Patents Assigned to LLC
  • Patent number: 11105584
    Abstract: A holster for a handgun having a trigger guard includes a holster body defining a chamber for receiving a portion of the handgun. The holster body has an entranceway enabling insertion of the gun into the holster and removal of the handgun from the holster chamber. The holster includes a blocking device separate from the holster body that helps to block movement of the handgun trigger guard relative to the holster body when the handgun is in the chamber. The blocking device is supported on the holster body for movement relative to the holster body between an open position and a blocking position. The blocking device has a tail portion that projects from the bottom wall in a direction away from the top wall when the blocking member is in the open position. The blocking device moves from the open position to the blocking position in response to insertion of a handgun through the entranceway into the chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Safariland, LLC
    Inventors: William H. Rogers, Dylan Vaccaro, Matthew E. McKendrick
  • Patent number: 11103063
    Abstract: An apparatus for use with a rack of lockers is disclosed. The apparatus includes a key-facilitation server configured to cooperate with a locker server, and also configured to receive a key-access request. The locker server is associated with a rack of lockers including a first compartment configured to allow storage of secondary equipment, a second compartment having an open locker slot configured to maintain storage of equipment, and a locker divider separating the first compartment from the second compartment. The key-access request is configured to indicate a user request configured to request usage of an access key. The access key is also configured to be usable by the locker server. The locker server is configured to receive a locker-access request. The locker-access request is configured to indicate access of a selected locker is user requested. The locker server is configured to use the access key so as to facilitate secured user access of the selected locker associated with the rack of lockers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Best Lockers, LLC
    Inventors: Cory Jack Finney, Christian Nitu, Nick Ramsey, Jordan Darrington, Jonathan White, Matt Hoenecke
  • Patent number: 11104276
    Abstract: A vehicle floor console assembly includes a console body including a bin integrally formed with the console body, and a support structure integrally formed with the console body and extending from a rear wall of the bin. The support structure includes a support hinge knuckle. The vehicle floor console assembly further includes a lid including a lid hinge knuckle rotatably coupled to the support hinge knuckle, and an end panel coupled to the support structure. A front portion of the end panel together with the console body defines an end panel interface. The end panel interface is substantially flush with the rear wall of the bin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Gregory Paul Thomas, Stephen Neal Jacobsen, Michele Marie Mathews
  • Patent number: 11103231
    Abstract: A suture delivery system is described. The system includes an anchor and a cooperating driver, the driver facilitating a delivery of the anchor into the abdominal cavity. The system allows for the deployment of a suture internally into an abdominal wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP FLUIDICS, LLC
    Inventors: Ronan Keating, Gerard Rabbitte, Barry Russell
  • Patent number: 11104191
    Abstract: A vertically articulating trailer hitch assembly for use with a vehicle, and particularly for use with an autonomous vehicle. The trailer hitch assembly is pivotally attached to the vehicle frame. The hitch assembly is allowed to swing away from the vehicle frame from a lowered position in which the trailer ball is uncoupled from the hitch coupler of the trailer to a raised position in which the trailer ball is coupled to the hitch coupler. The hitch assembly typically includes a receiver that has a long axis. The vehicle frame has a long axis. When the hitch assembly is in its lowered position, the long axis of the receiver is out of alignment with the long axis of the frame. When the hitch assembly is in its raised position, the long axis of the receiver is aligned with the long axis of the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Eric Emil Jackson, Joseph L. Buchwitz, James Adam Drozdowski
  • Patent number: 11103002
    Abstract: An apparatus for enrobing a product portion can include at least one polymer spray head adapted to create at least one flow of polymeric fibers to produce at least one polymer enrobing zone and a conveyor system adapted to move at least one product portion from at least one position below at least one polymer enrobing zone and to at least one position above at least one polymer enrobing zone to drop each product portion through one or more polymer enrobing zones a plurality times at different orientations to enrobe each product portion with polymeric fibers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Altria Client Services LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Nathan Carroll, Shannon Maxwell Black, Yan Helen Sun, William J. Burke, Robert Smith
  • Patent number: 11107133
    Abstract: A system for online advertising. The system may include at least one memory unit for storing instructions and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to perform operations. The operations may include receiving a plurality of creatives for a webpage published to a viewer and resulting in a viewer experience; measuring, based on the viewer experience, a result including conversion rates for a plurality of variants of the webpage; determining confidence intervals in association with the conversion rates; dynamically comparing the received creatives, the conversion rates, and the determined confidence intervals of the variants; automatically analyzing, based on the comparison, the variants to select a winning webpage, the winning webpage exceeding a computed threshold; and automatically adjusting online traffic such that the selected winning webpage is displayed more frequently than other webpages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: CAPITAL ONE SERVICES, LLC
    Inventors: Kirankumar Kulkarni, Savio Joseph Darivemula, Anil Konduru, Patrick Manion, Ranganathan Mohan, Gunjan Patel, Sunil Vasisht
  • Patent number: 11108230
    Abstract: A portable power manager device (100) includes a DC power bus (110) and a plurality of device ports (141, 142, and 143). A primary device port (143) is connectable to the DC power bus over a primary power channel that does not include a DC to DC power converter. A plurality of secondary device ports (141, 142) is each connectable to the DC power bus over a different reconfigurable power channel (151, 152). Each reconfigurable power channel includes a single one-way DC to DC power converter (220, 221). Each reconfigurable power channel is configurable by a digital data processor as one of three different circuit legs (230, 232, and 234). Leg (230) provides output power conversion. Leg (232) provides input power conversion. Leg (234) provides bi-directional power exchange without power conversion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Galvion Soldier Power, LLC
    Inventors: David N. Long, Nicholas J. Piela, I
  • Patent number: 11104262
    Abstract: The vehicle for use with the present system is a pickup truck or other work truck with an open cargo space. The cargo space is typically defined by a rectangular bed surrounded by fixed walls on three sides and a tailgate in the rear of the vehicle. The bottom of the cargo space is referred to as the floor or cargo bed floor. Cargo pillars are positioned at the two back corners of the cargo bed. They are also the structural support for a tailgate. The bottom of the tailgate is rotatably connected to the base of the pillars next to the cargo bed floor. When the tailgate is open or down, it is typically about parallel to the cargo bed floor. When the tailgate is up or closed, it is latched or locked to the upper end of the pillars. A fixed or retractable cable strap, chain, rope, or similar line is adapted to be locked together with the locking of a truck tailgate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: 8th Commandment Cable Company, LLC
    Inventor: Joseph Lane Campbell
  • Patent number: 11104581
    Abstract: A method of producing advanced carbon materials can include providing coal to a processing facility, beneficiating the coal to remove impurities from the coal, processing the beneficiated coal to produce a pitch, and treating the pitch to produce an advanced carbon material such as carbon fibers, carbon nanotubes, graphene, carbon fibers, polymers, biomaterials, or other carbon materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Carbon Holdings Intellectual Properties, LLC
    Inventors: Charles Agee Atkins, Garrett W. Lindemann, Matthew Targett
  • Patent number: 11109463
    Abstract: Provided is a lighting driving circuit for supplying power to a plurality of LED channels, having an input-output synchronous switch circuit synchronously connected to an input and an output of the lighting driving circuit, a rectifier circuit, a power conversion circuit, a power output having an output capacitor, and a discharge circuit connected to the switch circuit and an input end of the rectifier circuit and to the output capacitor. The plurality of LED channels are connected between the power output and the switch circuit, and the switch circuit is configured to simultaneously perform a switching operation of the power supplied to the plurality of LED channels to remove any inrush current to the LED load and send a sense signal to the discharge circuit to discharge the output capacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: SAVANT TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventors: Frank Wang, Xin Zhou, Fanbin Wang
  • Patent number: 11105135
    Abstract: This disclosure is generally directed to a hydraulic door closer, and more specifically is directed to a hydraulic storm or screen door closer that has a fluid overflow chamber providing fluid volume and pressure control for both expanded and contracted fluid at different temperatures. The disclosed hydraulic door closer comprises a fluid overflow chamber adapted to hold sufficient fluid to maintain required operating fluid or oil levels at different temperatures, and to ensure proper closer performance under both extreme high and low temperature conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Larson Manufacturing Company of South Dakota, LLC
    Inventor: Michael W. Kondratuk
  • Patent number: 11105165
    Abstract: An embodiment of a downhole device includes an elongated body configured to be deployed in a borehole in an earth formation, the borehole including a borehole fluid. The device also includes a propulsion system attached to the body and configured to move the device through the borehole. The propulsion system includes one or more rotor blades configured to generate thrust using the borehole fluid. At least part of the one or more rotor blades is disposed external to the elongated body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Zhi Yong He, Yuh Loh, Jason M. Harper, Ronnie Russell, Do Seo Park
  • Patent number: 11109442
    Abstract: Example methods, apparatus, systems, and machine-readable mediums for dynamically adjusting a network inactivity timer during user endpoint mobility states are disclosed. An exemplary system includes a radio network including one or more base nodes, a network controller and network resources allocable to user endpoints and communications therewith. The system further including a first one of the user endpoints co-located with a vehicle and configured to determine mobility state information in correspondence with travel of the vehicle and of the first one of the user endpoints, the first one of the user endpoints utilizing an inactivity timer to release network resources allocated to the first one of the user endpoints. The network controller of the system is in communication with the first one of the user endpoints to update a value for the inactivity timer in correspondence with network policy data and the mobility state information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignees: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P., AT&T MOBILITY II LLC
    Inventors: Zhi Cui, Erie Lai Har Lau, Guangtian Liu, Jessalyn Cheng, Sangar Dowlatkhah
  • Patent number: 11108778
    Abstract: Embodiments include methods and systems for enabling third-party data service interoperability, comprising receiving, from an electronic data server, a request for a low-value token, the low-value token being associated with a subset of sensitive data associated with a user; providing the low-value token to the electronic data server; receiving a request for the subset of sensitive data, from a third-party data service server, the request comprising the low-value token; de-tokenizing the low-value token to obtain the subset of sensitive data; providing the subset of sensitive data to the third-party data service server; receiving, from an electronic data server, the low-value token and a transaction authorization request; determining, based on the low-value token and authorization request, an authorization response; and providing the authorization response to the electronic data server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Worldpay, LLC
    Inventor: Brant Peterson
  • Patent number: 11109036
    Abstract: Innovations in encoder-side options for intra block copy (“BC”) prediction mode facilitate intra BC prediction that is more effective in terms of rate-distortion performance and/or computational efficiency of encoding. For example, some of the innovations relate to concurrently performing block vector (“BV”) estimation and making block splitting decisions for a block. Other innovations relate to selectively merging blocks into a larger block during BV estimation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Bin Li, Jizheng Xu
  • Patent number: 11104252
    Abstract: A vehicle seating assembly having a housing assembly coupled to a seat frame with a transverse member. A cushion pan extends between the transverse member and a cross bar. A cushion nose extends between the transverse member and a front portion of the housing assembly. A gas-generating device is deployable in response to a sudden vehicle deceleration to exert a force on the cushion nose to rotate the cushion nose about an axis defined by a transverse member from a first position to a second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Johnathan Andrew Line, Spencer Hoernke, Marcos Silva Kondrad, Sean West, Benjamin Yilma, Edward Joseph DeSmet, S. M. Akbar Berry, Rodney Charles Brinker
  • Patent number: 11109457
    Abstract: In various embodiments, a device and method of dividing current among LED arrays is described. Each array has a sense resistor to sense a voltage of a current channel associated with the array. An analog or digital computational circuit with an op-amp and parallel RC circuit or microprocessor compares the voltages of the sense resistors and controls switches of the arrays accordingly. The analog circuit charges or discharges the capacitor to alter the output voltage used to control the switches. The microprocessor determines a ratio of the sensed voltages to generate the output voltage, maps a control signal to the ratio, directs input current to one or the other channel dependent on the control signal voltage and otherwise scales the input current between the channels. Other apparatuses, devices, and methods are described as well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Lumileds LLC
    Inventor: Yifeng Qiu
  • Patent number: D929350
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Lutron Technology Company LLC
    Inventors: Chris Lloyd Dimberg, Elliot G. Jacoby, Jason C. Killo, Brad Michael Kreschollek, Matthew Philip McDonald
  • Patent number: D929500
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Stephen Schneider, Tyler Maiman