Patents Assigned to Systems, LLC
  • Fiber optic module assemblies and connector assemblies using the same
    Patent number: 9588306
    Abstract: Fiber optic module assemblies and optical-electrical connectors incorporating the same are disclosed. The fiber optic module assembly generally includes a total-internal-reflection (“TIR”) module having TIR body including a TIR surface to direct light to active optical components. The TIR body is coupled to a lens module including a lens body having a plurality of lens surfaces. A plurality of optical fibers may be secured within fiber support features of the TIR body that aligns ends of the optical fibers to the lenses defined by the lens body. Alignment features and index-matching adhesive may be used to couple the TIR body to the lens body. Optical-electrical connectors employing such two-piece fiber optic module assemblies are also disclosed, as well as kits of parts for providing optical communication of light between an active optical component and an optical fiber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: CORNING CABLE SYSTEMS LLC
    Inventors: Michael de Jong, Carl Randall Harrison, Craig Alan Strause
  • COOPERATING TANK AND RACK SUPERSTRUCTURE
    Publication number: 20170057348
    Abstract: A cooperating rack structure comprising at least two modules affixed to legs and a method of reduced weight vertical storage of fuel tanks for use in motor vehicles wherein the fuel tanks form a cooperating portion of the rack superstructure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Applicant: Quantum Fuel Systems LLC
    Inventors: Mark Arold, Joseph Hudak, Christopher Jaeger, Tae Kim, Derrin Olischefski
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SENSING INGOT POSITION IN REDUCED CROSS-SECTIONAL AREA MOLDS
    Publication number: 20170056968
    Abstract: A system and method for sensing the position of an ingot within a segmented mold of a vacuum metallurgical system. An inductive sensory system measures the variations in current between a power source and load of an induction heating coil. The system and method is particularly suitable for determining the position of an ingot within a melting system mold where the mold has a relatively reduced or small cross-sectional area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2015
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Applicant: RETECH SYSTEMS LLC
    Inventors: ROBERT E. HAUN, PAUL G. MEESE
  • Robotic platform and method for performing multiple functions in agricultural systems
    Patent number: 9582002
    Abstract: An autonomous vehicle platform and system for selectively performing an in-season management task in an agricultural field while self-navigating between rows of planted crops, the autonomous vehicle platform having a vehicle base with a width so dimensioned as to be insertable through the space between two rows of planted crops, the vehicle base having an in-season task management structure configured to perform various tasks, including selectively applying fertilizer, mapping growth zones and seeding cover crop within an agricultural field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: ROWBOT SYSTEMS LLC
    Inventor: Kent Cavender-Bares
  • Retaining wall containing wall blocks with weight bearing pads
    Patent number: 9580881
    Abstract: A retaining wall having a plurality of courses of retaining wall blocks including a first upper course and a second lower course. Each retaining wall block has opposed front and rear faces, opposed first and second side surfaces, and opposed and substantially parallel upper and lower surfaces, and at least one weight bearing pad extends from one of the upper and lower surfaces. The at least one weight bearing pad extends substantially from the rear face to the front face of the block. The weight bearing pads are the only areas of contact between the blocks in the first upper course and the blocks in the second lower course.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: KEYSTONE RETAINING WALL SYSTEMS LLC
    Inventor: David M. LaCroix
  • Fuel dispensing system with heating method
    Patent number: 9581066
    Abstract: Embodiments of a heating system maintains the temperature of a fuel additive (e.g., AUS32) at and/or above freezing temperature to avoid crystallization. The heating system can form a fluid circuit with one or more coaxially arranged sleeves disposed about hoses that transport the additives. The fluid circuit can also include a central compartment that encloses a flow meter. A fluid heater couples with the fluid circuit to provide heating fluid, e.g., to the central compartment. The heating fluid disperses throughout the heating compartment and into the sleeves, thereby direction heating fluid in thermal proximity to the hoses and other components that handle the fuel additive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: Wayne Fueling Systems LLC
    Inventors: Bengt I. Larsson, Harry Zimmermann
  • Methods and systems for delivering prostheses using rail techniques
    Patent number: 9579193
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments provide methods and systems for delivering a prosthesis to a target location in a lumenal system of a patient. At least one tether is secured proximate the target location to serve as a rail, and a prosthesis is advanced along the rail to the target location and secured in place. Exemplary methods and systems provide for repair of the mitral and tricuspid valves, as well as abdominal aortic aneurysms, stomach valves, fallopian tubes and the pulmonary system, among others. Also disclosed are various prostheses suitable for use with the disclosed methods and systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: Transmural Systems LLC
    Inventor: Nasser Rafiee
  • Method and system for managing network communications
    Patent number: 9584633
    Abstract: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example avoiding data copy and task switching by processing protocol headers of network PDUs as a serial tape to be processed in order such as by a single method. Other processing includes reducing stages and simplifying protocol processing and multiplexing during network communications. Address changing in an active network can be implemented by assigning multiple addresses to an entity so that a new address can replace the old address. Peer-to-peer application searching can be performed among networks that can be accessible or non-accessible networks. Utilizing anycast sets that include selected and alternative addresses to enable immediate or near immediate alternative route selection on failure or congestion. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: TRIA NETWORK SYSTEMS, LLC
    Inventors: John D. Day, Steve Bunch
  • Memory apparatus and methods thereof for preventing read errors on weak pages in a non-volatile memory system
    Patent number: 9582417
    Abstract: A memory apparatus and methods are provided for preventing read errors on weak pages in a non-volatile memory system. In one example, a method includes identifying a weak page in a non-volatile memory device along a word line, wherein the weak page is partially written with at least some data; buffering data associated with the weak page to a weak page buffer that is coupled in communication with the non-volatile memory device; determining that an amount of data in the weak page buffer has reached a predetermined data level; and writing the data from the weak page buffer into the weak page along the word line in the non-volatile memory device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: Virident Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Ashwin Narasimha, Vibhor Patel, Sandeep Sharma, Ajith Kumar
  • Laser probe for use in an inspection system
    Patent number: 9581556
    Abstract: A non-contact optical probe for inspecting an inside surface of a cylindrical workpiece includes a laser source that emits an incident light beam, a polarizing beam splitter that transmits one polarization of the incident beam and reflects the opposite polarization, and a quarter wave plate that together with the polarizing beam splitter separates back reflected return light from the incident laser beam. The non-contact optical probe further includes an optical system that directs the incident laser beam onto the cylinder surface and directs reflected light from the surface back to the beam splitter, and at least one detector that receives a portion of the reflected light and generates data about the cylinder surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: Industrial Optical Measurement Systems, LLC
    Inventor: Stephen Barrett Segall
  • Induction-based food holding/warming system and method
    Patent number: 9585202
    Abstract: A system and method for holding and warming food held in pans or trays having a low relative magnetic permeability, such as 300-series stainless steel, using induction heating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: COOKTEK INDUCTION SYSTEMS, LLC
    Inventors: Warren S Graber, Reinhard Metz, Robert J Visher
  • Method, System, and Computer-Readable Medium for Managing and Collecting Receivables
    Publication number: 20170053345
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer-readable medium for managing and collecting receivables are disclosed. Such a method includes providing at least one pre-existing account with first account information, the first account information having first account party data and providing at least one new account, each new account comprising new account information, the new account information having new account party data. The method also includes determining whether the first account party data of the pre-existing account matches the new account party data of the at least one new account and if so, tying the at least one new account with the matching pre-existing account to create a tied account. The method further includes calculating a score for any unmatched new account and any tied account based on at least one financial parameter and applying one or more collection strategies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2012
    Publication date: February 23, 2017
    Applicant: Ontario Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Amy Kennedy, Tyler Roark, Brian Cutler, Julie Bell, Kenneth Couch, Benjamin Kolb
  • TWISTED BLOCK
    Publication number: 20170051458
    Abstract: A block suitable for use in paving, edging or wall applications comprises a lower portion having parallel, substantially vertical side faces that are spaced apart by a first width, and an upper portion having parallel, substantially vertical side faces that are spaced apart by a second width. The second width is smaller than the first width of the lower portion, and the side faces of the upper portion are angled relative to the side faces of the lower portion. The block further comprises a transition portion between the upper and lower portions, having at least one slanted side extending between one or more sides of the lower portion and one or more sides, respectively, of the upper portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2016
    Publication date: February 23, 2017
    Applicant: Keystone Retaining Wall Systems LLC
    Inventors: Robert A. MacDonald, Thomas S. Riccobene
  • Automatic card snuffler
    Patent number: 9573047
    Abstract: A single deck shuffler includes a pre-shuffle bin, card-selector assembly, drive wheel and post-shuffle bin. The pre-shuffle bin is configured to accept a single deck of cards. While in the pre-shuffle bin, a modest downward force is applied to the single deck of cards. A base of the pre-shuffle bin is an independent member that selectively raises and lowers the deck of cards pursuant to a randomly-selected card number (e.g., 1-52). Once positioned correctly based on the randomly-selected card number, an upper body of the card-selector assembly moves forward to push a number of cards off the top of the deck corresponding to the randomly-selected card number thereby exposing a bottom card (i.e., the randomly-selected card) to a drive wheel. The drive wheel propels the card from the pre-shuffle bin into the post-shuffle bin. The process is repeated until each card is propelled into the post-shuffle bin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Shark Trap Gaming & Security Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Earnest Riordan, Louis Wilson DeGregorio, Dino Louis DeGregorio, Steven Louis Forte, Westley Thomas Davis, Zachary Joseph Cook, Joseph William Riesen, Brendan John O'Toole
  • Console power systems
    Patent number: 9577431
    Abstract: In various implementations, a pager may be coupled to a console. The pager may include a battery and coupling the pager to the console may provide power to the console. In some implementations, the power provided to the console may charge a battery of the console and/or allow the console to perform one or more operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Long Range Systems, LLC
    Inventor: Kenneth James Lovegreen
  • Clinch fastener
    Patent number: 9574602
    Abstract: A self-clinching fastener for insertion into ductile sheets of varying thicknesses has increased push-out and torque-out resistance. The self-clinching fastener includes a plurality of radial projections and spline teeth that embed into the ductile sheets, causing the material to cold flow into a recess, thereby permanently clinching the self-clinching fastener to the ductile sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Rifast Systems LLC
    Inventor: John E. Burton
  • Interference compensation in uplink power control
    Patent number: 9578646
    Abstract: A method and a satellite terminal are provided. The satellite terminal may range over multiple frequencies and may receive, from a satellite gateway, a signal quality indicator with respect to each of the ranged multiple frequencies. Noise and interference for a corresponding frequency are estimated based on at least one of the received signal quality indicators for the corresponding frequency. Path loss is estimated based on multiple received signal quality indicators, each of which is received in response to the satellite terminal transmitting a signal while not performing the ranging process. A transmit power level of the satellite terminal is adjusted for the corresponding frequency based on the estimated path loss and the estimated noise and interference for the corresponding frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Hughes Networks Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Yash Vasavada, Yezdi Antia, David Alan Roos, Ying Liu, Walter Robert Kepley, III
  • Multicast service delivery over high throughput satellite in a Ka spot-beam network
    Patent number: 9577741
    Abstract: A method and a satellite communication system are provided. At least one satellite gateway earth station receives at least one multicast stream from an external network. In a static forwarding mode, the at least one satellite gateway earth station replicates and forwards traffic from the at least one multicast stream over at least one first respective outroute carrier of at least one first respective spot beam of a satellite regardless of whether any terminal is arranged to actively receive any of the at least one multicast stream. In a dynamic forwarding mode, the at least one satellite gateway earth station replicates and forwards second traffic from any of the at least one multicast stream over at least one second respective outroute carrier of at least one second respective spot beam only when at least one respective terminal is arranged to actively receive the any of the at least one multicast stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Hughes Network Systems, LLC
    Inventor: Satyajit Roy
  • Finned unit of a stackable heating section of a thermal reservoir for a hot melt dispenser
    Patent number: D780237
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: Moldman Systems LLC
    Inventors: Ryan R. Hopkins, Vladimir Siroky
  • Small water purification cabinet
    Patent number: D780884
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: Ultra Pure Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Erik Crawford, Andy Sargent