Patents Assigned to LLC
  • Patent number: 11082475
    Abstract: Measuring quality-of-experience (QoE) for virtual reality (VR) streaming content is disclosed. A network computing device receives a client-side VR stream capture and a client pose data set that are generated by a client computing device based on a VR content and one or more induced network impairments (e.g., latency, packet loss, and/or jitter, as non-limiting examples). Using the same VR content and the client pose data set, the network computing device generates a source VR stream capture that is not subjected to the one or more induced network impairments. The network computing device performs a frame-by-frame comparison of the client-side VR stream capture and the source VR stream capture. Based on the frame-by-frame comparison, the network computing device generates a QoE metric that indicates a degree of degradation of the client-side VR stream capture relative to the source VR stream capture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Charter Communications Operating, LLC
    Inventors: Matthew Ringenberg, Dhananjay Lal, Dell Wolfensparger, Andrew Ip
  • Patent number: 11079606
    Abstract: The lens arrangement has at least two lenses, wherein a first lens may be used for autofocus and optical image stabilization. The first lens is tilted to compensate for the shaking movement of the hand-held device and to stabilize the image to be captured on the image plane. The tilt action may occur in two degrees of freedom, wherein an actuator causes the first lens to tilt around a pivot. A second lens is a field flattener lens that compensates for the error caused by the difference between the image plane and the focus plane. The field flattener lens causes the focal plane of the first lens to lie in the image plane when the first lens is in a tilted position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Mikko Juhola, Marko Eromäki
  • Patent number: 11076634
    Abstract: A metered smoking apparatus includes a burnable media including indicia that visually represent a plurality of smokable units of a smokable substance or an active ingredient thereof, each of the smokable units corresponding to a same predetermined quantity of the smokable substance or the active ingredient thereof, and when the smokable substance is rolled within the burnable media, the burnable media is configured such that the indicia are sequentially burned in a burn line direction that is a direction in which a burn line burns when the metered smoking apparatus is smoked, to thereby indicate consumption of the predetermined quantity on a unit-by-unit basis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: ELEMENT EXTREME LLC
    Inventor: Daniel Freeman
  • Patent number: 11077778
    Abstract: A latch assembly for a compartment of a vehicle interior is provided. The latch assembly comprises a frame, a first pawl member, a second pawl member, a lever member, and a resilient member. The frame has a first portion, a second portion, and a third portion. The frame is fixed to a cover of the compartment. The first pawl member is slidingly disposed in the first portion of the frame. The second pawl member is slidingly disposed in the second portion of the frame. The lever member has a first and a second pivot pin and a center hub. The center hub is rotatably supported by the third portion of the frame. The first pivot pin is disposed in the first pivot slot of the first pawl member. The second pivot pin is disposed in the second pivot slot of the second pawl member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Scott K. Miller, Thomas D. Hallman
  • Patent number: 11078382
    Abstract: A two-component solventless adhesive composition is disclosed, the adhesive composition comprising an isocyanate component comprising at least one isocyanate, and a polyol component comprising at least one amine-initiated polyol having a functionality of from 3 to 8 and a hydroxyl number of from 20 to 1,000, wherein the first and second components are formulated to be applied to separate substrates before being brought together. Further, a method for forming a laminate is disclosed, the method comprising uniformly applying the isocyanate component to a first substrate, uniformly applying the polyol component to a second substrate, bringing the first and second substrates together, thereby mixing and reacting the isocyanate component and the polyol component to form an adhesive between the first and second substrates, and curing the adhesive to bond the first and second substrates. Still further, a laminate formed by the method is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Jie Wu, Rui Xie, Kalyan Sehanobish
  • Patent number: 11082209
    Abstract: A system includes a campaign management service to detect a campaign initiation request indicating a number of computerized devices to be updated for a campaign and store data corresponding to the computerized devices to be updated. The campaign management service can generate a filter data structure comprising hash values based on the data for each of the computerized devices to be updated and transmit the filter data structure to a network edge. The system can include the network edge that can use the filter data structure from the campaign management service to determine whether a computerized device is to obtain a device update from the campaign management service. The network edge can retrieve the device update and modify the computerized device by transmitting the device update to the computerized device, which then installs it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: INTEGRITY SECURITY SERVICES LLC
    Inventor: Neil Locketz
  • Patent number: 11078346
    Abstract: Systems and methods for producing aerogel materials are generally described. In certain cases, the methods do not require supercritical drying as part of the manufacturing process. In some cases, certain combinations of materials, solvents, and/or processing steps may be synergistically employed so as to enable manufacture of large (e.g., meter-scale), substantially crack free, and/or mechanically strong aerogel materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Aerogel Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Stephen A. Steiner, III, Justin S. Griffin, Benjamin H. Wunsch, John N. Schneider
  • Patent number: 11080805
    Abstract: A computer-based method and apparatus for identifying hazardous materials based on observable physical properties and signs and systems of exposure to the hazardous materials. The observable physical properties are obtained by preprocessing plain language data to obtain normalized descriptors and modifiers pertaining to a plurality of properties and signs and symptoms. The normalized descriptors and signs and symptoms are presented to a user in lists for comparison with a sample in the field. Tightly integrated with identifying the hazardous materials are obtaining response data, obtaining controlled materials of which the hazardous materials may be precursors, and predicting reactions of pairs of hazardous materials. The preferred embodiments of the invention are particularly useful to responders to a hazardous waste incident.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Maracuja Ventures LLC
    Inventor: Gregory A. Ouzounian
  • Patent number: 11079969
    Abstract: A storage system comprises a disk array enclosure comprising at least one enclosure controller, a plurality of data storage devices and at least one metadata storage device. The enclosure controller is configured to receive a write operation comprising data to be stored on at least one of the plurality of data storage devices and to determine a logical identifier for the data. The enclosure controller is further configured to determine a physical location on the at least one of the plurality of data storage devices for storing the data and to store the data at the physical location. The enclosure controller is further configured to update metadata stored on the at least one metadata storage device based at least in part on the physical location and the logical identifier and to return the logical identifier as a response to the received write operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Boris Glimcher, Amitai Alkalay
  • Patent number: 11080333
    Abstract: Exemplary systems and methods to improve capture of relationships within information are provided. In various embodiments, a system comprises a landmark module configured to choose a set of landmarks from data in a finite metric space, the set of landmarks being a subset of points in the finite metric space, a nearest neighbor module configured to compute, for each landmark, a predetermined number of nearest neighbor landmarks in the set of landmarks, a graph construction module configured to identify at least one pair of landmarks that are nearest neighbors to each other, an edge generator module configured to add an edge between the at least one pair of landmarks, and a non-landmark projection module configured to project non-landmark points based on the landmarks and one or more edges thereby enabling at least one shape to indicate relationships in the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Ayasdi AI LLC
    Inventors: Harlan Sexton, Jennifer Kloke
  • Patent number: 11080485
    Abstract: Joke recognition methods include using server(s) coupled with data store(s) to communicatively couple with a first computing device through a telecommunications network. A first communication is provided to a user through a user interface of the first computing device or is received through the user interface. A second communication is provided to the user through the user interface or is received through the user interface. In response to providing or receiving the second communication, the server(s) determine whether the second communication, relative to the first communication, includes a joke and/or a punchline. Upon determining that the second communication includes a joke and/or a punchline, the server(s) initiate sending one or more responses to the first computing device. The response(s) initiate providing, through the user interface, an indication to the user that the second communication is recognized as a joke/punchline. Systems for joke recognition provide the disclosed joke recognition methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Twenty Lane Media, LLC
    Inventor: Joseph E. Toplyn
  • Patent number: 11077364
    Abstract: An electronic game server receives a request from a client device to establish a real-time interactive gaming session, determines a device capability of an output device associated with the client device, determines a connection capability of the network connection, determines one or more target quality parameters for the real-time interactive gaming session based on the device capability and the connection capability, selects a first virtual machine of the plurality of virtual machines based on the one or more target quality parameters, establishes the real-time interactive gaming session with the client device, and provides to the real-time interactive gaming session, in accordance with the resource profile of the first virtual machine, resources for processing inputs from the client device and generating gameplay outputs in accordance with the processed inputs within the real-time interactive gaming session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Dov Zimring, Paul Leventis, Benjamin Frenkel, Matthew Rodgers, Clinton Smullen, Robert McCool
  • Patent number: 11082378
    Abstract: Methods and systems for tracing forwards of an electronic message. One method includes storing, for each of a plurality of forwarded messages sent via an electronic messaging application, a record in a data store, each record including a link to an original message for the forwarded message and calculating, with an electronic processor, a statistic for an electronic message based on records stored in the data store, wherein the statistic includes at least one selected from a group consisting of a number of forwards of the electronic message, a number of recipients of the electronic message including all forwards of the electronic message, and a number of requests to revoke the electronic message. The statistic is then output for display to a user via at least one user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Sukanya Rajagopal, Manohar Kumar, Aayushi Joshi, Vikhyat Khosla, Nikhil Maryala, Rakesh Midha, Deepak Kumar Pratinidhi, Rajiv Kumar, Vinay Kumar
  • Patent number: 11078017
    Abstract: An autonomous transport vehicle is provided. The autonomous transport vehicle includes a payload bed and a transfer arm configured to extend along a first axis to transfer a pickface to and from the payload bed, the transfer arm including fingers that are independently movable along a second axis, substantially perpendicular to the first axis for picking and placing the pickface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Symbotic LLC
    Inventors: Stephen C. Toebes, Robert Sullivan
  • Patent number: 11077784
    Abstract: The invention relates to a component group for a vehicle body, having a headlamp housing, which has at least one connecting portion integrally formed in one piece for connection to an adjoining body part, and a predetermined breaking point for separation of the connecting portion from a neighboring portion. To minimize both the repair costs in the event of a collision at low speed in the region of the headlamp and also the costs for production and assembly, it is provided according to the invention that the neighboring portion has connecting structures for connection to a joining part with which the connecting portion is replaceable after its separation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Christoph Kueppers, Martin Otto Alfred Konrad, Antje Sipido
  • Patent number: 11081471
    Abstract: An LED module includes a substrate having a high thermal conductivity and at least one LED die mounted on the substrate. A wavelength conversion material, such as phosphor or quantum dots in a binder, has a very low thermal conductivity and is formed to have a relatively high volume and low concentration over the LED die so that the phosphor or quantum dots conduct little heat from the LED die. A transparent top plate, having a high thermal conductivity, is positioned over the wavelength conversion material, and a hermetic seal is formed between the top plate and the substrate surrounding the wavelength conversion material. The LED die is located in a cavity in either the substrate or the top plate. In this way, the temperature of the wavelength conversion material is kept well below the temperature of the LED die. The sealing is done in a wafer level process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Lumileds LLC
    Inventors: Kentaro Shimizu, Brendan Jude Moran, Mark Melvin Butterworth, Oleg Borisovich Shchekin
  • Patent number: 11077073
    Abstract: Provided herein are oral pharmaceutical compositions comprising amantadine, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and a pharmaceutically acceptable excipient, and which have a low level of organic solvent. Provided are also methods of orally administrating a composition comprising amantadine, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, to a subject, which has reduced gastrointestinal side effects or sleep disturbances. Further provided are extended release oral compositions comprising amantadine, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, that are suitable for once daily administration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Adamas Pharma, LLC
    Inventors: Gregory T. Went, Timothy J. Fultz, Sangita Ghosh, Natalie McClure
  • Patent number: 11079925
    Abstract: A controller of a material handling system performs a method of creating a multidrop pattern of articles for robotic placement in layers on a pallet. A pattern is presented on a user interface of any currently positioned representations of articles on a pallet. A control affordance for inputting drag'n'drop and numeric inputs is presented on the user interface for robotic control operations to perform a multidrop of the more than one article in an end effector of a robotic arm for placement of the more than one article. User inputs are received that indicate placement position of a first subset of the more than one article. User inputs are received that indicate placement position of a second subset, which is mutually exclusive of the first subset, of the more than one article. The user inputs are converted into a place sequence of robotic control operations to perform a multidrop of the articles by the robotic arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Intelligrated Headquarters, LLC
    Inventors: Harold Roper, Wesley Hicks, James Nicholas Newton
  • Patent number: 11080370
    Abstract: A system and method for processing content access rights and/or entitlement rights are disclosed. A method, in one aspect, provides for receiving a selection of a content option, requesting access information associated with the selected content option, receiving access information comprising location information relating to a compatible format, requesting access rights from a first service associated with the location information, wherein the first service requests an access decision relating to the selected content option from a second service based upon the access rights, and receiving the access rights.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: COMCAST CABLE COMMUNICATIONS MANAGEMENT, LLC
    Inventor: Alfred J. Stappenbeck
  • Patent number: D926898
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: PARSONS XTREME GOLF, LLC
    Inventors: Bradley D. Schweigert, Michael R. Nicolette