Patents Examined by Bui
  • Patent number: 11977940
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a memory card including a first surface, a second surface, and 1st to Nth terminal groups. The first surface includes first to Nth rows, where N is an integer of two or greater. The second surface faces the opposite side from the first surface. The 1st to Nth terminal groups are placed in the first to Nth rows. The 1st terminal group includes terminals to which differential clock signals are assigned, terminals to which single-ended signals are assigned, and a terminal to which a first power supply voltage is assigned. Kth terminal group, where K is an integer no smaller than two and no greater than N, includes terminals to which differential data signals are assigned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Kioxia Corporation
    Inventors: Akihisa Fujimoto, Toshitada Saito, Noriya Sakamoto, Atsushi Kondo
  • Patent number: 11979991
    Abstract: A display apparatus including an improved chassis and a manufacturing method thereof. The display apparatus includes a display panel, a chassis including a plate provided to cover the display panel and a coupling part on the plate, and stacked structures 3D printed on the plate coupled to the coupling art.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Seo Joon Lee
  • Patent number: 11975180
    Abstract: A needle stick protection device includes a distal shield member having a slot which allows a needle to freely pass between shielded and unshielded positions an infinite number of times. The needle stick protection device also includes a proximal base member and a hinge connecting the distal shield member to the proximal base member. A locking mechanism secures the proximal base member to the distal shield member. The locking mechanism includes a compressive sleeve of the distal shield member and a distal cylindrical collar of the proximal base member, which frictionally fit together in a manner securing the proximal base member and the distal shield member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: MILLER MEDICAL LLC
    Inventor: Stuart H Miller
  • Patent number: 11979073
    Abstract: A four-wheel drive hub lock harness assembly is disclosed. The harness assembly comprises a motor receptacle configured to retain a motor. The motor receptacle comprises a retainer and lead frame assembly configured to house a printed circuit board, a magnetic sensor electrically coupled to the retainer and lead frame assembly, a first and second bracket extending substantially vertically from the retainer and lead frame assembly, the first and second brackets configured to secure corresponding ends of the motor to the retainer and lead frame assembly, and encapsulation material encapsulating the printed circuit board and magnetic sensor for dampening vibrations of the wheels of a vehicle. The harness assembly also comprises a housing assembly situated beneath the motor receptacle, which mechanically connects with the eIWE, and a cable extending from the housing assembly, the cable configured to electrically connect the hub lock harness assembly to a powertrain control module (PCM).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: FIT VOLTAIRA AMERICAS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Christoph Zipf, Lukas Graf
  • Patent number: 11978023
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes various embodiments of systems, apparatuses, and methods for drone-based administration of remotely located devices. One such method comprises deploying an unmanned aerial vehicle from a base station, wherein the base station assigns a maintenance order to the unmanned aerial vehicle for servicing of a remote device, traveling, by the unmanned aerial vehicle, to the location of the remote device, authenticating, by the unmanned aerial vehicle, a valid identification of the remote device; upon the remote device being authenticated by the unmanned aerial vehicle, servicing the remote device by at least charging a power supply of the remote device and transferring contents of a device log to the unmanned aerial vehicle; and after completing the servicing of the remote device; returning to the base station and transferring contents of the device log to the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Swarup Bhunia, Prabuddha Chakraborty, Reiner Dizon, Parker Difuntorum, Christopher Vega, Patanjali Sristi Lakshmiprasanna Sriramakumara
  • Patent number: 11977777
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a relay chip configured to be connected to a host; a first chip connected to the relay chip via a first channel; and a second chip connected to the relay chip via a second channel. The relay chip is configured to receive, from the host, a first enable signal for selecting the first channel and a second enable signal for selecting the second channel. During a first period in which the first enable signal is maintained at a non-active level and the second enable signal is maintained at an active level, the relay chip is configured to perform, in parallel, a first data transfer operation via the first channel and a first command issuing operation via the second channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: KIOXIA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yohei Yasuda
  • Patent number: 11978064
    Abstract: In a computer-implemented method of using customer data to determine that geolocation-based fraud alerts are false positives, it may be determined that an electronic fraud alert is a geolocation-based alert generated based upon an unexpected or abnormal transaction location. In response, customer data may be obtained from two or more sources via radio frequency links. It may then be determined that the customer data from the sources indicates that a customer is traveling. In response, it may be determined that a customer location indicated by the customer data corresponds to the transaction location. In response to determining that the customer location corresponds to the transaction location, the electronic fraud alert may be marked as a false positive, and the electronic fraud alert may be prevented from being transmitted to a mobile device of the customer, in order to reduce an amount of false positives that are transmitted to customers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company
    Inventors: Timothy Kramme, Elizabeth A. Flowers, Reena Batra, Miriam Valero, Puneit Dua, Shanna L. Phillips, Russell Ruestman, Bradley A. Craig
  • Patent number: 11971753
    Abstract: An electronic device may have a flexible display. The electronic device may have housing portions that are rotatably coupled to each other so that the flexible display may fold along one or more bend axes. A device may have rollers that store a flexible display and that help deploy the display from within a housing when additional display area is desired. A touch screen in a housing may be overlapped by a flexible display that has been scrolled outwardly from the housing. Wireless transmitter and receiver circuitry may be used to convey image data to display driver circuitry. The display driver circuitry may display images on a pixel array in a flexible display based on the image data. Magnets may be used to outwardly bias edge-mounted bistable support structures to help prevent a rolled flexible display from wrinkling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Scott A. Myers
  • Patent number: 11969683
    Abstract: A separation assembly comprises a housing and a plate. The housing comprises an inlet and an outlet. The plate is positioned within the housing between the inlet and the outlet. The plate comprises a wall, at least one aperture, and at least one chimney comprising an inner surface surrounding the at least one aperture and an outer surface. The chimney extends from an upstream side of the wall and encompasses only a portion of a flow path between the inlet and the upstream side of the wall such that fluid can flow radially beyond the outer surface of the at least one chimney in the housing between the inlet and the wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: CUMMINS FILTRATION IP, INC.
    Inventors: Ruchi Lutade, Avinash Ayarekar, Christopher E. Holm, Benjamin L. Scheckel, Sachin Ravasaheb Managave, Vijay Dinkar Kolhe
  • Patent number: 11972418
    Abstract: A mobile device configured for currency exchange enables a user to cause funds in a first pre-established account and denominated in a first currency to be sent to a first transaction machine to purchase funds denominated in a second currency. The mobile device electronically receives second account information after a second account is created, with the second account being created responsive to completion of the first transaction. The created second account includes the purchased funds denominated in the second currency. Accordingly, the user is enabled, subsequent to the first transaction, to select a second account module in the mobile device that has since been configured with the received second account information of the created second account. The user can thereafter cause the mobile device to send that second account information to a second, different transaction machine to perform at least a second transaction in the second currency. Other aspects are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Eurocan Royal
    Inventor: Mehdi M. Rohani
  • Patent number: 11968917
    Abstract: A working vehicle includes a traveling vehicle to travel on a scheduled traveling route and including a connector to which a towed vehicle is connected, and an autonomous traveling controller to control autonomous traveling of the traveling vehicle based on the scheduled traveling route and a relative angle between the connector of the traveling vehicle and the towed vehicle connected to the connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Toshiaki Kurogi
  • Patent number: 11972401
    Abstract: A system, method, and apparatus for a funds transfer is provided. A method includes: receiving a fund transfer request from a user regarding a payee and an amount of funds to transfer to the payee; sending the fund transfer request to a computing system; receiving an identification of the payee; receiving an identification of a data collision regarding information associated with the payee and another user; prompting the user to verify that the information regarding the identification of the payee is correct; receiving an indication from a user; sending an instruction that facilitates identification of the payee by resolving the data collision by deactivating an association of at least some overlapping information with the another user; receiving a message indicating that a fund transfer corresponding to the fund transfer request has been completed; and providing a message indicating that the fund transfer has been completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Alan W. Hecht, Azita Asefi, Ann M. Kirk
  • Patent number: 11972809
    Abstract: A non-volatile semiconductor memory device includes non-volatile storage elements and one or more control circuits in communication with the non-volatile storage elements. The one or more control circuits are configured to determine for a program iteration of a program operation on a word line whether a condition is met and in response to determining that the condition is met, identify one or more memory cells of the word line that are in an erased state that have a threshold voltage higher than an erase threshold voltage and perform the program iteration of the program operation. The program iteration includes applying a first bitline inhibit voltage to bitlines connected to the identified one or more memory cells and a second bitline inhibit voltage to bitlines connected to one or more memory cells that are in the erased state that do not have a threshold voltage higher than the erase threshold voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: SanDisk Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Sujjatul Islam, Yu-Chung Lien, Ravi Kumar, Xue Pitner
  • Patent number: 11974410
    Abstract: Aspects discussed herein include an electronic device and an associated connector interface. The electronic device comprises an enclosure that defines an internal volume, a plurality of external surfaces, and a recess from an external surface of the plurality of external surfaces. The recess has circumferential slot(s) extending to the external surface and that receive flange(s) of an external connector. The electronic device further comprises a connector interface connected with one or more electronic components disposed in the internal volume. The connector interface comprises first conductor(s) that are exposed at the recess. While the flange(s) are received in the circumferential slot(s), rotation of the external connector causes the flange(s) to slide within the circumferential slot(s) into a retained position, in which second conductor(s) of the external connector, having a fixed disposition relative to the flange(s), are connected to the first conductor(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Samsara, Inc.
    Inventors: Jennifer Lin, Christian Almer, Somasundara Pandian, Li-Wei Cheng, David Gal
  • Patent number: 11968939
    Abstract: A novel maize variety designated PH4CM5 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant comprise crossing maize variety PH4CM5 with another maize plant are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PH4CM5 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are provided. Hybrid maize seed, plants or plant parts are produced by crossing the variety PH4CM5 or a locus conversion of PH4CM5 with another maize variety.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventor: Mark David Hoffbeck
  • Patent number: 11964223
    Abstract: An apparatus for an inertial separation of air in an electric aircraft, wherein the apparatus includes an intake duct configured to intake an airflow, an inertial air separator configured to separate the airflow into a clean airflow and a dirty airflow, a propulsor configured to intake the clean airflow, wherein the propulsor includes a stator and a rotor, and a heat exchanger configured to intake the dirty airflow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: BETA AIR, LLC
    Inventors: Stefan Stuart Brecher, Manon Danielle Belzile
  • Patent number: 11963496
    Abstract: A new and distinct watermelon variety NUN 11802 WMW is disclosed as well as seeds and plants and fruits thereof. NUN 11802 is a round oval, diploid watermelon variety of the mini-seeded type, comprising resistance to Fusarium oxysporum f. s.p niveum Race 0 and Race 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: NUNHEMS B.V.
    Inventors: Alberto Sirizzotti, Elena Chiapparino
  • Patent number: 11966724
    Abstract: Described herein are systems and methods for automatically building automations from desktop recordings using program synthesis. The problem of building automations for desktop applications can be lifted to a generalized concept of automations that operate on worlds whose “world state” can change asynchronously to the actions of the automation. Advantageously, in contrast with synthesis systems that take input-output demonstrations to synthesize a function that maps between them, the method presented here can synthesize from time-series traces of actions to automations that generalizes each step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: XXV Inc.
    Inventors: Saurabh Srivastava, Helgi K. Sigurbjarnarson, Henele I. Adams, Corianna Jacoby, Arthur Tilley, William Stern, Timothy Hayes, Audrey Shang
  • Patent number: 11966905
    Abstract: An improved savings education and management system includes a base unit including a processor, non-transitory computer-readable memory, a display, and buttons, wherein the base unit includes a housing which presents an appearance of an egg. A mobile unit includes a processor, non-transitory computer-readable memory, and a display. A computer server includes a processor and non-transitory computer-readable server memory storing a database including a user account, the user account having financial accounts and corresponding to the base unit and the mobile unit. The base unit includes instructions stored in the memory that present on the display information related to the user account which corresponds to the one of the buttons. The mobile unit includes mobile instructions stored in the memory that transmit an instruction to the computer server to debit one of the financial accounts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Inventors: Nicolle S Hood, Annamarie Shoen
  • Patent number: 11967383
    Abstract: To increase the speed of programming of a multi-plane non-volatile memory, it is proposed to accelerate the programming of the last one or more data states for one or more slow planes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ke Zhang, Ming Wang, Liang Li