Patents Assigned to Systems, LLC
  • UAV configurations and battery augmentation for UAV internal combustion engines, and associated systems and methods
    Patent number: 10351238
    Abstract: UAV configurations and battery augmentation for UAV internal combustion engines, and associated systems and methods are disclosed. A representative configuration includes a fuselage, first and second wings coupled to and pivotable relative to the fuselage, and a plurality of lift rotors carried by the fuselage. A representative battery augmentation arrangement includes a DC-powered motor, an electronic speed controller, and a genset subsystem coupled to the electronic speed controller. The genset subsystem can include a battery set, an alternator, and a motor-gen controller having a phase control circuit configurable to rectify multiphase AC output from the alternator to produce rectified DC feed to the DC-powered motor. The motor-gen controller is configurable to draw DC power from the battery set to produce the rectified DC feed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: Endurant Systems LLC.
    Inventor: Gregory Leonard McAdoo
  • Augmented reality systems and methods for telecommunications site modeling
    Patent number: 10354441
    Abstract: Systems and method for augmented reality to visualize a telecommunications site for planning, engineering, and installing equipment include creating a three-dimensional (3D) model of a virtual object representing the equipment; providing the 3D model of the virtual object to an augmented reality server; providing a virtual environment representing the telecommunications site; obtaining the virtual object from the augmented reality server; and selectively inserting the virtual object in the virtual environment for one or more of planning, engineering, and installation associated with the telecommunications site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: ETAK Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Joshua Godwin, Charlie Terry, Lee Priest
  • Approaches for improved frequency reuse efficiency and interference avoidance for a multi-beam satellite communications network
    Patent number: 10355775
    Abstract: An RF communications transmitter system comprising a processor, a switch and a plurality of feedhorns. The switch is configured to receive a feed signal of a frequency bandwidth. The processor is configured to control the switch to provide the feed signal to each of at least two of the feedhorns for a respective time period. Each of the at least two feedhorns is configured to generate a beam during the respective time period that the feed signal is provided thereto, wherein the beam is formed based on the feed signal and is transmitted to cover a geographic area of the Earth. The formation and transmission of the beams by the feedhorns is controlled by the processor to provide a time-based allocation of bandwidth amongst the beams based on the time period that the feed signal is provided to each of the feedhorns and a respective frequency/polarization reuse scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: Hughes Network Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Stanley Kay, Dave Roos, Paul Gaske, Anthony Noerpel
  • Gun having multi-drive link feed system and method therefor
    Patent number: 10352638
    Abstract: A weapon for firing rounds of linked, or un-linked, ammunition includes a motor-driven chain drive which rotates about a track. A rotatable feeder engages the ammunition to feed an ammunition round into a round extractor/retractor. A rotatable round positioner receives an ammunition round from the round extractor/retractor, and rotates it to a firing position. A main geneva wheel, mounted near the chain drive, is sequentially engaged by first and second drive rollers, secured to the chain drive, for being periodically rotated thereby. Drive pins of the main geneva wheel sequentially engage radial slots in a belt/round feed geneva wheel and a round positioning geneva wheel for timed rotation thereof to synchronize the operation of the round feeder and round positioner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: Daycraft Weapon Systems, LLC
    Inventor: Richard C. Day
  • Stationary fixed ground-based cells in a non-geostationary orbit communications system
    Patent number: 10355778
    Abstract: A telecommunications platform comprises an antenna configured to generate a plurality of communications beams within a respective footprint on the surface of the Earth, wherein each communications beam provides data communications services over a respective cell coverage area on the surface of the Earth. The telecommunications platform further comprises a processor configured to control the plurality of communications beams of the antenna to form the respective cell coverage areas in a fixed cell pattern that remains essentially fixed relative to the surface of the Earth, such that, as the telecommunications platform travels through an orbit around the Earth, the footprint of the antenna sweeps across the fixed cell pattern and provides the communications services via the cell coverage areas of the fixed cell pattern that are within the footprint of the antenna at any given point in time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: Hughes Network Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Anthony Noerpel, Udaya Bhaskar, Stanley Kay
  • Thermostat synchronization via remote input device
    Patent number: 10356573
    Abstract: The invention provides a method of inputting a code to a thermostat comprising the following steps, providing a thermostat having a display panel and a receiver for receiving signals from a local router, the local router configured to receive signals via the internet from a remote input device (RID), transmitting a register command to the local router, transmitting new user information to the local router and the thermostat receiving a serial number from the local router and the thermostat synchronizing with the RID without requiring any direct inputs to the display panel of the thermostat. The RID may verify the service set identifier (SSID).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: Braeburn Systems LLC
    Inventors: Daniel S. Poplawski, Ernest E. Soderlund, W. L. Ha
  • Structure and support device for photovoltaic arrays
    Patent number: 10355636
    Abstract: A structure and support device for photovoltaic arrays is provided. The device provides a structural connection between photovoltaic modules, wind deflectors and similar hardware. The invention provides an advantage of quick and easy installation of hardware components and associated parts, and meets the demand for a single device capable of combining solar energy associated hardware into photovoltaic arrays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: Everest Solar Systems LLC
    Inventor: Matthew Danning
  • Method of locating a leak site in roof membranes using lengths of moisture detection tape set out in zones
    Patent number: 10352047
    Abstract: Leaks in a roof membrane are detected in plurality of separate zones arranged in rows and columns. By applying to the roof in a location underneath the membrane and on top of the deck in each zone at least one length of a moisture detection sensor comprising a substrate carrying two parallel conductors on one surface of the substrate detecting changes in resistance between the conductors so as to detect moisture permeating into the respective zone. The moisture detecting sensors are separate in each zone so as to detect changes in resistance in the respective zone independent of any changes in resistance in other zones so that the system can detect within the rows and columns any zone where changes in resistance occur. In order to detect across the zone, the sensor is applied in a two dimensional pattern for example by two lengths at right angles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: Detec Systems LLC
    Inventors: David Vokey, Chad James Herrick
  • Control valve and air starting system
    Patent number: 10352470
    Abstract: A control valve and an air starting system for an engine having a pressurized air source, an air starter, and a control valve. The control valve having a housing defining a flow passage with an inlet port fluidly coupled to the pressurized air source and an outlet port fluidly coupled to the air starter, a valve body movable between an opened and closed positions to selectively open and close one of the inlet and outlet ports, resulting in a corresponding opening and closing of the control valve, and a linear motor operably coupled to the valve body to move the valve body between the opened and closed positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: GE Aviation Systems LLC
    Inventors: Marc David Zinger, James Thomas Zalusky, Eric Sidney Roslund
  • Liquid and gaseous multi-fuel compression ignition engines
    Patent number: 10352228
    Abstract: Methods of operation of liquid and gaseous multi-fuel compression ignition engines that may be operated on a gaseous fuel or a liquid fuel, or a combination of both a gaseous fuel and a liquid fuel at the same time and in some embodiments, in the same combustion event. Various embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: Sturman Digital Systems, LLC
    Inventor: Oded Eddie Sturman
  • Light composite piston
    Patent number: 10352443
    Abstract: A system, in certain embodiments, includes a composite piston. The composite piston comprises a piston body made of a composite material, wherein the composite material comprises a reinforcing material distributed in a matrix material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: GE Oil & Gas Compression Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Omar M. Kabir, John C. Bartos, Kent Pearl
  • AUDIO POWER SOURCE WITH IMPROVED EFFICIENCY
    Publication number: 20190214947
    Abstract: One example includes a differential amplifier, a voltage weighting element, coupled to a voltage source which provides an input voltage, to provide a reference voltage with a constant power limit when the input voltage varies, an error amplifier configured to receive and compare the reference voltage provided from the voltage weighting element and a feedback sensed voltage provided from the differential amplifier to identify whether the sensed voltage exceeds the reference voltage, and a pulse width modulation (PWM) controller, coupled to a power transformer and the error amplifier, that reduces a transformer input current provided to the power transformer based on the comparison of the reference voltage from the voltage weighting element and the feedback sensed voltage from the differential amplifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2018
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Applicant: Biamp Systems, LLC
    Inventors: David F. Baretich, Simon J. Broadley
  • AUDIO POWER SOURCE WITH IMPROVED EFFICIENCY
    Publication number: 20190214951
    Abstract: Example embodiments provide a device that includes a power transformer with a first output voltage terminal providing a first voltage and a second output voltage terminal providing a second voltage, a voltage regulator coupled to one or more of the first output voltage terminal and the second output voltage terminal, and a power storage element that stores power supplied by the second output voltage, and the first output voltage terminal supplies power to a remote entity until a load power requirement of the remote entity exceeds a threshold power level at which time the power storage element is used to provide power from the second output voltage terminal to the remote entity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2018
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Applicant: Biamp Systems, LLC
    Inventors: David F. Baretich, Simon J. Broadley
  • INTELLIGENT FUEL DISPENSERS
    Publication number: 20190213692
    Abstract: In general, intelligent fuel dispensers are provided. In at least some implementations, an intelligent fuel dispenser can determine customer identities and/or other characteristics and provide customized fueling sessions based on the determined customer identities and/or other characteristics. In at least some implementations, the fuel dispenser includes a touchless interface allowing customers to complete fueling sessions with minimal physical contact with the fuel dispenser.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Applicant: Wayne Fueling Systems LLC
    Inventors: John Joseph Morris, Scott R. Negley, III, Annika Birkler, Richard Carlsson, Patrick Jeitler, Randal S. Kretzler
  • Zero tension system conveyor
    Publication number: 20190210808
    Abstract: Zero tension system conveyor. A conveyor belt is driven by at least a portion of the conveyor belt being in continuous contact with a block chain within at least a portion of an overall conveyor belt system. Such a conveyor belt system may be implemented in a spiral configuration such that a relatively small portion of the overall width of the conveyor belt is in contact with the block chain above and/or below the conveyor belt. The static force/weight of the conveyor belt in conjunction with the continuous contact between at least a portion of the conveyor belt and the block chain effectuates the driving of the conveyor belt through the overall conveyor belt system. The block chain is composed of a number of links, at least some of which include a respective hook/protrusion on one side thereof, for being directly engaged by drum bars implemented within a drum assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Applicant: Zero Tension System, LLC
    Inventor: Larry J. Mueller
  • Adjustable Coupling Mechanism For A Filter Assembly For A Retaining Wall Drainage Tube
    Publication number: 20190211525
    Abstract: A filter assembly for relieving hydrostatic pressure includes a housing with a flange and a shell. The flange includes an opening extending through the flange and the shell includes a base and a terminating end. The base of the shell is connected to the flange at the opening and extends away from the flange toward the terminating end. The filter assembly also includes a coupling mechanism with a drain pipe orifice to accept a drain pipe therein. The coupling mechanism is movably connected to the terminating end of the shell such that the coupling mechanism can move relative to the shell to change a position of the drain pipe orifice relative to the terminating end of the shell. The filter assembly also includes a filter cartridge removably positioned inside the shell and a face plate removably connected to the flange to secure the filter cartridge inside the shell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2019
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Applicant: Jet Filter Systems, LLC
    Inventors: David R. HEILMAN, Doug STOUTIN, David GENTRY, Anthony KING, Kyle C. EDMONDSON
  • AUDIO POWER SOURCE WITH IMPROVED EFFICIENCY
    Publication number: 20190214956
    Abstract: An improved method of providing high burst power to audio amplifiers from limited power sources, using parallel power paths to increase system efficiency without need for a power path controller, thus utilizing a simplified circuit operation and maximizing average power available for both the amplifier and supporting circuitry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2018
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Applicant: Biamp Systems, LLC
    Inventors: David F. Baretich, Simon J. Broadley
  • Concrete cutting, polishing, and coloring treatment solutions and methods
    Patent number: 10343254
    Abstract: Systems and methods for treating concrete, which includes the steps of wetting a surface of concrete with colloidal silica, allowing time for the colloidal silica to penetrate the concrete surface, and cutting the surface of the concrete with a bladed or segmented tool wherein the longitudinal blade or edge portion is positioned approximately at an angle between 30 degrees and 90 degrees relative to the surface of the concrete.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Global Polishing Systems, LLC
    Inventor: Mark Wetherell
  • Method and apparatus for cartridge-based carbonation of beverages
    Patent number: 10343885
    Abstract: Systems, methods and cartridges for carbonating a precursor liquid, such as water, to form a beverage. A carbon dioxide source can be provided in a cartridge which is used to generate carbon dioxide gas that is dissolved into the precursor liquid. A beverage medium, such as a powdered drink mix or liquid syrup, may be provided in the same, or a separate cartridge as the carbon dioxide source and mixed with the precursor liquid to form a beverage. The use of one or more cartridges for the carbon dioxide source and/or beverage medium may make for an easy to use and mess-free system for making carbonated beverages, e.g., in the consumer's home.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Bedford Systems LLC
    Inventors: Thomas J. Novak, Ross Packard, Peter Peterson, Shawn Gulla
  • Beverage dispenser
    Patent number: D853771
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: Bedford Systems LLC
    Inventors: Barry Wood, Michael Sack, Enrico Cafaro