Patents Assigned to LLC
  • Patent number: 12280794
    Abstract: A method of operating a self-driving vehicle is provided. The method includes predicting a trajectory of an agent in a vicinity of the self-driving vehicle. This is done by: receiving sensor data indicative of a current situation in the vicinity of the self-driving vehicle; generating a current situation feature vector based, at least in part, on the sensor data; searching a pre-built bank of library feature vectors to identify a result feature vector from the pre-built bank that is most relevant to the current situation feature vector, wherein each library feature vector in the pre-built bank is associated with an observed trajectory; and predicting the trajectory of the agent based, at least in part, on the result feature vector. The method also includes planning an action of the vehicle based, at least in part, on the predicted agent trajectory, and operating the vehicle according to the planned action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Y.E. Hub Armenia LLC
    Inventors: Boris Konstantinovich Yangel, Yury Aleksandrovich Biktairov
  • Patent number: 12281546
    Abstract: A downhole tool including a gravel pack assembly, a remotely addressable actuator connected to the gravel pack assembly, and a valve responsive to the actuator, the valve opening and closing a washdown path through the tool. A method for gravel packing a borehole including running a tool to a target depth in the borehole, flowing washdown fluid through the tool, sending an electric signal to the actuator to close the valve, and flowing through a cross over port of the gravel pack assembly. A borehole system including a borehole in a subsurface formation, a tool disposed within the borehole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC
    Inventors: Herb Dhuet, Daniel J. Turick, Richard Ochoa, Jason Fuxa, Wilfred Provost
  • Patent number: 12281891
    Abstract: An alignment checking apparatus holder to assist checking of the alignment of a motor vehicle headlamp installed in a body of a motor vehicle includes a base body, at least one reference marking on the base body, and a multiple of form-fit elements. The base body is visually perceptible from the outside in a checking position. The multiple of form-fit elements are rigidly connected to the base body and are intended to form form-fit connections with parts of the motor vehicle headlamp or of the body of the motor vehicle. The at least one reference marking has a predetermined position with respect to the multiple of form-fit elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Marcel Ponier
  • Patent number: 12282375
    Abstract: A method of thermal and power control in a computing device includes, at the computing device, initializing a thermal module of the computing device, receiving data at the thermal module from a first component assigned to an interface of the thermal module, and sending an output to a second component from the thermal module based on the data. Initializing the thermal module includes detecting a presence of a plurality of potential components of the computing device; querying each of the plurality of potential components to determine capabilities of each component; in response to the querying, for each of at least a subset of the plurality of potential components receiving identification information for the component and, based on the received identification information, configuring one or more interfaces of the plurality of predefined interfaces of the thermal module to establish communication with the sub set of components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Mika Juhani Rintamaeki, Gregory Allen Nielsen, Rajagopal K. Venkatachalam, Ajit Justin, Francisco Cantu De La Garza
  • Patent number: 12280542
    Abstract: Additive manufacturing compositions include low-absorbing particles or non-absorbing particles that have an absorbance for wavelengths of 300 nm to 700 nm that is equal to or greater than 0 Au and is less 1.0 Au, such as 0.001 Au absorbance?0.7 Au. Slurries including such particles and an uranium-containing particle and that are used in additive manufacturing processes have an increased penetration depth for curative radiation. Removal of low-absorbing particles or non-absorbing particles during post-processing of as-manufactured products results in pores that create porosity in the as-manufactured product that provide a volume accommodating fission gases and/or can enhance wicking of certain heat pipe coolant liquids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: BWXT Advanced Technologies LLC
    Inventors: John R. Salasin, Benjamin D. Fisher
  • Patent number: 12283921
    Abstract: Driver circuits, systems for driving actuators, and imaging systems with actuators. The driver circuit includes a current comparator circuit, a driver, and a replica circuit. The current comparator circuit includes a first node having a first voltage. The current comparator circuit also includes a second node having a second voltage. The driver includes a first terminal responsive to the second voltage. The driver also includes a second terminal connected to a reference voltage. The replica circuit includes a third terminal connected to the first node. The replica circuit also includes a fourth terminal connected to the second terminal of the driver. The replica circuit also includes a fifth terminal connected to the first terminal of the driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLC
    Inventor: Seiji Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 12282444
    Abstract: Generally disclosed herein is an approach for enabling the connection of non-PCIe accelerators as PCIe devices using a Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) abstraction layer (“PAL”). Once the operating system accesses and configures any on-SoC devices and accelerators using standard PCIe APIs, all PCIe configuration transactions may be routed to the PAL. The PAL's firmware may present the operating system with a virtual PCIe space that contains all available SoC PCIe and non-PCIe devices. The firmware of the PAL may translate PCIe configuration transactions into device-specific configuration transactions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Yiftach Benjamini, Jonathan Charles Masters, Henrietta Bezbroz
  • Patent number: 12283391
    Abstract: Ground conductors are disclosed. The ground conductors can include a core made primarily of a first material, such as steel. The ground conductor can include a surrounding sheath, which includes at least one layer made primarily of a second material, such as copper. The ground conductor has a ratio between its width and its thickness of no less than 11.1:1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Exeter Chancery LLC
    Inventor: Jeffrey T. Jordan
  • Patent number: 12280444
    Abstract: A laser ablation system, and method, facilitates the execution of user-defined scans (i.e., in which a laser beam is scanned across a sample along a beam trajectory to ablate or dissociate a portion of the sample) and enables the user define additional scans while a scan is being executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Elemental Scientific Lasers, LLC
    Inventors: Ciaran J. O'Connor, Erik B. Larsen, Leif C. Summerfield
  • Patent number: 12279816
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods that facilitate optical analysis, particularly for the diagnosis and treatment of refractive errors of the eye. An optical diagnostic method for an eye includes obtaining a sequence of aberration measurements of the eye, identifying an outlier aberration measurement of the sequence of aberration measurements, and excluding the outlier aberration measurement from the sequence of aberration measurements to produce a qualified sequence of aberration measurements. The sequence of aberrations measurements can be obtained by using a wavefront sensor. An optical correction for the eye can be formulated in response to the qualified sequence of aberration measurements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: AMO Development, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel R. Neal, Thomas D. Raymond, Leander Zickler
  • Patent number: 12280912
    Abstract: A tamper evident container comprises a base, a lid, a first hinge, a locking mechanism, a second hinge, and a tamper evidence feature. The base retains items for storage. The lid engages with and covers the base. The first hinge rotatably couples the base and the lid. The locking mechanism secures the lid to the base and includes a plug and a receptacle. The locking mechanism is engaged when the plug is within the receptacle. The second hinge rotatably couples the base and the plug. The tamper evidence feature provides evidence of the container being tampered with or opened and is positioned between the plug and the second hinge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: BROWN LLC
    Inventors: David Cooper, Mike Mullholand
  • Patent number: 12280786
    Abstract: A system for identifying adversarial behavior directed to an autonomous vehicle includes a pedestrian detection system in communication with a vehicle controller adapted to identify a pedestrian within proximity of the autonomous vehicle, track the pedestrian, determine if the pedestrian is intending to cross in front of the autonomous vehicle, and if the pedestrian tracking system determines that the pedestrian is not intending to cross in front of the autonomous vehicle, the pedestrian tracking system is further adapted to continue tracking the pedestrian, and if the pedestrian tracking system determines that the pedestrian is intending to cross in front of the autonomous vehicle, the pedestrian tracking system is further adapted to determine, with an adversarial intent algorithm, if the pedestrian is exhibiting any adversarial behavior.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Alaa M. Khamis, Wei Tong
  • Patent number: 12282792
    Abstract: System and method are described for copying and pasting files and folders between a client and a virtual desktop via clipboard redirection. A virtual desktop session can be established by the client on the virtual desktop. The user can copy a file or folder to the virtual desktop clipboard and a path corresponding to the file or folder can be stored in the virtual desktop clipboard in a path list. When the user ungrabs the agent or switches focus out of the virtual desktop to the client, the path list can be transferred to the client device and set into the client clipboard. Subsequently, a request can be received in the client device to paste the copied file or folder to a target location in the client device. In response to the request, the client device can retrieve the contents of the copied file or folder from the agent and the contents can be placed in the target location to complete the paste operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Omnissa, LLC
    Inventors: Qi Sun, Feng Yan, Li Huang, Bo Liu, Kun Shi
  • Patent number: 12282503
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for automatically determining an intent of a user based on an intent model to attach a file to a document, prompting the user to confirm the intent using a predetermined character in an inline nudge, generating and displaying an inline menu with an interactive list of ranked files as a suggestion for attachment. The disclosed technology uses the intent for specifying a scope of the inline search. The intent model for attaching content maintained by third-party applications uses a combination of an embeddings model and an N-gram model with limited seed queries and determines the intent based on intent scores associated with respective third-party applications. The present disclosure ranks respective candidate content based on a degree of relevance to the intent. The user selects one or more content from the list for attaching to the document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Constantin, Matthew Sledge Epstein, TszYan C Zogg, Lutfi Ilke Kaya, Christopher Andrews Jung, Ragavenderan Venkatesan, Ming Wu, Zhiguo Yu
  • Patent number: 12280284
    Abstract: In one aspect of the present exercise machine, an assembly is attached to the end of a reformer, where the assembly comprises a seat mechanism and a pedal mechanism. The seat mechanism has a seat, a bracket supporting the seat, and a height adjustment system, where activation of the height adjustment system permits selective adjustment and locking of the height of the seat and the bracket by restricting travel of the seat and bracket to a slanted path that is slanted relative to the vertical. The pedal mechanism has an axle, a first pedal arm with a first pedal, and a second pedal arm with a second pedal. The pedal mechanism is located directly beneath the seat when the seat mechanism is in a lowest position and partially exposed in a higher position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: ROCKIT BODY LLC
    Inventors: Judith Aronson, Alan Crawford
  • Patent number: 12280781
    Abstract: A method for controlling a plurality of autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) in a manufacturing environment having an intersection includes obtaining a plurality of routes associated with the plurality of AMRs, velocity information associated with the plurality of AMRs, and priority information associated with the plurality of AMRs, and determining a plurality of arrival times associated with the plurality of AMRs based on the velocity information and the plurality of routes. The method includes generating a plurality of intersection reservations based on the plurality of arrival times and the priority information, where each intersection reservation from among the plurality of intersection reservations corresponds to an AMR from among the plurality of AMRs, and controlling a movement of the plurality of AMRs through the intersection based on the plurality of intersection reservations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Yifan Chen, Gregory P. Linkowski, Meghna Menon, Sarah Garrow, Geoffrey Horowitz
  • Patent number: 12281943
    Abstract: Method of manufacturing a colored product, which includes obtaining a first colored covering material, where the first colored covering material is a first covering material coated with a first coating, where the first coating has a first color, where the first color has a first wavelength, where the first wavelength is 400 nm to 620 nm; measuring the first wavelength of the first color; determining a second wavelength of a second color, where the determining includes calculating the second wavelength by multiplying the first wavelength by a first phi factor, where the first phi factor is a product of n times ?, where n is 0.1 to 100, where ? is 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: BMIC LLC
    Inventor: David Ellis
  • Patent number: 12280467
    Abstract: An example method of polishing multi-fiber fiber optic ferrules with a polishing device is provided. The polishing device includes a polishing component with a polishing surface and a surface for securing multi-fiber fiber optic ferrules such that endfaces of the multi-fiber fiber optic ferrules are oriented to face and be positioned against the polishing surface. The method includes orienting an application device with a spray nozzle about 8 inches to about 12 inches away from the polishing surface, and orienting the spray nozzle of the application device at a downward angle of about 200 to about 300 relative to horizontal and the polishing surface. The method includes applying a fine mist of fluid from the spray nozzle toward the polishing surface to completely coat the polishing surface with the fluid. The method includes positioning the endfaces of the multi-fiber fiber optic ferrules against the polishing surface and polishing the endfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Legrand DPC, LLC
    Inventor: Matthew Cameron Watson
  • Patent number: 12280255
    Abstract: One aspect of the present disclosure includes a delivery tool configured to deliver a neurostimulator into a pterygopalatine fossa of a subject. The neurostimulator can include a body connected to an integral stimulation lead having one or more stimulating electrodes. The delivery tool can comprise a handle, an elongated shaft extending from the handle, a hub portion, and a double barrel sheath. The hub portion can be located between the shaft and a spine member that extends axially away from the hub portion. The hub portion can be sized and dimensioned to releasably mate with the neurostimulator. The double barrel sheath can be connected to the spine member. A central lumen can extend through at least a portion of the shaft and the hub portion. The central lumen can be adapted to receive a lead ejector for selective deployment of the stimulation lead from the double barrel sheath.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: REALEVE, LLC
    Inventors: Tom Luhrs, Alan Cheng, Ryan Powell, Jennifer Teng
  • Patent number: 12281801
    Abstract: A combination heat and steam oven according to the present invention includes a housing having an internal heating compartment, at least one dry heating element disposed within the heating compartment, a steam generating unit configured to produce steam for injection into the heating compartment, and a user interface. The user interface is configured for selectively controlling operation of the at least one dry heating element and the steam generating unit, so that the steam generating unit and the at least one dry heating element may be operated alone or simultaneously with the other of the steam generating unit and the at least one dry heating element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Conair LLC
    Inventor: Leandro P. Rizzuto