDS concentration to an ion concentration; and selecting at least one friction reducing polymer for a hydraulic fracturing operation based at least in part on the ion concentration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Multi-Chem Group, LLC
    Inventors: Ian Wood Straffin, Howard Thomas Riley, Teddy Joel Dubois, James William Ogle
  • Systems and methods for preventing laundry tangles
    Patent number: 11078621
    Abstract: Systems and methods for attaching large articles of bedding such as bed sheets, blankets, duvet covers, comforters, and quilts, as well as other machine-washable large items such as sleeping bags, tablecloths, shower curtains, and shower curtain liners, in order to prevent or greatly reduce said articles from twisting, tangling, balling and/or wadding either independently or with each other in either or both the automatic washing machine or automatic clothes dryer. Exemplary fabric securing devices include a rigid base having keyholes and slit-holes, and flexible straps or tongues having a hollow post to engage a base keyhole and a crescent-shaped beveled edge to engage a base slit-hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Brayniacs LLC
    Inventor: Cynthia Moltz Bray
  • Multi-piece polymer ammunition cartridge nose
    Patent number: 11079205
    Abstract: The present invention provides a polymer nose for a polymeric ammunition cartridge having a generally cylindrical neck having a projectile aperture at a first end, an outer shoulder surface that extends from the generally cylindrical neck, an outer shoulder angle defined by the outer shoulder surface, an inner shoulder surface on the inside of the polymer nose opposite the outer shoulder surface, an inner shoulder angle defined by the outer shoulder surface, a skirt surface extending from the inner shoulder surface, a skirt angle defined by the skirt surface and a nose junction that extends from the outer shoulder surface to the skirt surface, wherein the nose junction is adapted to mate to a polymer cartridge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: TRUE VELOCITY IP HOLDINGS, LLC
    Inventors: Lonnie Burrow, Christopher William Overton
  • Vehicle traffic management via wireless system
    Patent number: 11080998
    Abstract: A wireless system includes a master communication device in communication with multiple slave communication devices. During operation, the master communication device establishes first wireless connectivity with each of the multiple slave communication devices via a first wireless communication protocol. Each of the slave communication devices monitors vehicular traffic at a street intersection. The master communication device receives input of monitored vehicular traffic from the multiple slave communication devices. The master communication device communicates a status of the vehicular traffic over second wireless connectivity to a wireless base station in communication with a controller. The controller generates and communicates control information based on the detected vehicular traffic to the master communication device that distribute the control information to the slave communication devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Charter Communications Operating, LLC
    Inventor: Saran Khalid
  • Methods and systems to quantify and index correlation risk in financial markets and risk management contracts thereon
    Patent number: 11080789
    Abstract: Systems and methods for creating indicators to quantify and index correlation risk that is market-wide among a broad set of asset classes or portfolio specific relative to an investor's portfolio holdings. The present disclosure relates to risk management in financial markets, and in particular to systems and methods for quantifying and indexing correlation risk such that these indices can serve as underlying assets for futures and options or other financial instruments that investors would use to hedge against the risk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Economic Alchemy LLC
    Inventors: Giselle Claudette Guzman, Lawrence Klein
  • Current distribution from different power sources
    Patent number: 11079824
    Abstract: Systems and methods for power distribution are disclosed. A system includes a first power domain that supplies current to an integrated circuit at a first voltage level, a second power domain that supplies current to the integrated circuit at a second voltage level, and a current distribution component that is connected to the first power domain and connectable to the second power domain and senses a metric comprising a first current level or a first voltage level drawn from the first power domain, determines whether the metric exceeds a first threshold, and in response to determining that the metric exceeds the first threshold, electrically connects the second power domain to the integrated circuit to supply additional current such that an aggregate current level received by the integrated circuit comprises current from the first power domain and the additional current from the second power domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: SanDisk Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Nitin Gupta, Bhavin Odedara, Raghu Voleti
  • Controller movement tracking with light emitters
    Patent number: 11079858
    Abstract: A head-worn computer includes a camera system positioned to capture a surrounding environment in front of a user, a processor that identifies a position of a plurality of light emitters mounted on a hand-held controller from images captured by the camera system and tracks the position of the plurality of light emitters as the hand-held controller moves in the surrounding environment and interprets the tracked position as positional changes of the hand-held controller. The processor uses the position of the plurality of light emitters as markers in three dimensional space, the markers used as an anchor for virtual content presented in a see-through display of the head-worn computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Mentor Acquisition One, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Michael Lohse, John D. Haddick
  • Enabling application control path over a remote data facility link
    Patent number: 11079950
    Abstract: Described herein is a system that facilitates application control path over a remote data facility link. According to an embodiment, a system can comprise creating a first filesystem at a first control station. The system can further comprise establishing a first data communication link between the first control station and a second control station by increasing a bandwidth of a remote data facility link, wherein the remote data facility link facilitates communication between the first control station and the second control station. The system can further comprise creating a second filesystem at the second control station, wherein the first filesystem is communicatively connected to the second filesystem via the first data communication link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
    Inventor: Piyush Tibrewal
  • III-nitride multi-wavelength LED for visible light communication
    Patent number: 11081622
    Abstract: A light emitting diode (LED) array may include a first pixel and a second pixel on a substrate. The first pixel and the second pixel may include one or more tunnel junctions on one or more LEDs. The LED array may include a first trench between the first pixel and the second pixel. The trench may extend to the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Lumileds LLC
    Inventors: Isaac Harshman Wildeson, Parijat Pramil Deb, Robert Armitage
  • Surgical device with anti-binding features
    Patent number: 11076878
    Abstract: Methods and devices are provided for preventing binding between components of a drive assembly of a surgical device. In an exemplary embodiment, a surgical device is provided having a ball-and-socket joint that allows bending of various drive shafts relative to the handle without causing movement of a drive rack disposed within the handle. Since the drive rack does not move in response to bending of the shaft, the drive gear and rack will remain aligned thus preventing jamming of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Ethicon LLC
    Inventor: Chad P. Boudreaux
  • System and process of utilizing energy for treating biological tissue
    Patent number: 11077318
    Abstract: A process for heat treating biological tissue includes providing a plurality of energy emitters formed into an array. Treatment energy is generated from the plurality of emitters and applied to target tissue. The treatment energy has energy and application parameters selected so as to raise the target tissue temperature sufficiently to create a therapeutic effect while maintaining an average temperature of the target tissue over several minutes at or below a predetermined temperature so as not to destroy or permanently damage the target tissue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Ojai Retinal Technology, LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey K. Luttrull, David B. Chang, Benjamin W. L. Margolis