Patents Issued in February 6, 2024
  • Patent number: RE49827
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a dry silicone gel. The dry silicone gel comprises a base polymer having a vinylsilicone group, a crosslinker, and a chain extender. The dry silicone gel may be made by reacting (a) a first set of components comprising a base polymer having a vinylsilicone group and an addition cure catalyst with (b) a second set of components comprising a crosslinker, a chain extender, and additional base polymer. In certain circumstances, the base polymer and additional base polymer are vinyl-terminated polydimethylsiloxane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignees: CommScope Connectivity Belgium BVBA, CommScope Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Stephane J. G. Berghmans, Michael A. Oar, Miguel A. Morales, Gary W. Adams, Anne-Marie Prins, Nathalie Hendrickx
  • Patent number: RE49828
    Abstract: A low-cost, simple ultrasonic sensing system has an increased detection range. The ultrasonic sensing system may be implemented as part of a load control system for controlling the power delivered from an AC power source to an electrical load. The load control system may comprise a load control device for controlling the power delivered to the electrical load, an ultrasonic receiver for receiving ultrasonic waves characterized by an ultrasonic frequency, and an ultrasonic transmitter located remotely from the ultrasonic receiver. The load control device controls the power delivered to the electrical load in response to the ultrasonic waves received by the ultrasonic receiver. The load control device may include the ultrasonic receiver and may be a wall-mounted load control device. The ultrasonic receiver may be a wireless ultrasonic receiver for transmitting wireless signals to the load control device in response to the ultrasonic waves received by the ultrasonic receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Lutron Technology Company LLC
    Inventors: James P. Steiner, Greg Edward Sloan
  • Patent number: RE49829
    Abstract: A memory card 100 having a NAND type flash memory connectable to a host device 200, capable of transmitting/receiving a signal to/from the host device 200 at a first voltage (3.3 V) or a second voltage (1.8 V) and safely changing a signal voltage of a transmission/reception signal that mutually checks a signal voltage through handshake processing with the host device 200 when the signal voltage is switched.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Kioxia Corporation
    Inventor: Akihisa Fujimoto
  • Patent number: RE49830
    Abstract: A relocatable power tap with a charging station for charging one or more electrical devices. The power tap is preferably selectively moveable through an aperture of a work surface, between depressed and upright positions. The power tap may include a top portion with a wireless charging emitter and a cover, and a lower portion for hard-wiring charging of electrical devices. The cover may fit flush and liquid-tight with the work surface when the power tap is in the depressed position. The charging station is located above the work surface in a spill-proof position, when the power tap is in the upright position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Lew Electric Fittings Company
    Inventor: James Cozzi
  • Patent number: RE49831
    Abstract: Provided herein a semiconductor device including a stack including conductive layers and insulating layers that are alternately stacked, and a slit insulating layer passing through the stack in a stacking direction, the slit insulating layer including a first main pattern extending in a first direction, and a first protruding pattern protruding in a second direction crossing the first direction at an end of the first main pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventors: Ki Hong Lee, Seung Ho Pyi, Seok Min Jeon
  • Patent number: 11889778
    Abstract: An agricultural implement including a frame, at least one rake moveably coupled to the frame and including a plurality of tine arms, a plurality of tines connected to the plurality of tine arms, and a rotor drive configured for rotating the plurality of tine arms, and an adjustment system configured for adjusting a rake height of the at least one rake. The adjustment system includes at least one actuator, an electronic control unit operably connected to the at least one actuator, and at least one dust sensor supported by the frame and operably connected to the electronic control unit. The at least one dust sensor monitors a dust level and communicates dust level data to the electronic control unit which correspondingly adjusts the rake height based upon the dust level data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLC
    Inventor: Pieter W. Viaene
  • Patent number: 11889779
    Abstract: A work vehicle includes an automatic steering switching tool to start or end automatic steering of a vehicle body and a setting operation tool to select a setting for the automatic steering of the vehicle body. The automatic steering switching tool and the setting operation tool are positioned at an upper portion of a steering tower and below a steering wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinji Misaki
  • Patent number: 11889780
    Abstract: A method for automating an agricultural work task includes specifying one or more site-specific target values or weighting factors with respect to process-related or agronomic quality criteria via an interface module according to which the work task is to be executed by the soil cultivation implement. The method includes converting the target values or weighting factors in an optimization module into process control variables representing working or operating parameters of the soil cultivation implement, and adjusting the process control variables in a stabilization module by activating positioning or operating units of the soil cultivation implement or the agricultural tractor. In the converting step, feedback data is included with respect to a status of a field surface before or after the cultivation by the implement and with respect to an operating status of the implement or the tractor in order to modify the process control variables.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: DEERE & COMPANY
    Inventor: Martin Schmidt
  • Patent number: 11889781
    Abstract: A machine and a method for producing biodegradable nonwoven textile including seeds including a seed distributing machine unit, positioned in a cross-lapping portion of the nonwoven textile machine. The seed distributing machine unit includes at least one receptacle for seeds having a dispensing opening for regulated outlet of seeds onto a veil of biodegradable fibres. A needle punching portion is situated after the cross-lapping, seen in the direction of the biodegradable nonwoven textile production line of the machine, for needle-punching of the veil of biodegradable fibres.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Inventor: Håkan Isak Yilmaz
  • Patent number: 11889782
    Abstract: A soil apparatus (e.g., seed firmer) having a locking system is described herein. In one embodiment, the soil apparatus includes a lower base portion for engaging in soil of an agricultural field, an upper base portion, and a neck portion having protrusions to insert into the lower base portion of a base and then lock when a region of the upper base portion is inserted into the lower base portion and this region of the upper base portion presses the protrusions to lock the neck portion to the upper base portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Precision Planting LLC
    Inventors: Michael Strnad, Timothy Kater, Matthew Morgan, Dale M. Koch
  • Patent number: 11889783
    Abstract: A seed planter for creating and planting together the combination of both seed and contents of a seed growing environment. The seed planter includes, for example, a wheeled frame configured with at least one soil opener and at least one soil closer for planting a field. A seed growing environment aggregator assembly has at least one input opening for receiving a plantable portion of a seed growth medium and seed from the seed hopper and at least one discharge opening for discharging an aggregation of the plantable portion of the seed growth medium and seed to the at least one soil opener for planting a desired growing environment in the field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: FARM RIGHT, LLC
    Inventor: Cody Shay
  • Patent number: 11889784
    Abstract: A lower planting arm of a row unit. The lower planting arm includes a first linkage arm. The lower planting arm also includes a second linkage arm parallel with the first linkage arm. The lower planting arm also includes a first bracket fixedly engaging with the first linkage arm and the second linkage arm at a first position. The lower planting arm also includes a second bracket fixedly engaging with the first linkage arm and the second linkage at a second position opposite to the first position. Each of the first bracket and the second bracket of the lower planting arm is adapted to operably engage with an actuating device of the row unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: G.B.G.I., Inc.
    Inventors: William Carrick, Peter T. Casamento
  • Patent number: 11889785
    Abstract: A walk-behind lawnmower and accompanying method of use allows for height adjustment of the cutting deck relative to all four wheels simultaneously. This is achieved using a linkage that runs along the cutting deck and that connects the front and rear wheel assemblies. Movement of the entire mechanism is achieved using a lever operatively connected to the linkage. The linkage is retained in place through the use of a locking mechanism. The locking mechanism includes a locking pin, a pin engagement mechanism, such as a lug, provided on the linkage, and an array of pin receptacles spaced longitudinally along the cutting deck. The pin engagement mechanism selectively engages the pin when the pin engages a designated pin receptacle on the cutting deck, retaining the cutting deck at a height determined by the prevailing location of the pin which, in turn, is determined by the selected pin receptacle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Metalcraft of Mayville, Inc.
    Inventor: Frederik Karsten
  • Patent number: 11889786
    Abstract: A mower with one or more wing decks that includes one or more manual lifting mechanisms for the one or more wing decks. The manual lifting mechanism may shift between retracted and extended positions, where in the extended position a handle can be positioned further away from the wing deck. When the handle is in the extended position, a user can manually engage the handle and lift the wing deck from a lowered configuration to a raised configuration, using less force than would be required if the handle was in the retracted configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Excel Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian L. Nebel, Thomas J. Gaeddert, Philip Lowell Hochstetler
  • Patent number: 11889787
    Abstract: One or more information maps are obtained by an agricultural work machine. The one or more information maps map one or more agricultural characteristic values at different geographic locations of a field. An in-situ sensor on the agricultural work machine senses an agricultural characteristic as the agricultural work machine moves through the field. A predictive map generator generates a predictive map that predicts a predictive agricultural characteristic at different locations in the field based on a relationship between the values in the one or more information maps and the agricultural characteristic sensed by the in-situ sensor. The predictive map can be output and used in automated machine control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Deere & Company
    Inventors: Nathan R Vandike, Bhanu Kiran Reddy Palla, Federico Pardina-Malbran, Noel W. Anderson
  • Patent number: 11889788
    Abstract: One or more information maps are obtained by an agricultural work machine. The one or more information maps map one or more agricultural characteristic values at different geographic locations of a field. An in-situ sensor on the agricultural work machine senses an agricultural characteristic as the agricultural work machine moves through the field. A predictive map generator generates a predictive map that predicts a predictive agricultural characteristic at different locations in the field based on a relationship between the values in the one or more information maps and the agricultural characteristic sensed by the in-situ sensor. The predictive map can be output and used in automated machine control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Deere & Company
    Inventors: Nathan R Vandike, Bhanu Kiran Reddy Palla, Noel W. Anderson
  • Patent number: 11889789
    Abstract: Provided are a system, method(s), and apparatus for automatically harvesting mushrooms from a mushroom bed. The system, in one implementation, may be referred to herein as an “automated harvester”, having at least an apparatus/frame/body/structure for supporting and positioning the harvester on a mushroom bed, a vision system for scanning and identifying mushrooms in the mushroom bed, a picking system for harvesting the mushrooms from the bed, and a control system for directing the picking system according to data acquired by the vision system. Various other components, sub-systems, and connected systems may also be integrated into or coupled to the automated harvester.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Mycionics Inc.
    Inventors: Stefan Glibetic, Scott Hayden
  • Patent number: 11889790
    Abstract: A hydraulically powered implement is designed for use in connection with a tractor that has a hydraulic pump that supplies pressurized hydraulic fluid to the implement. The implement includes a variable displacement hydraulic motor, an operative element driven by the hydraulic motor, a speed sensor configured to measure the rotational speed of the operative element and output a speed signal representative of the measured speed, a shift module that adjusts the displacement of the hydraulic motor in response to a shift command signal, and a controller. The controller sends the shift command signal to the shift module in response to speed signal output by the speed sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Dougherty Forestry Manufacturing, Ltd. Co.
    Inventors: Patrick Devon Dougherty, James Andrew Dougherty
  • Patent number: 11889791
    Abstract: A device for leveling a surface; the device includes a shaft, a handle-means and a head-assembly. The shaft is selectively retractable, and the head-assembly is foldable to enable compact storage. The device is for personal use by a user in leveling a surface; for example, a sand bunker/sand trap on a golf course. In some versions, the device further includes an attachment-means for attaching the device to a bag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Curran Golf Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan Curran, Michael White, Richard Gregory Elmer
  • Patent number: 11889792
    Abstract: A modular weed barrier mat comprised of a double layer of tire tread sections cut from used tires arranged so that the lengths of the upper sections are perpendicular to those of the lower sections. A pair of upper sections are positioned in spaced apart relationship so as to form a gap, with a central slit array cut into two immediately adjacent lower sections accessible within the gap. A slit cut through a width of one lower section directly below one of the upper sections on either side of the central slit array allows a post to be moved into the slit and then positioned in the central slit array. Corrosion resistant fasteners are removed and replaced as needed to allow the mat to be installed or removed as desired. One embodiment features lower and upper lap portions on opposite sides of the mat for modular installation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Inventor: Robert T Lucas
  • Patent number: 11889793
    Abstract: An Internet-of-Things management and control system for an intelligent orchard includes a server, agricultural machinery equipment, an image acquisition apparatus disposed on the site, and various sensors. The agricultural machinery equipment, the image acquisition apparatus and the various sensors are in communication connection with the server. The server includes an orchard management subsystem and an information monitoring subsystem. The orchard management subsystem includes a fruit tree planting planning module, a task management module and various information management modules, and the information monitoring subsystem includes a meteorological environment monitoring module, a soil moisture monitoring module and a disease and pest monitoring module. According to the Internet-of-Things management and control system, all-round management for an orchard from planning to picking can be achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Shandong Academy of Agricultural Machinery Sciences
    Inventors: Ning Xu, Jianming Kang, Qingshan Meng, Mengmeng Niu, Tao Li, Qiangji Peng, Na Guo
  • Patent number: 11889794
    Abstract: A handheld blower including a housing, an air duct defining a duct axis, the air duct including an air inlet and an air outlet opposite the air inlet, and a handle. The handle at least partially defining a battery receiving cavity configured to receive at least a portion of a battery pack therein, where the handle defines a grip axis, and where the grip axis is parallel to the duct axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation
    Inventors: Beth E. Cholst, Bennett W. Westling, Atul Anand, Gregory A. Mutchler
  • Patent number: 11889795
    Abstract: A hydraulic system and method for service mode on a work machine is operatively coupled to a cutting element for felling trees. The hydraulic system comprises a hydraulic motor, a hydraulic pump, a feed actuator, a feed line, a directional control valve, a voltage battery, and a controller. The hydraulic motor is coupled to the hydraulic circuit for operating the cutting element. The hydraulic pump is operable to supply pressurized fluid to the hydraulic motor. The feed actuator extends or retracts the cutting element. The feed line is coupled to the hydraulic actuator. The directional control valve is located on the feed line of the feed actuator. The controller receives a cutting element service mode signal, moves the directional control valve to pressure the feed line for extending the cutting element where the valve is powered by the voltage battery upon receiving the cutting element service mode signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Deere & Company
    Inventor: Sanket Pawar
  • Patent number: 11889796
    Abstract: A monitoring system for an irrigation system that includes a nozzle and a product source that supports a product for mixing with water from a water source to which the irrigation system is operably coupled. The monitoring system includes: a sensor configured to generate a first electrical signal indicative of a travel speed and/or a travel direction of the irrigation system; a fluid pressure sensor configured to generate a second electrical signal indicative of a flow rate, a processor, a memory, and a variable speed pump or a valve. The memory includes instructions, which when executed by the processor cause the monitoring system to: receive the first and second generated electrical signals, determine an applied rate of the irrigation fluid over a predetermined irrigation area based on the first and second electrical signals, and adjust the flow rate of the irrigation fluid through the at least one nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: HEARTLAND AG TECH, INC.
    Inventors: Russell Sanders, Jeremie Pavelski, Robert Buchberger
  • Patent number: 11889797
    Abstract: A controlled growth system is provided herein. The controlled growth system includes a controlled growth environment, a controller, a sensor, and a computing system. The controlled growth environment is configured to grow a biologic. The controller is in communication with the controlled growth environment. The controller is configured to manage process parameters of the controlled growth environment. The sensor is configured to monitor the biologic during a growth process. The computing system is in communication with the sensor and the controller. The computing system is programmed to perform operations for achieving a desired final quality metric for the biologic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Nanotronics Imaging, Inc.
    Inventors: Damas Limoge, Vadim Pinskiy, Parker Musselman
  • Patent number: 11889798
    Abstract: A modular grow lighting assembly provides a structure for integrating grow light strips into channels defined in vertical and horizontal structural supports. Levels of support structure can be added above previously installed levels as needed. A cable management system is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Inventor: Scott Eddins
  • Patent number: 11889799
    Abstract: A lighting fixture has an extruded aluminum housing, at least one light source mechanically supported by the extruded aluminum housing, and at least one copper pipe thermally coupled to the extruded aluminum housing to carry a fluid coolant. During operation of the lighting fixture, the fluid coolant flowing through the at least one copper pipe extracts heat generated by the lighting fixture, and the fluid coolant does not contact the extruded aluminum housing. In one example, a copper fluid coolant circuit is thermally coupled to the housing to contain the fluid coolant, and the lighting fixture does not contain any internal seals or internal O-rings for the fluid coolant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Agnetix, Inc.
    Inventors: Ihor Lys, Nicholas Maderas
  • Patent number: 11889800
    Abstract: Provided is an artificial light source setting method and an artificial light source setting system for controlling secondary metabolites of plant and provide an artificial light source setting method and an artificial light source setting system for controlling secondary metabolites of plant, which predict content of the secondary metabolites of plant by measuring a light interception amount by using a cultivation environment of plant, a three-dimensional structure model of plant, and optical simulation and set an artificial light source according thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignees: SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY R&DB FOUNDATION, CHUNGBUK NATIONAL UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Jung Eek Son, Hyo In Yoon, Myung Min Oh
  • Patent number: 11889801
    Abstract: A container for growing plants includes a bottom wall, a first side wall extending perpendicular to the bottom wall, and a second side wall extending perpendicular to the bottom wall and parallel to the first side wall such that the bottom wall, the first side wall, and the second side wall at least partially define a plant growing chamber. Furthermore, the container includes a lid configured to selectively occlude access to the plant growing chamber. Additionally, one of the bottom wall, the first or second side walls, or the lid includes a rail and another of the bottom wall, the first or second side walls, or the lid defines a groove such that the rail of the container is configured to be received within a groove of a first adjacent container and the groove of the container is configured to receive a rail of a second adjacent container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: CNH Industrial Canada, Ltd.
    Inventor: Martin J. Roberge
  • Patent number: 11889802
    Abstract: An apparatus comprising: a first, a second, a third, and a fourth support post, each configured to be positioned vertically, and corresponding to the four vertices of a rectangle when viewed from above, first and a second trellis component configured to be positioned horizontally at an upper position, and a third trellis component configured to be positioned horizontally at a lower position. The apparatus also includes a plant support comprising a string-type component configured to be connected to the third trellis component and the first and second trellis components, giving the plant support a “V” shaped appearance is disclosed herein. Corresponding systems and methods also are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Inventor: Timothy Huchthausen
  • Patent number: 11889803
    Abstract: A plant growth lighting fixture has two or more of a blue light source, a green light source, and a red light source and a reflective-type circularly polarizing plate having two or more of a blue-reflecting cholesteric liquid crystal layer having a center wavelength of an effective wavelength range in blue light, a green-reflecting cholesteric liquid crystal layer having a center wavelength of an effective wavelength range in green light, and a red-reflecting cholesteric liquid crystal layer having a center wavelength of an effective wavelength range in red light. The wavelength ranges of the emission center wavelengths as the light sources and the wavelength ranges of the center wavelength of the effective wavelength range as the reflective-type circularly polarizing plate are wavelength ranges of the same colors, and the reflective-type circularly polarizing plate has a polarization correction layer having a phase difference in a thickness direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Kuniyasu, Ryosuke Shimizu
  • Patent number: 11889804
    Abstract: A method of providing light to plants. The method comprises providing a plurality of plants within a room, grouping each plant of the plurality of plants into one of a plurality of groups of plants based at least in part on a desired total light integral (“TLI”) for each of the plurality of plants and providing the corresponding desired TLI to each plant of the plurality of plants by sequentially providing light to each of the plurality of groups of plants during a time period. For each group of plants, each plant has a substantially similar photoperiod and a sum of the photosynthetic photon flux densities (“PPFDs”) of all plants in the group of plants is substantially similar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Vertikal Green Tech Ltd.
    Inventors: Shahram Rashti, Bahram Rashti
  • Patent number: 11889805
    Abstract: New lettuce variety designated ‘Pensacola’ is described. ‘Pensacola’ is a lettuce variety exhibiting stability and uniformity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Enza Zaden Beheer B.V.
    Inventor: Magali Lemont
  • Patent number: 11889806
    Abstract: Provided is a canola variety designated 19GS2321I and seed, plants and plant parts thereof produced from a cross of inbred varieties. Methods for producing a canola variety comprise crossing canola variety 19GS2321I with another canola plant. Methods for producing a canola plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into 19GS2321I through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the canola seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are described. Canola variety, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, plant parts and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of canola variety are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Inventors: Ushan Alahakoon, Igor Falak, Daryoush Fekri, Chadwick Bruce Koscielny, Scott Mcclinchey, Daniel Joseph Stanton
  • Patent number: 11889807
    Abstract: A novel canola variety designated NS7206 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof. Methods for producing a canola plant that comprise crossing canola variety NS7206 with another canola plant. Methods for producing a canola plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into NS7206 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the canola seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. Hybrid canola seed, plant or plant part produced by crossing the canola variety NS7206 or a locus conversion of NS7206 with another canola variety.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Inventor: Jayantilal Devabhai Patel
  • Patent number: 11889808
    Abstract: A hybrid pumpkin plant, designated FIREBALL is disclosed. The disclosure relates to the seeds of hybrid pumpkin designated FIREBALL, to the plants and plant parts of hybrid pumpkin designated FIREBALL, and to methods for producing a pumpkin plant by crossing the hybrid pumpkin FIREBALL with itself or another pumpkin plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: HM.CLAUSE, INC.
    Inventor: Theodore Superak
  • Patent number: 11889809
    Abstract: A novel hybrid sweet corn plant, designated COACHMAN is disclosed. The disclosure relates to the seeds of hybrid sweet corn designated COACHMAN, to the plants and plant parts of hybrid sweet corn designated COACHMAN, and to methods for producing a sweet corn plant by crossing the hybrid sweet corn COACHMAN with itself or another sweet corn plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: HM.CLAUSE, INC.
    Inventor: Edward Snyder
  • Patent number: 11889810
    Abstract: A novel soybean variety, designated 5PMHT38 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety 5PMHT38, cells from soybean variety 5PMHT38, plants of soybean 5PMHT38, and plant parts of soybean variety 5PMHT38. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety 5PMHT38 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or a native trait into soybean variety 5PMHT38, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety 5PMHT38, and methods of characterizing soybean variety 5PMHT38. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety 5PMHT38 are further provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Inventors: Brian Allen Carden, Donald Kyle, Brian Frederick Seda
  • Patent number: 11889811
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides tobacco inbred plants TND950 (phph) SRC, Narrow Leaf Madole (phph) SRC, Narrow Leaf Madole SRC, CMS TND950 SRC, CMS Narrow Leaf Madole SRC, and CMS KY171 SRC, and hybrids PD7305 SRC, PD7309 SRC, PD7312 SRC, PD7318 SRC, and PD7319 SRC. The present disclosure also provides parts of such plants and products made from those parts. The present disclosure also includes progeny of the provided plants including hybrids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Altria Client Services LLC
    Inventors: Marcos Fernando de Godoy Lusso, Andrew Carl Adams
  • Patent number: 11889812
    Abstract: The invention relates to a Solanum lycopersicum plant comprising in its genome QTLs confering to the plant an improved phenotype corresponding to foliar and/or fruit tolerance and/or resistance to Tomato Brown Rugose Fruit virus, with respect to a corresponding plant devoid of said QTLs, and wherein said QTLs are chosen from those present in the genome of a plant of the seeds HAZTBRFVRES1 NCIMB accession number 42758. The QTL are preferably characterized by defined alleles of different SNPs on chromosome 6, 9 and 11. The invention is also directed to parts of these plants with improved phenotype, as well as progeny, to the use of these plants for introgressing the improved phenotype in another genetic background, as well as to different methods for obtaining tomato plants or seeds with increased foliar and/or fruit tolerance or resistance to Tomato Brown Rugose Fruit virus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: VILMORIN & CIE
    Inventors: Varda Ashkenazi, Yaniv Rotem, Ron Ecker, Shai Nashilevitz, Naama Barom
  • Patent number: 11889813
    Abstract: A cassette (130) configured to enable measurement of at least one biomarker value of a milk sample of an animal (100). The cassette (130) includes a tape distributing spool (131); a tape (170) with a plurality of dry sticks (180a, 180b, 180c), configured to indicate the biomarker value of the milk sample, and a top film (310) arranged to protect the dry sticks (180a, 180b, 180c) while rolled up on the tape distributing spool (131); a tape collecting spool (132), configured to collect used dry sticks (180a, 180b, 180c); and a top film reel (330), arranged to peel off and collect the top film (310) of the tape (170).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: DeLaval Holding AB
    Inventors: Claus Dallerup Rasmussen, Thomas Nikolai Carlsen
  • Patent number: 11889814
    Abstract: A urinal for pets, intended for dogs, which can be installed in public roads and in private roads. The purpose of the disclosure is to create an area where animals can urinate in hygienic conditions that prevent the deterioration and poor image of the urban environment, the urinal being retractable and self-cleaning. The urinal can be installed flush with the ground or below the ground and is based on a pair of concentric tubes, one of which is moveable with respect to the other, being at rest in the retracted position, that is, when not in use, while, when in use, one of the tubes for receiving the animal urine is visible. When returned to the rest position, the tube for receiving the animal urine is cleaned by means of a cleaning fluid. In addition, the urinal can be integrated into the surroundings, since it can incorporate a decorative element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Stock Garden Group, S.L.
    Inventor: Jesús Ángel Losantos Calvo
  • Patent number: 11889815
    Abstract: An electronic latching device having a solenoid, latch, locking piece, and a pivot arm. One end of the pivot arm is connected to the solenoid actuator and the other end is connected to the locking piece. Upon electronic activation, the solenoid actuator moves in a lateral direction, which causes the end of the pivot arm connected to the actuator to move in the same direction. This movement causes the pivot arm to pivot about the pivot point, resulting in the movement of the opposite end of the pivot arm to move in a second and opposite direction. This movement of the second end of the pivot arm in the second direction causes the locking piece to move in the same second direction, unlocking the device and allowing for the latch to freely move to an open position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Inventor: Jesse W. Clark
  • Patent number: 11889816
    Abstract: A releasable pet leash includes an elongated cord or strap having a proximal end and a distal end. The proximal end includes a foam-encapsulated loop that a user grasps when walking a pet. The distal end includes a metallic bobbin removably coupled with a linkage assembly that is adapted to fasten to a pet collar. The linkage assembly includes a mechanism that automatically releases the bobbin if the leash is trapped between closed elevator doors allowing a pet to escape unharmed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Inventor: Terry L. Miller
  • Patent number: 11889817
    Abstract: A delivery device includes a collar device for wearing on an animal, a dosing probe disposed on the collar device for delivering a substance therefrom, an actuator configured to deliver the substance from the dosing probe through an opening formed in the dosing probe, a controller in communication with the actuator and configured to control delivery of the substance from the dosing probe, and a sensor in communication with the controller and configured to sense that the collar device is touching fur or skin of the animal and the dosing probe is directed towards fur or skin of the animal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: TG Medwise Ltd.
    Inventor: Tal Gordon
  • Patent number: 11889818
    Abstract: In a method and system for managing a social group, the method includes determining a group member behavior from a member position relative to the social group, and inferring a member state from the member behavior. Spatial, spatio-temporal, and biometric data may be used. A social group management system includes an inference engine that infers a member state from the behavior of a monitored member. Another social group management method includes characterizing a first monitored member of the social group as a first discrete element; characterizing at least a second monitored member of the social group as at least a second discrete element; and determining a characteristic displacement between the first monitored member and at least the second monitored member in accordance with a discrete element method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: FORT SUPPLY TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Malcolm Randall Harvey, Ian Robert Harvey, Nephi Taylor Harvey
  • Patent number: 11889819
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed include systems, apparatus, and/or methods to receive a target health status of and/or quality of bioproduct produced by a managed livestock and indications of health status and quality of bioproduct. The systems, apparatus, and/or methods generate a set of input vectors based on the target health status or bioproduct quality, and the indications of bioproduct quality, and health status, and provide the set of input vectors to a machine learning model trained to generate an output indicating a feed selection. The feed selection can be included in a feed blend and administered to the managed livestock, such that, upon consumption, it increases a likelihood of collectively improving the health status of the managed livestock and the bioproduct quality of the managed livestock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Substrate AI SA
    Inventor: James Brennan Worth
  • Patent number: 11889820
    Abstract: A communication device is attached to an animal in a facility, for example, using a band. The communication device transmits at least a position of the communication device (hereinafter referred to as position information) and identification information of the communication device (hereinafter referred to as a communication device ID) to a position information transmission device. The position information transmission device uses the position information and the identification information received from the communication device to select an animal whose position information is to be delivered. The position information transmission device transmits the position information about the selected animal to at least one of an in-zoo display device, a user terminal, and a staff member terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventors: Takuto Egami, Shinya Ueda
  • Patent number: 11889821
    Abstract: The invention provides compositions and methods for enhanced production of immunoglobulin diversity. Specifically, the invention provides compositions and methods for making accessible a B cell receptor repertoire that has not been culled by developmental tolerance mechanisms. The invention also provides transgenic animals, cells, and antibodies resulting from these compositions and methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: TRIANNI, INC.
    Inventors: Matthias Wabl, Bao Duong, Werner Mueller
  • Patent number: 11889822
    Abstract: A live bait holder includes a flexible strip elongated from a first end to a second end. The flexible strip has a pair of edges extending from a first end to a second end and extending from a first surface to a second surface. The flexible strip is elastically bendable and elastically stretchable to be disposed in a wrapped position around a bait animal to define a loop. The flexible strip is perforable for perforation by a fishhook. An O-ring elastically stretches to receive the first end and the second end simultaneously when the flexible strip is in the wrapped position. The O-ring exerts an elastic force such that the flexible strip is retained in the wrapped position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Inventor: Kyle Jackson