Patents Examined by J. Kim
  • System and self-metering cartridges for point of care bioassays
    Patent number: 11904315
    Abstract: The invention is directed to devices and methods for performing rapid low-cost bioassays in self-contained disposable cartridges that provide efficient mixing of sample and reactants under a layer of liquid wax. Some embodiments additionally use gravity assisted distribution of sample and assay reagents in conjunction with an appliance containing all necessary valves, pneumatic sources, heat sources and detection stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Wainamics, Inc.
    Inventors: Arturo M. Escajeda, Huyen Tran, Ming X. Tan
  • System and self-metering cartridges for point of care bioassays
    Patent number: 11904314
    Abstract: The invention is directed to devices and methods for performing rapid low-cost bioassays in self-contained disposable cartridges that provide efficient mixing of sample and reactants under a layer of liquid wax. Some embodiments additionally use gravity assisted distribution of sample and assay reagents in conjunction with an appliance containing all necessary valves, pneumatic sources, heat sources and detection stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Wainamics, Inc.
    Inventors: Arturo M. Escajeda, Huyen Tran, Ming X. Tan
  • Systems and methods for targeted advertisement insertion into a program content stream
    Patent number: 11910036
    Abstract: A computerized system for targeted ad insertion receives a program content stream and detects images in the content stream. The system recognizes at least one visual object within the images and matches the recognized visual object to an advertisement that correlates with the recognized visual object. The system may then select an advertisement that advertises, correlates to, is directed to or is otherwise relevant to products or services falling under the theme, topic, category of interest and/or relevant viewer demographic and inserts an identifier of the matched advertisement at an insertion point into the program content stream. This enables playback of the matched advertisement during playback of the program content stream at a time that correlates to the insertion point into the program content stream of the identifier of the matched advertisement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: DISH Network L.L.C.
    Inventors: Robert W. Estus, Robert F. Percival
  • Frequency content based monitoring of wind turbine blade pitch system
    Patent number: 11905927
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products for monitoring a wind turbine (10). The system receives a signal (426) indicative of a pitch force being applied to a blade (20) of a wind turbine (10). The signal (426) is sampled to generate a discrete time-domain signal (426) including a plurality of pitch force samples. Samples are selected for analysis using a sampling window (326) that excludes samples obtained under operating conditions determined to be detrimental to obtaining good data. The selected samples are processed to generate a spectral density (150) of the signal (426), and the frequency content of the spectral density (150) analysed to determine the condition of one or more components of the wind turbine (10). If the analysis indicates that a component of the wind turbine (10) needs attention, the system generates an alarm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Vestas Wind Systems A/S
    Inventor: Frank Møller Hansen
  • MDA using bead oligonucleotide
    Patent number: 11905551
    Abstract: Improved multiple displacement amplification (MDA) reagents and methods are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald Lebofsky, Jeremy Agresti, George Karlin-Neumann
  • Quad 5G NR MIMO antenna array with transmission lines
    Patent number: 11901639
    Abstract: An antenna array includes one or more substrates and four individual antennas in an orthogonal formation to improve radiation pattern independence. In various embodiments, a novel antenna array configuration is disclosed where one of the four antennas is orthogonal to two of the remaining three antennas. At least two of the four individual antennas are electrically coupled via transmission lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: 2J ANTENNAS USA, CORPORATION
    Inventor: Javier Ruben Flores-Cuadras
  • System and self-metering cartridges for point of care bioassays
    Patent number: 11898197
    Abstract: The invention is directed to devices and methods for performing rapid low-cost bioassays in self-contained disposable cartridges that provide efficient mixing of sample and reactants under a layer of liquid wax. Some embodiments additionally use gravity assisted distribution of sample and assay reagents in conjunction with an appliance containing all necessary valves, pneumatic sources, heat sources and detection stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Wainamics, Inc.
    Inventors: Arturo M. Escajeda, Huyen Tran, Ming X. Tan
  • Two stage mixed fuel sensing system
    Patent number: 11898506
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine system is described herein. The internal combustion engine system uses one or more fuels that may be hydrophilic. The system uses a water measuring sensor to determine the concentration of water in the hydrophilic fuel. To meet power demands, the system uses the measured water concentration to modify data stored in a fuel map. The fuel map provides a controller the pump speeds and mixing ratio of the fuels for a given power level. The system receives that data and modifies it based on the measured concentration of water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Michael David Gerstner, Daniel Raymond Baldwin, Robert Graumüller
  • Media content segment generation and presentation
    Patent number: 11895371
    Abstract: A system can be utilized to determine media clips for media content based on a comparison between subtitles of the media content and information associated with a third-party system. The comparisons can be utilized to identify subtitles based on the comparison and determine the media clips based on portions of the media content associated with the identified subtitles. A smoothing algorithm can be applied to the media clips to modify start times and end times of the media clips. The system can cause the media clips or the corresponding media content to be output by an external device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Abhinav Aggarwal, Yash Pandya, Manivel Sethu
  • Customized 360-degree media viewing
    Patent number: 11895365
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed including techniques for rendering a 360-degree media content. Techniques disclosed include receiving a 360-degree media content and associated metadata that include a classification of a first spatial region from the received content. Techniques disclosed further include determining that a detected user movement is associated with a rendering of the first spatial region and determining whether the classification associated with the first spatial region complies with a stored user preference. If the classification violates the user preference, a path for gradually shifting the content rendering from a currently rendered spatial region to a spatial region that complies with the user preference is determined, and the received content is rendered according to the determined path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: InterDigital Madison Patent Holdings, SAS
    Inventors: Yong He, Yan Ye, Ali C. Begen, Ahmed Hamza
  • Techniques for providing a content stream based on a delivered stream of content
    Patent number: 11895350
    Abstract: A method of providing a content stream based on capturing an initial delivery of the content stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: NAGRAVISION SARL
    Inventors: Patricia Fieldhouse, Ben Lavery-Griffiths, David Price
  • Compositions and techniques for nucleic acid primer extension
    Patent number: 11884971
    Abstract: A method of characterizing a nucleic acid that includes steps of (a) contacting a primer-template nucleic acid hybrid with a polymerase and a mixture of nucleotides to produce an extended primer hybrid and to form a stabilized ternary complex including the extended primer hybrid, the polymerase and a nucleotide cognate of the next base in the template, wherein the mixture contains nucleotide cognates of four different base types, wherein the nucleotide cognate of the first base type has a reversible terminator, and wherein nucleotide cognates of the second, third and fourth base types are extendable; (b) detecting the stabilized ternary complex to distinguish the next base from other base types in the template; and (c) determining the presence of a base multiplet in the template nucleic acid, the base multiplet including the first base type followed by the next base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc.
    Inventors: Denis Malyshev, Arnold Oliphant
  • Method for signaling a substitution to a terminal, method for substitution by a terminal, and corresponding computer program products, system and terminal
    Patent number: 11889129
    Abstract: A method for signalling, to a terminal, substitution of an item of content, broadcast via a broadcast network to which the terminal is connected, with a substitute item of content. Such a method includes: obtaining a substitute information packet including time information indicating a time of execution, by the terminal, of an action for substituting the broadcast item of content with the substitute item of content, wherein the time information corresponds to a date of rendering of an image of the broadcast item of content with reference to a reference clock embedded in the broadcast item of content; generating an event notification message including the time information; and inserting the event notification message into a data flow conveying the item of content broadcast within the broadcast network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignees: ENENSYS TECHNOLOGIES, TDF
    Inventor: David Vincent
  • Assembly for a turbine engine
    Patent number: 11885268
    Abstract: An assembly for a turbine engine extending along an axis, includes a stator, a low-pressure compressor shaft, a low-pressure compressor comprising a rotor comprising a drum rotatably coupled to the shaft of the low-pressure compressor, and a fan comprising a disk rotatably coupled to the shaft of the low-pressure compressor. The drum has a radially internal part rotatably coupled to the shaft of the low-pressure compressor and a radially external part fixed to the radially internal part by means of detachable fixing means. A first axial retention means is configured to axially and detachably retain the disk of the fan relative to the shaft of the low-pressure compressor. A second axial retention means is configured to axially and detachably retain the radially internal part of the drum relative to the shaft of the low-pressure compressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Philippe Gérard Edmond Joly, Jean-Marc Claude Perrollaz, Laurent Jablonski
  • Electronic device and operating method thereof
    Patent number: 11882331
    Abstract: An electronic device and an operating method thereof. The electronic device includes a receiver for connection to a source device, a memory storing one or more instructions, and a processor configured to execute the one or more instructions stored in the memory to detect a first resolution of an input image received from the source device, determine whether to modify extended display identification data (EDID) of the electronic device, based on whether the detected first resolution corresponds to the EDID, upon determining that the EDID is to be modified, modify the EDID, and receive, from the source device, an input image of a second resolution, generated based on the modified EDID.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Byoungjin Choi
  • Control device
    Patent number: 11879366
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a control device, in particular in an electromechanical camshaft adjuster, comprising an electric motor and a control transmission coupled to the electric motor via a coupling element and designed as a harmonic drive. A two-armed wire coupler is provided as the coupling element, the arms of which engage in openings of an inner ring of a waveform generator of the control transmission, and the wire coupler has a winding which is wound around the motor shaft of the electric motor in a non-rotating manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventor: Ali Bayrakdar
  • Reciprocating-piston internal combustion engine
    Patent number: 11873779
    Abstract: A reciprocating combustion engine includes at least one cylinder, in which a reciprocating piston is arranged back and forth movable. The reciprocating combustion engine includes a pin structure arranged on the combustion chamber side in the area of the cylinder head or the piston bottom. Due to the pin structure, local peak temperatures can be avoided during the combustion process, so that NOx emissions can be avoided or at least greatly reduced. A motor vehicle, for example a commercial vehicle, includes a reciprocating combustion engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: MAN Truck & Bus SE
    Inventor: Jochen Cypris
  • Fuel system components
    Patent number: 11873547
    Abstract: A fuel system, comprising at least one fuel component formed of a steel alloy comprising 0.01-0.31 wt. % carbon, 0.0-0.20 wt. % silicon, 0.15-0.50 wt. % manganese, 0.0-0.015 wt. % phosphorous, 0.0-0.001 wt. % sulfur, 4.80-5.20 wt. % chromium, 4.80-6.20 wt. % nickel, 0.60-0.80 wt. % molybdenum, 0.0-0.550 wt. % vanadium, and 2.000-2.400 wt. % aluminum, wherein the at least one fuel component is configured to come in contact with fuel when fuel is ran through the fuel system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Cummins Inc.
    Inventors: Yang Su, Xiaoli Huang, Steven E. Ferdon, Ross A. Phillips, Manoj M. Thete, Brian J. Wright
  • Composite fan blade root
    Patent number: 11867087
    Abstract: There is disclosed a composite fan blade root 100 comprising an outer region 110 comprising composite material and defining an outer inspection surface 120 of the component; an inner region 108 surrounded by the outer region 110; and an internal reflection boundary 102 embedded within the root 100 between the inner region and the outer region. The reflection boundary is configured to change a velocity of a signal emitted into the root from the inspection surface, whereby a signal emitted into the root from the inspection surface 120 may be reflected for detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE PLC
    Inventors: Christopher Gall, Anthony Newnham
  • Audio/video receiving device and wireless display system
    Patent number: 11863822
    Abstract: An Audio/Video (A/V) receiving device may include a display, a Radio Frequency (RF) receiving module configured to receive an RF packet from an A/V transmitting device, the RF receiving module including a plurality of antennas, and a microcomputer configured to obtain a distance between the A/V transmitting device and A/V receiving device and when the obtained distance is changed, display a first message indicating that a number of antennas to be turned among the plurality of antennas is changed according to the change of the distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Hojin Lee