Patents Issued to SFV Inventors/Companies: Week 15 2024

The SFV had only 11 contributions to the list of patents issued this week, out of 885 issued to Californians.  This is an unusually lower number of patents issued to inventor and/or assigned company from the SFV.

1. US 11,950,726 B2 DRINKWARE CONTAINER WITH ACTIVE TEMPERATURE CONTROL Clayton Alexander, Westlake Village, CA (US); Daren John Leith, Agoura Hills, CA (US); Mikko Juhani Timperi, San Marcos, CA (US); Christopher Thomas Wakeham, Solana Beach, CA (US); and Rahul Mulinti, Westlake Village, CA (US)    Assigned to Ember Technologies, Inc., Westlake Village, CA (US)
2. US 11,951,319 B2 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR APPLYING ANTI-TACHYCARDIA PACING USING SUBCUTANEOUS IMPLANTABLE CARDIOVERTER-DEFIBRILLATORS  Gene A. Bornzin, Simi Valley, CA (US); Xiaoyi Min, Simi Valley, CA (US); Wenwen Li, Stevenson Ranch, CA (US); Stuart Rosenberg, Castaic, CA (US); Kyungmoo Ryu, Palmdale, CA (US); Alexander Bornzin, Simi Valley, CA (US); Leyla Sabet, Los Angeles, CA (US); Shubha Asopa, Valencia, CA (US); and Xing Pei, Thousand Oaks, CA (US)  Assigned to Pacesetter, Inc., Sylmar (CA)
3. US 11,951,348 B2 EXERCISE SYSTEM Justin Falahi, Encino, CA (US)
4. US 11,953,221 B2 EASY CONTROL TO SENSOR SELECT FOR HVAC SYSTEMS Steven Dushane, Granada Hills, CA (US); and Mustafa Oransel, Agoura Hills, CA (US)
   Assigned to Venstar, LLC, Chatsworth, CA (US) 
5. US 11,953,293 B1  COMPACT FOLDING BALLISTIC BODY ARMOR SYSTEM  Tyler Cameron Glenn, Westlake Village, CA (US)
6. US 11,953,399 B2    PRESSURE SENSORS WITH TENSIONED MEMBRANES  Siegmar Schmidt, Simi Valley, CA (US); William A. Dai, Porter Ranch, CA (US); and Boon Khai Ng, La Cresenta, CA (US)
   Assigned to THE ALFRED E. MANN FOUNDATION FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH, Valencia, CA (US) 
7. US 11,955,210 B2 AUTOMATIC CONFIGURATION OF USER-SPECIFIC DATA BASED ON NETWORKED CHARGER DEVICES  Afshin Bazargan, Simi Valley, CA (US); Patrick E. Weydt, Moorpark, CA (US); Hans K. Wenstad, Santa Clarita, CA (US); Adam S. Trock, Simi Valley, CA (US); Seung C. Shin, Los Angeles, CA (US); and Samuel Finney, Los Angeles, CA (US) Assigned to Medtronic MiniMed, Inc., Northridge, CA (US) 
8. US 11,955,263 B2 TWO-DIMENSIONAL DIRAC HALF-METAL FERROMAGNETS AND FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS FOR SPINTRONIC DEVICES  Nicholas Kioussis, Northridge, CA (US); and Qilong Sun, Northridge, CA (US) Assigned to The Trustees of the California State University, Long Beach, CA (US) 
9. US 11,956,365 B2 Joseph Ethan Rosenkrantz, Calabasas, CA (US); and Gifford Hesketh, Newbury Park, CA (US) Assigned to FaceFirst, Inc., Austin, TX (US) Filed by FACEFIRST, INC., Encino, CA (US)
10. US 11,956,520 B2 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING DYNAMICALLY COMPOSED PERSONALIZED MEDIA ASSETS Christine Doig-Cardet, Los Gatos, CA (US); Bruce Wobbe, San Jose, CA (US); Sanford Holsapple, Sherman Oaks, CA (US); Xander Lott, Tustin, CA (US); Sonali Sharma, Los Gatos, CA (US); Clay Gimenez, Campbell, CA (US); Jeremy Kelly, Los Gatos, CA (US); Jeff Kirchner, Woodland Hills, CA (US); and Leena Janardanan, Santa Clara, CA (US)
    Assigned to Netflix, Inc., Los Gatos, CA (US)  
11. US D1,021,852 S  EARPHONES  Ryan Ott, North Hollywood, CA (US); Carlos M. Santana, Granada Hills, CA (US); William R. Rochowicz, Manhattan Beach, CA (US); Robert Boyd, Los Angeles, CA (US); Martin Gschwandtl, San Francisco, CA (US); Guillaume Raoult, San Francisco, CA (US); Christopher Kuh, San Francisco, CA (US); and Robert Brunner, Glen Ellen, CA (US)  Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)

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