Patents Assigned to LLC
  • Automated speech recognition confidence classifier
    Patent number: 10991365
    Abstract: A method of enhancing an automated speech recognition confidence classifier includes receiving a set of baseline confidence features from one or more decoded words, deriving word embedding confidence features from the baseline confidence features, joining the baseline confidence features with word embedding confidence features to create a feature vector, and executing the confidence classifier to generate a confidence score, wherein the confidence classifier is trained with a set of training examples having labeled features corresponding to the feature vector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Kshitiz Kumar, Anastasios Anastasakos, Yifan Gong
  • Data driven audio enhancement
    Patent number: 10991379
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for audio enhancement. For example, methods may include accessing audio data; determining a window of audio samples based on the audio data; inputting the window of audio samples to a classifier to obtain a classification, in which the classifier includes a neural network and the classification takes a value from a set of multiple classes of audio; selecting, based on the classification, an audio enhancement network from a set of multiple audio enhancement networks; applying the selected audio enhancement network to the window of audio samples to obtain an enhanced audio segment, in which the selected audio enhancement network includes a neural network that has been trained using audio signals of a type associated with the classification; and storing, playing, or transmitting an enhanced audio signal based on the enhanced audio segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: BabbleLabs LLC
    Inventors: Samer Hijazi, Xuehong Mao, Raul Alejandro Casas, Kamil Krzysztof Wojcicki, Dror Maydan, Christopher Rowen
  • LED with structured layers and nanophosphors
    Patent number: 10991856
    Abstract: A device comprising a light emitting diode (LED) substrate, and a meta-molecule wavelength converting layer positioned within an emitted light path from the LED substrate, the a meta-molecule wavelength converting layer including a plurality of nanoparticles, the plurality of nanoparticles configured to increase a light path length in the wavelength converting layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Lumileds LLC
    Inventors: Venkata Ananth Tamma, Antonio Lopez-Julia
  • Adaptive control of synchronous rectifier switching device
    Patent number: 10992234
    Abstract: A circuit for controlling a power converter includes an SR switching device, a light load detection circuit generating a load detection signal in response to a conduction signal and an operation mode signal, and an SR driver generating a control signal having a value according to the load detection signal and provide the control signal to the SR switching device. A method of controlling a power converter includes generating a load detection signal in response to a conduction signal and an operation mode signal and generating a control signal having a value according to the load detection signal. The control signal has a first value when the load detection signal is asserted and has a second value when the load detection signal is de-asserted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLC
    Inventors: Sangcheol Moon, Jintae Kim, Chi-Chen Chung, Cheng-Sung Chen
  • Systems and methods for operating a mobile application using a conversation interface
    Patent number: 10992605
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for control and operate a mobile application comprising a graphical user interface (GUI) via natural language commands using a conversation or chat interface associated with a chat application. The chat application may be initiated after obtaining a respective command from a computing device operated by a user. The conversation interface may be displayed adjacent to a mobile application. The conversation interface may be configured to receive user input comprising user commands, and display assistant user input comprising responses generated by an assistant user based on the user input. The mobile application may be updated based on the user input received from the user. The mobile application may be updated by outputting an output command associated with one or more actions that may occur in the mobile application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: PAG Financial International LLC
    Inventors: Pavan Agarwal, Gabriel Albors Sanchez, Jonathan Ortiz Rivera
  • Method to hydraulically fracture a well
    Patent number: 10988675
    Abstract: A method may include: 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: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Multi-Chem Group, LLC
    Inventors: Howard Thomas Riley, Teddy Joel Dubois, James William Ogle
  • System, method and apparatus for non-mechanical optical and photonic beam steering
    Patent number: 10989982
    Abstract: An example system includes a bulk steering crystal apparatus having a first lens face and a second concave face. The example bulk steering crystal apparatus further includes a number of steering portions interposed between the first lens face and the second concave face, where each of the steering portions includes a bulk substrate portion including an electro-optical material and a corresponding high-side electrode electrically coupled to the corresponding one of the number of steering portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Exciting Technology, LLC
    Inventors: Abtin Ataei, Paul F. McManamon
  • Method and system for MIMO transmission in a distributed transceiver network
    Patent number: 10992430
    Abstract: A transmitting device comprises a plurality of distributed transceivers, a baseband processor and a network management engine. Data streams are generated at baseband by the baseband processor. Diversity coding such as space-time coding may be performed over the generated data streams in the baseband. The transmitting device concurrently transmits each of the coded streams in a same radio frequency (RF) band to a receiving device over the entire distributed transceivers through associated antennas. When needed, the network management engine may identify one or more auxiliary devices providing available transceivers and antenna beamformers to the transmitting device for sharing. Beam patterns and antenna orientations may be determined for associated antennas of the available transceivers for the transmitting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: GOLBA LLC
    Inventor: Mehran Moshfeghi
  • Clamping device for clamping at least two components to be joined together and a method for designing the same
    Patent number: 10987781
    Abstract: A clamping device for clamping at least two components which are to be joined together includes a first carrier structure, a second carrier structure which is connectable to the first carrier structure by a connector, and at least one positioning device which is provided on the first or the second carrier structure in order to position the components to be joined together at a defined position with reference to the first or the second carrier structure. A method for designing a clamping device for clamping at least two components to be joined together includes steps for designing these various elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Baranowski, Lars Bognar, Maik Broda, Maximilian Engelke, Marcel Mathissen
  • Outsole for footwear
    Patent number: D917141
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Vionic Group LLC
    Inventor: Scott Radabaugh
  • Shoe upper
    Patent number: D917147
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: IMPO International LLC
    Inventor: H. Rodney Beckett
  • Cinema lounge chair
    Patent number: D917185
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: First Class Seating, LLC
    Inventors: Charles S. Reid, Bill Foley, George Kinsella, Ron Lamer, Ernest White, Ryan Volgelheim
  • Tray
    Patent number: D917203
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: SPECTRUM DIVERSIFIED DESIGNS, LLC
    Inventors: Aaron Goodman, Courtney Wilson
  • Cushion with offset cells
    Patent number: D917206
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Purple Innovation, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Wayne Taylor, Jon Wandvik
  • Walk-in structure
    Patent number: D917210
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: INV PERFORMANCE SURFACES, LLC
    Inventors: Arnab Kahn, Blake Gordon, Tracy Cook
  • Walk-in structure
    Patent number: D917211
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: INV PERFORMANCE SURFACES, LLC
    Inventors: Arnab Khan, Blake Gordon, Tracy Cook
  • Bottle
    Patent number: D917230
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: MODL Outdoors, LLC
    Inventors: Victor Barak Zitron, Zachary Wayne Leitz, Justin Guld
  • Package with surface ornamentation
    Patent number: D917280
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: DRIV IP, LLC
    Inventors: Janson H. Straub, Robert L. Liebscher
  • Shell
    Patent number: D917282
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Stolle Machinery Company, LLC
    Inventors: Steven Todd Albright, Robert Joseph Will, Dennis Cornelius Stammen
  • Shell
    Patent number: D917284
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Stolle Machinery Company, LLC
    Inventors: Steven Todd Albright, Robert Joseph Will, Dennis Cornelius Stammen