Patents Assigned to Systems, LLC
  • Patent number: 9686250
    Abstract: Systems and methods for decryption of payloads are disclosed herein. In various embodiments, systems and methods herein are configured for decrypting thousands of transactions per second. Further, in particular embodiments, the systems and methods herein are scalable, such that many thousands of transactions can be processed per second upon replicating particular architectural components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: BLUEFIN PAYMENT SYSTEMS, LLC
    Inventors: Timothy William Barnett, Alexander I. Kasatkin, Christopher Hozumi Miyata, Daniel Ruehle
  • Patent number: 9682618
    Abstract: A vehicle fuel system is provided that includes a fuel tank and a manual vent system. The manual vent system includes an emergency valve and an actuator. The manual vent system is configured to cause the emergency valve to open after the actuator has been actuated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: AGILITY FUEL SYSTEMS LLC
    Inventors: Seung W. Baik, Todd F. Sloan, Jason Laycock, Chris Forsberg
  • Patent number: 9683430
    Abstract: A plunger for use in a downhole well includes a body having a bore formed axially-therethrough. An inner surface of the body that defines the bore forms a seat. A stop extends at least partially laterally through the bore. An obstructing member is positioned within the bore and configured to move axially within the bore between the seat and the stop. The obstructing member is configured to prevent fluid flow through the bore in one axial direction when in contact with seat, and to allow fluid flow through the bore in an opposite axial direction when in contact with the obstructing member as the plunger descends in the well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: Epic Lift Systems LLC
    Inventor: Schuyler Kuykendall
  • Patent number: 9685678
    Abstract: A material suitable for use in an electrode, preferably an anode, and processes of its formation are provided. The material includes an electrode base material and an organic artificial solid electrolyte interface material including a water soluble organic polymer coating the electrode base material. The polymer is polymerized with a crosslinker to form the organic artificial solid electrolyte interface material. The resulting artificial SEI coated electrode material demonstrates superior discharge rate capacity and cycle stability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: A123 Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Viet Vu, Jinjun Shi, Pu Zhang
  • Patent number: 9685975
    Abstract: Provided are, among other things, systems, apparatuses methods and techniques for providing a complete output signal from a set of partial signals, which in turn have been generated by parallel processing paths in the time-interleaved and/or frequency-interleaved conversion of discrete signals to linear signals (i.e., discrete-to-linear conversion). One such apparatus includes a distributed network comprising a plurality of ladder networks through which input signals propagate before being combined to form an output signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: Syntropy Systems, LLC
    Inventor: Christopher Pagnanelli
  • Patent number: 9681757
    Abstract: The present invention is generally directed to systems related to sleeping, playing and provision of non-toxic environments, components related to those systems, and methods involving the systems or components. It is more particularly directed to systems, components and methods that aid early infant cognitive development, improve ventilation inside a crib, promote fresh and/or odor free air, promote thermoregulation and homeostasis, protect the person using the systems, components and methods from biological toxins, and create healthy sleeping environments for infants, toddlers, children and adults. One sleep system according to the present invention includes a cover, a core, and a bottom. The cover includes at least two raised areas. The raised areas have one or more heights ranging from 0.125 inch to 5.0 inches and diameters ranging of 0.25 to 10.0 inches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: Nook Sleep Systems LLC
    Inventor: Chris Svensrud
  • Patent number: 9682267
    Abstract: An exercise device including a housing with first and second ends and a longitudinal axis extending therebetween. A bore is defined in the housing and a disc member is located within the bore. The disc member includes a side surface extending between first and second surfaces, said side surface being generally parallel to the longitudinal axis. An aperture is defined in the disc member and extends between the first and second surfaces. The aperture is bounded and defined by a face that extends between the first and second surfaces of the disc member. A friction-reducing material is provided on the face. A first resilient member extends between the first and second ends of the housing and passes through the aperture. An aperture adjustment member may be engaged with an enlarged end of the resilient member to retain the same in the aperture in the disc member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: ARQEX OUTDOOR FITNESS SYSTEMS, LLC
    Inventors: Eric A. Kaye, William C. Cesaroni, Morad Ghassemian, Brian W. Mathews, Eugene L. DiMonte, Donovan D. Zielke, Steven M. Lenz
  • Patent number: 9686593
    Abstract: Systems and methods of processing closed captions are disclosed. For example, a media server may receive a first video stream and first closed caption data associated with the first video stream. The media server may interpret at least one command included in the first closed caption data to generate interpreted closed caption data. The media server may transmit, to a destination device, a second video stream including second closed caption data that is generated based on the interpreted closed caption data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: WOWZA MEDIA SYSTEMS, LLC
    Inventor: Scott Kellicker
  • Patent number: 9682620
    Abstract: Air-ground vehicle fuel tank configurations and associated features are described that can be incorporated in the structural design of a vehicle in ways that improve both the ground mobility and flight capability of the vehicle. A vehicle frame may include a fuel tank with a main tank and two or more auxiliary tanks. The main tank may be disposed along the centerline of the vehicle, and the auxiliary tanks may extend upward and outward from the main tank, for example forming a ā€œVā€ shape when viewed from the front. The auxiliary tanks may be substantially arc-shaped, when viewed from the side of the vehicle, and may be attached to the main tank at each end of the arc-shape. Each of the auxiliary tanks may include an attachment mechanism configured to attach to an airfoil suspension at or near an apex of the auxiliary tanks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: Paragrine Systems, LLC
    Inventor: Robert Nolan
  • Patent number: 9683401
    Abstract: Some embodiments include a system. The system includes a jacket having one or more armor panels. The jacket can be coupled to an exterior surface of an automated teller machine, the automated teller machine having the exterior surface and a vault that has a hollow interior. Further, when the jacket is coupled to the exterior surface of the automated teller machine, the jacket can prevent and/or deter unauthorized access to the hollow interior of the vault of the automated teller machine. Other embodiments of related systems and methods are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: ECLIPSE CASH SYSTEMS, LLC
    Inventor: Derek Smith
  • Patent number: 9686339
    Abstract: A method includes receiving, at a media player at a computing device, a first portion of a media stream, and initiating playback of the first portion of the media stream. The method also includes receiving a second portion of the media stream during the playback of the first portion of the media stream, the second portion of the media stream including a platform-independent representation of source code. The method further includes compiling the platform-independent representation of the source code to generate a platform-specific component that is executable by the computing device. The method includes executing the platform-specific component at the computing device during execution of the media player at the computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: WOWZA MEDIA SYSTEMS, LLC
    Inventor: Robert Elsner
  • Patent number: 9682461
    Abstract: Polishing pad for use with high-speed mechanical buffers or for use by hand. More specifically, a sloped polishing pad and methods of use for the polishing pad, the sloped polishing pad having a sloped foam pad, and having a cloth, a foam, or both attached to a top surface of the foam pad, with the cloth, the foam, or both covering part of the top surface of the sloped foam pad such that gaps in the coverage allow for the sloped foam pad and either the cloth, the foam, or both to touch a polishing surface at the same time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: SHOWROOM POLISHING SYSTEMS LLC.
    Inventor: David Givens
  • Publication number: 20170170891
    Abstract: A satellite terminal and a machine-implemented method are provided for encoding a burst header of a burst for transmission on an inroute. One component of a group of satellite terminal components consisting of an ASIC, a FPGA, and a DSP, generates a burst header having five information bits encoded therein. The five information bits may be encoded using a Reed-Muller code, a (32, 5) block code or a convolutional code having a code rate of either 1/5 or 1/10. The five information bits may represent one or more of a modulation type for a payload of the burst, a code rate for encoding the payload, a code type, and a spreading factor for spreading the payload during transmission. A satellite gateway and a machine-implemented method are also provided for decoding a burst header of a burst received on an inroute as described above.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2017
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Applicant: Hughes Network Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Yezdi Antia, Mustafa Eroz, John Alfred Schmid
  • Publication number: 20170167815
    Abstract: A firearm safety device having a barrel safety device embodiment for use with a firearm that has a chamber, ejection port and barrel. The barrel safety device having a stem adapted to enter the barrel of the firearm. The barrel safety device having a chamber plug adapted to enter and fit into the chamber of the firearm. The barrel safety device having a transition section between the stem and the chamber plug. Where the transition section is flexible under pressure to allow for installation of the chamber plug in the chamber through the ejection port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2016
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Applicant: Blok Safety Systems, LLC.
    Inventor: Jason Patrick Speller
  • Publication number: 20170167098
    Abstract: A system for draining liquid from soil is disclosed. The system includes a passive capillary drain in combination with a core for gravity flow, including a sand top dressing layer, a native soil interface, and a rootzone, a curtain traversing from the sand topdressing layer through the native soil interface to at least one tube element, the at least one tube element pulling the water out of the soil with capillary suction, and a core central to the at least one tube element that moves excess water via gravity flow with capillary suction. The elements may be installed parallel at a 3 feet center and a depth of 10 inches, and/or may be installed vertically.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Applicant: SUBAIR SYSTEMS LLC
    Inventors: Chris des Garennes, Peter van Drumpt
  • Patent number: 9681321
    Abstract: An apparatus for identifying failed or suspect RF transmitting devices while the devices are in normal operation transmitting over-the-air RF signals, each of the RF transmitting devices including an identifier and being mobile, portable or stationary, includes an RF signal sensor receiving the RF signals and responsive thereto, an analyzer, and a GUI. The analyzer measuring signal parameters and determines operating characteristics of a device therefrom, determining the identifier, if each RF signal conforms to packet structure specifications, and bit-field information of each RF signal to discern therefrom a transmission type, measures RF frequency offset, correlates the bit-field information with the RF frequency offset utilizing the identifier; and repeats the last three steps to determine a range of RF frequency offset deviations over time. The GUI displays the range in a form used to identify an RF frequency offset range of the RF transmitting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: Locus Location Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Joseph Rey, John McCarthy, Murad Qahwash
  • Patent number: 9680385
    Abstract: A power converter includes a circuit board having an elongated anode receiving an input voltage and an input current and an elongated cathode providing an output voltage and an output current, and a plurality of diodes electrically arranged in parallel between the anode and cathode. The parallel diodes convert the input voltage to an output voltage, convert the input current to an output current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: GE AVIATION SYSTEMS LLC
    Inventors: Michael Pietrantonio, Michael Carl Ludwig, Mohamed Aly Elsayed
  • Patent number: 9677283
    Abstract: A veneer product and system includes a body having an aesthetic front surface and a back surface for installation adjacent the building. The body has a top side and a bottom side and a bracket attached to body and projecting away from the back surface of the body, the bracket further comprising a first end adjacent the top side for attachment to the building and a first protrusion for positioning the back surface a predetermined distance from the building and a second end having a second protrusion for positioning the bottom of the back surface a predetermined distance from the building and a bottom projection adjacent the bottom side for engagement with a second body to retain the bottom end of the veneer product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: Talus Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Harold C. Attebery, II, Neal Sugarman
  • Patent number: 9680497
    Abstract: Provided are, among other things, systems, apparatuses, methods and techniques for converting a discrete-time quantized signal into a continuous-time, continuously variable signal. An exemplary converter preferably includes: (1) multiple oversampling converters, each processing a different frequency band, operated in parallel; (2) multirate (i.e., polyphase) delta-sigma modulators (preferably second-order or higher); (3) multi-bit quantizers; (4) multi-bit-to-variable-level signal converters, such as resistor ladder networks or current source networks; (5) adaptive nonlinear, bit-mapping to compensate for mismatches in the multi-bit-to-variable-level signal converters (e.g., by mimicking such mismatches and then shifting the resulting noise to a frequently range where it will be filtered out by a corresponding bandpass (reconstruction) filter); (6) multi-band (e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: Syntropy Systems, LLC
    Inventor: Christopher Pagnanelli
  • Patent number: RE46447
    Abstract: In a protocol for preserving the privacy of communications between a RFID reader and a RFID tag, two distinct actions are taken. First, the reader and the tag must be mutually authenticated as being authorized participants in the communications. After that process is successfully completed, the authenticity of each authorized participant must be validated prior to each subsequent communication between reader and tag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: Amtech Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Kelly Gravelle, Dale L. Scott, Zhenping Tan