US11011973B2
A methods and systems for generating rectified signals are disclosed. For example, a system performing the methods includes a current source rectifier which has a plurality of switches configured to receive an input current from an AC voltage source and to receive a plurality of control signals. The switches are configured to produce a rectified output current based on the input current and the control signals. The system also includes a rectifier controller configured to receive a current sense signal indicative of the rectified output current and to generate the control signals based at least in part on the current sense signal, where the control signals cause the current source rectifier to attenuate at least one of a plurality of harmonic frequencies in the rectified output current.
US11011970B2
A gate drive circuit, which drives a gate of a first transistor, includes a first switch on a high potential side and a second switch on a low potential side connected in series at a second connection node between a high potential end and a low potential end of a series connection structure, constituted of a first voltage source and a second voltage source connected in series at a first connection node; and a third switch and an inductor connected in series between the first connection node and the second connection node. The gate of the first transistor can be electrically connected to the second connection node.
US11011968B2
A system for generating electrical energy by efficient movement of a specialized inductive medium that fulfills a need for new sources of electricity. The system for generating electrical energy by efficient movement of a specialized inductive medium includes an evacuated tube serving as a cathode disposed on a pipe, the evacuated tube contains a plurality of emulsified copper, the emulsified copper serves as the specialized inductive medium. The overall system includes a gear pump that moves the emulsified copper at high speed through the pipe where it is influenced by the magnet and the electric current is induced in the high-speed emulsified copper.
US11011961B2
A system for cooling an electric machine, including as components a stator and a rotor, wherein each component has a cooling circuit, the system including at least one regulator for regulating a volume flow of a coolant from a coolant reservoir and a control unit, wherein in each case an input of each cooling circuit is connected to at least one regulator for regulating the volume flow of the coolant from the coolant reservoir, wherein the control unit is adapted to set at least one regulator for regulating the volume flow of the coolant into the cooling circuit of a respective component, while taking into account at least one temperature of the respective component.
US11011951B2
A brushless electric motor system having integrated power stages, said electric motor system comprising a rotor, a stator, a plurality of power stages, and a cooling system comprising a substantially flat hollow main cool body arranged to support the flowing of a cooling medium inside said hollow main cool body for cooling said main cool body, a base cooling plate connected to a first flat surface of said hollow main cool body and to said plurality of power stages for transferring heat between said plurality of power stages and said base cool plate, heat resistance inserts connected to said base cooling plate and said plurality of electrically excitable coils for transferring heat between said plurality of coils and said base cooling plate wherein said heat resistance inserts provide for a thermal conductivity, thereby creating a thermal buffer such that said electrically excitable coils are cooled less compared to said power stages, by said cooling system.
US11011948B2
Various embodiments may include a rotor for a reluctance machine comprising: an essentially disc-shaped rotor body mounted on a rotor axis running through a rotor center point; and an alternating sequence of barrier regions and pole regions arrayed along a circumferential direction of the rotor body. Each barrier region includes a multiplicity of magnetic flux barriers spatially and materially separated without overlap. Within at least one barrier region, at least one magnetic flux barrier is arranged with a q axis and/or a figure axis rotated with respect to a q axis and/or figure axis of another magnetic flux barrier of the same barrier region.
US11011947B2
A stator includes a main yoke having a cylindrical shape with a bottom, an auxiliary yoke having a band shape arranged on an outer or inner circumferential wall surface of this main yoke, and a field magnet arranged inside the main yoke. The auxiliary yoke is arranged along a circumferential direction on the outer or inner circumferential wall surface of the main yoke. One end of the auxiliary yoke has at least one protrusion, and another end of the auxiliary yoke has at least one recess facing and engaging in a circumferential direction with the protrusion either on the inner or outer circumferential wall surface of the main yoke.
US11011946B2
A method for controlling a wireless power transmitter for charging a wireless power receiver may comprise the operations of: transmitting power for charging; receiving a first PRU dynamic signal indicating completion of charging, from the wireless power receiver, applying a beacon for detecting the wireless power receiver on the basis of a load change to a resonance circuit of the wireless power transmitter; receiving, from the wireless power receiver, a first advertisement signal including information indicating that charging is not requested; and ignoring the advertisement signal and maintaining application of the beacon.
US11011945B2
Disclosed are devices and methods for performing wireless charging of an electronic device and establishing a wired connection with the electronic device for data transfer. In some cases, a device includes a port that can supply power to charge the electronic device when a wired connection is detected between the device and the electronic device. The device can be configured such that the port does not supply power to the electronic device via wired connection when the device provides charging power to the electronic device wirelessly. Data transfer between the device and the electronic device can be performed via the port at the same time as wirelessly charging the electronic device.
US11011942B2
Flat antennas having two or more resonant frequencies for use in wireless power transmission systems
The various embodiments described herein include methods, devices, and systems for wireless power transmission. In one aspect, a wireless power transmission system includes an antenna component configured to transmit and/or receive electromagnetic waves, such as power waves, the antenna component having at least two conductive plates positioned on a same plane, where: (1) the at least two conductive plates form a monopole antenna configured to transmit and/or receive electromagnetic waves in a first frequency range, (2) the at least two conductive plates are positioned such that a gap exists between the at least two conductive plates, thereby forming a capacitor, and (3) the at least two conductive plates and the gap form a loop antenna configured to transmit and/or receive electromagnetic waves in a second frequency range.
US11011940B2
A radio frequency power system is provided that includes bias modules, a switch, a matching network, and a control module. The bias modules are configured to generate respectively DC bias voltages. The switch is configured to (i) receive current from the bias modules, and (ii) control flow of the current from the bias modules to generate a radio frequency bias voltage signal. The matching network is configured to (i) receive the radio frequency bias voltage signal, and (ii) based on the radio frequency bias voltage signal, supply at least a portion of a radio frequency output voltage signal to an electrode of a substrate support in a processing chamber. The control module is connected to the switch and configured to control a state of the switch based on the radio frequency output voltage signal to shape a waveform of the radio frequency bias voltage signal.
US11011937B2
A switching circuit is connected to an output side of a DC power supply, includes a low-side switch circuit and a high-side switch circuit, and generates high frequency power by switching of the low-side switch circuit and the high-side switch circuit. Snubber circuits are connected between both ends of the low-side switch circuit and both ends of the high-side switch circuit. The snubber circuits include series circuits including inductors and capacitors, and include diodes that are connected in parallel with the inductors.
US11011932B2
A mouse pad includes a wireless power transmission apparatus including at least a first transmission coil and a second transmission coil and configured to wirelessly transmit power to a mouse placed on the mouse pad; and a controller configured to directly receive determination information for selecting one transmission coil among the first transmission coil and the second transmission coil according to a movement of the mouse on the mouse pad from a power supply connected to the mouse pad, and enable the second transmission coil and disable the first transmission coil when the movement of the mouse indicates the mouse is moving on the mouse pad from the first transmission coil to the second transmission coil.
US11011920B2
An energy storage apparatus for engine start-up includes: an energy storage device, a first switch provided in a first energizing path to the energy storage device, a step-down circuit provided in a second energizing path to the energy storage device, and a controller. The controller turns the first switch on to discharge through the first energizing path at engine start-up, and turns the first switch off to select the second energizing path if an output voltage of a vehicle generator is higher than a predetermined voltage to cause the output voltage of the vehicle generator to be stepped down with the step-down circuit to charge the energy storage device.
US11011919B2
A system including a carrier having a plurality of receptacles configured to receive rechargeable, removable battery packs, an AC power input connector for connecting to an AC power supply, a power output connector, a discharge/charge mode switch for switching between (1) a charging mode of operation that charges the battery packs using electrical power input through at least one of the power input connectors and (2) a discharging mode of operation that outputs electrical power from the battery packs through the power output connector, the charge/discharge control module controlling a plurality of charging switches to provide a charging current to the battery packs and an inverter electrically connected to the power output connector for providing an AC output signal at the power output connector.
US11011918B2
A smart charging solution is provided. The smart charging solution includes a power supply, a power line connected to the power supply and at least one universal serial bus (USB) splitter module and/or wireless charging module. The smart charging solution further includes a cable compensation integrated circuit (IC) for improved output voltage stabilization and a locking mechanism for furniture installation.
US11011916B2
An energy storage system includes a first energy storage device having a first energy storage chemistry, a second energy storage device having a second energy storage chemistry different than the first energy storage chemistry, and a link device. The link device is configured to facilitate electrically coupling the second energy storage device to the first energy storage device, regulate a first power profile of first power provided by the first energy storage device to the second energy storage device such that the first energy storage device can selectively charge the second energy storage device, and regulate a second power profile of second power provided by the second energy storage device to the first energy storage device such that the first energy storage device can selectively draw power from the second energy storage device to increase a power capacity thereof.
US11011913B2
A dwelling power management system includes a smart power integrated node located at a dwelling and configured to transit information to and receive information from a remote server arrangement. The smart power integrated node selectively controls power applied to dwelling electrical power hardware components according to a recommended operating procedure (ROP). The system also includes a utility switch connected to the smart power integrated node, the utility switch configured to control distribution of electrical power received from a dwelling external power source. The smart power integrated node transmits dwelling power usage information and dwelling user preferences to the remote server arrangement that evaluates relevant information including dwelling power usage information and dwelling user preferences and dwelling external factors to develop an optimized ROP. The smart power integrated node operates according to the optimized ROP.
US11011897B2
An adjustable junction box is provided that allows a technician to selectively adjust the distance between an outer surface of the junction box and an outer surface of a stud to which the junction box is interconnected. A selectively-removable cover is also provided that allows an outlet, for example, to be interconnected to a power supply and later removed for inspection.
US11011896B2
A cable gland and methods for earthing, grounding, bonding, and electromagnetic capability with armored, metal-clad, and metallic-sheathed cable types. The cable gland comprises a gland body, a plurality of extensions, an elastomer seal, a compression member configured to rotate the plurality of extensions towards to the elastomer seal, and an earthing insert mounted in the gland body configured to electrically connect a cable to a neutral and/or grounded conductor. The cable gland is configured to provide an air-tight seal between the exterior of the cable and the elastomer seal through rotation of the plurality of extension upon the elastomer seal. The cable gland may include an o-ring and nut to secure the cable gland to a planar body. The earthing insert comprises a grounding spring in electrical communication with a metallic portion of the cable and a neutral and/or grounded conductor.
US11011894B2
A modular HVDC platform and a method for constructing the same are disclosed herein. The modular HVDC platform has a topside disposed on a structural jacket. The topside includes a first rectifier module, a second rectifier module, and a utility module. The first and second rectifier modules have equipment for converting AC power to DC power disposed therein. The utility module contains equipment for supporting the operations of the rectifier modules. Each of the rectifier modules and the utility modules can be fabricated and commissioned onshore prior to installation on the structural jacket at an offshore location.
US11011893B2
Embodiments of the disclosure can include systems and methods for providing a seismic support structure for electrical equipment, including low voltage or high voltage electrical equipment and power transmission equipment, to be supported above a surface, such as the ground or a foundation.
US11011887B2
A semiconductor laser diode is disclosed. In an embodiment a semiconductor laser diode includes a semiconductor layer sequence including an active layer having a main extension plane, configured to generate light in an active region during operation and configured to radiate the light via a light-outcoupling surface, wherein the active region extends from a rear surface opposite the light-outcoupling surface to the light-outcoupling surface along a longitudinal direction in the main extension plane and a continuous contact structure directly disposed on a surface of the semiconductor layer sequence, wherein the contact structure comprises in at least a first contact region a first electrical contact material in direct contact with the surface region and in at least a second contact region a second electrical contact material in direct contact with the surface region, and wherein the first and second contact regions adjoin one another.
US11011886B2
A package structure of a directly modulated laser in a photonics module includes a thermoelectric cooler including multiple conductor traces formed in a cool surface. The package structure further includes a directly modulated laser (DML) chip having a first electrode being attached with the cool surface and a second electrode at a distance away from the cool surface. Additionally, the package structure includes an interposer having a plurality of through-holes formed between a first surface to a second surface. The first surface is mounted to the cool surface such that each through-hole is aligned with one of the multiple conductor traces and the second surface being leveled with the second electrode. Moreover, the package structure includes a driver disposed on the second surface of the interposer with at least a galvanically coupled output port coupled directly to the second electrode of the DML chip.
US11011883B2
A radio-frequency, RF, slab laser 10 with a Z-fold resonator cavity defined by an output mirror 32, a first fold mirror 34, a second fold mirror 36 and a rear mirror 30. The second fold mirror 36 is rotated by an adjustment angle away from the angle it would have if the mirrors were all plane mirrors and directed the round trip beam path by direct reflection. Moreover, the rear mirror 30 is rotated by an adjustment angle that is approximately twice the adjustment angle of the second fold mirror 36. These rotations of the rear mirror 30 and second fold mirror 36 suppresses parasitic mode paths that would otherwise exist.
US11011882B2
An ultrafast electro-optic laser makes a stabilized comb and includes: a comb generator that produces a frequency comb; a dielectric resonant oscillator; a phase modulator in communication with the dielectric resonant oscillator; an intensity modulator in communication with the phase modulator; an optical tailor in communication with the comb generator and that produces tailored light; a filter cavity in communication with the intensity modulator; a pulse shaper in communication with the filter cavity; a highly nonlinear fiber and compressor in communication with the pulse shaper; an interferometer in communication with the optical tailor and that produces a difference frequency from the tailored light; and an electrical stabilizer in communication with the interferometer and the comb generator and that produces the stabilization signal with a stabilized local oscillator cavity that produces a stabilized local oscillator signal that is converted into the stabilization signal and communicated to the dielectric resonant oscillator.
US11011877B2
The present invention provides safety power outlets having the form and size to fit standard electrical boxes. The present invention includes one or more switched sockets which are generally switched on by movement from a first position to a second position. The described movement is prevented by one or more locks configured to be unlocked by complete insertion of a plug's power blades into the socket. In addition, blade locks are provided to prevent removal of the plug once the movement from the first position to the second position has begun. The movements described herein are both linear and rotary. Embodiments adapted for use with an extension cord socket are also presented.
US11011876B2
Remote management of network interface peripheral cards uses physical pin reassignment and a dedicated management network. One or more physical pins in a connector may be dynamically redefined from an interface protocol to a different interface protocol. The dynamic redefinition allows existing input/output signals to be routed to the pins to provide remote management features.
US11011870B2
The present disclosure provides a first connector, a second connector and a connector assembly having the first connector and the second connector. The first connector comprises an insulating base, two first conductive members fixed on the insulating base, a first magnetic attraction ring sheathing the insulating base, and a switch assembly fixed in the insulating base. The second connector comprises an insulating body, two second conductive members fixed on the insulating body, a second magnetic attraction ring sheathing an outer circumference of the insulating body, and a cover further sheathing an outer circumference of the second magnetic attraction ring. The first connector and the second connector can achieve a function of 360 degree mating and charging. The first connector integrates charging function and switch function which can save one connector, save space and cost in a small electronic device, facilitates miniaturization of the electronic device.
US11011864B2
An electrical receptacle connector includes an insulated housing, receptacle terminals, and a metallic shell. The insulated housing includes a base portion and a tongue portion outwardly extending from the base portion. The receptacle terminals are held in the base portion and disposed at the surface of the tongue portion. The metallic shell includes a receptacle cavity, the insulated housing is held in the receptacle cavity. An insertion opening is on a first end of the metallic shell, a stopping portion is inwardly bending on a second end of the metallic shell, and the stopping portion is extending to a surface of the base portion. When an electrical plug connector is inserted into the receptacle cavity, an end portion of the electrical plug connector is in contact with the stopping portion.
US11011863B2
An electrical connector including an insulating body, a plurality of terminals, and at least one grounding member is provided. The terminals and the grounding member are disposed in the insulating body. At least one grounding terminal among the terminals and the grounding member next to the grounding terminal form an integrally-molded structure. A portion of the grounding terminal and a portion of the grounding member are misaligned from each other along an arrangement direction of the terminals.
US11011856B2
A dual vertical beam cellular array is disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a cellular array includes discrete radiators coupled in pairs and arranged in-line. The radiators are connected to hybrid couplers configured to sum the output from the pairs of discrete radiators. A first power distribution network is configured to receive a first output from the hybrid couplers and produce a first beam, and a second power distribution network configured to receive a second output from the hybrid couplers and produce a second beam. According to some embodiments, the first beam is a main beam with high gain and the second beam is a coverage beam with a large coverage area.
US11011853B2
A phased array includes a laminar substrate having both 1) a plurality of elements forming a patch phased array, and 2) a plurality of integrated circuits. Each integrated circuit is configured to control receipt and transmission of signals by the plurality of elements in the patch phased array. The integrated circuits also are configured to operate the phased array at one or more satellite frequencies—to transmit signals to and/or receive signals from a satellite. Each integrated circuit physically couples with one corresponding element so that incoming signals are received by the corresponding element in a first polarization, and outgoing signals are transmitted by the corresponding element in a second polarization. The phased array isolates the transmit signals from the receive signals by orienting the first and second polarizations differently.
US11011826B2
Example of a near-field electromagnetic induction (NFEMI) device, including: an NFEMI antenna, having a first conductive plate, a coil, a first signal feed connection, and a second signal feed connection; wherein the coil is configured to generate or respond to a magnetic field and is coupled to the first and second signal feed connections; wherein the first conductive plate is coupled to the first signal feed connection; and an electrical apparatus, having a ground plane, a first capacitor and a second capacitor; wherein the electrical apparatus is coupled to the first and second signal feed connections; wherein the first capacitor is coupled between the first signal feed connection and the ground plane; wherein the second capacitor is coupled between the second signal feed connection and the ground plane; and wherein the first conductive plate in combination with the ground plane is configured to generate or respond to an electrical field.
US11011825B2
An inclined antenna assembly and an electronic device including the antenna assembly are provided. The inclined antenna assembly and an electronic device include a communication circuit and a Printed Circuit Board (PCB) including a front face, a back face on which the communication circuit is disposed, and at least one side face having an inclined manner between the front face and the back face. According to various embodiments, the PCB may include one or more antennas formed on a region corresponding to at least one side face.
US11011815B2
A wave communication system includes an integrated circuit and a multilayered substrate. The multilayered substrate is electrically coupled to the integrated circuit. The multilayered substrate includes an antenna structure configured to transmit a circularly polarized wave in response to signals from the integrated circuit.
US11011800B2
A conductive module includes a first conductive member electrically connected to at least one electrode terminal of a battery module, a second conductive member electrically connected to the first conductive member and an electrical connection target, and an accommodation member accommodating the first and second conductive members. The accommodation member includes an accommodation body having a first accommodation chamber that accommodates the first conductive member and a second accommodation chamber that accommodates the second conductive member, a lid body closing an opening of the second accommodation chamber such that the second conductive member does not come out of the second accommodation chamber, and a hinge body rotating the lid body, a first holding mechanism holding a side of the lid body opposite to the hinge body at the closing position, and a second holding mechanism holding the hinge body side of the lid body at the closing position.
US11011799B2
A battery pack is disclosed. The battery pack includes one or more battery assemblies and a circuit board connected to the battery assemblies. The battery assembly includes first and second battery cells having the predetermined surfaces overlaid on each other. The first and second battery cells each have battery elements accommodated in a container thereof, and cathode terminals and anode terminals are provided at a same height as the predetermined surfaces at a same side. The cathode terminal and anode terminal of the first battery cell are adjacent respectively to the cathode terminal and anode terminal of the second battery cell.
US11011791B2
A method for producing an electrically driveable vehicle which has a sealed space for accommodating a high-voltage (HV) energy storage. A body structure delimits the space for accommodating the HV energy storage at least in an upward direction and which sealingly closes off the space at least in the upward direction and which has attachment points for the direct or indirect connection of at least one energy storage module. At least one energy storage module is connected to the body structure. A space for accommodating the HV energy storage is open at least in partial regions. An installation protection structure delimits the space for accommodating the HV energy storage in the downward direction and which sealingly closes off the space at least in the downward direction. The body structure is connected to the installation protection structure, whereby the space for accommodating the HV energy storage is sealingly closed.
US11011789B2
The present application provides a package sealing structure, a preparation method thereof and a flexible packaging battery. In a package peripheral region of the package sealing structure, the insulating heat sealing layers of the two layers of packaging film face each other and are melted into one body to form an insulating fusion layer which seals and bonds the two layers of the packaging film together. The insulating fusion layer is formed with an overflow portion that overflows from the package peripheral region of the package sealing structure to the outer end surfaces of the core metal layers of the two layers of packaging film and covers completely the outer end surfaces of the core metal layer of the two layers of packaging film, so that the outer end surfaces of the core metal layers are insulated from the peripheral environment.
US11011777B2
The present invention relates to a nitrogen-doped sulfide-based solid electrolyte for all-solid batteries. The a nitrogen-doped sulfide-based solid electrolyte for all-solid batteries includes a compound with an argyrodite-type crystal structure represented by the following Formula 1: LiaPSbNcXd [Formula 1] wherein 6≤a≤7, 3
US11011772B2
A fuel cell system includes a fuel cell stack including a plurality of fuel cells positioned between opposing end plates, an anode manifold configured to direct anode gas into or out of the fuel cell stack, a cathode manifold configured to direct cathode gas into or out of the fuel cell stack, and at least one truss attached to an external surface of at least one of the cathode manifold or the anode manifold. The at least one truss is configured to reinforce the fuel cell system.
US11011757B2
A separator for a fuel cell, includes: a metal plate; a first electro-conductive resin layer formed on a first surface side of the metal plate; a second electro-conductive resin layer formed on a second surface side of the metal plate opposite to the first surface side; and a flow channel in which the metal plate and the first and second electro-conductive resin layers have a wavy shape in cross section.
US11011747B2
A lithium metal oxide powder for a cathode material in a rechargeable battery, consisting of a core and a surface layer, the surface layer being delimited by an outer and an inner interface, the inner interface being in contact with the core, the core having a layered crystal structure comprising the elements Li, M and oxygen, wherein M has the formula M=(Niz (Ni1/2 Mn1/2)y Cox)1-k Ak, with 0.15≤x≤0.30, 0.20≤z≤0.55, x+y+z=1 and 0
US11011741B2
A positive electrode active material for lithium secondary batteries, includes: a lithium composite metal compound containing secondary particles formed by aggregation of primary particles; and a lithium-containing tungsten oxide, in which the lithium-containing tungsten oxide is present at least in interparticle spaces of the primary particles, and in a pore distribution of the positive electrode active material for lithium secondary batteries measured by a mercury intrusion method, a surface area of pores having a pore diameter in a range of 10 nm or more to 200 nm or less is 0.4 m2/g or more and 3.0 m2/g or less.
US11011740B2
A battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolyte. The positive electrode includes LixAl2(OH)7-y.zH2O where 0.9
US11011738B2
Provided is a method for producing a negative electrode by using a negative electrode active material and ceramic particles, the method ensuring satisfactory coatability of the paste and high peel strength and hardness of the obtained negative electrode active material layer. The method for producing a negative electrode disclosed herein includes a step of coating a negative electrode paste including a negative electrode active material and ceramic particles on a negative electrode current collector; a step of drying the coated negative electrode paste to form a negative electrode active material layer; and a step of pressing the negative electrode active material layer. The ceramic particles have an aspect ratio of 1.5 or more and 20 or less. The ceramic particles have a short side length of ⅕ or less of an average particle diameter of the negative electrode active material. In the negative electrode paste, the ceramic particles are contained in an amount of 3% by mass to 20% by mass based on a total solid content of the negative electrode paste.
US11011728B2
A display device includes a first substrate having a display area and a non-display area around the display area, a light-emitting element in the display area and including a pixel electrode, a common electrode, and an emission member between the pixel electrode and the common electrode, a common voltage transfer line in the non-display area and electrically connected to the common electrode, a second substrate opposite the first substrate, and a sealant in the non-display area between the first substrate and the second substrate, the sealant surrounding the display area, wherein the common voltage transfer line includes a first portion overlapping the sealant and a second portion positioned between the sealant and the display area, and wherein the second portion has at least one opening or cut-out portion.
US11011723B2
The present invention relates to an organic electroluminescent device comprising an hole injection layer and electron injection layer with zero-valent metal, and a method of manufacturing the same. In particular the present invention relates to an organic electroluminescent device comprising an anode layer, at least one electron transport layer, at least one electron injection layer, a cathode layer, and an emission layer, wherein the emission layer is arranged between the anode layer and the cathode layer, wherein the at least a first electron transport layer and the injection layer are arranged between the emission layer and the cathode layer, wherein the electron injection layer is arranged in direct contact to the first transport electron layer, wherein the first electron transport layer is arranged nearer to the anode layer and the electron injection layer is arranged nearer to the cathode layer, wherein at least the first electron transport layer comprises an organic phosphine matrix compound, and a first zero-valent alkali metal; and the electron injection layer comprises a second zero-valent metal of an alkaline earth metal and/or rare earth metal, and an alkali metal halide.
US11011713B2
The present disclosure provides a display module and an electronic apparatus. The display module includes: a flexible substrate having: a first surface configured to form a displaying structure, and a second surface opposite to the first surface; and a protective part located on the second surface and having a supporting portion. The flexible substrate includes: a substrate body having a first subsurface which is a portion of the second surface corresponding to the substrate body; and a bent portion located at at least one side of the substrate body, bent towards the first subsurface of the substrate body, and having a second subsurface which is a portion of the second surface corresponding to the bent portion. The second subsurface is supported by the supporting portion such that a radius of curvature of the bent portion : is not less than a minimal radius of curvature which the flexible substrate is capable of withstanding.
US11011712B2
Platinum complexes suitable for use as phosphorescent emitters or as delayed fluorescent and phosphorescent emitters having the following structure:
US11011694B2
A tactile sense presenting device that includes a control unit, a driving unit, and a vibrating device. The vibrating device includes a diaphragm, a piezoelectric film that is bridged over the diaphragm and stretches and contracts in a planar direction, and spacers that are provided in a gap portion, in which the piezoelectric film and the diaphragm face each other, and are fixed to the diaphragm.
US11011686B2
Semiconductor light emitting device includes: substrate including main and back surfaces, first and second side surfaces, and bottom and top surfaces, wherein main surface includes first to fourth sides; first main surface electrode on main surface and including first base portion contacting the sides of the main surface, and die pad connected to first base portion; second main surface electrode disposed on the main surface and including second base portion contacting first and third sides of the main surface, and wire pad connected to second base portion; semiconductor light emitting element including first electrode pad and mounted on die pad; wire connecting first electrode pad and wire pad; first insulating film covering portion between first base portion and die pad; second insulating film covering portion between second base portion and wire pad and having end portions contacting main surface; and light-transmitting sealing resin.
US11011681B2
The present application discloses a light-emitting device comprises a semiconductor light-emitting element, a transparent element covering the semiconductor light-emitting element, an insulating layer which connects to the transparent element, an intermediate layer which connects to the insulating layer; and a conductive adhesive material connecting to the intermediate layer.
US11011680B2
A light-emitting device includes a semiconductor structure including a first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer, and an active layer formed between the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer; a via penetrating the second semiconductor layer and the active layer to expose a surface of the first semiconductor layer; a first electrode formed in the via and on the second semiconductor layer; a second electrode formed on the second semiconductor layer; and an insulating structure covering the first electrode, the second electrode and the semiconductor structure and including a first opening to expose the first electrode and a second opening to expose the second electrode, wherein the first electrode and the second electrode respectively include a metal layer contacting the insulating layer, the metal layer includes a material including a surface tension value larger than 1500 dyne/cm and a standard reduction potential larger than 0.3 V.
US11011651B2
Embodiments of the present invention include a tight pitch stack nanowire semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes an active region including a blanket dielectric nanosheet. Further included are at least one fin formed on the blanket dielectric nanosheet. There is at least one gate structure formed over the at least one fin in the active region such that the blanket dielectric nanosheet forms an insulating layer between each of the at least one fin and the at least one gate structure, and a substrate such that each of the at least one fin and each of the at least one dummy gate are electrically isolated.
US11011647B2
A semiconductor device structure is disclosed. The semiconductor device structure includes a mesa extending above a substrate. The mesa has a channel region between a first side and second side of the mesa. A first gate is on a first side of the mesa, the first gate comprising a first gate insulator and a first gate conductor comprising graphene overlying the first gate insulator. The gate conductor may comprise graphene in one or more monolayers. Also disclosed are a method for fabricating the semiconductor device structure; an array of vertical transistor devices, including semiconductor devices having the structure disclosed; and a method for fabricating the array of vertical transistor devices.
US11011644B2
The present disclosure provides a thin film transistor, a thin film transistor array, and a method for detecting an object to be detected, wherein the thin film transistor is configured to detect a parameter of an object to be detected bound with a metal ion and includes an active layer, wherein: a carrier of the active layer without a metal element contained in the metal ion bound is of a first mobility, and a carrier of the active layer with the metal element bound is of a second mobility different from the first mobility.
US11011638B2
An integrated semiconductor device having a gate structure adjacent to a semiconductor body at a channel region, the channel region being positioned laterally between source/drain regions. Metal plugs are on the source/drain regions, and rectangular-shaped or trapezoidal-shaped plug caps are above and immediately adjacent to the metal plugs. A self-aligned metal filled contact (CA) is conductively coupled to one of the metal plugs on the source and drain regions, and a self-aligned metal filled contact (CBoA) is conductively coupled to the gate structure. The device further includes a low k dielectric layer that includes a continuous airgap having an inverted u-shape formed about the gate structure and breaks at about a portion of the gate structure including the self-aligned metal filled contact (CBoA). Also, methods for forming the device including the uniquely shaped continuous airgap are disclosed.
US11011633B2
A method and apparatus for use in improving linearity sensitivity of MOSFET devices having an accumulated charge sink (ACS) are disclosed. The method and apparatus are adapted to address degradation in second- and third-order intermodulation harmonic distortion at a desired range of operating voltage in devices employing an accumulated charge sink.
US11011631B2
A silicon carbide substrate has at least one of a first structure and a second structure. The first structure is such that a first impurity region is in contact with a second impurity region, a third impurity region is separated from a fourth impurity region by a second drift region, and the second impurity region has a width greater than a width of the fourth impurity region in a direction parallel to a first main surface. The second structure is such that the first impurity region is separated from the second impurity region by a first drift region, the third impurity region is in contact with the fourth impurity region, and the fourth impurity region has a width greater than a width of the second impurity region in the direction parallel to the first main surface.
US11011630B2
A semiconductor wafer is provided, which has a silicon wafer, a reaction suppressing layer, a stress generating layer and an active layer, the silicon wafer, the reaction suppressing layer, the stress generating layer and the active layer being disposed in an order of the silicon wafer, the reaction suppressing layer, the stress generating layer and the active layer, where the reaction suppressing layer is a nitride crystal layer that suppresses reaction between silicon atoms and group-III atoms, the stress generating layer is a nitride crystal layer that generates compressive stress, the active layer is a nitride crystal layer in which an electronic device is formed, and the semiconductor wafer further has, between the silicon wafer and the reaction suppressing layer, a SiAlN layer having silicon atoms, aluminum atoms and nitrogen atoms as main constituent atoms.
US11011628B2
A method of making a thin film transistor, the method includes: providing a semiconductor layer; arranging a first photoresist layer, a nanowire structure, a second photoresist layer on the semiconductor layer, wherein the nanowire structure includes a single nanowire; forming one opening in the first photoresist layer and the second photoresist layer to form an exposed surface, wherein a part of the nanowire is exposed and suspended in the opening; depositing a conductive film layer on the exposed surface using the nanowire structure as a mask, wherein the conductive film layer defines a nano-scaled channel, and the conductive film layer is divided into two regions, one region is used as a source electrode, and the other region is used as a drain electrode; forming an insulating layer on the semiconductor layer to cover the source electrode and the drain electrode, and locating a gate electrode on the insulating layer.
US11011621B2
A tunneling field-effect transistor (TFET) device is disclosed. A protrusion structure is disposed over the substrate and protrudes out of the plane of substrate. Isolation features are formed on the substrate. A drain region is disposed over the substrate adjacent to the protrusion structure and extends to a bottom portion of the protrusion structure as a raised drain region. A drain contact is disposed over the drain region and overlap with the isolation feature.
US11011616B2
Embodiments of the disclosure are in the field of advanced integrated circuit structure fabrication and, in particular, 10 nanometer node and smaller integrated circuit structure fabrication and the resulting structures. In an example, an integrated circuit structure includes a first silicon fin having a longest dimension along a first direction. A second silicon fin having a longest dimension is along the first direction. An insulator material is between the first silicon fin and the second silicon fin. A gate line is over the first silicon fin and over the second silicon fin along a second direction, the second direction orthogonal to the first direction, the gate line having a first side and a second side, wherein the gate line has a discontinuity over the insulator material, the discontinuity filled by a dielectric plug.
US11011614B2
A high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) device and a method of forming the same are provided. The method includes forming a first III-V compound layer over a substrate. A second III-V compound layer is formed over the first III-V compound layer. The second III-V compound layer has a greater band gap than the first III-V compound layer. A third III-V compound layer is formed over the second III-V compound layer. The third III-V compound layer and the first III-V compound layer comprise a same III-V compound. A passivation layer is formed along a topmost surface and sidewalls of the third III-V compound layer. A fourth III-V compound layer is formed over the second III-V compound layer. The fourth III-V compound layer has a greater band gap than the first III-V compound layer.
US11011612B2
A semiconductor device, includes: a first semiconductor chip including a first semiconductor substrate; and a second semiconductor chip including a second semiconductor substrate, wherein the first semiconductor substrate has a first substrate main surface and a first substrate back surface facing opposite directions in a first direction, and includes a first region and a second region disposed on the first substrate main surface, wherein the first semiconductor chip includes: a first MOSFET of a first type structure formed to include the first region; and a control circuit formed to include the second region, wherein the second semiconductor chip includes a second MOSFET of a second type structure formed to include the second semiconductor substrate, and wherein the second type structure is different from the first type structure.
US11011611B2
A semiconductor device structure is provided. The semiconductor device structure includes a semiconductor substrate having a conductive region made of silicon, germanium or a combination thereof. The semiconductor device structure also includes an insulating layer over the semiconductor substrate and a fill metal material layer in the insulating layer. In addition, the semiconductor device structure includes a nitrogen-containing metal silicide or germanide layer between the conductive region and the fill metal material layers.
US11011609B2
A semiconductor device includes a first semiconductor region of a first conductivity type, a second semiconductor region of a second conductivity type provided on the first semiconductor region, a third semiconductor region of the first conductivity type provided on the second semiconductor region, a first insulating part provided in the first semiconductor region, a first electrode provided in the first semiconductor region, the first insulating part disposed between the first electrode and the first semiconductor region, a second insulating part provided on the first electrode, a gate electrode provided on the second insulating part, a gate insulating part provided between the gate electrode and the second semiconductor region, and a second electrode provided on the second semiconductor region and on the third semiconductor region, and is electrically connected to the second semiconductor region, the third semiconductor region, and the first electrode.
US11011603B2
Semiconductor nanocrystals prepared using a mixture of organic ligands (e.g., oxoacids), as well as compositions, kits, and methods of using such semiconductor nanocrystals are disclosed.
US11011602B2
Circuits employing an adjacent low-k dummy gate to a field-effect transistor (FET) to reduce FET source/drain parasitic capacitance, and related fabrication methods. To reduce or mitigate an increase in the source/drain parasitic capacitance(s) of a FET, a dummy gate adjacent to an active gate of the FET is provided to have a low-k (i.e., low relative permittivity). In this manner, the relative permittivity (k) between the source/drain of the FET and an adjacent dummy gate and/or source/drain of another FET is reduced, thereby reducing the parallel plate capacitance of the FET(s). Reducing parasitic capacitance of the FET(s) may allow further reduced scaling of the circuit to offset or mitigate a lack of reduction or increase in parasitic capacitance as a result of reducing gate pitch in the circuit. As gate pitch is reduced in the circuit, it may not be possible to proportionally reduce gate size without sacrificing gate control.
US11011600B2
A semiconductor structure includes: a substrate; a first passivation layer over the substrate; a second passivation layer over the first passivation layer; and a magnetic core in the second passivation layer; wherein the magnetic core includes a first magnetic material layer and a second magnetic material layer over the first magnetic material layer, the first magnetic material layer and the second magnetic material layer are separated by a high resistance isolation layer, and the high resistance isolation layer has a resistivity greater than about 1.3 ohm-cm.
US11011594B2
A display apparatus includes a substrate including a display area for displaying an image, a first thin film transistor in the display area and including a first semiconductor layer having a silicon semiconductor and a first gate electrode insulated from the first semiconductor layer, a first interlayer insulating layer covering the first gate electrode and having a first contact hole extending therethrough, and a second thin film transistor on the first interlayer insulating layer and including a second semiconductor layer having an oxide semiconductor and a second gate electrode insulated from the second semiconductor layer. A portion of the second semiconductor layer extends into a first contact hole and is electrically connected to the first semiconductor layer.
US11011582B2
An example three-dimensional (3-D) memory array includes a first plurality of conductive lines separated from one other by an insulation material, a second plurality of conductive lines, and a plurality of pairs of conductive pillars arranged to extend substantially perpendicular to the first plurality of conductive lines and the second plurality of conductive lines. The conductive pillars of each respective pair are coupled to a same conductive line of the second plurality of conductive lines. A storage element material is formed partially around the conductive pillars of each respective pair.
US11011581B2
First elongated loop-shaped conductive material portions are formed over a substrate. A two-dimensional array of memory pillar structures is formed over the first elongated loop-shaped conductive material portions. Second elongated loop-shaped conductive material portions over the two-dimensional array of memory pillar structures. Each of the elongated loop-shaped conductive material potions includes a respective pair of line segments and a respective pair of end segments adjoined to ends of the respective pair of line segments. A moat trench that at least partially laterally encloses the two-dimensional array of memory pillar structures can be formed by performing an anisotropic etch process that removes parts of the first and second elongated loop-shaped conductive material portions, thereby separating each loop-shaped conductive material portion into two disjoined line segments.
US11011579B2
The disclosed technology relates generally to integrated circuit devices, and in particular to cross-point memory arrays and methods for fabricating the same. In one aspect, a memory device of the memory array comprises a substrate and a memory cell stack formed between and electrically connected to first and second conductive lines. The memory cell stack comprises a first memory element over the substrate and a second memory element formed over the first element, wherein one of the first and second memory elements comprises a storage element and the other of the first and second memory elements comprises a selector element. The memory cell stack additionally comprises a first pair of sidewalls opposing each other and a second pair of sidewalls opposing each other and intersecting the first pair of sidewalls. The memory device additionally comprises first protective dielectric insulating materials formed on a lower portion of the first pair of sidewalls and an isolation dielectric formed on the first protective dielectric insulating material and further formed on an upper portion of the first pair of sidewalls.
US11011572B2
A laminated structure is provided. The laminated structure includes a light-emitting layer including a light emitting diode. The laminated structure also includes a first layer including a first thin film transistor circuit. The laminated structure further includes a second layer including a second thin film transistor circuit. The second layer is located between the light-emitting layer and the first layer. The second thin film transistor circuit includes a channel region. The light emitting diode is at least partially overlapped with the first thin film transistor circuit and not overlapped with the channel region of the second thin film transistor circuit in a top view direction of the laminated structure.
US11011570B2
An imaging panel includes a photoelectric conversion layer on a side of one of surfaces of a substrate. Further, the imaging panel includes an electrode connected to one of surfaces of the photoelectric conversion layer, a bias line connected with the electrode, and a protection film that is made of a material resistant against an etching agent containing hydrofluoric acid, and covers side surfaces of the bias line.
US11011565B2
An apparatus according to the present invention in which a first substrate including a photoelectric conversion element and a gate electrode of a transistor, and a second substrate including a peripheral circuit portion are placed upon each other. The first substrate does not include a high-melting-metal compound layer, and the second substrate includes a high-melting-metal compound layer.
US11011554B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an array substrate, a method for fabricating the same, and a display panel. The array substrate comprises a substrate, first signal lines and touch electrode signal lines the substrate. The touch electrode signal lines intersect with the first signal lines. Each of the touch electrode signal lines includes a plurality of first sub-signal lines and a plurality of second sub-signal lines. The first sub-signal lines are arranged in a same layer as and insulated from the first signal line. Each of the second sub-signal lines run across one of the first signal lines and are electrically connected with the first sub-signal lines adjacent to said second sub-signal line through vias. The first sub-signal lines are arranged in a layer different from the second sub-signal lines.
US11011548B2
An electronic device includes a plurality of layers formed on a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substrate. The SOI substrate includes a support substrate, a buried insulating layer formed on the support substrate, and a silicon layer formed on the buried insulating layer. A membrane structure of the electronic device includes the plurality of layers, the buried insulating later and the silicon layer but does not include the support substrate. A passivation film covers an upper surface and a side surface of the membrane structure.
US11011540B2
Embodiments of a method for forming a three-dimensional (3D) memory device includes the following operations. First, a channel hole is formed in a stack structure of a plurality first layers and a plurality of second layers alternatingly arranged over a substrate. A semiconductor channel is formed by filling the channel hole with a channel-forming structure. The plurality of first layers is removed. A plurality of conductor layers is formed from the plurality of second layers. Further, a gate-to-gate dielectric layer is formed between the adjacent conductor layers, the gate-to-gate dielectric layer including at least one sub-layer of silicon oxynitride.
US11011539B2
Embodiments of three-dimensional (3D) memory devices and methods for forming the 3D memory devices are disclosed. In an example, a 3D memory device includes a substrate, a first single-crystal silicon layer above the substrate, a first memory stack above the first single-crystal silicon layer, a first channel structure extending vertically through the first memory stack, and a first interconnect layer above the first memory stack. The first memory stack includes a first plurality of interleaved conductor layers and dielectric layers. The first channel structure includes a first lower plug extending into the first single-crystal silicon layer and including single-crystal silicon. The first interconnect layer includes a first bit line electrically connected to the first channel structure.
US11011527B2
Semiconductor device, static random access memory (SRAM), and their fabrication methods are provided. The semiconductor device includes a base substrate with first fins formed in adjacent device regions. An isolation structure is formed on the base substrate having a top lower than the first fins. The isolation structure includes a first region and a second region, on opposite sidewalls of a corresponding first fin. The first region is between the adjacent first fins. The isolation structure has a top in the first region higher than that in the second region. A first doped layer is formed in the first fin having a portion in the second region. A dielectric layer is formed over the base substrate and a first contact hole is formed in the dielectric layer to expose a top of the first doped layer and a sidewall surface of the first doped layer, in the second region.
US11011523B2
Methods, apparatuses, and systems related to forming a capacitor column using a sacrificial material are described. An example method includes patterning a surface of a semiconductor substrate having: a first silicate material over the substrate, a first nitride material over the first silicate material, a sacrificial material over the first nitride material, a second silicate material over the sacrificial material, and a second nitride material over the second silicate material. The method further includes forming a column of capacitor material in an opening through the first silicate material, the first nitride material, the sacrificial material, the second silicate material, and the second nitride material. The method further includes removing the sacrificial material.
US11011522B2
The present application discloses a semiconductor device with nanowire plugs and a method for fabricating the semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a substrate having first regions and second regions; a plurality of capacitor contacts positioned over the second regions, at least one of the capacitor contacts having a neck portion and a head portion over the neck portion, wherein an upper width of the head portion is larger than an upper width of the neck portion; a plurality of bit line contacts positioned over the first regions and a plurality of bit lines positioned over the bit line contacts; a plurality of capacitor plugs disposed over the capacitor contacts, wherein at least one of the plurality of capacitor plugs includes a plurality of nanowires, a conductive liner disposed over the nanowires, and a conductor disposed over the conductive liner; and a plurality of capacitor structures disposed respectively over the capacitor plugs.
US11011513B2
Embodiments of the invention include first and second devices formed on a substrate. The first device includes a bottom source or drain (S/D) region, a plurality of fins formed on portions of the bottom S/D region, a bottom spacer formed on the bottom S/D region, a dielectric layer, a gate, a top S/D region formed on each fin of a plurality of fins, and one or more contacts. The dielectric layer is disposed between the gate and the fin of the plurality of fins. The second device includes a bottom doped region, a channel formed the bottom doped region, a sidewall doped region of the channel, a gate coupled to the sidewall doped region, a top doped region, and one or more contacts. A junction is formed between the channel and the sidewall doped region. The cap layer is formed on the gate and the top doped region.
US11011511B2
An ESD protection device includes a substrate having an active fin extending in a first direction, a plurality of gate structures extending in a second direction at a given angle with respect to the first direction and partially covering the active fin, an epitaxial layer in a recess on a portion of the active fin between the gate structures, an impurity region under the epitaxial layer, and a contact plug contacting the epitaxial layer. A central portion of the impurity region is thicker than an edge portion of the impurity region, in the first direction. The contact plug lies over the central portion of the impurity region.
US11011506B2
A bonded assembly includes a memory die including a three-dimensional memory array located on a first single crystalline semiconductor substrate, and a logic die including a peripheral circuitry located on a second single crystalline semiconductor substrate and bonded to the memory die. The three-dimensional memory array includes word lines and bit lines. The logic die includes field effect transistors having semiconductor channels configured to flow electrical current along a channel direction that is parallel to the bit lines or word lines. Different crystallographic orientations are used for the first and second single crystalline semiconductor substrates. The crystallographic orientations of the first single crystalline semiconductor substrate are selected to minimize stress deformation of the memory chip, while the crystallographic orientations of the second single crystalline semiconductor substrate are selected to maximize device performance of the peripheral circuitry.
US11011504B2
An optoelectronic semiconductor chip includes a semiconductor body including a first semiconductor region and a second semiconductor region, a recess extending through the first semiconductor region, the recess having a bottom surface, where the second semiconductor region is exposed, and a blocking element arranged on the bottom surface, wherein the at least one recess has a first width and a second width parallel to the main extension plane of the semiconductor body, and the first width is smaller than the second width.
US11011495B2
A data processor is implemented as an integrated circuit. The data processor includes a processor die. The processor die is connected to an integrated voltage regulator die using die-to-die bonding. The integrated voltage regulator die provides a regulated voltage to the processor die, and the processor die operates in response to the regulated voltage.
US11011492B2
An ultrasonic transducer system is provided. The ultrasonic transducer system includes: a transducer mounting structure; a transducer, including at least one mounting flange for coupling the transducer to the transducer mounting structure; and a tuned resonator having a desired resonant frequency, the tuned resonator being integrated with at least one of the transducer mounting structure and the at least one mounting flange.
US11011485B2
A semiconductor package includes: a semiconductor chip including a passivation film disposed on an active surface and having a first opening exposing at least a portion of a connection pad and a protective film disposed on the passivation film, filling at least a portion in the first opening, and having a second opening exposing at least a portion of the connection pad in the first opening; an encapsulant covering at least a portion of the semiconductor chip; and the connection structure including an insulating layer having a via hole connected to the second opening to expose at least a portion of the connection pad, a redistribution layer, and a connection via connecting the connection pad to the redistribution layer while filling at least a portion of each of the via hole and the second opening. The second opening and the via hole are connected to have a stepped portion.
US11011480B2
Provided is a semiconductor device capable of improving relative accuracy of semiconductor elements and a yield of a semiconductor integrated circuit device. The semiconductor device includes a flat region formed on a surface of a semiconductor substrate, and having an outer peripheral shape formed by regional sides and regional chamfer portions; an outer peripheral region surrounding the flat region, and having a uniform height different from a height of the flat region; a plurality of semiconductor elements having similar shapes or the same shape, and formed on the flat region; and a wiring metal connecting the plurality of semiconductor elements via contact holes formed in a second insulating film on the semiconductor elements.
US11011476B2
The present disclosure is directed to a lead frame design that includes a copper alloy base material coated with an electroplated copper layer, a precious metal, and an adhesion promotion compound. The layers compensate for scratches or surface irregularities in the base material while promoting adhesion from the lead frame to the conductive connectors, and to the encapsulant by coupling them to different layers of a multilayer coating on the lead frame. The first layer of the multilayer coating is a soft electroplated copper to smooth the surface of the base material. The second layer of the multilayer coating is a thin precious metal to facilitate a mechanical coupling between leads of the lead frame and conductive connectors. The third layer of the multilayer coating is the adhesion promotion compound for facilitating a mechanical coupling to an encapsulant around the lead frame.
US11011466B2
Various semiconductor chip devices and methods of making the same are disclosed. In one aspect, an apparatus is provided that includes a first redistribution layer (RDL) structure having a first plurality of conductor traces, a first molding layer on the first RDL structure, plural conductive pillars in the first molding layer, each of the conductive pillars including a first end and a second end, a second RDL structure on the first molding layer, the second RDL structure having a second plurality of conductor traces, and wherein some of the conductive pillars are electrically connected between some of the first plurality of conductor traces and some of the second plurality of conductor traces to provide a first inductor coil.
US11011463B2
Dielectric helmet-based approaches for back end of line (BEOL) interconnect fabrication, and the resulting structures, are described. In an example, a semiconductor structure includes a substrate. A plurality of alternating first and second conductive line types is disposed along a same direction of a back end of line (BEOL) metallization layer disposed in an inter-layer dielectric (ILD) layer disposed above the substrate. A dielectric layer is disposed on an uppermost surface of the first conductive line types but not along sidewalls of the first conductive line types, and is disposed along sidewalls of the second conductive line types but not on an uppermost surface of the second conductive line types.
US11011455B2
A method for providing an electronic package structure includes providing a substrate having a die pad having a die pad top surface and an opposing die pad bottom surface, leads laterally spaced apart from the die pad, and a substrate encapsulant interposed between the die pad and the leads and includes a substrate top surface and an opposing substrate bottom surface. The substrate encapsulant is provided such that the die pad and the leads protrude outward from the substrate bottom surface. The method includes providing an electronic device having opposing major surfaces and a pair of opposing outer edges. The method includes connecting the electronic device to the substrate such that one major surface of the electronic device is spaced apart from the die pad top surface and upper surfaces of the leads, and the outer edges overlap an opposing pair of the leads.
US11011444B2
The present disclosure provides a semiconductor package structure having a semiconductor die having an active surface, a conductive bump on the active surface, configured to electrically couple the semiconductor die to an external circuit, the conductive bump having a bump height, a dielectric encapsulating the semiconductor die and the conductive bump, and a plurality of fillers in the dielectric, each of the fillers comprising a diameter, wherein a maximum diameter of the fillers is smaller than the bump height.
US11011440B2
A semiconductor element bonding body including: a substrate, in which a concave portion is formed; and a semiconductor element placed in the concave portion to be mounted to the substrate. A portion of the substrate in which the concave portion is formed is made of Cu. The concave portion has a perimeter portion in which a level difference is formed, and the level difference has a height d of 20 μm or more and less than 50 μm. The concave portion has a bottom surface having a flatness degree of λ/8.7 μm or more and λ/1.2 μm or less when a wavelength λ of a laser is 632.8 nm. A metal film is formed on the semiconductor element, and the bottom surface of the concave portion and the metal film are bonded directly to each other.
US11011436B2
Whether a film on a peripheral portion of a substrate is appropriately removed is rapidly determined without depending on a kind of the film on the peripheral portion to be removed. An acquisition process S502 of acquiring information upon the kind of the film of the substrate; a selection process S503 of selecting a measurement setting corresponding to the acquired kind of the film from a table for measurement settings previously stored in a storage unit; a control process S504 of controlling an imaging unit 270 to image the peripheral portion of the substrate by using the measurement setting selected in the selection process are provided.
US11011435B2
An apparatus for inspecting a semiconductor die bonded on a top surface of a substrate uses an optical assembly including an image sensor and an optical system for conducting the inspection. The optical assembly is tilted at an oblique angle with respect to the top surface of the substrate, and is arranged such that its depth of focus is substantially perpendicular to the top surface of the substrate for inspecting at least one side wall of the semiconductor die.
US11011432B2
A method of forming vertical fin field effect transistors, including, forming a silicon-germanium cap layer on a substrate, forming at least four vertical fins and silicon-germanium caps from the silicon-germanium cap layer and the substrate, where at least two of the at least four vertical fins is in a first subset and at least two of the at least four vertical fins is in a second subset, forming a silicon-germanium doping layer on the plurality of vertical fins and silicon-germanium caps, removing the silicon-germanium doping layer from the at least two of the at least four vertical fins in the second subset, and removing the silicon-germanium cap from at least one of the at least two vertical fins in the first subset, and at least one of the at least two vertical fins in the second subset.
US11011403B2
An automatic clamping mechanism capable of automatically securing and releasing a wafer transport container to or from a manufacturing apparatus and having a small height dimension is provided at low cost. A wafer transport container is placed on a container placing table. A semiconductor wafer is loaded into the manufacturing apparatus main body from a wafer loading port while being placed on a container base part of the wafer transport container. An automatic clamping mechanism generates a press force component in a vertical direction at the wafer transport container and secures the wafer transport container to the container placing table by bringing claw parts of a plurality of clamping claws into contact with an inclined contact surface provided on a container lid part of the wafer transport container and pressing the inclined contact surface in a substantially horizontal direction.
US11011398B2
In equipment that supplies a processing liquid on a top surface of a substrate while holding the substrate horizontally in a chamber a generation status of fumes is determined. Specifically, an image of a predetermined imaging area in the chamber is captured. Then, the generation status of fumes in the chamber is determined based on luminance values of the captured image acquired by the capturing of an image. Accordingly, it is possible to quantitatively determine whether a generation status of fumes in a chamber is normal.
US11011394B2
A method for annealing a semiconductor die is provided. Information regarding layout of the semiconductor die is received. At least one annealing orbit on the semiconductor die is obtained according to the received information. An alignment procedure is performed on a plurality of alignment marks of the semiconductor die according to the received information. The semiconductor die is positioned according to the alignment marks. A laser beam with a first laser parameter is projected onto the positioned semiconductor die along the annealing orbit, so as to anneal a first portion of the positioned semiconductor die covered by the annealing orbit. The positioned semiconductor die is partially covered by the annealing orbit.
US11011380B2
Some embodiments of the present disclosure provide a semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a semiconductive substrate. A donor-supply layer is over the semiconductive substrate. The donor-supply layer includes a top surface. A gate structure, a drain, and a source are over the donor-supply layer. A passivation layer covers conformably over the gate structure and the donor-supply layer. A gate electrode is over the gate structure. A field plate is disposed on the passivation layer between the gate electrode and the drain. The field plate includes a bottom edge. The gate electrode having a first edge in proximity to the field plate, the field plate comprising a second edge facing the first edge, a horizontal distance between the first edge and the second edge is in a range of from about 0.05 to about 0.5 micrometers.
US11011370B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes: forming an ohmic electrode including Al on a semiconductor substrate; forming a SiN film covering the ohmic electrode; forming a first photoresist on the SiN film, the first photoresist having an opening pattern overlapping the ohmic electrode; performing ultraviolet curing of the first photoresist; forming an opening in the SiN film exposed through the opening pattern and causing a surface of the ohmic electrode to be exposed inside the opening; forming a barrier metal layer on the first photoresist and on the ohmic electrode exposed through the opening; forming a second photoresist in the opening pattern; performing a heat treatment on the second photoresist and covering the barrier metal layer overlapping the opening with the second photoresist; and etching the barrier metal layer using the second photoresist.
US11011367B2
A light-emitting tube array-type light source device includes: a plurality of light-emitting gas discharge tubes 11; and an electrode substrate 30 supporting the light-emitting gas discharge tubes in parallel on an upper surface thereof, the electrode substrate having a plurality of slits partially exposes a bottom surface of each light-emitting tube, thereby the light-emitting gas discharge tubes can be cooled through the slits.
US11011366B2
A broadband ultraviolet illumination source for a characterization system is disclosed. The broadband ultraviolet illumination source includes an enclosure having one or more walls, the enclosure configured to contain a gas, and a plasma discharge device based on a graphene-dielectric-semiconductor (GOS) planar-type structure. The GOS structure includes a silicon substrate having a top surface, a dielectric layer disposed on the top surface of the silicon substrate, and at least one layer of graphene disposed on a top surface of the dielectric layer. A metal contact may be formed on the top surface of the graphene layer. The GOS structure has several advantages for use in an illumination source, such as low operating voltage (below 50 V), planar surface electron emission, and compatibility with standard semiconductor processes. The broadband ultraviolet illumination source further includes electrodes placed inside the enclosure or magnets placed outside the enclosure to increase the current density.
US11011365B2
A mass spectrometry system and a working method and an application thereof, and a sampling device. The mass spectrometry system includes an ion source, a sampling device and a mass spectrometer. The sampling device includes: a guide rail; a support adapted to move on the guide rail; a bearing member made from a hydrophobic material with two ends being fixed to the support; a plurality of containers for containing samples arranged on the support; a plurality of transport members made from a hydrophilic material and including a first portion provided on the bearing member and a second portion connected to the first portion and extending into each container; adjacent transport members being not in contact; and a drive module configured to drive the support to move on the guide rail such that a central axis of an exit port of the ion source passes through the first portion.
US11011364B2
An apparatus configured to produce an image charge/current signal representative of trapped ions undergoing oscillatory motion. The apparatus includes: an electrostatic ion trap configured to trap ions such that the trapped ions undergo oscillatory motion in the electrostatic ion trap; an image charge/current detector configured to obtain an image charge/current signal representative of trapped ions undergoing oscillatory motion in the electrostatic ion trap, wherein the electrostatic ion trap configured to trap ions such that the image charge/current signal in the time domain repeats, for ions of a given mass/charge ratio m, at a frequency fsig(m) [Hz] with a signal period Tsig(m) [s]. The image charge/current detector includes one or more pickup electrodes configured to obtain the image charge/current signal. The one or more pickup electrodes are arranged to detect two signal pulses caused by ions having the given mass/charge ratio m within each signal period Tsig(m). The one or more pickup electrodes are further arranged such that the time separation Δtsep(m) between the two signal pulses caused by ions having the given mass/charge ratio m within each signal period Tsig(m) is approximately equal to 2p+1/2.n.fsig(m) so as to suppress a predetermined nth harmonic within the image charge/current signal, where n is an integer that is 1 or more, and where p is an integer that is 0 or more.
US11011357B2
Methods and apparatus for processing substrates with a multi-cathode chamber. The multi-cathode chamber includes a shield with a plurality of holes and a plurality of shunts. The shield is rotatable to orient the holes and shunts with a plurality of cathodes located above the shield. The shunts interact with magnets from the cathodes to prevent interference during processing. The shield can be raised and lowered to adjust gapping between a target of a cathode and a hole to provide a dark space during processing.
US11011356B2
Implementations of the present disclosure relate to a sputtering target for a sputtering chamber used to process a substrate. In one implementation, a sputtering target for a sputtering chamber is provided. The sputtering target comprises a sputtering plate with a backside surface having radially inner, middle and outer regions and an annular-shaped backing plate mounted to the sputtering plate. The backside surface has a plurality of circular grooves which are spaced apart from one another and at least one arcuate channel cutting through the circular grooves and extending from the radially inner region to the radially outer region of sputtering plate. The annular-shaped backing plate defines an open annulus exposing the backside surface of the sputtering plate.
US11011343B2
Provided herein are approaches for increasing operational range of an electrostatic lens. An electrostatic lens of an ion implantation system may receive an ion beam from an ion source, the electrostatic lens including a first plurality of conductive beam optics disposed along one side of an ion beam line and a second plurality of conductive beam optics disposed along a second side of the ion beam line. The ion implantation system may further include a power supply in communication with the electrostatic lens, the power supply operable to supply a voltage and a current to at least one of the first and second plurality of conductive beam optics, wherein the voltage and the current deflects the ion beam at a beam deflection angle, and wherein the ion beam is accelerated and then decelerated within the electrostatic lens.
US11011339B2
A 4G magnetron is disclosed. The magnetron may include an anode, having a cylindrical member and anode vanes disposed within the cylindrical member which define resonant cavities therebetween, and a dispenser cathode, suitable for heating and located coaxially within said anode. The magnetron may operate in a temperature range of about 850-1050 C. The magnetron may include conductive cooling. The magnetron may comprise inventive anode and cathode structures. A method for preparing a plurality of magnetron tubes substantially simultaneously is further provided.
US11011337B2
Systems and methods for obtaining fast, spin-polarized electrons from an edge or tip or cusp of a target material, e.g., a sharp GaAs crystal edge or tip, or a cusp, which naturally incorporates optical reversibility. A source of fast spin-polarized electrons may include a target material including a sharp tip or tip portion or a sharp edge or a cusp, the tip or tip portion including at least two intersecting edges, and a pulsed light source configured to emit one or more light pulses focused on the sharp tip or tip portion or the sharp edge or the cusp to thereby induce emission of spin-polarized electrons from the sharp tip or tip portion or the sharp edge or the cusp of the target material.
US11011334B2
An electromagnetic switch for a starting device of an internal combustion engine may include a coil carrier having a carrier wall enclosing a cavity, a coil winding, a piston, and a ferromagnetic bypass body. During operation, the coil winding may provide a magnetic field within the cavity. The piston may be disposed in a passive position and may be adjusted axially in a direction of a core. The coil winding may have a coil wire which may be wound around the carrier wall in a first winding direction and an opposing second winding direction. The ferromagnetic bypass body may surround the cavity and may be arranged radially between the cavity and the coil winding. In the passive position of the piston, the bypass body may axially overlap the axial gap. At least one winding of the second winding section may axially overlap the bypass body.
US11011330B2
A keyboard device includes a membrane circuit board, a base plate and a key structure. The base plate is located under the membrane circuit board. The key structure includes a lever structure, a resilience element or an interference structure. While the keycap is depressed, the lever structure, the resilience element or the interference structure collides with a keycap of the key structure, the base plate or a connecting element of the key structure. Consequently, the operating sound is generated, and the operating feedback is provided to the user.
US11011325B2
A push button switch may include a housing, an operation unit, and, a lock lever unit. A lever body of the lock lever unit may have a locking portion capable of locking one end of a long jig in an extending direction. The housing may have a fulcrum projection that contacts an intermediate portion of the jig having the one end locked to a locking portion when the lever body is moved using the jig, and serves as a rotation fulcrum of the jig.
US11011319B2
An electronic component includes an electronic element that includes a lead portion, a sealing body that seals the electronic element in a state where an end portion of the lead portion is exposed, a first current collector that is formed on the sealing body and is connected to the end portion, and a first terminal that includes a first portion which is sealed in the sealing body and is connected to the first current collector.
US11011315B2
Disclosed herein is a thin film capacitor that includes a capacitive insulating film having first and second through holes, a first metal film provided on one surface of the capacitive insulating film, and a second metal film provided on the other surface of the capacitive insulating film. The first and second metal films are made of different metal materials from each other. The first metal film is divided into a first area positioned outside the first space and a second area positioned inside the first space. The second metal film is divided into a third area positioned outside the second space and a fourth area positioned inside the second space. The third area is connected to the second area through the first through hole. The fourth area is connected to the first area through the second through hole.
US11011314B2
A ceramic electronic device includes: a multilayer structure having a parallelepiped shape in which each of dielectric layers and each of internal electrode layers are alternately stacked and are alternately exposed to two end faces; and a cover layer provided on at least one of an upper face and a lower face of the multilayer structure, a main component of the cover sheet being same as the main component of the plurality of dielectric layers, wherein tensile stress remains along a first direction on a surface of the cover layer, wherein the first direction is a direction in which the two end faces face with each other, wherein the tensile stress on a center side in a second direction is larger than the tensile stress on the two side faces side, wherein the second direction is a direction in which the two side faces face with each other.
US11011301B2
One object of the present invention is to provide a magnetic coupling coil component having a high coupling coefficient between coils of different lines and facilitating insulation between the coils. A coil component according to one embodiment includes: an insulator body including first insulating layers and second insulating layers stacked together in a lamination direction; first conductive patterns formed on the first insulating layers; and second conductive patterns formed on the second insulating layers. The insulator body includes a first end region, a second end region, and an intermediate region positioned between the first end region and the second end region. The first end region includes the first insulating layers only, the second end region includes the second insulating layers only, and the intermediate region includes the first insulating layers and the second insulating layers arranged alternately in the lamination direction.
US11011300B2
An electronic component is mounted on a circuit board such that a mounting surface of an element body to which a first outer electrode and a second outer electrode are exposed is directed toward the circuit board. A coil is formed of a spiral coil in which a plurality of coil conductor layers arranged in a direction perpendicular to a first side surface and a second side surface orthogonal to the mounting surface are connected in series. Then, an intermediate point between a lowest point closest to the mounting surface and an uppermost point farthest from the mounting surface in an inner circumference of the coil is offset from the center of the element body in a direction perpendicular to the mounting surface toward the opposite side to the mounting surface.
US11011296B2
A surface mounted inductor is equipped with a coil formed by winding a conductive wire, and a formed body in which the coil is sealed with a sealing material that mainly contains metal magnetic powder and a resin. The coil is embedded so that surfaces of lead-out ends are exposed on surfaces of the formed body. The resin at portions of surfaces of the formed body where external terminals are formed is removed, and the metal magnetic powder and a plating layer forming the external terminals are joined to each other, thereby connecting the external terminals and the lead-out ends of the coil.
US11011278B1
A method for facilitating epidemiologic surveillance for a target disease such as Covid-19 includes a step of using an optical identifier such as a barcode or a numerical code to rapidly report de-identified test results to a central database. A rapid test device may be based on a direct flow point-of-care device comprising a porous membrane with at least one recombinant antigen applied thereto and procedural control. The recombinant antigen may comprise an epitope for detecting the target disease marker. The first optical identifier may be applied to the device and facilitate remote communication of the test results without the use of any specialized equipment.
US11011276B2
A method for establishing a computer-aided data interpretation model for immune diseases by immunomarkers and visualization is revealed. First combine a plurality of immunomarkers into an immunomarker panel. Then collect test data of a plurality of subjects measured by the immunomarker panel, and disease diagnosis information of the subjects for establishment of an immunomarker-panel testing database. Next new subjects are tested by the immunomarker panel. The data obtained and the corresponding information in the immunomarker-panel testing database are processed by unsupervised machine learning algorithm to get a computer-aided data interpretation model showing comparison of case distribution patterns. The method provides real-time analysis of multiple data to medical professionals for their reference. Thereby the correctness, the timeliness and the reproducibility of the interpretation result for the diagnosis and treatment of immune diseases are all improved.
US11011272B2
A system and a method for remotely controlling a medical device based on image data are disclosed. The system includes a medical device, an image sensor, and a remote caregiver interface. The medical device includes a controller coupled to a communication network. The image sensor is coupled to the communication network and is configured to capture image data. The remote caregiver interface is coupled to the communication network and is configured to display the image data for viewing by a user, receive a selected remote control function from the user, and transmit an input signal corresponding to the selected remote control function to the controller of the medical device to execute the selected remote control function based on the input signal.
US11011271B2
The invention relates generally to various systems, tools and methods for acquiring diagnostic information, including medical information, for a user, transmitting the information to a remote location, assessing the information, and transmitting resulting diagnosis and treatment information to the user and/or a third party for subsequent action. The present invention provides consumer and user-friendly telemedicine systems and procedures which enable health services and/or diagnosis to be provided at a distance remotely.
US11011269B2
A system and method for automatic coding of medical claims, so as to minimize or eliminate possible human error and oversight that is common with prior art solutions.
US11011266B2
A health provider matching service is provided to match patients to health providers based on a semantic relationship graph of data associated with conditions of patients. Using natural language processing, the service identifies terms describing symptoms, treatments, and health providers associated with a condition. The service then identifies semantic relations among the terms and probability distributions of the terms to generate a semantic relationship graph. Quality information of therapists is combined with machine learning techniques to identify features that are used to distinguish high quality and low quality providers. Based on the semantic relationship graph and the derived quality information, the service matches a patient to a health provider suitable to treat the particular needs of the patient. The service also handles social, behavioral, or emotional issues for which medications are not appropriate.
US11011262B2
A method for gathering information relating to the use of a continuous passive motion device can include receiving usage information from a continuous passive motion device processing unit. The usage information can include at least one duration of time that the continuous passive motion device was used. The method can also include storing the usage information such that the usage information is available within a historical dataset. Additionally, the method can include displaying at least a portion of the usage information from the historical dataset on a graphical user interface.
US11011258B1
Data processing and compression of healthcare information may be performed by mapping the attributes of healthcare data from a standard healthcare coding to one or a few encoded bytes to greatly reduce the data storage and transmission requirements, facilitating the use of healthcare data storage and transmission in disconnection, intermittent, or low-bandwidth environments. The disclosed compression can facilitate the movement of large amounts of patient information using relatively low storage capability devices.
US11011256B2
A computing platform configured to receive and process an on-demand real-time patient-specific data analysis order is provided. The computing platform can receive an order, determine the viability of the order, and then perform the desired analysis based on parameters provided within the order. As part of the analysis, the computing platform can mine one or more data sources to collect data relevant to the ordered diagnostic. Once the data is collected, the computing platform can analyze the data according to one or more pre-programmed algorithms. The selection of which algorithms to apply to the data set can be determined by the type of on-demand real-time patient-specific data analysis ordered. The on-demand real-time patient-specific data analysis in some examples can be ordered using an external ordering user interface.
US11011255B1
In one embodiment, a system is provided. The system includes a memory device for storing templates; and a processing device, operatively coupled to the memory device, to select a template in view of user input. The template includes one or more embedded data fields associated with a study. A query comprises a tree of operators in view of the embedded data fields is derived. The set of operators being adapted to evaluate events data stored in a longitudinal database. Results corresponding to the query are generated by applying at least one operator of the tree of operators to the events data. The results including a time series of outcomes related to the events data. Thereafter, the template is populated with a least a portion of the results for presentation in connection with the study.
US11011251B1
A method of verifying a hard post package repair (hPPR) includes steps as follows. A predetermined data background is written into a partial array of a volatile memory. First data are read out from a target row of the partial array of the volatile memory. The volatile memory is commanded to perform the hPPR on the target row. The predetermined data background is written into the partial array of the volatile memory anew after the hPPR has been performed. Second data are read out from a target row of the partial array of the volatile memory. The first data are compared with the second data to verify whether the hPPR fails.
US11011237B2
A semiconductor memory device includes: a memory cell array including a plurality of conductive layers, a semiconductor layer, and charge accumulating sections; and a control circuit that executes an erase operation. The erase operation includes an erase mode that executes a first erase flow. The first erase flow includes: a first write operation in which a first program voltage is applied to the plurality of conductive layers; a first erase operation that is executed after the first write operation, and in which, while a first voltage is applied to a first conductive layer, a voltage higher than the first voltage is applied to the second conductive layer; and a second erase operation that is executed after the first erase operation, and in which, while the first voltage is applied to a second conductive layer, a voltage higher than the first voltage is applied to the first conductive layer.
US11011226B2
Systems, integrated circuits, and methods to utilize access signals to facilitate memory operations in scaled arrays of memory elements are described. In at least some embodiments, a non-volatile memory device can include a cross-point array having resistive memory elements and line driver. The line driver can be configured to access a resistive memory element in the cross-point array.
US11011222B2
Various implementations described herein refer to an integrated circuit having an array of bitcells coupled between at least one pair of bitlines including a first bitline and a second bitline that is a complement of the first bitline. The integrated circuit may include at least one pair of ancillary lines disposed adjacent to the at least one pair of bitlines, and the at least one pair of ancillary lines include a first ancillary line disposed adjacent to the first bitline and a second ancillary line disposed adjacent to the second bitline. The integrated circuit may include multiple pairs of passgates coupled between the at least one pair of bitlines and the at least one pair of ancillary lines.
US11011219B2
The present disclosure provides a method for refreshing a memory array. The method includes the following steps: generating a plurality of target row records respectively for a plurality of banks; generating a plurality of row address records based on the plurality of target row records; and performing a row-hammer-refreshing process based on the plurality of row address records.
US11011217B1
Control circuitry may operate to refresh memory banks and determine that a memory bank was not refreshed within a threshold time duration from the current time. The control circuitry may extend a duration of an operational mode in response to determining that the memory bank was not refreshed within the threshold time duration. In response to extending the duration of the operational mode, the control circuitry may refresh the second memory bank without refreshing the first memory bank.
US11011212B1
Methods, systems, and devices for delay calibration oscillators for a memory device are described. In some examples, a memory device may include a delay chain operable (e.g., for a calibration operation) in a ring oscillator configuration that includes a pulse generator. The pulse generator may be configured to output a pulse signal responsive to a transition of an input signal. By generating a pulse signal in a feedback loop of a ring oscillator, the ring oscillator may support a cycle that does not rely on both a first transition propagation pass (e.g., a rising edge propagation) and a responsive, opposite transition propagation pass (e.g., a falling edge propagation) through the delay chain, which may support a ring oscillator cycle time (e.g., period) that more closely represents aspects of the delay chain that are meant to be calibrated.
US11011211B2
A semiconductor storage device includes a plurality of memory cells and a plurality of bit lines connected thereto, a plurality of sense amplifier units respectively connected to the plurality of bit lines, and a cache memory connected to the plurality of sense amplifier units. Each sense amplifier unit includes a sense node and a latch in which data transferred onto the sense node from a corresponding bit line is latched. First data latched in a first sense amplifier unit among the plurality of sense amplifier units is transferred to the cache memory, and second data latched in a second sense amplifier unit among the plurality of sense amplifier units is transferred to the sense node of the first second sense amplifier unit. Thereafter, the second data is latched in the first sense amplifier unit and transferred to the cache memory.
US11011210B2
A memory layout structure, which is provided with multiple source lines between active areas, each source line has multiple branches electrically connecting with the active areas at opposite sides in alternating arrangement. Multiple word lines traverse through the active areas to form transistors. Multiple storage units are disposed between the word lines on the active areas in staggered array arrangement, and multiple bit lines electrically connect with all storage units on a corresponding active area, wherein each storage cell includes one of the storage unit, two of the transistors respectively at both sides of the storage unit, and two branches of the source line.
US11011204B2
A system, according to one embodiment, includes: a processor, and logic that is integrated with the processor, executable by the processor, or integrated with and executable by the processor. Moreover, the logic is configured to: detect, by the processor, a change in a resistance value of at least one of a plurality of detector structures, for identifying a defect on a magnetic medium. Each of the detector structures includes a pair of conductive layers separated by an insulating material. However, none of the detector structures include an operable reader for reading data from a magnetic medium. Other systems, methods, and computer program products are described in additional embodiments.
US11011199B2
According to one embodiment, a magnetic disk device including a disk, a head, and a controller configured to, when writing a first servo sector, a second servo sector, and a third servo sector in the order described according to a second route varying in a radial direction of the disk with respect to a first route, adjust first timing used to write the second servo sector next to the first servo sector, and adjust second timing used to write the third servo sector next to the second servo sector.
US11011198B1
A tape drive may arrange timing-based-servo marks into a timing-based-servo pattern. The timing-based-servo pattern may be at least one M-pattern. The tape drive may select the at least one M-pattern. The tape drive may match at least two timing-based-servo marks in the at least one M-pattern. The tape drive may determine, from the matching, whether an alignment of the at least two timing-based-servo marks is demonstrative of tape-creep.
US11011191B2
An apparatus comprises a slider having an air bearing surface (ABS), a leading edge, and a trailing edge opposing the leading edge. A writer having a write pole is situated at or near the ABS. A near-field transducer (NFT) is situated at or near the ABS and between the write pole and the leading edge of the slider. An optical waveguide is configured to couple light from a laser source to the NFT. A contact sensor is situated between the write pole and the trailing edge. The contact sensor comprises a first ABS section situated at or near the ABS, a second ABS section situated at or near the ABS and spaced apart from the first ABS in a cross-track direction by a gap, and a distal section extending away from the ABS and connecting the first ABS section with the second ABS section.
US11011183B2
At a communication server, a first computer device and a second computer device are connected to a collaborative support session configured to support audio communications, screen sharing, and control of the first computer device by the second computer device. Screen sharing video image content is converted to a text sequence with timestamps. A text log with timestamps is generated from the text sequence. Using a command-based machine learning model, a sequence of commands and associated parameters, with timestamps, are determined from the text log. Audio is analyzed to produce speech-based information with timestamps. The command sequence is time-synchronized with the speech-based information based on the timestamps of the command sequence and the timestamps of the speech-based information. A knowledge report for the collaborative support session is generated. The knowledge report includes entries each including a timestamp, commands and associated parameters, and speech-based information that are time-synchronized to the timestamp.
US11011178B2
Disclosed are various embodiments for detecting replay attacks in voice-based authentication systems. In one embodiment, audio is captured via an audio input device. It is then verified that the audio includes a voice authentication factor spoken by a user. If it is determined that the audio includes unexpected environmental audio in addition to the voice authentication factor that has been verified, one or more actions may be performed.
US11011174B2
There are disclosed methods and systems for determining a speaker of a set of registered users associated with a voice-controllable device. The method is executable by an electronic device configured to execute a Machine Learning Algorithm (MLA). The method comprises executing the MLA to determine a first probability parameter indicative of the speaker of the user utterance being one of the set of registered users; executing a user frequency analysis to generate, for each given one of the set of registered users, a second probability parameter the being an apriori frequency based probability; generating, for the electronic device, for each given one of the set of registered users an amalgamated probability based on the first probability and the second probability associated therewith; selecting the given one of the set of registered users as the speaker of the user utterance based on the amalgamated probability value.
US11011171B2
Implementations set forth herein relate to initializing performance of an automated assistant routine and/or dismissing an alarm pre-emptively according to satisfaction of one or more conditions. A condition can be satisfied by a user acknowledging the alarm when the alarm is going off, or causing the alarm to be dismissed prior to a time at which the alarm was scheduled for. The user can cause the alarm to be dismissed pre-emptively by interacting with the automated assistant prior to the time the alarm was scheduled for and/or interacting with a device, which is known to the automated assistant, prior to the time that the alarm was scheduled for. In this way, actions that cause an alarm to be dismissed can be recognized and used to initialize other processes, such as an automated assistant routine, thereby reducing a number of inputs needed from a user.
US11011168B2
This application is directed to a speaker device having a rounded enclosure. The rounded enclosure includes two housing elements that are coupled to each other and have a substantially continuous transition. The rounded enclosure has a circular cross section defined by a first radius. A first housing element includes and extends past the circular cross section, and a second housing element has a second maximum radius that is smaller than the first radius. A speaker unit and a circuit board are arranged within the rounded enclosure. The circuit board is electrically coupled to the speaker unit. At least a portion of the first housing element includes perforations configured to enable transmission of sound generated by the speaker unit out of the speaker device. The second housing element has a power connector that is electrically coupled to the circuit board and is configured to receive power from an external power supply.
US11011157B2
Techniques are disclosed for generating ASR training data. According to an embodiment, impactful ASR training corpora is generated efficiently, and the quality or relevance of ASR training corpora being generated is increased by leveraging knowledge of the ASR system being trained. An example methodology includes: selecting one of a word or phrase, based on knowledge and/or content of said ASR training corpora; presenting a textual representation of said word or phrase; receiving a speech utterance that includes said word or phrase; receiving a transcript for said speech utterance; presenting said transcript for review (to allow for editing, if needed); and storing said transcript and said audio file in an ASR system training database. The selecting may include, for instance, selecting a word or phrase that is under-represented in said database, and/or based upon an n-gram distribution on a language, and/or based upon known areas that tend to incur transcription mistakes.
US11011150B2
A method for eliminating noises collected by an electronic device when voice recordings are being taken detects whether the electronic device is in a voice recording mode. A first acquiring device is controlled to acquire the speaking voices of at least one user, when determining that the electronic device is in the voice recording mode. A determination is made as to whether the speaking voices of at least one user acquired by the first acquiring device include noises produced by the vibration device, and eliminating noises produced by the vibration device, when the speaking voices of at least one user acquired by the first acquiring device include the noises produced by the vibration device.
US11011142B2
In a goggle apparatus, an opening portion is formed, and in a state where an information processing apparatus is attached to the goggle apparatus, a touch operation can be performed on a third area different from a first area and a second area of a touch screen. Then, a left-eye image is displayed in the first area of the touch screen, and a right-eye image having parallax with the left-eye image is at least displayed in the second area of the touch screen. If a touch operation is performed on a position in the third area of the touch screen, a process is executed.
US11011130B2
A circuit device includes a driving circuit and an output capacitor. The output capacitor includes a first MIM capacitor element including a first metal layer, a second metal layer, and a first insulating layer, and a second MIM capacitor element including a third metal layer, a fourth metal layer, and a second insulating layer. The first metal layer and the fourth metal layer are electrically coupled to the capacitor drive node, and the second metal layer and the third metal layer are electrically coupled to the voltage output node. The second metal layer is positioned at the third metal layer side with respect to the first metal layer, and the third metal layer is positioned at the second metal layer side with respect to the fourth metal layer.
US11011128B1
The present invention teaches a GOA circuit driving method and a GOA circuit driving device. Through the configuration of a buffer capacitor electrically connected to the level shift IC, the level shift IC connects to the buffer capacitor and switches to the transition level during shifting the target clock signals from high to low level or from low to high level. Through the buffer capacitor, the present invention is able to keep the transition level always equal to one half of the sum of the low voltage and the high voltage, thereby maximizing reduction of power consumption and feedthrough effect of the GOA circuit.
US11011121B2
A multiview backlight includes a first array active emitters configured to provide a first plurality of directional light beams and a second array of active emitters configured to provide a second plurality of directional light beams. The second array of active emitters is interleaved between active emitters of the first array of active emitters. Further, directional light beams of each of the first and second directional light beam pluralities have directions corresponding to view directions of a multiview display. A multiview display further includes an array of light valves configured to modulate the directional light beams to display a multiview image. An image resolution of the multiview image is configured to be dynamically selectable according to operational mode.
US11011116B2
A display device comprises a display panel and a timing controller. The timing controller supplies gate timing signals to a gate driver as a sequence of clock pulses that sequentially select different ones of the display lines for receiving the data signals during the vertical active periods and for receiving a sensing signal during the vertical blanking intervals. The clock pulses have a first timing during the vertical active periods and the clock pulses have a second timing during the vertical blanking intervals in which the second timing is different than the first timing.
US11011115B1
A method, an equipment, and a system of electrical detecting and adjusting TFTs are provided. The method includes steps of: obtaining a gate-source voltage ratio of each sub-pixel of a display device; detecting an output voltage of each driving TFT in a predetermined sampling time to obtain a detecting voltage; obtaining a constant value K according an input voltage of each driving TFT and the detecting voltage in the predetermined sampling time; adjusting the constant value K of each compensating sub-pixel in sequence according to a gate-source voltage ratio of a standard sub-pixel, a constant value K of the standard sub-pixel, and a gate-source voltage ratio of the compensating sub-pixel to obtain a compensating factor; and adjusting a pixel voltage of each compensating sub-pixel according to its compensating factors to obtain an adjusted pixel voltage.
US11011107B2
A pixel circuit includes a compensation module, a resetting module, a writing module, a driver module, a light emission enabling module, and a light emitting device. The resetting module is configured to reset the driver module and the light emitting device; the compensation module performs threshold voltage compensation on the driver module; the writing module is configured to write, to the driver module, a data voltage that is output by a data line; the light emission enabling module is configured to provide a voltage of a first supply voltage end to the driver module; the driver module is configured to provide, under action of the voltage output by the first supply voltage end, a drive current to the light emitting device; and the light emitting device is configured to emit light based on the drive current. The pixel circuit is configured to drive to display a subpixel.
US11011105B2
A pixel circuit includes a light-emitting device, a first transistor, a second transistor, a first capacitor, a third transistor, a fourth transistor, and a fifth transistor. The first transistor and the fourth transistor are controlled by a light-emitting signal. The third transistor and the fifth transistor are controlled by a scan signal. The light-emitting device, the first transistor, the second transistor, the fourth transistor, and the fifth transistor are serially connected between a system high voltage and a system low voltage. The third transistor is coupled between a data signal and a control terminal of the first transistor. The first capacitor is coupled between a control terminal and a downstream terminal of the second transistor. The fifth transistor is coupled between the downstream terminal of the second transistor and a charging reference voltage. A current of the charging reference voltage is less than a current of the system low voltage.
US11011104B2
An image display device includes pixels each of which includes subpixels including a first subpixel and a second subpixel. The first subpixel includes a first light-emitting element configured to emit isochromatic light and a first wavelength conversion layer provided over the first light-emitting element to emit red light. The second subpixel includes a second light-emitting element configured to emit the isochromatic light and a second wavelength conversion layer provided over the second light-emitting element to emit green light. The pixels includes at least one pixel which includes a defective subpixel. A drive circuit is configured to drive the subpixels based on data of an image signal such that the pixels reproduces the data of the image signal. The drive circuit is configured to drive the first subpixel and the second subpixel based on the position data and data of red and green luminances.
US11011101B2
A method of controlling a display device is disclosed including receiving a plurality of sub-pixel values for a target pixel among a plurality of pixels of an image frame, wherein the sub-pixel values of the target pixel comprise red, green, and blue sub-pixel values; calculating a pixel-based boosting ratio corresponding to the target pixel according to the sub-pixel values of the target pixel; and adjusting at least one of a plurality of backlight duties associated with the target pixel and the plurality of sub-pixel values of the target pixel according to the pixel-based boosting ratio.
US11011091B2
An array substrate, a display panel, a display device, an operating method, and a manufacturing method are disclosed. The array substrate includes a wiring structure formed on a base substrate, and the wiring structure includes a common electrode line for connecting a common electrode, and a plurality of signal lines. The plurality of signal lines include at least one pair of signal lines, and the pair of signal lines include a first signal line and a second signal line. The first signal line is disposed on a first side of the common electrode line and is configured to transmit a driving signal for a gate driving circuit. The second signal line is disposed on a second side of the common electrode line and is configured to transmit an inverted signal of the driving signal.
US11011088B2
A shift register unit, a driving method, a gate drive circuit and a display device are provided. The shift register unit includes: an input sub-circuit used to control an electric potential of the pull-up node, an output sub-circuit used to input a first clock signal from a first clock signal terminal to the output terminal, a pull-down control sub-circuit used to control an electric potential of the pull-down node, a pull-down sub-circuit used to control electric potentials of the pull-up node and the output terminal, a first reset control sub-circuit used to control an electric potential of the second control node under control of the first control node and a reset signal from the reset signal terminal and a reset sub-circuit used to control the electric potential of the pull-up node. The shift register unit improves the noise reduction efficiency at the output terminal.
US11011083B2
A display device includes: a display panel including a first display region, a second display region, and a third display region between the first display region and the second display region; and a display panel driving circuit configured to drive the display panel, wherein the display panel driving circuit drives the first display region, the second display region, and the third display region in a full pixel-row driving manner when an image is displayed on the first display region, the second display region, and the third display region, and wherein the display panel driving circuit drives the first display region in the full pixel-row driving manner and drives the third display region in a partial pixel-row driving manner when the image is displayed only on the first display region and the third display region.
US11011082B2
A safety device includes a body configured for attachment to a structure. The body has a first layer and a second layer. The body is washable, reusable, and attachable to varying surface compositions. An indicia is formed in the first layer, the indicia providing visual stimuli for persons with impaired depth perception.
US11011081B1
A transparent display case assembly for displaying planar cards includes a panel that has a plurality of planar cards that are positionable thereon. A plurality of clips is provided and each of the clips is coupled to the panel. Each of the clips is biased to abut the panel to grip a respective one of the planar card. Each of the clips is urgeable away from the panel to facilitate the document to be put into or taken out of the clips. A frame is provided that has a pair of grooves therein for slidably engaging the panel. The frame has a viewing opening and a back wall, and the viewing opening is open into an interior of the frame such that the panel is visible through the viewing opening.
US11011079B2
A method for making labels comprising providing a plastic substrate layer and a paper substrate layer. The paper substrate layer comprises a printed display information sheet, wherein the printed display information sheet comprises a plurality of display information tags arranged in an array. The plastic substrate layer is coupled to each of the rows of display information tags within a first portion of the display information tags to form a composite substrate row. A first line of perforations is cut into a width of the composite substrate at one or more first spaced intervals, a length of the first spaced intervals being defined by a length of the display information tags. A a second line of perforations is cut into a width of the composite substrate at one or more second spaced intervals, a length of the second spaced intervals being defined by a height of the display information tags.
US11011078B2
Methods for providing real-time, three-dimensional (3D) augmented reality (AR) feedback guidance to a user of a medical equipment system to achieve improved diagnostic or treatment outcomes in the use of the medical equipment. The methods involve providing real-time position-based 3D AR feedback and real-time outcome-based 3D AR feedback to the user via an augmented reality user interface (ARUI). The feedback may be provided to the user via a head mounted display (HMD).
US11011074B2
The problem is solved by an information processing system including: a standard data acquirer that acquires registered standard data on work; a work data acquirer that acquires work data on a worker performing the work; a determiner that determines whether or not a difference between the standard data acquired by the standard data acquirer and the work data acquired by the work data acquirer is a threshold value or more; a generator that generates an instruction image regarding correction of the work according to the difference when the difference is determined to be the threshold value or more by the determiner; and a displayer that displays the instruction image generated by the generator on a display unit of a display device worn by the worker to display the instruction image superimposed on a real space.
US11011072B2
Games and systems for playing those games are described that are non-consequential, intuitively educational, reflective, and physically-interactive. The games can be played by players at a variety of skill levels and ages, using a set of unique cards and signs that direct the players to interact with one another and the game in ways that promote mental and physical development.
US11011070B2
A virtual-immersion computer that provides webpages to facilitate virtual immersion. The system uses a media-streamer computer processor for broadcasting media comprising a simulation-video stream, an audio stream, a radio-transmission-stream. The media is structured within a web frame of webpages by the processor and an audio frame, a picture frame, and/or a video with audio frame.
US11011067B2
A shadow fairytale projector for providing images of a fairytale, comprises: a head part having a first lens module which protrudes from an outer side surface; a slit part where a perforated hole overlapping with the first lens module is formed, where the slit part comprises a first engagement rotation module for rotating a pack inserted into the pack slit and a film formed inside the pack, a fixing protrusion module for fixing the pack, and a discriminant protrusion module; and a body part which comprises a drive module connected to the first engagement rotation module to drive the first engagement rotation module, a control module, a speaker module connected to the control module to receive the sound signal and generate sound, and a battery for applying electrical energy to the drive module, the control module, and the speaker module.
US11011065B2
A method for managing the display of an aircraft flight profile may be carried out by an electronic management device intended to be connected to a set of at least one terrain data base. Each terrain data base may have a respective resolution. The method may include selecting at least one resolution, as well as the terrain data base associated with each selected resolution. The method may further include generating data for displaying the flight profile and using each terrain data base selected. The method may also include where each resolution is selected according to a width of a corridor associated with a respective portion of the flight profile.
US11011064B2
In one embodiment, example systems and methods related to vehicle platooning are provided. Vehicles are equipped with a vehicle platooning system that allows the vehicles to exchange messages related to vehicle platooning. When a following vehicle desires to follow a leading vehicle, the following vehicle sends a request to the leading vehicle, and the leading vehicle sends the following vehicle information such as its current speed. The following vehicle may then use the information, along with sensor data such as images of the rear of the leading vehicle, to follow the leading vehicle from a following distance. When the leading vehicle desires to change lanes, the leading vehicle sends a message to the following vehicle to determine if the following vehicle is able to change lanes. If the following vehicle determines that it can change lanes (i.e., the lane is clear from other vehicles or objects), the following vehicle can send a message to the leading vehicle indicating that it can change lanes. The leading and following vehicles may then change lanes at approximately the same time.
US11011062B2
A target pedestrian who is present within a range of a predetermined distance from a roadway is detected. Whether or not the target pedestrian has gazed at a crossing destination and whether or not the target pedestrian has performed a safety confirmation regarding vehicles traveling on the roadway are determined based on a gaze direction of the target pedestrian. As a result, when the target pedestrian has performed one action of either of gazing at the crossing destination and the safety confirmation, and then performed the other action within a predetermined amount of time, the target pedestrian is detected as a pre-crossing pedestrian who has an intention to cross the roadway. Consequently, a pedestrian who is attempting to cross the roadway can be accurately detected at a stage before the pedestrian actually starts crossing.
US11011051B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for automating bulk location-based actions in response to disaster events. A system obtains data defining zones related to different geographic locations and configures a set of preferences for each zone. One of the preferences is a command for responding to an event. The system detects a disaster event and determines that a location affected by the event is related to a zone defined at the system. The system obtains sensor data generated by a sensor in the zone that is connected to a monitoring system for the zone. The system generates an alert based on the sensor data and the command and provides the alert to a client device of an entity that manages properties in the zone. The alert provides an assessment of how the disaster event affects items at properties in the zone.
US11011047B2
A system for automatically disarming an intrusion detection system protecting a premises and having at least an armed state of operation and a disarmed state of operation, the system for automatically disarming the intrusion detection system including an intrusion detection system state of operation ascertainer operable for receiving an indication of activation of an armed state of operation of the intrusion detection system; and a registered mobile communicator proximity detector communicating with the intrusion detection system state of operation ascertainer and operable, responsive to receiving the indication of activation of the armed state of operation by the intrusion detection system state of operation ascertainer for ascertaining at least a subset of a multiplicity of registered mobile communicators which are located in a vicinity of the premises during an activation time of the armed state of operation and for deactivating the subset of the multiplicity of registered mobile communicators.
US11011042B2
A wearable device includes: a sensing circuit and a processing circuit, wherein the sensing circuit is arranged to generate a wearing information output in each of a plurality of detecting periods, and the processing circuit is arranged to inform a wearing status indicative of a status of wearing the wearable device according to wearing information outputs generated in the plurality of detecting periods.
US11011038B2
Aspects of the present disclosure include methods, apparatus, and computer readable medium for managing a removal code of a tag includes providing information associating the tag with a merchandise item, wherein the information includes a removal code for removing the tag from the merchandise item, receiving, from a requesting device, a request for the removal code, authenticating the request, and transmitting, in response to successfully authenticating the request, the removal code to the requesting device, wherein the removal code is configured to be transmitted by the requesting device to the tag to remove the tag from the merchandise item.
US11011032B2
Provided is a tactile information supply module. The tactile information supply module includes a receiver for receiving message information from the outside, a controller for converting the message information into a tactile signal, and an operator for providing tactile information to a user based on the tactile signal, wherein the operator includes at least one tactile sensation provider comprising magnetic particles and a matrix material, and wherein the tactile sensation provider is transformed in response to an external magnetic field to provide the tactile information.
US11011022B2
A gaming machine comprises a symbol selector for selecting a plurality of symbols from a set of symbols for display during play of a base game, the set of symbols including a plurality of non-configurable symbols and a plurality of configurable symbols; a random number generator for generating random prize values; a value assigner for assigning a generated random prize value to each selected configurable symbol; and an outcome evaluator for monitoring play of the base game, wherein a feature game is triggered in response to a trigger event, the trigger event comprising a predefined number of the plurality of configurable symbols being selected by the symbol selector for display. During the feature game, the symbol selector is further configured to 1) hold the selected configurable symbols that comprise the trigger event on the display; 2) remove at least one of the selected non-configurable symbols from the display; and 3) replace any removed non-configurable symbol with another symbol selected from the set of symbols.
US11011020B2
Gaming systems and methods that enables the exchange of monetary currency for a greater amount of virtual currency based on a first exchange rate for use by a player via the gaming system, and the exchange of virtual currency back to monetary currency based on second and third exchange rates, and in certain instances with a virtual currency usage fee. In various embodiments, the first exchange rate, the second exchange rate, the third exchange rate, and/or the virtual currency usage fee may vary based on one or more different factors such as but not limited to casino driven factors.
US11011015B2
Various embodiments are provided for personalized acoustical optimization in gaming system. The gaming system facilitates creation of a personal audio preference profile for a player and stores that profile. Responsive to the player initiating game play at an electronic gaming machine, the gaming system communicates the personal audio preference profile to the electronic gaming machine for use during the game play at the electronic gaming machine.
US11011010B2
A gaming machine island includes a plurality of electronic gaming machines and one or more pedestals upon which the gaming machines are positioned and supported. A support stanchion supports one or more components associated with the gaming machines. The support stanchion has a first anchor end, a second coupling end, and a stanchion body extending therebetween. The first anchor end is coupled to a supporting structure different from the one or more pedestals. A counter-balanced hinging mechanism is coupled to the second coupling end of the support stanchion and at least one monitor frame. The counter-balanced hinging mechanism has first and second arm linkage assemblies that permit the monitor frame to pivot. At least one bias member is coupled to the first and second arm linkage assembly. The at least one bias member applies a variable amount of force to maintain the monitor frame stationary in intermediate positions.
US11011001B2
For configuring and installing access control devices at an installation site, configuration data for unidentified access control devices of the installation site is stored (S10) in a cloud-based computer system (1). The cloud-based computer system (1) receives (S2) a registration assigning the installation site to a media identifier stored in a setup media device. A particular one of the access control devices (4) at the installation site reads (S40) the media identifier stored in the setup media device (5). The media identifier from the particular access control device (4) is received (S5) in the cloud-based computer system (1). In the cloud-based computer system (1), the particular access control device (4) is mapped to one of the unidentified access control devices of the installation site. The configuration data of the mapped access control device is transmitted (S80) from the cloud-based computer system (1) to the particular access control device (4).
US11010999B2
The systems and methods provided herein use a rolling voice identifier in a multi-factor authentication system to avoid the security problems present in prior voice activated control systems. By implementing a rolling voice identifier in an access control platform, users may no longer need to be concerned with being overheard or recorded when providing voice authentication commands to an access control platform because the rolling voice identifier that the user will be prompted to speak will be specific to the particular instance of control of an access control platform. An access control platform is a platform that controls operation of a movable barrier by, for example, controlling the state of a movable barrier using a remote control. An access control platform may cause a movable barrier to become opened, closed, locked, or unlocked to permit or prevent access to a physical space by a physical object.
US11010988B2
Method, system and product for automatic parking payment and policy detection. One method comprises detecting a parking event, querying a parking policy database to obtain a parking policy for the parking location, wherein the parking policy indicates that the parking location is a paid parking spot; and initiating, either automatically or semi-automatically, a parking payment service for parking of the vehicle in the parking location based on the parking policy, wherein said initiating is performed by the mobile device. Another method comprises detecting a parking exit event, wherein the exit parking event is associated with a parking location that is a paid parking location; automatically determining whether a parking payment service is being used by the user for the paid parking location; and stopping the parking payment service for the paid parking location.
US11010979B2
One or more computer processors generate an augmented reality overlay. One or more processors generate an overlay image that includes a tangible content that is within a field of view of an imaging device. The one or more processors generate a shape in the overlay image that is fixed to a set of coordinates, wherein a border of the shape encompasses a tangible content that is included within a field of view of an imaging device. The one or more processors displays the overlay image using an image display device, wherein the shape is displayed as a visible object with a fixed position and orientation.
US11010974B2
Described are systems and methods for dynamically generating advertisements for presentation in an application executing on a client device, such as an application executing on a smart phone or tablet of a user. The described systems and methods select content items of specific content types based on determined user preference for content types as well as the device capabilities and access permissions of the application through which the advertisement is to be presented.
US11010972B2
In a system for determining intent of a detected virtual contact between a user and a virtual object in a virtual reality environment, contact maybe detected between a designated selection device, manipulated by the user, and the virtual object. It may then be determined whether or not the detected contact between the designated selection device and the virtual object is intention. Determination of whether or not the detected contact is intentional may be based on at least one of an approach direction of the virtual contact with the virtual object, an approach velocity of the virtual contact with the virtual object, or an approach acceleration of the virtual contact with the virtual object.
US11010971B2
An invention is provided for affording a real-time three-dimensional interactive environment using a depth sensing device. The invention includes obtaining depth values indicating distances from one or more physical objects in a physical scene to a depth sensing device. The depth sensing device is configurable to be maintained at a particular depth range defined by a plane so that objects between the particular depth range and the depth sensing device are processed by the depth sensing device, wherein the particular depth range establishes active detection by the depth sensing device, as depth values of objects placed through the particular depth range and toward the depth sensing device are detected and depth values of objects placed beyond the particular depth range are not detected. The objects placed through the particular depth range are rendered and displayed in a virtual scene based on geometric characteristics of the object itself.
US11010960B2
A method for rendering volume radiographic image content of a subject forms a volume image. The method extracts a first image slice from the volume image, then modifies the extracted first image slice by defining two or more spatial frequency bands from the image slice data and applying one or more viewer adjustments to the image slice data, wherein the one or more viewer adjustments condition the image data to enhance image content in at least one of the defined spatial frequency bands. A set of display rendering parameters is generated according to the two or more frequency bands and according to viewer adjustments made for the first image slice. A second image slice is extracted from the volume image. The generated set of display rendering parameters is applied to the second image slice to render an adjusted image slice and the adjusted image slice is displayed.
US11010958B2
A method of generating an image of a subject in a scene includes obtaining a first image and a second image of a subject in a scene, each image corresponding to a different respective viewpoint of the subject, each image being captured by a different respective camera, where at least some of the subject is occluded in the first image and not the second image by virtue of the different viewpoints, obtaining camera pose data indicating a pose of a camera for each image, re-projecting, based on the difference in camera poses associated with each image, at least a portion of the second image to correspond to the viewpoint from which the first image was captured, and combining the re-projected portion of the second image with at least some of the first image so as to generate a composite image of the subject from the viewpoint of the first image, the re-projected portion of the second image providing image data for at least some of the occluded part or parts of the subject in the first image.
US11010952B1
A representation of a surface of one or more objects is positioned in a virtual space is obtained in a computer animation system. Thereafter, a guide curve specification of a guide curve in the virtual space relative to the surface is received. Thereafter, the computer animation system computes a first set of tangent vector values for differentiable locations along the guide curve and computes a second set of tangent vector values for nondifferentiable locations along the guide curve. Using the first set and second set, the computer animation system computes a third set of tangent vector values for locations on the surface other than locations along the guide curve and computes a tangent vector field over the surface from at least the first set of tangent vector values, the second set of tangent vector values, and the third set of tangent vector values.
US11010948B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for navigation using visual inputs. One of the systems includes a mapping subsystem configured to, at each time step of a plurality of time steps, generate a characterization of an environment from an image of the environment at the time step, wherein the characterization comprises an environment map identifying locations in the environment having a particular characteristic, and wherein generating the characterization comprises, for each time step: obtaining the image of the environment at the time step, processing the image to generate a first initial characterization for the time step, obtaining a final characterization for a previous time step, processing the characterization for the previous time step to generate a second initial characterization for the time step, and combining the first initial characterization and the second initial characterization to generate a final characterization for the time step.
US11010941B1
A matched array technology system and method for displaying in a two-dimensional array the structured interactions between management and a plurality of employees in an organization. Axes contain proxy values of employee and manager expectations scaled to yield a matched array and an alignment vector containing cells representing target alignment between employee and manager expectations. A scatter plot of multiple employee positions portrays the pattern of talent alignment and distribution, representing the talent architecture for the organization. The talent architecture is characterized by multiple static and dynamic metrics that identify normative opportunities to improve organization alignment, and measure organization talent management performance, especially in relation to the reference and general alignment vectors of the array.
US11010933B2
A method and system for presentation of risks comprising using standardized two colored risk rating symbols in a graphical user interface of a client representing risks, wherein main colors representing risk level/rating is used as fill colors of the standardized two colored risk rating symbols. The method and system is further be arranged for detecting if a risk is close to another risk level/rating and displaying the standardized two colored risk rating symbol of a risk with a borderline color in another color than the main color, and if there is no close other risk level/rating displaying the standardized two colored risk rating symbol of a risk with a borderline color in the same color as main fill color or without borderline color.
US11010930B2
A method for pre-processing point clouds comprising large amounts of point data. The method comprises converting the points' coordinates to Morton indices, sorting the Morton indices and sequentially determining intervals based on predefined criteria, which intervals define the leaf nodes and form the basis and starting point for the generation of a tree index structure comprising the leaf nodes, nodes, branches and nodes connecting the branches. Point data contained within a node or sub-trees of a node are quantizable.
US11010923B2
The invention relates to a method, an apparatus and a computer program product for encoding multicamera views. The method comprises determining a most probable viewing direction (MPVD) in a content; finding the location of the most probable viewing direction (MPVD) on all available views (View 1-View 8) of the content; defining one or more central locations for each available view (View 1-View 8); determining how the central locations cover the most probable viewing direction (MPVD) on each available view (View 1-View 8), and applying encoding to each view accordingly.
US11010918B2
An apparatus for angle-based localization of a position on a surface of an object includes an orientation sensor configured to be arranged in a known relationship relative to a position, to be identified, on a surface of an object at at least one measurement time and to capture angle information items in respect of the current orientation thereof at the measurement time, and a programmable device, with a processor and a memory, wherein the memory contains instructions and at least one assignment prescription for the object with the surface, where angle information items are assigned associated positions on the surface of the object, and wherein the instructions cause the programmable device to receive the angle information items captured at the measurement time by the orientation sensor and to establish the position to be identified by an assignment to the captured angle information items on the basis of the assignment prescription.
US11010914B2
An image processor includes an accepting unit that accepts designation of at least part of a three dimensional microscope image data, and an image generator that generates three dimensional magnified image data based on the designation. In the image processor, the image generator may sequentially output a first magnified image based on at least part of data of the three dimensional magnified image data, and a second magnified image based on the at least part of data of the three dimensional magnified image data which has at least part of data different from the first magnified image.
US11010905B2
Techniques described herein provide efficient object detection and tracking in video images, such as may be used for real-time camera control in power-limited mobile image capture devices. The techniques include performing object detection on a first subset of frames of an input video, detecting an object and object location in a first detection frame of the first subset of frames, and tracking the detected object on a second subset of frames of the input video after the first detection frame.
US11010904B2
A break recommendation method, system, and non-transitory computer readable medium, include detecting a deviation between a current cognitive state of the user and a past cognitive state of the user during a predetermined amount of time for a document type based on a change in an eye gaze movement and a facial and emotional expression and recommending that the user takes a break from viewing the document for a predetermined amount of time based on the deviation being greater than a predetermined threshold value, where the deviation is related to the user viewing the document and the document type of the document.
US11010898B2
Processes and techniques are disclosed to identify regions of suspected malignancy and their localization within a body part or organ. These methods rely on the analysis of infrared images to identify thermal abnormalities using image post-processing techniques, numerical modeling, iterative solutions methodology or a digital library. The methods utilize noninvasive, non-radiative and no contact infrared imaging that can be used for breast cancer screening for improved prognosis.
US11010891B2
There are provided a medical image processing apparatus, an endoscope apparatus, a diagnostic support apparatus, and a medical service support apparatus capable of detecting red blood cells using an endoscope image. A medical image processing apparatus includes: a medical image acquisition unit that acquires short wavelength medical images, which are medical images including a subject image and which are obtained by imaging a subject with light in a shorter wavelength band than a green wavelength band; and a red blood cell detection unit that detects red blood cells using the short wavelength medical images. The light in the short wavelength band is, for example, light in a blue band or a violet band of a visible range. The red blood cell detection unit detects, for example, a high-frequency, granular, and high-density region as red blood cells.
US11010887B2
A system for inspecting objects includes an imaging assembly, a detection module, an analysis module, and a memory. The imagining assembly can be a borescope that enters an unlit, closed conduit to inspect objects that are components of a turbine engine. Using an artificial light source to illuminate the conduit and one or more objects of the turbine engine, the borescope can obtain a video image of the one or more objects of the turbine engine. The video image can be used to determine a rank of distress for the one or more objects.
US11010885B2
One or more semiconductor wafers or portions thereof are scanned using a primary optical mode, to identify defects. A plurality of the identified defects, including defects of a first class and defects of a second class, are selected and reviewed using an electron microscope. Based on this review, respective defects of the plurality are classified as defects of either the first class or the second class. The plurality of the identified defects is imaged using a plurality of secondary optical modes. One or more of the secondary optical modes are selected for use in conjunction with the primary optical mode, based on results of the scanning using the primary optical mode and the imaging using the plurality of secondary optical modes. Production semiconductor wafers are scanned for defects using the primary optical mode and the one or more selected secondary optical modes.
US11010884B2
The disclosure relates to a method, device and system for detecting a crack in a display of an electronic device. The method comprises: locating the electronic device in front of a reflective surface; aligning the electronic device to an alignment position relative to the reflective surface; generating an image on the display through instructions executed on a processor operating on the device; capturing a reflected image shown in the reflective surface of the image with a camera; processing the reflected image to identify a line in the image through instructions executed on the processor; and determining whether the line represents a crack in the display through instructions executed on the processor.
US11010882B2
A single composite image is generated by selecting a pixel value for each pixel in any one of a plurality of captured images having been consecutively captured. A motion vector between at least two captured images among the plurality of captured images is calculated. Correction processing is performed, based on a motion vector corresponding to a pixel of interest in the composite image, on the pixel of interest or a pixel near the pixel of interest. The correction processing is performed by updating, using a bright pixel value, a pixel value of at least one pixel in a group of pixels associated with a path from the pixel of interest to a pixel indicated by the motion vector corresponding to the pixel of interest.
US11010876B2
An image processing system includes: a weight determination circuitry configured to determine a band containing important information from among a group of images, which are acquired by a plurality of sensors, and to express a degree of importance of the band as a weight; a calculation circuitry configured to calculate, using the weight, an amount calculated based on a gradient of an image based on a gradient of each image, that is calculated based on the group of images, in order to restrict a gradient of an output image; and an image optimization circuitry configured to compose the output image using the amount calculated based on the gradient of the image.
US11010870B2
Embodiments relate to two stage multi-scale processing of an image. A first stage processing circuitry generates an unscaled single color version of the image that undergoes noise reduction before generating a high frequency component of the unscaled single color version. A scaler generates a first downscaled version of the image comprising a plurality of color components. A second stage processing circuitry generates a plurality of sequentially downscaled images based on the first downscaled version. The second stage processing circuitry processes the first downscaled version and the downscaled images to generate a processed version of the first downscaled version. The unscaled single color high frequency component and the processed version of the first downscaled version of the image are merged to generate a processed version of the image.
US11010867B2
Electronic devices are often equipped with a camera for capturing video content and/or a display for displaying video content. However, amateur users often capture video content without regard to composition, framing, or camera movement, resulting in video content that can be jarring or confusing to viewers. There is a need to automate the processing and presentation of video content in an aesthetically pleasing manner. The embodiments described herein provide a method of automatically cropping video content for presentation on a display.
US11010866B2
A circuit device (100) includes a coordinate transform circuit (20) and a mapping processing circuit (30). The coordinate transform circuit (20) performs coordinate transformation from an input coordinate (IXY1) to an output coordinate (QXY1). The mapping processing circuit (30) generates a second image (IMG2) to be displayed in a display panel for displaying an image in a curved screen display by performing mapping processing on a first image (IMG1) that is input based on the output coordinate (QXY1). The coordinate transform circuit (20) performs the coordinate transformation from the input coordinate (IXY1) to the output coordinate (QXY1) by performing computation processing using a second or more order polynomial representing the coordinate transformation.
US11010860B2
An existing metadata set that is specific to a color volume transformation model is transformed to a metadata set that is specific to a distinctly different color volume transformation model. For example, source content metadata for a first color volume transformation model is received. This source metadata determines a specific color volume transformation, such as a sigmoidal tone map curve. The specific color volume transformation is mapped to a color volume transformation of a second color volume transformation model, e.g., a Bézier tone map curve. Mapping can be a best fit curve, or a reasonable approximation. Mapping results in metadata values used for the second color volume transformation model (e.g., one or more Bézier curve knee points and anchors). Thus, devices configured for the second color volume transformation model can reasonably render source content according to received source content metadata of the first color volume transformation model.
US11010856B2
A server includes a virtual machine to execute a remote graphics generation protocol. Execution of the remote graphics generation protocol determines a protection label to be inserted within a bitmap that is to be transmitted for display on a client machine associated with the virtual machine, and determines at least one optimization technique to be performed on the bitmap. A determination is made on if the at least one optimization technique, if performed, alters the at least one protection label when inserted within the bitmap. The protection label is inserted within the bitmap.
US11010834B2
A system for processing trading orders comprises an optimizer module operable to receive a first trading order and a second trading order. The optimizer module is further operable to receive market data associated with at least one market center. The optimizer module is further operable to determine whether to transmit the second trading order to the at least one market center prior to transmitting the first trading order to the at least one market center, the determination based at least in part on the market data.
US11010833B2
A method for generating a prediction of a latency of a transaction processing system includes: sampling a first plurality of messages from a database that stores data indicative of messages previously processed by the transaction processing system including a characteristic and a processing time of each previously processed message; generating latency tables based upon the characteristics and the processing times of the sampled first plurality of messages; determining a characteristic of each of a second plurality of messages being processed by the transaction processing system; selecting, for each of the second plurality of messages, a latency table from the plurality of latency tables based upon the respective determined characteristic; simulating a processing time for each of the second plurality of messages based upon the respective selected latency table; and generating a latency prediction for the transaction processing system based upon the simulated processing times for the second plurality of messages.
US11010831B1
A system and computer-implemented method of identifying multiple mortgage ready properties using computer technology and/or machine learning algorithms or artificial intelligence. The method includes receiving, via one or more processors, information from a customer approved for a mortgage about preferences for a real estate property and accessing, at a memory coupled to one or more processors, a computer file and/or memory location/address to retrieve a plurality of mortgage ready real estate properties meeting one or more of the customer preferences information. The method further includes transmitting, via the one or more processors, the plurality of real estate properties meeting one or more of the customer preferences information to the customer.
US11010824B2
A battery reservation device (10) includes an input acceptance component (11), a battery number acquisition component (12), and a rental number and capacity calculator (15). The input acceptance component (11) inputs from the user information related to the total power amount of the battery packs (1) that is desired to be rented. The battery number acquisition component (12) acquires information related to the number of battery packs (1) that are installed in a vehicle (20). The rental number and capacity calculator (15) calculates the number and capacity of the battery packs (1) that are rentable at each battery station (30) on the basis of information related to the number of battery packs (1) acquired by the battery number acquisition component (12) and the total power amount of the battery packs (1) inputted to the input acceptance component (11).
US11010822B2
A computer process enables a target window associated with a first domain to receive a message from a child window associated with a second domain. The message is passed using an iframe that is created within the target window. The process may, for example, be used to relay information entered by a user into the child window to the target window.
US11010814B2
A method including coordinating displaying a personalized list of recommended items on a graphical user interface of a user electronic device of a user. Coordinating displaying can occur after applying a first set of rules to historical sales data available to a retailer to detect a personal replenishment cycle for an item of a set of items purchased by the user. The personal replenishment cycle for the item purchased by the user can comprise an estimated time period of how often the user purchases the item. The historical sales data can comprise a record of the user purchasing the item on one or more dates. Coordinating displaying further can occur after applying a second set of rules to identify if the user has stopped purchasing the item. Coordinating displaying also can occur after applying a third set of rules to the personal replenishment cycle for the item to identify the personalized list of recommended items for the user to consider replenishing. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11010804B1
A method and apparatus for a commerce platform coordinating a purchase of a product sold by a merchant system through a third party application are described. The method may include receiving a notification from the third party application requesting to purchase a product from within the third party application, wherein the notification comprises an identifier for the product and an identifier for the merchant system that sells the product. The method may also include a product checkout interface having an appearance consistent with an appearance of a user interface of the third party application, and transmitting the product checkout interface generated by the commerce platform to a user device executing the third party application causing the third party application to render the product checkout interface within at least a portion of the user interface of the third party application.
US11010802B2
Among other things, a central server maintains information representative of requests communicated through the Internet from devices at request locations. Each of the requests represents a proposed reservation for services to be managed by devices at delivery locations.
US11010794B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for employing supervised machine learning methods with activities and attributes of viewers with truth as input, to produce models that are utilized in determining probabilities that an unknown viewer belongs to one or more demographic segment categories. Using these models for processing viewer behavior, over a period of time a database of known categorized viewers is established, each categorized viewer having a probability of belonging to one or more segment categories. These probabilities are then used in bidding for online advertisements in response to impression opportunities offered in online media auctions. The probabilities are also used in predicting on-target impressions and GRPs (Gross Rating Points) in advance of online advertising media campaigns, and pricing those campaigns to advertiser/clients. Strategies are also disclosed for fulfilling a campaign when an available inventory of known categorized viewers is not adequate to fulfill a campaign in a required runtime.
US11010793B1
A computer-executable method, a computer system and a non-transitory computer-readable medium are provided for determining profile data of a user of a promotion application program on a mobile computing device. The method includes receiving, from a promotion application program running on a mobile computing device, an indication of one or more additional application programs installed on the mobile computing device. The method also includes programmatically determining a characteristic of a first application program within the one or more additional application programs, and based on the characteristic of the first application program, programmatically generating a first profile data characteristic of a user of the mobile computing device.
US11010791B1
A targeted advertisement system may include influencer computers each associated with a respective content influencer and configured to receive respective influencer content associated with a given product for purchase. The targeted advertisement system may also include a remote server coupled to each of the influencer computers. The remote server may be configured to obtain purchaser data associated with a plurality of purchasers and generate targeted advertisement content based upon the influencer content. The remote server may also be configured to send the targeted advertisement content to respective purchaser computers of the corresponding purchasers along with an associated digital promotion and based upon the purchaser data.
US11010786B1
An influence system for predicting advertisement impact for audience selection. An advertising probe campaign is operated by sending an advertisement to each entity in a treatment group of entities. A control group of entities which excludes the treatment group entities is selected and no campaign advertising content is sent to the treatment group entities. An influence model is created by comparing features of the treatment group converters to features of the control group converters. An individual frequency cap is selected for each entity that is a candidate for the advertising campaign based on a result of applying the influence model to the features of the candidate entity. The entity may be selected to receive an advertisement based on the individual frequency cap. Some embodiments are integrated with a real time bidding (RTB) exchange and a bid response may be configured based on the results of applying the influence model.
US11010785B2
Automatic recommendation of digital offers to an offer provider based on historical transaction data
According to an embodiment, a data processing system for managing electronic offers comprises: a memory storing a set of historical transaction records pertaining to past consumer transactions and a set of offer data relating to an offer provider; and a logic module adapted to automatically suggest an offer to the offer provider based on at least a subset of the historical transaction records and at least a subset of the offer data, the offer being targeted at a consumer. In an embodiment, the electronic offer is suggested in response to a request for a receipt made by the consumer. In an embodiment, the electronic offer is automatically approved by the offer provider and is included in a transaction receipt transmitted to a data processing system associated with the consumer.
US11010780B2
A method includes receiving, by a warehouse server, flash sale data file from a retail-type server. The method further includes storing, by the warehouse server, the flash sale data file in a database that functions as a virtual warehouse of flash sales. The method further includes interpreting, by the warehouse server, the information of the flash sale data file to determine flash sale parameters. The method further includes determining, by the warehouse server, whether a computing device has customer-device data that corresponds to the flash sale parameters. The method further includes, when the computing device has the customer-device data that corresponds to the flash sale parameters, generating, by the warehouse server, a customer specific coupon regarding the flash sale. The method further includes transmitting, by the warehouse server, the customer specific coupon to the computing device.
US11010776B1
A novel system for performing valuations of file system objects include a processor configured to execute code and memory configured to store data and the code. The code includes an accumulator configured to accumulate secondary data associated with said file system objects, a data aggregator configured to arrange the secondary data in the memory, and a value generator configured to generate an object value indicative of the value of at least one of the file system objects to a particular entity. In a particular embodiment, the value generator creates a record in a valuation database to associate the object value with the at least one of the file system objects.
US11010773B2
Obtaining statistical information for network-accessible data stores while preserving user anonymity
The present invention generally relates to techniques for obtaining value latent in elementary pieces of data that are (i) human-related, and (ii) transferable on a network to be amplified and commoditized by enabling multiple similar such elementary pieces of data to be combined into value-added statistical products, generating revenue through the selling of access to the statistical products, and then distributing the revenue in measure to holders of dividend-yielding shares of the statistical products. The technique employs measures for statistical-disclosure control so that individuals associated with the elementary pieces of data remain anonymous.
US11010772B2
Sales Forecasting using Browsing Ratios and Browsing Durations is described. In one or more implementations, browsing ratios representative of how much users visited webpages associated with a product or service, and browsing durations representing how much time users spent visiting the webpages associated with the product or service are determined. Based on the determined browsing ratios and browsing durations, a sales forecast of the product or service can be accurately determined.
US11010768B2
A system is provided that extracts attribute values. The system receives data including unstructured text from a data store. The system further tokenizes the unstructured text into tokens, where a token is a character of the unstructured text. The system further annotates the tokens with attribute labels, where an attribute label for a token is determined, in least in part, based on a word that the token originates from within the unstructured text. The system further groups the tokens into text segments based on the attribute labels, where a set of tokens that are annotated with an identical attribute label are grouped into a text segment, and where the text segments define attribute values. The system further stores the attribute labels and the attribute values within the data store.
US11010767B2
A system comprises at least one computer device in communication with one or more server computers. The system converts unstructured text into usable order details, and uses instant messaging to notify recipients of the order details. The notices include electronic web links that launch a web interface that generates an editable, pre-populated electronic order ticket based on the order details. Submission of the electronic order ticket launches an auction during which the recipients may respond with offers to fulfill to the electronic order ticket. If after the auction more than one response is needed to fill the electronic order ticket, the system automatically allocates how and in which order the responses will be used to fill the electronic order ticket. If the electronic order ticket is not completely filled after the auction, the electronic order ticket is submitted to one or more additional exchanges for further filling.
US11010764B1
A zero-step authentication system and method which uses wireless mobile devices to automatically make payments in a secure manner without requiring the customer to handle his or her mobile device. The system and method use a payment facilitation device at the business location which automatically detects and recognizes registered mobile devices, displays a photo of the customer to a business employee for identity confirmation, and automatically deducts payments for purchases from a pre-authorized customer account. The customer account is managed by a payment processing server, which stores the customer account data, makes appropriate deductions, sends confirmation of deductions to the customer's mobile device, and automatically refills the customer's account by making pre-authorized charges to the customer's banking institution.
US11010763B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for transmitting push notification data to a computing device, the push notification data being processable by the computing device to display a push notification, receiving biometric data, the biometric data being provided from user input responsive to the push notification, determining that a user providing the user input is authenticated at least partially based on the biometric data, and inducing execution of a transaction in response to determining that the user is authenticated.
US11010755B2
Embodiments of the invention relate to systems and methods for efficiently provisioning mobile devices with personalization data. For some embodiments, a method is disclosed comprising receiving a request for provisioning comprising device information for a mobile device and user authentication information for a user, generating a partial personalization script, an activation script, and a deletion script using the device information, sending the partial personalization script, the activation script, and the deletion script to an application provider computer, wherein the application provider computer initiates execution of the partial personalization script on the mobile device, authenticating the user authentication information, and sending an activation message to the application provider computer, wherein the application provider computer initiates execution of the activation script.
US11010753B2
The ELECTRONIC WALLET CHECKOUT PLATFORM APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS (“EWCP”) transform customer purchase requests triggering electronic wallet applications via EWCP components into electronic purchase confirmation and receipts. In one implementation, the EWCP receives a merchant payment request, and determines a payment protocol handler associated with the merchant payment request. The EWCP instantiates a wallet application via the payment protocol handler. The EWCP obtains a payment method selection via the wallet application, wherein the selected payment method is one of a credit card, a debit card, a gift card selected from an electronic wallet, and sends a transaction execution request for a transaction associated with the merchant payment request. Also, the EWCP receives a purchase response to the transaction execution request, and outputs purchase response information derived from the received purchase response.
US11010748B2
A BLUETOOTH low energy mobile payments system may comprise a BLE beacon that is deployed at a merchant location. The BLE beacon may be associated with a specific merchant terminal. The BLE beacon may be configured to broadcast a unique beacon ID that is detectable by a user device. The user device may be configured to communicate the beacon ID to a payment system. In response to receiving the beacon ID, the user device may initiate a payment between a user and a merchant, via a user device and a merchant terminal.
US11010745B1
A system for receiving cash deposits at a point of sale includes a processor; a product inventory database; a communication interface; a product inventory item reader; and a purchase instrument reader. The processor is configured to receive a product code from the product inventory item reader; access the product inventory database to recognize the product code as a deposit product code; receive signals indicating an amount of a deposit associated with the deposit product code; receive signals from the purchase instrument reader identifying an account for the deposit; and send signals to a transaction processing network via the communication interface to thereby effect the deposit of the amount into the account.
US11010740B1
In some examples, a payment processing system may receive, from a plurality of merchant computing devices associated with a plurality of merchants, respectively, transaction data of transactions performed between the plurality of merchants and a plurality of customers. Based at least on the transaction data, the payment processing system may provide financing to an account of a first merchant, the financing including repayment terms for repayment of the financing. In addition, the payment processing system may determine that the first merchant is predicted to have a change in sales during an upcoming time period. Based on the predicted change in sales, the payment processing system may determine updated repayment terms for repayment of the financing from the first merchant, and may apply the updated repayment terms for repayment of the financing.
US11010726B2
An information processing system, a control method and a non-transitory storage medium through which emotional values of objects can be numerically expressed based on an interaction between the objects are provided. The information processing system includes a detection unit that detects information related to an interaction between a first object and a second object; and a generation unit that is capable of generating an emotion value of the first object and an emotion value of the second object on the basis of the information related to the interaction.
US11010713B2
Methods, systems, and devices disclosed herein may be collectively referred to as a “platform.” A platform consistent with embodiments herein may be used by individuals or companies to track an amount of liquid poured from at least one liquid container. The platform may comprise a tracking device and a computing hub in operative bi-directional communication. The device that may be configured to a liquid dispensing container such as, but not limited to, a bottle. The device may be configured to receive a liquid from the container and transfer the liquid through a chamber within the device. As the liquid is transferred through the device, a computing element and sensing component integrated within the device may be configured to track an amount of liquid dispensed through the device. A communications module may then communicate the data with the hub.
US11010712B2
A low cost, highly reliable system and method for tracking re-usable textile inventory movement is disclosed. The system is adapted for use within a commercial linen processing facility and its customers' facilities suitable for linen or apparel service providers where the linen processing facility company owns, maintains, and leases the inventory used by its customers. The system and method are also suitable for customers who own their own linens and apparel and outsource the laundering. The system employs radio frequency identification (RFID) tags inserted permanently into a pre-determined fraction (e.g., some number less than 100%) of the textile products. In conjunction with scanning equipment and computer software, the system can provide information on inventory movement, use, abuse, durability, and loss. In order to determine the optimal target fraction for each inventory item a number of variables are considered.
US11010706B1
Systems and methods which facilitate return shipment of items, such as to provide for the return of goods from a purchaser to a merchant, are shown. Embodiments provide shipping management functionality for managing return requests, processing of return requests, authorizing returns, tracking of the processing of a return request, and/or tracking of return shipments. A shipping management system of embodiments operates to make shipping functionality and/or information utilized with respect to return shipments, which may not otherwise be readily available to the return shipper, conveniently accessible for use by the return shipper. Embodiments provide for some or all return shipping fees to be borne by the merchant rather than the return shipper.
US11010691B1
Data is classified using semi-supervised data. A decomposition is performed to define a first decomposition matrix that includes first eigenvectors of a weight matrix, a second decomposition matrix that includes second eigenvectors of a transpose of the weight matrix, and a diagonal matrix that includes eigenvalues of the first eigenvectors. Eigenvectors are selected from the first eigenvectors to define a reduced decomposition matrix. A linear transformation matrix is computed as a function of the first decomposition matrix, the reduced decomposition matrix, the diagonal matrix, and a penalty matrix. When a rank of the linear transformation matrix is less than a number of rows of the penalty matrix, a classification matrix is computed by updating a gradient of a cost function. When the rank of the linear transformation matrix is equal to the number of rows of the penalty matrix, the classification matrix is computed using a dual formulation.
US11010689B2
Techniques that facilitate semantic and time series analysis using machine learning are provided. In one example, a system includes a data analysis component, a prediction component and a learning component. The data analysis component that establishes one or more relationships between one or more elements of semantic data, including one or more time series identifiers, and one or more elements of time series data in a relationship database. The prediction component generates one or more advisory outputs, wherein generation of the one or more advisory outputs is performed in response to a trigger event. A learning component that determines the one or more relationships in the relationship database, wherein determination of the one or more relationships is based on information indicative of whether the advisory outputs satisfy a defined criterion.
US11010688B2
Systems and methods for predicting feature values in a matrix are disclosed. In example embodiments, a server accesses a matrix, the matrix having multiple dimensions, one dimension of the matrix representing features, and one dimension of the matrix representing entities. The server separates the matrix into multiple submatrices along a first dimension, each submatrix including all cells in the matrix for a set of values in the first dimension. The server provides the multiple submatrices to multiple machines. The server computes, using each machine, a correlation between values in at least one second dimension of the matrix and a value for a preselected feature in the matrix, the correlation being used to predict the value for the preselected feature based on other values along the at least one second dimension. The server provides an output representing the computed correlation.
US11010684B2
This application concerns quantum computing, and in particular to structures and mechanisms for providing topologically protected quantum computation. In certain embodiments, a magnetic tunnel barrier is controlled that separates Majorona zero modes (“MZMs”) from an edge area (e.g., a gapless edge) of a quantum spin hall system. In particular implementations, the magnetic tunnel barrier is formed from a pair of magnetic insulators whose magnetization is held constant, and the magnetic tunnel barrier is tuned by controlling a gate controlling the electron density around the magnetic insulator in the QSH plane, thereby forming a quantum dot. And, in some implementations, a state of the quantum dot is read out (e.g., using a charge sensor as disclosed herein).
US11010679B1
Disclosed are systems and methods for autonomous computing replacing or augmenting a human user of computer programs, where access to internal operations of the computer program is not used. An application controller can use the display output of a computer program to determine a current state of the computer program, using the disclosed embodiments. For example, identity of menu options of the computer program can be determined from image frames obtained from the display output of the computer program and used to determine the current state of the computer program. The application controller can provide input commands to the computer program to execute the computer program from the current state to a destination state.
US11010677B2
An event management system generates and displays an event schedule for an attendee. An initial order of the event schedule is based on (a) events already completed by the attendee, (b) events to be completed by the attendee to meet an event completion target, and (c) a set of ordering rules associated with the set of events to be completed by the attendee. The event management system may include an interface for modifying the event schedule in accordance with the set of ordering rules. The interface may include an initial set of events, in an initial order with respect to a timeline. The event management system may receive user input including a proposed modification to the initial order of the events. The event management system may or may not permit the proposed modification based on the set of ordering rules.
US11010674B2
Methods and systems are provided for implementing axiomatic control of an automorphic dynamical system. An automorphic system architecture for a dynamical system may apply ergodic techniques for axiomatically describing networked computing environments of vast dimensions comprised of a plurality of disparate information resources, processors, memory, storage, analog and digital sensors (as examples) and presenting this plurality of information sources as a singular automorphic resource through a time series. An example system may further implement dynamic axiomatic control and modification of operational parameters, without human intervention, incorporating data from a variety of sources and platforms and over multiple dimensions of context associated with those data.
US11010649B2
Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems, methods, devices, and the like for generating dynamic machine readable codes. In one embodiment, a system is introduced that enables the analysis of user information for the generation of the dynamic machine readable code. In response to the analysis, using middleware on a multi-tier system, user information is embedded onto the dynamic machine readable code. The embedded user information can be captured during the transaction enabling the presentation of customized content which can be used to provide a user friendly interface for the transacting while detecting incorrect account usage. In another embodiment, in conjunction with the dynamic machine readable code, additional user and/or device features are captured during the processing of a transaction such that the combination facilitate fraudulent activity detection.
US11010648B2
An image processing apparatus performs a first generation process generating first partial print data by a first color conversion process using a first profile corresponding to a first direction, and a second generation process generating second partial print data using a second color conversion process using a second profile. When a color difference is smaller than a reference, the apparatus sets a printing direction to the first direction, and outputs the first partial print data to a print execution unit for printing the first partial print data while the main scan moves in the first direction. When the color difference is larger than or equal to the reference, the apparatus sets the printing direction to the second direction, and outputs the second partial print data to the print execution unit for printing the second partial print data while the main scan moves in the second direction.
US11010641B2
A mobile computing device receives an image from a camera physically located within a vehicle. The mobile computing device inputs the image into a convolutional model that generates a set of object detections and a set of segmented environment blocks in the image. The convolutional model includes subsets of encoding and decoding layers, as well as parameters associated with the layers. The convolutional model relates the image and parameters to the sets of object detections and segmented environment blocks. A server that stores object detections and segmented environment blocks is updated with the sets of object detections and segmented environment blocks detected in the image.
US11010639B2
An angularly-dependent reflectance of a surface of an object is measured. Images are collected by a sensor at different sensor geometries and different light-source geometries. A point cloud is generated. The point cloud includes a location of a point, spectral band intensity values for the point, an azimuth and an elevation of the sensor, and an azimuth and an elevation of a light source. Raw pixel intensities of the object and surroundings of the object are converted to a surface reflectance of the object using specular array calibration (SPARC) targets. A three-dimensional (3D) location of each point in the point cloud is projected back to each image using metadata from the plurality of images, and spectral band values are assigned to each value in the point cloud, thereby resulting in a multi-angle spectral reflectance data set. A multi-angle surface-specific signature (MASS) is fitted to the multi-angle spectral reflectance data set, and the multi-angle surface-specific signature of the object and the surroundings of the object are stored into a spectral database. The spectral database is mined to find one or more of spatial and temporal anomalies in the plurality of images and patterns and correlations of the multi-angle surface-specific signature.
US11010635B2
A method for processing electronic data includes the steps of transforming the electronic data to a matrix representation including a plurality of matrices; decomposing the matrix representation into a series of matrix approximations; and processing, with an approximation process, the plurality of matrices thereby obtaining a low-rank approximation of the plurality of matrices.
US11010628B2
New intra planar modes are introduced for predicting digital video data. As part of the new intra planar modes, various methods are offered for predicting a first sample within a prediction unit, where the first sample is needed for referencing to when processing the new intra planar modes. And once the first sample is successfully predicted, the new intra planar modes are able to predict a sample of video data within the prediction unit by processing a bi-linear interpolation of four previously reconstructed reference samples.
US11010626B2
A system for generating a confidence value for at least one state in the interior of a vehicle, comprising an imaging unit configured to capture at least one image of the interior of the vehicle, and a processing unit comprising a convolutional neural network, wherein the processing unit is configured to receive the at least one image from the imaging unit and to input the at least one image into the convolution-al neural network, wherein the convolutional neural network is configured to generate a respective likelihood value for each of a plurality of states in the interior of the vehicle with the likelihood value for a respective state indicating the likelihood that the respective state is present in the interior of the vehicle, and wherein the processing unit is further configured to generate a confidence value for at least one of the plurality of states in the interior of the vehicle from the likelihood values generated by the convolutional neural network.
US11010616B2
A system and method for semantic segmentation using hybrid dilated convolution (HDC) are disclosed. A particular embodiment includes: receiving an input image; producing a feature map from the input image; performing a convolution operation on the feature map and producing multiple convolution layers; grouping the multiple convolution layers into a plurality of groups; applying different dilation rates for different convolution layers in a single group of the plurality of groups; and applying a same dilation rate setting across all groups of the plurality of groups.
US11010612B2
An information generation device comprises a processor that acquires sensor information indicating a measurement result of a detection target area from each of a plurality of sensors having the detection target area that is common to the plurality of sensors, that determines whether or not each of the plurality of sensors detects an object existing in the same predetermined area on the basis of a plurality of pieces of the sensor information acquired, and that generates first display information for separately displaying the object that is detected by each of the plurality of sensors in a case where a determination result is positive and a predetermined condition for determining whether or not a plurality of the objects detected by the plurality of sensors are the same object is not satisfied, and generates second display information for displaying the object detected by each of the plurality of sensors in a display style different from a display style of the first display information in a case where the determination result is positive and the predetermined condition is satisfied.
US11010611B2
Embodiments of this application disclose a method for photographing VR content by a computing device. The method includes: obtaining first position and first rotation of a VR display device; obtaining a photographing parameter including a distance between a virtual camera and a target object displayed in the display device; calculating second position of the camera according to the first position and the photographing parameter, and second rotation of the camera according to the first rotation; calculating a real-time direction of the camera according to the second position and the second rotation; and recording, according to the real-time direction of the camera, image information including the target object photographed by the camera. The embodiments of this application further provide a computing device for providing a universal photographing manner in VR applications, and the photographing manner is not limited to photographing functions of the VR applications.
US11010604B2
A CPU acquires bibliographic information of attached documents listed in an application document and bibliographic information given in each of the attached documents. If the application document or any of the attached document linked to the application document are in the form of image data, the CPU recognizes character information from the image data. Once the CPU determines the levels of agreement between bibliographic information in the application document and the corresponding bibliographic information in the individual attached documents, the CPU reports the bibliographic information in the application document, the corresponding bibliographic information in the attached documents, and the levels of agreement between these bibliographic information.
US11010601B2
An intelligent assistant device is configured to communicate non-verbal cues. Image data indicating presence of a human is received from one or more cameras of the device. In response, one or more components of the device are actuated to non-verbally communicate the presence of the human. Data indicating context information of the human is received from one or more of the sensors. Using at least this data one or more contexts of the human are determined, and one or more components of the device are actuated to non-verbally communicate the one or more contexts of the human.
US11010600B2
A face emotion recognition method based on dual-stream convolutional neural network uses a multi-scale face expression recognition network to single frame face images and face sequences to perform learning classification. The method includes constructing a multi-scale face expression recognition network which includes a channel network with a resolution of 224×224 and a channel network with a resolution of 336×336, extracting facial expression characteristics at different resolutions through the recognition network, effectively combining static characteristics of images and dynamic characteristics of expression sequence to perform training and learning, fusing the two channel models, testing and obtaining a classification effect of facial expressions. The present invention fully utilizes the advantages of deep learning, effectively avoids the problems of manual extraction of feature deviations and long time, and makes the method provided by the present invention more adaptable. Moreover, the present invention improves the accuracy and productivity of expression recognition.
US11010582B2
The present invention relates to a TFT panel type fingerprint recognition sensor comprising: a total reflection unit for totally reflecting light emitted from a light source; a photodiode for detecting light reflected through the total reflection unit; and a TFT panel for processing voltage output from the photodiode so as to perform imaging.
US11010577B1
A system and method of scanning a machine-readable indicia may include, in response to determining that the scan engine module is in an engaged state and electrically connected to a computer, communicating the decoded data to the computer via a wired communications channel. Otherwise, in response to determining that the scan engine module is in a released state and wirelessly connected to the computer, communicate the decoded data to the computer via a wireless communications channel. The scan engine module may be configured to operate autonomously from the mobile computer to be able to scan machine-readable indicia, decode the machine-readable indicia to generate decoded data, and store the decoded data. In response to the machine-readable indicia being electrically connected to the mobile computer, the machine-readable indicia may be batched uploaded to the mobile computer.
US11010563B2
In non-limiting examples of the present disclosure, systems, methods and devices for assisting with task completion are provided. A natural language input may be received. A natural language processing engine may be applied to the natural language input. A primary task associated with the natural language input may be identified. A plurality of subtasks for completing the primary task may be identified from the natural language input. A determination may be made from the natural language input that the primary task or one of the plurality of subtasks is more important than other tasks. The primary task and the plurality of subtasks may be added to a list of tasks in a task completion application. An indication of importance may be associated in the task completion application in association with the task or subtask that is determined to be more important.
US11010560B2
Methods and systems for natural language processing include generating respective feature vectors, for each word in an input, based on sequences of input words of different respective lengths. The respective feature vectors for each word in the input are combined to form a combined vector for each word. A hidden state is determined for each word in the input based on the combined vector. The hidden states for all words in the input are combined to form a multi-resolution context vector. A natural language processing action is performed using the multi-resolution context vector.
US11010558B2
This disclosure relates to configuration tools for interactive agents, sometimes referred to as bots, chatbots, virtual robots, or talkbots. Such interactive agents utilize slots for organizing and storing data received as inputs and displayed as outputs. These slots can be configured such that a slot is temporary and does not persist beyond its source dialog. Slots can also be configured such that a slot is pre-populated with information contain in incoming passed parameters.
US11010552B2
Embodiments relate to a type of expression based on a particular theme. An aspect includes acquiring, by an electronic apparatus, from text data for learning, a subset of the text data associated with the particular theme and with particular time period information. Another aspect includes extracting text data containing negative information from the acquired subset of the text data. Another aspect includes extracting a word or phrase having a high correlation with the extracted text data or a word or phrase having a high appearance frequency in the extracted text data from the extracted text data. Yet another aspect includes determining that the extracted word or phrase is the type of expression based on the particular theme.
US11010546B2
A method for narrating a table using at least one narration template, wherein the table is extracted from a data source is provided. The method may also include performing structural analysis on the extracted table. The method may further include selecting a structural template based on the structural analysis of the extracted table. Additionally, the method may include selecting a narration template based on the selected structural template. The method may further include narrating the extracted table based on the selected narration template and displaying a narrative output of the extracted table.
US11010544B2
Systems and methods are provided for managing data in a grid. In one example approach, a method comprises importing data from a data source to a range of cells in a grid, where the range of cells is specified by a notation input associated with the grid, and where the notation input includes a key specifying the data source and security information associated with the data source.
US11010522B2
In one aspect, a fault injection environment and a formal property verification environment are combined in a single integrated flow that allows the user to go back and forth between the two tasks. A system that unifies formal property verification and fault injection includes user interfaces that support the unified use model. In one approach, the FPV tool is the master and its user interface is the primary interface for the user to set up, run and debug faults as well as checkers. This interface allows the user to interactively select the FPV properties and/or the faults to be used for fault analysis. The user interface may provide a view of the faults, for example by listing faults or summarizing faults by class, type, etc.
US11010520B1
One embodiment provides a system and method for automated design of a computational system. During operation, the system obtains a component library comprising a plurality of computational components, receives design requirements, and builds a plurality of universal component cells. A respective universal component cell is configurable, by a selection signal, to behave as one of the computational components. The system further constructs a candidate computational system using the universal component cells, constructs a miter based on the design requirements and the candidate computational system, and converts the miter into a quantified satisfiability (QS) formula. The system generates a set of inputs that are a subset of all possible inputs of the QS formula, solves the QS formula by performing partial input expansion on the generated set of inputs to obtain at least one design solution, and outputs the at least one design solution to facilitate construction of the computational system.
US11010515B2
A method implements fixed-point polynomials in hardware logic. In an embodiment the method comprises distributing a defined error bound for the whole polynomial between operators in a data-flow graph for the polynomial and optimizing each operator to satisfy the part of the error bound allocated to that operator. The distribution of errors between operators is updated in an iterative process until a stop condition (such as a maximum number of iterations) is reached.
US11010513B2
A computer-implemented method of preventing computationally explosive calculations. The method includes obtaining, by a processor of the computer, measured data of one of a physical process or a physical object; performing hierarchical numerical modeling of a physical process inclusive of an Earth model containing at least one of (a) infrastructure in the ground and (b) a formation feature in the ground, wherein predicted data is generated; comparing the measured data to the predicted data to calculate an estimated error; analyzing the estimated error via an inversion process to update the at least one of the Earth model and infrastructure model so as to reduce the estimated error and to determine a final composite Earth model of at least one of the infrastructure and the feature; and using the final composite Earth model to characterize at least one of the process and the physical object.
US11010510B2
A software-based (“soft”) real-time hub designed and implemented for use in simulation (or control testing) systems such as to provide a modular soft-real-time PIL. A simulation system of the present description typically may include one or more of the following useful subsystems or components: (a) a soft-real-time hub; (b) simulation interfaces; and (c) hardware emulation subsystems/devices. The soft-real-time hub is typically a combination of hardware and software adapted to provide deterministic data transport between simulations and input/output (I/O) emulation. By creating a common point, the hub enables simulation modules to be swapped out as the simulation system progresses without the operator having to worry about interface timing, forcing, or data visualization. A desirable aspect of the simulation system is it allows for testing certain conditions by forcing I/O and then seeing how the controller or system under testing responds.
US11010508B2
A method for operating an automation facility, wherein and to an the automation facility includes a simulation server, which has a simulation framework for simulation of the process behavior of sensors and/or actuators in accordance with a simulation model, where a large number of simulation models is stored in the simulation server, which can be loaded into the simulation framework, includes a simulation interface for simulating the communication behavior of the sensors and/or actuators and for connecting the modelled process behavior to a controller, and includes an operator system for process control and process operation such that it becomes possible to verify, in a simplified manner within the context of what is known as a “Factory Acceptance Test” (FAT) during the test or during the verification of functionality, whether testing was performed with the simulation models provided for this purpose.
US11010507B2
The present invention provides a stratum component optimization determination method and device, which fall within the technical field of oil-gas exploration well logging. The method comprises: establishing a stratum rock component model according to core analysis data and geological conditions of a stratum to be detected, and determining a well logging curve determined by a participation model; determining a well logging response equation expression corresponding to the well logging curve determined by the participation model; parsing, recording and storing the well logging response equation expression, establishing a target function of an optimization problem, and solving the target function through an iteration algorithm to determine an optimal component content of the stratum to be detected. By establishing the stratum rock component model, determining corresponding well logging response equation, and parsing through an expression parsing method and recording and storing the well logging response equation expression, and then, establishing the target function of the optimization problem, and obtaining the optimal component content of the stratum to be detected through the iteration algorithm, the present invention can not only optimizes the self-defined well logging response equation expression of the user, but achieves a high processing precision.
US11010493B2
Techniques for multiple message retrieval for secure electronic communication are described. The techniques, for instance, utilize a server and computing devices employing a private information retrieval scheme to allow a receiving device to locate multiple electronic communications on a server, request delivery of the multiple electronic communications without the server being aware of which electronic communication are requested, and receive the electronic communications without the server being aware of which electronic communications were sent. For example, the server may utilize an efficient electronic communication storage structure for storing and retrieving multiple electronic communications.
US11010491B2
A security code input may be obfuscated from a thermal imaging device by randomly heating a random set of inputs of an input device. The security code is inputted on an input device, which communicates with a security system to grant or deny access to a user based on an entry of the security code. The input device includes a plurality of hearing elements. The input device may receive an input from the user. A random set of heating elements including one or more heating elements, are generated from the plurality of heating elements. A temperature is determined for the one or more heating elements of the random set of heating elements. The temperature is then applied to the one or more heating elements of the random set of heating elements of the input device.
US11010487B2
A data management and storage (DMS) cluster of peer DMS nodes manages resources of a multi-tenant environment. The DMS cluster provides an authorization framework that provides user access which is scoped to the resources within a tenant organization and the privileges of the user within the organization. To authorize an action on a resource by a user, the DMS cluster determines determine user authorizations associated with the user defining privileges of the user on the resources of the multi-tenant environment, and organization authorizations associated defining resources of the multi-tenant environment that belong to the organization. The DMS cluster authorizes the action when the user authorizations and organizations authorized indicate that the action on the resource is authorized.
US11010486B2
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for secure offline transmission of a plurality of data segments from a sending device to one or more receiving devices. The sending device and the one or more receiving devices may communicate via an offline local network. A secure, encrypted container may be created at the receiving device to temporarily cache the received data segments one at a time and the encrypted storage container prevents access by one or more applications of the receiving device to data stored therein based on storage instructions from the sending device. The encrypted container may be configured to store the data segments such that less than all of the data segments are stored at the receiving device at any one time.
US11010485B1
Data items such as files or database records associated with particular applications (such as messaging applications and other applications) can be stored in one or more remote locations, such as a cloud storage system, and synchronized with other devices. The remote storage can be configured such that each application executing on a client device can only view data items stored at the remote location to which the application has permission to access. An access manager on each client device enforces application specific access policies. Storage at the remote location can be secured for each application associated with a user or user account, for example, using isolated containers. The cloud storage of data can be anonymized and anonymous group data can be stored in the cloud storage.
US11010479B2
A system includes a memory system and a processing system operably coupled to the memory system. The memory system includes a plurality of address spaces. The processing system is configured to perform operations including creating a data space from within a primary address space and a primary address space number access list entry referencing the data space. An unauthorized caller routine in a home address space configured to issue a service request including an address space-switching program call from the home address space to a program call target routine in the primary address space. The address space-switching program call references the primary address space number access list entry in the primary address space. A vulnerability identifier associated with the program call target routine is created and logged based on one or more conditions indicative of a cross-memory integrity violation detected responsive to the service request.
US11010470B2
A system for operating system remediation intercepts input/output (I/O) requests to write to one or more files and stores, as file restore data, (i) a restore copy of the one or more files to the system cache prior to performing write operations of the I/O requests and (ii) identification information for one or more processes or entities making the corresponding I/O requests in the system cache. The system reverts to the restore copy of the one or more files using the file restore data and based at least on a later determination that one or more processes making the corresponding I/O requests was malware. A current version of the one or more files is thereby replaced with the restore copy of the one or more files with improved automatic remediation support and a greater likelihood that data can be restored from the cache in the case of malware attacks.
US11010469B2
Techniques for preventing ransomware from encrypting files on a target machine are disclosed. In some embodiments, a system/process/computer program product for preventing ransomware from encrypting files on a target machine includes monitoring file system activities on a computing device; detecting an unauthorized activity associated with a honeypot file or honeypot folder; and performing an action based on a policy in response to the unauthorized activity associated with the honeypot file or honeypot folder.
US11010466B2
The disclosure is directed to the keyboard injection of passwords from a password vault application on a mobile computing device to a computing system coupled to the keyboard. A method according to embodiments includes: wirelessly receiving a password at a physical keyboard; and transmitting the password from the keyboard to a computing system.
US11010453B2
A multi-device digital rights management server is provided. The server may include, but is not limited to, a processor communicatively coupled to a communications system and a memory, the processor configured to receive, from the communications system, a request to transfer digital content from a first user device to a second user device, update, upon receipt of the request, digital rights management data stored in the memory to enable both the first user device and the second user device to consume the digital content, receive, from the communications system, notice that one of the first user device and the second user device is consuming the digital content, update, upon receipt of the notice, the digital rights management data to disable the other of the first user device and the second user device from consuming the digital content.
US11010443B1
A system for reading, searching and enhancing socialization and democratization of general literature and diverse types of content from an electronic text repository that allows more persons to be able to meet and interact in a more intimate fashion while utilizing additional capabilities than before the Internet. The overall system includes a method and a non-transitory computer storage media for reading, searching and enhancing socialization and democratization of general literature and diverse types of content from an electronic text repository.
US11010442B2
A system and method for selecting tailored information to present to a subscriber, including receiving subscriber data, determining an analysis set based on the subscriber data, extracting abstract parameters from the subscriber data, selecting an analysis from the analysis set based on a general model and the abstract parameters, and presenting the selected analysis to the subscriber.
US11010437B2
A social media control method, system, and computer program product, include detecting a contextual meaning of a content of a third-party post on a user's social media account, classifying the content into user-defined categories based on an overlap between the contextual meaning and the user-defined categories, identifying an undesired piece of information from the content, identifying a trusted online friend within a social media circle of the user, and providing a one-time access control to the identified trusted online friend to rectify the undesired content in the third-party post.
US11010426B2
A computer-implemented method is disclosed. The method comprises identifying one or more associations amongst a plurality of variables of a multidimensional multivariate dataset based on a data type of each of the plurality of variables. The method further comprises selecting one or more charts to be generated corresponding to the one or more associations based on at least one of the associations between the two or more variables, a number of the two or more variables, the data type of the two or more variables, and a number of rows of the dataset. The method further comprises generating an analysis report comprising the one or more charts.
US11010424B2
An information processing system includes an image search system and a customer-side system. The image search system includes a module distributer and a searcher. The module distributer is configured to distribute a search module and module identification information to the customer-side system while associating the search module and module identification information with each other. The search module is used for causing a terminal device to transmit the search request; the module identification information is used for identifying the search module. The searcher is configured to, as a result of causing the search module to run on the terminal device, execute the searching of the databases in accordance with the module identification information. The module distributer distributes, to the customer-side system, the search modules associated with different pieces of module identification information.
US11010423B2
Examples of systems and methods for automatic population of electronic documents are described. In an example, a digital base document having the information to be populated in a data field of the electronic document may be obtained. From the digital base document a data item to provide the information may be extracted. Further, for the digital base document, a similarity score may be computed with respect to each document type defined in predefined mapping data, the predefined mapping data including, for each document type, a weight associated with data items occurring in the document type, the weight being associated based on the importance of the data item to the document. Based on the similarity score, a document type of the digital base document may be identified. Further, based on a position of the data item in the digital base document and the identified document type, the data field may be populated.
US11010421B2
A computer-implemented technique is described herein for performing an image-based search that allows a user to create a custom query image that expresses the user's search intent. The technique generates the query image based on one or more input images and/or one or more information items that describe at least one desired characteristic of the query image. The technique then submits the query image to a search engine, and, in response, receives a set of candidate images that match the query image. In one implementation, the technique constructs the query image using a decoder neural network that operates on a mixed latent variable vector. In one approach, the technique uses a generative adversarial network (GAN) to produce the decoder neural network.
US11010417B2
Techniques for recommending media are described. A character preference function comprising a plurality of preference coefficients is accessed. A first character model comprises a first set of attribute values for the plurality of attributes of a first character. The first and second characters are associated with a first and second salience value, respectively. A second character model comprises a second set of attribute values for the plurality of attributes of a second character of the plurality of characters. A first character rating is calculated using the plurality of preference coefficients and the first set of attribute values. A second character rating of the second character is calculated using the plurality of preference coefficients with the second set of attribute values. A media rating is calculated based on the first and second salience values and the first and second character ratings. A media is recommended based on the media rating.
US11010407B2
A method and apparatus managing a set of processors for a set of queries is described. In an exemplary embodiment, a device receives a set of queries for a data warehouse, the set of queries including one or more queries to be processed by the data warehouse. The device further provisions a set of processors from a first plurality of processors, where the set of processors to process the set of queries, and a set of storage resources to store data for the set of queries. In addition, the device monitors a utilization of the set of processors as the set of processors processes the set of queries. The device additionally updates a number of the processors in the set of processors provisioned based on the utilization/Furthermore, the device processes the set of queries using the updated set of processors.
US11010401B2
A snapshot of data from a table associated with a particular user may be generated. Tree data structures that are distributed across multiple computer systems may be accessed. Each of the tree structures may include data associated with one or more users. At least one tree data structure of the tree data structures that includes data associated with the particular user of the one or more users may be identified. The at least one tree data structure may then be filtered. Filtering may comprise identifying only data that is associated with the particular user. A snapshot of the data associated with the particular user may be generated. Generating the snapshot of the data associated with the particular user comprises generating a data structure that is configured to map to each data page of the at least one tree data structure that includes data associated with the particular user.
US11010398B2
There is provided a system including a computing platform having a hardware processor and a memory, and a metadata extraction and management unit stored in the memory. The hardware processor is configured to execute the metadata extraction and management unit to extract a plurality of metadata types from a media asset sequentially and in accordance with a prioritized order of extraction based on metadata type, aggregate the plurality of metadata types to produce an aggregated metadata describing the media asset, use the aggregated metadata to include at least one database entry in a graphical database, wherein the at least one database entry describes the media asset, display a user interface for a user to view tags of metadata associated with the media asset, and correcting presence of one of the tags of metadata associated with the media asset, in response to an input from the user via the user interface.
US11010397B2
A method for displaying applications which includes: obtaining the applications installed in a master device and the applications installed in a slave device when the master device is connected with the slave device; if the master device and the slave device have a same application, using the same application as the application to be recommended; obtaining the usage information of the application to be recommended, and determining the priority of the application to be recommended according to the usage information; and displaying the application to be recommended on the master device or the slave device according to a level of the priority. The present disclosure further discloses a system for displaying applications.
US11010396B1
A method uses natural language for visual analysis of a dataset. A data visualization is displayed based on a first dataset. The method then extracts analytic phrases from a natural language command related to the data visualization. The method computes conversation centers based on the analytic phrases and computes analytical functions associated with the conversation centers, thereby creating functional phrases. The method updates the data visualization according to the functional phrases. The method then extracts analytic phrases from a second natural language command related to the updated data visualization, and computes temporary conversation centers from these analytic phrases. The method then computes cohesion between the first analytic phrases and the second analytic phrases to build a set of conversation centers, and computes analytical functions from this set of conversation centers, thereby creating functional phrases. The method updates the data visualization based on the created functional phrases.
US11010388B2
An information handling system includes a memory to store combined behavioral data and interactional data associated with search queries, and a processing device. The processing device communicates with the memory. The processing device receives a first search query including first search terms, and user context associated with the first search query, retrieves the combined behavioral data and interactional data from previous search queries, analyzes the first search terms using the combined behavioral data and interactional data, generates signals based on the first search terms, the user context, and the combined behavioral data and interactional data, and provides the signals for use in altering results to be provided in response to the first search query.
US11010387B2
Embodiments relate to efficiently performing an inner join on segments from a data source, where the segments have wildcards in join columns. An algorithm for an inner segment join operator may build a location map that describes locations, by segment and column, of values in the join columns of rows in the segments. A map of wildcard locations, by segment and column, may also be constructed. The location map may be supplemented with information from the wildcard map. The data source is scanned and contents of rows in the data source are queried against the location map to join rows with segments that match due to either matching values or wildcard presence. A user interface may be provided to facilitate construction of joins using the inner segment join operator.
US11010381B2
According to one exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, disclosed is a computer program stored in a computer readable storage medium. The computer program causes operations for improving data retrieval performance to be performed when the computer program is executed by one or more processors of a computing device, and the operations include: an operation of initiating an index search for retrieving a target index key from a root node of an index tree; an operation of performing an index tree search to a child node along a link connected to the child node; and an operation of reading a currently searched node and determining whether to change an index search route.
US11010374B2
A method and system for creating a data grouping platform for grouping data from disparate locations and sources, according to a user-defined aggregate. The method and system includes a method for receiving a user-defined aggregate, a user-defined trigger event, and a plurality of user-defined grouping criteria and parameters for creating the user-defined aggregate. The system and method also allows for a user to identify input data sets and sources for creating the grouped aggregates. Once the method and system receives the user-defined parameters, the method and system builds a platform to group data and build data aggregates based on the user-defined criteria.
US11010371B1
A data resolution system provides users with the ability to access and create associations between data items tagged in documents as part of an initial process of identifying data items to be tagged in the documents. Thus, the user that is adding tags to the documents is able to identify related data items from other data sources and create links with those data sources. This ability to identify links at the time of tagging reduces the need for later searching of data sources for related data items. Additionally, the system automatically stores information regarding each link so that information regarding the linked data items may be viewed alongside the original document and/or further information regarding the linked data item is easily accessible. Data items that are tagged in a document may be associated with data items representing the same object, but with different identifiers, names, etc. in external data sources.
US11010370B2
The disclosure relates to decentralized management of nodes in a blockchain network. Participants may agree to a consensus rules and implement them as smart contracts. For example, one rule may specify that a node will accept a change proposal only when its local policies and/or data allow it to implement the change. A smart contract may implement this rule and deploy it across the blockchain network for each node to follow. Other participants, through their nodes, may propose changes to the blockchain network, and each node may consult its copy of the smart contract to determine whether to vote to approve the change request and apply the change request locally.
US11010365B2
As received, a data value of an expected input set of received data values is missing from user input. A subset of known data with data values similar to a subset of the received data values is determined. A data sample average for the missing data value is determined from data values within the subset of the known data. An initial estimate of the missing data value is initialized using the data sample average. Boundary data clusters near the initial estimate of the missing data value are identified within the subset of the known data. A data harvesting region encapsulated according to the boundary clusters is defined. Data support clusters within at least one subset of the known data inside the data harvesting region are selected. The initial estimate of the missing data value is updated based upon data of the boundary clusters and the data support clusters.
US11010363B2
An allocation of tables across a distributed database provides for taking into account existing table groups while also obtaining newly calculated table groups by complementing the existing table groups with regards to the results of the new allocation. Maintaining and protecting one or more types of existing table groups allows for the existing table groups to not be overwritten during allocation of the tables. An identification of tables is used, as well as a determination related to connections between the existing table groups and the newly calculated table groups.
US11010351B1
A first Software Defined Network Attached Storage (SDNAS) process on a first storage system forwards snapshots of a file system provided by the first storage system to a second SDNAS process on a second storage system. The snapshots are forwarded by the first SDNAS process on an Internet Protocol (IP) network, to enable the first and second SDNAS processes to maintain redundant access to data of the file system without requiring the first storage system and second storage system to be interoperable. The initial snapshot includes a full version of the file system and subsequent snapshots include changed portions of the file system. Where the snapshot identifies changed portions at the extent level of granularity, the first SDNAS process subdivides the extents into sub-blocks, and only transmits changed sub-blocks of the extents on the IP network.
US11010344B2
Certain implementations of the disclosed technology may include methods and computing systems for performing high-density data compression, particularly on numerical data that demonstrates various patterns, and patterns of patters. According to an example implementation, a method is provided. The method may include extracting a data sample from a data set, compressing the data sample using a first compression filter configuration, and calculating a compression ratio associated with the first compression filter configuration. The method may also include compressing the data sample using a second compression filter configuration and calculating a compression ratio associated with the second compression filter configuration. A particular compression filter configuration to utilize in compressing the entire data set may be selected based on a comparison of the compression ratio associated with the first compression filter configuration and a compression ratio associated with the second compression filter configuration.
US11010341B2
One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for replicating a file within a network of servers. The technique includes determining one or more regional master servers included in a regional cluster of servers and causing each regional master server to retrieve a file from a fill source. The technique further includes, for at least one local cluster of servers included in the regional cluster of servers, determining one or more local master servers included in the at least one local cluster of servers, and causing each local master server to retrieve the file from one of the one or more regional master servers.
US11010335B2
Methods and systems for a networked storage system is provided. One method includes creating a first snapshot for data units stored at a persistent memory of a computing device, the data units managed by a first file system; transferring metadata associated with the data units and the data units stored at the persistent memory to a storage device managed by a second file system using a logical object, the second file system executed by a storage system interfacing with the computing device; and generating a second snapshot of the logical object at the storage device, the second snapshot including data units and associated metadata of the first snapshot.
US11010331B2
A document management system includes a management device and at least two processing devices. For each of the at least two processing devices, a user to be allowed to register a document by using a corresponding processing device is determined. The management device includes a first storage and an obtaining unit. The first storage stores metadata of a protected document received from any of the at least two processing devices. The obtaining unit obtains information concerning a processing load of each of the at least two processing devices. The at least two processing device include first and second processing devices. The first processing device includes a second storage, a sender, and a receiver. The second storage stores information concerning a user to be allowed to register a document by using the first processing device. Upon receiving a request to register a document from the user, the sender sends the document and identification information concerning the first processing device to the second processing device if a processing load of the first processing device is greater than a threshold. The second processing device is determined based on information concerning a processing load of one or more of the at least two processing devices obtained by the management device. The receiver receives a protected document which is sent from the second processing device based on the identification information. The protected document is generated by processing the document in the second processing device.
US11010329B2
An electronic device includes a communication device and a processor. The processor receives sensor kind information via the communication device from one of at least one sensor or an electronic measurement instrument to which the at least one sensor is connected, transmits the received sensor kind information to a database storing a combination of a sensor kind and a measurement mode in which measurement contents are defined, acquires, from the database, the measurement mode in accordance with the transmitted sensor kind information, and sets the acquired measurement mode corresponding to one of the at least one sensor or the at least one sensor connected to the electronic measurement instrument.
US11010327B2
Systems, methods, and apparatus are described. A method for data communication performed at a master device includes configuring a serial interface for a point-to-point mode of operation, transmitting a first two-bit command through the serial interface, the two-bit command including a one-bit address and a read/write bit, and initiating a transaction through the serial interface. The transaction may be identified by the two-bit command and is conducted in accordance with an I3C protocol. The transaction may include the transfer of one or more data frames formatted in accordance with the I3C protocol. The method may include receiving an acknowledgement from a slave device in response to the first two-bit command.
US11010321B2
A high speed single bridge system providing network and data transfer capabilities, implemented via standard input/output (I/O) devices, protocols, cables and components, to interconnect two or more host computing systems, and to provide connections to peripherals. One aspect of the invention connects two or more host systems via USB ports and cables, establishing network, control, data exchange, and power management required to route and transfer data at high speeds. A second aspect provides for a symmetrical port that senses Host and Peripheral connections so as to provide a single apparatus for connecting Hosts and Peripherals at any port. Requiring only a single link, the invention requires significantly fewer components than existing designs. The method describes how two or more connected host systems detect one another, and establish separate control communication and data exchange bridges, wherein control sequences generated by an application on a host direct operation of the bridging apparatus.
US11010298B2
A method and a system detects a cache line as a potential or confirmed hot cache line based on receiving an intervention of a processor associated with a fetch of the cache line. The method and system include suppressing an action of operations associated with the hot cache line. A related method and system detect an intervention and, in response, communicates an intervention notification to another processor. An alternative method and system detect a hot data object associated with an intervention event of an application. The method and system can suppress actions of operations associated with the hot data object. An alternative method and system can detect and communicate an intervention associated with a data object.
US11010297B2
A memory unit includes a data storage to store data, an operation controller to receive operation requests issued by an upstream source, a downstream capabilities storage to store an indication of operations performable by at least one downstream memory unit, and processing circuitry to perform operations on data stored in the data storage under control of the operation controller. When an operation request to perform an operation on target data is received from the upstream request source, the operation controller is arranged to determine when to control the processing circuitry to perform the operation, and when to forward the operation to a downstream memory unit in dependence on whether the target data is stored in the data storage unit and the indication of operations performable by at least one downstream memory unit. This allows for operations to be executed at a suitable location within a memory system, taking into account not only where the data resides, but also the complexity of the operation and the capabilities of the processing circuitry provided at various memory locations within the memory system.
US11010293B1
Implementations described herein provide apparatus and methods for storing data in, and retrieving data from, an asynchronous FIFO. Data is received at a write side receiving circuitry residing in a write-side clock domain of the FIFO and stored at a memory location in a data storage buffer having a plurality of locations. Each memory location in the data storage buffer has a binary pointer value corresponding to the respective location. The binary pointer value is converted to a corresponding Gray code symbol and transferred to the read side of the FIFO. At the read side the Gray code symbol is converted back to the corresponding binary pointer value. Read-side control circuitry, using the binary pointer value, transfers the data from the data storage buffer to a data output register residing in a read-side clock domain of the FIFO.
US11010286B1
A method, system, and program product for testing adaptive software is provided. The method includes receiving a selection for a software testing model associated with a portion of a software product requiring operational testing. The software testing model is selected from a database of saturated models. Input data for executing the software testing model is received and loaded within a model execution module. The software testing model is executed with respect to the input data and an output verifying results is generated. Input values associated with operational issues of the software product are stored. Machine learning software code is generated. The machine learning software code is configured for executing future processes associated with generating and selecting additional input values for future executions of the software testing model.
US11010282B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are described for performing fault detection and localization using Combinatorial Test Design (CTD) techniques and generating a regression bucket of test cases that expose a detected fault in a System Under Test (SUT). The SUT may be a hardware system or a software system. Further, the fault detection and localization may be performed while adhering to architectural restrictions on the SUT.
US11010281B1
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for a system for distributing user requests. The system may comprise a memory storing instructions and at least one processor configured to execute instructions to perform operations. These operations may comprise receiving from a local network device, without requesting, a data randomization scheme determining a test dataset from among a plurality of test datasets for deployment at a client device; based on the received data randomization scheme, determining test participation data for transmitting to a plurality of client devices; transmitting the test participation data to the plurality of client devices; transmitting, to the plurality of client devices, datasets configured for deployment by the plurality of client devices according to the test participation data; and receiving, from at least one of the plurality of client devices, interaction data associated with one of the datasets deployed by the at least one client device according to the test participation data.
US11010274B2
A method is provided for collecting trace data items generated by a plurality of trace points, the method comprising: allocating a ring buffer in a first memory, the ring buffer including a plurality of trace buffers; when any of the trace points is executed, storing a trace data item generated by the trace point in one of the plurality of trace buffers that is identified by a given value of a ring pointer; retrieving the trace data item from the trace buffer based on at least one of: (i) a first timestamp that is generated when the trace data item is stored in the trace buffer, and (ii) a second timestamp indicating a time when the ring pointer was assigned the given value; and storing the retrieved trace data item in a second memory device.
US11010272B2
Techniques and structures to provide secure data transfer between entities in a multi-user on-demand computing environment. An electronic device may comprise at least one physical memory device, one or more processors coupled with the at least one physical memory device, the one or more processors configurable to create a scratch destination organization within the computing environment, receive, via a user interface, a metadata selection comprising a plurality of metadata resources, extract the plurality of metadata resources from an origin organization within the computing environment into a metadata bundle, and deploy the metadata bundle in the scratch organization. Additional subject matter may be described and claimed.
US11010262B2
Technologies are described for facilitating database system recovery in a distributed database environment having a master node and at least one slave node. The at least one slave node receives a preliminary slave log backup position. The at least one slave node replays at least a portion of one or more log backups until the preliminary log backup position is reached. The at least one slave node receives a final slave log backup position. The slave node replays at least a portion of one or more log backups until the final slave log backup position is reached.
US11010261B2
The systems and methods described herein dynamically allocate streams when restoring data from databases. In some embodiments, the system and methods restore data from a database by determining a number of streams to allocate to the database for restoring files of data from the database. The determined number of streams may be based on a total amount of data within the database, and/or may be based, at least in part, on the previous number of streams used during backup operations, in order to balance the benefit of allocating streams to a restoration of data with any detriments associated with changing the number of streams from the number used during previous backup operations.
US11010231B2
A computer-implemented method of creating a log file is disclosed. The method comprises: storing a request of a service to be executed by a computer system, wherein the service is performed using multiple software methods; executing the service by providing the request to the computer system; detecting a failure of the service; performing a stack trace of the service to identify a subset of the multiple software methods; providing a source code for the subset of the multiple software methods; modifying the source code for the subset of the multiple software methods to add logging statements, wherein the logging statements are configured for generating log data; re-executing the service using the modified source code to generate the log data; and generating the log file from the log data.
US11010228B2
Methods that can identify distributed objects that are subject to service are disclosed herein. One method includes receiving, by a processor, a service event from a first server in which the service event includes a first object in the first server that is subject to service and for which the first server is unable to determine an identity of the first object. The method further includes determining the identity of the first object based on a first object model for a second server and notifying a user of the identity of the first object in the first server that is subject to service. Apparatus, systems, and computer program products that can include, perform, and/or implement the methods are also disclosed herein.
US11010224B2
In one or more embodiments, one or more systems, methods, and/or processes may start a single threaded power on self test process without a periodic handler to communicate with a watchdog timer of an information handling system; may initialize the watchdog timer with an amount of time; may store the amount of time and watchdog timer access interface information via a memory medium of the information handling system; may, after storing the amount of time and the watchdog timer access interface information, boot an operating system; may provide information indicating a location of the amount of time and the watchdog timer access interface information to the operating system; and may periodically reset the watchdog timer via a device driver of the operating system.
US11010223B2
A method and system can implement error and event log correlation in an apparatus and include extracting one or more log information associated with a storage location and creating a flexible structure of the one or more log information. The one or more log information is translated to a database store based on a user input. A match level is determined between an event and error data through the one or more log information extracted. When the match level exceeds a predetermined value, a relationship between the event and error data is created through an algorithm and a shareable entry is created for the relationship in a format usable by another apparatus.
US11010217B2
A method, computer program product, and system includes a processor(s) obtaining application programming interface (API) records from one or more computing resources in a shared computing environment, which include individual API data from each computing resource, identifying, for each API record, a relative path to an endpoint of a respective application deployed on the computing resource. The processor(s) combines the individual API data into merged API data, which includes modifying the relative path of each API record to identify a specific computing resource in the path. The processor(s) generates an interface to display to a client a list of APIs identified in the merged API data. The processor(s) obtains a selection from the client, of a specific API, and invokes, a connection, via the interface and using one or more security artifacts, to the endpoint and the respective application of the specific API.
US11010212B2
Methods, systems, and computer program products are described herein for supporting and negotiating multiple (e.g. static) application programming interface (API) versions across multiple products. Interoperable programs, such as different web browser applications, may provide simultaneous support for multiple versions of an API. An API and program-API adapters may be versioned to manage compatibility for asynchronously developed programs and APIs that may be asynchronously installed and updated in many computing environments. An adapter may comprise a versioned portion of program source code. In-development program code and APIs may be forked to create versioned snapshots of stable interfaces. An “in-development” version of an API and adapters may coexist with versioned APIs and adapters. Compatible version negotiation may occur, for example, during process launch. Negotiation may activate the highest API version supported by both programs.
US11010210B2
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a computer-implemented method for controller address contention assumption. A non-limiting example computer-implemented method includes a shared controller receiving a fetch request for data from a first requesting agent, the receiving via at least one intermediary controller. The shared controller performs an address compare using a memory address of the data. In response to the memory address matching a memory address stored in the shared controller, the shared controller acknowledges the at least one intermediary controller's fetch request, wherein upon acknowledgement, the at least one intermediary controller resets. In response to release of the data by a second requesting agent, the shared controller transmits the data to the first requesting agent.
US11010208B1
A work accelerator is connected to a gateway. The gateway enables the transfer of data to the work accelerator from an external storage at pre-compiled data synchronisation points attained by the work accelerator. The work accelerator is configured to send to a register of the gateway an indication of a sync group comprising the gateway. The work accelerator then sends to the gateway, a synchronisation request for a synchronisation to be performed at an upcoming pre-compiled data exchange synchronisation point. The sync propagation circuits are each configured to receive at least one synchronisation request and propagate or acknowledge the synchronisation request in dependence upon the indication of the sync group received from the work accelerator.
US11010207B2
Usage metering software for metering usage of a single application, where portions of the application run on at least two different platforms. The usage metric values are aggregated for the purposes of planning, billing the client or the like. In some embodiments, at least one platform of the multiple platforms is a cloud platform and at least one platform of the multiple platforms is a non-cloud platform.
US11010190B2
Exemplary embodiments relate to techniques for improving startup times of a cloud-based virtual servers in response to a spike in service usage (although other applications are contemplated and described). According to some embodiments, in response to a request to provision a new virtual server in a cluster, high-priority services (e.g., those that enable the server to respond to system health checks or that support an application providing the service) are started while lower-priority services are delayed. In some embodiments, prior to receiving such a request, a new server may be started and then hibernated to create a “hot spare.” When the request is received, the hot spare may be taken out of hibernation to quickly bring the hot spare online. It is contemplated that the delayed-startup and hot spare embodiments may be used together to further improve performance.
US11010189B2
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program that causes a computer to execute a process, the process includes storing a port number of a first service used by a first virtual machine executed within a first cloud computing system in association with an identifier of the first virtual machine; when receiving a request to move the first virtual machine to a second cloud computing system, transmitting a confirmation request as to whether or not a second service corresponding to the port number of the first service is enabled to be used in the second cloud computing system to the second cloud computing system, the confirmation request specifying the port number of the first service; and moving the first virtual machine to the second cloud computing system when receiving a reply indicating that the second service is enabled to be used from the second cloud computing system.
US11010187B2
Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. A high availability system includes a high availability set of a primary node processing incoming computational tasks and two or more backup nodes in a queue. The incoming computational tasks for the high availability set is managed according to various policies. For example, based on detecting an impending failure of the primary due to a lack of resources allocated for the primary node, one of the backup node that has the resources lacking from the primary node and that is the least likely to be used for processing the incoming computational tasks is selected as a lender node, according to a borrowing policy, and the resources of the lender node is allocated to the primary for further processing of the incoming computational tasks.
US11010185B2
Embodiments disclosed herein relate to a method, system, and computer-readable medium for monitoring an application executing across a plurality of containers. A performance monitor requests a list of containers created on at least one computing system. The performance monitor retrieves information associated with a creation of each container in the list. The performance monitor parses the information associated with each container in the list to identify a cluster of related containers that are running the applications. The performance monitor displays a topology that relates the containers of the cluster to resources in the at least one computing system. The performance monitor identified a pair of containers that are negatively correlated based on the topology. The performance monitor adjusts the application to remove the negative correlation between the pair of containers.
US11010184B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for implementing blockchain contracts are provided. One of the methods includes: obtaining bytecode of a blockchain contract, wherein the bytecode comprises an indicator indicating a type of the blockchain contract; determining a virtual machine corresponding to the type based at least on the indicator; and triggering the determined virtual machine to execute the blockchain contract.
US11010183B2
A system that includes an edge node configured to define a first set of correlithm objects for the first device and to send the first set of correlithm objects to the first device. The first set of correlithm objects includes a first correlithm object within a core distance of a root correlithm from the set of root correlithm objects. The core distance identifies the maximum number of different bits between the root correlithm object and a correlithm object. The edge node is further configured to define a second set of correlithm objects for the second device and to send the second set of correlithm objects to the second device. The second set of input correlithm objects comprises a second correlithm within the core distance of the root correlithm object from the set of root correlithm objects. The first correlithm object and the second correlithm object are different.
US11010174B2
An information processing apparatus capable of performing wireless communication, includes a processor configured to execute one or more processes including receiving a beacon transmitted from a device, extracting, from the received beacon, called condition information indicating a condition by which a first program is called, and calling the first program in response to determining that a process, which the information processing apparatus is caused to execute by a second program, satisfies the condition indicated by the extracted called condition information.
US11010168B2
A method, system, and computer program product are provided for prioritizing prefetch instructions. The method includes a processor issuing a prefetch instruction and fetching elements from a cache that can include a memory or a higher level cache. The processor stores the elements in temporary storage and monitors for accesses by an instruction. The processor stores a record representing the prefetch instruction. The processor updates the record with an indicator and issues a new prefetch instruction by comparing the new prefetch instruction to the record, based on the new prefetch instruction matching the prefetch instruction, assigning the indicator to the new prefetch instruction as a priority value, based on the new prefetch instruction not matching the prefetch instruction, assigning a default value to the new prefetch instruction as the priority value, and determining whether to execute the new prefetch instruction, based on the priority value of the new prefetch instruction.
US11010167B2
An example integrated circuit includes a memory including a non-deterministic finite automata (NFA) buffer configured to store a plurality of instructions defining an ordered sequence of instructions of at least a portion of an NFA graph, the portion of the NFA graph comprising a plurality of nodes arranged along a plurality of paths. The NFA engine determines a current symbol and one or more subsequent symbols of a payload segment that satisfy a match condition specified by a subset of instructions of the plurality of instructions for a path of the plurality of paths and in response to determining the current symbol and the one or more subsequent symbols of the payload segment that satisfy the match condition, outputs an indication that the payload data has resulted in a match.
US11010162B2
An electronic device can execute instructions, comprising: a processing circuit; a first storage device, coupled to the processing circuit, configured to store at least one instruction and first operation data; and a second storage device, coupled to the processing circuit. The processing circuit reads at least one of the instruction and the first operation data corresponding to the read instruction from the first storage device, and the second storage device does not store the first operation data corresponding to the read instruction, the processing circuit backs up the read first operation data to the second storage device.
US11010159B2
Apparatus comprises counter and bit-shift circuitry to provide a succession of processing stages each comprising a count operation stage and a corresponding bit-shift stage, each processing stage operating with respect to a set of contiguous n-bit groups of bit positions, where n is 1 for a first processing stage and n doubles from one processing stage in the succession of processing stages to a next processing stage in the succession of processing stages; each count operation stage being configured to generate, for a first set of alternate instances of the n-bit groups of bit positions, count values indicating a respective number of bits of a predetermined bit value in a mask data word; and each bit-shift stage being configured to generate a bit-shifted data word by bit-shifting bits of a data word to be processed, for a second set of alternate instances of the n-bit groups of bit positions complementary to the first set, by respective numbers of bit positions dependent upon the count values generated by the respective count operation stage, in which the bit-shifted data word for one bit-shift stage in the succession of processing stages is used as the data word to be processed by the next bit-shift stage in the succession of processing stages.
US11010157B2
Embodiments disclosed herein provide systems, methods, and machine-readable media for container-based application reification. In an example embodiment, an application reification system preserves a version of application data at a first time and a configuration of an application at the first time. At a second time, the application reification system creates a template for a container containing the application in the configuration and a pointer to the version of the application data in a secondary storage repository.
US11010154B2
An embodiment of the present invention is directed to implementing a complex patching micro service architecture. An embodiment of the present invention is directed to controlling and managing patching of complex patterns using a micro service architecture. Using a defined library of micro services, an application owner may build a configuration to follow for patching routines. The configuration may be used as reference data and further used to establish a workflow for each patching iteration.
US11010152B2
Systems and methods to stage firmware capsule package for an external device in a firmware client system. The firmware client system may include a basic input/output system (BIOS) and an operating system (OS). The BIOS may create a virtual device. The OS may download a virtual device driver package associated with the virtual device from an update service. The virtual device driver package may include a first virtual device driver and a first external device firmware. The OS may also install the first virtual device driver of the virtual device driver package, stage the first external device firmware on a storage device, and execute the first virtual device driver. The first virtual device driver may, when a first external device associated with the first external device firmware is available, deliver the first external device firmware to the first external device using an update firmware mechanism.
US11010146B2
Certain embodiments described herein are generally directed to executing applications on a computing device. In some embodiments, a method includes receiving, by an app store interface, a first distribution package from an app store, the first distribution package comprising a first virtual disk file comprising an application. The method further includes opening, by an application agent, the first virtual disk file based on a file type association (FTA) between the first virtual disk file and the application agent. The method further includes storing, by the application agent, the application in a second virtual disk file. The method also includes mounting the second virtual disk file at the computing device. The method also includes executing the application stored on the mounted second virtual disk file.
US11010145B1
A compiler translates programs for execution on a quantum processing system. To facilitate portability of quantum programs across differently configured quantum processors, the compiler accepts a specification of the quantum processor as input along with a quantum program for compilation. A specification may include information about the type of each qubit device in the quantum processor, the number of qubits, the qubit topology, coherence times of individual qubits, and operations that the quantum processor supports. The compilation process may include manipulating operations of the input program to generate equivalent operations that can be performed by the quantum gates and qubit devices on the quantum processor for which the program is being compiled.
US11010143B2
Systems and methods for executing a formula written using a formula language may include receiving a formula written using a formula language, the formula associated with a record of a database; transpiling the formula in the formula language to a program code in a programming language; and executing the formula based on the program code.
US11010136B2
A random bit stream generator which includes a pseudo-random bit stream generator and a multi-stage noise shaping (MASH) delta-sigma modulator is introduced. The pseudo-random bit stream generator may generate a first random bit stream according to a first clock signal. The MASH delta-sigma modulator is coupled to the first random bit stream generator to receive the first random bit stream and output a second random bit stream according to the first random bit stream and a second clock signal. A frequency of the second clock signal is greater than a frequency of the first clock signal, and the random bit stream has bell-shaped distribution. A method of generating a random bit stream having bell-shaped distribution adapted to a random bit stream generator is also introduced.
US11010135B2
An arithmetic processing device includes a processor that calculates a constant multiplication value by multiplying a constant value obtained by dividing a first value by a natural logarithm of 2 and a data value, separates the constant multiplication value into an integer portion and a fractional portion, calculates a fractional power value corresponding to a value of the fractional portion, calculates an integer power value corresponding to a value obtained by multiplying a value of the integer portion by a second value, calculates a power addition value by adding the fractional power value and the integer power value, calculate a power subtraction value by subtracting the integer power value from the fractional power value, and calculate a division value by dividing the power subtraction value by the power addition value as a result of an execution of an arithmetic operation of a hyperbolic tangent function with the data value.
US11010130B2
The present invention discloses a floating point processor prototype of multi-channel data. An architecture comprises the following steps: arranging structural data, semi-structured data and unstructured data into a three-way array; decomposing the three-way array into a matrix pattern of a second-order tensor by using higher-order singular value decomposition; and converting the matrix pattern into a sparse domain to conduct block floating point quantization. A floating point processor prototype of multi-channel data is built.
US11010121B2
A method includes displaying a first media information affordance representing a first media item in response to detecting an indication that a physical proximity between an electronic device and an external device satisfies a proximity condition. The electronic device receives a first input representing selection of the first media information affordance. In response to receiving the first input: in accordance with a determination that the first input is a first type of input, a process to playback the first media item is initiated; and in accordance with a determination that the first input is a second type of input different from the first type of input, a second media information affordance representing the first media item is displayed.
US11010119B2
When a printing job that is not accumulated in a storage section of a printing apparatus is determined as an execution-target job, the printing apparatus acquires the execution-target job from one that is selected, of a different printing apparatus that accumulates the execution-target job and a terminal apparatus that transmits the execution-target job to the different printing apparatus.
US11010115B2
An image processing apparatus capable of, even both of reservation printing and pre-printing paper sheet confirmation are set for one print job, preventing a printing process from substantially being halted due to a confliction between these two settings. The image processing apparatus is capable of generating a print job, a time request and a print medium confirmation request. The image processing apparatus performs: a first process, which exclusively generates one of the time request and the print medium confirmation request, generates the print job including the generated one request, and performs a process corresponding to the generated one request prior to printing based on the print job; or a second process, which generates the time request and the print medium confirmation request, generates both of the two request, and exclusively performs one of the two requests prior to printing based on the print job.
US11010111B2
An image forming apparatus includes an engine controller configured to control an operation of the image forming apparatus; an image processing controller including a constant log storage configured to temporarily store a log of the engine controller; a network controller configured to store the log, which is stored in the constant log storage, in another device via a network or in a storage of the image forming apparatus, according to a command from the engine controller; a communication line configured to communicably couple the engine controller to the image processing controller, and to communicably couple the image processing controller to the network controller; and an exclusive-use communication line configured to communicably couple the engine controller to the network controller, and to be used to report the command from the engine controller to the network controller.
US11010108B2
An information processing apparatus includes a collecting unit that, when a predetermined transmission condition is established after a start of an operation of the information processing apparatus, collects information related to an operational environment of the information processing apparatus, and a transmitting unit that transmits the collected information to an image forming apparatus connected to the information processing apparatus via a network.
US11010097B2
Methods that can offload data operations to a storage system are provided. One method includes performing, by a processor, a set of non-storage operations at a storage system for data stored in a set of storage devices on the storage system to generate a set of results, in which the storage system is separate from a client device that owns the data, and transmitting the result(s) to the client device that owns the data. Apparatus, systems, and computer program products that can include, perform, and/or implement the methods are also disclosed herein.
US11010082B2
Techniques for performing space accounting for volume families. The techniques include maintaining two counters for each volume family, including a first counter that tracks a first amount of physical space allocated to volumes in the volume family based on the number of pages written to the volumes, and a second counter that tracks a second amount of physical space owned by the volume family, and maintaining a third counter for each volume in each branch of the volume family that tracks a number of pages among a total number of pages written to the volume that were overwritten in the immediate sequential next volume in the same branch as the volume. By maintaining, for each volume family, the first counter and the second counter, and, for each volume in the volume family, the third counter, space accounting metrics can be obtained that allow data storage activities to be performed efficiently.
US11010081B2
An apparatus monitors an access load state of a plurality of logical volumes of a first storage device, and determines that an access load state of a subset of the plurality of logical volumes has changed from a high load state to a low load state. The apparatus migrates, when the subset of the plurality of logical volumes remains in a low load state after an elapsed setting time since the load state of the subset of the plurality of logical volumes changed from a high load state to a low load state, data stored in the subset of the plurality of logical volumes to a second storage device having an access rate lower than the first storage device.
US11010078B2
One or more techniques and/or computing devices are provided for inline deduplication. For example, a checksum hash table and/or a block number hash table may be maintained within memory (e.g., a storage controller may maintain the hash tables in-core). The checksum hash table may be utilized for inline deduplication to identify potential donor blocks that may comprise the same data as an incoming storage operation. Data within an in-core buffer cache is eligible as potential donor blocks so that inline deduplication may be performed using data from the in-core buffer cache, which may mitigate disk access to underlying storage for which the in-core buffer cache is used for caching. The block number hash table may be used for updating or removing entries from the hash tables, such as for blocks that are no longer eligible as potential donor blocks (e.g., deleted blocks, blocks evicted from the in-core buffer cache, etc.).
US11010075B2
A translation system can translate a request having multiple fields to a physical address using the fields as indexes to a multi-dimensional graph. A field or portion of a field can represent a location along an axis. When combined together, the fields can represent a point in n-space, where n is the number of axes. In some embodiments, a nearest neighbor calculation can be sufficient along an axis. Therefore, a point in n-space defined by the fields can be translated along an axis until a nearest neighbor entry is determined. When the entry is determined, the entry can be accessed to determine a correct response to the translation request.
US11010053B2
The present application is directed to a memory-access-multiplexing memory controller that can multiplex memory accesses from multiple hardware threads, cores, and processors according to externally specified policies or parameters, including policies or parameters set by management layers within a virtualized computer system. A memory-access-multiplexing memory controller provides, at the physical-hardware level, a basis for ensuring rational and policy-driven sharing of the memory-access resource among multiple hardware threads, cores, and/or processors.
US11010042B2
A method includes detecting interaction with a user interface element corresponding to an app on a touch screen and displaying a different version of the user interface element responsive to the detected interaction.
US11010041B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method and apparatus for displaying an interface. A specific embodiment of the method comprises: acquiring device related information of a connected device; querying display interface information corresponding to the device related information of the connected device; and displaying a corresponding interface based on the display interface information. According to the embodiment, a smart terminal can display the corresponding interface according to the connected device, thereby improving the efficiency of acquiring the information by the user.
US11010039B2
A display control apparatus includes a control unit. In the case where, with a display unit displaying a multi-dimensional table that includes three or more axes which extend in different directions and on each of which plural items are disposed and plural tables each including plural cells that indicate a correlation between items disposed on two orthogonal axes of the three or more axes, a scroll operation is performed on a first table selected from the plural tables, a second table is adjacent to the first table in a first direction determined in advance, and the direction of the scroll operation is a second direction that is orthogonal to the first direction, the control unit performs control such that the first table and the second table are scrolled in conjunction with each other together with an axis that extends along the direction of the scroll operation.
US11010037B2
A display device according to the present invention is an invention for smoothly and quickly displaying a large-capacity web page, wherein the display device comprises: a user input interface unit for receiving a web page access command, a display unit for displaying one area of a web page, a network interface unit for receiving resources related to a current web page area, a storage unit for storing received resources, and a control unit for controlling the device so as to receive a scroll command and so as to receive resources related to the current web page area changed in accordance with the scroll command.
US11010033B2
A display control apparatus includes a display control unit that controls a display of a condition setting screen for setting a condition for a device on a screen, wherein the display control unit displays a list screen in which setting items for conditions for a device are grouped and displays, according to an instruction, an item plate overlapping the list screen, in which one or more setting items in the list screen are displayed.
US11010026B1
In some embodiments, a content placement system selects and allocates content objects for a display region in a user interface based on content priorities of the content objects and location priorities of virtual locations in the display region. The content placement system receives a request for content objects to be presented in the display region. The content placement system determines a layout for dividing the display region into multiple virtual locations. Each of the virtual locations contains spots each configured for displaying a content object. The content placement system determines content objects and allocation of the content objects for each of the virtual locations based on content priorities associated with the content objects and location priorities of the virtual locations. The content placement system transmits the content objects according to the allocation to an online platform for display in the user interface.
US11010020B2
The present disclosure relates to a method, apparatus, and storage medium for displaying a shortcut operation panel, and belongs to the field of terminal technologies. The method includes: displaying, by a terminal having a folding display screen, a user interface of a target application in a home screen, wherein the home screen is part of a folding display screen; and when an auxiliary screen is in an expanded state, displaying a shortcut operation panel on the auxiliary screen. The auxiliary screen is part of the folding display screen. The shortcut operation panel comprises an icon of at least one shortcut operation function related to the target application.
US11010018B2
According to one embodiment, a wearable device includes a first user interface and a display. An electronic device includes a second user interface and causes the display to display a home screen. The home screen displayed in the display is divided into variable-sized first, second, and third areas. One of the first area, the second area, and the third area is selectable by an operation from the first user interface or the second user interface. The selected area is larger than non-selected areas among the first area, the second area, and the third area. A central icon in the selected area is larger than other icons in the selected area. A display format of the central icon in the selected area is different from a display format of the other icons in the selected area.
US11010013B2
A method, computer program product, and a system where a processor(s) of a computing device identifies at least two displays coupled to the processor(s) to render visual objects to a user of the computing device, like a cursor, and processor(s) obtains instructions to render the cursor in various locations on the displays via an input device. The processor(s) obtain a display layout for the displays and resolutions of displays and generates an initial virtual desktop that includes physical real estate of the displays where the processor(s) renders visual objects. The processor(s) determines boundaries of each display and selects outermost two dimensional boundaries of the initial virtual desktops and updates the initial virtual desktop to an area bounded by a virtual rectangle comprising the outermost boundaries, which includes the displays and physical space not useable by the processor(s) to render visual objects.
US11010002B2
An electronic pen includes a tubular casing, and a first coupling member and a second coupling member that are coupled to each other in a hollow portion of the casing in an axial direction of the casing. In the axial direction, the first coupling member and the second coupling member are coupled to each other while partially overlapping each other, and in a coupling portion between the first coupling member and the second coupling member, a welded portion that attaches the first coupling member and the second coupling member to each other is formed.
US11009999B2
A display device includes a display panel including an opening penetrating the display panel, a display area adjacent to the opening, a first non-display area between the opening and the display area, and a second non-display area surrounding the display area, and an input detecting layer on the display panel. The input detecting layer may include a first line located in the first non-display area, a second line located in the second non-display area, and a connecting line connecting the first line to the second line.
US11009998B2
A close-range motion detector has at least one transmitter, at least one receiver, and at least one more transmitter or receiver. The transmitter(s) transmit, and the receiver(s) receive signals in one of the ultrasonic or mm-wave ranges. Multiple transmitters or receivers are spaced apart from one-another along a plane, and transmission of a signal takes place at a known time. Echos of the signal that bounce of a scatterer are received and digitized during a receive window, and the time-of-flight is determined using CAF. Time scaling may be determined as well, and may be determined using CAF. The determined time-of-flight is used to determine an X-Y-coordinate for the scatterer, and its motion (e.g., velocity) can be determined, which are output. In an embodiment, a such a close-range motion detector can be implemented on the side of a smart-watch, making a virtual writing surface on the back of a user's hand.
US11009997B2
An input device includes: a detector that detects an operation state of an operation object on an operation surface; a controller that performs input to a predetermined instrument; and a driver that vibrates the operation surface. The predetermined instrument includes a display. Multiple operation buttons and a pointer corresponding to a position of the operation object are displayed. The position of the operation object is associated with a position of each of the operation buttons and a position of the pointer by a relative coordinate. The controller causes the driver to generate a predetermined vibration on an area corresponding to an intermediate area between a first operation button and a second operation button. The controller prohibits execution of the attraction control, or corrects a movement amount of the pointer and causes the pointer to reach the second operation button from the first operation button.
US11009995B2
Various embodiments include methods and devices for implementing refining of user interface (UI) behavior. Embodiments may include creating a touch-profile of a touch-panel of a computing device from results of a self-diagnostic test measuring capacitance of capacitive sensors of the touch-panel, embedding the touch-profile in a framework of an operating system of the computing device, determining an unusable area of the touch-panel from the touch-profile, and determining a UI modification based on the unusable area of the touch-panel.
US11009984B2
A display device is provided and includes scanning signal lines including a first scanning signal line; pixel signal lines including a first pixel signal line; switch elements including a first switch being electrically coupled to the first scanning signal line and the pixel signal line; pixel electrodes including a first pixel electrode being electrically coupled to the first switch element; drive electrodes including a first drive electrode opposed to the first pixel electrode; a driver configured to drive the scanning signal lines, the pixel signal lines, and the drive electrodes; and a controller configured to control the driver in a frame.
US11009963B2
Sensors in a vehicle detect execution of a sign language symbol. The sign language symbol invokes a vehicle interface function. In some embodiments, the sign language symbol is an ASL sign. Sensors include three-dimensional optical, ultrasonic, or other sensors. The locations of targets (fingertips, knuckles, palm, etc.) are detected in the individual outputs of the sensors. The locations of targets determined from the outputs of multiple sensors may be associated with one another and filtered, such as using an RBMCDA algorithm and Kalman filtering. The system may be calibrated to detect each symbol by measuring the target locations with the user executing the each symbol.
US11009956B2
An information processing apparatus includes an arithmetic processing unit. The arithmetic processing unit generates a first haptic-feedback presentation signal, which is to be supplied to a first haptic-feedback presentation device of a plurality of haptic-feedback presentation devices, based on the first characteristic information extracted from a first sound signal corresponding to a first channel among sounds of a plurality of channels output from a sound output device capable of outputting the sounds of the plurality of channels, and generates a second haptic-feedback presentation signal, which is to be supplied to a second haptic-feedback presentation device of the plurality of haptic-feedback presentation devices, based on the second characteristic information extracted from a second sound signal corresponding to a second channel among the sounds of the plurality of channels.
US11009951B2
Systems, devices and methods that enable a user to access and interact with content displayed on a portable electronic display in an inconspicuous, hands-free manner are described. There is disclosed a completely wearable system comprising a wearable muscle interface device and a wearable head-mounted display, as well as methods for using the wearable system to effect interactions between the user and content displayed on the wearable head-mounted display. The wearable muscle interface device includes muscle activity sensors worn on an arm of the user to detect muscle activity generated when the user performs a physical gesture. The wearable system is adapted to recognize a plurality of gestures made by the user and, in response to each recognized gesture, to effect one or more interaction(s) with content displayed on the wearable head-mounted display.
US11009946B2
The embodiments of the disclosure provide a pupil center positioning apparatus and method, and a virtual reality device. The pupil center positioning apparatus may comprise: a matrix operation circuit configured to obtain a set of linear normal equations according to received N boundary point coordinates of a pupil area, N being a positive integer greater than 5; a parameter operation circuit configured to obtain parameters of an elliptic equation employing the Cramer's Rule according to the set of linear normal equations; and a coordinate operation circuit configured to obtain the center coordinate of the pupil area according to the parameters of the elliptic equation.
US11009945B2
The invention relates to a method for operating an eye tracking device (10) for multi¬user eye tracking, wherein images (24) of a predefined capturing area (14) of the eye tracking device (10) are captured by means of an imaging device (12) of the eye tracking device (10) and the captured images (24) are processed by means of a processing unit (16) of the eye tracking device (10). If a first user (26a) and a second user (26b) are present in the predefined capturing area (14) of the eye tracking device (10), a first information relating to the first user (26a) and a second information relating to the second user (26b) are determined on the basis of the captured images (24) by processing the images (24). Furthermore the images (24) are captured successively in a predeterminable time sequence.
US11009931B2
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods of predicting voltages for various contingencies. For example, a monitoring system may include a processor that acquires at least one contingency of an electric power delivery system. The processor may acquire an expected control action based on the at least one contingency from controllers/IEDs. The processor may predict a voltage of at least one bus of the electric power delivery system by simulating the change in the state of the electric power delivery system caused by the expected control action. The processor may determine that the voltage of the at least one bus is predicted to violate one or more operational settings of the electric power delivery system if the at least one contingency were to occur. The processor may provide an indication that the voltage violates the one or more operational settings on a display of the electronic device.
US11009928B2
Techniques for optimizing airflow in a network device are provided. In one set of embodiments, a network device can identify one or more device components whose temperature thresholds may be adjusted to be higher (or in other words, more aggressive) than their normal values. The network device can then increase the temperature thresholds for those identified components and use the increased thresholds as static inputs to a fan control algorithm of the device. In another set of embodiments, the network device can check the current airflow within the device on a periodic basis. If the current airflow does not meet an airflow requirement, the network device can incrementally increase the temperature thresholds of the identified components, provide the increased thresholds to its fan control algorithm, and subsequently re-check the current airflow. These steps can repeat until the current airflow meets the airflow requirement.
US11009927B2
Disclosed loop heat pipe includes: an evaporator configured to vaporize a working fluid; a condenser configured to liquefy the working fluid; a liquid line connecting the evaporator and the condenser; a porous body provided in a columnar shape in the liquid line; and a vapor line connecting the evaporator and the condenser, and forming a loop together with the liquid line.
US11009922B2
An intelligent electronic device (IED) is provided. The IED includes a metering sub-assembly and an input base module sub-assembly. The metering sub-assembly is hinged to the input base module sub-assembly, where when in an open position, various cables, connectors, and input/output cards/modules are accessible. Various input/output cards/modules are interchangeable to add/change functionality and/or communication capabilities to the IED. In one embodiment, a communication card is provided with at least one antenna disposed internal or external to a housing of the IED.
US11009921B1
An electronic device may have a housing with first and second portions that move relative to each other. The housing may have a hinge that is configured to bend about a hinge axis. Control circuitry in the electronic device may adjust an electrically adjustable device to control resistance of the hinge to bending about the hinge axis. The electrically adjustable device may be an electroactive polymer that that adjusts pressure between two sliding layers of material, may be a magnetorheological device, may be an adjustable component formed from a shape memory material, or may be another electrically adjustable device. One or more sensors in the electronic device may gather sensor data such as touch input, force input, input related to movement of the housing, housing position information, and/or other data. During operation, the control circuitry can adjust the resistance of the hinge to bending based on the sensor data.
US11009908B1
A portable computing device includes a housing having a region with a plurality of physical features configured to be swiped by a user during a first period, a first accelerometer configured to determine first perturbations during the first period, a second accelerometer configured to determine second perturbations during the first period of time, and a processor coupled to the first and second accelerometer and configured to determine whether the user has swiped the region during the first period of time in response to the first perturbations and the second perturbations.
US11009904B2
An output signal generation circuit includes a first pulse generation circuit configured to receive first information and generate a first pulse signal including the first information, the first pulse signal having a first pulse width that is a minimum pulse width of the first pulse signal, a second pulse generation circuit configured to receive second information and the first pulse signal, and generate a second pulse signal in which the second information is superimposed on the first pulse signal, the second pulse signal having a second pulse width smaller than the first pulse width, and an output circuit configured to output the second pulse signal.
US11009902B1
Disclosed herein is an apparatus that includes a first external terminal supplied with a first power potential, a second external terminal supplied with a second power potential different from the first power potential, a first transistor connected between the first external terminal and an internal power line, a second transistor connected between the second external terminal and the internal power line, and a first circuit configured to bring the first transistor OFF during at least a first period until the second power potential is supplied after the first power potential is supplied.
US11009899B2
A semiconductor integrated circuit includes a constant-voltage circuit that outputs a constant voltage and a constant-current circuit. The constant-current circuit includes a first transistor. A voltage input as an input voltage to a first gate electrode of the first transistor is equal to the node voltage at an intermediate node in a connection path between the output of the constant-voltage circuit and an external resistor. A source region of the first transistor is connected to a fixed power supply, and a drain region of the first transistor is connected to the external power supply via a load. In the first transistor, a constant current can be made to flow between the source region and the drain region based on the input voltage. A constant-current drive system in which the semiconductor integrated circuit and the external resistor have been mounted on a circuit board is also constructed.
US11009896B2
An example valve includes: a first port fluidly coupled to a chamber of an actuator; a second port fluidly coupled to a reservoir; a third port configured to provide an output pilot fluid signal and receive an input pilot fluid signal; a fourth port fluidly coupled to a source of fluid; a main poppet configured to be subjected to a first fluid force of fluid received at the first port acting on the main poppet in a proximal direction to cause the main poppet to be seated at a main poppet seat to block fluid flow to and from the first port; a piston configured to move axially to contact the main poppet; and a spool that is axially movable between a first position and a second position to operate the valve in either a pilot-operated check valve mode of operation or a proportional flow control mode of operation.
US11009892B2
An active human-machine interface feedback system includes a user interface, a pitch angle sensor, a roll angle sensor, a spherical motor, and a control circuit. The user interface adapted to receive user input and is configured, upon receipt of the user input, to move, about one or both of a pitch axis and a roll axis, to a user interface position. The pitch angle sensor is configured to sense the pitch angle component of the user interface position. The roll angle sensor is configured to sense the roll angle component of the user interface position. The spherical motor is coupled to the user interface and is symmetrically disposed about the origin. The control circuit determines a polar angle (θ) of the user interface relative to the origin, determine an azimuthal angle (φ) of the user interface relative to the origin, and supply current to the first, second, and third coils.
US11009883B2
An operation control system includes: a first detector that detects a transport body that has reached a predetermined reference position on a first transport line; an obstacle sensor and an autonomous traveling control unit provided in each of a plurality of self-propelled carrier bodies traveling on a second transport line; a gate provided on the second transport line; and a gate driving unit that moves the gate to a retracted position when the first detector detects the transport body, and moves the gate to an advanced position when the first detector does not detect the transport body. The autonomous traveling control unit controls the travel of the carrier bodies such that a forward separation distance, a distance between any of the carrier bodies and another carrier body or an obstacle ahead of the carrier body, is equal to or greater than a predetermined collision prevention distance.
US11009881B2
A control system for an autonomous vehicle is disclosed. The control system may receive information that identifies distances, measured by a sensor of the autonomous vehicle, to different points of a roadway. The control system may generate a representation of a curve based on the information that identifies the distances. The representation of the curve may include a series of points that represent a curvature of the roadway. The control system may identify a point, of the series of points, that satisfies a condition based on the representation of the curve. The control system may store, in the memory, an indication that the point is a center point of the roadway.
US11009880B2
A control system for navigating a marine vessel employs at least a first motor and a second motor. The control system is configured to communicate with the first and second motors. The control system is configured to receive a position measurement and an orientation measurement for the marine vessel. The control system is further configured to generate at least one control signal for the first motor based on the position measurement and at least one control signal for the second motor based on the orientation measurement.
US11009879B2
Systems and methods for controlling an aerial vehicle using lateral propulsion and vertical movement
An aerial vehicle control system includes an aerial vehicle and a computing device. The aerial vehicle includes an altitude controller and a lateral propulsion controller. The computing device includes a processor and a memory. The memory stores instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the computing device to obtain location data corresponding to a location of the aerial vehicle; obtain wind data; determine an altitude command, a latitude command, and a longitude command based on at least one of the location data or the wind data; cause the altitude controller to implement at least one of the altitude command, the latitude command, or the longitude command; and cause the lateral propulsion controller to implement at least one of the altitude command, the latitude command, or the longitude command.
US11009859B2
To provide a trusted, secure, and immutable record of storage operations executed by a storage center for storing measurement data provided by a process plant, techniques are described for utilizing a distributed ledger. When a data contributor such as a process plant generates measurement data, an encrypted version of a set of measurement data is transmitted to a storage center for secure storage of the measurement data. In some instances, the data contributor divides the set of measurement data into several subsets and transmits each subset of encrypted measurement data to a different storage center. Furthermore, the storage center generates a transaction for the storage operation which is recorded in a distributed ledger. When a data subscriber retrieves the encrypted measurement data from a storage center, the data subscriber can verify the authenticity of the data based on the information recorded in the distributed ledger.
US11009858B2
Automation and network components of an industrial automation network are discovered and evaluated using a configured tool that can access the components and determine their interconnection and configuration. The equipment on the network may include automation and monitoring devices, such as controllers, drives, switchgear, and so forth, as well as network components such as servers, routers, industrial managed switches, and so forth. The configuration may be graphically mapped for an operator, and known issues or deficiencies in the detected configuration may be used to evaluate potential problems that can be addressed. The access and evaluation can be done during real-time operation of the system without perturbing its normal automation functions.
US11009855B2
Provided is a method for manufacturing a metal card which is capable of allowing metal card antennas to have no interference with a metal sheet by including a processed plastic layer formed on the metal sheet, and an insulating sheet. The metal card is capable of improving sensitivity of antenna coil, thereby solving an existing problem of the difficulties in performing RF communication because of material characteristics of a metal layer.
US11009835B2
An electric drive includes a power component and an electric machine which is supplied with electrical energy via the power component. The power component is embodied as an inverter. When a starting condition is met, a drive controller for controlling the electric drive retrieves a configuration-specific parameter set from a data pool via a computer-to-computer interface, parameterizes itself in accordance with the retrieved parameter set and then determines control commands for the power component as a function of setpoint actuation states predefined for the drive controller, taking into account their parameterization, and actuates the power component accordingly. The setpoint actuation states are setpoint currents.
US11009827B2
An image forming apparatus includes a port to permit a imaging unit to be installed. A solid head unit has a base, a lifting mechanism, a print head, and a first guide. The lifting mechanism moves the print head up and down. The first guide includes a first guide rail facing the print head that limits the movement of the print head to a first range when the print head and a second, greater range when the print head is raised. The imaging unit includes a photoconductive drum in a drum case that includes a projection facing the solid head unit. The projection is configured to insert into a hole in the print head when the print head is raised.
US11009824B2
A fixing device (7) includes a fixing member (21), a pressing member (22), a rotation detector (41), and an auxiliary driving part (42). The fixing member (21), with rotating around an axis, heats a toner image on a medium (S). The pressing member (22), with rotating around an axis, forms a pressing area (N) with the fixing member (21) and presses toner on the medium (S) passing through the pressing area (N). The rotation detector (41), when the medium (S) stops while being sandwiched between the fixing member (21) and the pressing member (22), detects rotation of the fixing member (21) or the pressing member (22) generated in a process of extracting the medium (S) toward an upstream side or a downstream side in a passing direction. The auxiliary driving part (42), while the medium (S) is being extracted, determines a rotating direction of the fixing member (21) or the pressing member (22) based on a detection result by the rotation detector (41), and rotates the fixing member (21) or the pressing member (22) in the rotating direction.
US11009818B2
A heater of the invention includes a substrate; a first conductive element and a second conductive element which are provided on the substrate along a longitudinal direction of the substrate; a heat generating element which is provided between the first conductive element and the second conductive element and generates heat with power supplied via the first conductive element and the second conductive element; and an electrode to which a conductive member for suppling power is connected, in which a heat generation amount of a region corresponding to a position at which an electrode of the heat generating element is provided is set to be greater than a heat generation amount of other regions.
US11009806B2
An image-forming apparatus includes a photosensitive drum, a developing roller, a cam, a switching mechanism, a cam follower, and a controller for controlling the switching mechanism to control rotation of the cam. The cam is rotatable to move the developing roller between a contact position in contact with the photosensitive drum and a separated position in separation from the photosensitive drum. To maintain the developing roller at the contact position after being moved from the separated position, the cam is rotated to move the cam follower from a first holding surface to a second holding surface of the cam through a second guide surface, and is stopped rotating to hold the cam follower in contact with a first guide surface of the cam at a position closer to the first holding surface than to the second holding surface.
US11009795B2
A novel aqueous solution for resist pattern coating. An aqueous solution for resist pattern coating, including: a copolymer as component A, the copolymer having an ethylene oxide unit and a C3 alkylene oxide unit in a main chain and having a hydroxy group at a terminal; a water-soluble polymer, a water-soluble monomer, or a water-soluble oligomer as component B, the water-soluble polymer being other than the copolymer as the component A; and a solvent as component C, the solvent containing water as a main component. The copolymer as the component A is for example a block copolymer of formula (1) below: HOR1OxR2OyR3OzH (1) wherein R1, R2, and R3 are each independently an ethylene group, a propylene group, or a trimethylene group, and x, y, and z are each independently an integer of 5 to 100.
US11009793B2
A monomer and polymer having a substituent group capable of polarity switch under the action of acid are provided. A resist composition comprising the polymer forms at a high resolution a negative pattern insoluble in alkaline developer and having high etch resistance.
US11009775B2
An oral photography system and method can include: a chassis, the chassis including a chassis base and a vertical chassis extension, the vertical chassis extension extending upward from the chassis base, and the vertical chassis extension including: a magnetic clamp having a first clamping element for securing an imaging device to the vertical chassis extension, the imaging device including a second clamping element, a diffusion panel attachment coupled to the vertical chassis extension, and a light panel attachment coupled to the vertical chassis extension; a diffusion panel releasably affixed to the diffusion panel attachment; and a light panel releasably affixed to the light panel attachment.
US11009773B2
The present invention belongs to the technical field of lasers and provides a dual-chirped spectral optical parametric amplifier and an amplification method. A femtosecond laser assembly is configured to generate simultaneous pump and signal waves which successively pass through an input grating and an input collimator respectively. The various spectrum components of both the pump and the signal waves linearly disperse and focus on respective focal points, and present spatial chirps with opposite frequency gradients in the respective focal planes. A full-spectrum optical parametric amplification of the signal wave with the pump wave is performed via a fan-out periodically poled crystal, resulting an ultrabroad idler wave. The ultrabroad idler wave is separated from the hybrid waves via an optical splitter, and then passes successively through an output collimator and an output grating, and is Fourier transformed from frequency domain to temporal domain. An ultra-short pulsed laser with a long wavelength can be obtained eventually after a necessary dispersion compensation. The present invention provides a simple-structured optical parametric amplifier so as to obtain an ultra-short pulsed laser with a long wavelength.
US11009765B1
A varifocal block includes, in optical series, a switchable half waveplate (SHWP) and a plurality of liquid crystal (LC) lenses. The SHWP outputs circularly polarized light, and a handedness of the circularly polarized light is controlled by the SHWP being in an active state or a non-active state. Each LC lens of the plurality of LC lenses has a plurality of optical states, the plurality of optical states including an additive state that adds optical power to the LC lens and a subtractive state that removes optical power from the LC lens. The plurality of optical states of each of the plurality of the LC lenses compounded in optical series provides a range of adjustment of optical power for the varifocal block.
US11009758B2
A display panel displaying an image includes a first substrate, a second substrate disposed opposite the first substrate, electric optical substance sealed between the first substrate and the second substrate, a transistor disposed on the first substrate and supplying an electric signal to the electric optical substance and including an oxide semiconductor film as an activating layer, and a light blocking film disposed on the second substrate and blocking visible light from transmitting therethrough, the light blocking film having a hole in a position overlapping the transistor in a plan view.
US11009753B2
A display device includes a substrate, a first wiring and a second wiring positioned on the substrate, a thin film transistor (“TFT”) connected to the first wiring and the second wiring, and a pixel electrode connected to the TFT and including a transverse branch part, a longitudinal branch part, minute branches extending from the transverse branch part and the longitudinal branch part, and an outer branch part connecting end parts of the minute branches and adjacent to the storage electrode line, where a shortest distance from a center part of at least one side of the outer branch part to at least one side of the first wiring is different from a shortest distance from an edge part of at least one side of the outer branch part to at least one side of the first wiring.
US11009746B2
A backlight device includes an LED substrate including LED devices arrayed and a quantum dot layer disposed to receive light output from the LED devices. Each LED device emits first blue light and at least one of first green light and first red light, and when relative radiance of the first blue light is 1.00, relative radiance of the first green light is 0.21 or less and relative radiance of the first red light is 0.48 or less. The quantum dot layer includes, in accordance with the at least one of the first green light and the first red light, at least one of a green quantum dot excited by the first blue light and emitting second green light and a red green quantum dot excited by the first blue light and emitting second red light, and the quantum dot layer contains 300 ppm or less of cadmium.
US11009745B2
A display may have a pixel array such as a liquid crystal pixel array. The pixel array may be illuminated with backlight illumination from a backlight unit. The backlight unit may include a printed circuit board, a plurality of light-emitting diodes mounted on the printed circuit board, at least one light spreading layer formed over the printed circuit board that spreads light received from the plurality of light-emitting diodes, a partially reflective layer formed over the at least one light spreading layer, a color conversion layer formed over the partially reflective layer, a collimating layer formed over the color conversion layer, a brightness enhancement film formed over the collimating layer, and a diffuser formed over the brightness enhancement film. The at least one light spreading layer may include two light spreading layers with elongated protrusions that are rotated relative to each other.
US11009738B2
A black matrix is formed to an edge of a counter substrate. Then, a BM slit, which is an area where the black matrix is not present, is formed in the periphery of a seal material in order to prevent water or moisture from penetrating from the interface between the counter substrate and the black matrix. Then, a light shielding metal is formed in a layer other than a lead line layer, on the side of a TFT substrate, in order to prevent light from leaking from the BM slit. With this structure, it is possible to prevent the light from leaking from the BM slit around a screen. As a result, the degradation of the contrast can be prevented in the periphery of the screen.
US11009734B2
To reliably perform light irradiation in a vehicular lamp system using a liquid crystal element even in a cryogenic environment. A control device for a vehicular lamp comprising a light source and a liquid crystal element where the liquid crystal element is set to a light-shielded state and the light source is set to a light-on state to heat the liquid crystal element by the light emitted from the light source when the temperature of the liquid crystal element is estimated to be lower than a predetermined value.
US11009732B2
The present disclosure relates to the field of display technologies and, in particular, to a display panel and a display device thereof, for reducing the border width of the display panel. The display panel includes: a display substrate including a display area and a stepped area disposed at a side of the display area, an integrated substrate is provided with an integrated circuit, and a flexible circuit board respectively connected with the stepped area of the display substrate and with the integrated substrate. The integrated circuit is electrically connected with the display substrate via a circuit on the flexible circuit board. The display panel is applicable in the display device.
US11009730B2
A display apparatus includes a display module displaying an image, a rear structure supporting the display module, a vibration generating device vibrating the display module, and a stiff member disposed on a rear surface of the display module. Accordingly, a sound pressure level corresponding to a high frequency domain is prevented from being reduced, thereby enhancing the quality of a sound output to a region in front of a display panel.
US11009726B2
An electro-absorption optical modulator capable of realizing optical coupling with a Si waveguide with high efficiency, improving modulation efficiency, reducing light absorption by an electrode layer and achieving low optical loss includes a substrate; a first silicon layer doped to exhibit a first type of conductivity and a second silicon layer doped to exhibit a second type of conductivity that are disposed parallel to the substrate; and a Ge1−xSix (0
US11009716B2
Optimizations are provided for facilitating an improved transition between a real-world environment and a virtual reality environment. Initially, use of a HMD is detected and one or more real-world physical objects within a threshold proximity to the HMD are identified. Subsequently, a replicated environment, which includes virtual representations of the real-world physical object(s), is obtained and rendered in a virtual reality display. The replicated environment is transitioned out of view and a VR environment is subsequently rendered in the virtual reality display. In some instances, rendering of virtual representations of real-world physical objects into the VR environment occurs is response to detected triggering event.
US11009714B1
An interactive display includes a display capable of generating displayed images, and first and second eyepiece assemblies each including one or more variable-focus lenses. The eyepiece assemblies, variable-focus lenses and display allow the user to perceive a virtual 3D image while providing visual depth cues that cause the eyes to accommodate at a specified fixation distance. The fixation distance can be adjusted by changing the focal power of the variable-focus lenses.
US11009699B2
An eye tracker comprises a light source; a detector; and first and second waveguides. The first waveguide comprises an input coupler for coupling source light into a waveguide path and a first grating for coupling light out of the waveguide path onto an eye. The second waveguide comprises a second grating for coupling light reflected from the eye into a waveguide path and an output coupler for coupling light out of the waveguide path onto the detector. The second grating is optically configured for imaging the eye onto the detector.
US11009695B2
An occulter petal unfurling system including occulter petal unfurler disposed to rotate in relation to an occulter to unfurl a plurality of petals which in an unfurled condition can be used to block or suppress incoming light.
US11009694B2
An adapter for use with an endoscope. The adapter including: at least first and second axis-shifted lenses, each of the first and second axis-shifted lenses including a truncated portion, the first and second axis shifted lenses being arranged side by side so that respective first and second optical axes are parallel to each other; and a prism arranged further distally than the first and second axis-shifted lenses, the prism being configured to change a viewing direction of each of the first and second axis-shifted lenses; wherein at least a portion of each of the truncated portions of the first and second axis-shifted lenses is arranged further outward in the radial direction than the prism.
US11009689B2
An observation device includes a stage, an imaging optical system that includes an objective lens, a detection section that includes displacement sensors that detect a vertical position of a cultivation container, an imaging optical system controller that controls the imaging optical system driving section to move the objective lens in an optical axis direction on the basis of the vertical position of the cultivation container, and a horizontal driving section that moves the stage in a main scanning direction and a sub-scanning direction and reciprocates the stage in the main scanning direction, in which the detection section detects the vertical position of the cultivation container at a forward position in a movement direction of the observation region with reference to the position of the observation region of the imaging optical system with respect to the cultivation container.
US11009686B2
An imaging lens which uses a larger number of constituent lenses for higher performance and features a low F-value, low-profile design and a wide field of view. Designed for a solid-state image sensor, the imaging lens includes constituent lenses arranged in order from an object side to an image side: a first positive refractive power lens; a second negative refractive power lens; a third lens; a fourth lens; a fifth lens; a sixth lens having a concave image-side surface near an optical axis; and a seventh negative refractive power lens.
US11009685B2
A image capturing lens assembly includes six lens elements, the six lens elements being, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens element with positive refractive power having an object-side surface being convex thereof; a second lens element having negative refractive power; a third lens element; a fourth lens element; a fifth lens element with positive refractive power having an object-side surface being convex and an image-side surface being convex thereof; and a sixth lens element having an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof, the image-side surface having at least one convex critical point in an off-axial region thereof, and an object-side surface and the image-side surface being aspheric.
US11009683B2
An image lens assembly system includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element, a sixth lens element and a seventh lens element. The first lens element with negative refractive power has a convex object-side surface. The second lens element has positive refractive power. The third lens element has refractive power. The fourth lens element has refractive power. The fifth lens element has refractive power. The sixth lens element with refractive power is made of plastic material, wherein at least one surface of the sixth lens element is aspheric. The seventh lens element with refractive power made of plastic material has a concave image-side surface changing from concave in a paraxial region to convex in a peripheral region, and at least one surface thereof is aspheric.
US11009671B2
A fiber optic telecommunications device includes an enclosure defining an interior. A first fiber optic adapter is provided at the enclosure. A spool is provided at an exterior of the enclosure. A fiber optic cable, which includes a first optical fiber, is wrapped around the spool. A first fiber optic connector is mounted at a first end of the first optical fiber. The first end of the first optical fiber is positioned within the interior of the enclosure. The first fiber optic connector is inserted within the first fiber optic adapter. The enclosure and the spool are configured to rotate in unison about a common axis when the fiber optic cable is unwound from the spool.
US11009664B2
Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) has enabled telecommunication service providers to provide multiple independent multi-gigabit channels on one optical fiber. To Microoptoelectromechanical systems (MOEMS) integrating optical waveguides upon a MEMS can provide further integration opportunities and functionality options. Improvements to the design and implementation of MOEMS devices are presented where monolithically integrated optical waveguides are directly supported, moved and/or deformed upon a beam coupled to and manipulated by a MEMS. Accordingly, such MOEMS can provide programmable functionality by enabling alignment of the optical waveguide upon the MEMS to one of multiple optical waveguides disposed relative to the moving facet of the rotating optical waveguide.
US11009649B2
The invention relates to a lighting control console (01) for controlling a lighting system, digital adjusting commands being generated in the lighting control console (01), a slide control (06) being provided in the housing (08) of the lighting control console, a slit (09) being provided in the housing (08) of the lighting control console (01), being penetrated by a connecting lever originating from the interior of the housing (08) and mechanically connecting the control knob (07) to the slide control (06), at least one light conducting element (10) allocated to the slit (09) being provided in the housing (08) of the lighting control console (01) and extending along the longitudinal axis of the slit (09), at least one light source being provided in the housing (08) of the lighting control console (01) and said light conducting element (10) comprising at least one light entry surface (13) at which light can be coupled into the light conducting element (10) from the light source, said light conducting element (10) comprising light exit surfaces along the longitudinal axis of the slit (09), light being able to exit from the light conducting element (10) at the light exit surfaces.
US11009645B2
A backlight module including a light guide plate, a light source, an optical film, a first prism sheet and a second prism sheet is provided. The light guide plate has a light incident surface and a light emitting surface. The light source is disposed on a side of the light incident surface. The optical film is overlapped with the light emitting surface and includes a substrate, a plurality of optical microstructures and a first diffusion structure layer. The optical microstructures are disposed on a light incident side of the substrate. An extending direction of the optical microstructures intersects with the light incident surface. The first diffusion structure layer is disposed on a light emitting side of the substrate and is overlapped with the optical microstructures. The first prism sheet and the second prism sheet are overlapped with the optical film and are positioned on the light emitting side.
US11009638B2
Polymeric multilayer optical films are described. More particularly, polymeric multilayer optical films having a first optical packet and a second optical packet are described. The second optical packet is disposed on the first optical packet. How the configuration of the layers of the optical packets affect hemispheric reflectivity of the overall film is also described. The polymeric multilayer optical film reflects more than 95% of light from 400 nm to 700 nm at normal incidence.
US11009636B2
A sensor window may include a substrate and a set of layers disposed onto the substrate. The set of layers may include a first subset of layers of a first refractive index and a second set of layers of a second refractive index different from the first refractive index. The set of layers may be associated with a threshold transmissivity in a sensing spectral range. The set of layers may be configured to a particular color in a visible spectral range and may be associated with a threshold opacity in the visible spectral range.
US11009635B2
Systems, methods and devices are for optical imaging are described. A system includes a light source and a light detection unit. The light source includes a light-emitting device and a first spectral filter opposite the light emitting device. The first spectral filter includes at least one dielectric filter and has a first angular dependence of a transmission passband. The light source further includes at least one reflector adjacent side surfaces of the light emitting device. The light detection unit includes an optical sensor and a second spectral filter opposite the optical sensor. The second spatial filter has a second angular dependence of a transmission passband that is matched to the first angular dependence.
US11009625B2
In an embodiment, a computer-implemented method of generating and displaying a comprehensive depiction of a weather element comprises: based on archived forecast model and observed data, training a machine learning model; calibrating current forecast data by applying the machine learning model to yield a calibrated forecast probability density function; displaying graphical representation of recently observed data and calibrated forecast probability density.
US11009622B2
A system identifying a source of radiation is provided. The system includes a radiation source detector and a radiation source identifier. The radiation source detector receives measurements of radiation; for one or more sources, generates a detection metric indicating whether that source is present in the measurements; and evaluates the detection metrics to detect whether a source is present in the measurements. When the presence of a source in the measurements is detected, the radiation source identifier for one or more sources, generates an identification metric indicating whether that source is present in the measurements; generates a null-hypothesis metric indicating whether no source is present in the measurements; evaluates the one or more identification metrics and the null-hypothesis metric to identify the source, if any, that is present in the measurements.
US11009614B2
Disclosed herein is an apparatus suitable for detecting X-ray, comprising: an X-ray absorption layer comprising an electrode; an electronics layer, the electronics layer comprising: a substrate having a first surface and a second surface, an electronics system in or on the substrate, an electric contact on the first surface, and a first via extending from the first surface toward the second surface; wherein the electrode is electrically connected to the electric contact; wherein the electronics system comprises a controller connected in series with and between the electric contact and the first via.
US11009612B2
A control apparatus may include a processor for calculating a detection efficiency, which is detected by a gamma-ray detection unit, of gamma-rays emitted from a sample stuffed into a first container. A shape of the first container is a shape which surrounds at least a part of the gamma-ray detection unit that detects the gamma-rays. An area inside the first container is divided into a plurality of similar areas which is area similar in shape to each other. The gamma-ray detection unit detects the gamma-rays emitted from the sample included in each the similar areas for each of the plurality of similar areas. The processor calculates the detection efficiency as a similar-area-detection efficiency based on a result of detection performed by the gamma-ray detection unit.
US11009600B2
Embodiments of the present invention include radio frequency identification location systems and methods. In one embodiment, RF signals are transmitted from one or more RFID readers, and in accordance therewith, backscattered signals are received from a tag to be located. A plurality of measured position parameters are used to determine a location of the tag. In one embodiment, one reader may transmit and three readers may receive signals to determine the position of a tag. In other embodiments, multiple readers may transmit and receive. In another embodiment, one reader may transmit from different positions to locate a tag. Embodiments of the invention may be used to track a moving tag. A reader's position may be determined using GPS, reference tags, or the reader may be positioned in a known location. A map may be provided to a user to display the location or movement of a tag or a corresponding item.
US11009595B1
A continuously adjustable optical beam splitter includes a circular to linear polarization converter, a polarization rotator, and a polarization beam splitter that apportions light between two outputs. The polarization converter can include a quarter wave plate. The polarization rotator can include a mechanically rotated half wave plate or an electronically controlled liquid crystal variable retarder. The light source can be astronomical, reflected LIDAR light, or a laser beam from a remote laser communication node. Also disclosed is a free space laser communication terminal that implements the disclosed optical beam splitter, wherein the optical beam splitter diverts substantially all received laser light to an alignment channel during initial alignment, and then during message communication diverts more than 90%, and in embodiments up to 98%, of the received light to a communication channel, while alignment is maintained by continuing to divert the remaining laser light to the alignment channel.
US11009582B2
A method and an apparatus may be used for positioning a terminal device. Positioning measurement information for a terminal device is obtained by using a measurement apparatus on the terminal device side and/or an access node side, where the positioning measurement information is multipath positioning measurement information that is based on a single access node, and includes positioning measurement information of a main path and at least one reflection path that are based on the single access node, or positioning measurement information for at least two reflection paths. The measurement apparatus on the terminal device side and/or the access node side reports the positioning measurement information to a positioning function entity in a network, so that the positioning function entity can perform location estimation on the terminal device based on the positioning measurement information, to position the terminal device.
US11009580B2
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for sharing, by a first User Equipment, interception-assistance information relating to an uplink signal transmitted by the first User Equipment. The interception-assistance information may be used to assist a second User Equipment to intercept the uplink signal and measure at least one characteristic of it. Calculation-assistance information may be used to assist in the calculation of a position or time, based on the measured characteristic.
US11009575B2
Methods for reducing scan time in magnetic resonance imaging (“MRI”), particularly when imaging three-dimensional image volumes, using a simultaneous time-interleaved multislice (“STIMS”) acquisition are described. The unused time in each repetition time (“TR”) period is exploited to provide an additional reduction in encoding time for a three-dimensional acquisition (e.g., a 3D whole brain coverage). Groups of spatially interleaved slices are excited in a single TR, with the excitation and acquisition of the groups of slices being interleaved in time.
US11009572B2
A method and a system are disclosed for obtaining imaging data using a MRI system configured to provide accurate images with high Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) using superconducting magnets with field strengths in the range of 0.5 Tesla (T) to 3 T. The MRI includes a scanning bore deployed within a Cryogen-Free (CF) conduction-cooled superconducting magnet. The CF may have two stages, in which one stage cools a radiation shield down to a mid-level temperature, such as 35-80 degrees Kelvin (K), and the second stage cools the cold-mass further down to about 3-6 degrees K. The two-stage CF cryocooloer is used to cool target bodies of the superconducting magnet system and the receiving RF coil to create a higher SNR relative to when RF coils are not cooled. Sapphire sheets or bars may be used to cool the RF coils because sapphire conducts heat but not electricity, reducing electrical noise.
US11009568B2
A magnetoresistive sensor includes a magnetic reference layer. The magnetic reference layer includes a permanent closed flux magnetization pattern of a predetermined rotational direction. Furthermore, the magnetoresistive sensor includes a magnetic free layer. The magnetic free layer has a total lateral area that is smaller than a total lateral area of the magnetic reference layer. A centroid of the magnetic free layer is laterally displaced with respect to a centroid of the magnetic reference layer.
US11009563B2
A signal processing arrangement for a Hall sensor comprises a signal path, a feedback path and a converter path. The signal path comprises a Hall element and a front-end amplifier which are connected in series and arranged to generate an output signal depending on a magnetic field. The feedback path comprises a compensation circuit and is coupled to the signal path. The converter path comprises an analog-to-digital converter and an offset compensation circuit and is coupled to the signal path. A switch network is coupled between the signal path, the feedback path and the converter path. In a compensation phase, the switch network electrically connects the feedback path to the signal path such that the compensation circuit generates a compensation signal which is coupled into the signal path. In a sampling phase, the switch network connects the signal path to the converter path such that the output signal is reduced by the compensation signal is provided at the converter path.
US11009561B2
A method of identifying opposing ends of a cable within a cabling assembly having a plurality of cables. The method includes transmitting a signal to a first end of a cable of the plurality of cables, receiving the signal at a second end of the cable of the plurality of cables, transmitting an output signal from a connector operably coupled to the second end of the cable of the plurality of cables to a processor. The connector is one of a plurality of connectors. The method additionally includes identifying using an indicator device the connector of the plurality of connectors that is operably coupled to the second end of the cable.
US11009548B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus for testing semiconductor devices.
US11009547B2
A computer system includes a circuit board, one or more electronic components and a board management controller (BMC). The electronic components are disposed on the circuit board. The BMC is disposed on the circuit board and electrically connected to the one or more electronic components. The BMC is configured to enable/initiate a boundary scan test for the one or more electronic component.
US11009541B2
An electronic component handler includes: a transport unit which transports an electronic component; a region where an electronic component placement unit on which the electronic component is placed is capable of being disposed; a light irradiation unit which is capable of emitting light and capable of adjusting an irradiation direction of the light with respect to the electronic component placement unit; a processing unit which performs determination processing about the presence or absence of the electronic component in the electronic component placement unit based on at least one of a projection shape and an irradiation position of the light projected to the electronic component placement unit; and a display unit which displays an image having the projection shape.
US11009534B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate to water leakage detection. Data obtained by a smart electricity meter during a predefined time period is collected, where the smart electricity meter is associated with a water-consuming unit. Usages of certain electric appliances in the water-consuming unit during the predefined time period are determined based on the collected data. The electricity consumption of those appliances is correlated to water consumption. The legitimate water consumption of the water-consuming unit during the predefined time period is then determined based on the usages of the electric appliances.
US11009531B2
An image generating device is an apparatus for acquiring an image which shows a direction of an electric current flowing through a semiconductor device. The image generating device comprises a signal application unit configured to apply a stimulation signal to the semiconductor device, a magnetic detection unit configured to output a detection signal based on a magnetism generated by an application of the stimulation signal, and an image generation unit configured to generate phase image data comprising a phase component which indicates a phase difference based on the phase difference between the detection signal and a reference signal which is generated based on the stimulation signal and generate an electric current direction image which shows the direction of the electric current based on the phase image data.
US11009527B2
A dynamic measuring system is described that comprises a measuring device. The measuring system has an acquisition unit and a post processing unit that is configured to post process the digital signal. The post processing unit has at least one signal correction filter being configured to be operated in at least two different modes for processing the digital signal. The signal correction filter has at least a first signal correction filter setting being used in a first mode and a second signal correction filter setting being used in a second mode. In addition, the measuring system has a switching unit that is configured to select the first mode or the second mode, the switching unit being configured to be operated dynamically based on an event in the data signal. The signal correction filter comprises time variable coefficients. Further, a method for probing a dynamic data signal is also described.
US11009522B2
A method for calibrating an acceleration sensor coupled to a machine may comprise: at a first position of a linkage of the machine, obtaining a first acceleration measurement from the acceleration sensor and obtaining from an input a first force value indicative of a first force on the linkage; at a second position of the linkage of the machine, obtaining a second acceleration measurement from the acceleration sensor and obtaining from the input a second force value indicative of a second force on the linkage; determining a rotational offset calibration value of the acceleration sensor as a function of the first acceleration measurement, the first force value, the second acceleration measurement, and the second force value; and using the rotational offset calibration value to calibrate the acceleration sensor.
US11009515B2
An automatic analyzer capable of controlling an interval between the tip of a sample nozzle and the bottom of a reaction container regardless of individual differences between reaction containers and sample nozzles and suppressing adhesion of a sample to the sample nozzle is disclosed. Sample nozzles 13a and 14a are moved toward the bottom surface of a reaction container 2, the movement of the sample nozzles is stopped at a point in time when a stop position detector 46 detects a stop position detection plate 45, the sample nozzles are ascended from the stop position to a position where the stop position detection plate 45 separates from a detection range of the stop position detector 46, and an arm 44 is moved upward by a moving distance stored in a memory.
US11009509B2
The present invention relates to novel antibodies and fragments that bind to a V-domain Ig Suppressor of T cell Activation (VISTA), and methods of detecting VISTA.
US11009508B2
The present invention provides methods of detecting cancer using biomarkers.
US11009503B2
A biochemical detection device with a controlled reaction incubation time includes a substrate; a probe disposed on the substrate; a dissolvable material layer disposed on the substrate, wherein the dissolvable material layer has a first opening defined therein, wherein the probe is received in the first opening; an absorbing material layer disposed on the dissolvable material layer and having a second opening defined therein, wherein the first opening communicates with the second opening and is smaller than the second opening; and a non-dissolvable material layer disposed on an inner face of the second opening of the absorbing material layer and on an exposed top face of the dissolvable material layer.
US11009496B2
An exemplary embodiment provides a method of determining formation energy of a multi-element crystal, including: generating information related to a candidate structure of the multi-element crystal and information related to a metal pair included in the multi-element crystal, based on information related to a composition of the multi-element crystal; and determining the formation energy based on the information related to the candidate structure and the information related to the metal pair.
US11009491B2
A quantitative analysis assistant program that creates a quantitative table showing the relationship of compounds, quantitative values and other related information for each of two data files A and B, and displays on each of the view areas “a” and “b”. The analysis operator specifies one compound in one of the quantitative tables. Then, the other quantitative table is automatically searched for a compound having a name identical to the specified compound. A chromatogram, mass spectrum and other related information corresponding to that compound and are based on data file B are displayed on the view area “b” along with the quantitative table. Then, measurement results corresponding to the compound based on data file A are displayed on view area “a” along with the quantitative table. A comparison of the measurement or quantitative determination results for the same component can be easily and efficiently performed in a simultaneous multicomponent analysis.
US11009480B2
The disclosure provides for a lab-on-a-chip (LOC) device and a method of fabrication thereof. Additionally, a system and a method for point of care testing of multiple biomarkers such as glucose, cholesterol, creatinine, uric acid, and bilirubin is provided. The microfluidic assembly consists of three layers in which the top and the middle layers are made up of polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) and the bottom layer with polyethylene terephthalate (PET). The device integrates screen printed non-enzymatic electrochemical sensors in the bottom layer for simultaneous detection of glucose, cholesterol, creatinine, uric acid, and bilirubin. A hand held potentiostat with readout enables readout for the point of care application of integrated sensing device. The device developed has potential to revamp healthcare by providing access to affordable technology for better management a diabetes and related complications at every door step.
US11009479B2
A sensor for the detection of HbA1c in a sample includes a substrate, a working electrode and counter electrode formed on a surface of the substrate, and an anti-HbA1c antibody functionalized or chemically functionalized to a surface of an exposed portion of the working electrode.
US11009477B2
A semiconductor-based multi-sensor module integrates miniature temperature, pressure, and humidity sensors onto a single substrate. Pressure and humidity sensors can be implemented as capacitive thin film sensors, while the temperature sensor is implemented as a precision miniature Wheatstone bridge. Such multi-sensor modules can be used as building blocks in application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs). Furthermore, the multi-sensor module can be built on top of existing circuitry that can be used to process signals from the sensors. An integrated multi-sensor module that uses differential sensors can measure a variety of localized ambient environmental conditions substantially simultaneously, and with a high level of precision. The multi-sensor module also features an integrated heater that can be used to calibrate or to adjust the sensors, either automatically or as needed. Such a miniature integrated multi-sensor module that features low power consumption can be used in medical monitoring and mobile computing, including smart phone applications.
US11009472B2
The disclosure relates to a scanning apparatus for scanning food bars for a food processing system. The scanning apparatus comprises a conveyor assembly for conveying a food bar in a longitudinal direction, and a scanning unit adapted to record an outer and/or inner shape of at least one food bar. The scanning unit is movable at least along the longitudinal direction. The disclosure further relates to a method for scanning food bars.
US11009471B2
For each respective first-phase rotational position of a set of first-phase rotational positions, an imaging system may generate a respective first-phase image. The imaging system may determine, based on an identified region of interest in the respective first-phase image, collimator blade positions for the respective first-phase rotational position. For each respective second-phase rotational position of a set of second-phase rotational positions, the imaging system may determine, based on the collimator blade positions for the first-phase rotational positions, collimator blade positions for the respective second-phase rotational position. The imaging system may generate a respective second-phase image in a second series of images while the test object is at the respective second-phase rotational position and while the collimator blades are at the collimator blade positions for the respective second-phase rotational position. The imaging system may compute, based on the second series of images, tomographic data for the portion of the test object.
US11009469B2
An automated high-speed method for inspecting metal around fasteners and a computer-controlled apparatus for performing that inspection method. The apparatus comprises a multi-motion inspection head mounted on a scanning bridge, a robotic arm, or a robotic crawler vehicle. The multi-motion inspection head comprises a millimeter waveguide probe and a motorized multi-stage probe placement head that is operable for displacing the waveguide probe along X, Y and Z axes to achieve multiple sequenced motions. The waveguide probe is attached to a mandrel that is rotatably coupled to an X-axis (or Y-axis) stage for rotation about the Z axis. Smart servo or stepper motors with feedback control are used to move the waveguide probe into place and then scan across or around a fastener head to inspect for cracks that may be under paint.
US11009464B2
Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are provided where fluid, such as a blood sample, is entered into a microfluidic channel in a microchip where the microfluidic channel possesses a micro/nanopillar array for sorting molecules by size. When the fluid passes through the micro/nanopillar array it is separated into particles of interest or particles not of interest or both. When particles of interest are lit by a light source via a first waveguide in the microchip connecting the light source to the microfluidic channel, then lighted particles of interest can be detected by an optical detector via a second waveguide in the microchip connecting the optical detector to the microfluidic channel. The information from the optical detector can be analyzed further by connecting the microchip to a mobile computing device with its own processing abilities or abilities via the internet or cloud.
US11009462B2
Disclosed are calibration apparatuses for fluorescent microscopy instruments and methods of making and using them. Specifically, disclosed are calibration apparatuses with a fluorescent layer, such as photoresist, deposited on a substrate, with an optional layer of a reflective material, such as chrome. Illumination of the fluorescent and/or reflective layers, and detection and analysis of the resulting emissions allows evaluation of the instrument with respect to both reflective and fluorescent channels. Selection of appropriate fluorescent materials for the one or more fluorescent layers allows the evaluation of an instrument with respect to different fluorophores, as would be used with an instrument capable of two color detection. Inclusion of a reflective layer further allows the evaluation and calibration of all optical channels of an instrument, including the reflective channel and two or more fluorescent channels, with a single calibration apparatus for imaging criteria such as uniformity, contrast and emission signal strength.
US11009461B2
The present disclosure relates to a substrate defect measuring apparatus for detecting defects inside a substrate by photoluminescence and detecting defects outside the substrate by using the scattering of incident light for generating photoluminescence, and provides an apparatus for constituting an optical system in order to measure scattered and/or reflected light together in a procedure of measuring the photoluminescence, thereby shortening a measurement time.
US11009452B2
A device may receive information identifying results of a spectroscopic measurement performed on an unknown sample. The device may determine a decision boundary for a quantification model based on a configurable parameter, such that a first plurality of training set samples of the quantification model is within the decision boundary and a second plurality of training set samples of the quantification model is not within the decision boundary. The device may determine a distance metric for the spectroscopic measurement performed on the unknown sample relative to the decision boundary. The device may determine a plurality of distance metrics for the second plurality of training set samples of the quantification model relative to the decision boundary. The device may provide information indicating whether the spectroscopic measurement performed on the unknown sample corresponds to the quantification model.
US11009440B2
A temperature-controllable microfluidic device includes: a microfluidic channel generally extending in a first direction for passing a specimen fluid; a microheater disposed along the microfluidic channel, the microheater being made of a resistive wire having a pair of serpentine-shaped portions generally extending in the first direction along respective sides of the microfluidic channel; and a temperature sensor disposed along the microfluidic channel, the temperature sensor being made of a resistive wire having a pair of serpentine-shaped portions generally extending in the first direction along the respective sides of the microfluidic channel.
US11009433B2
Disclosed herein is a composition for making a biological material (such as a tissue or an organ of an animal) transparent at solid state. Also disclosed herein is a method for rendering a biomaterial transparent at solid state by the application of the present composition.
US11009430B2
A method for monitoring operation of a plant via a plurality of sensors includes: a) determining respective temporal waveforms of measurement values recordable with the sensors during normal operation of the plant, b) determining dependencies between the determined temporal waveforms of the measurement values, c) recording respective temporal waveforms of measurement values with the sensors during the operating mode to be monitored of the plant, and d) deciding whether a fault is present in the operating mode to be monitored of the plant by evaluating the recorded temporal waveforms on the basis of the determined dependencies.
US11009429B2
The present invention relates to a platform for testing collisions or near-collision situations between a collision body, in particular a vehicle, and a test object. The platform has a base body, which has a bottom surface and an attachment surface formed opposite to the bottom surface, wherein an attachment device is formed on the attachment surface for attaching the test object. Furthermore, the platform has at least one roller element, which is arranged at the bottom surface, wherein the roller element is configured such that the base body is displaceable along a ground by the roller element. The base body is formed of an elastically deformable material having a thickness of less than 2500 kg/m3.
US11009428B2
A sub-assembly (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7) for a drive unit (1). The sub-assembly (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7), according to the invention, is characterized in that the sub-assembly (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7) comprises a standardized interface for connection to a further sub-assembly (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7) for the same drive unit (1). The invention also relates to a corresponding drive unit (1), a corresponding drive-train test stand (20) and a corresponding modular system.
US11009427B2
Real-time correction of vehicle load curve for dynamometer testing, and associated systems and methods are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method for replicating an on-road performance and/or a failure of a road vehicle in a test facility includes applying a load curve to a controller of the test facility and testing a test vehicle in the test facility using the load curve. The method also includes verifying whether the performance/failure is replicated on the test vehicle, and if the performance/failure is not replicated, changing at least one parameter in the load curve.
US11009424B2
A diagnostic apparatus for a powder coating material pump. The diagnostic apparatus includes a detector that uses pressure or flow to detect a fault in the pump, the diagnostic apparatus being external the pump, internal the pump or a combination of external and internal the pump. Another diagnostic device is provided for a powder coating material pump, and includes a light source in close proximity to the pump, the light source having an on condition and an off condition wherein one or both of the on condition and off condition provides information about the pump performance. An exemplary pump is a dense phase powder coating material pump.
US11009422B2
A vacuum bell probe for detecting leaks in underground gas pipes may include a flexible suction cup having a bottom side forming a suction opening. The suction cup may define an interior volume. The bottom side may include a soft seal ring having a higher elasticity than the suction cup, surrounding the suction opening and forming a contact surface adapted to create a seal in contact with a ground surface under which a gas leak may be assumed such that a vacuum may be generated within the interior volume upon contact to the ground surface.
US11009416B2
A pressure measurement device for determining a pressure of a fluid located inside a cylindrical casing includes: at least one sensor for determining a force acting thereon; and a clamp for peripheral attachment to the casing. The at least one sensor is arranged inside the clamp and is operatively connected thereto. The clamp includes a peripheral link chain having chain links that are pivotably coupled to one another at end joints, and a closure device that interacts with a first chain link and a final chain link.
US11009412B2
A microelectromechanical force/pressure sensor has: a sensor die, of semiconductor material, having a front surface and a bottom surface, extending in a horizontal plane, and made of a compact bulk region having a thickness along a vertical direction, transverse to the horizontal plane; piezoresistive elements, integrated in the bulk region of the sensor die, at the front surface thereof; and a cap die, coupled above the sensor die, covering the piezoresistive elements, having a respective front surface and bottom surface, opposite to each other along the vertical direction, the bottom surface facing the front surface of the sensor die. A conversion layer is arranged between the front surface of the sensor die and the bottom surface of the cap die, patterned to define a groove traversing its entire thickness along the vertical direction; the piezoresistive elements are arranged vertically in correspondence to the groove and the conversion layer is designed to convert a load applied to the front surface of the cap die and/or bottom surface of the sensor die along the vertical direction into a planar stress distribution at the groove, acting in the horizontal plane.
US11009411B2
A physical disturbance sensor includes a plurality of piezoresistive elements configured in a resistive bridge configuration. A signal transmitter is electrically connected to the physical disturbance sensor and configured to send an encoded signal to the piezoresistive elements of the resistive bridge configuration. A signal receiver is electrically connected to the piezoresistive elements and configured to receive a signal from the physical disturbance sensor. The received signal from the physical disturbance sensor is correlated with the sent encoded signal in determining a measure of physical disturbance.
US11009405B1
A system and method for early-warning and positioning of overheating in a lithium ion battery pack is disclosed, especially for a single battery in the lithium ion battery pack during use. The system Includes a sensor unit, a controller unit, an alarm unit and an auxiliary unit; the sensor unit includes a special flexible thin film sensor; the controller unit includes a single chip microprocessor, an alarm controller, a computer and a display, the single chip microprocessor and the alarm controller being connected to the computer, the computer being connected to the display; the alarm unit includes a LED alarm light and a buzzer; the single chip microprocessor of the controller unit is connected to the flexible film sensor; the auxiliary unit includes a power supply and a constant value resistor; the power supply provides power separately to the controller unit and the alarm unit, and the constant value resistor is directly connected to the power supply.
US11009403B2
A time domain temperature sensor circuit includes a voltage generating circuit configured to generate and equalize a first voltage of a first node and a second voltage of a second node, a current generating circuit comprising a first semiconductor device connected between the first node and a ground, and configured to generate a first current, and a variable resistor circuit and a second semiconductor device connected in series between the second node and the ground, and configured to generate a second current, the variable resistor circuit being configured to vary a temperature gradient of the second current based on resistance variations by the variable resistor circuit, and a current mirror circuit configured to generate a third current by performing current mirroring of the second current and transmit the third current to an output terminal.
US11009402B2
Disclosed is a thermocouple assembly having a resilient mount; a buffer having a first side and a second side, with the buffer first side connecting with the resilient mount; an insulator having a first side and a second side, with the insulator first side connecting with the buffer second side; and a thermocouple having a first side and a second side, the thermocouple first side connecting with the insulator second side, and the thermocouple second side being configured to be in thermal contact with an object to be measured.
US11009401B2
In an aspect, a dual-sensor waterproof temperature monitoring probe includes: a hollow tube formed with a first diameter at a first end and a second diameter at a second end; a first temperature sensor located within the hollow tube at the first end; a second temperature sensor located within the hollow tube at the second end; a temperature sensor holder configured to fit within the second diameter of the hollow tube and to position the second temperature sensor adjacent an inside surface of the hollow tube; one or more first electrical wires electrically coupled with the first temperature sensor; one or more second electrical wires electrically coupled with the second temperature sensor; and a handle permanently sealing the hollow tube at the second end and sealing around the first and second electrical wires. In another aspect, a dual-sensor waterproof temperature monitoring probe includes a primary hollow tube and an auxiliary hollow tube. In this aspect, a first temperature sensor is located inside the primary hollow tube at the first closed end and a second temperature sensor may be located inside the auxiliary hollow tube.
US11009400B2
Aspects of the present disclosure include methods for spectrally resolving light from fluorophores having overlapping fluorescence spectra in a sample. Methods according to certain embodiments include detecting light with a light detection system from a sample having a plurality of fluorophores having overlapping fluorescence spectra and spectrally resolving light from each fluorophore in the sample. In some embodiments, methods include estimating the abundance of one or more of the fluorophores in the sample, such as on a particle. In certain instances, methods include identifying the particle in the sample based on the abundance of each fluorophore and sorting the particle. Methods according to some embodiments includes spectrally resolving the light from each fluorophore by calculating a spectral unmixing matrix for the fluorescence spectra of each fluorophore. Systems and integrated circuit devices (e.g., a field programmable gate array) for practicing the subject methods are also provided.
US11009398B2
A tunable optical filter, includes a light source configured to emit optical radiation to a sample; an input optical element configured to receive optical radiation reflected from the sample; a liquid crystal cell comprising electrodes, the liquid crystal cell contacting the input optical element; an output optical element, contacting the liquid crystal cell; and a control unit adapted to apply a preset voltage to the liquid crystal cell via the electrodes; wherein the input optical element and the output optical element have a same first refractive index, wherein, when voltage is not applied to the liquid crystal cell, the first refractive index is greater than a second refractive index of the liquid crystal cell for a wavelength range of incident optical radiation, and wherein the input optical element, the liquid crystal cell and the output optical element are tilted at an angle to the incident optical radiation.
