Patents Examined by D. Le
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Patent number: 11883354Abstract: A soaking chair comprising: a seat surface and a support structure; wherein the chair is designed for use in a shower; and wherein the seat surface comprises a soaking reservoir. The chair provides hydrotherapy to the anogenital, hip, buttocks, and/or lower back areas.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2021Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: SOSOAK, LLCInventor: Paula Jo Hennessy
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Patent number: 11886438Abstract: Methods and systems for an improved Enterprise Matching Service (“EMS”) that is designed to match incoming data records to a database of records, using less system resources and using those resources more efficiently. The EMS identifies potential matches by generating unique identifiers and match codes for incoming data records, and then, using a series of sequential matching strategies, matching the unique identifiers and match codes to pre-generated unique identifiers and match codes for database records to identify a subset of potential matches. If no matches are identified, the next matching strategy is executed. Once a subset of potential matches are identified, the methods and systems may weigh the subset of potential matches to determine whether there is a match.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2022Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: National Student ClearinghouseInventors: Ravi Batchu, Manish Ganotra, Diana Gillum, Joolee Tao, Steven Truesdale
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Patent number: 11877706Abstract: The present invention relates to a collapsible portable shower or personal hygiene system. The system is in the form of a collapsible enclosure formed by two interlocking pieces including a collapsible tapered top piece and a collapsible tapered bottom piece. Both the top piece and the bottom piece have foldable panels for collapsing and extending the device. The top piece further has a protrusion at the bottom, and the bottom piece has a groove along the top surface for creating a leakproof enclosure. Finally, the top piece further comprises handles and hanging holes or openings, and the bottom piece comprises a drain hole for draining water from the device upon completion of the bathing process.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2022Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Inventor: Wesly Gabriel
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Patent number: 11880388Abstract: The subject technology receives, from a metadata database, information related to a base table. The subject technology determines a table object associated with the base table, the table object including a first set of metadata. The subject technology generates a nested object based on a second set of metadata, the second set of metadata including information linking the nested object to the table object. The subject technology generates a second table object associated with the nested object, the second table object representing a secondary index of the base table, the second table object including information linking the second table object to the nested object. The subject technology establishes a link between the second table object to the base table based on the nested object. The subject technology stores, in the metadata database, the nested object and the second table object.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2023Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: Snowflake Inc.Inventors: Nikolaos Romanos Katsipoulakis, Dimitrios Tsirogiannis, Zhaohui Zhang
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Patent number: 11877705Abstract: The collapsible and height adjustable shower chair device disclosed herein may allow a user to seat and support a child while in the shower for washing. The device may collapse down into a form factor suitable for storing away, while also providing a height adjustment so that a child is placed at an appropriate height for where a second user may attend to the child. The feet of the device may provide traction and stability to the collapsible and height adjustable shower chair device so that it does not slide on a wet surface and so that it does not tilt forward due to the child shifting their weight. The device may further comprise safety features such as, for example, side bolsters or a seat belt to prevent a child from falling out of the device.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2022Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Inventor: Robbie Grasseschi
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Patent number: 11872184Abstract: A steam physiotherapy mechanism includes a receptacle having a chamber formed in a housing, a steam pipe disposed in the housing, a steam generating device connected to the steam pipe for generating and supplying a steam into the chamber of the housing, a number of tiles disposed in the housing, and a number of retainers engaged with the tiles for anchoring the tiles in the housing, the tiles each include a number of casings each having a compartment, and one or more of the compartments of the casings are filled with an ore mud. The tiles each include a number of passages formed in the casings and communicating with the compartments of the casings.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2021Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Inventor: Wenjun Chen
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Patent number: 11876424Abstract: A motor is provided including: a stator including a stator core, stator windings, and an end insulator; a rotor rotatably received within the stator; and stator terminals supported by the routing insulator and extending away from the stator. Each stator terminal includes a main body having a curved portion, a tang portion folded over the main body and receiving a portion of a magnet wire therein to make an electrical connection with at least one of the stator windings, and a terminal pin projecting axially away from the stator core. The stator core has a maximum diameter of less than or equal to approximately 34 mm defining an outer envelope of the stator, and the stator terminals are fully contained within the outer envelope.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2022Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.Inventors: Dustin Jefferies, David J. Smith, Marcus E. E. Rydin, Justin H. Ayers, Sumiteru Mori, Kristopher Cochran
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Patent number: 11876422Abstract: A rotor for an electric machine has winding elements which are arranged in axially running grooves of a rotor body and having a winding head which is arranged axially next to the rotor body. The winding elements exit from the grooves in the axial direction in the region of the winding head and run in the axial direction in the region of the axial ends of the winding elements. Each of the winding elements has four curved portions in the region of the winding head. The rotor includes a plurality of tension bolts and a winding head carrier. The tension bolts connect the winding head to the winding head carrier and penetrate through the winding head radially.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2019Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: Voith Patent GmbHInventors: Thomas Hildinger, Ludger Koedding, Michael Weckert, Stefan Veser, Stefan Allgeyer, Holger Henning, Philipp Eilebrecht
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Patent number: 11873634Abstract: A chemical dispensing system for a toilet that includes a container configured to contain a chemical compound that mixes with water to form a cleaning compound; a bracket coupled to the container; a threaded protrusion that extends from the bracket and is configured to extend through a hole in an inside of the sidewall of the toilet; and a fastener having a threaded body and a head, which is larger radially than the threaded body such that the head is configured to contact an outside of the sidewall in a secured position in which the threaded body threads to the threaded protrusion.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2021Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: Kohler Co.Inventors: William Kuru, Clayton Garrels, Peter W. Denzin
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Patent number: 11871902Abstract: Disclosed herein are technological solutions that are configured to limit sub-optimal visualization of the surgical field during robotic and manual laparoscopic surgery. Such technological solutions are configured to systematically assess cleanliness of an imaging element of a laparoscope (or other type of similar imaging apparatus) and take action for enabling or causing the imaging element to be cleaned. In preferred embodiments, assessment of the cleanliness of the imaging element provides information that can be used for enabling or causing cleaning of the imaging element to be performed in-vivo in either a manual, semi-autonomous or autonomous manner. In this manner such technological solutions advantageously enable the surgical field during surgery to be more efficiently and consistently maintained in an optimal condition.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2021Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignees: BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM, CLEARCAM INC.Inventors: Farshid Alambeigi, Alexander Cohen, Christopher R. Idelson, Christopher Rylander
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Patent number: 11868362Abstract: An example system for programmatically extracting data from a big data source includes: a processor; and system memory encoding instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the system to: extract metadata from the big data source using the utility; transform the metadata into a standard format; and load the metadata in a repository.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A.Inventors: Andrew Brown, Dale E. Prillaman, David Leblanc
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Patent number: 11868351Abstract: Dashboard loading from a cloud-based data warehouse cache, including determining that a result for a first query is stored in a cache of a cloud-based data warehouse; sending, in response to the result being stored in the cache, to the cloud-based data warehouse, a request for the result from the cache; and providing, based on the result for the first query, one or more dashboard visualizations.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: SIGMA COMPUTING, INC.Inventors: James L. Gale, Kenneth Truong, Max H. Seiden, Stipo Josipovic
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Patent number: 11870977Abstract: Devices and methods of intra prediction of a block of a picture are provided. The method includes obtaining reference samples of a block, and determining a value of a predicted sample based on the reference samples and an intra prediction mode. The method further includes obtaining a value of a multiplier based on at least one dimension of the block, and normalizing the value of the predicted sample based on the value of the multiplier and a value of a shift. The intra prediction mode is INTRA_DC, or INTRA_BI, or horizontal intra prediction mode. By normalizing the value of the predicted sample based on the value of the multiplier and a value of a shift without division operation, the method could increase intra prediction efficiency.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2021Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Alexey Konstantinovich Filippov, Vasily Alexeevich Rufitskiy, Jianle Chen
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Patent number: 11868397Abstract: A system for supporting a user's repetitive motion activity operates to manage cadence-based playlists identifying one or more media content items having a tempo corresponding to a user's cadence. The cadence-based playlists can be categorized by different tempi or tempo ranges that cover all likely cadences during the user's activities. A media-playback device is provided to acquire a user's cadence and retrieve a cadence-based playlist associated with a tempo or a tempo range corresponding to the cadence.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Spotify ABInventors: Sten Garmark, Dariusz Dziuk, Owen Smith, Lars Christian Olofsson, Nikolaos Toumpelis
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Patent number: 11870316Abstract: A motor is provided including a motor housing having an open end; a stator disposed within the motor housing and including a stator core, stator windings, and an end insulator that electrically insulate the stator core from the stator windings and includes an annular body; a rotor rotatably received within the stator and including a rotor shaft extending along a longitudinal axis and permanent magnets; and a bearing bridge including a center pocket arranged to support a bearing of the rotor shaft. The bearing bridge is received at least partially within the end insulator. The annular body of the end insulator includes at least one peripheral opening located within the motor housing, and the bearing bridge is radially piloted relative to the motor housing via a retaining member received through the at least one peripheral opening.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: BLACK & DECKER, INC.Inventors: Dustin Jefferies, David J. Smith, Marcus E. E. Rydin, Justin H. Ayers, Sumiteru Mori, Kristopher Cochran
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Patent number: 11870998Abstract: A normal merge mode derivation unit further includes a merging candidate selector structured to add a merge motion vector difference defined by a direction index indicating a direction and a distance index indicating a distance to a motion vector of a merging candidate list, and select one candidate from the merging candidate list as a selected merging candidate on the basis of a merge index, in which, when the motion vector of the selected merging candidate is smaller than a distance indicated by an arbitrary index of the distance index, the merging candidate selector sets a direction of a merge motion vector difference defined by the distance index indicating a larger distance than the motion vector of the selected merging candidate as a diagonal direction, or changes the distance indicated by the distance index.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2021Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: JVCKENWOOD CorporationInventors: Hiroyuki Kurashige, Hideki Takehara, Hiroya Nakamura, Satoru Sakazume, Shigeru Fukushima, Toru Kumakura
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Patent number: 11870319Abstract: An electric motor has a stator mechanically coupled to the rotor by a nutating traction interface, such that during nutation of the rotor with respect to the stator a tilt axis of the rotor progresses about the axis of rotation of the output shaft. The rotor and a surface of the stator bound a dynamic gap across which a magnetic field is produced by electrical activation of the motor to generate a force between the rotor and the stator. The traction interface and the gap are arranged such that, in a plane containing the axis of rotation of the output shaft, the traction interface is angled with respect to the stator surface bounding the gap. The rotor is connected to the output shaft by a tiltable connection such as a gimbal.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Tau Motors, Inc.Inventors: Matthew J. Rubin, Walter Wesley Pennington, III, Adam Daniel Ambrecht, Gregory Gordon Stevenson
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Patent number: 11863786Abstract: A method of transmitting image data in an image display system, includes dividing the image data into framebuffers, and for each framebuffer: dividing the framebuffer into a number of vertical stripes, each stripe including one or more scanlines, dividing each vertical stripe into at least a first and a second block, each of the first and the second block comprising pixel data to be displayed in an area of the image, and storing first pixel data in the first block with a first resolution and second pixel data in the second block having a second resolution which is lower than the first resolution, transmitting the framebuffer over the digital display interface to a decoder unit, and unpacking the framebuffer, including upscaling the pixel data in the second block to compensate for the lower second resolution and optionally upscaling the pixel data in the first block.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2021Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Varjo Technologies OyInventors: Mikko Strandborg, Oiva Arvo Oskari Sahlsten, Ville Miettinen
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Patent number: 11863052Abstract: A drive device includes a motor including a rotor rotatable about a central axis, a transmission connected to the motor, and a housing including a motor housing accommodating the motor and a transmission housing accommodating the transmission. A first fluid is accommodated in the transmission housing. The housing includes a first flow path through which the first fluid flows and a second flow path through which the second fluid flows. The first flow path includes a supply flow path that supplies the first fluid in the transmission housing to the inside of the motor housing, and a collection flow path that extends from the inside of the motor housing to the inside of the transmission housing. At least a portion of the second flow path is located radially outside the motor. At least a portion of the collection flow path is located radially outside the second flow path.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2021Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventors: Kengo Takamura, Hibiki Takada, Shohei Fujimoto
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Patent number: 11857475Abstract: The present invention is directed to a detachable commode. The detachable commode may comprise a commode storage bracket, a commode, and a pail. The commode storage bracket may be coupled to the underside of the bed frame of a bed. The commode may be stored under the bed supported by the commode storage bracket. The commode may be removed from the commode storage bracket when needed. The commode may hold the pail such that the commode may be operable as a toilet. The commode may be adapted for a patient to sit on a seat of the commode and while urinating and/or defecating into the pail. As non-limiting examples, the bed may be a hospital bed and the commode storage bracket may be added onto the bed or may be built into the bed.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2022Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Inventors: Diana M. Carrano, Helen Kachere
