Patents Examined by A. Ortiz
  • Patent number: 12244028
    Abstract: A power storage device includes: a power storage module including a plurality of stacked power storage cells; and a case having an inner space to accommodate the power storage module. The case includes a main body provided with an opening on an electrode terminal side of the plurality of power storage cells, a cover provided over the opening, and a tapered portion that narrows a width of the inner space in a direction from the opening toward a lower side of the main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Taijyu Morishita, Wataru Okada
  • Patent number: 12239259
    Abstract: A pre-packaged liquid container usable in a device for administering liquid has a container upper portion containing a basic liquid, with a container upper wall extending from a first container upper portion base to a second container upper portion base having a mechanically breakable container upper portion membrane, the container upper wall having a container upper portion thread, and a container lower portion containing a powder soluble in the basic liquid, with a container lower wall extending from a first container lower portion base to a second container lower portion base. The container lower wall has a container lower portion thread. The first container lower portion base has a mechanically breakable container lower portion membrane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: OROFINO PHARMACEUTICALS GROUP S.R.L.
    Inventor: Ernesto Orofino
  • Patent number: 12233014
    Abstract: A modular patient lift system includes a ceiling grid, a plurality of rails, a gantry configured to traverse the ceiling grid via the plurality of rails, and a patient lift coupled to the gantry and configured to traverse the ceiling grid with the gantry. The modular patient lift system further includes one or more sensors provided on at least one of the plurality of rails, the gantry, and the patient lift, the one or more sensors configured to collect at least one of environmental data and position data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: SLD Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Kevin Joseph Schreiber
  • Patent number: 12234058
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to containers. In at least one embodiment, the disclosed containers include a nestable structure that can facilitate stacking while limiting reliance on satellite rings. For example, in certain embodiments, a container includes a nestable corner structure with a series of nestable portions. Thus, in these embodiments, more containers can be stacked together in a smaller space, such that shipping and manufacturing processes are more efficient and less costly than with traditional containers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: BWAY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Frano Luburic
  • Patent number: 12235839
    Abstract: The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer implemented methods for processing correlated calculated fields in correlated subqueries. One example method includes receiving a request to process a database query that includes at least one subquery and processing each subquery. A determination is made as to whether each subquery includes a correlated calculated field that is a calculated field that is not included in a first datasource queried by the subquery but is included in a second datasource queried by an outer query that includes the subquery. If the subquery does not include a correlated calculated field, the subquery is processed without modification. If the subquery includes a correlated calculated field, metadata is retrieved for the outer query of the subquery that queries the second datasource and includes the correlated calculated field. The subquery is rewritten using the metadata and the rewritten subquery is processed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Yinghua Ouyang, Zhen Tian
  • Patent number: 12234082
    Abstract: A substantially cylindrical glass bottle that is susceptible to accidental rolling and breakage when stored on its side has been structurally modified by forming a series of between approximately 8 and 24 small protrusions or bumpers spaced apart at regular intervals along either one path or two separated paths around the bottle's circumference at certain distances from the shoulder and base of the bottle. The bumpers project outward between approximately 2 mm to 6 mm from the bottle's outer sidewall surface, and pairs of these bumpers stably support the bottle stored on its side without the bottle rocking or rolling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Brandeis University
    Inventor: Daniel Perlman
  • Patent number: 12227343
    Abstract: A modified Regular Slotted Container (RSC) style carton is configured to be easily shipped in electronic commerce while allowing a consumer to use the carton as a storage container for bagged pet food. The packaging carton is a modified regular slotted container (RSC) featuring a full or partial die cut perforation design forming a lid that facilitates converting the carton into a re-usable storage carton for a bag of pet food. The perforation design allows for the consumer to separate portions of the lid from the carton along the perforations. Once the carton is opened, the die cut or partial die cut flap created along the perforations is preferably used as a lid for the pet food. The carton provides many advantages, such as establishing protective packaging, accommodating dedicated e-commerce identifiers, and providing additional ways to use and store a bagged pet food product without having to purchase alternative containers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Blue Buffalo Enterpises, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Kruse, Jeffrey Steven Pederson, Anthony W. Swenson
  • Patent number: 12229010
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for volume group backup, volume group restore, and volume group garbage collection for volume groups backed up to an object store. A volume group workflow is implemented to orchestrate individual consistent volume workflows that are separately and individually implemented by nodes hosting constituent volumes of a volume group. The volume group workflow and the individual consistent volume workflows are performed to back up the volume group to the object store, restore a volume group backup from the object store to a restore destination, and/or perform garbage collection on slots of objects storing data unique to a volume group backup to delete.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: NetApp, Inc.
    Inventors: Rakesh Bhargava M. R., Murali Subramanian, Tijin George, Ching-Yuk Paul Ngan
  • Patent number: 12230244
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described herein for an application and graphical user interface (“GUI”) for customized storytelling. In an example, a user can create profiles for a listener user and a reader user. The listener user profile can include information about the listener user. The reader user profile can include a voice model of the reader user's voice. The GUI can allow the user to provide a brief description of a story. The application can send the story description and listener user profile to a server that uses an artificial intelligence engine to generate a customized story for the listener user. The application can apply the reader user voice model to the story and play audio of the reader user's voice reading the story.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Inventor: Todd Searcy
  • Patent number: 12228908
    Abstract: Techniques include converting an original or source image into a computer image file that uses guide curves to provide for a cutting of that image onto a surface of a material. One or more techniques comprise a process of converting the image into a computer image file, such as by pixelating or rasterizing the image. The process then controls a CNC knife to cut the surface of the material at different locations, different angles, different depths, and different range of motion, based on the processing of the computer image file, thereby creating the original image, or a very close replica, on the surface of the material. By deviating the cut lines from each other, the intensity of the image can be varied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Inventors: Dustin Headley, Tyler Van Kirk
  • Patent number: 12226356
    Abstract: Support assemblies for supporting the head of a patient during rotation are described. The support assemblies may include a posterior head support panel that allows for access to the patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Turn Medical, LLC
    Inventors: Kevin S. Wilson, Eric W. Barta, Christopher T. Niederkrom
  • Patent number: 12229077
    Abstract: Techniques are described for managing execution of programs. In some situations, program execution is managed for multiple users using excess program execution capacity of one or more computing systems. In some such situations, excess or otherwise unused program execution capacity may be made available to execute programs on a temporary basis, such that the programs executing using the excess program execution capacity may be terminated at any time if other preferred use for the excess program execution capacity arises. The excess program execution capacity may in some situations be provided in conjunction with other dedicated program execution capacity that is allocated to particular users, such as to use unused dedicated capacity of some users as excess capacity for other users. In some situations, the techniques are used in conjunction with a fee-based program execution service that executes multiple programs on behalf of multiple users of the service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter N. DeSantis, Matthew S. Garman, Charles Ward, James Alfred Gordon Greenfield, Andrew R. Jassy
  • Patent number: 12229087
    Abstract: One or more techniques and/or computing devices are provided for managing an arbitrary set of storage items using a granset. For example, a storage controller may host a plurality of storage items and/or logical unit numbers (LUNs). A subset of the storage items are grouped into a consistency group. A granset is created for tracking, managing, and/or providing access to the storage items within the consistency group. For example, the granset comprises application programming interfaces (APIs) and/or properties used to provide certain levels of access to the storage items (e.g., read access, write access, no access), redirect operations to access either data of an active file system or to a snapshot, fence certain operations (e.g., rename and delete operations), and/or other properties that apply to each storage item within the consistency group. Thus, the granset provides a persistent on-disk layout used to manage an arbitrary set of storage items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: NetApp, Inc.
    Inventors: Devang Kundanlal Shah, Dipankar Roy, Krishnaveni Budati, Kai Tan, Pranab Patnaik, Akhil Kaushik
  • Patent number: 12225998
    Abstract: A mixing container for different kinds of makeup is disclosed. The mixing container includes: a first container configured to store a first kind of makeup; a second container detachably coupled to the first container and configured to store a second kind of makeup; and a mixing unit coupled to the second container to be movable up and down and configured to discharge the second kind of makeup to the first container such that the first kind of makeup and the second kind of makeup are mixed, in which the first container and the second container are independently separated, and when the first container and the second container are coupled and then the mixing unit is pressed, the mixing unit bores a portion of the second container and the second kind of makeup stored in the second container enters the first container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: F.S.KOREA INDUSTRIES INC.
    Inventor: Jae Kwang Hwang
  • Patent number: 12227164
    Abstract: An electrified vehicle disclosed in the present specification includes: a motor configured to rotate a drive wheel of the electrified vehicle; a sensor configured to detect a motor rotation number that is the number of rotations of the motor; and a control device configured to perform feedback control of the motor rotation number based on a value detected by the sensor. The control device is configured to perform during the feedback control a process of extracting a vibration component in a predetermined frequency band from the value detected by the sensor, a process of calculating an integrated value by integrating the extracted vibration component for a predetermined period, and a process of determining whether the calculated integrated value falls within a predetermined abnormal range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junichi Murase, Hideki Kubonoya, Masamichi Iwama, Hiroshi Ienaga
  • Patent number: 12222821
    Abstract: Making inline deduplicated backups of protected data using group fingerprints resident in a storage server by generating group fingerprints on a storage server for a backup client that is not capable of using group fingerprints, from individual fingerprints generated for each segment of protected data divided into variable size segments and then grouped together. Each fingerprint comprises a signature for a respective data segment. The method further maintains the group fingerprints for files resident on the storage server, compares, in the storage server, respective group fingerprints for these files with a new backup file to be backed up from the backup client to determine duplicated data between these files, and converts the new backup file to a virtual synthetic backup during a backup time of the new file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Salil Dangi, Gokul Prasanna Mani, Donna Barry Lewis
  • Patent number: 12222816
    Abstract: A backup system stores recipes during backup file creation when virtual synthetic backups are used, where a recipe comprises a specific sequence of steps used to generate the backup file. Replication logic of the backup system replays the recipe to generate the same backup file on the backup target so that an old backup combined with new backup data comprises the recipe. Embodiments of a server-side group fingerprint system include a process to auto-generate recipes for server resident files by formulating a file as a series of L1 fingerprints which are in turn a set of L0s and GFPs where some of the L1s are shared with other files. The recipe can be used to convert the representation of the file from a native fingerprint based representation into a virtual synthetic format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Salil Dangi, Gokul Prasanna Mani, Donna Barry Lewis
  • Patent number: 12224615
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a composite charging system and method capable of producing charging power for an electric vehicle by utilizing hydrogen energy supplied to a hydrogen vehicle, and compositely connecting hydrogen energy with a power system to efficiently perform charging of the electric vehicle, and more flexibly coping with the use of energy. The composite charging system according to the present invention comprises: a hydrogen charger which charges hydrogen into a vehicle; a hydrogen power supply system which generates and supplies power on the basis of hydrogen; a system power supply system which supplies power from a power system; an electric charger which charges the electric vehicle; and a battery power supply system which stores power supplied from the hydrogen power supply system and the system power supply system, and supplies the stored power to the electric charger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: HYOSUNG CORPORATION
    Inventors: Byung Hwan Jeong, Jeong Min Lee, Byeng Joo Byen
  • Patent number: 12220363
    Abstract: A patient support apparatus for supporting a patient comprising a support frame and a support deck coupled to the support frame. The support deck has a deck section arranged to articulate relative to said support frame between a first position and a second position. An actuator is interposed in force-translating relation between the support frame and the deck section to articulate the deck section. The actuator comprises a biasing device configured to store mechanical energy and having an interface. The actuator further comprises a torque multiplier coupled to the deck section and engaged with the interface to translate mechanical energy stored in the biasing device into force acting on the deck section to urge the deck section toward the first position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Stryker Corporation
    Inventors: Shawn Trimble, Christopher S. Hough, Bryan E. Garfoot, Ross T. Lucas
  • Patent number: 12221246
    Abstract: A tray having: an annular sidewall having upper and lower annular peripheral edges, an upper annular peripheral rim which is integral with the upper annular peripheral edge, and a base having an annular peripheral edge which is integral with the lower annular peripheral edge of the sidewall, wherein the rim, the sidewall and the base are composed of a thermoplastic polymer and the sidewall and the base define a central concavity for packaging a product, wherein the base has a lattice structure of elongate foam ribs interconnected by foam junctions, wherein each foam rib has opposite ends, and each end is integrally connected to either the annular peripheral edge of the base or one of the foam junctions, wherein each foam rib and each foam junction has opposed upper and lower unfoamed solid skins of the thermoplastic polymer on opposite sides of a central cellular foam core of the thermoplastic polymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Bockatech Ltd.
    Inventors: Peter Reginald Clarke, Chris Bocking