Patents Examined by Wayne An
  • Patent number: 11968544
    Abstract: A control device acquires quality information indicating a correspondence relationship between a position and communication quality related to wireless communication at the position, and route information indicating a movement route of a mobile base station, specifies an area in which the communication quality is determined to be lower than a predetermined communication quality based on the quality information, and executes control for moving the mobile base station to a position at which a wireless communication service can be provided in at least a part of the area in a case where the position is included in the movement route based on the route information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideki Matsunaga, Masamitsu Tsuchiya, Toshiaki Takano
  • Patent number: 11963508
    Abstract: A novel soybean variety, designated 5PVAN09 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety 5PVAN09, cells from soybean variety 5PVAN09, plants of soybean 5PVAN09, and plant parts of soybean variety 5PVAN09. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety 5PVAN09 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or a native trait into soybean variety 5PVAN09, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety 5PVAN09, and methods of characterizing soybean variety 5PVAN09. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety 5PVAN09 are further provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventors: Brian Allen Carden, Landon Linn Ries
  • Patent number: 11966968
    Abstract: A server according to the present disclosure determines a vehicle dispatch schedule of a vehicle for delivery of a rental article to a user and/or for collection of a rental article rented out to a user from the user. The server includes a communication interface for acquiring, from a terminal apparatus used by the user, first information regarding the rental article, and at least one of second information regarding a rental date/time and a rental location and third information regarding a return date/time and a return location; and a controller for determining, according to the second information, a vehicle dispatch schedule for delivering the rental article indicated by the first information to the user by the vehicle, and/or for determining, according to the third information, a vehicle dispatch schedule for collecting the rental article rented out to the user from the user by the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yukari Suzuki, Naoki Yamada, Toshihiro Arai, Kuniaki Jinnai, Keiichi Uno
  • Patent number: 11963492
    Abstract: The objective of the invention is to provide an agent for increasing a plant functional component content, which is capable of increasing a content of the plant functional component by being adequately sprayed to the plant or injected into the soil without using stress cultivation conditions or plants with high content of functional component, and a method for manufacturing the same. An agent for increasing a plant functional component content comprising a fatty acid metabolite obtainable by a metabolism of a fatty acid with 4-30 carbon atoms by proteobacteria under a dissolved oxygen concentration of 0.1-8 mg/L, and a method for manufacturing an agent for increasing a plant functional component content comprising a fatty acid metabolite, comprising a step for a fatty acid metabolism wherein a fatty acid with 4-30 carbon atoms is subjected to a proteobacterial metabolization under a dissolved oxygen concentration of 0.1-8 mg/L.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: IBIDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuya Ohno, Tomohiro Nohara
  • Patent number: 11964923
    Abstract: A granulated organic and organomineral fertilizer supplemented with biological additive and process for the production of granulated organic and organomineral fertilizer supplemented with biological additive is physically presented in the form of granules (G), having its formulation defined by the combination of organic and mineral matter (N,P,K), to which it is added, in addition, a bioburden in the form of bacteria, fungus and yeast that are selected to crops of interest, whether grasses, legumes, monocotyledons and dicotyledons, the granules (G) receive the bioburden at the time of its granulation; the selection of bioburden to be included in granules (G) is established according to the soil and crop analysis to be cultivated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: SUPERBAC BIOTECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS S.A.
    Inventor: Luiz Augusto Chacon De Freitas Filho
  • Patent number: 11963507
    Abstract: A novel soybean variety, designated 5PJWA71 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety 5PJWA71, cells from soybean variety 5PJWA71, plants of soybean 5PJWA71, and plant parts of soybean variety 5PJWA71. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety 5PJWA71 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or a native trait into soybean variety 5PJWA71, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety 5PJWA71, and methods of characterizing soybean variety 5PJWA71. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety 5PJWA71 are further provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventor: Zachary Phillip Shearin
  • Patent number: 11957079
    Abstract: A stand-on blower is provided that allows for fully powered nozzle angle adjustment. The blower may deliver an airflow for pneumatic cleanup tasks in different directions, including horizontal or left-right and vertical or up-down direction variability of the airflow. Position or angle of the blower's nozzle may be automatically reversed or driven to a rotational or angle limit upon demand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Metalcraft of Mayville, Inc.
    Inventors: James Hall, Craig Antonioni
  • Patent number: 11956714
    Abstract: A user equipment includes a receiving unit configured to receive, from a network node in a VPLMN (Visited Public land mobile network), information indicating a PLMN to be prioritized and information indicating a trigger of PLMN selection; and a control unit configured to execute the PLMN selection, based on the information indicating the PLMN to be prioritized and the information indicating the trigger of the PLMN selection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Shinya Takeda, Hiroshi Ishikawa, Maoki Hikosaka, Kenichiro Aoyagi, Atsushi Minokuchi, Ban Al-Bakri
  • Patent number: 11950562
    Abstract: A soybean cultivar designated 04230926 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 04230926, to the plants of soybean cultivar 04230926, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 04230926, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 04230926. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 04230926. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 04230926, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 04230926 with another soybean cultivar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: M.S. Technologies, L.L.C.
    Inventor: Justin T. Mason
  • Patent number: 11952282
    Abstract: A low energy production method for producing pure and highly concentrated carbon dioxide from a renewable lignocellulosic biomass feedstock comprising the steps of i) extracting lignins and hemicelluloses by putting a solid lignocellulosic raw material in the presence of a mixture of at least water and formic acid, at atmospheric pressure under conditions of temperature between 80° C. and 110° C., ii) fractionating, the primary solid fraction and the primary liquid fraction obtained at the end of the extraction step i), iii) separating the lignins from the intermediate liquid fraction, iv) producing a synthetic gas by feeding a gasification equipment with at least part of said primary solid fraction and/or at least part of said residual liquid fraction, and v) producing carbon dioxide and water by introducing dioxygen, or dioxygen enriched air, or air in said gasification equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Société Bioeb
    Inventor: Michel Delmas
  • Patent number: 11950553
    Abstract: The present invention provides for a method for producing an inbred plant comprising a first and second trait of interest in the L1-shoot meristem layer for use in producing a periclinal chimera plant, the inbred plant thus obtained, the use of said inbred plant for producing said periclinal chimera plant, a method for producing a periclinal chimera plant using said inbred plant, a periclinal chimera plant thus obtained, the use of said periclinal chimera plant in producing plant product and the plant product thus obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Keygene N.V.
    Inventor: Jeroen Stuurman
  • Patent number: 11956636
    Abstract: A communication terminal (10) according to the present disclosure includes: a control unit (12) configured to, in a case of a movement from a communication area formed by the 5GS to a communication area formed by the EPS or a movement from a communication area formed by the EPS to a communication area formed by the 5GS, determine whether or not a communication system forming a communication area at a movement destination can satisfy requirements of services; and a communication unit (11) configured to, when it is determined that the communication system forming the communication area at the movement destination can satisfy the requirements of the services, send a connection request message to the communication system forming the communication area at the movement destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hironori Ito, Anand Raghawa Prasad, Andreas Kunz, Sivabalan Arumugam, Sivakamy Lakshminarayanan, Sheeba Backia Mary Baskaran
  • Patent number: 11953825
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an imprint apparatus that presses a fine pattern of an original plate against a photo-curable resin dropped onto a substrate, and transfers the fine pattern to the photo-curable resin by applying light, includes a dropping unit that drops the photo-curable resin onto a shot region obtained by dividing the substrate into a plurality of sections, an original plate supporting unit that stamps the original plate on the photo-curable resin on the substrate, the original plate being supported the fine pattern towards the substrate side, and a substrate supporting unit that supports the substrate and moves the substrate such that a position of a predetermined shot region of the substrate is a dropping position of the dropping unit or a stamping position of the original plate, in which the dropping unit is controlled such that the photo-curable resin is sequentially dropped onto the plurality of shot regions of the substrate, and the original plate supporting unit is controlled such that
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Kioxia Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki Hatano, Kei Kobayashi, Tetsuro Nakasugi
  • Patent number: 11956194
    Abstract: A text communication management system is provided that receives, analyzes, and enforces recipient actions regarding phone-based text communications. The text communication management system can obtain recipient action data regarding a recipient's action with respect to a particular text communication, and enforce the recipient action with respect to future text communications. The management system can also or alternatively analyze the recipient action data in connection with recipient action data from multiple other recipients to generate a model for use in determining whether future phone-based text communications should be permitted, determining the likelihood that such communications will cause recipients to opt-out, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Callfire, Inc.
    Inventors: Shannon Elizabeth Donohue, Vijesh Rajnikant Mehta, Norman William Happ, Aaron Horvath
  • Patent number: 11944951
    Abstract: Calcium silicate hydrate nanoparticles are combined with ammonia control materials (e.g. alum, aluminum chloride, ferric chloride, ferric sulfate, and/or sodium bisulfate) to create a phosphorus-binding composition. In the preferred embodiment, the composition is applied to poultry litter, poultry bedding or other non-aqueous substrates that are at least partially comprised of animal manure. The composition binds with phosphorus to at least reduce the amount of phosphorus in runoff water or in leachate from fields fertilized with treated manure. The combining of the calcium silicate hydrate nanoparticles with the ammonia control products has a surprising and unexpected result. The calcium silicate hydrate-ammonia control material mix reduces soluble phosphorus more than either component of the mix alone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture
    Inventor: Philip A. Moore, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11946481
    Abstract: Disclosed is a rotor for a compressible fluid pump, in particular a blood pump that can be introduced into a patient's body through a blood vessel; said rotor comprises one or more impeller elements, is compressible and expansible between an expanded state and a compressed state, is made at least in part of a fiber-reinforced plastic material, is provided for rotating about an axis of rotation, and is characterized in that in the expanded state of the rotor, a first percentage, i.e. more than 30%, in particular more than 50%, of the fibers runs substantially straight between the first end (10a, 11a, 13a) thereof lying closest to the axis of rotation and a second end lying further away from the axis of rotation. According to the invention, the rotor retains its shape very well even when subjected to repeated mechanical stress.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: ECP ENTWICKLUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH
    Inventor: Thorsten Siess
  • Patent number: 11944064
    Abstract: A novel soybean variety, designated 5PJHZ28 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety 5PJHZ28, cells from soybean variety 5PJHZ28, plants of soybean 5PJHZ28, and plant parts of soybean variety 5PJHZ28. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety 5PJHZ28 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or a native trait into soybean variety 5PJHZ28, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety 5PJHZ28, and methods of characterizing soybean variety 5PJHZ28. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety 5PJHZ28 are further provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventor: Jason Raines
  • Patent number: 11939275
    Abstract: A controlled release fertilizer includes a core including plant nutrient particles and a biodegradable coating composition forming at least one layer surrounding the core, the composition comprising cellulose, the at least one layer being structured as a semi-permeable surface membrane configured to release the plant nutrients from the core in a linear manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Profile Products LLC
    Inventor: Edward Rosenthal
  • Patent number: 11943732
    Abstract: A method for performing, by a user equipment (UE), a registration to a network in a wireless communication system is disclosed. More specifically, the UE performs a registration to a first public land mobile network (PLMN) via a first base station, receives a disaster related message indicating that a disaster roaming service is provided, checks whether the UE is provided with the disaster roaming service based on the disaster related message, selects a second PLMN providing the disaster roaming service when the UE is provided with the disaster roaming service as a result of the check, transmits a registration request message to the selected second PLMN based on the disaster related message, and receives, from the second PLMN, a response message to the registration request message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Sungduck Chun
  • Patent number: 11931936
    Abstract: In an injection process, molten resin is successively injected from a first flow channel and a second flow channel connected with each other in order into a cavity of a metal mold. High-temperature resin existing in the first flow channel is injected in advance into the cavity as a part of a single shot of molten resin to later form a skin layer of a molded article. Other low temperature resin near a flowable limit existing in the second flow channel is subsequently injected into the cavity as another part of the single shot of molten resin to later form a core layer of the molded article. A low temperature resin remaining in the first flow channel when injection is completed is warmed to be a high-temperature resin before the next cycle, thereby allowing successive molding of molded articles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tohru Higuchi, Masato Ichikawa, Tsuyoshi Arai, Jun Hasebe, Atsushi Kawamura, Tomoyoshi Murata