US11017801B1
A magnetic head includes a main pole configured to serve as a first electrode, an upper pole containing a trailing magnetic shield configured to a serve as a second electrode, and a record element located in a trailing gap between the main pole and the trailing magnetic shield. The record element includes an electrically conductive, non-magnetic material portion which is not part of a spin torque oscillator stack. The main pole and the trailing magnetic shield are electrically shorted by the record element across the trailing gap between the main pole and the trailing magnetic shield such that an electrically conductive path is present between the main pole and the trailing magnetic shield through the record element.
US11017794B2
Various examples in the present invention relate to an electronic device and a method for reducing noise by utilizing the same, the device and the method connecting a call using a headset, classifying a user voice signal received through the headset into a P voice signal and an N voice signal, applying the same voltage to the P voice signal and the N voice signal by using a noise reduction filter, and enabling the noise induced in the voltage to be removed by synthesizing the P voice signal and the N voice signal. In addition, other examples are possible.
US11017788B2
A method of building a new voice having a new timbre using a timbre vector space includes receiving timbre data filtered using a temporal receptive field. The timbre data is mapped in the timbre vector space. The timbre data is related to a plurality of different voices. Each of the plurality of different voices has respective timbre data in the timbre vector space. The method builds the new timbre using the timbre data of the plurality of different voices using a machine learning system.
US11017786B2
Vector Quantizer and method therein for vector quantization, e.g. in a transform audio codec. The method comprises comparing an input target vector with four centroids C0, C1, C0,flip and C1,flip, wherein centroid C0,flip is a flipped version of centroid C0 and centroid C1,flip is a flipped version of centroid C1, each centroid representing a respective class of codevectors. A starting point for a search related to the input target vector in the codebook is determined, based on the comparison. A search is performed in the codebook, starting at the determined starting point, and a codevector is identified to represent the input target vector. A number of input target vectors per block or time segment is variable. A search space is dynamically adjusted to the number of input target vectors. The codevectors are sorted according to a distortion measure reflecting the distance between each codevector and the centroids C0 and C1.
US11017781B2
Techniques are provided for reverberation compensation for far-field speaker recognition. A methodology implementing the techniques according to an embodiment includes receiving an authentication audio signal associated with speech of a user and extracting features from the authentication audio signal. The method also includes scoring results of application of one or more speaker models to the extracted features. Each of the speaker models is trained based on a training audio signal processed by a reverberation simulator to simulate selected far-field environmental effects to be associated with that speaker model. The method further includes selecting one of the speaker models, based on the score, and mapping the selected speaker model to a known speaker identification or label that is associated with the user.
US11017775B1
A method for electronically utilizing content in a communication between a customer and a customer representative is provided. An audible conversation between a customer and a service representative is captured. At least a portion of the audible conversation is converted into computer searchable data. The computer searchable data is analyzed during the audible conversation to identify relevant meta tags previously stored in a data repository or generated during the audible conversation. Each meta tag is associated with the customer. Each meta tag provides a contextual item determined from at least a portion of one of a current or previous conversation with the customer. A meta tag determined to be relevant to the current conversation between the service representative and the customer is displayed in real time to the service representative currently conversing with the customer.
US11017774B2
A method, system, and computer program product are provided for classifying spoken audio content with a cognitive audio classifier by applying a set of distorted audio resources through a set of speech-to-text models STTi (STT1 . . . STTn) to get a set of interference coherence scores based on the transcript for each speech-to-text model STTi, thereby generating a measured baseline Mi (M1 . . . Mn) and a practical baseline Pi (P1 . . . Pn) that is associated with a coherence matrix for the audio effects AEj (AE1 . . . AEk) that were used to generate the distorted audio resources, thereby generating training data for use in training a cognitive audio classifier which classifies input spoken audio content to measure a quality of detected vocabulary elements from the spoken audio content under the set of audio distortion effects for each speech-to-text model STTi.
US11017756B2
Various embodiments of a phononic system to achieve quantum-analogue phase-based unitary operations are disclosed. A plurality of diatomic molecules is adsorbed on a cubic crystal surface. At least a first pair of parallel chains is created from the plurality of diatomic molecules, such that the two constituent chains of the first pair of parallel chains each comprise three or more diatomic molecules. One or more diatomic molecules of the first pair of parallel chains are displaced in order to thereby create one or more kinks in the first pair of parallel chains. The one or more kinks apply a first desired phase transformation to elastic waves scattered by the plurality of diatomic molecules and adjusting the number of kinks or adjusting the order in which kinks are created or modified causes a corresponding adjustment to the first desired phase transformation.
US11017743B2
A screen includes a substrate and a display layer located on top of the substrate. The display layer includes a primary display area and a secondary display area. A form of pixel distribution in the secondary display area differs from that in the primary display area.
US11017739B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes housing, a touchscreen display, a wireless communication circuit, a connector, and a processor electrically connected to the touchscreen display, the wireless communication circuit, and the connector. The processor is configured to connect to an external display device via the wireless communication circuit or the connector, to display a graphical user interface corresponding to a screen, which the external display device outputs, in at least part of a region of the touchscreen display, to display at least part of a region of the graphical user interface in a black background, and to convert first coordinate information of a user input, which is received with respect to at least one region of the graphical user interface, to second coordinate information corresponding to the external display device to transmit the second coordinate information to the external display device.
US11017725B2
Provided in various examples are a device and a method, the device comprising: a first pixel group and a second pixel group for converting an electrical signal into an optical signal; a first emission line for transmitting, to the first pixel group, power supplied from the outside; and a second emission line for transmitting the power to the second pixel group, wherein the first emission line and the second emission line are electrically separated from each other. In addition, other examples are also possible.
US11017722B1
The present disclosure relates to a display substrate, a display device, and a control method thereof. The display substrate includes a plurality of pixels, each of which includes a first sub-pixel, a second sub-pixel, a third sub-pixel, and a fourth sub-pixel. The first sub-pixel, the second sub-pixel, and the third sub-pixel have different light emission colors. The fourth sub-pixel has the same light emission color as the first sub-pixel. The first sub-pixel, the second sub-pixel, the third sub-pixel, and the fourth sub-pixel all emit light, in a case where an ambient temperature is less than a first threshold. The second sub-pixel and the third sub-pixel both emit light, and one of the fourth sub-pixel and the first sub-pixel emits light, in a case where the ambient temperature is greater than or equal to the first threshold.
US11017720B2
A pixel includes a plurality of transistors, a storage capacitor, and an organic light emitting diode. A first transistor controls the amount of current from a first driving power source to the organic light emitting diode based on a data voltage. A second transistor is connected to a data line and is turned on based on a scan signal. A third transistor coupled to the first transistor and is turned on based on the scan signal. A first stabilizing transistor is coupled to the third transistor or between the first and third transistors and is turned off when the third transistor is turned off.
US11017714B2
A scan driver for display device includes: a plurality of stage groups each including a first stage and a second stage spaced apart from the first stage in a first direction; and a first power line extending in the first direction, the first power line being commonly electrically connected to the plurality of stage groups. The first power line includes a first branch line extending in a second direction crossing the first direction between the first stage and the second stage, and the first branch line is electrically connected to the first stage and the second stage. The first stage includes a first transistor including a first electrode connected to a first scan line and a second transistor including a first electrode connected to a first sensing line, and the second stage includes a third transistor including a first electrode connected to a second scan line and a fourth transistor including a first electrode connected to a second sensing line. The first transistor, the second transistor, the third transistor, and the fourth transistor disposed one after the other in the first direction.
US11017706B2
A display screen and an electronic device are provided. The display screen includes a number of display pixels arranged on a display area of the display screen and a plurality of image capturing pixels arranged in gaps between the plurality of display pixels. The display screen is operable in a display mode or an image capturing mode. The plurality of display pixels is switched on when the display screen is in the display mode and the plurality of image capturing pixels is switched on when the display screen is in the image capturing mode. The display screen integrates display pixels and image capturing pixels, so the display screen may be used for display and image capturing at the same time.
US11017697B2
A visual display device creating various visual and audible effects from the motion of light particulate matter, such as beads of expanded polystyrene, comprising a chamber through which a stream of air flow is configured to agitate, fluidize, suspend, or float at least some of the beads. The device also includes a bead transport control subsystem to control the flow of some beads through a conduit from one region of a chamber in the device to another different region in the chamber of the visual display device. The bead transport control subsystem comprises the conduit and a second stream of airflow into or out of a portion of the conduit through a screened opening to prevent or create fluid-like flow of the beads through the conduit that is controlled at least partially independently from the first stream of airflow.
US11017694B2
A guidance system providing real-time, three-dimensional (3D) augmented reality (AR) feedback guidance to a user of an equipment system, to achieve improved procedural outcomes in the use of the equipment system.
US11017689B2
The present disclosure relates to tobacco products, including methodology, devices and compositions, for assisting a smoker to transition from conventional tobacco cigarettes to either e-cigarettes or a tobacco heating device. Provided herein are methodology for switching, along with kits, products and apparatuses. The disclosure also provides methodology for regulating tetrahydrocannabinolic acid synthase expression, for use in producing cigarettes, reconstituted cannabis, and other products having reduced Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinolic acid.
US11017668B2
The network system triggers registration of the start of a transport journey in response to a communication of a transport user device and a transport provider device with each other, performs a continuous coordinated proximity monitoring to verify the identity of a transport user and a transport provider vehicle, and triggers registration of the end of the transport journey through communication of the transport user device and the transport provider device with each other.
US11017666B2
The present invention provides a vehicle control system including an acquisition unit that acquires information relating to a situation of a transit point of autonomous driving, and a determination unit that determines whether an autonomously driven vehicle will pass the transit point based on the information acquired by the acquisition unit.
US11017664B2
Concepts and technologies directed to an integrated telecommunications roadside unit for supporting vehicle-to-everything (“V2X”) communications are disclosed herein. Embodiments of an integrated telecommunications roadside unit can include a processor and a memory that store computer-executable instructions that configure a processor to perform operations. The operations can include intercepting a vehicle-to-vehicle communication that is provided from a first vehicle to a second vehicle. The vehicle-to-vehicle communication can be transmitted using a direct transmission mode. The operations can further include encapsulating the vehicle-to-vehicle communication in a user plane package. The operations can also include routing the user plane package to a destination network access node, where the destination network access node is outside of a direct communication range corresponding to the first vehicle and the second vehicle.
US11017661B1
Provided are a method and a system for collision avoidance between vulnerable road users (VRUs) and vehicles, notably for pedestrian-to-vehicle (P2V) collision avoidance, in the field of intelligent transportation technology and data analytics distributed among edge and cloud systems. In one aspect, the method and the system for collision avoidance between VRUs and vehicles is further based on a reflected optical signal, wherein VRUs and vehicles are configured to emit and receive a proximity signal pertaining to road usage safety before accidents happen. The method and the system for pedestrian-to-vehicle (P2V) collision avoidance is further based on a reflected optical signal analysis at the edge. The method and system are useful for providing danger notifications pertaining to the field of road safety, and pertaining to collision avoidance before accidents happen.
US11017657B1
The network enabled fire sensor and fire extinguishing system is a fire-fighting apparatus comprising a plurality of extinguisher modules. The plurality of extinguisher modules forms a wireless communication link between: a) the plurality of extinguisher modules, and, b) with an appropriate authority. When triggered by fire, the individual extinguisher module: c) releases a fire extinguishing chemical; and, d) transmits an alert message to both the appropriate authority and to the individual extinguisher modules remaining in the plurality of extinguisher modules containing the GPS coordinates of the transmitting individual extinguisher module. Each selected individual extinguisher module compares the GPS coordinates of the selected individual extinguisher mode to the GPS coordinates of the module alert message. If the span of the distance between the two coordinates is less than a previously determined span of distance, than the selected individual extinguisher module releases a fire retardant chemical.
US11017637B2
Embodiments of the invention provide A system includes a game device. A first game including a transition point is conducted on the game device. When a transition point is reached, a second game outcome is selected. The second game outcome is generated by a second game that is logically independent of the first game. The second game outcome generated by the second game is independent of the first game.
US11017634B2
The present invention is to determine whether a game result of a slot machine satisfies a specified condition by using a control unit, the specified condition is defined as any one of the plurality of game symbols in the game result replaced so that the reward condition is satisfied, and one of the game symbols replaced to be located at a replacement position; when the control unit determines that the game result satisfies the specified condition, the control unit activates a three-dimensional re-spinning component to generate a replacement game symbol. The replacement game symbol is used to replace the game symbol at the replacement position and update the game result, thereby the control unit re-determines whether the updated game result meets the reward condition, and after the reward condition is met, performs a reward program by using a reward unit.
US11017633B2
A system for managing bets comprises a memory and a processor. The memory stores one or more first type of bets and one or more second types of bets. Each first type of bet is associated with a bet amount and comprises a bet that a participant selected from a set of participants in an event will finish in a predetermined subset of finishing positions associated with the event. Each second type of bet is associated with a bet amount and comprises a bet that the selected participant will not finish in the predetermined subset of finishing positions associated with the event. The processor adds the bet amounts associated with the first type of bets with the bet amounts associated with the second type of bets to form a betting pool. The processor determines an amount of a payout based at least in part on the betting pool.
US11017625B2
A smart key box includes a key holding element, a housing, a power assembly, sensing units, an authentication module, and a control module. The housing is configured to contain the key holding element. The power assembly is disposed in the housing and configured to drive the key holding element to leave the housing or enter the housing along an access direction. The sensing units are disposed in the housing. When the key holding element leaves the housing or enters the housing, the key holding element is configured to trigger at least one of the sensing units. The authentication module is disposed at the housing. The control module is disposed in the housing and electrically connected with the power assembly, the sensing units, and the authentication module, and is configured to control the power assembly according to the at least one of the sensing units which is triggered.
US11017624B2
In one embodiment, a system includes: a robotic arm assembly; a plurality of components arranged around the robotic arm assembly and positioned within reach of the robotic arm assembly; and a controller configured to control operation of the robotic arm assembly within the system. Each of the plurality of components is configured to either: store ingredients under predetermined environmental conditions; store food preparation tools; dispense ingredients; blend, cook, or assemble ingredients into a completed food item; provide cleaning functionality to the system and/or components thereof; provide user access to completed food items; or display information relevant to a food item or preparation thereof to users. Methods of using such systems to prepare and dispense food items are also disclosed, and generally include translating recipes into instructions executable by the robotic arm assembly and/or components of the system, communicating such instructions to the robotic arm assembly, and executing such instructions.
US11017620B1
A monitoring system for a vehicle includes a sensor system and a vehicle control system. The sensor system monitors anomalies occurring on or near the vehicle and is configured to send a video and/or data feed to the vehicle control system. The user may view the video feed sent from the vehicle control system using the key fob having a display. The key fob may include a security reader that includes a fingerprint reader and/or a camera in order to authenticate the user using fingerprint data or facial data. The key fob may also be configured to control the video feed.
US11017618B2
Methods, apparatus, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for processing vehicle-related data received from one or more smart tracker devices connected to one or more vehicles. The smart tracker devices can be connected to one or more sensors that can provide an output according to operating conditions of the vehicles. Data from the sensors can be transmitted from the smart tracker devices to a server device and/or a portable computing device for further processing. The portable computing device can include an application for visualizing the data in three dimensions. The application can include an interface that can provide a three-dimensional visualization of a track on which a vehicle is traveling, and map the data to a shape of the track in order to provide an indication of how the data changed as the vehicle traveled along the track.
US11017611B1
Systems and methods related to generating and modifying a room or space within a virtual reality environment may comprise addition, removal, placement, modification, and/or resizing of a plurality of environment surfaces, such as a floor, walls, and ceiling, and/or a plurality of fixtures, such as doors, windows, or openings, associated with the environment surfaces, in which each environment surface and fixture includes associated dimensions. The environment surfaces and fixtures may be added, removed, placed, moved, and/or resized by a user. During such interactions, only a subset of dimensions relevant to the current functions or operations by the user may be presented to facilitate such functions or operations. Further, various aspects associated with environment surfaces and fixtures may be modified, such as paints, colors, materials, textures, or others.
US11017610B2
An electronic device detects and recovers from fault conditions while tracking its motion and building a map of its environment. A front-end motion tracking module detects fault conditions while tracking motion over time and provides mapping data to a back-end mapping module. The front-end motion tracking module indicates to the back-end mapping module when a fault condition has been detected and when the fault condition is no longer detected. The back-end mapping module generates maps from the mapping data and merges the maps to build a three-dimensional representation of the environment. The back-end mapping module buffers or discards any mapping data received from the front-end motion tracking module during the existence of a fault condition. The back-end mapping module merges the maps generated based on mapping data received before and after the fault condition and adds the merged maps to the three-dimensional representation of the environment.
US11017585B1
In one embodiment, a method includes a computing system which may receive captured image data from a camera assembly. The camera assembly may include one or more cameras and an actuator to move the cameras. The image data may include frames that were captured while the actuator was moving the cameras. The computing system may determine for each frame, the time and position of the camera at the point that the image data was captured. The computing system may then generate an index of the captured image data and the associated time and position data. The index may be utilized for reconstructing the scene around the camera assembly from a viewpoint which is different from the viewpoint of any one of the cameras. This reconstruction may be performed based on one or more frames of the captured image data queried using the index, the viewpoint, and a time of interest.
US11017573B2
An information processing device includes a selection unit and an embedding unit. The selection unit selects, in a case where a moving image obtained by photographing plural targets that are present in front of a display screen of a display device is displayed on the display screen, plural related targets that are related to each other from the plural targets, based on a frame image of the moving image. The embedding unit embeds a composite image obtained based on an image of at least part of the plural related targets and a presentation image into the frame image.
US11017572B2
A computer-implemented method of generating a PGM with causal information, said graphical model containing the causal relationship between a first variable and a second variable, the method comprising: receiving data at a processor, said data showing a correlation between the first variable and a second variable; producing a third variable by reducing the dimensionality of the graphical representation of the two dimensional data defined by the first variable and the second variable, determining determine the causal relationship between the first and third variables and the second and third variable, the causal discovery algorithm being able to determine if the first variable causes the third variable, the third variable causes the first variable, the second variable causes the third variable and the third variable causes the second variable; and outputting a graphical model indicating the direction of edges in a graphical representation of said PGM.
US11017564B2
An image processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires a diffuse reflection image of an object surface and a specular reflection image of the object surface, and a reproduction unit that reproduces the object surface such that illumination color is darker as saturation of the diffuse reflection image or a value representing the saturation is higher than of the specular reflection image, by using the diffuse reflection image and the specular reflection image.
US11017539B2
In one embodiment, an apparatus comprises a communication interface and a processor. The communication interface is to communicate with a plurality of cameras. The processor is to obtain metadata associated with an initial state of an object, wherein the object is captured by a first camera in a first video stream at a first point in time, and wherein the metadata is obtained based on the first video stream. The processor is further to predict, based on the metadata, a future state of the object at a second point in time, and identify a second camera for capturing the object at the second point in time. The processor is further to configure the second camera to capture the object in a second video stream at the second point in time, wherein the second camera is configured to capture the object based on the future state of the object.
US11017538B2
A multiple-object tracking system includes a convolutional neural network that receives a set of images of a scene that have each been extracted from a frame of a scene. Each of the images corresponds to a detected instance of one of multiple objects that appears in the scene. The convolutional neural network computes, for each image of the set, an appearance embedding vector defining a set of distinguishing characteristics for the image, and a graph network then modifies the appearance embedding vector for each image based on determined relationships between the image and a subset of the images corresponding to detection times temporally separated from a detection time. The modified appearance embedding vectors are then used to identify subsets of the images corresponding to identical targets.
US11017522B2
A system includes an inspection device and an image processing unit. The inspection device is configured to scan a wafer to generate an inspected image. The image processing unit is configured to receive the inspected image, and is configured to analyze the inspected image by using at least one deep learning algorithm in order to determine whether there is any defect image shown in a region of interest in the inspected image. When there is at least one defect image shown in the region of interest in the inspected image, the inspection device is further configured to magnify the region of interest in the inspected image to generate a magnified inspected image for identification of defects.
US11017511B2
A method, system, and article are directed to haze reduction for image processing.
US11017508B2
An image matching method and apparatus are disclosed. The method according to the present embodiment comprises: a step of acquiring source image; a step of acquiring a transformation image, by converting the display mode of the source images into a top view and adjusting the brightness thereof through auto exposure (AE); a step of acquiring image information; and a step of generating a target image comprising a first area and a second area in an overlap area in which pixels of a corrected transformation image are disposed on the basis of the image information, wherein the correction comprises gradation correction of the pixels of an image disposed in the first area and pixels of an image in the second area.
US11017506B2
Techniques for enhancing an image are described. For example, a lower-resolution image, for example from a video file, may be enhanced using a trained neural network by applying the trained neural network to enhance a middle lower-resolution image of a plurality of lower-resolution images using a generator with filters of a generative adversary network. In some examples, a plurality of sequential feature processing acts are performed on the lower-resolution images to generate a residual which is added to a filtered version of one of the lower-resolution images to generate an enhanced image.
US11017490B2
A digital license plate interface for interacting with government and other regulatory authorities is described. A user can provide authorization to release data from the digital license plate to government authorities and allow for automated payment of governmental transportation licensing and usage fees.
US11017487B1
A technique for assessing property condition is provided that determines property condition for an individual property of interest using primary property records specific to the property of interest (e.g., construction records) and secondary property information (weather in the surrounding geographic area, neighborhood characteristics). In certain embodiments, where a primary property record is missing or incomplete, the secondary property information may be used to extrapolate the missing information.
US11017484B2
A resource sharing method is performed at a mobile terminal, the method including the following steps: obtaining configured user identifier; obtaining multimedia data; obtaining a resource sharing request, and associating the user identifier with the multimedia data according to the resource sharing request; generating a resource sharing instruction according to an association relationship between the user identifier and the multimedia data; and executing the resource sharing instruction.
US11017483B2
Systems and methods are described for tracking information of an equipment including a telematics device configured to receive data from the equipment to determine a telematics information. The telematics information includes at least two of an equipment type, a location, a duration in the location, and miles travelled. A transmission device is configured to transmit the vehicle telematics information to at least one of a third party entity device, a government device and a mobile device.
US11017479B2
A method for determining an adverse vehicle event, including: sampling sensor data an onboard vehicle system coupled to an ego-vehicle; at the onboard vehicle system, extracting a set of event parameters from the sensor data, wherein the vehicle event data is associated with a vehicle event occurring within the time interval; computing a loss probability based on the set of event parameters in response to the loss probability exceeding a threshold probability, transforming the set of event parameters into insurance claim data; and automatically transmitting the insurance claim data to an endpoint, wherein the endpoint is determined based on the participant identifier.
US11017469B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for a distributed trading system. The preferred invention offer solutions to problems that arise with High-Frequency Trading and the future of stock market regulation. The use of a distributed object brokered interface to facilitate transactions not only makes the trading faster but also more secure.
US11017465B2
A method for enhancing security of a receptacle for valuables may be provided. The method may include placing currency in the receptacle. The receptacle may include an integral OLED display. The OLED display may occupy a portion of the receptacle. The OLED display may form a portion of the receptacle. The OLED display may be visible from a viewpoint external to the receptacle. The method may include capturing one or more biometric characteristics on a pressure-sensitive portion of the OLED display. The method may include storing the captured biometric characteristics on a software chip of the OLED display. The method may include transmitting the captured biometric characteristics via a communication circuit of the OLED display.
US11017462B2
Techniques for providing a virtual item shopping environment are presented herein. Live video of a person walking past a display is captured using a camera. One or more items are selected from a database automatically by determining an item available for sale and selecting the item without intervention from the person. One or more data records representing one or more respective items are retrieved from a database. The items are presented on a display based on the data records representing the respective items. Presentation is perform by presenting live real-time video of the person walking past the display with an overlaid view of the item available for sale to provide an unrequested view of the item available for sale.
US11017461B2
Systems and methods including one or more processing modules and one or more non-transitory storage modules storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processing modules and perform acts of coordinating displaying a set of dress code interface elements, coordinating displaying each weather condition interface element of the set of weather condition interface elements associated with a different weather condition of a set of weather conditions, receiving a dress code selection of a first dress code interface element of the set of dress code interface elements, receiving a weather condition selection of a first weather condition interface element of the set of weather condition interface elements, and coordinating displaying a first outfit comprising multiple layers. The one item for each layer of the multiple layers can be based on one or more item affinity scores for the user and one or more color rules.
US11017459B2
In general, the subject matter described in this disclosure can be embodied in methods, systems, and program products. A first third-party application program that was developed by a first entity receives a first request to purchase a first product for use within the first third-party application program. In response to receiving the first request, a purchasing user interface is customized to include first details that are specific to the first product. The purchasing user interface that includes the first details is displayed. A second request to purchase a second product for use within the second third-party application program is received from a second third-party application program that was developed by a second entity. In response to receiving the second request, the purchasing user interface is customized to include second details that are specific to the second product. The purchasing user interface that includes the second details is displayed.
US11017457B2
An information processing system includes a local server and a cloud server. The cloud server includes the following. A receiver receives input of temporary input data. A transmitter transmits the temporary input data based on a transmitting request from the local server. The local server includes the following. A monitoring unit monitors whether the temporary input data is received in the cloud server. A transmitting request unit requests the temporary input data when the monitoring unit determines that the temporary input data is received. A receiver receives the temporary input data. A reflecting unit reflects the temporary input data on a data input form. A registering unit registers data input on the data input form in a database of the local server when data input on the data input form is finished.
US11017451B2
Text data transmitted by a user device to a first server is retrieved. The text data is processed to determine whether an information recommendation rule set includes an information recommendation rule matching the text data. The information recommendation rule is set based on a recommendation information. If the information recommendation rule set includes the information recommendation rule matching the text data, the recommendation information is retrieved from a second server. A recommendation based on the recommendation information is transmitted to the user device.
US11017442B2
Described are systems and methods for dynamic integration and presentation of advertising content and media content. The method includes receiving a request for media content from a remote computing device and providing, in response to the request, an interactive advertising unit. The interactive advertising unit includes a first content layer including the requested media content and a media player, a second content layer including the advertising content, wherein the advertising content comprises static content and interactive content, an integration module configured to display the requested media content in the media player, and reveal the advertising content in an area extending from a boundary of a playback window of the media player, wherein revealing the advertising content includes moving web page content to accommodate the advertising content. The method includes transmitting the interactive advertising unit for presentation on the remote computing device.
US11017430B2
Provided are embodiments including a method, system, and computer program product for identifying how to deliver advertisements to a user based on the user sentiment and learned behavior. The embodiments provide for collecting information on the sentiment of a user, monitoring user interactions based at least in part on the collected emotional information on the sentiment of the user, and determining a pattern of user interactions with one or more applications of a user device based on the sentiment information. The embodiments also provide for determining a pattern of user responses to an advertisement based on the sentiment information, and generating a profile based at least in part on the pattern of user interactions and the pattern of user responses.
US11017427B1
Systems and methods are disclosed for attributing payment vehicle purchase events to previous activity of a purchaser. One method comprises: receiving purchase information associated with a purchase event by a purchaser; comparing the received purchase information to a profile data store to identify a purchaser profile associated with the purchaser, the profile data store comprising a plurality of purchaser profiles, wherein each purchaser profile comprises payment vehicle data and a tracking element; determining the tracking element of the identified purchaser profile; identifying one or more activities of the purchaser using the tracking element of the identified purchaser profile; for each of the identified one or more activities, assessing the strength of attributing the purchase event to the activity, using environmental and/or behavioral data associated with the tracking element; and determining whether to attribute the purchase event to one or more of the identified activities based on the assessment.
US11017423B2
The systems described herein include a system and method for redeeming multiple redeemable codes. For example, a mobile device can be configured to enable redemption of multiple redeemable codes in a single transaction. In some implementations, the mobile device can store the plurality of redeemable codes for obtaining discounts on the items obtained from the merchant store. Particular implementations provide at least the following advantages: A mobile device can store and manage multiple redeemable codes for a user. The mobile device can automatically select and provide the redeemable codes to a point of sale terminal when the user is making a purchase. The codes can be automatically selected and applied to the purchased goods or services to generate a discount for the user. Redeemable codes can be automatically removed from the user's device after they have been used. Thus, the user is relieved of the burden of managing redeemable codes.
US11017421B1
A method for linking alternative payment information with customer loyalty data includes obtaining a customer loyalty identifier associated with a customer, reading customer data from a database based on the obtained customer loyalty identifier, obtaining alternative payment information from the read customer data, determining whether payment by the alternative payment information is enabled for the customer loyalty identifier, prompting the customer to enable payment by the alternative payment information, prompting the customer for authorization information associated with payment by the alternative payment information, enabling payment by the alternative payment information for the customer loyalty identifier, and applying the alternative payment information to a current purchase of the customer.
US11017419B2
Systems and methods to manage incentive campaigns and automatically approve requests for incentives received from consumers or their proxy based on dynamic parameters defined by an incentive provider are described herein. Users at various levels between an original equipment manufacturer and the consumer may interact and offer input. In various implementations, campaign parameters may be received from an incentive provider and used to initiate and/or otherwise administrate a campaign. Incentive providers may then dynamically modify ongoing campaigns via the system. One or more user interfaces may be generated through which users may interact with the system and visualizations related to a campaign may be presented. Based on the initial or modified parameters for a campaign, the systems and methods described herein may further determine whether to approve, deny, or otherwise respond to requests for incentives received from consumers or their proxy.
US11017416B2
In one or more embodiments, systems and methods allow a user to easily create an electronic survey by simply including a survey system as a party in a communication (e.g., an email address associated with a survey system being included in a meeting invite). In addition, the systems and methods provide for distributing the created electronic survey to a user based on the user being included as a party within the communication (e.g., an email address associated with the user being included in the meeting invite). Accordingly, the systems and methods create an electronic survey, and distribute the electronic survey to parties of a communication based on a user including a survey system as a party of the communication.
US11017403B2
A common point of purchase (CPP) system for identifying a common point of purchases involved in fraudulent or unauthorized payment transactions is provided. The CPP system includes a common point of purchase (CPP) computing device that is configured to receive transaction data, store the transaction data in a database, and perform a look up within the database. The CPP computing device is also configured to build a merchant table, receive a card list, and compare a plurality of flagged account identifiers in the card list to account identifiers in the merchant table. The CPP computing device is further configured to retrieve a unique merchant identifier and/or a merchant name identifier associated with the merchant table account identifiers matched with the flagged account identifiers, aggregate the unique merchant identifier using the merchant name identifier, and determine a first number of the flagged account identifiers associated with the merchant name identifier.
US11017398B2
A system for controlling access to a physical asset and associated servers and methods are provided. The system includes an access control terminal coupled to the physical asset and operable to read a token from a user token device associated with a user, and generate control signals to allow access to the physical asset, an access control processing server operable to receive an access request from the access control terminal, the access request including the token, generate an authentication verification request including the token, send the authentication verification request to a network, receive an authentication response from the network, generate an access control response to cause the access control terminal to allow access to the asset in response to the authentication response, and send the access control response to the access control response.
US11017396B2
Proposed are a highly reliable automatic transaction device and a control method thereof. Specifically provided is an automatic transaction device, and a control method thereof, including a main body control unit which generates first withdraw transaction data including amount information as information related to an amount in a withdraw transaction and a withdraw command for instructing a withdraw of a paper currency based on the first withdraw transaction data, a paper currency processing unit which receives the withdraw command and pays out the paper currency, and a first device which is a device that is different from the paper currency processing unit and which determines a feasibility of a withdraw based on the first withdraw transaction data sent from the main body control unit. When the first device determines that the withdraw is possible, the first device generates withdraw credit information with security that is higher than the withdraw command based on the first withdraw transaction data. The paper currency processing unit receives the withdraw credit information and the withdraw command, additionally determines the feasibility of the withdraw based on the withdraw credit information and the withdraw command, and pays out the paper currency when the withdraw is possible.
US11017385B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for online transactions. A web page of an online store includes a payment option that allows a payment application on a user device to pay for the merchandise using card payment information that does not include the account number of the card or require that the account number be shared with the online store merchant.
US11017380B1
A method and apparatus for EMV terminal device testing using a simulation of a plurality of EMV cards when interacting with an EMV terminal device emulator are described. The method may include establishing, by an EMV card emulator, an interface with the EMV terminal device emulator for the exchange of EMV card present transaction communications between the EMV card emulator and the EMV terminal device emulator. Furthermore, for each of a plurality of simulated EMV cards, the method may include exchanging one or more communications with the EMV terminal device emulator via the interface, wherein each communication simulates a communication generated by a simulated integrated circuit of an EMV card in response to a communication generated by the EMV terminal device emulator, and then causing at least one transaction to be run by the EMV terminal device emulator using the exchange of the one or more communications between the EMV card emulator and the EMV terminal device emulator.
US11017378B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a display configured to display information, an input device configured to receive a user input, an image sensor, a processor electrically connected with the display, the input device, and the image sensor, and a non-transitory computer readable storage medium electrically connected with the processor that stores instructions that cause the processor to control the display to display first-level information as a locking mode is partially released when partial authentication passes based on bio-information acquired through the image sensor in a state in which the electronic device is in the locking mode, and control the display to display second-level information having a security level higher than a security level of the first-level information as the locking mode is fully released when full authentication passes based on a user input made through the input device.
US11017376B1
A computer-implemented method includes receiving a transaction initiation request from a first user via a first computing device. A first micro-location parameter relating to a micro-location of the first computing device is received. Approval of the transaction initiation request is requested from a second user via a second computing device. Approval of the transaction initiation request is received from the second user via the second computing device. A second micro-location parameter relating to a micro-location of the second computing device is received. The transaction is approved if the micro-locations of the first and second computing devices indicate that the first and second computing devices are at least a predetermined distance from each other.
US11017373B2
A system comprising: a first mobile phone and a second mobile phone, the first mobile phone having a first digital wallet, the second mobile phone having a second digital wallet including a first payment card, the first mobile phone being capable of directly connecting with the second mobile phone via a wireless communication connection. The first mobile phone send to the second mobile phone a first request for obtaining a first data related to the first payment card. In response to the first request, the second mobile phone send directly to the first mobile phone via the wireless communication connection, the first data. The first mobile phone add the first payment card into the first digital wallet based on the received first data.
US11017368B2
A method of collecting data from multiple sources in a multi-tenant system is provided. The method includes obtaining data corresponding to a first tenant in the multi-tenant system and a second tenant in the multi-tenant system from a first source, obtaining data corresponding to the first tenant in the multi-tenant system and the second tenant in the multi-tenant system from a second source, and aggregating the data obtained from the first and second sources into a single database and associating each entry of the obtained data with at least one of the tenants of the multi-tenant system.
US11017366B2
A method to enable transactions comprising transmitting, by a vendor server, a request message to the e-commerce system for a token. Receiving a token in response to the request message. Generating an offer message including a mailto hyperlink, wherein the offer message is an email message including a mailto hyperlink is configured to generate an email reply message include the token. Transmitting the offer message to an email address associated with the customer. Receiving a response message from the e-commerce system, the response message including transaction details that confirm the token was validated by the e-commerce system. Transmitting a payment processing request message to a payment processor, wherein the payment processing request is based on the transaction details. Receiving a notification from the payment processor, that payment processing has been completed. Transmitting an email message to the email address of the customer, that payment has been processed.
US11017354B2
Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for managing projects in a content management system. For example, the content management system can create a project folder (e.g., shared folder) for managing data associated with a project. The project folder can be shared with content management system users (e.g., project members) who are contributors to the project. The content management system can store project data (e.g., content items, communications, comments, tasks, etc.) related to the project in the project folder. When the project folder is selected by a user, the content management system can generate a project folder view that presents the project data associated with the project folder and/or project in a convenient and easy to access graphical user interface. The content management system can aggregate project data from various content items associated with the project and present the project data in a single graphical user interface.
US11017353B2
A multi-user software-implemented audio collaboration method allows a track producing user, at least one recording artist, and public listening users to produce, collaborate, and consume unique musical compositions with no fees and costs. The method allows the track producing user and recording artist user to collaborate on the production of a unique musical composition, and then store the musical composition as a working digital audio file on an administrator server. The method also allows public listening users to consume the musical composition for free by viewing a third-party advertisement to accumulate viewing credits. The public listening users convert the viewing credits to access the musical composition for storage in a personal musical library. The track producing user and the recording artist user receive a creator credit when the public listening users stores the musical composition in the music library. All the users communicate with each other through messaging.
US11017348B1
Methods and systems for delivering a package to a customer employ an on-demand locker assembly having a plurality of lockers. A computer-implemented method of staging delivery of a package to a customer includes displaying a network link that is selectable by the customer on an electronic client device. In response to selection of the network link, the package is transferred to one of the lockers. An access code for the locker is sent to the electronic client device. Upon entry of the access code, the locker is opened to provide the customer with access to the package to retrieve the package from the locker.
US11017344B2
Systems for analyzing and monitoring deionization tank system performance in a fluid flow system and generating delivery schedules for servicing deionization tanks can include a conductivity sensor and a fluid flow meter. Data regarding the amount and conductivity of fluid flowing through the deionization tank system can be used to predict a remaining capacity of the deionization tank system. A central server can determine the remaining capacity of deionization tank systems at a plurality of service locations. The central server can generate a delivery schedule for servicing deionization tank systems at each of the plurality of service locations based on the determined remaining capacities. Other parameters can be used to optimize efficiency of the delivery schedule while meeting the needs of each of the service locations.
US11017336B2
In non-limiting examples of the present disclosure, systems, methods and devices for recommending a shared connection are presented. A set of shared connections between a first application user and a second application user may be identified. A determination may be made that a communication value between the first and second application users is below a recommendation surfacing threshold. A communication value between each application user of the set of shared connections and the first user may be calculated. A communication value between each application user of the set of shared connections and the second user may be calculated. One or both of the calculated communication values may be utilized to rank the shared connections based on importance to the first user, importance to the second user, and/or importance to the first user and the second user. One or more top ranked candidate user profiles may be promoted on a graphical user interface.
US11017327B2
The present disclosure relates to systems, methods and non-transitory computer readable media for determining at least one candidate order in response to an on-demand service. The system may include at least one computer-readable storage medium including a set of instructions and at least one processor in communication with the at least one computer-readable storage medium. When executing the set of instructions, the at least one processor is directed to: receive a request associated with a terminal device, the request including at least one of a current time or a current location of the terminal device; obtain a plurality of historical orders associated with the terminal device based on the request; determine at least one candidate order based on the plurality of historical orders and the request; and transmit the at least one candidate order to the terminal device in response to the request.
US11017322B1
Methods, systems, and apparatuses, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for federal learning with differentially private (DP) intrinsic quantization are disclosed. One exemplary method may include obtaining a parameter vector of a local model; updating the parameter vector of the local model by adding a plurality of noise vectors to the parameter vector of the local model; performing quantization to the updated parameter vector to obtain a quantized parameter vector, wherein the quantization maps coordinates in the updated parameter vector to a set of discrete finite values; and transmitting, to a server, the quantized parameter vector and at least one of the plurality of noise vectors for the server to update a global model.
US11017319B1
A method for training an obfuscation network and a surrogate network is provided. The method includes steps of: a 1st learning device (a) inputting original data of a 1st party, corresponding thereto, into the obfuscation network to generate obfuscated data wherein the 1st party owns the original data or is an entity to whom the original data is delegated; (b) transmitting the obfuscated data and the ground truth to a 2nd learning device corresponding to a 2nd party, and instructing the 2nd learning device to (i) input the obfuscated data into the surrogate network to generate characteristic information, (ii) calculate 1st losses using the ground truth and one of the characteristic information and task specific outputs, and (iii) train the surrogate network minimizing the 1st losses, and transmit the 1st losses to the 1st learning device; and (c) training the obfuscation network minimizing the 1st losses and maximizing 2nd losses.
US11017317B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media for evaluating robot learning. In some implementations, one or more computers receive object classification examples from a plurality of robots. Each object classification example includes (i) an embedding that a robot generated using a machine learning model, and (ii) an object classification corresponding to the embedding. The object classification examples are evaluated based on a similarity of the received embeddings with respect to other embeddings. A subset of the object classification examples is selected based on the evaluation of the quality of the embeddings. The subset of the object classification examples is distributed to the robots in the plurality of robots.
US11017316B2
A computer-implemented method is presented for optimal experimental design to correct a misspecified model approximating a behavior of a dynamic system. The method includes formulating an experiment, determining experimental settings for configuring controllable experimental parameters based on mutual information and submodularity, measuring informative values associated with each choice of experimental design, as prescribed by the controllable experimental parameters, and learning a correction function based on the measured informative values. The computer-implemented method further includes determining an experimental design setup for gaining information content, and combining the experimental design setup with the experimental settings to construct a corrected model of the dynamic system.
US11017312B2
Mechanisms for training a Question and Answer (QA) system are provided. The QA system receives a training question for processing by the QA system and processes the training question to generate an answer to the training question, from a portion of content. The QA system identifies a repeatable pattern of content present in the portion of content in association with the answer to the training question. The QA system applies the repeatable pattern of content to other portions of content to generate at least one additional training question and at least one additional entry in a ground truth data structure to thereby expand a set of training questions and expand the ground truth data structure. The QA system is then trained using the expanded set of training questions and expanded ground truth data structure.
US11017304B2
Original idea extraction from written data is provided by capturing expression as written text data, obtaining a knowledge graph representing concepts and relationships between the concepts automatically topic modeling the written text data to ascertain thought units and identify respective concepts of the thought unit, mapping a thought unit to the knowledge graph, determining that the thought unit is an original idea based on a graph distance in the knowledge graph between correlated concepts represented in the knowledge graph, and based on determining that the thought unit is an original idea, storing a representation of the original idea to an idea repository and invoking processing of at least one computer.
US11017299B1
Systems and methods provide an application programming interface to offer action suggestions to third-party applications using context data associated with the third-party. An example method includes receiving content information and context information from a source mobile application, the content information representing information to be displayed on a mobile device as part of a source mobile application administered by a third party, the context information being information specific to the third party and unavailable to a screen scraper. The method also includes predicting an action based on the content information and the context information, the action representing a deep link for a target mobile application. The method further includes providing the action to the source mobile application with a title and a thumbnail, the source mobile application using the title and thumbnail to display a selectable control that, when selected, causes the mobile device to initiate the action.
US11017293B2
A programming method for an artificial neuron network having synapses, each including a single resistive random-access memory having first and second electrodes on either side of an active zone, the method including determining a number N of conductance intervals, where N≥3; for each memory: choosing a conductance interval from amongst the N intervals; a step i) for application of a voltage pulse of a first type between the first and second electrodes, and for reading the conductance value of the memory; if the conductance value does not belong to the previously chosen conductance interval, a sub-step ii) for application of a voltage pulse of a second type between the first and second electrodes, and for reading the conductance value; if the conductance value does not belong to the chosen conductance interval, a step according to which step i) is reiterated, with steps i) and ii) being repeated until the conductance value belongs to the interval.
US11017271B2
Examples of techniques for interactive generation of labeled data and training instances are provided. According to one or more embodiments of the present invention, a computer-implemented method for interactive generation of labeled data and training instances includes presenting, by the processing device, control labeling options to a user. The method further includes selecting, by a user, one or more of the presented control labeling options. The method further includes selecting, by a processing device, a representative set of unlabeled data samples based at least in part on the control labeling options selected by the user. The method further includes generating, by a processing device, a set of suggested labels for each of the unlabeled data samples.
US11017258B2
A system for automated user input alignment receives the user input at a touchscreen display. A skew of the user input is identified as the user input is being received at a touchscreen display. A skew correction is determined based on the identified skew. The skew correction is applied to the user input to align the user input on the touchscreen display. The skew correction applied in an automated alignment process that. The user input is displayed with the applied skew correction on the touchscreen display with improved efficiency and without user manipulation to perform the alignment.
US11017255B2
The present disclosure relates to an image analysis method, system, and computer program. The image analysis method of the present disclosure includes: receiving a query image; extracting one or more regions of interest from the query image; calculating a first feature for each of the regions of interest by respectively applying the regions of interest to one or more ROI (region of interest) feature extraction models independently learned in order to extract features of the regions of interest; and calculating analysis values of the query image by applying the first features of the regions of interest to a pre-learned integration analysis model. According to the present disclosure, it is possible to reduce the influence on an analysis model by an error that training data created for map learning of an entire image may have, and it is also possible to increase learning accuracy and objectivity of a deep neural network.
US11017246B2
An image processing device includes a sideline detector configured to detect sidelines of boundary lines of parking sections next to each other in a vehicle width direction by an edge detection process to an image, each of the sidelines being a pair of a rising edge and a falling edge, and to acquire an end point of each of the sidelines at which the pair is not detected, a rear-end edge identifying part configured to identify a rear-end edge of the parking section based on an end point away from the vehicle among the end points acquired by the sideline detector, and a parking frame setting portion configured to identify the parking section based on the two sidelines detected by the sideline detector and the rear-end edge identified by the rear-end edge identifying part, and to set a parking frame based on the parking section.
US11017242B2
A traffic monitoring system includes a first car moving on a first path; a camera having a field of vision including at least a portion of the first path; and a computing system. The computing system receives a plurality of images from the camera. The computing system has a processor. When instructed, the processor performs circling a perimeter of the first car on each of the images with a first rectangle; composing a first set of points, each point of the first set of points representing a center of the first rectangle; finding a first centroid using the first set of points, wherein the first centroid represents the first path; and calculating a speed of the first car using the first centroid.
US11017229B2
An apparatus includes a memory and a processor. The memory stores a set of inputs, an algorithmic shopping cart, and a machine learning algorithm. The set of inputs includes information collected from sensors located in a physical store during a shopping session of a person. The algorithmic shopping cart includes items determined by an algorithm, based on the set of inputs, to have been selected during the shopping session. The machine learning algorithm is configured to use the set of inputs to select between using the algorithmic shopping cart and using a virtual shopping cart to process a transaction associated with the shopping session. The processor uses the machine learning algorithm to determine, based on the set of inputs, to use the algorithmic shopping cart to process the transaction. In response, the processor generates a receipt based on the algorithmic shopping cart. The processor sends the receipt to the person.
US11017220B2
A classification model training method is provided. The method includes selecting a training dataset, determining a category of a sketch in the training dataset according to a sketch classification model, to obtain a first category processing result, and analyzing, according to a second feature analysis model, a feature of the sketch extracted by a first feature extracting model, to obtain a second analysis result of the sketch; then obtaining a function value of a first loss function according to the first category processing result and the second analysis result of the sketch; and finally adjusting a first model parameter value of the sketch classification model according to the function value of the first loss function.
US11017219B2
This invention relates to a method and a device for human body gender detection in a microwave image. The structure feature of a human body itself as well as the constructed vertical direction spatial distribution histogram and horizontal direction spatial distribution histogram are used to accurately locate the chest position and the crotch position of the human body. A human body chest subimage is extracted according to the chest position, and a human body crotch subimage is extracted according to the crotch position. Then, the feature values of the human body chest subimage and the human body crotch subimage are respectively extracted by a feature value extraction algorithm, and the human body gender is automatically identified according to the feature values. The technical solution of this invention is simple, and after experimental verification, can be effectively applied in actual microwave security check system. This technical solution has high real time and high robustness, and its correct recognition rate meets the operating requirements. As such, the problem of how to identify human body gender in real time and accurately in a microwave security check system is solved. Besides, because the present invention can accurately locate the chest position and the crotch position of a human body, the human body's private part can be shielded and protected effectively according to this invention.
US11017217B2
A method and system of controlling an appliance includes: receiving, from a first home appliance, a request to start video image processing for detecting a motion gesture of a user; processing a sequence of image frames captured by a camera corresponding to the first home appliance to identify a first motion gesture; selecting a second home appliance as a target home appliance for the first motion gesture in accordance with one or more target selection criteria, including first target selection criteria based on a location of the user relative to the first home appliance and second target selection criteria based on a level of match between the first motion gesture and a first control gesture corresponding to the second home appliance; and generating a control command to control the second home appliance in accordance with the first control gesture corresponding to the second home appliance.
US11017207B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for automatically detecting and classifying tumor regions in a tissue slide. The method generally includes obtaining a digitized tissue slide from a tissue slide database and determining, based on output from a tissue classification module, a type of tissue of shown in the digitized tissue slide. The method further includes determining, based on output from a tumor classification model for the type of tissue, a region of interest (ROI) of the digitized tissue slide and generating a classified slide showing the ROI of the digitized tissue slide and an estimated diameter of the ROI. The method further includes displaying on an image display unit, the classified slide and user interface (UI) elements enabling a pathologist to enter input related to the classified slide.
US11017206B2
An image processing method includes acquiring an original image including cells as an imaging target, performing band-pass filtering on the original image with respect to a spatial frequency component within a band determined in accordance with a width of an outline of the imaging target and attenuating relatively other spatial frequency component outside the band, segmenting an image after the filtering into a first region having density higher than a threshold value and a second region, connecting the first regions sandwiching the second region by changing a portion of the sandwiched second region to the first region in an image after the segmenting, converting a closed region which is the second region in an image after the connection surrounded by the first region into the first region, and dividing the first region having, a neck into regions at a position of the neck in an image after the converting.
US11017204B2
Disclosed are systems and methods for performing spoof detection. The method includes: receiving, by a processor from a biometric sensor, an input image of a biometric; analyzing the input image to identify pixels associated with a first feature in the input image; performing a local binary pattern (LBP) analysis on the pixels associated with the first feature, which comprises computing, for a given pixel associated with the first feature, an LBP value corresponding to texture of one or more neighboring pixels around the given pixel, wherein the neighboring pixels around the given pixel comprise eight pixels around the given pixel, including pixels on a top, a bottom, a left, a right, and at four corners of a location of the given pixel; and, determining whether the input image is a replica of the biometric based on results of performing the LBP analysis on the pixels associated with the first feature.
US11017201B2
According to an embodiment disclosed herein, an electronic device may include a housing, a display panel including a plurality of pixels housed in the housing, a flexible printed circuit board electrically connected to the display panel, a fingerprint sensor disposed under at least a portion of the display panel and on the flexible printed circuit board, a display driver integrated circuit (IC) and a processor electrically connected to the fingerprint sensor and the display driver IC.
US11017192B2
Various embodiments herein each include at least one of systems, methods, software, and firmware for scan data source identification. One such embodiment, in the form of a method, includes receiving a dataset including scan data from a particular scanning device and adding data to the received dataset identifying at least one of the particular scanning device and a type of the particular scanning device. The method may further send the dataset to a terminal for processing.
US11017188B2
A high speed tabletop and industrial printer is disclosed with integrated high speed RFID encoding and verification at the same time. The industrial printer simultaneously prints on and electronically encodes/verifies RFID labels, tags, and/or stickers attached to a continuous web. The industrial printer comprises a lighted sensor array for indexing the printing to the RFID tags; and a cutter powered from the industrial printer for cutting the web that the RFID tags are disposed on. The industrial printer comprises two RFID reader/writers that are individually controlled. Specifically, one of the RFID reader/writers comprises the ability to electronically encode the RFID tags while the web is moving; and the second RFID reader/writer uses an additional RFID module and antenna on the printer for verifying the data encoded to the RFID tags. The printer provides for successive writes to various memory blocks and optimizes the communication sequence between the interrogator and tag.
US11017187B1
RFID readers may be configured to supply power to tags during frequency hops. When a reader is supplying power to a passive RFID tag via a first RF waveform having a first radio frequency and determines that it is to frequency-hop, the reader may determine whether the tag requires power during the hop. If so, the reader begins (or continues) to synthesize a second RF waveform with a second radio frequency while also synthesizing the first RF waveform, and frequency-hops by transitioning from transmitting the first RF waveform to transmitting the second RF waveform such that the power transmitted during the transition is sufficient for the tag to operate.
US11017182B2
A translation device includes a character string output unit, a fixed phrase acquisition unit, a matching unit, a division processor, and a translation result output unit. The character string output unit outputs a plurality of character strings each configuring at least part of text in a first language and including a head character of the text, in order of character string length. The fixed phrase acquisition unit acquires a fixed phrase in the first language associated with a translation phrase in a second language. The matching unit calculates a similarity between each of the character strings and the fixed phrase in order of the character string length. The division processor divides the text at a position achieving a maximum similarity among values of the similarity exceeding a first threshold. The translation result output unit outputs the translation phrase as translation of the text thus divided.
US11017178B2
A device for constructing an intelligent knowledge base, comprising an abstract semantic expression obtaining unit to obtain a plurality of abstract semantic expressions from an abstract semantic database, wherein each of the plurality of abstract semantic expressions comprises a semantic-lacking element; a receiving unit to receive an initial request message; an abstract semantic recommending module to obtain abstract semantic expressions corresponding to the initial request message by performing an abstract semantic recommending process on the initial request message based on the plurality of abstract semantic expressions; a filling unit to extract from the initial request message an element corresponding to a semantic-lacking element of the obtained abstract semantic expressions, and to fill the extracted element into the semantic-lacking element to obtain specific semantic expressions corresponding to the initial request message; and a storing unit to store the initial request message and the specific semantic expressions into the intelligent knowledge base.
US11017175B2
A method, a device, a system for analyzing comment data about a target are provided. The method includes acquiring the comment data about the target in accordance with a link to the target; and analyzing the comment data and determining a comment topic and a comment viewpoint about the target.
US11017173B1
A caption of a multimodal message (e.g., social media post) can be identified as a named entity using an entity recognition system. The entity recognition system can use a visual attention based mechanism to generate a visual context representation from an image and caption. The system can use the visual context representation to identify one or more terms of the caption as a named entity.
US11017170B2
Text can be encoded into DNA sequences. Each word from a document or other text sample can be encoded in a DNA sequence or DNA sequences and the DNA sequences can be stored for later retrieval. The DNA sequences can be stored digitally, or actual DNA molecules containing the sequences can be synthesized and stored. In one example, the encoding technique makes use of a polynomial function to transform words based on the Latin alphabet into k-mer DNA sequences of length k. Because the whole bits required for the DNA sequences are smaller than the actual strings of words, storing documents using DNA sequences may compress the documents relative to storing the same documents using other techniques. In at least one example, the mapping between words and DNA sequences is one-to-one and the collision ratio for the encoding is low.
US11017153B2
A method, system and computer program product for optimizing the loading of a web page. The server receives indications (e.g., Document Object Model (DOM) elements) of web page elements of interest of a web page from multiple client devices. The server updates a list of web page elements for the requested web page that is sorted in terms of popularity based on these received indications of web page elements of interest. The server may then appropriately respond to a request to retrieve that web page by accessing such a list and transmitting to the browser of the requesting client device the data to populate the content of the web page elements for the requested web page in an order based on the sorted list. In this manner, the browser will be able to optimize the loading of the web page.
US11017146B2
An integrated circuit includes a first set of devices, a set of metal layers and a header circuit. The first set of devices are configured to operate on a first supply voltage, and are located on a first layer of the integrated circuit. The set of metal layers are above the first layer, and includes a first metal layer and a second metal layer. The first metal layer extends in at least a first direction and a second direction. The header circuit is above the first set of devices. At least a portion of the header circuit is positioned between the first metal layer and the second metal layer. The header circuit is configured to provide the first supply voltage to the first set of devices, and is configured to be coupled to a second voltage supply having a second supply voltage different from the first supply voltage.
US11017136B1
Disclosed are methods, systems, and articles of manufacture for characterizing electromigration effects in an electronic design. These techniques determine an electrical characteristic at a port of a portion of an electronic design and select a number of frequencies in the frequency domain for the electrical characteristic. Multiple electric currents through a circuit component in the portion may be determined at least by performing a number of analyses for the number of frequencies. An electromigration effect may be characterized for the circuit component by using at least the multiple electric currents.
US11017133B2
First FEA mesh model representing 3-D geometry of a carbon fiber reinforced composite (CFRC) product/part, pre-forming fiber orientation and desired reference fiber direction at a particular location on the product/part are received. First FEA mesh model contains finite elements associated with respective material properties for carbon fibers and binding matrix. Pre-forming fiber orientation includes number of fibers and relative angles amongst the fibers. Pre-forming 2-D shape of a workpiece used for manufacturing the product/part is obtained by conducting a one-step inverse numerical simulation that numerically expands the first to a second FEA mesh model based on numerically-calculated structural behaviors according to respective material properties. Pre-forming fiber orientation is superimposed on the second FEA mesh model with the desired reference fiber direction being preserved. Relative angles amongst all of the fibers on the product/part are determined by correlating the superimposed fiber orientation of the second to the first FEA mesh model.
US11017129B2
Aspects provide for design template selectors, wherein processors are configured to determine a design pattern from a user input comprising a spatial arrangement of different discrete constituent design components, and determine that the design pattern input spatial arrangement of constituent components matches a portion of a selected one of a knowledge base plurality of completed design patterns that each comprise different fixed spatial arrangements of discrete constituent components within a threshold amount of confidence. Thus, aspects present the selected one of the knowledge base design patterns to the user as a suggested template for use in completing the design.
US11017127B2
Method and apparatus for managing data in a data storage device configured as a storage compute appliance. In some embodiments, the data storage device has a non-volatile memory (NVM) and a controller circuit. The NVM stores a plurality of data sets encrypted by at least one encryption key. The controller circuit performs a storage compute appliance process by locally decrypting the plurality of data sets in a local memory of the data storage device, generating summary results data from the decrypted data sets, and transferring the summary results data across the host interface to an authorized user without a corresponding transfer of any portion of the decrypted data sets across the host interface.
US11017126B2
An apparatus and method of providing direct access to a non-volatile memory of a non-volatile memory device and detecting potential security violations are provided. A method for providing access to a non-volatile memory of a non-volatile memory device may include tracking a parameter related to a plurality of direct access transactions of the non-volatile memory. A threshold behavior pattern of the host activity may be determined based upon the tracked parameters. The direct access transactions may be reviewed to determine whether the threshold behavior pattern is exceeded.
US11017118B2
While managing private data in cognitive surveys, a method, system, and computer program product may deploy a set of gather agents. Access credentials for a plurality of participants may be obtained from an encrypted data store and verified. The set of gather agents may gather a set of target data associated with the plurality of participants, and the set of target data may be collected according to a set of policy criteria. It may be determined whether one or more participants of the plurality of participants has requested to review a subset of the target data, and those participants may be prompted to review the subset of target data. It may be determined whether the one or more participants rejected the subset of target data. The subset of target data may be filtered, and the filtered subset of target data may be posted to a results database.
US11017110B1
In one embodiment, data at rest is securely stored. A data safe performing data plane processing operations in response to requests of received read data requests, received write data requests, and received read information responses, with the data safe being immutable to processing-related modifications resulting from said performing data plane processing operations. In one embodiment, performing these data plane processing operations does not expose any pilot keys outside the data safe in clear form nor in encrypted form. The pilot keys are used to encrypt information that is subsequently stored in a storage system. One embodiment uses pilot keys to encrypt data that is subsequently stored in a storage system. One embodiment uses data cryptographic keys to encrypt data, uses the pilot keys to cryptographically-wrap (encrypt) the data cryptographic keys, and stores the cryptographically wrapped data keys and encrypted data in a storage system.
US11017105B2
The invention discloses a system and method for selective erasure, encryption and or copying of data on a remote device if the remote device has been compromised or the level of authorization of a roaming user in charge of the remote device has been modified.
US11017103B2
A group of processors in a processor pool comprise a secure “enclave” in which user code is executable and user data is readable solely with the enclave. This is facilitated through the key management scheme described that includes two sets of key-pairs, namely: a processor group key-pair, and a separate user key-pair (typically one per-user, although a user may have multiple such key-pairs). The processor group key-pair is associated with all (or some define subset of) the processors in the group. This key-pair is used to securely communicate a user private key among the processors. The user private key, however, is not transmitted to non-members of the group. Further, preferably the user private key is refreshed periodically or upon any membership change (in the group) to ensure that non-members or ex-members cannot decipher the encrypted user key.
US11017099B2
The present disclosure provides systems and methods for entropy balanced population measurement. Entropy balancing is a statistical technique for preprocessing data to achieve covariate balance. Weighting coefficients may be dynamically adjusted to satisfy balance conditions or constraints to adjust for inequalities in representation, thereby improving covariate moments. Using entropy balancing and linear regression analysis with panel content exposure and results data provides a mechanism to estimate the effects of multiple exposure vectors simultaneously, including instances where panelists are exposed to a vector multiple times. Data may be obfuscated or anonymized for preprocessing via a double-encrypted intersection-based extraction mechanism, allowing both measurement systems and panel providers to retain confidential information.
US11017097B2
An information security system prevents unauthorized access to resources of an information system. The information security system includes a fingerprint scanner that provides fingerprint data, a radio transceiver that stores encrypted data including fingerprint data from authorized users in a first portion and second data in a second portion, and a hub device that receives the encrypted data and the fingerprint data associated with the scanned fingerprint of a user, decrypts the first portion of the encrypted data to provide decrypted fingerprint data, compares the decrypted fingerprint data with the fingerprint data associated with the scanned fingerprint of the user, identifies the user as an authorized user when the decrypted fingerprint data matches the fingerprint data associated with the scanned fingerprint of the user, and provides the second data to the third party device via the second data interface when the user is identified as the authorized user.
US11017095B2
A method for trusted measurement of a cloud computing platform includes: generating, by a third-party management and audit system, an audit report based on a current running indicator, signed by using a digital certificate, of a software and a running security indicator of the software, where the audit report indicates trustworthiness of a cloud computing platform. In this way, a process of trusted measurement of the cloud computing platform is open and transparent, so that authenticity of trusted measurement of the cloud computing platform is improved, thereby increasing a user's trust in the cloud computing platform.
US11017091B2
An example method includes retrieving, based on firmware map data stored in a firmware map, first portions of a system firmware while omitting retrieval of second portions to form a combined portion. The firmware map data is indicative of the first portions of the system firmware that remain unchanged over a normal lifetime of the system firmware, and the firmware map data is also indicative of the second portions of the system firmware that may vary over the normal lifetime of the system firmware. The method further includes calculating at least one master hash code based on the combined portion, and storing the at least one master hash code in a hash code table in association with the firmware map data.
US11017084B2
A method for detecting malicious code fragments based on data-flow isolation is provided. The method may include isolating data flows associated with a computing program for a user device. The method may further include mapping steps for the isolated data flow to modules associated with the computing program and the user device. The method may further include comparing the mapped steps to determine connections between the isolated data flows. The method may further include, based on the comparison of the mapped steps and the modules, determining whether the isolated data flows comprise malicious data flow deviations. The method may also include, in response to the determination that the isolated data flows comprise malicious data flow deviations, determining whether the computer program is malicious by weighing security risks associated with the malicious data flow deviations based on security risk factors.
US11017082B1
Described is a system for session workflow information flow analysis. The system labels a session identification (ID) in a session workflow as high confidentiality, such that the session ID remains only in confidential channels. Non-owner channels and authorization server channels are labeled as public channels. The session ID is type checked with a security type system, and security of the session ID is verified.
US11017078B2
Techniques for performing environmentally-trained time dilation are provided. According to certain embodiments, a computer system can determine an initial set of parameter values for implementing one or more time dilation algorithms with respect to a program, where the algorithms cause the program to observe a dilated view of time relative to real time, and where the initial set of parameter values is determined via one or more functions that take into account a current runtime environment of the system. The system can apply the initial set of parameter values to the time dilation algorithms. At a later point in time, the system can detect an event that causes a change in the current runtime environment. Upon detecting the event, the system can determine, via the functions, a new set of parameter values responsive to the change and apply the new set of parameter values to the time dilation algorithms.
US11017076B2
Certificate usage data is generated which identifies which processes or applications use which specific certificates. A certificate-specific usage model is generated based upon the certificate usage data and is used to detect anomalous usage of a certificate, by an application or process that has not previously used the certificate to authenticate itself to the computing system.
US11017069B2
The method disclosed herein provides for performing device authentication based on the of proximity to another device, such as a key device. When a key device is not near a mobile communications device, an unlock screen is allowed to be presented on a display screen. Based on the mobile communications device receiving a first code to unlock the mobile communications device, the mobile communications device is unlocked in a first mode. Based on receiving a second code while the unlocked mobile communications device is in the first mode, the unlocked mobile communications device changes from the first mode to a second mode, wherein a level of functionality of the mobile communications device in the second mode is greater than a level of functionality of the mobile communications device in the first mode.
US11017063B2
An authorizing party determines an authorization record set that needs to be revoked, where an authorization record included in the authorization record set corresponds to a token that is issued to an authorized party after the authorizing party grants access to the authorized party, and where each authorization record includes an authorization validation moment for a corresponding token. A time validity attribute of the authorization record set is configured. For a specific point-in-time, a value associated with the time validity attribute is set. A determination is performed as to whether the authorization record is revoked based on the authorization validation moment and the value associated with the time validity attribute.
US11017055B2
Techniques for identifying weaknesses in a probabilistic model such as an artificial neural network using an iterative process are disclosed. A seed file may be obtained and variant files generated therefrom. The variant files may be evaluated for their fitness, based upon the ability of the variant files to cause the probabilistic model to fail. The fittest variants, which may refer to those variants that are most successful in causing the model to fail, may be selected. From these selected variants, a next generation of variant files may be created. The next generation of variant files may be evaluated for their fitness. At each step of fitness evaluation or at the end of the iterative process, a map of the fittest variants may be generated to identify hotspots. These hotspots may reveal segments of code or a file that are problematic for the model, which can be used to improve the model.
US11017053B2
Disclosed herein, among other things, is a system comprising a content repository, a communication portal developer, a content manager, and an analytic engine. The content repository is adapted to store electronic content in a computer-readable storage medium. The communication portal developer includes at least one wizard to create a plurality of customizable portals without coding software. Each customizable portal is accessible to one or more selected visitors through a web browser. The content manager is adapted to publish selectable electronic content to selectable portals. The content manager includes at least one wizard to populate and manage the electronic content within the content repository. The analytic engine analyzes electronic content use and visitor behavior while logged into their customizable portal. In various embodiments, the analytics are provided in real time or near real time. Other embodiments are disclosed herein.
US11017049B2
A container having a compactor and bin for waste is disclosed permitting on-premises and remote monitoring of the system and collection is disclosed. The system can also detect non-complaint materials placed therein and act thereon. Methods are further disclosed for inventorying identification tags for tracking packages, merchandise and tags disposed of.
US11017046B2
Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for managing counters with automatic obsolescence of outdated values. One method includes operations for initializing a counter at a first time, and receiving, at a second time, a request to add a value to the counter. Further, a time period corresponding to the second time is calculated, as well as a promotion factor based on the time period. The method further includes calculating an incremental value based on the received value and the promotion factor, and adding the incremental value to the counter. Additionally, a prediction or estimate is based on a current value of the counter, such as identifying areas of interest for a user on an online service, identifying languages spoken by the user, strength of connections between users, determining if the user is actively searching for a new job, and so forth.
US11017045B2
A method and system for providing a personalized user interface and personalized search suggestions when using an application is disclosed. The method includes receiving a request for providing a personalized user interface such as a personalized menu for an application and examining a history of the user's usage of the application, a history of other user's usage of the application, and/or the content of the current document in the application, before identifying one or more suggested options offered by the application based on one or more of these factors. A list may then be generated and provided for being displayed as part of the personalized user interface. Upon receiving an indication of a user's intent to perform a search within the application, the user's usage history, usage history of users with similar activities, and/or content of the current document may be examined to provide the user with a list of search suggestions.
US11017044B2
Apparatuses, methods, and program products are disclosed for filtering similar content items. One apparatus includes a processor and a memory that stores code executable by the processor. The code is executable by the processor to compare, by use of the processor, a content item to previous content items corresponding to an account. The code is executable by the processor to determine whether the content item is a similar content item for the account based on the comparison between the content item and the previous content items. The code is executable by the processor to, in response to the content item being a similar content item for the account, determine whether to filter the content item from the account.
US11017043B2
Disclosed is a similarity mining method, comprising: acquiring user behavior data and brand word data, wherein the user behavior data includes user search word data and user comment data; acquiring search brand words according to the user search word data and pre-stored brand word data; constructing a corpus important vocabulary library relating to the search brand words according to the user behavior data; using the corpus important vocabulary library as an input of a word vector tool to perform word vector model training to acquire word vectors of the search brand words; calculating a distance between the search brand words according to the word vectors of the search brand words. The invention further provides a similarity mining device, which calculates similarities of the brand words using a clustering algorithm (e.g., word2vector) according to the user search word data and the user post-purchase comment data.
US11017040B2
Techniques for providing explanations of candidate search queries are described. The queries can be created using query intent clustering in an automated sourcing tool. In an example embodiment, disclosed is a system that obtains one or more current candidate member profiles used as a basis for a search on member profiles in an online system. Additionally, the system extracts one or more attributes from the one or more current candidate member profiles. Moreover, the system identifies query intent clusters based on the extracted one or more attributes. Furthermore, the system generates a search query based on the identified query intent clusters. Next, an explanation of the search query can be displayed on a display device of the system. In some embodiments, the online system hosts a social networking service that includes the member profiles, and the identified query intent clusters include skills clusters.
US11017027B2
In an aspect, provided is a method comprising receiving, at a master node, capability information associated with a plurality of worker nodes, receiving, at the master node, an indexation request, and in response to the indexation request, distributing one or more tasks to the plurality of worker nodes based on the respective capability information, wherein the one or more tasks relate to generating a plurality of indexlets.
US11017024B2
A content provider system ranks media content items with respect to a particular user based on selection scores determined for each of the media content items. The selection scores may be determined using a particular model that calculates a predicted selection score based on feature values associated with the content item with respect to the particular user. The feature values may indicate properties of the media content item, the particular user, or the particular user's relationship with the content item, including information about the novelty of the media content item with respect to the user. The particular model may be trained with sample user consumption data points that represent various combinations of media content items and users. The data point information evaluated during the training of the particular model may cause the model to assign higher selection scores to content items that are novel in particular ways.
US11017018B2
A method manages an image catalog at a server system. The system receives reduced-resolution versions of one or more images stored in an image database of an external service distinct from the system. For each received reduced-resolution version, the system creates an index entry in the image catalog. The system receives a query from a user and matches the query to an index entry in the catalog, which corresponds to an image stored as a full-resolution version in the image database. The system requests authorization from the owner of the image. When authorization is received, the system retrieves the full-resolution version from the image database, and temporarily stores the full-resolution version in temporary storage. The system then transmits the full-resolution version of the image to the user and releases the full-resolution version of the image from the temporary storage in response to the transmitting the full-resolution version.
US11017008B2
A method and apparatus for mapping measurement tags to assets. At least one memory is configured to store a plurality of tags. At least one processor is configured to parse a database of the plurality of tags to identify patterns of terms, wherein the plurality of tags include one or more terms and are related to measurements performed by an asset in an industrial process control and automation system. The processor is further configured to display the plurality of tags grouped by the identified patterns of terms. The processor is further configured to receive an input to map the tag related to the asset based on the identified patterns of terms. The processor is further configured to map the tag to the asset based on the input.
US11017006B2
The present disclosure relates to a method and a system for generating sentiment-based summaries for a user review. In an embodiment, a text analyzer receives a block of text indicating a user review. The text analyzer may generate one or more vectors for the plurality of words. Further, a relation is identified among the one or more vectors. A model is trained to identify a relation among the one or more vectors. Using the relation between the one or more vectors, a sentiment associated with the block of text is determined. Thereafter, one or more keywords from the block of text contributing to the determined sentiment is are identified and are classified into categories according to the sentiment contributed by the one or more words. Thereafter, the summary is generated for each category using the corresponding one or more words.
US11016997B1
The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media for generating query results based on domain-specific dynamic word embeddings. For example, the disclosed systems can generate dynamic vector representations of words that include domain-specific embedded information. In addition, the disclosed systems can compare the dynamic vector representations with vector representations of query terms received as part of a search query. The disclosed systems can further identify one or more digital content items to provide as part of a query result that include words corresponding to the query terms based on the comparison of the vector representations. In some embodiments, the disclosed systems can also train a word embedding model to generate accurate vector representations of unique words.
US11016990B2
Techniques are disclosed relating to fencing out a first one of a plurality of nodes configured to handle requests for data stored in a distributed storage. A database system, in various embodiments, stores a value indicating that the first node is permitted to update a catalog stored at a metadata server. In response to a determination to prevent the first node from updating the catalog and writing to the distributed storage, in various embodiments, the database system updates the value to indicate that the first node is not permitted to update the catalog and instructs the distributed storage to prevent write operations to a particular portion allocated to the first node for writing data.
US11016984B2
A scalable network of mobile data storage containers that are connected in peer-to-peer networks to archive large data storage capacities. The various embodiments provide a method of extracting a large amount of data from a variety of sources and storing the extracted data in mobile, storage units. The various embodiments provide storage units housed in mobile containers that can store multiple days/weeks of sensor data in the order of petabytes (1024 terabytes). The various embodiments, integrate high performance computing devices into the mobile storage containers that are able to perform critical extraction, pattern, and index processing on the sensor data. The various embodiments, provide a method for the efficient physical transport of the mobile storage containers from current locations to a center analysis location for re-connecting in another peer-to-peer network for integration into a central enterprise data warehouses.
US11016976B1
One or more embodiments described herein relate to database and data structure management to improve the storage capabilities and processing accuracy of location data for compliance monitoring. In known database systems, the quantity of location data available and/or collected can pose storage and/or processing challenges. Some embodiments described herein relate to the management of databases and/or data structures, including when data is created, modified, and/or deleted, to improve storage efficiency and/or relevance of stored data. One or more systems and methods described herein may automate the process of monitoring, collecting, storing, analyzing, and utilizing data and information.
US11016966B2
Various embodiments describe techniques for retrieving query results for natural language procedural queries. A query answering (QA) system generates a structured semantic representation of a natural language query. The structured semantic representation includes terms in the natural language query and the relationship between the terms. The QA system retrieves a set of candidate query results for the natural language query from a repository, generates a structured semantic representation for each candidate query result, and determines a match score between the natural language query and each respective candidate query result based on the similarity between the structured semantic representations for the natural language query and each respective candidate query result. A candidate query result having the highest match score is selected as the query result for the natural language query. In some embodiments, paraphrasing rules are generated from user interaction data and are used to determine the match score.
US11016965B2
Querying a knowledge graph database in which entity data characterizes entities represented by nodes, interconnected by edges, of a knowledge graph, and each edge represents one of a set of relationships between entities which is applicable to the entities represented by nodes interconnected by that edge. A graphical user interface for display by a user computer enables definition, in response to user input, of an atomic query which is associated with a floating graphical query object in the interface. The atomic query defines an input set of said nodes for the query, a relationship and an output set of nodes for the query. Graphical connector and graphical logical-operator objects in the interface are manipulatable by a user in relation to a plurality of the query objects to define a complex query by constructing a graphical representation of a desired logical combination of the query objects.
US11016964B1
The selection of search results to display can be based at least in part upon an intent determined for a search query. Various intent terms can be used to specify intent or context for a search query in order to obtain a certain type of result. The intent terms can be suggested or provided to a user in such a way as to train the user as to their existence and usage. A submitted search query is analyzed to detect the intent term and determine the overall intent of the query. One or more targeted intent queries are executed against determined data sources to obtain results relevant to that intent, such as new content items for a particular topic or items that are similar to those offered by a particular store. A diverse assortment of results can then be presented to the user.
US11016960B2
Systems and methods to perform virtual item transactions within a collaboration platform. In some implementations, entries in a secure ledger are generated to record transactions of virtual items making up an exchange or trade transaction. Entries in the secured ledger are each linked to a preceding entry using one or more hash values. A claim can be received from a first user account to dispute a transaction. Responsive to the claim, the transaction can be verified and an account restore operation can be performed when a transaction was not completed according to user intent, and virtual items can be restored to user accounts when a transaction was not completed as intended according to the secure ledger.
US11016957B2
A system for generating sensor data based query results can include a processor to detect sensor data from a plurality of sensors and store the sensor data as aggregated sensor data. The sensor data can be aggregated based on a time corresponding to the sensor data, wherein the sensor data is stored with a notification based push operation in response to a change in value of the sensor data exceeding a predetermined threshold. The processor can also convert the aggregated sensor data to an indexable data format (IDF) and provide a low latency query result to a query based on the aggregated sensor data in the IDF.
US11016955B2
In some examples, one or more computing devices may perform deduplication of data. For instance, a first device may receive, from a second device, a first data-portion identifier corresponding to a first deduplication data portion. The first device may include a first index portion of a deduplication index and the second device may include a second index portion of the deduplication index. Further, the first data-portion identifier may be received based on a first data-portion identifier portion being in a range of values assigned to the first index portion. The first device may locate, in the first index portion of the deduplication index, a second data-portion identifier that matches the first data-portion identifier. The first device may associate the first reference information for the first deduplication data portion with a second deduplication data portion referenced by reference information associated with the second data-portion identifier.
US11016953B2
An information processing device includes acquisition means for acquiring a plurality of tree structure data in which information groups are represented by tree structures and merge means for generating merged tree structure data merging the plurality of tree structure data. The merge means merges, for information satisfying a condition indicating that a certain distance from other information in the tree structure data is maintained, a subtree at a level below the information in the tree structure data, into the merged tree structure data, wherein the information satisfying the condition is included in a node selected from the plurality of tree structure data; and reorganizing for information satisfying a condition indicating that the distance between pieces of information is short, a merged subtree by merging subtrees below the information in the tree structure data into the information.
US11016950B2
A system and method for modifying a bulk set of domain names through bulk operations. A request to modify a bulk set of data associated with domain names is received by a registry. A bulk processing engine associated with the registry can analyze the requested update job, and enforce compliance with a set of policies governing the operation of registry. A priority level can also be assigned to the requested job, so that it will be executed before or after other pending jobs. The user can likewise provide user-supplied policies, which can also be validated against the set of registry policies. Data faults can be reduced or eliminated, and update operations can be performed by comparatively inexperienced personnel.
US11016949B2
In various examples, there is a database system which comprises an operating system, a query engine, a transaction manager and components implementing database administration functionality. The query engine and the transaction manager are configured to be executed within one or more memory enclaves of a host computer system separately from the operating system and the components implementing database administration functionality.
US11016948B2
In general, embodiments of the technology relate to a method and system for using micro objects to manage content. More specifically, embodiments of the technology relate to using micro objects to change and/or extend the functionality of the content management system such that the manner in which actions are applied to objects varies based the context of the request that specified an action to be performed on an object.
US11016943B2
Techniques are provided for managing objects within an object store. An object is maintained within an object store. The object is used to store data of a snapshot of a file system hosted by a remote computing device. A determination is made that the snapshot was deleted by the remote computing device. Bitmaps describing objects within the object store that are related to snapshots of the file system are evaluated to determine that the object is unique to the deleted snapshot. The object is freed from storage within the object store.
US11016942B2
A method for use in an endpoint device having a local storage system, to seamlessly access files in a cloud storage system. The method comprises: receiving, by a virtual file system driver, a request from a program running on the endpoint to access data within a file in a unified virtual file system, the local storage system being configured to maintain files, each file therein being in a stub or non-stub state and also being in a synchronized or a non-synchronized state, retrieving a portion of the file containing some of the requested data from the cloud storage system when the file is in a stub state; making the retrieved portion of the file available to the program upon being successfully retrieved; and maintaining the file in the non-stub and synchronized state for a period of time based on a determination that the file should be synchronized locally.
US11016940B2
Techniques for selecting a storage node of a storage system to store data include applying a first function to at least some data chunks of an extent to provide respective first values for each of the at least some data chunks. A storage node, included within multiple storage nodes of a storage system, is selected to store the extent based on a majority vote derived from the respective first values.
US11016929B2
Methods and apparatus relating to scalar core integration in a graphics processor. In an example, an apparatus comprises a processor to receive a set of workload instructions for a graphics workload from a host complex, determine a first subset of operations in the set of operations that is suitable for execution by a scalar processor complex of the graphics processing device and a second subset of operations in the set of operations that is suitable for execution by a vector processor complex of the graphics processing device, assign the first subset of operations to the scalar processor complex for execution to generate a first set of outputs, assign the second subset of operations to the vector processor complex for execution to generate a second set of outputs. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.
US11016921B2
An appliance, as provided herein, may include a cabinet, a control board, an intermediate dongle, and an electrical feature. The control board may be mounted within the cabinet to selectively direct one or more operation of the appliance. The intermediate dongle may be spaced apart from the control board within the cabinet. The intermediate dongle may include a connector body and a memory device housed within the connector body. The intermediate dongle may be in electrical communication with the control board. The electrical feature may be connected to the intermediate dongle within the cabinet of the appliance. The electrical feature may be in electrical communication with the control board through the intermediate dongle.
US11016918B2
In certain embodiments, a memory module includes a printed circuit board (PCB) having an interface that couples it to a host system for provision of power, data, address and control signals. First, second, and third buck converters receive a pre-regulated input voltage and produce first, second and third regulated voltages. A converter circuit reduces the pre-regulated input voltage to provide a fourth regulated voltage. Synchronous dynamic random access memory (SDRAM) devices are coupled to one or more regulated voltages of the first, second, third and fourth regulated voltages, and a voltage monitor circuit monitors an input voltage and produces a signal in response to the input voltage having a voltage amplitude that is greater than a threshold voltage.
US11016915B2
A method for sending data, from an upstream device to a downstream device, including sending a piece of data from one among a plurality of virtual channels sharing the same input buffer memory of the downstream device, if this virtual channel uses a number of memory locations of the input buffer memory strictly less than a current ceiling. It further comprises measuring a communication latency between the upstream and downstream devices, and calculating the current ceiling from the measured latency.
US11016912B2
A memory controller according to example embodiments of the inventive concept includes a system bus, a first direct memory access (DMA) engine configured to write data in a buffer memory through the system bus, a snooper configured to output notification information indicating whether the data is stored in the buffer memory by snooping around the system bus, and a second direct memory access (DMA) engine configured to transmit the data written in the buffer memory to a host in response to the notification information from the snooper.
US11016909B2
A method for retaining data pages in a cache is disclosed. In one embodiment, such a method stores multiple data pages in a cache. The method calculates, for each data page, a cost associated with promoting the data page from persistent storage media to the cache. The cost takes into account any data transformations (decryption, decompression, etc.) that are needed to promote the data page from the persistent storage media to the cache. In certain embodiments, the cost is represented as a score that is assigned to each data page. The method retains each data page in the cache for an amount of time that is related to its cost, such that data pages with a higher cost are retained in the cache longer than data pages with a lower cost. A corresponding apparatus and computer program product are also disclosed.
US11016902B2
Circuitry comprises a data store to hold status data indicating a status of a first set of one or more devices connected to the interconnect circuitry; and control circuitry, responsive to initiation of a data handling transaction, to generate recovery data indicative of an initial state of the status data and to predict a predicted revised state of the status data applicable to resolution of the data handling transaction; the control circuitry being configured to change the status data to the predicted revised state in response to initiation of the transaction and before resolution of the transaction, and in response to a request to access the status data between the change of the status data to the predicted revised state and the resolution of the transaction, to provide access to the initial state of the status data, using the recovery data.
US11016891B2
A computing device includes processing units and a shared processor cache. Each cache line is associated with a different plurality of accounting bits, including a unit bit associated with each processing unit. An operation by a particular processing unit on a particular cache line is identified. If the operation is a read consumed by that processing unit, and when a unit bit for that processing unit in the accounting bits associated with the particular cache line is not set, at least the value portion of the particular cache line is stored or referenced in the trace, and the particular unit bit is set. If the operation is a write, each unit bit in the accounting bits associated with the cache line that are associated with any processing unit other than the particular processing unit is cleared, and the particular unit bit associated with the particular processing unit is set.
US11016884B2
Virtual block redirection clean-up is accomplished for a virtual block in a mapper tree for a logical volume that is redirected to a destination virtual block in the mapper tree. In response to redirection of the virtual block, a redirection notification is sent to each component in a set of dependent components. Each dependent component may store one or more pointers to pointers located within virtual blocks of the mapper tree. The redirected virtual block is cleaned up in response to determining that each dependent component has expressly indicated, in response to the redirection notification, that it does not store any pointer to any pointer that is located within the redirected virtual block.
US11016878B2
A system and method are provided for data collection and analysis of information related to applications. Specifically, the developer of the application may install analytic software, which may be embodied as a software development kit (SDK), on an integrated development environment (“IDE”) associated with the developer, wherein the analytic software may be installed with a wizard-like interface having a series of easy to follow instructions. Once installed, the application, with the analytic software incorporated therein, may be provided and installed on a plurality of end user devices. Thereafter, the analytic software may work in conjunction with analytic processing logic to assist the developer in obtaining pertinent information related to bugs associated with the application that is being executed on an end user device.
US11016869B2
Collected usage information relating to interaction with content is integrated with operation of a system, such as a content management system. The usage information is collected in response to occurrences of usage events. A user may create, configure and define the usage events according to their needs. The user may also configure/define different values that are associated with the different events. For example, a user may specify: when to count a view (e.g. unique user view or each view); what period of time to collect counts; aggregation of counts (e.g. tenant, site, collection); a weighting for the event; a trim value; when to provide the parameter to a search index of the system such that the value is considered by the search engine of the system; whether or not a parameter is configurable by other users, and the like.
US11016854B2
Stabilizing a container-based application includes determining a health of a container. Based on the container health, a most recent stable version of an image for the container is identified. A container image is considered stable if containers spawned from the image have a relatively high MTTF and relatively low MTTR compared to other versions of same image. The container is then deployed using the most recent stable version of the image for the container.
US11016851B2
A machine learning module receives inputs comprising attributes of a storage controller, where the attributes affect failures that occur in the storage controller. In response to a failure occurring in the storage controller, a plurality of output values corresponding to a plurality of recovery mechanisms to recover from the failure in the storage controller are generated via forward propagation through a plurality of layers of the machine learning module. A margin of error is calculated based on comparing the generated output values to expected output values corresponding to the plurality of recovery mechanisms, where the expected output values are generated from an indication of a correct recovery mechanism for the failure. An adjustment is made of weights of links that interconnect nodes of the plurality of layers via back propagation to reduce the margin of error, to improve a determination of a recovery mechanism for the failure.
US11016845B2
An apparatus may comprise an ECC circuit configured to receive read data from a memory cell array to correct, an error bit contained in a data portion of the read data responsive, at least in part, to a parity portion of the read data, to generate a plurality of first error determination signals and a plurality of second error determination signals. Each of the plurality of first error determination signals provided in common to n data terminals and corresponding to an associated one of burst data of m bits. Each of the plurality of second error determination signals provided in common to the burst data of m bits and corresponding to an associated one of the n data terminals. The error bit of the data portion of the read data is detected based, at least in part, on the first error determination signals and the second error determination signals.
US11016838B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods, apparatus, and computer storage media for application error diagnosis. The method of application error diagnosis may include obtaining information related to an error in an application, generating a code of the information related to the error in the application, determining a similarity between the code and at least one predetermined code, wherein the at least one predetermined code is being associated with a known software bug. The method further includes determining at least one software bug related to the error in the application by comparing the similarity with a predetermined threshold.
US11016835B2
An information handling system includes a dual in-line memory module (DIMM) coupled to a memory controller. The memory controller provides interrupts to a processor each time a read transaction from the DIMM results in a correctable read error. The processor instantiates a failure predictor that receives the interrupts, accumulates a count of the interrupts, and provides an error indication when the count exceeds an error threshold. In accumulating the count, the failure predictor increments the count each time the predictor receives a particular interrupt and decrements the count in accordance with an error leak rate. The error leak rate has a first value when a training coefficient for the DIMM is greater than a deviation threshold, and has a second value when the training coefficient for the DIMM is less than the deviation threshold.
US11016832B2
Technologies for composing a managed node with multiple processors on multiple compute sleds to cooperatively execute a workload include a memory, one or more processors connected to the memory, and an accelerator. The accelerator further includes a coherence logic unit that is configured to receive a node configuration request to execute a workload. The node configuration request identifies the compute sled and a second compute sled to be included in a managed node. The coherence logic unit is further configured to modify a portion of local working data associated with the workload on the compute sled in the memory with the one or more processors of the compute sled, determine coherence data indicative of the modification made by the one or more processors of the compute sled to the local working data in the memory, and send the coherence data to the second compute sled of the managed node.
US11016830B2
Entity-based service operation upon object-based persistence, is efficiently accomplished utilizing mapping between entities and stored objects. An engine within the persistence layer receives a service call referencing an interface entity. The engine determines a context of a core object in the persistence layer. Based upon the context, the engine constructs from the core object, a prepared object including an entity node. A path between the entity node and a root node of the prepared object may comprise context, or may be derived from only partially reading the core object to construct the prepared object. The engine enriches the entity node with entity data from the service call, to generate an applied object. Referencing the applied object as a parameter, the engine executes the service call on the core object. The engine maps the core object to a result object returned to the interface layer in response to the service call.
US11016829B2
Systems and methods for two-layered or a two-phase deterministic inter-process communication (IPC) scheduling for input output deterministic (IOD) sets also referred to as non-volatile memory (NVM) sets in a solid state drive (SSD) system are provided. In various embodiments, an SSD controller includes an IPC scheduler comprising a first layer NVM set scheduler and a second layer fair share scheduler, configured to receive information messages for NVM sets, operable to prioritize the information messages in IPC queues, and generate an IPC pipeline to be processed for I/O operations.
US11016828B2
A task support system and method improve an operator's handling of an unknown new event. The task support system and method handle an event that occurred in a management target, in relation to an unknown event, and one or more event types are evaluated as event type candidates. A first event type candidate group having a high confidence score among the evaluated event type candidates is extracted and a first candidate confidence score is calculated from each confidence score of each event type candidate of the first event type candidate group. A first candidate importance is calculated from first importance held by an event type corresponding to each event type candidate belonging to the first event type candidate group and information other than the first importance. A diagram corresponding to each event is represented in a coordinate space by using the first candidate confidence score and the first candidate importance.
US11016806B2
A service scheduling method, including: obtaining scheduling information of multiple services deployed on a network device; generating scheduling logic according to the scheduling information, invoking, according to the generated scheduling logic, each processing module to process a packet received by the network device, and invoking, according to the scheduling point information of each service, a corresponding service at a scheduling point of each service. Accordingly, the embodiments of the present invention also provide a service scheduling apparatus and a network device.
US11016796B2
A controller sandbox using an emulation framework of a hypervisor is disclosed. A hypervisor receives, from a task in a virtual machine that is controlled by the hypervisor in a computing device on which the hypervisor executes, a first implement device command request that requests that a first device command be implemented on a controllable device communicatively connected to the computing device via an interface. The hypervisor determines that the first device command is on an authorized device command list. Based on determining that the first device command is on the authorized device command list, the hypervisor communicates a signal to the controllable device to implement the first device command.
US11016794B2
Peripheral device access support in a distributed computing resource cluster is described. In one example, an application can be supported in a container on a virtual machine in a distributed computing resource cluster. A need or requisite of the container for access to a peripheral device is identified. A device profile is created for the container and associated with the isolation environment. The device profile can be relied upon to check and confirm the compliance of one or peripheral devices on various host machines in the resource cluster. First, one or more host machines having access to the peripheral device are identified in the resource cluster. Then, a check for compliance of the peripheral device on one or more of the host machines is performed based on the device profile. The container is instantiated for the application on one of the host machines based on the check for compliance.
US11016792B1
A system for providing access to remotely hosted applications obtains information indicative of the resolution of a client desktop and an arrangement of windows on the client desktop. A host of the applications is made to conform its desktop resolution and arrangement of windows to that of the client desktop, such that the occluded window portions correspond between the client and host. Visible content of the hosted application windows is tracked and streamed to the client.
US11016774B1
A data processor is disclosed in which groups of execution threads can execute a set of instructions in lockstep, and in which a plurality of execution lanes can perform processing operations for the execution threads. Two or more execution threads of a thread group are issued to the same execution lane for execution. The two or more execution threads can then be processed by the execution lane successively, such that the execution lane performs the same processing operation successively. This can have the effect of reducing signal transitions, such that the overall energy consumption of the data processor can be reduced.
US11016764B2
A vector processing unit is described, and includes processor units that each include multiple processing resources. The processor units are each configured to perform arithmetic operations associated with vectorized computations. The vector processing unit includes a vector memory in data communication with each of the processor units and their respective processing resources. The vector memory includes memory banks configured to store data used by each of the processor units to perform the arithmetic operations. The processor units and the vector memory are tightly coupled within an area of the vector processing unit such that data communications are exchanged at a high bandwidth based on the placement of respective processor units relative to one another, and based on the placement of the vector memory relative to each processor unit.
US11016763B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for compacting multiple groups of micro-operations into individual cache lines of a micro-operation cache are disclosed. A processor includes at least a decode unit and a micro-operation cache. When a new group of micro-operations is decoded and ready to be written to the micro-operation cache, the micro-operation cache determines which set is targeted by the new group of micro-operations. If there is a way in this set that can store the new group without evicting any existing group already stored in the way, then the new group is stored into the way with the existing group(s) of micro-operations. Metadata is then updated to indicate that the new group of micro-operations has been written to the way. Additionally, the micro-operation cache manages eviction and replacement policy at the granularity of micro-operation groups rather than at the granularity of cache lines.
US11016761B2
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.
US11016753B2
A flaw handling system includes an off-line management server configured to manage an off-line robot and a data analysis server configured to determine whether or not an in-line robot can be updated using update-software. The off-line management server installs the update-software transmitted from a manufacturer's server in the off-line robot corresponding to the in-line robot, evaluates the update-software, and transmits a result of the evaluation of the update-software to the data analysis server. When the data analysis server determines that it is impossible to update the in-line robot using the update-software based on the result of the evaluation of the update-software by the off-line management server, the data analysis server transmits a result of the determination that the update using the update-software is impossible and the result of the evaluation of the update-software to the manufacturer's server.
US11016752B1
Systems and methods that facilitate notifying users when applications have changed health status from operational to inoperational status or impaired operational status are disclosed herein. The application healthcheck communicator system can receive push notifications from one or more application wrappers or applications regarding the operational status of the application, and then the application healthcheck communicator can forward the application statuses to client device associated with selected end users. The application healthcheck communicator can select which users to send the status updates to based on subscription lists or active directories that the end users are associated with.
US11016750B2
A system includes reception of a first portion of a firmware image, determination, based on the first portion of the firmware image, of whether to update the firmware based on the firmware image, transmission of an acknowledgement signal if it is determined to update the firmware based on the first portion of the firmware image, reception of a remaining portion of the firmware image, and updating of the firmware based on the firmware image.
US11016747B2
An information processing apparatus, method, and non-transitory recording medium storing instructions for executing an information processing method are provided. The information processing apparatus controls installation of a first program corresponding to a first program execution environment and controls installation of a second program corresponding to a second program execution environment in response to a request from the first program.
US11016738B2
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for changing a software code when executed by a PS (“production system”). An embodiment operates by pulling a copy of master code, entering changes to the copy of the master code, sending a request for staging a code push, sending a request for a voter build of staging code, and testing the changes.
US11016733B2
The present disclosure relates generally to techniques for enhancing packing density of carry-chains implemented on an integrated circuit. In particular, a packed-carry chain may be implemented to redistribute and/or emulate the logic of a first number of arithmetic logic cells of a first and/or second carry-chain using a second number of arithmetic logic cells less than or equal to the first number. By fitting the first and second carry-chain into such a packed carry-chain, the area consumed to perform the arithmetic operations of the first and second carry-chain may be reduced. As a result, the integrated circuit may benefit from increased efficiencies, reduced latency, and reduced resource consumption (e.g., wiring, area, and power).
US11016729B2
Mechanisms are provided, in a data processing system comprising a fusion sensor service and a human computer interaction (HCI) device, for responding to a user input. The HCI device receives a user input from a first sensor monitoring a monitored environment. The fusion sensor service captures, via one or more second sensors different from the first sensor, sensor data representing characteristics of one or more entities within the monitored environment indicative of a condition within the monitored environment. The fusion sensor service determines whether the user input is specifically directed to the HCI device based on the captured sensor data. The HCI device performs an operation in response to the data processing system determining that the user input is specifically directed to the HCI device based on the capture sensor data.
US11016727B2
An example system is configured to: (i) receive data indicating a command to play back, via a playback device of a media playback system, media content; (ii) based on the data indicating the command, detect a first playback condition comprising a first user identity; (iii) identify, from one or more user accounts associated with the playback device, a first user account corresponding to the first user identity; (iv) based at least on (1) the command and (2) one or more properties of the first user account, determine first media content for playback by the playback device; and (v) cause the playback device to play back the first media content.
US11016725B2
The embodiments herein provide a system connected to a casket to play an audio file selected by a user. The system includes an above-ground unit arranged to lead down into the casket. The above-ground unit includes a wireless module, controller, first speakers, light-emitting devices (LEDs), solar panel, and second speakers. The wireless module establishes a wireless connection with a computing device of the user. The controller facilitates the user to initiate the wireless connection on receiving a push gesture through buttons. The first speakers are configured within an amplifier chassis to generate audio data corresponding to the audio file through the computing device. The LEDs indicate the power status of the system and the connection status of the wireless module. The solar panel generates direct current (DC) electricity. The second speakers generate the audio data corresponding to the audio file selected by the user through the computing device.
US11016724B2
An electronic device and method for changing a path of an audio signal by the electronic device are provided. The method includes obtaining an electromagnetic signal (EM) signal of an external electronic device through EM sensing circuitry, identifying the external electronic device based on the obtained EM signal, changing the path of the audio signal that is output by the electronic device to be output through the external electronic device, when the identified external electronic device is capable of inputting or outputting the audio signal and is connected with the electronic device, and displaying, on a touchscreen display of the electronic device, a screen for establishing a communication connection with the external electronic device, when the identified external electronic device is capable of inputting or outputting the audio signal and is not connected with the electronic device.
US11016722B2
Computing systems, database systems, and related conversational updating methods are provided for dynamically updating graphical user interfaces responsive to conversational user inputs received via a chatbot or other conversational interactions with a user. One method involves receiving a conversational user input from a conversation session graphical user interface display presented at a client device, identifying a desire to perform an action with respect to a database component based on the conversational user input, creating a database entry corresponding to the conversational user input, obtaining data corresponding to the conversational user input from a database communicatively coupled to the server, and providing an update to a second graphical user interface display at the client device in response to the conversational user input, wherein the update is influenced by the data corresponding to the conversational user input obtained from the database and reflects the desired action with respect to the database component.
US11016721B2
Media input audio data corresponding to a media stream and microphone input audio data from at least one microphone may be received. A first level of at least one of a plurality of frequency bands of the media input audio data, as well as a second level of at least one of a plurality of frequency bands of the microphone input audio data, may be determined. Media output audio data and microphone output audio data may be produced by adjusting levels of one or more of the first and second plurality of frequency bands based on the perceived loudness of the microphone input audio data, of the microphone output audio data, of the media output audio data and the media input audio data. One or more processes may be modified upon receipt of a mode-switching indication.
US11016718B2
Techniques associated with conforming local and remote media characteristics data to target media presentation profiles are described, including a media characteristic configuration module comprising an audio characteristic manager configured to modify an audio portion of media content data received from a source to conform the audio portion to a target audio characteristic indicated in a target configuration profile, and to modify an audio portion of other media content data received from another source to conform the audio portion to the target audio characteristic indicated in the target configuration profile, a communication facility configured to receive media content data from different sources using different data communication protocols, and a storage device configured to store target configuration profiles and data associated with media content.
US11016714B2
A multi-screen splicing structure has a plurality of display devices. Each display device includes a display panel, a plurality of transceivers, a wireless communications module, and a control circuit. Each transceiver has a transmitting component and a receiving component. The control circuit is coupled to the display panel, the transceivers and the wireless communications module, and is used to turn on the wireless communications module when the control circuit determines that another display device is approaching based on a status of signals received by the receiving components of the transceivers to enable the wireless communications module performing wireless communications with a wireless communications module of another display device. The control circuit may also control an orientation of an image relative to the display panel according to the status of signals received by the receiving components of the transceivers of the display device.
US11016712B2
This disclosure is generally directed to systems and methods for generating a customized display in a vehicle. The customized display may be generated on the basis of various factors such as a reason for executing a trip, a preferred travel model, and/or operating parameters of the vehicle. A few exemplary reasons for executing a trip can include taking a vacation, delivering a package, dropping off a passenger, dining out, going to work, a fuel fill up, and/or for charging a battery. A computer may utilize such reasons to identify objects of interest in a geographical area surrounding the vehicle when the vehicle is executing the trip and generate a customized display that includes these objects. For example, when the reason for executing the trip is a vacation, the objects in the customized display may include a tourist attraction, a landmark, a fueling station, an electric charging station, and/or a restaurant.
US11016710B2
An image forming apparatus includes a speed calculating portion and a communication setting portion. In a state where a communication with the switching hub has been established by a highest-speed candidate method among a plurality of candidate methods that respectively have different rated communication speeds, the speed calculating portion calculates a result communication speed for each of the one or more host apparatuses based on an amount of received job data and a reception required time for each of the one or more host apparatuses, wherein the candidate methods are candidates for a communication method to be adopted. The communication setting portion selects, as an adopted communication method, one of the plurality of candidate methods based on the result communication speed for each of the one or more host apparatuses, and establishes a communication with the switching hub by the adopted communication method.
US11016706B2
An example apparatus includes a processing in memory (PIM) capable device having an array of memory cells and sensing circuitry coupled to the array, where the sensing circuitry includes a sense amplifier and a compute component. The PIM capable device includes timing circuitry selectably coupled to the sensing circuitry. The timing circuitry is configured to control timing of performance of compute operations performed using the sensing circuitry. The PIM capable device also includes a sequencer selectably coupled to the timing circuitry. The sequencer is configured to coordinate the compute operations. The apparatus also includes a source external to the PIM capable device. The sequencer is configured to receive a command instruction set from the source to initiate performance of a compute operation.
US11016702B2
A managing unit included in a distributed storage network (DSN) receives an event representation request, and identifies event record entries based on that request. The event record entries include information associating reporting entities with the event record entries. The management unit obtains the event record entries from the reporting entities; at least one event record entry is obtained from a first reporting entity, and at least another event record entry is obtained from a second reporting entity. In response to receiving the event representation request, the management unit generates a representation of the event record entries, and outputs the representation to a requesting entity.
US11016696B2
An improved information management system is provided herein for managing secondary storage computing devices when one or more become unavailable. For example, a first secondary storage computing device in a pool of secondary storage computing devices can run a storage manager virtual machine (VM) that manages secondary copy and restore operations. A second secondary storage computing device in the pool can run a virtualization engine that manages the storage manager VM. The virtualization engine can replicate the storage manager VM data to other secondary storage computing devices in the pool. If the first secondary storage computing devices becomes unavailable, the second secondary storage computing device can instruct a third secondary storage computing device in the pool to launch a replicated storage manager VM using the replicated storage manager VM data stored therein. Thus, the third secondary storage computing device can act as the now unavailable first secondary storage computing device.
US11016689B2
A data storage system that provides improved reliability and performance comprises a first memory device including a plurality of first storage components and a first memory controller, the first memory controller controls operation of the first storage components, a second memory device including a plurality of second storage components and a second memory controller, the second memory controller controls operation of the second storage components, a grading device determining grades for each of the first storage components and the second storage components, and a system controller that the location of data based on the grades of the first storage components and the second storage components.
US11016685B2
A method and a defragmentation module for defragmenting resources of a hardware system. The defragmentation module identifies a set of structures. Each structure of the set of structures partially hosts a respective set of host machines. Respective resources of each host machine of the respective set of host machines are allocated in at least two structures of the set of structures. The defragmentation module selects, from the respective resources of a host machine of the respective set of host machine, a remote resource of a first structure being different from a second structure partially hosting the host machine. A remote amount of the remote resource is less than an amount of available resources of the second structure. The defragmentation module assigns the remote amount of the available resources of the second structure to the host machine instead of the remote resource.
US11016675B2
A computer-implemented method, a computer program product, and a computer system for optimizing timing for migrating data. The computer system sets a migration required flag for each of first tapes, in response to determining an estimated time period required for data migration from the first tapes to second tapes being smaller than an expiration time period of the first tapes. The computer system sets the migration required flag for a respective one of the first tapes, in response to determining the estimated time period being not smaller than the expiration time period and a predetermined time period has passed for the respective one of the first tapes. Data on tapes that migration required flags are set is to be migrated to the second tapes.
US11016670B2
A nonvolatile semiconductor memory device comprises a cell unit including a first and a second selection gate transistor and a memory string provided between the first and second selection gate transistors and composed of a plurality of serially connected electrically erasable programmable memory cells operative to store effective data; and a data write circuit operative to write data into the memory cell, wherein the number of program stages for at least one of memory cells on both ends of the memory string is lower than the number of program stages for other memory cells, and the data write circuit executes the first stage program to the memory cell having the number of program stages lower than the number of program stages for the other memory cells after the first stage program to the other memory cells.
US11016662B2
The present invention relates to systems and methods for providing customized keyboards for receiving user inputs, and view regions for displaying information for users in useful arrangements. Such keyboards include keys that are pre-programmed to reflect the issues present in each trading pane of the view regions. Using such keys, a user may direct the trading application to quickly and efficiently switch between multiple issues, and place, manipulate or cancel orders on them. The keyboard may also be designed such that multiple keys may be disabled, replaced or mapped to perform different functions.
US11016656B1
A computer-implemented method for optimizing object placement on a touchscreen graphical user interface when a distracted user selects incorrect coordinates. Through a variety of sensors, a device with a touchscreen graphical user interface may be able to survey the surrounding environment and distinguish specific types of stimuli, that may distract a touchscreen user. The method includes calculating a user distraction score based on the surrounding stimuli and associates it the coordinates of an object on the touchscreen and detecting if the user touched the screen at the wrong location. The placement of the object a user intended to engage on the touchscreen graphical user interface is corrected to the location which the user expects the object to be, based upon the user distraction score and the touchscreen coordinates which the user initially engaged.
US11016653B2
Methods and system for enabling locally generated transition graphics interaction with virtualized host computer service includes receiving a control command issued by a user to control screen data currently being rendered at the display device, at a display device of a client device. The control command is transmitted to the host computer service for processing. The host computer service processes the control command and returns updated screen data to the client device. In response to the receipt of the updated screen data, the client device identifies a desired screen effect associated with the control command. The updated screen data received from the host computer service is packaged at the client device with data associated with the desired screen effect to generate a visual response at the client device. The packaged screen effect is returned to the display device for rendering, in response to the control command.
US11016643B2
The present disclosure generally relates to interacting with user interface objects in a user interface. An input is detected directed to the user interface object that includes a respective amount of movement in a first direction. In response to detecting the input, if the user interface object includes user-specified content, then the user interface object is moved a first distance selected based on the respective amount of movement of the input in the first direction. If the user interface object does not include user-specified content, then the user interface object is moved a second distance selected based on the respective amount of movement of the input in the first direction, wherein the second distance is larger than the first distance.
US11016640B2
Selecting and displaying a profile photo may include determining viewer characteristics of a viewer who is triggering an action to open an image file that shows a photo image. A context associated with viewing of the profile photo and photo image characteristics of a plurality of photos may be determined. Based on the viewer characteristics, the photo image characteristics and the context associated with viewing of the profile photo, a photo from the plurality of photos may be selected. Responsive to determining that the selected photo is to be transformed, a transformed version of the photo image may be generated and displayed.
US11016635B2
A method for operating a data processing system having a display screen on which a GUI is displayed is disclosed. The GUI has a plurality of configurations having different aspect ratios or numbers of pixels. The method includes providing a layout description and a runtime system that generates the GUI in response to the layout description and the display configuration. The layout description defines a first container having a plurality of components to be shown in the GUI within a first container space. Each component has a component layout description within the first container. The runtime system automatically allocates the first container space depending on the display configuration, and automatically divides the first container space into a plurality of component spaces. Each component is shown in a corresponding one of the component spaces. The first container space and the component spaces automatically change when the display configuration changes.
US11016633B2
A non-transitory tangible computer readable medium containing instructions configured to cause one or more processors to execute a process. The process comprises monitoring user input, preferences, and navigation patterns of a website or computer application on a user computer device, such as a computer, phone, or tablet. Administrator-defined rules are applied to the user input, preferences, or navigation patterns to generate a suggestion for a customer service application, such as a self-service FAQ page, video chat assistance, live chat assistance, or a case ticket system. The customer service application suggestion is displayed on the user computer device and may be transferred to a different device.
US11016626B2
An input device includes a detector that includes a base having a polyhedral shape and detection electrodes that are provided on some or all sides of the base and detect proximity of an operator, and a guide that has a shape surrounding the detector and guides an input operation performed by the operator.
US11016625B2
A display panel and deformation sensing method thereof, and a display device are provided. The display panel includes a substrate, and a deformation sensing unit on the substrate; the deformation sensing unit includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and a third electrode, the second electrode and the third electrode being configured to form a first capacitor, the first electrode and the second electrode being configured to form a second capacitor, the first electrode and the third electrode being configured to form a third capacitor, and the first capacitor, the second capacitor, and the third capacitor being configured to determine a shape-state of the display panel.
US11016623B2
A touch sensor panel may be provided that includes a plurality of drive electrodes formed in a first layer; and a plurality of receiving electrodes which are arranged to cross the plurality of drive electrodes and are formed in a second layer. In the plurality of drive electrodes, a column of drive electrodes is formed by connecting a plurality of lozenge-shaped unit electrodes in a column direction, and the drive electrodes of each column are disposed at a regular interval in a row direction. The plurality of receiving electrodes are composed of a line having a predetermined width and are arranged in the row direction in such a way as to pass through a center of the unit electrode. Through this, the touch sensor panel capable of linearly detecting the change of the capacitance is provided, so that touch position can be accurately detected.
US11016619B2
Some embodiments of the present disclosure provide a touch panel a method of manufacturing the touch panel and a touch display panel. The touch panel includes a touch substrate; and a plurality of touch electrodes on the touch substrate, the plurality of touch electrodes being spaced apart from each other in a first direction and extending in a second direction different from the first direction, wherein a width of each of the touch electrodes gradually increases or decreases in the second direction.
US11016617B2
A touch sensitive processing method, comprising: selecting a detection area including N first electrodes; repeating following steps N times: designating N−1 of the first electrodes among the N first electrodes as a i-th combination, where i is a positive integer ranged from 1 to N; simultaneously applying driving signals to the first electrodes designated as the i-th combination in a first time period; and retrieving i-th period one-dimension sensing information based on sensed induced driving signals of the second electrodes; adding all of the i-th period one-dimension sensing information to generate one all-period one-dimension sensing information; and calculating a two-dimension sensing information according to the all-period one-dimension sensing information and all of the i-th period one-dimension sensing information.
US11016602B2
A method for locating at least one movable magnetic object relative to a network of at least N tri-axial magnetometers linked together mechanically with no degree of freedom to retain a known relative position of these magnetometers, N being an integer number at least equal to 2, comprises, continuously: a step of detection of a magnetometer capable of being magnetized, i.e. capable of delivering as output measurements comprising a measurement bias following a magnetization; a step of correction, by means of a correction bias, of the measurements delivered by the magnetometer capable of being magnetized, the correction bias corresponding to a deviation between the measurements supplied by the magnetometer as input for a location filtering and the estimations, upon the location filtering, of the data delivered by the magnetometer; and a step of consideration of the magnetometer as not capable of being magnetized, by taking into account the step of correction of the magnetometer capable of being magnetized.
US11016596B2
In an input device: a position detection portion includes a main surface that faces up, and detects a position where an external force is applied on the main surface; a cover member is separated upward from a specific portion of the main surface, covers the specific portion, and exposes an operation portion of the main surface excluding the specific portion; a base portion is provided to be in contact with the cover member, above a separate portion that is a portion of the specific portion and is separated from the operation portion; and a flexible portion extends from the base portion toward the operation portion, and is in contact with an adjacent portion that is a portion of the specific portion and is located between the operation portion and the separate portion, the flexible portion being separated downward from the cover member and flexible with respect to the base portion.
US11016594B2
A touch sensing type liquid crystal display device includes an array substrate includes a first substrate, a common electrode, a pixel electrode, and a touch sensing unit; a color filter substrate including a second substrate and facing the array substrate; an anti-static layer on an outer side of the second substrate and including an organic material and a carbon nano-tube; and a liquid crystal layer between the first substrate and an inner side of the second substrate.
US11016593B2
According to one embodiment, a sensor device is provided and including electrodes each including a first line, a second line, and a third line; and a lead line connected to one of the electrodes at a first end portion of the one of the electrodes, wherein the first to third lines are electrically connected to each other, the first line runs in a first direction, the second line runs in a second direction different from the first direction, and intersects the first line, the electrodes are arranged in a third direction different from the first and second directions, the third line runs in the third direction and located along the first end portion, the lead line is drawn from the third line, and detection signals are detected by the electrodes.
US11016583B2
A digital pen may include an orientation sensors and a three-dimensional (3D) coordinate plane selection module wherein, via input from the orientation sensors describing a position and orientation of the digital pen with respect to a two-dimensional (2D) display, the 3D coordinate plane selection module selects at least one coordinate plane in which an element of a 3D image is to be adjusted.
US11016571B2
The operator control unit (10) for a device is provided with an operator control element (14) which has a touch-sensitive operator control surface (16). The operator control element (14) is, for the purpose of being automatically returned to its inoperative position after being deflected out of said inoperative position, elastically mounted in said inoperative position. The mechanical excitation of the operator control element (14) out of its inoperative position for the purpose of tactile feedback in response to operation of the operator control element (14) is performed by means of an actuator (24). A sensor (26) identifies the movement of the operator control element (14) and/or an acceleration and/or force acting on the operator control element (14). When a movement of the operator control element (14) and/or an acceleration and/or force acting on the operator control element (14) are/is identified without sensing contact with the operator control surface (16), the evaluation and actuation unit (22) actuates the actuator (24) to maintain the inoperative position of the operator control element (14) and/or to move the operator control element (14) back to its inoperative position and/or to stabilize the operator control element (14).
US11016570B2
An input device includes a movable section having a touch sensor, and an actuator that is mechanically fixed to the touch sensor and vibrates in a lateral direction; a support that supports the movable section via an elastic component; and a pressure sensor that (i) is disposed on a side opposite to a side on which the support supports the movable section and (ii) detects a pressing operation to the touch sensor. At least one of the movable section and the support transmits a force from the pressing operation to the pressure sensor due to the movable section and the support moving integrally and as a whole in a direction of the pressing operation when the pressing operation is performed.
US11016568B2
Methods and apparatus to identify haptic vibrations of touchscreens are disclosed. An apparatus includes a haptic signal generator to obtain a surface haptic control signal that is to cause a touchscreen to vibrate to generate a perception of a texture for a user interacting with the touchscreen. The texture corresponds to content displayed on the touchscreen. The apparatus further includes a watermark encoder to encode a watermark into the surface haptic control signal to generate a watermarked surface haptic control signal. The watermark includes identifying information to identify at least one of the content or the texture.
US11016566B1
A pair of handheld controllers with asymmetric tracking patterns for use with a tracking camera. The pair of controllers includes a right-hand controller and a left-hand controller. The right-hand and the left-hand controllers are substantially symmetric with respect to each other with the exception of their respective tracking patterns. A right-hand pattern of lights is disposed on the right-hand controller and a left-hand pattern of lights is disposed on the left-hand controller. The right-hand pattern of lights and the left-hand pattern of lights are asymmetric with respect to each other. The right-hand controller includes a right-hand handle portion and a surrounding right-hand ring portion and the left-hand controller includes a left-hand handle portion and a surrounding left-hand ring portion. The right-hand pattern of lights and the left-hand pattern of lights are disposed on the right-hand ring portion and the left-hand ring portion, respectively.
US11016564B2
Systems, methods and apparatus for presenting information using an electronic device. In an aspect, when a standby or idle device detects that a user gazes at it, it starts showing content items on a display. In other aspects, when a standby or idle device detects that a user shakes it, taps on it, or speaks to it, plus that the user gazes at it, the device begins to show content items on a display. The content items may include advertisements.
US11016555B2
An apparatus and a method for controlling power consumption associated with a computing device having first and second processors configured to perform different types of operations includes providing a user interface that allows, during normal operation of the computing device, at least one of: (i) a user selection of desired performance levels of the first and second processors relative to one another, such that higher desired performance levels of one processor correspond to lower desired performance levels of the other processor, and (ii) a user selection of a desired performance level of the first processor and a user selection of a desired performance level of the second processor, the two user selections being made independently of one another. The apparatus and method control, during normal operation of the computing device, performance levels of the processors in response to the one or more user selections of the desired performance levels.
US11016554B2
A semiconductor apparatus includes a plurality of chips and a first bypass switch. The chips are coupled in series between a power end and a reference ground end. The first bypass switch is coupled in series between a first end and a second end of a first chip among the chips, wherein the first end is coupled to the power end and the second end is coupled to the reference ground end. The first bypass switch is turned on according to a first control signal when an operational efficiency of the first chip is less than a threshold value and the first chip is determined to be damaged.
US11016550B2
A configuration interface bus may be coupled to components of a physical layer (PHY) device. A configuration controller may be coupled with the configuration interface bus and may receive an input signal representing a power state of the PHY device. The configuration controller may further identify a set of instructions that correspond to the input signal and may transmit configuration data via the configuration interface bus to one or more of the components of the PHY device in response to an execution of the set of instructions. The operation of the one or more components of the PHY device may be based on the configuration data.
US11016548B2
A single chip system is disclosed, which includes: a reset pin (110), a control unit (120), a central processing unit CPU (130) and a peripheral (140), the single chip system (100) is connected to a master control system (200) via an end of the reset pin (110), the other end of the reset pin (110) is connected to the control unit (120), and the control unit (120) is connected to the CPU (130) and the peripheral (140), where the master control system (200) controls the reset pin (110) to output a reset electrical level; and the control unit (120) detects a signal duration of the reset electrical level output by the reset pin (110), and trigger to wake or reset a single chip according to the signal duration of the reset electrical level, a signal duration for triggering wakeup is different from a signal duration for triggering a reset.
US11016544B2
A method of determining a temperature of a component in an electronic device includes obtaining a posture of the electronic device, selecting a first temperature sensor from a plurality of temperature sensors based on the obtained posture, obtaining a first measured temperature from the first temperature sensor, determining the temperature of the component based on the first measured temperature from the first temperature sensor, and in accordance with the determined temperature meeting one or more criteria, adjusting performance of the component.
US11016542B1
Apparatuses, methods, and systems for touch pad sensors that are further operative as antennas, are disclosed. One apparatus includes a plurality of touch sensors, a controller, and a radio. The controller is operative to receive sensed signals of the plurality of touch sensors, and provide controls of the apparatus in response to the receive sensed signals of the plurality of touch sensors. The radio is operative to wirelessly communicate with an external wireless device. One or more conductive lines electrically connect the radio with one or more of the plurality of touch sensors, wherein the plurality of touch sensors operate as one or more antennas for facilitating the wireless communication.
US11016533B1
A tablet PC case includes a first protective cover, a second protective cover, and a connection unit. The first protective cover includes a pair of retained frame portions. Each retained frame portion includes an outer surface portion and a first end face. The second protective cover includes a chassis, an input unit, a terminal group, and a magnet portion. The chassis includes a groove portion recessed from the front surface of the chassis. The groove portion includes a first groove in which one edge of the tablet PC can be retained, and a pair of second grooves in which the pair of retained frame portions is retained. The second groove includes a groove base surface like a curved concave surface in contact with the outer surface portion, and a second end face opposed to the first end face. The terminal group is disposed in the first groove.
US11016530B2
A portable information device includes a hinge device, a foldable display, and a bezel member. The hinge device has a first base plate fixed to the first chassis, a second base plate fixed to the second chassis, a first link arm having a first end portion rotatably connected to the first base plate through a first shaft, a second link arm having a first end portion rotatably connected to the second base plate through a second shaft, and a coupling plate having a first end portion rotatably connected to a second end portion of the first link arm through a third shaft and a second end portion rotatably connected to a second end portion of the second link arm through a fourth shaft. The hinge device as a whole is disposed under a display surface, regardless of opening/closing state of the second chassis with respect to the first chassis.
US11016518B2
A voltage subtracter includes a first charge storage device and a second charge storage device. The first charge storage device receives a first voltage and a second voltage during a first time period, and storages a first difference voltage between the first voltage and the second voltage. The second charge storage device receives a reference ground voltage and the first voltage during a second time period, and storages a second difference voltage between the reference ground voltage and the first voltage. The first charge storage device and the second charge storage device are coupled to an output end during a second time period, and a charge sharing operation is operatedon the first charge storage device and the second charge storage device to generate an output voltage on the output end.
US11016516B2
Energy packet switches (EPS) employing supercapacitors as storage provide aggregation and delivery of energy to users based on shared-capacitance in a digital power grid. The EPS aggregates energy from one or multiple energy sources, stores and dispatches the energy in discrete amounts as energy packets to one or multiple users. The payload of the energy packet is adjusted by the voltages of the supercapacitors which are used as energy containers for both the EPS and the users. The EPS has a control plane where data transmitted is used to control the operation of the EPS, and a power plane to receive and transmit energy between ports. The power and data planes work in parallel and with a parallel data network. Control and management of the EPS are based on a request-grant transport protocol. The data network is used to receive energy requests and grants, and a granting scheme is used to select which loads are granted energy. By sending addresses of granted loads on the data network and energy on the energy grid, energy is delivered to addressed destinations.
US11016507B2
A flight management assembly for an aircraft includes at least one flight management system and at least one display device, the flight management system configured to manage at least one flight plan of the aircraft and one long-term reference path of the aircraft. The flight management assembly additionally includes an auxiliary computer, the auxiliary computer being separate from and independent of the flight management system, the auxiliary computer linked to the flight management system and to the display device, the auxiliary computer configured to perform prediction computations to generate at least one short-term path, from at least the long-term reference path received from the flight management system and from current flight parameters of the aircraft and from piloting setpoints of the aircraft.
US11016505B2
A vehicle configured to be autonomously navigated in a peloton along a roadway, wherein the peloton comprises at least the vehicle at least one additional vehicle, is configured to determine a position of the vehicle in the peloton which reduces differences in relative driving ranges among the vehicles included in the peloton. The vehicles can dynamically adjust peloton positions while navigating to reduce driving range differences among the vehicles. The vehicle can include a power management system which enables the vehicle to be electrically coupled to a battery included in another vehicle in the peloton, so that driving range differences between the vehicles can be reduced via load sharing via the electrical connection. The vehicle can include a power connector arm which extends a power connector to couple with an interface of another vehicle.
US11016491B1
This specification describes trajectory planning for robotic devices. A robotic navigation system can obtain, for each of multiple time steps, data representing an environment of a robot at the time step. The system generates a series of occupancy maps for the multiple time steps, and uses the series of occupancy maps to determine occupancy predictions for one or more future time steps. Each occupancy prediction can identify predicted locations of obstacles in the environment of the robot at a different one of the future time steps. A planned trajectory can be determined for the robot using the occupancy predictions, and the robot initiates travel along the planned trajectory.
US11016484B2
A vehicle control apparatus for performing automatic driving control of a vehicle carrying the apparatus based on a travel path to a destination, which path is set using map information, and detection information about surroundings of the vehicle detected by sensors mounted in the vehicle. In the vehicle control apparatus, a mismatch determiner is configured to, during automatic driving control, determine whether or not there is a match between the map information and the detection information acquired from the sensors. A control aspect changer is configured to, if it is determined by the mismatch determiner that there is a mismatch between the map information and the detection information, change a control aspect of automatic driving control in response to a situation of mismatch.
US11016481B2
A method of controlling a mobile communication device comprising a wireless communication interface and a display is disclosed. The method comprising: executing a mobile application for controlling a robotic work tool; receiving an error signal through said wireless communication interface from said robotic work tool; displaying an error status on the display; disabling functions relating to an operating state; receiving a reset signal through said wireless communication interface from said robotic work tool; and in response thereto enabling the functions relating to an operating state.
US11016478B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for the application-specific setting of a field device, which is installed in a defined application in a process in automation engineering and determines or monitors at least one process variable of a medium, comprising: recording a diagnostic message which occurs or has occurred on the field device during a defined interval, analyzing which of the diagnostic messages are tolerable and/or plausible in the defined application, assigning an application-specific notice with regard to tolerability and/or plausibility to each diagnostic message that has arisen in the defined application, clearing the diagnostic message if this is classified as tolerable and/or plausible in the defined application, and using the application-specific setting of the field device, which clears the diagnostic message classified as tolerable and/or plausible.
US11016469B2
The invention provides a NC control method and a NC control apparatus for implementing the method. The method comprises: acquiring a first NC code and a second NC code, wherein the first NC code comprises first machining information for controlling a tool to machine a workpiece, and the second NC code comprises second machining information for enhancing the first machining information; simultaneously running the first NC code and the second NC code to parse out the first machining information and the second machining information; merging the first machining information and the second machining information; and controlling the tool to machine the workpiece according to the result of the merging. The invention also provides a NC control apparatus and a computer storage medium for machining controlled both by the first and the second NC code.
US11016465B2
An electrical power supply system for a programmable logic controller, including: a first electrical power supply module configured to operate in a master mode to deliver at least one electrical supply voltage to the programmable logic controller; a second electrical power supply module configured to operate in a slave mode to deliver the electrical supply voltage to the programmable logic controller in event of failure of the first electrical power supply module; a control module configured to temporarily control switching of the first electrical power supply module to the slave mode and switching of the second electrical power supply module to the master mode; and a test module configured to test the second electrical power supply module when the second electrical power supply module is switched to the master mode.
US11016452B2
A controller hardware in the loop (CHIL) interface is disclosed. The CHIL interface comprises software and hardware that redirects a signal flow, including modulation signals and measurements exchanged between controller logic and a power electronics converter (PEC), to a CHIL port. Accordingly, the CHIL port provides access to the controller logic, at a digital level, throughout phases of the controller's lifetime (i.e., design, installation, maintenance, upgrade). Thus, the CHIL interface facilitates the use of PEC simulators for testing. The CHIL interface can detach the actual PEC from the control logic so testing can be performed with or without an operating PEC and can avoid the need for dedicated and error prone signal conditioning circuitry that is external to the controller.
US11016441B2
A two-step optimization process is utilized to define an optimal phase profile for a LCoS spatial light modulator. The two-step optimization process first utilizes a nonlinear constrained optimization (NCO) program to determine the specific parameters required to obtain an optimal phase profile (hologram), where the “optimal phase profile” is typically defined as that profile which achieves maximum diffraction efficiency for optical switching. Following this first step, phase scaling (and perhaps an adjustment in the number of pixels per period) is employed to slightly modify the values of the optimal phase profile to effectively suppress crosstalk peaks. If any orders still exhibit an unacceptable level of crosstalk, these orders are then subtracted from the phase profile to create the final design.
US11016430B2
A transfer unit includes: a transfer body that forms a transfer nip together with an image holding member provided to hold a developer image and allows a recording medium to be nipped in and transported through the transfer nip so that a developer image is transferred to the recording medium; and a guide member that intersects a tangent to the transfer nip and has a tip end portion located closer to the image holding member across the tangent when viewed in an axial direction, and guides the recording medium transported from an upstream side to the transfer nip, wherein the tip end portion has plural regions having different distances from the image holding member.
US11016426B1
According to one embodiment, a fixing device, includes a fixing member having a first surface configured to be pressed against a recording medium and a heater on a second surface of the fixing member. A first heat conducting member contacts aback surface side of the heater, and a second heat conducting member is provided to be moveable between a first state, in which the second heat conducting member is in contact with the first heat conducting member and the second surface of the fixing member, and a second state, in which the second heat conducting member is contacting the first heat conducting member, but separated from the second surface of the fixing member.
US11016422B2
An attachment is attached to a holding shaft and includes a first hollow axial portion including a first slit that receives the holding shaft. A supplemental member includes a second hollow axial portion including a second slit that receives the holding shaft. The supplemental member rotates in a forward direction and a backward direction. A restrictor restricts rotation of the supplemental member in the forward direction and the backward direction in a state in which the first slit and the second slit receive the holding shaft.
US11016413B2
An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of cartridges containing toners, each cartridge including a storage element that stores a type of thermal characteristic information of the toner contained therein, and a reading portion configured to read the type of thermal characteristic information. A fixing portion thermally fixes a toner image, formed by a plurality of toners of different colors contained in the cartridges, respectively, onto a recording material, and a control portion controls the fixing portion by switching a thermal fixing condition in accordance with a combination of the types of the thermal characteristic information read by the reading portion, the thermal fixing condition being a condition that prioritizes the performance of fixing, to a recording material, a toner, of the toners that form the toner image, that is transferred first to the recording material, from among the plurality of toners of different colors.
US11016412B2
A printing device, including: a cartridge storing developer; a memory provided in the cartridge; and a controller configured to execute a printing process of operating the cartridge form a developer image on a sheet by use of the developer in the cartridge, a first access process of performing access to the memory when the printing process is not being executed, and a second access process of performing access to the memory in a period in which the printing process is being executed, in response to a predetermined operation of the printing device, wherein, when an access failure occurs in the first access process, the controller notifies an error, and wherein, when an access failure occurs in the second access process, the controller continues the printing process and executes the second access process again in response to a next timing of the predetermined operation of the printing device.
US11016408B2
An image forming apparatus is provided which forms an image on a recording medium. The image forming apparatus includes a housing; a plurality of photosensitive members which bear respective toner images; a scanning unit which scans surfaces of the plurality of photosensitive members by laser light in accordance with image information; and a recording medium container which contains the recording medium and is detachably mounted in the housing. The scanning unit is disposed under the plurality of photosensitive members and over the recording medium container in the vertical direction, and other components are not interposed between the scanning unit and the recording medium container in the vertical direction.
US11016404B2
An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a conductive substrate and a photosensitive layer disposed on the conductive substrate. An outermost surface layer of the electrophotographic photoreceptor contains a fluorine-based graft polymer and a fluorine-containing resin particle. The fluorine-based graft polymer includes at least a first structural unit that does not have an acidic group with a pKa of 3 or less but has a fluorine atom, a second structural unit derived from a macromonomer, and a third structural unit having the acidic group with a pKa of 3 or less.
US11016403B2
An electrophotographic photoconductor is provided that includes a conductive substrate, an undercoat layer overlying the conductive substrate, and a photosensitive layer overlying the undercoat layer. The undercoat layer contains zinc oxide particles and a binder resin and has a volume resistivity of 0.03×106 Ω·cm or less in an electrical field of 5 V/μm at a temperature of 23 degrees C. and a relative humidity of 55%. The photosensitive layer contains a compound represented by the following general formula (1): where each of R1 to R3 independently represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms which may have a substituent, or a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group having 6 to 12 carbon atoms.
US11016402B2
An apparatus for removing particles from a clamp, the apparatus being arrangeable in proximity of the clamp and comprising an insulating portion, a supporting portion, at least a part or all of the insulating portion being arranged on the supporting portion, wherein the supporting portion is configured such that when a voltage is applied to the supporting portion of the apparatus and/or to an electrode of the clamp, the supporting portion acts as an electrode to allow an electric field to be generated between the apparatus and the clamp for removal of the particles from the clamp.
US11016397B2
A method and a computer program product that relates to lithographic apparatuses and, processes, and more particularly to a method and computer program to inspect substrates produced by the lithographic apparatuses and processes. The method and/or computer program product includes determining contributions from independent sources from results measured from a lithography process or a substrate processed by the lithography process, wherein the results are measured using a plurality of different substrate measurement recipes.
US11016396B2
A method including illuminating a product test substrate with radiation from a component, wherein the product test substrate does not have a device pattern etched therein and yields a non-zero sensitivity when illuminated, the non-zero sensitivity representing a change in an optical response characteristic of the product test substrate with respect to a change in a characteristic of the radiation; measuring at least a part of the radiation redirected by the product test substrate to determine a parameter value; and taking an action with respect to the component based on the parameter value.
US11016391B2
According to one embodiment, a first test process concerning a light-exposure process is performed by forming a first lower layer and a first upper layer on a first substrate. A second test process concerning a light-exposure process is performed by forming a second lower layer and a second upper layer on a second substrate. A correction model is created on a basis of results obtained in the first test process and the second test process. A manufacturing process is performed by forming a third lower layer and a third upper layer on a third substrate. In the manufacturing process, an overlay estimation correction value is calculated by using the correction model, based on a first pattern position deviation amount, a step processing history in the manufacturing process, a second pattern position deviation amount, and an overlay residual, and the overlay estimation correction value is used in a light-exposure process.
US11016379B2
A projector includes: a projecting section projecting a second image based on image information onto a projection surface onto which a first image is projected by another projector; a generating section generating resolution information indicating a resolution different between a first mode in which the first image and the second image are portions of an image indicated by the image information and the second image is connected with the first image and a second mode in which the first image and the second image are the image indicated by the image information and the second image is superimposed on the first image; and a notifying section notifying an image supply device supplying the image information of the resolution information generated by the generating section.
US11016377B2
A projector includes an image projection unit for displaying an image by a liquid crystal panel, and a controller that powers off the projector after displaying a black image in the image projection unit for a predetermined time (a set refresh time) in a refresh mode for improving burn-in of the liquid crystal panel, in which the controller stops the refresh mode when an interrupt event is generated before the set refresh time elapses in the refresh mode and powers off the projector after executing an interrupt process according to the interrupt event.
US11016376B2
A projector that modulates light emitted by a light source unit and projects a resultant image includes the light source unit, which includes an array light source and a first retardation film that adjusts the white balance of the light emitted by the array light source, an electric power controller that adjusts electric power to be supplied to the array light source in accordance with the period for which the light source unit was used, and a white balance controller that determines an adjustment parameter used to adjust the white balance of the light emitted by the light source unit and corresponding to the adjustment made by the electric power controller and causes the first retardation film to adjust the white balance based on the determined adjustment parameter.
US11016375B2
A light projection system for generating an image with three primary colors, each primary color being respectively defined by a first, second and third wavebands. The system includes a first blue laser source emitting a first beam in a fourth waveband, the first blue laser source having a first laser driver, a second blue laser source emitting a second beam having a central wavelength and a fifth waveband, the second blue laser source having a second laser driver, a substrate having a wavelength conversion element for emitting light at a plurality of wavelengths after absorption of a light beam at an excitation wavelength within a fifth waveband of the second blue laser source and a beam combiner for combining the combined first beam and the converted beam, which combination results in a white beam. Dichroic losses can be reduced by using a green phosphor together with red laser assistance.
US11016369B2
A camera supporting base includes a mounting platform with a mounting surface, a lower surface, and a recess area. The mounting surface is raised above and non-coplanar with the lower surface of the mounting platform. The camera supporting base also includes a pliable mass surrounding the mounting platform. The mounting surface of the mounting platform is recessed below a highest contour of the pliable mass.
US11016367B2
A camera system includes a camera with a lens assembly and image processing electronics internal to the camera housing. The lens assembly and image processing electronics are sensitive to thermal gradients within the camera body. The image processing electronics are coupled to a thermal management system that transfers thermal energy away from the electronics towards a heat diffuser. The thermal management system comprises a heat controller with a heat source, an offset arm, and a heat exchange. The thermal energy moves from the heat source to the heat exchange via the offset arm. The thermal management system also manages heat transfer between auxiliary electronic components and the image processing electronics. The thermal management system is constructed of materials that react to the compressive forces created on the system during camera assembly.
US11016365B2
A lens apparatus includes a conductive mount member, and a nonconductive fixed member fixed onto the mount member and having a conductive pattern.
US11016358B2
A backplane for an electro-optic display including an electrode and a substrate. The substrate may be porous to liquids, e.g., water, and may formed, from cellulose or a similar hydrophilic polymer. The electrode is desirably also porous to the same liquid as the substrate, so that the electrodes do not form liquid-impervious areas on the substrate. For example, when the liquid is water (or an aqueous solution) the electrodes may be formed of a hydrophilic carbon black, which may be coated or screen-printed on to the substrate.
US11016357B2
Onboard EC window controllers are described. The controllers are configured in close proximity to the EC window, for example, within the IGU. The controller may be part of a window assembly, which includes an IGU having one or more EC panes, and thus does not have to be matched with the EC window, and installed, in the field. The window controllers described herein have a number of advantages because they are matched to the IGU containing one or more EC devices and their proximity to the EC panes of the window overcomes a number of problems associated with conventional controller configurations. Also described are self-meshing networks for electrochromic windows.
US11016355B2
A liquid crystal light control apparatus includes a liquid crystal light control film and power supply device that drives liquid crystal light control film. Liquid crystal light control film has a structure wherein liquid crystal layer is sandwiched between paired transparent electrode layers, and used by being adhered to a large transparent member. Power supply device supplies a predetermined AC voltage between terminals a and b of liquid crystal light control film. A condition |Z0|≤α×RF is set where RF is a DC resistance between terminals a and b of liquid crystal light control film, |Z0| is an output impedance between terminals A and B of power supply device, and predetermined coefficient α=0.2. In order to protect power supply device, condition Vp/Imax≤|Z0|≤α×RF is set where Vp is output peak voltage of power supply device and Imax is maximum allowable current.
US11016354B2
To provide a semiconductor device, a liquid crystal display device, and an electronic device which have a wide viewing angle and in which the number of manufacturing steps, the number of masks, and manufacturing cost are reduced compared with a conventional one. The liquid crystal display device includes a first electrode formed over an entire surface of one side of a substrate; a first insulating film formed over the first electrode; a thin film transistor formed over the first insulating film; a second insulating film formed over the thin film transistor; a second electrode formed over the second insulating film and having a plurality of openings; and a liquid crystal over the second electrode. The liquid crystal is controlled by an electric field between the first electrode and the second electrode.
US11016352B1
An electro-optical device includes a pixel electrode group including a first pixel electrode and a second pixel electrode, a layered body including a plurality of insulating layers, a first transistor, and a second transistor, a lens layer including a first lens overlapping with the first pixel electrode and a second lens overlapping with the second pixel electrode, a first contact that electrically couples the first transistor and the first pixel electrode, and a second contact that electrically couples the second transistor and the second pixel electrode. The layered body, the lens layer, and the pixel electrode group are arranged in this order. Each of the first lens and the second lens, and the layered body are disposed with a space interposed therebetween layered body, and each of the first contact and the second contact extends through the lens layer and the space.
US11016344B2
A liquid crystal display includes a first display panel and a second display panel facing each other, a driver connecting line disposed on the first display panel, a driving circuit part connected to the driver connecting line, a backlight unit disposed adjacent to the first display panel, a reinforcing part overlapping the driver connecting line and disposed adjacent to at least one side of the second display panel, a second polarizer disposed on the second display panel, and a film layer disposed on the second polarizer and the reinforcing part. The second polarizer overlaps a top surface of the second display panel and does not overlap a top surface of the reinforcing part.
US11016341B2
A directional illumination apparatus comprises a waveguide with a reflective surface comprising reflective pairs of light input facets, reflective light extraction facets and an output transmissive surface. An array of micro-LEDs is arranged to illuminate the reflective surface in a rearwards direction. The pairs of light input facets direct light within the waveguide and reflective light extraction facets cooperate to provide a uniform output illumination across the output aperture of the waveguide with collimated light. A thin and efficient illumination apparatus may be used for high dynamic range display backlighting, privacy display or environmental illumination applications.
US11016327B2
A screen assembly and an electronic device are provided according to the disclosure. The screen assembly includes a backlight module, a display panel, a cover plate, and a camera module. The cover plate, the display panel, and the backlight module are stacked in sequence. The backlight module defines a mounting through hole for at least partially receiving the camera module. A first ink layer is sandwiched between the backlight module and the display panel. A second ink layer is sandwiched between the display panel and the cover plate. The first ink layer and the second ink layer cooperate with each other to block light leakage of the display panel and the backlight module toward the camera module.
US11016321B2
A display device includes a display panel, a lighting device includes a light-emitting member for back illuminating the display panel and a frame-shaped portion surrounding the light-emitting member from an outer side, a housing accommodating the display panel and the lighting device and having an opening on a display surface side, and a sealing member closing the opening. The frame-shaped portion is fixed to the housing with a fixing member and extends from the lighting device to the sealing member, includes an end disposed adjacent to the sealing member and bonded to the sealing member with an adhesive.
US11016308B1
An optical display device includes a coherent light source generating a coherent light beam in visible, ultraviolet, or infrared ranges. The coherent light beam is directed at a liquid crystal component. A plurality of liquid crystals and a plurality of nanoparticles having an average diameter of ≤about 450 nm are disposed in an interior compartment. An electrical source is in electrical communication with the first and the second electrodes. When no voltage or current is applied, a filtered light beam transmitted or reflected from the liquid crystal component exhibits a first speckle contrast ≥about 0.28. When voltage or current is applied, the microparticles are induced to move and the filtered light beam has a second speckle contrast that is ≤about 0.2 and in certain aspects may be ≤about 0.03. A method of reducing speckle in an optical device having a coherent light source is also provided.
US11016297B2
Methods and apparatus provide for receiving an image to be displayed on the head-mounted display unit generated in a first frequency by an image generation apparatus using information relating to at least one of a position and a rotation of the head of a user who wears a head-mounted display unit, where the information is acquired at a certain point of time; correcting the image using updated information relating to at least one of the position and the rotation at a different point of time, where the receiving and correcting includes receiving updated information relating to at least one of a position and a rotation in a second frequency corresponding to a frame rate of the head-mounted display unit, and performing multiple times of correction of the image in the first frequency using a plurality of the updated information relating to at least one of the position and the rotation received in the second frequency higher than the first frequency.
US11016292B2
An eyepiece unit with optical filters includes a set of waveguide layers including a first waveguide layer and a second waveguide layer. The first waveguide layer is disposed in a first lateral plane and includes a first incoupling diffractive element disposed at a first lateral position, a first waveguide, and a first outcoupling diffractive element. The second waveguide layer is disposed in a second lateral plane adjacent to the first lateral plane and includes a second incoupling diffractive element disposed at a second lateral position, a second waveguide, and a second outcoupling diffractive element. The eyepiece unit also includes a set of optical filters including a first optical filter positioned at the first lateral position and operable to attenuate light outside a first spectral band and a second optical filter positioned at the second lateral position and operable to attenuate light outside a second spectral band.
US11016287B2
A spatial light modulator (SLM) having improved étendue, and methods of fabricating and operating the same are described. Generally, the SLM includes pixels each including a tensile membrane suspended over a surface of a substrate by posts at corners thereof. The tensile membrane includes an electrostatically deflectable piston and flexures through which the piston is coupled to the posts. A platform having first light reflective surfaces is supported above and separated from the piston by one or more central posts extending from the piston to the platform, and a face-plate including a second light reflective surface is suspended over the platform. The face-plate includes plurality of apertures through which the first light reflective surfaces are exposed. Electrostatic deflection of the piston brings light reflected from the first light reflective surfaces into constructive or destructive interference with light reflected from the second light reflective surface. Other embodiments are also described.
US11016286B2
A light beam irradiation device includes a light source unit that emits a light beam, a reflection mirror and a driving unit that swings the reflection mirror under supply of a driving signal, and comprises the light deflection unit receiving and reflecting the light beam emitted from the light source unit using the reflection mirror, a light deflection angle detection unit that includes a light reception surface that receives the light beam reflected by the reflection mirror, the light deflection angle detection unit detecting a position of the light beam on the light reception surface at a frequency equal to or higher than four times a resonance frequency of the light deflection unit and outputting a detection signal indicating the position, and an operation control unit that corrects the driving signal on the basis of the detection signal and outputs the corrected driving signal to the light deflection unit.
US11016281B2
An imaging optical system includes an objective, an image-formation optical system, and an image sensor, wherein an object, the objective, the image-formation optical system, and the image sensor are arranged in this order, the objective includes: a first lens group that includes a meniscus lens component that is the closest to an image among the first lens group, the meniscus lens component having a convex surface facing the object; and a second lens group that is closer to the image than the first lens group is, and the imaging optical system satisfies the following conditional expression: 4×106≤≤PXn≤1×1010 (1) where PXn indicates the number of pixels included in a region on the image sensor in which an MTF specific to an e line is 40% or higher at a spatial frequency of 750×NAi, and NAi indicates the numerical aperture of the image side of the imaging optical system.
US11016280B1
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to systems and methods for trapping and holding airborne particles, for further measurement and characterization. In the various embodiments, an optical trap is provided which generates and uses dual hollow conical beams to trap and hold absorbing and non-absorbing, spherical and irregularly shaped, liquid and solid airborne particles. The optical trap may include: a light source for generating a beam of light; optics for shaping and forming a hollow conical beam having a ring geometry from the beam of light; a trapping region where a particle can be present to be trapped; a first parabolic reflector configured to focus an inner portion of the hollow conical beam to a first focal point in the trapping region; and a second parabolic reflector configured to focus an outer portion of the hollow conical beam to a second focal point in the trapping region.
US11016279B2
An observation device includes: an illumination optical system that irradiates illumination light onto a sample, an objective optical system that has a phase modulation region and a light blocking region and that acquires an image of the illumination light transmitted through the sample, and an autofocus mechanism. The objective optical system selectively outputs the illumination light from a first output region disposed at a position where the illumination light is to be projected onto the phase modulation region and a second output region disposed at a position where a portion of the illumination light is to be projected onto the light blocking region. The autofocus mechanism causes the objective optical system to acquire an image of the illumination light while causing the illumination light to be output from the second output region, and detects the focus position of the objective optical system based on the contrast of the acquired image.
US11016272B2
An imaging lens includes a first lens having positive refractive power; a second lens having negative refractive power; a third lens having positive refractive power; a fourth lens having positive refractive power; a fifth lens; a sixth lens; a seventh lens; an eighth lens; and a ninth lens having negative refractive power, arranged in this order from an object side to an image plane side. The ninth lens is formed in a shape so that a surface thereof on the image plane side has an aspherical shape having an inflection point.
US11016270B2
A photographing optical lens assembly includes seven lens elements, which are, 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 positive refractive power has an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof and an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof. The second lens element has positive refractive power. The sixth lens element with positive refractive power has an image-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof. The seventh lens element with negative refractive power has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof and including at least one convex critical point in an off-axis region thereof.
US11016268B2
Optics systems presented are arranged as high-performance imagers particularly characterized by their exceptional compactness in view of image quality. A plurality of lens and let's and or doublets are configured to cooperate with related mount systems optimized for compactness. To achieve very high resolution imaging despite somewhat abbreviated compound lens design, these systems include use of lens array elements proximate to an imaging plane. So placed lens array devices may be designed with lens elements which invariably operate on incident wave planes with radial dependence. That is, the focusing strength of lenses from which these lens arrays are comprised may depend upon its distance from system optic axis. This enables an imaging correction function that counters distortion and other undesirable imaging errors typically present in a simplified compound lens systems. When used together and in conjunction with special-purpose collapsing lens mounting systems, an imaging system of very high fidelity and very compact weight size is achieved to great advantage in system when a premium on lens size is necessitated.
US11016264B2
A lens assembly actuating module includes a holder, a metal yoke, a lens actuator and a Hall sensor. The holder includes a central opening, at least three metal connectors insert-molded with the holder, at least two metal terminals insert-molded with the holder, and a plurality of plated metal layers disposed on a surface of the holder. The metal yoke is coupled with the holder. The lens actuator is for carrying a lens unit including an optical axis. The lens actuator is movably disposed in the metal yoke. The lens actuator includes at least one elastic element and at least three metal hanging wires. The Hall sensor is disposed on one of the plated metal layers of the holder. The Hall sensor is for detecting a movement of the lens unit along a direction perpendicular to the optical axis.
US11016262B2
A lens drive device, including a screening can (01); periphery of the inside an upper cover (05) and driving magnets (08); a lens support (06) is further provided inside the screening can (01); a driving coil (07) is winded at a outer periphery of the lens support (06); the driving magnets (08) include a first driving magnet and a second driving magnet; a structure of each of the first driving magnet and the second driving magnet includes corner segment (082) distributed along a corner of the screening can (01) and edge segment (081) distributed along an edge of the screening can (01); and the first driving magnet and the second driving magnet are in a central symmetry around an axial center of the lens drive device. By improving a structure of the lens drive device, the lens drive device has beneficial effects of low power consumption and large driving force.
US11016261B2
An actuator for adjusting an element to be moved in a beam path of an optical arrangement contains the element to be moved, a carrier and at least one SM element, the SM element being connected to the element to be moved and designed such that it is supported on the carrier, so that when the dimension of the SM element changes, a directed force effect is produced between the element to be moved and the carrier.
US11016248B2
An optical ferrule includes a substrate formed of a diced wafer and a molded structure formed on the substrate. The molded structure may be formed of a curable material. The molded structure may include a plurality of grooves for positioning a plurality of optical fibers therealong, respectively, a plurality of reflective surfaces formed to reflect optical signals from ends of the plurality of optical fibers, respectively, or reflect incident optical signals towards the ends of the plurality of optical fibers, respectively, and an alignment structure disposed to be aligned to a corresponding alignment structure of a socket to which the optical ferrule is coupled.
US11016242B2
A display device according to the present disclosure can include a display panel, a backlight assembly providing light toward the display panel, a set cover including a rear cover part and a side cover part, wherein the rear cover part covers a rear surface of the backlight assembly and the side cover part extending from the rear cover part covers a side surface of the backlight assembly, and a guide panel coupled to the set cover and supporting edges of the display panel. The set cover can be composed of plastic, and the rear cover part and the side cover part can have an integrally formed shape and can be exposed to outside.
US11016239B1
A lighting device includes light guide plates each of which includes a light exit section including a light it surface and a light entering section extending from the light exit section toward a light source row and including an extended end surface as a light entering surface. The light exit section has a thickness dimension that is smaller than that of the light entering section at an extended end thereof. The light guide plates are stacked on each other such that the light exit sections thereof overlap each other seen from a normal direction of the light exit surface. The light entering section of one light guide plate and the light entering section of another light guide plate are disposed next to each other in an arrangement direction of the light sources so as not to overlap each other seen from the normal direction of light exit surface.
US11016238B2
A light source includes an optical emitter configured to emit light toward an output aperture of the light source. The light source further includes a partially reflective layer at the output aperture. The partially reflective layer is configured to receive the emitted light from the optical emitter and to reflect a portion of the received light as reflected light. The light source additionally includes a scattering medium located between the partially reflective layer and the optical emitter. The scattering medium is configured to scatter the reflected light as scattered light having a different direction from the reflected light. A portion of the scattered light is redirected toward the partially reflective layer as recycled light to be emitted from the light source. A multiview backlight that employs the light source is also provided, along with a method for operating the light source.
US11016230B2
Provided is an optical element including a wavelength selective reflective polarizer and a λ/2 plate in which the λ/2 plate includes an optically anisotropic layer which has an optical axis in a direction parallel to a surface and is formed of a cured layer of a liquid crystal composition and has a liquid crystal alignment pattern in which an orientation of the optical axis changes while continuously rotating in at least one direction in a plane of the optically anisotropic layer, and light in the specific wavelength range which is circularly polarized light oriented in a direction opposite to that of the specific circularly polarized light among light incident on a surface of the optical element on the λ/2 plate side is reflected in a direction different from a regular reflection direction of the incident light.
US11016226B2
A variofocal display device includes an image source and a display. The image source is configured to project image light. The display includes a first optical diffuser and a second optical diffuser. The display is configured to receive the image light. The first diffuser is configured to diffuse the image light at the first optical diffuser when the image light has a first polarization, and to diffuse the image light at the second optical diffuser when the image light is configured has a second polarization different from the first polarization. A method of displaying images using a varifocal display device is also disclosed.
US11016216B2
Systems and methods to investigate multi-pipe structures for detection of corrosion and quantitative assessment of thickness in the multiple pipes can be implemented in a variety of applications. Systems can include a set of transmitters and multiple receivers arranged on a tool structure with variable distances to the transmitters of the set of transmitters, where the receivers are arranged to measure electromagnetic responses from a multi-pipe structure to excitation of the set of transmitters with the tool structure disposed in the multi-pipe structure. The electromagnetic responses may include responses correlated to a near field zone, a transition zone, and a far field zone, where the electromagnetic responses can be processed to recover individual thicknesses of each pipe of the multi-pipe structure. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed.
US11016215B2
An airborne electromagnetic survey system for geophysical prospecting comprising: a frame with a frame front section opposite a frame tail section, the frame configured to be lifted and towed by an aircraft via a tow arrangement during survey operation, the frame configured to support a transmitter coil configured to transmit an magnetic moment, wherein the frame comprises multiple frame segments, at least one of the frame segments comprising a first connection and a second connection for connecting to another one of the frame segments, a structural support providing a rigid structure between the first and second connections, and a frame segment surface providing the frame segment with an aerodynamic profile, wherein the aerodynamic profile is configured to provide aerodynamic properties to the frame, and wherein when the frame is towed by the aircraft, the frame has substantially a fixed frame shape and is substantially in a fixed operational orientation.
US11016214B2
The invention discloses a dolomite reservoir prediction method and system based on well and seismic combination, and storage medium. The method steps include: obtaining the dolomite index characteristic curve through well log sensitivity analysis, and distinguishing the dolomite and limestone according to the difference in their response range; after the artificial intelligence deep learning is performed on the dolomite index characteristic curve of the drilling area, the dolomite index characteristic curve of the virtual drilling area is obtained; according to the dolomite index characteristic curve of the drilling area and the virtual drilling area, the post-stack seismic data is used for inversion to obtain the distribution and development status of the dolomite reservoir in the test area. The invention effectively distinguishes the dolomite and limestone through the dolomite index characteristic curve, and accurately predicts the distribution and development status of the dolomite reservoir in the test area with less wells.
US11016211B2
A method for inversion of 4D seismic data, including: determining time shift between baseline and monitor geophysical datasets; determining time strain from the time shift; iteratively repeating until a stopping criteria is satisfied, performing an iterative elastic AVO inversion with a 4D difference providing an update, from an initial model including the time strain, to generate an updated time strain and an updated physical property model, wherein the stopping criteria is a misfit between synthetic data generated from the updated physical property model and the 4D difference being within a predetermined noise level generating final values for the physical property model; and converting, with a rock physics model or a reservoir simulation model, the final values to saturation and/or pressure changes for a subsurface region.
US11016210B2
An illustrative hydraulic fracture mapping method includes: collecting microseismic signals during a multistage hydraulic fracturing operation; deriving microseismic event locations from the microseismic signals to create a microseismic event map for each stage of the operation; fitting a set of fracture planes to the microseismic event maps; determining a stimulated reservoir volume (“SRV”) region for each said stage; identifying where SRV regions overlap to form an overlap region; partitioning the overlap region to eliminate any overlap between the SRV regions; truncating the set of fracture planes for the SRV regions to discard any portion outside the revised SRV regions; and storing or displaying the truncated set of fracture planes for the first revised SRV region.
US11016202B2
An imaging device includes: a first scintillator layer; an array of detector elements, wherein the array of detector elements comprises a first detector element; a second scintillator layer configured to receive radiation after the radiation has passed through the first scintillator layer and the array of detector elements, wherein the array of detector elements is located between the first scintillator layer and the second scintillator layer; a first electrode located closer to the first scintillator than the second scintillator; and a second electrode situated between the second scintillator and the first detector element; the first detector element configured to generate a first electrical signal in response to light from the first scintillator layer, and to generate a second electrical signal in response to light from the second scintillator layer; the second electrode configured to allow the light from the second scintillator layer to reach the first detector element.
US11016201B2
Disclosed is a radiation measuring device capable of measuring concentration of radiation contained in indoor air. The radiation measuring device according to the present invention includes: an ionization chamber configured to be supplied with a voltage and to form a space for ionizing air introduced; a substrate assembly coupled to the ionization chamber and transfer the voltage supplied from the outside to the ionization chamber; a probe member provided in the ionization chamber and configured to detect an electric charge in the ionization chamber; and a switching element connected to the probe member and configured to allow a current to flow when the electric charge is applied to the probe member.
US11016194B2
A dynamic tracking system comprises a three-dimensional camera based on time-of-flight technology, which comprises a receiver sensitive to the light emissions comprised in a certain range of wavelengths, a first emitter of light signals, a micro-computer interfacing and computing three-dimensional information coming from the receiver and controlling the emitter, and an internal or external secondary computer incorporating data analysis, database services, controls and external interfacing to vehicle and local or global data communication services.
US11016192B2
Embodiments describe a solid state electronic scanning LIDAR system that includes a scanning focal plane transmitting element and a scanning focal plane receiving element whose operations are synchronized so that the firing sequence of an emitter array in the transmitting element corresponds to a capturing sequence of a photosensor array in the receiving element. During operation, the emitter array can sequentially fire one or more light emitters into a scene and the reflected light can be received by a corresponding set of one or more photosensors through an aperture layer positioned in front of the photosensors. Each light emitter can correspond with an aperture in the aperture layer, and each aperture can correspond to a photosensor in the receiving element such that each light emitter corresponds with a specific photosensor in the receiving element.
US11016180B2
The present disclosure relates to methods and systems that improve the dynamic range of LIDAR systems. An example system includes a plurality of single-photon photodetectors and at least one additional photodetector monolithically integrated on a shared substrate. The plurality of single-photon photodetectors and the at least one additional photodetector are configured to detect light from a shared field of view. The system also includes a controller configured to carry out operations. The operations include: receiving respective photodetector signals from the plurality of single-photon photodetectors and the at least one additional photodetector; selecting a photodetector signal from at least two of: the two received photodetector signals and a combined photodetector signal formed by combining the two received photodetector signals; and determining an intensity of light in the field of view based on the selected photodetector signal.
US11016173B2
Systems, device and methods are provided for calibrating an antenna array comprising a plurality of antennas such as a plurality of transmit and receive antennas by utilizing an arena comprising one or more targets and a medium. The methods may comprise transmitting a plurality of Radio Frequency (RF) signals from at least one RF antenna of a plurality of RF antennas towards an arena, obtaining by the antenna array affected multiple RF signals from the arena, measuring the plurality of reflected RF signals by a Radio Frequency Signal Measurement Unit (RFSMU) and calculating a plurality of channel responses from said plurality of affected RF signals, providing by at least one processing unit a first model, which is configured to produce an expected electromagnetic (EM) channel responses of the antenna array and the arena and providing a second model, which comprises a relation between the first model and the antenna array calibration parameters and calculating the array calibration parameters to calibrate the antenna array.
US11016161B2
Provided is an apparatus of reconstructing a magnetic resonance (MR) image, the apparatus including: a memory storing instructions; and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to: obtain a plurality of segments of K-space data corresponding to a plurality of pulses which are applied to an object based on a pulse sequence; determine, based on radio frequency (RF) coils of the apparatus, a correction coefficient for merging the plurality of segments of K-space data; and generate a magnetic resonance (MR) image of the object by merging the plurality of segments of K-space data based on the determined correction coefficient.
US11016157B2
A method and system for suppressing metal artifacts in magnetic resonance (MR) images of slices of a patient containing a metallic implant. The method and system can use a Slice Encoding for Metal Artifact Correction (SEMAC) sequence. In the method and system, MR data of each slice is fully sampled in k-space in a reference region located in a center of k-space in a phase-encoding direction and a central section in a slice-selection direction. The MR-data of each slice outside the reference region can be undersampled in k-space. The fully sampled MR data from the reference regions of each slice can be combined to generate a reference data set for reconstructing an MR image of each slice.
US11016142B2
The inspection system 100 is constructed by assembling inspection modules 10 configured to inspect inspection target objects and a transfer module 20 configured to transfer the inspection target object to the corresponding inspection module. The inspection system 100 is configured to transfer the inspection target objects into the inspection modules by the transfer module and inspect the inspection target objects in sequence. The adjustment method of the inspection system includes preparing an auxiliary element having a preset function of the inspection module 10 or a preset function of the transfer module 20; and adjusting, with respect to an adjustment which needs to be performed after the inspection system is constructed, the transfer module 20, or each of the inspection modules 10 or the inspection modules 10 as a single system by connecting the auxiliary element 60 (70, 80, 90) to the transfer module 20 or the inspection module 10.
US11016128B2
A method and apparatus for electrical line testing. The method and apparatus provides audio, visual and/or electronic information to indicate electricity is flowing or not flowing through an electrical circuit controlled by a remote circuit breaker. The method and system help identify which electrical sockets are controlled by which remote circuit breakers. The method and apparatus is used over short distances in a residential home or over long distances in a commercial building such as a warehouse or factory. The method and apparatus is used with or without an external network devices such as a smartphone, electronic tablet, wearable device, etc.
US11016122B2
A contact probe comprises a probe body being extended in a longitudinal direction between respective end portions adapted to realize a contact with respective contact pads, at least one end portion having transverse dimensions greater than the probe body. Suitably, the end portion comprises at least one indentation adapted to house a material scrap being on the contact probe after a separation from a substrate wherein the contact probe has been realized.
US11016118B2
A system for conductive atomic force microscopy measurements includes a function generator that drives a light source as well as current provided to a sample, designed sample holder for local charge dynamics measurements and output circuitry that includes both a frequency response analysis as well as a bypass circuit analysis portion. Bypass circuit with external preamplifier helped to overcome the obstacles of commercially available AFM circuit bandwidth (e.g. 100 kHz) to see the local characteristics with high temporal resolution. By obtaining the data output of the frequency response analyzer and the bypass circuitry, local mobility map, local carrier lifetime and transport time map, local carrier density map, and a nanoscale impedance map can be made of complex solid state devices at high temporal and spatial resolutions.
US11016086B2
The invention generally relates to methods and devices for transferring a sample into a cartridge for processing. Methods of the invention include providing a vessel containing a sample, coupling the sample to a cartridge configured to process the sample at an interface, in which the interface is configured to provide communication between the vessel and the cartridge, introducing a fluid, capture particles, or both from the cartridge into the vessel, and transferring the sample, fluid, and capture particles from the vessel and into the cartridge for processing.
US11016085B2
The present invention describes methods of identifying drugs for the treatment or prevention of diabetes by measuring the activity of the human zinc transporter ZnT8 and pharmaceutical compositions.
US11016062B2
A novel SH-SAW biosensor capable of non-invasive and touch-free detection of cancer cell viability and growth or proliferation in two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) cell cultures as well as stem cell regeneration as it pertains to cancer cell biology and anti-cancer drug development is presented. The biosensor includes two pairs of resonators including interdigital transducers reflecting fingers to quantify mass loading by the cells in suspension as well as within a tumoroid culture platform. The biosensor can be part of a perfused 3PNS-tumoroid system that is amenable to real-time non-invasive monitoring of the cell proliferation, viability, and multiplexed detection of key physiologic and clinical biomarkers.
US11016055B2
Structures for transistor-based sensors and related fabrication methods. A layer stack is formed that includes a semiconductor layer and a cavity. A transistor is formed that has a gate electrode over the layer stack, and an interconnect structure is formed over the layer stack and the transistor. First and second openings are formed that extend through the metallization levels of the interconnect structure and the semiconductor layer to the cavity. The first opening defines a fluid inlet coupled to the cavity, and the second opening defines a fluid outlet coupled to the cavity.
US11016054B2
A gas sensor element including: a first ceramic layer (300) including a solid electrolyte (320); a pair of electrode portions (330) and (333) at least partially disposed on opposing surfaces of the solid electrolyte; a support member (341) surrounding a part of an outer peripheral edge of at least one electrode portion (330) of the pair of electrode portions and having a notch (341N), a part of the electrode portion extending in the notch; and a second ceramic layer (242) disposed on a side where the at least one electrode portion (330) is present, so as to be in contact with a surface of the support member, the gas sensor element being obtained by stacking the first ceramic layer (300), the support member (341) and the second ceramic layer (242), wherein the second ceramic layer covers at least a part of the notch.
US11016048B2
The present application provides devices, systems and methods for detecting the presence and/or length of an analyte. More specifically, the present application is directed to a structure and system that includes a micro-capacitive sensor array for detecting the presence of an analyte in a sample and determining the length and/or composition of an analyte, such as a nucleic acid, as well as methods for using the same.
US11016047B2
The disclosure describes techniques for detecting a crack or defect in a material. A computing device may determine whether a tested material includes a crack or other defect based on a temperature-scaled control data set and a measurement data set.
US11016031B2
The present invention relates in one aspect to a ballast water analysis system comprising fluorometer and light scattering meter. The fluorometer comprises a first light source arranged to illuminate a first ballast water sample for obtaining a first fluorescence measurement on a first ballast water sample. The light scattering meter comprises a second light source arranged to illuminate a second ballast water sample with a second light beam and first and second photodetectors arranged to receive light at respective angles relative to a direction of the second light beam. The second and third photodetectors are configured to receive scattered light resulting from interaction between light from the second light source and matter, such as viable or non-viable microorganisms and other particles, in the second ballast water sample.
US11016029B2
The present disclosure relates to a measuring chamber, a working method of the measuring chamber, a chemiluminescence measurement method of the measuring chamber and a chemiluminescence detector. The measuring chamber includes a dark chamber, a first substrate nozzle, a photomultiplier detection component, a waste liquor adsorption needle component, a reaction cup turntable and a plurality of reaction cup processing stations; the reaction cup turntable is provided in the measuring chamber rotationally; and the plurality of reaction cup processing stations are sealed in a mutually light-isolated manner. When the instrument works, reaction cups in the reaction cup turntable are moved in the dark chamber; and after the reaction cups are moved to corresponding processing stations for processing the reaction cups, the plurality of different processing stations for processing, the reaction cups may simultaneously process the reaction cups moved to the corresponding reaction cup processing stations.
US11016026B2
In the scanning molecule counting method of measuring light intensity from a light detection region while moving the position of the light detection region of a confocal or multiphoton microscope in a sample solution containing light-emitting particles, generating time series light intensity data and detecting each of signals of the light-emitting particles individually in the data, wherein the light-emitting particles are formed by binding to a particle to be observed a light-emitting probe which emits light through binding to the particle to be observed and in which a stochastic transition between a non-light-emitting state and a light-emitting state occurs in the unbound state, the moving speed of the position of the light detection region is adjusted to make the time during which the unbound probe is encompassed by the moving light detection region longer than an average lifetime during which the probe is in the light-emitting state.
US11016018B2
Methods of detecting, quantifying and/or characterizing the fouling of a device from a combination of pressure and spectroscopic data are provided. The device can be any device containing components susceptible to fouling. Components can include membranes, pipes, or reactors. Suitable devices include membrane devices, heat exchangers, and chemical or bio-reactors. Membrane devices can include, for example, microfiltration devices, ultrafiltration devices, nanofiltration devices, reverse osmosis, forward osmosis, osmosis, reverse electrodialysis, electro-deionisation or membrane distillation devices. The methods can be applied to any type of membrane, including tubular, spiral, hollow fiber, flat sheet, and capillary membranes. The spectroscopic characterization can include measuring one or more of the absorption, fluorescence, or raman spectroscopic data of one or more foulants. The methods can allow for the early detection and/or characterization of fouling. The characterization can include determining the specific foulant(s) or type of foulant(s) present. The characterization of fouling can allow for the selection of an appropriate de-fouling method and timing.
US11016017B2
Disclosed are systems, devices and methods for imaging and image-based sorting of particles in a flow system, including cells in a flow cytometer. In some aspects, a system includes a particle flow device to flow particles through a channel, an imaging system to obtain image data of a particle during flow through the channel, a processing unit to determine a property associated with the particle and to produce a control command for sorting the particle based on sorting criteria associated with particle properties, and an actuator to direct the particle into one of a plurality of output paths of the particle flow device in real-time.
US11016015B2
A pore analysis method is described which comprises the steps of generating a model of a medium, the model comprising a regular array of pores, the pores being connected to adjacent ones of the pores by throats, modifying the sizes of the pores and throats until the model of the medium is representative of the medium, simulating, using the model, the effect of percolation of the medium using a fluid at a first pressure, repeating the simulation step with progressively increasing intrusion pressures and noting, for each pore, the intrusion pressure at which intrusion of that pore occurs, and identifying, from the information relating to the intrusion pressure at which intrusion of each pore occurs and from the shape of the void size distribution, at least one pore that should be treated, during further analysis, as comprising a cluster of voids.
US11016010B1
A triaxial rock mechanics test system for high-strain-rate cyclic dynamic loading is provided, including: a host loading module, a dynamic cyclic loading module, and a dynamic measurement module. The host loading module includes a loading frame, a triaxial pressure mechanism and an actuator that are provided inside the loading frame. The dynamic cyclic loading module includes a driving mechanism, a fixed mechanism and a mobile mechanism. The dynamic measurement module is configured to acquire axial pressure data, radial deformation data and axial deformation data of the rock sample during a test. In the triaxial rock mechanics test system for high-strain-rate cyclic dynamic loading of the present invention, an energetic rod is driven by an electrical explosion of a metal wire to generate a strong shock wave with controllable peak pressure, duration and waveform.
US11016001B2
The method may include: in a first measurement phase, generating a first input signal to the first input terminal of a leak detection cable interface circuit and receiving a first response signal in response the first input signal; in a second measurement phase, generating a second input signal to the second input terminal of the leak detection cable interface circuit and receiving a second response signal in response the second input signal; and based on at least the first response signal and the second response signal, determining a state of a leak detection cable communicatively coupled to the leak detection cable interface circuit.
US11015994B2
A pressure sensor includes a MEMS pressure transducer with a pressure sensing diaphragm and sensor elements, an isolator diaphragm spaced apart from the pressure sensing diaphragm, and a ceramic header body. The ceramic header body has an electrical conductor and transducer aperture with the MEMS pressure transducer supported therein. The isolator diaphragm is coupled to the to the MEMS pressure transducer by a fluid and is sealably fixed to the ceramic body. The ceramic header body bounds the fluid and the electrical conductor electrically connects the MEMS pressure transducer with the external environment. Differential pressure sensors and methods of making pressure sensors are also described.
US11015988B2
A method for providing a temperature sensitive element surrounding a surgical instrument to provide a visual indication of tip temperature to an operator of the instrument. Change in color of the element is an indication to the operator to be aware of the generated heat and reduce power to the instrument accordingly. When the tip of a surgical instrument heats up to a certain threshold that would cause harm, a reversible thermochromic property of the element may change colors in direct relation to the rise and fall of temperature.
US11015987B2
A temperature estimation method estimating a temperature of a heat generating site in an oil-immersed electric appliance immersed in insulating oil, the insulating oil being silicone oil or ester oil. The temperature estimation method includes measuring concentrations of two types of thermal decomposition products in the insulating oil and calculating a temperature of the heat generating site in the oil-immersed electric appliance based on a concentration ratio between the two types of thermal decomposition products and a relational expression between the temperature of the heat generating site and the concentration ratio prepared in advance. When the silicone oil is adopted as the insulating oil, at least one of the two types of thermal decomposition products is straight-chain siloxane, alcohol containing silicon, or benzene. When the ester oil is adopted as the insulating oil, the two types of thermal decomposition products are fatty acids.
US11015979B2
A bolometer circuit may include an active bolometer configured to receive external infrared (IR) radiation. The bolometer circuit may be configured to reduce power consumption at high temperatures. In particular, the bolometer circuit may include additional resistors provided in the resistive loads for bolometer conduction paths to limit power at high temperatures. In some embodiments, the bias (e.g., a voltage level) to the gates of transistors in the resistive loads for the bolometer conduction paths may be adjusted based on temperature to limit power and/or current at high temperatures. In bolometer circuits with a feedback resistor provided across an amplifier to configure a feedback amplifier, a circuit with adjustable amplifier power may be provided to save power. In some embodiments, a bolometer circuits may be provided with reduced gains to allow for very hot scenes to be imaged without railing the output.
US11015978B2
An image sensor includes on a support a plurality of first pixels and a plurality of second pixels intended to detect an infrared radiation emitted by an element of a scene. Each of the pixels includes a bolometric membrane suspended above a reflector covering the support, wherein the reflector of each of the first pixels is covered with a first dielectric layer, and the reflector of each of the second pixels is covered with a second dielectric layer differing from the first dielectric layer by its optical properties.
US11015972B2
A method for analyzing the condition of a machine, and an apparatus for analyzing the condition of a machine are described.
US11015958B2
A rotation angle detection device includes a driving gear rotated integrally with a rotary body, a first driven gear and a second driven gear coupled to the driving gear and rotated in cooperation with the driving gear, a first sensor that detects rotation of the first driven gear and generates a first sensor output, and a second sensor that detects rotation of the second driven gear and generates a second sensor output. An initialization method includes adjusting zero points of the first and second sensor output obtained at positions of rotation references of the first and second driven gears, measuring a deviation amount occurring in a calculation of rotation information of at least one of the first and second driven gears, and correcting the zero point of at least one of the first and second sensor outputs based on the measured deviation amount.
US11015950B2
A non-transitory computer-readable medium stores instructions that implement an application programming interface (API) for generating digital maps. When invoked by a software module executing on one or more processors of a client device, the API operates to (i) determine a geographic location to be included in a digital map, where the geographic location is specified by a server device coupled to the client device via a communication network, (ii) select a parameter for a viewport of the digital map based at least on a distance from a current location of the client device to the specified geographic location, (iii) generate the digital map in accordance with the selected parameter, and display the digital map via a user interface of the client device.
US11015947B2
[Problem] To simply simulate a situation where a plurality of mobile objects move in a space. [Solution] A mobile-object control system is configured such that the system includes a path-point-data store unit to store path-point data containing coordinates of each of a plurality of path points on a route along which a mobile object moves; a sign-data store unit to store sign data containing coordinates of a sign object that influences moving velocity or moving direction of the mobile object and content of an instruction regarding the moving velocity or the moving direction that the sign object gives to the mobile object which catches this sign object within a prescribed range from the mobile object; a mobile-object-data store unit to store mobile-object data containing current coordinates, current moving velocity and current moving direction of each of a plurality of the mobile objects; and a simulation unit to iteratively calculate the coordinates, the moving velocity and the moving direction of each of the mobile objects moving in the space in every unit time with reference to the path-point data, the sign data and the mobile-object data, and to write the calculated new coordinates, the calculated new moving velocity and the calculated new moving direction of each of the mobile objects into the mobile-object-data store unit.
US11015943B2
The invention relates to a system and method for navigating an autonomous driving vehicle (ADV) that utilizes ADV an-onboard computer and/or one or more ADV control system nodes in an ADV network platform. The on-board computer receives sensor data concerning one or more occupants occupying an ADV and/or the ADV itself and, upon a detection of an event, automatically initiates a dynamic routing algorithm that utilizes artificial intelligence to re-route the ADV to another destination, for example a healthcare facility. One or more embodiment of the system and method include an ADV on-board computer and/or one or more ADV network platform nodes that utilize in-memory processing to aid in the generation of routing, health and navigational information to advantageously navigate an ADV.
US11015925B2
A flexible display capable of improving an angle-measuring accuracy using different kinds of sensors and a method of measuring an angle thereof. The flexible display includes a first sensor unit disposed in a first region and including different kinds of sensors, a second sensor unit disposed in a second region adjacent to the first region and including different kinds of sensors, and an angle-measuring unit measuring a folding angle between the first region and the second region in response to sensing signals outputted from the first sensor unit and the second sensor unit.
US11015916B2
A distance measuring arrangement for determining a distance from an object includes at least one light source for producing at least one first monochromatic and interference-capable light beam with a first wavelength and at least one second monochromatic and interference-capable light beam with a second wavelength, a multiplexer for coupling or combining the at least one first light beam and the at least one second light beam into a common measurement beam, an output coupling element for splitting the measurement beam into a reference beam and a signal beam, wherein the reference beam propagates along a reference path and wherein the signal beam propagates along a signal path, and a phase modulator that is arranged in the signal path and configured to modulate the phase of the signal beam periodically in time.
US11015909B2
A projectile (100) with incidence steerable control surfaces (2) each pivotable with respect to the projectile (100), comprises: central control means (5) for controlling the control surfaces (2), a control arm (11) adapted to rotate the central control means (5) around pitch (Y) and yaw (Z) axes of the projectile (100), positioning means for positioning the arm (11), adapted to position one end of the arm (11) in a position determined with respect to an absolute reference frame, the positioning means comprising a cone (13) movable in translation so as to pivot the central control means around an orientation axis (AO), and a toothed wheel (16) meshing with a motorization intended to pilot the angular position of the orientation axis in an absolute reference frame.
US11015905B2
A rigid ballistic-resistant composite includes large denier per filament (dpf) yarns. The yarns are held in place by a resin to form a rigid composite panel with improved ballistic performance. The large dpf yarns may be selected from aromatic heterocyclic co-polyamide fibers, polyester-polyarylate fibers, high modulus polypropylene (HMPP) fibers, ultra high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) fibers, poly(p-phenylene-2,6-benzobisoxazole) (PBO) fibers, poly-diimidazo pyridinylene (dihydroxy) phenylene (PIPD) fibers, carbon fibers, and polyolefin fibers.
US11015902B2
A system for and method of use of an augmented reality display is provided. The preferred system is implemented by one or more tactical units calculating a target path from a weapon position and a range. A lead is calculated. A phantom target is displayed at the lead. A virtual laser and virtual tracer are provided to assist in target tracking. A spotter unit is also provided to supplement target path and range data. A neural network is provided to learn from tracking and successful lead data and to predict lead in the tactical theatre.
US11015897B2
An archery training aid is provided including a body and a finger rest extending outward at an angle from a base. The finger rest can include a finger rest surface configured to engage one or more fingers of a hand. The base can be configured to be placed in engagement with a first lateral grip surface of a bow grip so that the finger rest surface is disposed at a first angle between 25° to 65°, inclusive, or between 30° and 50°, inclusive, relative to the first lateral grip surface. A related method of use is provided to impair or prevent bow torque imparted by an archer's hand on a bow.
US11015896B1
A wheel-driven flying disc launcher for conventionally sized and weighted flying discs to achieve optimal velocity, lift and angular momentum for sustained flight. Flying discs having a diameter in the range of 15 cm to 28 cm and a weight in the range of 60 gm to 120 gm engage a spinning drive wheel having a diameter in the range of 10 to 25 cm for discharge through an annulus chute having a width substantially equal to the diameter of the flying disc to be launched and extending through an angle θ around the center of the drive wheel in the range of 45 to 80 degrees.
US11015888B2
A device (1), and a barreled weapon (10) including the device, for loading the barreled weapon (10) with ammunition bodies (2), in particular with artillery projectiles, includes a rammer for moving an ammunition body (2) along a loading path (L) from a loading position outside of the loading chamber (12) into a rammed position in the loading chamber (12) of the barreled weapon (10), wherein a correction rammer (4) connected downstream of the rammer in the loading path is used to correct ramming errors if necessary. A method for loading the barreled weapon includes correcting ramming errors with a correction rammer (4) downstream of the rammer of the barreled weapon in the loading path of the weapon.
US11015887B1
A firearm safety selector lever, including at least some of a lever element having a head portion and an extension portion, wherein the extension portion includes an extension portion top wall and an extension portion sidewall; a visual element recess extending from an open first end formed in a terminal sidewall portion of the extension portion sidewall through at least a portion of the extension portion; a primary viewing aperture extending from the extension portion top wall to at least a portion of the visual element recess; and a visual element at least partially positionable within the visual element recess such that at least a portion of the visual element is viewable through the primary viewing aperture.
US11015883B2
Disclosed herein is a modified rifle bolt carrier allowing a selectively openable vent/valve at the location where exhaust gas is pressurizing the bolt carrier to control carrier speed under suppressed fire in a first valve position or unsuppressed fire in a second valve position. A valve core is disclosed which may be rotated 180° to a first “open” setting for non-suppressed fire from its position in a “closed” position for suppressed fire, and a third “median” position. The modified bolt carrier will allow an operator of the firearm to adjust for a suppressor without changing the gas block or having to modify or adapt the front end or barrel end of the firearm.
US11015877B2
Energy storage systems include a heat source and a thermal energy storage system to store thermal energy produced by the heat source. The thermal energy storage system includes a first tank containing a first salt having a first melting temperature and a second tank containing a second salt having a second melting temperature. At least one input conduit is configured for transferring thermal energy from the heat source to the first tank and second tank. A first output conduit is in thermal communication with the first tank. A second output conduit is in thermal communication with the second tank. Additional energy storage systems include a heat booster positioned and configured to add thermal energy to a heated heat transfer fluid prior to reaching a tank containing at least one thermal storage material. Methods include transferring thermal energy from a thermal energy source to a plurality of thermal energy storage tanks.
US11015876B2
A porous honeycomb heat storage structure including: a honeycomb structure which has a porous partition wall which defines a plurality of cells extending one end face to the other end face and allows a reaction medium to flow into the cells; and a heat storage portion which is configured by filling a heat storage material performing heat storage and heat dissipation by a reversible chemical reaction with the reaction medium or physical adsorption/desorption in at least a portion of each cells, wherein the heat storage portion has an area ratio in a range from 60% to 90% with respect to a cross sectional area of a honeycomb cross section orthogonal to an axial direction of the honeycomb structure.
US11015872B2
An additively manufactured heat transfer device is disclosed, including an enclosure portion with outer walls. The outer walls contain an inner channel configured to direct a flow of coolant fluid. The heat transfer device further includes a fluid intake port and a fluid outtake port, each connected to the first inner channel. The fluid intake port is configured to direct a flow of coolant fluid through an outer wall of the enclosure portion into the inner channel, and the fluid outtake port is configured to direct a flow of coolant fluid through an outer wall of the enclosure portion out of the inner channel. The inner channel is defined by internal walls, and the enclosure portion and the internal walls form a single additively manufactured unit.
US11015864B2
A refrigerator according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a cabinet, a door configured to open/close the cabinet, an outer plate defining a front surface of the door and having an opening formed therein to pass through the door, a door liner defining a rear surface of the door, lighting members configured to illuminate storage spaces of the door and the cabinet, a transparent panel assembly mounted to shield the opening and allowing the storage spaces to be selectively seen according to an ON/OFF state of the lighting members, an insulator filled between the outer plate and the door liner, and a blocking part arranged inside the door along a periphery of the transparent panel assembly and detachably coupled to a peripheral surface of the transparent panel assembly to fix the transparent panel assembly.
US11015860B1
A door for closing a compartment of a cooled kitchen appliance having a door liner and a storage bin mounted to the door liner. The door liner comprises a first side configured to face the compartment that the door closes, walls protruding from the first side of the liner, and a ledge also protruding from the first side of the liner. The storage bin comprises walls which, together with the walls and ledge of the liner, define a storage space that can store items. The storage bin and door liner can comprise mating lug features that allow the storage bin to be mounted to the door liner. In one example, the storage bin can comprise an isolated sub-section defining an isolated storage space separate from the rest of the storage space of the storage bin.
US11015858B2
A refrigerator and a cold air flow rate monitoring system for the refrigerator, the refrigerator including a main body having a refrigerating chamber therein, a cold air passage duct disposed within the main body and provided with a cold air passage therein, a control case coupled to the cold air passage duct and provided with a cold air discharge opening, a knob installed on the control case and opening and closing at least part of the cold air discharge opening in a manner of reciprocally moving in one direction, and a sensing unit provided with a conductive member mounted on the knob and a circuit portion provided on the control case, and configured to sense relative position of the knob with respect to the control case to acquire information related to an opening and closing amount of the cold air discharge opening.
US11015855B2
A container refrigeration apparatus includes: a casing which forms an external storage space communicating with the exterior of the container and an internal storage space communicating with the interior of the container; a refrigerant circuit; an external fan; an internal fan; and an inside air control system including an exhaust passage which allows a space on a blowout side of the internal fan in the internal storage space to communicate with the external storage space, and controls composition of the inside air in the container. An external end of the exhaust passage is open on a suction side of the external fan in the external storage space.
US11015853B2
An ice maker (100) includes an ice-making water tank (10), a water storage tank (20), a pipe assembly, a reversing member (40), and a driving member (50). The pipe assembly comprises a first branch pipe (310), a second branch pipe (320), and a third branch pipe (330). The first branch pipe (310) is connected to the water storage tank (20). The second branch pipe (320) and the third branch pipe (330) are separately connected to the ice-making water tank (10). The reversing member (40) is separately connected to the three branch pipes to control two of the branch pipes to be communicated and the rest one of the branch pipes to disconnected. The driving member (50) is connected to the third branch pipe in series. During ice making, the reversing member (40) controls the second branch pipe (320) and the third branch pipe (330) to be communicated and controls the first branch pipe (310) to be disconnected. The driving member (50) operates to drive the water to circulate among the ice-making water tank (10), the second branch pipe (320) and the third branch pipe (330).
US11015852B2
Provided is a refrigeration apparatus capable of, even in occurrence of a refrigerant leak, suppressing the extent of the refrigerant leak in continuously operating a usage unit other than a usage unit at which the refrigerant leak occurs. When one of a first usage unit and a second usage unit connected in parallel via a liquid-refrigerant connection pipe and a gas-refrigerant connection pipe is in a refrigerant leak situation satisfying a predetermined condition, a controller closes an on-off valve of a leak unit, the on-off valve being disposed on the side of the liquid-refrigerant connection pipe with respect to a usage-side heat exchanger, continues to open an on-off valve of a non-leak unit, the on-off valve being disposed on the side of the liquid-refrigerant connection pipe with respect to a usage-side heat exchanger, and reduces a refrigerant pressure at a portion on the side of the liquid-refrigerant connection pipe with respect to each on-off valve below a refrigerant pressure at the portion at a time when the refrigerant leak situation satisfies the predetermined condition.
US11015846B2
A recovery system is provided to recover energy from heat. In an embodiment, the system includes an evaporator to receive a flow of natural gas at a first temperature and output the flow at a second, lower temperature. The evaporator may receive a flow of cooling media to cool the natural gas and output a flow of heated cooling media. The system may further include: a heat-to-mechanical energy converter coupled to the evaporator to receive the flow of heated cooling media and to output first cooled cooling media; an induction generator coupled to be driven by the heat-to-mechanical energy converter; a medium voltage drive coupled to receive power from the induction generator and to condition the power for output to an electrical distribution system; and a condenser to condense the first cooled cooling media to provide the flow of cooling media to the evaporator.
US11015838B2
A bladed solar thermal receiver for absorbing concentrated sunlight is disclosed. The receiver includes a plurality of panels arranged in a bladed configuration for absorbing sunlight. The bladed configurations can be radial or planar. The receiver design increases the effective solar absorptance and efficiency by providing a light trap for the incident solar radiation while reducing heat losses from radiation and convection.
US11015829B2
An electronic control module is provided. The electronic control module is operably connected to a power supply for providing power to a motor. The electronic control module includes an input device, a processor coupled to the input device, and first and second current supply lines. The processor is configured to generate a command signal in response to an input supplied by the input device and transmit the command signal to the motor. The command signal controls an operating point of the motor. The first and second current supply lines are operably connectable to the motor and the processor. At least one of the current supply lines, the input device and the processor are adapted to utilize the current supply lines both to transmit power to the motor and to transmit the command signal to the motor over the current supply lines.
US11015826B2
According to one embodiment, a system includes at least one of a cooling system and a heating system, an automation controller, a sensor, and a switch. The automation controller provides a first input indicating a first temperature set point. The sensor detects a temperature of a second space proximate the sensor and provides a second input indicating the temperature of the second space and a second temperature set point. The switch activates at least one of the cooling system and the heating system based on the second temperature set point in response to a determination that the second input overrides the first input.
US11015805B2
A flow directing apparatus for directing fluid flow includes a flow body defining a bore therethrough configured and adapted to direct fluid flowing therethrough. The bore includes an outlet and an opposed inlet with an enlargement, formed as a countersink and/or a chamfer using a suitable boring device. The enlargement is configured and adapted to reduce sensitivity to entrance-edge conditions for the bore.
US11015804B2
The present invention is a system that utilizes high pressure gas (greater than ½ psig) to control flow rate and gas discharge velocity to enable interchangeability between a plurality of gases without having to change the gas/air mixing venturi size or air opening. A new approach is to use the available incoming higher gas pressure to the appliance then control the volumetric flow rate with the first orifice and then use a second orifice to change the velocity of discharge into the gas/air mixing venturi of the burner and therefore have adjustability of gas air mixing conditions without having to change the burner system or air flow control even when changing between very different fuel gases.
US11015803B2
A combustion device includes at least one burner, a supporting assembly, and an infrared ray generation assembly. The at least one burner includes a flame outlet; the front cover of the supporting assembly includes a flat cover plate which has a plurality of holes; the infrared ray generation mesh which is disposed on the supporting assembly is corresponding to the flame outlet; the flames generated by the flame outlet heat the infrared ray generation mesh and the cover plate. The intensity of heating can be effectively increased by generating open fire and infrared rays and uniformly heating could be realized as well.
US11015801B2
A modification of a power boiler is disclosed, which comprises water walls enclosing the furnace for heating water and producing steam; a superheater system provided above the furnace for superheating steam; an additional superheater mounted in the furnace for further superheating steam from the superheater system. A modifying method of a power boiler is also disclosed, which comprises steps of mounting an additional superheater on water walls in a furnace; connecting an output of a superheater system to an inlet of the additional superheater; and connecting an outlet of the additional superheater to a turbine for producing power at an improved plant heat rate.
US11015790B2
A slim linear LED lighting device is provided, including: a printed circuit board on which a connecting circuit is provided, at least one power input component, and a plurality of LED Bars. The LED Bar is formed by a plurality of the same kind of LED chips, and has a slim strip-shaped condensing lens structure integrally formed in the LED Bar packaging process by molding process to control the beam angle of the LED Bar and therefore the light distribution of the slim linear LED lighting device. The LED Bar's condensing lens has a small cross-sectional dimension; therefore the effective utilization factor of the light is improved as the slim linear LED lighting device is applied to a linear automotive lamp designed with a thin light blade structure.
US11015768B2
A method of manufacturing a light source device includes: providing a substrate having a plurality of light sources disposed thereon; causing the plurality of light sources to emit light; measuring a first light-intensity distribution of an entire surface that is in parallel to the substrate and located above the plurality of light sources; and based on a measured value of the first light-intensity distribution, forming a light-reflecting pattern above the plurality of light sources to obtain a second light-intensity distribution that is different from the first light-intensity distribution.
US11015766B1
A solid state lamp includes a connector and a bulb portion with multiple strips.
US11015765B2
A lighting device (100) for use in a luminaire (200) comprising: —a base (101) having a longitudinal axis (LA) and comprising an electrical connector (102) for connecting the lighting device (100) to a luminaire socket (201) of the luminaire (200), —at least one LED-filament (103) comprising a substrate (104) having an elongated body and a plurality of light sources (105) mechanically coupled to the substrate (104), the plurality of light sources (105) configured for emitting light (106) in a first spatial light distribution, —at least one light guide (107) having an elongated body, comprising at least one light in-coupling portion (108) at at least on the external periphery of the at least one light guide (107) for coupling light (106) into the at least one light guide (107), a plurality of light out-coupling portions (109) for coupling light (106) out of the at least one light guide (107) in a second spatial light distribution, —an at least in part light-transmissive envelope (110) at least partly encapsulating said at least one LED-filament (103) and said at least one light guide (107), —wherein the at least one light guide (107) is arranged for guiding the light (106) coupled into the at least one light guide (107) at the at least one light in-coupling portion (108) via total internal reflection (111) to the plurality of light out-coupling portions (109), —wherein the at least one LED-filament (103) is external to the at least one light guide (107).
US11015764B2
An LED light bulb, comprising: a bulb shell with inner surface and outer surface opposite to the inner surface of the bulb shell, the bulb shell includes a layer of luminescent material which is formed on the inner surface or the outer surface of the bulb shell or integrated in the material of the bulb shell; a bulb base connected to the bulb shell; a stem connected to the bulb base and located in the bulb shell, the stem comprises a stand extending to the center of the bulb shell; and a single LED filament, disposed in the bulb shell, the LED filament comprising: a plurality of LED chip units, each of the LED chip units comprises at least two LED chips; a plurality of conductors respectivity located on opposite sides of the LED chip units; wherein a Cartesian coordinate system having an x-axis, a y-axis is oriented for the LED filament where the x-axis is parallel to the length direction of the LED filament, the conductors are parallel to the x direction and at least one of the plurality of conductors is electrically connected with the LED chip units through a first wire perpendicular to the x direction.
US11015759B2
A power tool and a detection method for the power tool. The detection method includes collecting acceleration data, via use of an acceleration sensor of the power tool, along a tangential direction of a rotation axis of a working portion of the power tool, determining whether a proportion of the collected acceleration data that exceeds a first acceleration threshold in a preset time window exceeds a preset value, and determining that a kickback occurs in the power tool when the proportion exceeds the preset value.
US11015743B2
Described herein are embodiments of a pressure hose having an improved reinforcement layer. In some embodiments, the reinforcement layer of the pressure hose has a reinforcement volumetric ratio (RVR) of greater than or equal to 110%. The reinforcement layer can include a plurality of braided beams, with each beam comprising a plurality of ends. In some embodiments, the plurality of ends within a beam are arranged in a multi-layer orientation. In some embodiments, the number of ends and the end orientation within each beam is identical amongst all beams in the reinforcement layer. The shape, size, and arrangement of the ends within a beam can all be adjusted to increase the surface area to volume ratio and, correspondingly, the RVR of the reinforcement layer.
US11015741B2
A fastening support includes a generally «C»-shaped annular body having two free ends which can be spaced apart to position the annular body around the item and a tab for fastening to the mounting point of an outer member. Furthermore, in accordance with the invention, the annular body includes, on an inner face, a plurality of retaining notches capable of cooperating with the tubular item such that the annular body is adapted to perform an incremental rotation from one notch to the other under the effect of a mechanical bias in rotation, between first and second angular positions for temporary immobilization in rotation by the retaining notches.
US11015737B2
A method of and apparatus for the rapid deployment of a fracturing water transferring system, along with the rapid picking up and storage of such system after use. In different embodiments the method in includes the use of a tensioning system to retrieve one or more segments of lay flat hose.
US11015736B1
This present invention utilizes a shape memory alloy (SMA) to improve on prior art in the design of clamps used for shut off, squeeze off, of plastic pipe which transmits gas or fluid under pressure. More particularly, but not exclusively, the present invention incorporates SMAs as actuators to simplify and improve clamp design for squeeze off of plastic pipe that is used in the transmission of pressurized gas and fluid. This invention may be deployed and operated remotely by the user. This present invention relates specifically to the application of trained SMA tubes, rods, bars, and beams as actuators for clamping and squeeze off of plastic pipe and tubing used to transmit gas or fluid.
US11015733B2
A system includes an actuator housing having a plurality of adapter lugs extending radially inward toward an axis, each adapter lug of the plurality of adapter lugs secured to the housing via a respective connector. The system also includes a bonnet having a plurality of bonnet lugs extending radially outward away from the axis, each bonnet lug of the plurality of bonnet lugs being separated by a respective space, the space being sized to permit axial movement of an adapter lug of the plurality of adapter lugs toward a lower flange arranged axially lower than the plurality of bonnet lugs.
US11015728B2
A stepper motor driven actuator system is provided. The system includes a stepper motor, a cam, and a gearbox system. The gearbox system operatively connects the stepper motor to the cam. The cam rotates in response to stepping of the stepper motor. The system also includes a valve having a control piston located therein. The control piston is configured to translate in response to rotation of the cam. The system further includes a rotary actuator. The rotary actuator is fluidly connected to the valve, and the rotary actuator is configured to rotate the cam in response to translation of the control piston.
US11015718B2
A drain trap includes: a casing having a fluid channel; and a second valve mechanism including a second valve seat having a seat surface in a ring shape and a second valve body configured to be displaced to be separated from and seated on the seat surface of the second valve seat so that and the second valve mechanism opens and closes the channel. The second valve seat is held to be movable back and forth along a center axis of the ring shape such that the seat surface of the second valve seat and the seat surface of the second valve body are separated from each other and contact each other, and is held to be rotatable about the center axis of the ring shape.
US11015717B2
An automatic back-pressure valve comprises a spring support (1), an ejector rod spring (2), an ejector rod (3), a piston rod (4), a guide band (5), a cylinder body (6), an O-ring seal ring A (7), an O-ring seal ring B (8), a piston rod spring (9), a cylinder cover (10), a guide sleeve (11), a conical ceramic element (12), a seal ring (13), a sealing base (14), a valve body (15), a screw (16) and a positioning sleeve (17).
US11015709B2
A gasket 100 is configured to seal a gap between an installation member 200 and a fixation member 300 which are fixed to each other. The gasket 100 has an annular gasket main body 11 configured to be fitted into an annular groove 210 provided in the installation member 200 and configured to be in close contact with a bottom surface 210a of the annular groove 210 and with an end surface 310 of the fixation member 300, and an auxiliary seal portion 12 extending from the gasket main body 11 toward an opposite region, which is opposite to a sealed region. The auxiliary seal portion 12 is configured to be in close contact with an end surface 220 of the installation member 200 on the opposite region side of the annular groove 210 and with the end surface 310 of the fixation member 300.
US11015708B2
In the case of an axle drive unit with a power-shiftable two-speed transmission unit, in order to enable particularly simple and advantageous control of a gear change and to manage with a small number of components and a less complex control logic and control sensor system, the coordination of mechanically-passively implemented shifting thresholds of a friction clutch and a blocking device of a freewheel is provided, which makes it possible to control the friction clutch and the blocking device with the same control variable at always the same level.
US11015702B1
A lubrication system for a planetary gear device includes a planetary gear mounted on a planetary gear shaft. The shaft is mounted in a shaft hole that allows the gear to rotate freely about the shaft. Lubricant reservoirs formed as voids or spaces on the inner surface of the shaft hole and outer surface of the shaft provide additional volume for lubricant to lubricate the shaft and shaft hole interface. These lubricant reservoirs extend the lifespan of the lubricant and reduce maintenance requirements of the planetary gear.
US11015697B2
A continuously variable transmission device (1) for a two-, three- or four-wheel motorcycle comprises a gear shift regulation device provided with a slide (40) axially slidable and suitable to engage special rollers (18) to hold them during the gear shift. A mobile bushing (9) is suitable to influence the slide (40) to cause its translation from a rearward position to a forward limit position to engage the special rollers (18).
US11015696B2
A damper pulley for a crankshaft may include: a hub including a first cylindrical portion, a first closed end provided at one end of the first cylindrical portion, and a first open end provided at the other end of the first cylindrical portion; and a pulley including a second cylindrical portion having a plurality of grooves, a second closed end provided at one end of the second cylindrical portion, and a second open end provided at the other end of the second cylindrical portion. In particular, the first closed end of the hub and the second closed end of the pulley are combined into one unit.
US11015693B2
A wave gear device includes a circular spline that has an annular shape and rigidity; a flex spline that has an annular shape and flexibility, and is disposed in the circular spline; and a wave generator that is disposed in the flex spline, is configured to cause the flex spline to be distorted in a radial direction and is configured to partially mesh with the circular spline, and is configured to move a meshing position between the circular spline and the flex spline in a circumferential direction. The ratio of the Vickers hardness on an inner circumferential surface of the flex spline to the Vickers hardness on an outer circumferential surface of the wave generator is 1.2 or more and 1.7 or less.
US11015691B2
A transaxle includes: an axle housing in which an input gear is rotatably supported; a differential casing that is contained in the axle housing while being rotatably supported relative to the axle housing; first and second side gears as a pair of spur gears that are contained in the differential casing, coaxially arranged, relatively rotatable with each other, and rotatable relative to the differential casing; a group of pinions as spur gears that are rotatably supported, in the differential casing, by rotational shafts that are in parallel with axes of the first and the second side gears in the differential casing, the group of pinions transmitting power between the first side gear and the second side gear; and a final gear having a ring shape that is contained in the axle housing, meshes with the input gear, incorporates the differential casing, and is relatively unrotatably coupled to the differential casing.
US11015690B2
The present specification discloses a differential mechanism and a vehicle. The differential mechanism includes a shell. A left half axle gear, a right half axle gear, a planet wheel and a planet wheel axle are disposed in the shell. The planet wheel is rotatably mounted on the planet wheel axle and meshes with the left half axle gear and the right half axle gear. A power engagement device includes a first engagement portion and a second engagement portion. The first engagement portion is connected with the left half axle gear or the right half axle gear, and the second engagement portion rotates synchronously with and moves axially relative to the shell. An engagement portion drive device includes a drive pin and a drive portion. The drive portion is configured to drive the drive pin to drive the second engagement portion close to the first engagement portion along an axial direction.
US11015678B2
An example flywheel energy storage device includes a continuously curved fiber-resin composite ovoid shell. Hubs are concentrically disposed within and outside the shell at the shaft. A plurality of radially oriented, fiber-resin composite helical wraps of uniform width are used to construct the ovoid shell and couple the shell to the hubs for co-rotation and torque transfer. Integrated internal structures are attached to the external ovoid shell and provide compression support for the external ovoid shell. Upon rotation, the ovoid shell elongates slightly to increase the flywheel effective moment of inertia at operational speeds.
US11015674B2
The present device includes a mass body, a centrifugal element and a plurality of conversion mechanisms. The mass body is disposed to be rotatable with the rotor and be rotatable relative to the rotor. The centrifugal element is disposed to receive a centrifugal force to be generated by rotation of at least one of the rotor and the mass body. Each of the plurality of conversion mechanisms is configured to convert the centrifugal force into a circumferential force when a relative displacement is produced between the rotor and the mass body in a rotational direction. The circumferential force is directed to reduce the relative displacement. The respective plurality of conversion mechanisms are disposed at intervals in a circumferential direction.
US11015672B2
A bicycle with a suspension system for a wheel of the bicycle, the suspension system including a smart fluid damper for dampening a movement of the wheel relative to the frame. The smart fluid damper includes a flow control element disposed within a cavity of the damper and configured to apply a field to a smart fluid within a fluid passage extending through the flow control element. The flow control element includes field barriers proximate the fluid passage to locally block and/or divert the field such that the field cannot pass therethrough. The field barriers are arranged to cause the field to criss-cross the fluid passage at multiple axial intervals along the fluid passage, thereby focusing the field within the fluid passage.
US11015667B2
A brake mounting bracket mountable onto a trailing arm or a steering knuckle in a vehicle is provided. The bracket includes a first bracket mounting hole via which the bracket is mounted onto the trailing arm or the steering knuckle. The bracket includes at least one second bracket mounting hole via which a parking brake assembly is mounted to the bracket. The bracket includes at least one caliper mounting hole via which a brake caliper is mounted to the bracket. A vehicle including such a brake mounting bracket is also provided.
US11015662B2
A clutch assembly includes a housing, a rotational member configured to rotate relative to the housing about an axis, and a clutch pack coupled between the housing and the rotational member. The clutch pack is configured to regulate movement of the rotational member relative to the housing. The clutch pack includes a speed sensor ring coupled to the rotational member such that the speed sensor ring is configured to rotate with the rotational member about the axis. The clutch assembly includes a sensor in communication with the speed sensor ring. The sensor is configured to measure an angular velocity of the rotational member relative to the housing.
US11015647B2
A device includes a bearing-in-bearing with an inner ring, an intermediate ring and an outer ring. Between the inner ring and the intermediate ring and between the intermediate ring and the outer ring, inner roller elements, and outer roller elements, are attached, respectively. The bearing-in-bearing is attached between two components that can rotate in relation to each other, a shaft and a housing, of which one component is or can be connected to a drive. A transmission is provided between the intermediate ring and the driven component in order to drive the intermediate ring. The transmission is a contactless transmission.
US11015645B2
A bearing for holding a rotary conversion tool (10, 11) that includes two end rolling bearing devices (26, 28), at least one intermediate rolling bearing device (27) interposed between the end rolling bearing devices (26, 28), the end and intermediate rolling bearing devices (26, 27, 28) being intended to engage with an end (10a, 10b, 11a, 11b) of the rotary tool (10, 11), and at least one mechanical actuator (32, 33) configured to exert a radial preload force (Fo, Fo′) at the intermediate rolling bearing device (27).
US11015644B2
A pinned roller bearing assembly having a plurality of pinned rollers, wherein each of the pins has a first threaded end received in a threaded aperture of a first support ring, and a second unthreaded and shouldered end received in a countersunk and unthreaded aperture of a second support ring. Each end of each pin extends through its respective support ring and is rivetingly domed outside the support ring to secure its position and configuration. The pinned roller bearings and support rings are disposed within an outer and inner race.
US11015639B1
A conceal buckle apparatus includes a box, a buckle, an axle and a locking element. The box includes a rim, a back plate and a connective plate formed between the rim and the back plate. An opening includes a portion in the connective plate and another portion in the back plate. The buckle includes two lateral portions extending out of the recess via the opening and a middle portion extending perpendicular to the lateral portions. The axle is connected to the lateral portions of the buckle and formed with two terminal sections each of which comprises at least three faces. The locking element is connected to the box and formed with five contact portions. Two of the contact portions are in contact with two of the faces of the axle when the lateral portions of the buckle extend perpendicular or parallel to the back plate.
US11015627B2
The present invention relates to a panel clamp securable to a variety of mounting mechanisms. The clamp includes first and second members, each having an edge extending beyond at least a portion of its side surface to form an overhang, and each includes a plurality of holes passing therethrough. When the overhang of the first member is fitted over a top surface of a panel and the overhang of the second member is fitted over a bottom surface of the panel, such that the plurality of holes in the first member is substantially aligned with the plurality of holes in the second member, mechanical fasteners can be inserted through the plurality of holes to secure the first and second members to the panel. An additional mechanical fastener is inserted through the clamp to secure the clamp to a mounting mechanism.
US11015625B2
The present disclosure relates to a connecting element and to a process for producing said connecting element. The present disclosure further relates to the use of said connecting element for friction-increasing connection of components to be joined in machine, plant and motor vehicle construction and energy generation.
US11015624B2
A valve for controlling a flow of a fluid between a source, reservoir, a vent, and pressure-based device. The valve has multiple positions each having a source port fluidly coupleable to the source, reservoir port fluidly coupleable to the reservoir, device port fluidly coupleable to the pressure-based device, and venting port configured to vent the fluid. The multiple positions are separately selectable and include a fill position having a fill conduit fluidly coupling the source port and device port, a recycle position having a recycle conduit fluidly coupling the reservoir port and device port, and a vent position having a vent conduit fluidly coupling the vent port and device port. The fill conduit, recycle conduit, and vent conduit each communicate the fluid only when a corresponding one of the multiple positions is selected, and the multiple positions are configured to prevent selection of more than one at a time.
US11015619B2
A pressure intensifier device for increasing pressure in a pressurized fluid chamber of a piston/cylinder unit and a casting unit provided therewith for a diecasting machine, and also an associated operating method are provided. The pressure intensifier device has a pressure intensifier cylinder and a pressure intensifier piston, which is guided in an axially movable manner in the cylinder, wherein the pressure intensifier cylinder has an outlet region, an inlet region upstream of the outlet region and a piston guiding chamber, and the pressure intensifier piston has a piston part, which is guided in the piston guiding chamber, and a piston rod, which extends from the piston part to the inlet region, in a maximally retracted release position releases a fluid connection between the inlet region and the outlet region and, in a maximally advanced blocking position, blocks this connection with a free end portion, with which it extends into the outlet region. Over a portion that can be passed through by the free end portion of the piston rod during movement from the release position into the blocking position, the outlet region has a free passage cross section for the free piston rod end portion that is at least equal in size to a rod cross section of the free piston rod end portion. Advantageously, a pressure intensifier inlet valve can be controlled independently of a pressure in the pressurized fluid chamber of the piston/cylinder unit.
US11015617B2
A rear guard of a box fan comprises: a body arranged vertically and a waterproof part arranged on the body. The waterproof part is arranged in a position corresponding to a motor in the box fan and the waterproof part comprises a plurality of recessed structures arranged on the body. a plurality of vent holes are arranged on the body for communicating an inner side of the body with an outer side of the body are arranged in the recessed structures. By arranging the vent holes in the recessed structures, the waterproof effect is realized on the premise of ensuring ventilation, the electric leakage and ignition of the motor can be effectively prevented, and the lifetime of the motor of the box fan is extended.
US11015615B2
Non-Volume displacement pumps used at nuclear power plants (NPP) in reactor coolant pump sets for the primary coolant circuit of the nuclear power system. The reactor coolant pump set comprising a vertical vane-type single-stage pump with bottom arrangement of the impeller, the pump shaft is connected to the electric motor shaft by a rigid coupling, the radial-axial bearing, installed in the electric motor upper chamber, is made of two main elements: a radial bearing made in the form of a rotor metallic bushing installed on the cylindrical part of the collar and an axial bearing consisting of two stator lever-type balance arm systems with cover plates of antifriction material and rotor cover plates of antifriction material. The radial-axial bearing is cooled by water from the NPP system, pressure head whereof is increased by the screw-type pump located on the upper butt of the radial-axial bearing collar.
US11015610B2
A centrifugal blower includes an outer rotor, and a turbo fan. The turbo fan includes blades, an other end plate, and a cylinder portion. The cylinder portion is located inside the other end plate, and is fixed to the outer rotor. A surface of the outer rotor configures a rotor guide surface that guides an air flow toward a channel provided between adjacent blades. Each blade has a leading edge side portion located radially inside the cylinder portion. An outer end portion of the rotor guide surface in the radial direction is located at the same position in the axial direction as a one side cylinder end portion of the cylinder portion in the axial direction, in a state where a rotor contact portion of the outer rotor and a blade contact portion of the leading edge side portion are in contact with each other.
US11015609B2
A magnetic levitation control device comprises: a control signal generation section configured to generate a first excitation current control signal based on current deviation information on the excitation current detection signal with respect to the current setting signal and a second excitation current control signal based on the current setting signal; and a selection section including a first switching section configured to select either one of the first excitation current control signal or the second excitation current control signal or a second switching section configured to select either one of a third excitation current control signal obtained by summation of the first excitation current control signal and the second excitation current control signal or the second excitation current control signal. The excitation amplifier is PWM-controlled based on the excitation current control signal selected by the selection section.
US11015606B2
Systems and methods for sump pump remote monitoring can include control circuitry integrated into a portable housing, with a backup sump pump connected to the control circuitry. The control circuitry can be powered by a line power and when the line power is not available, the control circuitry can be powered by a battery power. The control circuitry can be connected to a control panel, and the control circuitry can include a pressure transducer, the pressure transducer to measure a pressure in a fluid level sensor, and based on the measured pressure, the control circuitry to adjust the speed of the backup sump pump. A wireless controller can be connected to the control circuitry, the wireless controller for wirelessly receiving monitoring instructions and wirelessly transmitting backup sump pump status data, with the control circuitry providing an indication of the backup sump pump status data to the control panel.
US11015597B2
The objective of the present invention is to provide a scroll-type fluid machine, and a method for assembling this scroll-type fluid machine, with which an eccentric shaft and a non-eccentric part can be positioned easily in the same step, while allowing a main body unit and a motor unit to be separated and connected without being disassembled. To achieve this objective, this scroll-type fluid machine is equipped with a main body unit having a main body casing, a fixed scroll, and an orbiting scroll, and a motor unit having a drive shaft for driving the main body unit, and a motor casing, wherein the drive shaft protrudes from the motor casing and is attached to a slewing bearing of the main body unit, positioning holes into which a positioning member is inserted are formed on their respective opposing mating surfaces of the motor casing and the main body casing, and the dimensional difference between main-body-casing-side insertion opening of the positioning hole and the motor-casing-side end surface of the slewing bearing in the axial direction is less than the dimensional difference between the main-body-unit-side tip ends of the drive shaft and the positioning member in the axial direction.
US11015592B1
An apparatus and associated method for operating a horizontal surface pump apparatus, including a motor operating a pump to pressurize a fluid inside the pump. A flow controller executes computer instructions stored in memory that define a selected flow rate of the fluid flowing out of the pump based on a flow profile trajectory stored in memory and related to an observed parameter of the fluid. A motor controller executes computer instructions stored in memory that map the selected flow rate and an observed head pressure of the fluid to a selected motor speed via a transformation function stored in memory, and that operate the motor at the selected motor speed.
US11015590B2
A downhole pump system for increasing production of a well includes a mechanical steam pump, a steam generator, a plurality of electrical pumps, and a cable. The mechanical steam pump is disposed within a horizontal section of the well. The electrical pumps are disposed in series within the vertical section of the well above the steam generator. The cable connects the mechanical steam pump, the steam generator, and the electrical pumps.
US11015577B2
A wind farm supervision monitoring method includes: displaying, by a user interface (UI) unit, a location of the site server on a map along with a dashboard menu, a navigation menu, and an alarm & event menu; collecting, by a data collection unit, data about status monitoring of each wind turbine from the site server; detecting, by an abnormality status detection unit, an abnormality status of each wind turbine based on the data about the status monitoring of each wind turbine and issuing an alarm based on the detecting the abnormality status; providing, by a supervision unit, a turbine operation status of each wind turbine using the dashboard menu, managing operation and maintenance; and establishing, by the supervision unit, an operation and maintenance plan for the detected abnormality status of the wind turbine.
US11015568B2
A method for controlling the ignition energy of a sparkplug electrode of an ignition system comprises: providing a base current (Ibase) and a base duration (Dbase) which corresponds to the current and duration, respectively, of a physical model at a fixed engine operating point; multiplying the base current (Ibase) and the base duration (Dbase) with a sparkplug state indicator (SSI) based correction factor and with an engine operating state (EOS) based factor for achieving a final global current (Iglo) and a final global duration (Dglo), respectively; and communicating the final global current (Iglo) and the final global duration (Dglo) to a control unit for controlling the ignition energy and ignition duration of the sparkplug electrode. Further executing real-time energy control based on misfire flag status and, in the end, making sure that the optimum energy is into application by realizing optimum energy tests.
US11015564B2
A starter assembly includes a multi-phase brushless electric motor including a stator, a rotor disposed on a rotatable shaft, and a motor endcap disposed at a first end of the stator. An electronic commutator assembly includes a sensing circuit, a control electronics subassembly, a power electronics subassembly and a heat sink. The sensing circuit is disposed adjacent to the second end of the rotatable shaft. The control electronics subassembly, the power electronics subassembly and the heat sink are disposed on disk-shaped devices arranged in a stacked configuration orthogonal to the axis defined by the rotatable shaft. The control electronics subassembly is disposed adjacent to the sensing circuit, and the power electronics subassembly is disposed adjacent to the control electronics subassembly. The control electronics subassembly is interposed between the power electronics subassembly and the sensing circuit. The heat sink is disposed adjacent to the power electronics subassembly.
US11015559B2
Methods and systems are provided for a multi-hole nozzle of a fuel injector. In one example, a nozzle for a fuel injector may include multiple nozzle holes arranged at a nozzle tip, where each nozzle hole has a straight flow axis and a cross-section that twists around the straight flow axis, from an inlet to an outlet of the nozzle hole. Additionally, a long side of the cross-section may increase in length, along the nozzle hole, from the inlet to the outlet.
US11015558B2
A combination outlet valve and pressure relief valve includes an outer housing having a passage. An inner housing is located within the passage and includes a first bore extending thereinto from one end and a second bore extending thereinto from the other end such that the first bore and the second bore terminate at an inner housing wall. An outlet valve assembly is located within the first bore and includes an outlet valve member, an outlet valve seat, and an outlet valve spring grounded to the inner housing wall and biasing the outlet valve member toward the outlet valve seat. A pressure relief valve assembly is located within the second bore and includes a pressure relief valve member, a pressure relief valve seat, and a pressure relief valve spring grounded to the inner housing wall and biasing the pressure relief valve member toward the pressure relief valve seat.
US11015555B2
A delivery device for the fuel of an internal combustion engine has a fuel tank (4) from which at least one fuel pump (14, 18) delivers fuel via a fuel supply line (10) and via at least one fuel filter (12, 16) to a fuel consumer (2). The consumer (2) is connected to the fuel tank (4) via a fuel return line (20). A control device (24) is connected between the supply line (10) and the return line (20). The control device establishes a fuel-conveying connection (80) between the return line (20) and the supply line (10) when the temperature in the fuel tank (4) falls below a predeterminable threshold temperature and at a predeterminable threshold pressure in the return line (20).
US11015548B2
Methods and systems, using a controller (20), for performing fuel pressure control operation of an engine (12) having at least one cylinder (16) is disclosed. The controller (20) includes a fuel system control unit (42) configured to control a fuel pressure applied to at least one injector (18) of the engine (12) during a motoring condition period (412) based on a commanded pulse train duration (410). During the motoring condition period (412), no combustion occurs in the at least one cylinder (16) of the engine (12). The commanded pulse train duration is a time period during which the at least one injector (18) of the engine (12) is activated for a drain operation. The fuel system control unit (42) is configured to command the at least one injector (18), for the commanded pulse train duration during the motoring condition period (412), to release fuel from the at least one injector (18) without injecting the fuel into the at least one cylinder (16) of the engine (12).
US11015542B2
A plug-in hybrid vehicle of the present disclosure includes an internal combustion engine, a particulate filter configured to collect particulate matter in exhaust gas of the internal combustion engine, an electric motor that outputs a driving force and a regenerative braking force to a wheel, a power storage device that exchanges electric power with the electric motor and is chargeable with electric power from an external power supply, and a controller programmed to decrease a target SOC for charging the power storage device with the electric power from the external power supply when a deposition amount of the particulate matter in the particulate filter is more than a predetermined value, compared to when the deposition amount of the particulate matter in the particulate filter is equal to or less than the predetermined value.
US11015532B2
A system for starting a turbine engine is provided. The system may comprise a gearbox, an electric starter, and an air turbine starter. The gearbox may have a gearbox input shaft. The gearbox may be coupled to the turbine engine. The gearbox input shaft may be coupled to a spool of the turbine engine. The electric starter may have an electric-starter shaft. The electric-starter shaft may be coupled to the gearbox input shaft. The air turbine starter may have an air-turbine-starter shaft. The air-turbine-starter shaft may be coupled to the gearbox input shaft. The electric-starter shaft and the air-turbine-starter shaft may be radially displaced, circumferentially displaced, or both radially and circumferentially displaced, with respective to an axis of the turbine engine, from one another. The electric starter may be a starter-generator connected alternatively between an auxiliary power source and an auxiliary load.
US11015525B2
A method of controlling electrical power supplied to a component of a vehicle, the method comprising: receiving a signal comprising information associated with an operating condition of a gas turbine engine; determining whether a parameter exceeds a predetermined threshold value using the information in the received signal; and controlling a reduction in electrical power supplied to a component of a vehicle from a generator of the gas turbine engine if the parameter exceeds the predetermined threshold value.
US11015517B2
A turbocharger system includes a valve assembly with an inlet, a first outlet, and a second outlet. The inlet is configured for receiving flow of an exhaust gas from an engine. The valve assembly includes a valve structure disposed within a housing. The valve structure is configured to rotate about an axis of rotation between a first position and a second position. The valve structure defines a nonlinear flow passage with an axial upstream end and radial downstream end. The valve structure, in a first position, directs exhaust gas from the inlet to the first outlet and closes off the second outlet. The valve structure, in the second position, directs exhaust gas from the inlet to the second outlet and closes off the first outlet.
US11015515B2
A combustion chamber structure for an engine includes a combustion chamber where SI combustion by spark ignition and CI combustion by self-ignition are conducted. A crown surface includes a cavity recessed to have a bowl-shape; a pair of first raised portions having a mound-shape along a pent roof shape; and a second raised portion provided to protrude at a position orthogonal to a ridge extending direction of the pair of first raised portions. With a height of the first raised portion relative to a height position of a deepest portion of the cavity being represented as H1 and a height of the second raised portion being represented as H2, H1/H2 as a ratio of the height H1 of the first raised portion to the height H2 of the second raised portion is set to be in a range of 1.92 or more and 2.75 or less.
US11015514B2
A water pump for a vehicle includes a shaft for receiving rotational power from the engine; an impeller mounted on the shaft to pump the coolant discharged from the engine; and a housing where the shaft and the impeller are embedded, disposed in a direction opposite to the direction to which the shaft is connected with respect to the impeller to have a coolant inflow passage, into which the coolant discharged from the engine flows, formed therein, disposed along the edge of the impeller to have a coolant discharge passage for discharging the coolant pumped by the impeller to the heat exchanging means formed therein, and disposed in the direction to which the shaft is connected to have a bypass passage for discharging the coolant to the engine formed therein, and the housing has a connecting passage for connecting the coolant inflow passage and the bypass passage formed therein.
US11015513B1
A cooling device uses siphon circulation whose heat source is an object-to-be-cooled installed in a vehicle to circulate refrigerant to the object-to-be-cooled, the cooling device including: a tank that is disposed above the object-to-be-cooled and stores the refrigerant; an outflow path that opens to the inside of the tank and through which the refrigerant flows out; a passage member that extends from the inside to the outside of the tank, with an open end of an inside section of the passage member positioned inside the tank being positioned above an opening of the outflow path; and identifying means that is provided at an outside section of the passage member positioned outside the tank and by which the position of the open end inside the tank can be identified.
US11015511B2
Methods and systems are provided for diagnosing an active exhaust valve in an exhaust system based on thermal data. In one example, a method may include indicating degradation of a first active exhaust valve positioned in a first exhaust pipe of a first engine bank based on a difference between a first temperature of exhaust downstream of the first active exhaust valve and a second temperature of exhaust downstream of a second active exhaust valve positioned in a second exhaust pipe of a second engine bank. Degradation of the valve may be confirmed based on thermal image data acquired at outlets of the first and second exhaust pipes.
US11015505B2
Methods and systems are provided for cooling an aftertreatment device with exhaust gas. In one example, an exhaust system comprises a recirculation passage branching from an EGR passage from downstream of an EGR cooler to a portion of an exhaust passage between the EGR passage and an aftertreatment device. In one example, the aftertreatment device is an SCR device.
US11015503B2
An apparatus includes a housing and at least one substrate enclosed within the housing and extending along an axis. The substrate includes at least one internal open area that is of a predetermined size and at a predetermined location within the substrate. At least one heater is configured to heat the at least one substrate by directing heat into the at least one internal open area.
US11015499B2
An oil separator separates oil from aerosol in a combustion engine. The oil separator includes a housing having an inlet opening for the aerosol, an impeller which can be rotatably driven about a rotational axis, and which is adapted for generating an aerosol flow along an axial direction of the impeller and arranged in the housing, and an impact wall which is designed in such a way that a projection of the impeller oriented axially and downstream in the air flow impinges on the impact wall. At least one part of a projection of the impeller oriented axially and downstream in the air flow impinges on the inlet opening.
US11015498B2
Flow control devices herein have a housing defining a plurality of parallel conduits. The first conduit has a normally closed check valve defined to open under a first preselected pressure differential controlling flow through the first conduit in a first direction of flow. The second conduit has a normally neutral check valve defined to open under a second preselected pressure differential in a second direction of flow that is opposite the first direction of flow. The third conduit defines a restriction profile, i.e., has a restrictor, having a third preselected pressure differential. The flow control devices are included as part of an engine system, more specifically a crankcase ventilation breach detection system.
US11015495B2
A drain plug for an oil pan coupled to a plug mounting hole formed at one side of a lower portion of the oil pan, the drain plug may include a head portion configured to be formed at one end portion of the drain plug, and a screw portion configured to extend from the head portion and be screw-coupled to the plug mounting hole of the oil pan.
US11015487B2
A clamp for connecting a first component end to a second component end is provided. The clamp includes a web extending between a first end and a second end, each end being provided with a connecting device for connecting said web ends to each other so that the clamp encloses the component ends. The clamp further includes an alignment structure, which alignment structure is configured to fit with corresponding engagement structures provided at the first component end and the second component end for circumferentially positioning the clamp relative to the component ends.
US11015484B2
An assembly comprising ring sectors made of a first material, the sectors being placed circumferentially end to end and suspended from an outer casing, and radial positioning means comprising at least one annular tongue made of a different material, for fastening the ring sectors to the outer casing, by an annular support. The radial positioning means further comprise an eccentric spreader engaged on one side with said at least one annular tongue and, on the other side, with the sectorized annular element, and acting to enable the distance between the annular tongue and the sectorized annular element to be adjusted radially.
US11015483B2
Various embodiments include a compressor casing and a method of assembly. The compressor casing comprises a first and an adjacent, second annular casing segments each comprising an annular radially-extending flange with mounting holes; at least one annular recess disposed on at least one annular side mating face of the adjacent flanges of the adjacent segments; at least one set of stress-relief holes disposed through at least one flange of the adjacent segments; and at least one annular leak-resistant plate disposed within the at least one annular recess having at least a third set of mounting holes. All sets of mounting holes are substantially aligned with each other and receive a plurality of respective fasteners, and the at least one annular plate is clamped between the adjacent segments and seals the at least one set of stress-relief holes for preventing leakage therethrough.
US11015474B2
A turbine article includes a substrate with a geometric surface having a multiple of divots recessed into the substrate, and a ceramic topcoat disposed over the geometric surface, the topcoat including at least a first layer having a first hardness and a second layer having a second hardness, the first hardness different than the second hardness.
US11015470B2
A flex seal assembly includes a plurality of duct segments configured to be disposed about a joint between a turbine of a turbine system and a diffuser of the turbine system. The plurality of duct segments includes a groove configured to extend circumferentially around the joint. Additionally, the plurality of duct segments includes a first duct segment of the plurality of duct segments and a second duct segment of the plurality of duct segments. The second duct segment includes a drain. Furthermore, the plurality of duct segments include insulation disposed within the groove of the plurality of duct segments.
US11015458B2
A turbomachine for a gas turbine engine, comprising: a rotor disc arranged to rotate about a fixed central axis. A plurality of rotor blades connected to the rotor disc, wherein the rotor blades extend within a gas flow path. A rotating annulus is arranged to rotate in a fixed rotational alignment relative to the rotor disc. An outer surface of the rotating annulus is arranged to define part of the boundary of the gas flow path. A gas turbine engine for an aircraft and a method of defining the boundary of a gas flow path within a turbomachine is also disclosed.
US11015457B2
A method of forming an airfoil, includes forming a hybrid skin core, a tip flag core, and a trailing edge core. The hybrid skin core, tip flag core, and trailing edge core are connected to form a first core portion. A leading edge core and a serpentine core are formed. The first core portion, the leading edge core, and the serpentine core are assembled together to form an airfoil core. An airfoil is formed around the airfoil core.
US11015452B2
A gas turbine blade has a trench part of a film cooling unit for cooling a blade part that is formed at a tip of a film cooling hole part. As a result, cooling efficiency of the blade can be improved since the blade part is sufficiently cooled even during introduction of a large amount of cooling air, durability of the blade can be increased by inhibiting the blade from being damaged due to hot gas since the trench part is formed to have a minimum width, and efficiency of a gas turbine can be increased by an improvement in film efficiency.
US11015451B1
Blade assemblies for gas turbine engines are described. The blade assemblies include a fan blade having a first tab extending from a leading edge and a second tab extending from a trailing edge. A first platform is affixed to a first side of the fan blade at the first and second tabs and a second platform is affixed to a second side of the fan blade at the first and second tabs. At least one first fastener is arranged to connect the first platform, the first tab, and the second platform at a first end and at least one second fastener is arranged to connect the first platform, the second tab, and the second platform at a second end.
US11015450B2
A two-stage high pressure turbine includes a second stage blade having an airfoil with a profile substantially in accordance with at least an intermediate portion of the Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y and Z set forth in Table 2. The X and Y values are distances, which when smoothly connected by an appropriate continuing curve, define airfoil profile sections at each distance Z. The profile sections at each distance Z are joined smoothly to one another to form a complete airfoil shape.
US11015446B2
A method and an apparatus for characterizing a fluid provide for flowing a sample fluid through a microfluidic flow line and subsequently flushing the flowline with flushing fluid alone or together with heating and/or exposure to a pulsating electromagnetic field. A tracer fluid is injected and tracked in a microfluidic line based on known properties of the tracer fluid.
US11015443B2
Methods and systems are provided that identify relatively large anisotropic horizontal stresses in a formation based on (i) azimuthal variations in the compressional and shear slownesses or velocities of the formation measured from ultrasonic data acquired by at least one acoustic logging tool as well as (ii) cross-dipole dispersions of the formation measured from sonic data acquired by the at least one acoustic logging tool. In addition, the azimuthal variations in the compressional and shear slownesses or velocities of the formation and dipole flexural dispersions of the formation can be jointly inverted to obtain the elastic properties of the rock of the formation in terms of linear and nonlinear constants and the magnitude of maximum horizontal stress of the formation. A workflow for estimating the magnitude of the maximum horizontal stress can employ estimates of certain formation properties, such as overburden stress, magnitude of minimum horizontal stress, and pore pressure.
US11015441B2
A transmitter is carried proximate to an inground tool for sensing a plurality of operational parameters relating to the inground tool. The transmitter customizes a data signal to characterize one or more of the operational parameters for transmission from the inground tool based on the operational status of the inground tool. A receiver receives the data signal and recovers the operational parameters. Advanced data protocols are described. Pitch averaging and enhancement of dynamic pitch range for accelerometer readings are described based on monitoring mechanical shock and vibration of the inground tool.
US11015427B2
A technique facilitates cement bonding evaluation including collecting waveform data and pre-processing the waveform data. The technique also may utilize processes which provide a time window position for the pre-processed waveform data and calculation of waveform amplitude and/or attenuation. Additionally, the technique may include deriving an amplitude-based bond index and/or attenuation-based bond index through the use of a model or other suitable waveform data processing technique which enables preparation of quality control plots with respect to the processing results.
US11015425B2
A method includes generating a torsional wave that propagates in a drill string having a drill bit coupled at a first end of the drill string and a top drive coupled at a second end of the drill string, and determining first and second components of the torsional wave. The first component propagates from the drill bit to the top drive and the second component propagates from the top drive to the drill bit. The method further includes calculating a first control signal to mitigate the first component, calculating a second control signal to regulate the second component, and generating a torque command based on the first and second control signals to control the top drive to dampen the torsional wave.
US11015424B2
Systems and methods for automated planning and/or control of a drilling operation are implemented to be based at least in part on automated prediction of well performance using an analytical well performance model. Substantially real-time determination of one or more drilling parameters and/or well trajectory parameters is based on measurements received from a drill tool together with the well performance model. The described techniques thus provide for automated, analytically determined well performance measures (e.g., well productivity and/or revenue) to a geosteering process. The well performance model accounts for variations of well trajectory both in inclination and in azimuth angle.
US11015417B2
Methods including providing a hydrajetting tool comprising a housing having a top end and a bottom end and having a plurality of jetting nozzles disposed thereon, the top end of the housing fluidly coupled to a tool string; positioning the hydrajetting tool adjacent to a substantially solid target; perforating or cutting the substantially solid target using a cement slurry injected through at least one of the plurality of jetting nozzles, thereby forming at least one perforation or cut.
US11015414B1
An exemplary activation device for a downhole tool includes an outer shell configured to sealingly engage a seat and configured to be sheared by the seat whereby the activation device can pass through the seat.
US11015413B2
A fracturing fluid delivery system with a fluid conduit having a communication line is provided. In one embodiment, a fracturing system includes a wellhead assembly and a fracturing fluid conduit coupled to the wellhead assembly to enable receipt of fracturing fluid by the wellhead assembly from the fracturing fluid conduit. The fracturing fluid conduit includes a body defining a bore for conveying the fracturing fluid to the wellhead assembly and also includes a communication line. The communication line transmits signals along the body of the fracturing fluid conduit such that the fracturing fluid conduit facilitates transmission of both the fracturing fluid and the signals. Additional systems, devices, and methods are also disclosed.
US11015409B2
A system for degrading a structure includes the structure formed of a degradable-on-demand material, an ignitor arranged to transfer heat to the structure; and, a mechanical impactor movable with respect to the structure, wherein the ignitor increases in temperature upon impact of the mechanical impactor into the ignitor, and heat from the ignitor initiates degradation of the structure.
US11015396B2
A drill bit includes a bit body having one or more blades extending therefrom, a plurality of cutters secured to the one or more blades, and a rolling element assembly positioned within a cavity defined on the bit body. The rolling element assembly includes a rolling element rotatable within the cavity about a rotational axis, and a retainer extendable within a retainer slot defined in the cavity to secure the rolling element within the cavity. The retainer and the cavity cooperatively encircle more than 180° but less than 360° of a circumference of the rolling element while leaving a full axial width of the rolling element exposed. The retainer includes a protruding portion thereon extendable into an offset region of the retainer slot when the first retainer piece is inserted into the retainer slot in a first direction and shifted within the retainer slot in a second direction.
US11015392B2
A dual member drill string having a plurality of dual member drill string sections for use in horizontal directional drilling operations. Each drill string section having an outer member and an inner member that is rotatable independently of the outer member. The outer member has a pin end and a box end. The inner member has a pin end disposed within the pin end of the outer member and a box end disposed within the box end of the outer member.
US11015390B2
Control center for an aerial device, said aerial device comprising a main boom part mounted on a turret, the main boom part being inclinable around a horizontal axis in a first inclination movement, rotatable around a vertical axis in a rotation movement, and extendable and retractable in a first telescopic movement, wherein the control center comprises a first control device configured for controlling the first inclination movement and the rotation movement of the main boom part, and a second control device comprising at least a first control lever for controlling the first telescopic movement.
US11015382B2
A motor driving device includes a mounting member including a mounting hole; a fan unit configured to be fixed to the mounting member, the fan unit including a lid disposed to cover the mounting hole; a restricting member configured to restrict movement of the lid by sandwiching the lid between the restricting member and the mounting member; and a guide mechanism configured to guide an operation of the restricting member moving relative to the lid from a non-restricting position where movement of the lid is allowed to a restricting position where movement of the lid is restricted.
US11015380B2
A dead stop type projection window assembly includes a free-standing frame and at least one insert window. The free-standing frame includes a top member, a base member spaced below the top member, at least two mullions vertically extending between the top member and the base member and spaced apart to form an insert window opening therebetween, and a stop extending along a perimeter of the insert window opening. The insert window is secured to the free-standing frame at the insert window opening and is sealed at the stop with sealant to close the insert window opening. The free-standing frame also includes a sealant dam extending from the stop and engaging the insert window to resist flow of the sealant toward the window frame opening between the stop and the insert window.
US11015376B2
A security lock for a door is provided having a bracket on the interior side of the door with a locking bolt mounted in the bracket. The bolt is adapted for movement between a raised, unlocked position above a cavity on the floor below the bracket and a lowered, locked position where the bolt is in the cavity to prevent the door from being opened. A bolt restraint is mounted on the bracket and cooperates with the bracket to maintain the bolt in its unlocked position. The bolt restraint, for example, a spring-loaded ball that engages an annular recess in the bolt, releases the bolt into its locked position when a downward force is applied to the bolt. The locking bolt has an enlarged flange that stops movement of the bolt into the cavity beyond a predetermined location on the bolt.
US11015374B2
Disclosed is a door locking device for manually/physically locking a vehicle door from inside a vehicle, especially a cab door of a truck, comprising a housing including locking members movable between an unlocked position and a locked position. A first lever arm is partly rotatable connected to the housing and a second lever arm is partly rotatable connected to the other end of the first lever arms. A first spring is striving to keep the first lever arm onto or in the housing and a second spring is striving to keep the second lever arm against or in level with the first lever arm and/or in the housing. The second lever arm is provided with a recess by which the first and second lever arms may be pulled out, operated, from their folded position on/in the housing and/or door, by the user/driver, and hooked on/around a rigid locking element/handle.
US11015371B2
In order to lock the door proceeding from the open position, a locking bar is brought into the locked position under tension of a spring element, in which locked position a closing force acting on the locking bar is determined by the spring element, and, in order to unlock the door, the locking bar is brought out of the locked position into an unlocked position with the aid of an actuating force that is not applied by the spring element, and, after the striker has moved out of the locked position, the locking bar moves into the open position by the force of the spring element.
US11015369B2
Disclosed are various embodiments of lock devices, systems, and methods. A locking system includes a locking mechanism with a controller configured to provide an actuation signal to an electronic actuator to extend or retract a locking mechanism and to adjust an allowable peak current for operating the electronic actuator to throw the deadbolt based on whether the allowable peak current is sufficient for the locking mechanism to achieve its locked or unlocked positions. The allowable peak current can be adjusted over time between a minimum and maximum peak current, thus optimizing the actual current draw from the electronic actuator required to throw the locking mechanism and minimizing power consumption.
US11015368B2
A fenestration assembly includes a fenestration frame and at least one panel movable between open and closed positions. A locking mechanism is coupled with the at least one panel and includes at least one latch and at least one latch fastener. The panel includes a secure configuration with the panel in the closed position and the latch coupled with the latch fastener. In the unsecure configuration one or more of the panel is in the open position or the latch is decoupled from the latch fastener. A status monitoring assembly monitors the secure and unsecure configurations and includes a sensor operator coupled with the latch, and a sensor coupled with one of the fenestration frame or the panel. In the secure configuration, the status monitoring assembly detects the sensor operator with the sensor if the panel is in the closed position and the latch is coupled with the latch fastener.
US11015364B2
A locking tent stake comprises an elongate sleeve defining a hollow interior, an opening at a rearward end of the sleeve, and a slot extending along an axial dimension of a forward portion of the sleeve, the slot providing external access to a forward end of the interior of the sleeve. A pin is receivable within the rearward opening along a length of the interior of the sleeve. The pin comprises an elongate shaft having a retractable barb rotatably secured to a forward end thereof, the barb being rotatable between a first position, in which the barb is received within a recess along the length of the shaft, and a second position, in which the barb is extended forward of the forward end of the shaft.
US11015357B2
A construction anchor apparatus includes a main module having first and second wall segments and defining a central longitudinal axis, a first movable support operatively coupled to the first wall segment of the main module and having a first tube segment defining an opening therethrough and a second movable support operatively coupled to the second wall segment of the main module and defining an opening configured for reception of the first tube segment of the first movable support to couple the first and second movable supports. Each of the first and second movable supports configured for longitudinal movement relative to respective first and second wall segments of the main module.
US11015354B2
A system for installing pre-painted moldings. The system includes pre-painted moldings each configured to be fastened to a wall by fasteners. The system also includes a caulk material, filler material, concealer material, and touchup paint each color matched to the paint color applied to the moldings. The caulk material is configured to fill a gap defined between each of the moldings and the wall to which the molding is fastened. The filler material is configured to fill a gap defined between any abutting portions of the moldings. The concealer material is configured to conceal any surface disturbances caused by the installation of the fasteners. The touchup paint is configured to adhere to the paint pre-painted on the moldings. The system may also include a marker configured to apply a coating color matched to the paint applied to the moldings, a scraping tool, and/or a buffing tool.
US11015331B1
A drainage grating includes a grating disposed on a drain, a moving panel disposed at an upper portion of the grating and configured to discharge water to the drain based on moving up and down according to a hydraulic pressure of water. The moving panel is configured to block introduction of foreign substances into the drain and facilitate cleaning or management of the drainage grating. The drainage grating is configured to be at least partially removed from a support installed at the drain to provide a sufficient drainage space in a rainy season or in heavy rain.
US11015327B2
A faucet is provided that electronically controls the flow volume and temperature of water being dispensed. The faucet illustratively includes a faucet body and a faucet handle. The faucet illustratively includes an inertial motion unit sensor mounted in the faucet handle to sense spatial orientation of the faucet handle. The faucet illustratively includes an electronic flow control system to adjust flow volume and temperature of water being dispensed. The faucet illustratively includes a controller configured to receive signals from the inertial motion unit sensor and control the electronic flow control system to adjust flow volume and temperature of water being dispensed based upon the position of the faucet handle.
US11015321B2
An operational data storage device mounted on an hydraulic excavator is programmed to store operational data including stroke data and movement quantity data. The stroke data represent input operations by the operator of the hydraulic excavator through electric operating levers, and the movement quantity data represent movement quantities of operating members for a front working device equipped with the hydraulic excavator, the operating member being operated according to the input operations. The operational data storage device stores, in an initial state, the operational data in the volatile storage section, generates a save and exit signal if a posture parameter detected at a posture detection sensor included in the hydraulic excavator exceeds a predetermined posture threshold, and responsive to the save and exit signal, switches a write destination of the operational data from the volatile storage section to the non-volatile storage section.
US11015317B2
A boom for an earth-moving machine, in particular an excavator, comprising rear and front boom parts that are cohesively assembled to form a boomerang-like boom structure, wherein the central connection between the boom parts is formed by a simple thick central connecting plate.
US11015314B2
A snow thrower includes a first drive shaft enabled to rotate about a first axis; an auger having auger blades mounted to the first drive shaft, a second drive shaft enabled to rotate about a second axis, an impeller having an impeller base mounted to the second drive shaft and impeller blades where the second axis and the first axis are perpendicular to each other, a walking wheel assembly, a first motor configured to drive the walking wheel assembly to rotate, a second motor configured to drive the auger to rotate about the first axis and drive the impeller to rotate about the second axis, a first reduction assembly including first-type gears for realizing power transmission between the second motor and the second drive shaft, and a second reduction assembly including second-type gears for realizing power transmission between the second drive shaft and the first drive shaft.
US11015312B2
Method and apparatus for safely and quickly removing snow from narrow pedestrian and vehicular paths
A method and system which provides for a zero turn stand-on snow blower with only two powered wheels and two free-wheeling casters and which provides for the ability to blow snow from narrow paths, turn around without leaving the sidewalk, automatically turn off the auger and present a shovel for performing quick detailed shoveling tasks when stepping off the snow blower.
US11015309B2
A flexible barrier includes: posts, retaining ropes and a metal net; wherein each of the posts comprises a post body and a post foundation hinged; the retaining ropes includes longitudinal retaining ropes, top retaining ropes, intermediate retaining ropes, and diagonal retaining ropes connected between the posts and the metal net; wherein a lower portion of the metal net is obliquely arranged towards a downstream of a slope; the metal net is loose when no impact is applied and a bottom of the metal net is fixed with short anchors; the bottom of the metal net has a redundancy and is folded towards a upstream of the slope or buried in the slope.
US11015307B1
A street and road surface penetration removal system for utility repairs and replacement. The penetration and removal system utilizes a circular disk pavement cutter and remover with a retainment box placement for vacuum excavation using high pressure water excavation and vacuum removal by a self-contained excavation vacuum to gain clear access to a utility for repair or replacement.
US11015306B2
In an automotive milling machine, comprising a machine frame, comprising a controller for the travelling and milling operation, comprising a working drum, comprising a transport conveyor, where the transport conveyor is slewable, relative to the machine frame, about a first axis extending essentially horizontally under an elevation angle, and sideways about a second axis extending orthogonally to the first axis under a slewing angle, where the transport conveyor discharges the milled material onto a loading surface of a transport vehicle at a specified conveying speed, and where the controller continuously controls positioning of the milled material automatically via, as a minimum, the slewing angle of the transport conveyor, it is provided for the following features to be achieved: the controller specifies and monitors limit values for a maximum permissible slewing angle range for slewing the transport conveyor variable in accordance with the current operating situation.
US11015300B2
The present invention provides a vehicle traction device which may be conveniently attached and applied to roadways that are subject to accumulations of ice, snow, and other wintry precipitation. The vehicle traction device provides a center strip which deters unintended horizontal motion of vehicles as well as skidding, sliding, spinning, and the general loss of traction. The center strip can include a collapsible support system which will allow the center strip to collapse to low height to permit the passage of road clearing equipment or other low clearance vehicles. In addition, the vehicle traction device provides angled strips which deter unintended sliding motion forward or reverse relative to the normal flow of traffic, especially when vehicles are ascending or descending along steeply sloping roadways. Finally, the vehicle traction device further provides bristle strips which help to dislodge ice and other accumulations on vehicle tires which may interfere with vehicle traction.
US11015293B2
The current method relates to an on-line characterization of paper or paper products, such as tissue or other crepe paper products. The method uses an imaging source wherein one or more images are obtained of the sheets surface or topographical area or region, or the image is of an edge of a formed sheet. The one or more images are enhanced and analyzed using various techniques and metrics for characterizing the structure of the formed sheet. The information provides for real time adjustments on the machine.
US11015291B2
Provided is a method of producing fine cellulose fibers that are nanosized, that have a high crystallinity degree, and that are less vulnerable to fiber shape damage, the method including impregnating cellulose with a fibrillation solution to fibrillate the cellulose without mechanical crushing, and modifying the cellulose. The method of producing cellulose microfibrils of the present invention includes impregnating cellulose with a fibrillation solution containing a carboxylic acid vinyl ester or an aldehyde and an aprotic solvent having a donor number of 26 or more to fibrillate the cellulose. The aldehyde is at least one kind of aldehyde selected from the group consisting of an aldehyde represented by the following formula (1), paraformaldehyde, cinnamaldehyde, perillaldehyde, vanillin, and glyoxal: R1—CHO (1) where R1 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 16 carbon atoms, an alkenyl group, a cycloalkyl group, or an aryl group.
US11015289B2
An embodiment herein provides a process for dyeing of textile materials 108 with supercritical fluid. One or more dye materials 102 along with additives (if required) are mixed with at least one suitable solvent 104 to obtain one or more dye solutions 106. A textile material 108 is pre-treated with the one or more dye solutions 106 to obtain a dye coated textile material 110. The dye-coated textile material 110 is exposed to the supercritical fluid 112 in a supercritical fluid dyeing vessel at controlled pressure and temperature. The supercritical fluid 112 solubilizes and diffuses the one or more dye materials 102 inside the surface, pores and capillaries of the textile material 108. The supercritical fluid vessel is then depressurized below supercritical condition to entrap the one or more dye materials 102 in the textile material 108 to obtain a supercritical fluid dyed textile material 114.
US11015284B2
A system for supporting and drying personal protective equipment includes a ducting frame assembly, ventilated equipment racks connected to the frame assembly, and valves between the equipment racks and the ducting frame assembly. The system is supported by a base assembly, bracing, or a combination of a base and braces. A blower forces air through the frame assembly and may heat the air and add disinfecting or deodorizing substances to the air flow. Valves may be opened to direct the forced air into equipment racks and through ventilation apertures or openings in the racks. Personal protective equipment may be disposed upon the equipment racks, so that air is ventilated out of the racks and onto and around protective equipment on the racks.
US11015280B2
Disclosed herein is a flow path switcher, comprising a valve core, a shell and a base. The shell comprises a valve seat A, a valve seat B, a channel of valve seat A, a channel of valve seat B, an outlet and an inlet. The base comprises a valve seat C, the valve seat A and the valve seat B are located on one side of the valve core and the valve seat C is located on the other side of the valve core. Also a liquid detergent delivery device with the flow path switcher is disclosed, comprising a main channel, a piston, a one-way valve D, a one-way valve E, a detergent box A and a Venturi negative pressure generator. The flow path switcher is connected between the entrance of the Venturi negative pressure generator and the exit of the main channel, the inlet of the flow path switcher and the outlet of the flow path switcher are connected to the exit of the main channel and the entrance of the Venturi negative pressure generator, respectively, the channel of valve seat B is connected to the exit of the one-way valve D, the exit of the one-way valve D is connected to the entrance of the piston, the entrance of the one-way valve D is connected to the detergent box A, the exit of the piston is connected to the entrance of the one-way valve E, and the exit of the one-way valve E is connected to the negative pressure port of the Venturi negative pressure generator. The present invention is used for delivery of detergents of washing machines.
US11015279B2
A washing machine includes a motor for generating power and a clutch assembly that receives the power from the motor and drives a drum and a pulsator. The clutch assembly includes a driving shaft that receives the power from the motor and rotates, a pulsator drive portion selectively receiving the power from the driving shaft to rotate the pulsator, and a drum driving portion selectively receiving the power from the driving shaft to rotate the drum, The clutch assembly is provided to selectively drive a driving portion of at least one of the drum driving portion and the pulsator drive portion. With this configuration, the washing machine capable of running various modes of a washing mode and dehydration mode is implemented.
US11015275B2
Apparatuses, methods, and computer program products for quilting webs without compressing the webs. A quilting machine includes a needle bar to which needles are attached, needle thread passing through each needle, a looper shaft to which loopers are attached, a looper corresponding to each needle and from which looper thread is provided to form stitches, and a retainer bar to which spreaders are attached to facilitate stitching. A drive pulley powered by a first servo motor rotates cranks to move the needles through a cycle and rotates a belt which rotates an indexer pulley. Rotation of the indexer pulley oscillates the looper shaft and reciprocates the retainer bar. Another drive pulley powered by a second servo motor operates to move an input web through the machine between chain stiches.
US11015273B2
A housing portion includes first and second inclined surfaces facing each other and inclined such that a distance between the first and second inclined surfaces decreases downward in a vertical direction. A third inclined surface located between the first and second inclined surfaces, facing the first inclined surface, inclined such that a distance between the third and first inclined surfaces decreases downward in the vertical direction, and having a first gap with respect to the first inclined surface is provided. A fourth inclined surface located between the first and second inclined surfaces, facing the second inclined surface, inclined such that a distance between the fourth and second inclined surfaces decreases downward in the vertical direction, and having a second gap with respect to the second inclined surface is provided. A suction blower causes a mixture to pass through the first and second gaps, and collects the mixture.
US11015272B2
There is provided a laminated nonwoven fabric having excellent sound absorbing performance in a low frequency range, the laminated nonwoven fabric having a skin layer and a base material layer, the skin layer having a nonwoven fabric A, the nonwoven fabric A having a density of 100 to 500 kg/m3, a thickness of 0.5 to 2.5 mm, and an air permeability of 4 to 40 cm3/cm2/s; and the base material layer having a nonwoven fabric B, the nonwoven fabric B having a basis weight of 200 to 500 g/m2 and a thickness of 5 to 40 mm.
US11015270B2
A turning device for knitted tubular articles, particularly for turning inside-out tubular articles with pockets that protrude from the lateral surface thereof. The turning device in question comprises a main supporting structure which supports a tubular body arranged with its axis substantially vertical. The tubular body has its upper axial end beveled along a plane that is inclined with respect to its axis. The turning device comprises first actuation means which can be activated to perform a translation of the tubular body along its axis with respect to the main supporting structure. The tubular body is insertable, with its upper axial end, through an axial end of a tubular article in order to turn it inside out. The turning device comprises second actuation means which can be activated to rotate the tubular body about its own axis, through an angle of preset breadth, with respect to the main supporting structure.
US11015267B2
The invention provides a system and process for manufacturing nanofibers that integrate a post-drawing process in a continuous electro spinning manufacturing process. In certain embodiments, the system and process are capable of post-drawing multiple individual electrospun nanofibers simultaneously. In certain embodiments, the system can be configured and controlled to accommodate various materials that can be electrospun.
US11015266B2
Provided herein are encoded split pool libraries useful, inter alia, for forming highly diverse and dense arrays for screening and detection of a variety of molecules.
US11015259B2
A method for producing a laminated shim includes subjecting a shim stock to a plasma electrolytic oxidization (PEO) process to create a PEO shim, applying an adhesive layer of an adhesive to a surface of the PEO shim, stacking at least one other PEO shim onto the adhesive layer of the PEO shim to create a stack of PEO shims, and pressing the stack of PEO shims together to create a PEO coated peelable laminate.
US11015258B2
Nanofluidic passages such as nanochannels and nanopores are closed or opened in a controlled manner through the use of a feedback system. An oxide layer is grown or removed within a passage in the presence of an electrolyte until the passage reaches selected dimensions or is closed. The change in dimensions of the nanofluidic passage is measured during fabrication. The ionic current level through the passage can be used to determine passage dimensions. Fluid flow through an array of fluidic elements can be controlled by selective oxidation of fluidic passages between elements.
US11015249B2
The silver-coated silicone rubber particles according to the present invention are each formed by providing a first coating layer comprising silicon or a silicon compound on the surface of a silicone rubber particle and further providing a second coating layer comprising silver on the surface of the first coating layer. In a conductive paste containing the silver-coated silicone rubber particles, the silver-coated silicone rubber particles are dispersed evenly.
US11015243B2
A layer forming method according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises: a source gas dosing/pressurizing step of dosing a source gas into a chamber having a substrate loaded therein in a state in which the outlet of the chamber is closed, thereby increasing the pressure in the chamber and adsorbing the source gas onto the substrate; a first main purging step of purging the chamber, after the source gas dosing/pressurizing step; a reactive gas dosing step of dosing a reactive gas into the chamber, after the first main purging step; and a second main purging step of purging the chamber, after the reactive gas dosing step.
US11015229B2
Methods for determining various oncogenic-related indexes of patient specific mutations are provided. The methods provided allow determination and grading of various patient specific mutations and qualitative and quantitative determination of various related oncogenic indexes.
US11015225B2
The invention relates to new identified mutations in the epidermal growth factor receptor gene, leading to amino acidic changes which highly correlate with the resistance to a therapy regimen comprising cetuximab. The invention includes peptide sequences and primers to detect the mutations, as well as kits for predicting the response of a subject to a therapy regime comprising cetuximab. In particular, the invention is useful in the therapy regimen applicable to metastasic colorectal cancer.
US11015222B2
Compounds and methods for regulation of exonic splicing enhancers and exonic splicing silencers. Compounds include polynucleotides targeted to aberrant exonic splicing enhancers and exonic splicing silencers. Compounds and methods for the diagnosis of diseases and conditions associated with aberrant exonic splicing enhancers and exonic splicing silencers. Methods for identifying splicing-sensitive disease mutations, and functional RNA elements as targets for amelioration of aberrant pre-mRNA splicing.
US11015214B2
The present invention relates to methods and compositions for preventing incorporation of norleucine into proteins during recombinant protein production in bacteria. The present invention also provides microorganism host cells and nucleic acid molecules for use with the methods and compositions provided herein.
US11015194B2
The invention relates to iRNA agents, which preferably include a monomer in which the ribose moiety has been replaced by a moiety other than ribose that further includes a tether having one or more linking groups, in which at least one of the linking groups is a cleavable linking group. The tether in turn can be connected to a selected moiety, e.g., a ligand, e.g., a targeting or delivery moiety, or a moiety which alters a physical property. The cleavable linking group is one which is sufficiently stable outside the cell such that it allows targeting of a therapeutically beneficial amount of an iRNA agent (e.g., a single stranded or double stranded iRNA agent), coupled by way of the cleavable linking group to a targeting agent—to targets cells, but which upon entry into a target cell is cleaved to release the iRNA agent from the targeting agent.
US11015191B2
Disclosed are methods for synthesizing and/or assembling at least one polynucleotide product having a predefined sequence from a plurality of different oligonucleotides. In exemplary embodiments, the methods involve synthesis and/or amplification of different oligonucleotides immobilized on a solid support, release of synthesized/amplified oligonucleotides in solution to form droplets, recognition and removal of error-containing oligonucleotides, moving or combining two droplets to allow hybridization and/or ligation between two different oligonucleotides, and further chain extension reaction following hybridization and/or ligation to hierarchically generate desired length of polynucleotide products.
US11015181B2
The present invention provides for a novel recombinant or isolated nucleic acid useful for integrating or being maintained in an Archaea or acidophilic hyperthermophilic eubacteria. The nucleic acid encodes a nucleotide sequence that is capable of stably integrating into the chromosome of a host cell, or being maintained as an extrachromosomal element in a host cell, that is an Archea, and a nucleotide sequence of interest. The present invention also provides for an Archaea host cell comprising the nucleic acid stably integrated into the chromosome or maintained episomally in the host cell, and a method of expressing the nucleotide sequence of interest in the host cell and/or directing glycosylation, multimerization, and/or membrane association or integration.
US11015179B2
The present specification relates to an anti-viral composition and, more particularly, to a composition that both is anti-viral and prevents and treats diseases associated with viruses, containing a peptide derived from a telomerase, thereby being effective in treating and preventing diseases associated with viruses and pathological symptoms caused by viruses. The peptide exhibits an effect of treating diseases associated with viruses by inhibiting the RNA replication of viruses, thereby being capable of providing a method that both is antiviral and prevents and treats diseases associated with viruses.
US11015171B2
The purpose of the present invention is to provide immortalized stem cells for producing culture supernatant that can be used in the treatment of human diseases. Provided is a method for producing immortalized stem cells, the method being provided with: a step for producing a DNA fragment that includes a telomerase reverse transcriptase and at least one gene selected from the group consisting of Bmi-1, human papilloma virus E6, and human papilloma virus E7; a step for producing a viral vector that incorporates the DNA fragment including the gene; a step for transfecting the viral vector into mammalian stem cells and introducing the gene into the stem cells; and a step for culturing the stem cells into which the gene was introduced and using a drug to select immortalized stem cells.
US11015160B2
A filter holding device (1; 41; 75; 81) arranged for providing at least one filter (7; 43a, 43b; 85) inside a flexible bag (3; 71), said filter holding device comprising attaching means (19a-d, 21a-d; 79; 83) for attaching the filter holding device to an inner surface of the flexible bag such that the at least one filter held by the filter holding device is provided at a distance from the inner surface of the flexible bag.
US11015147B2
An automatic dishwashing composition is provided including a builder selected from the group consisting of carbonate, bicarbonate, citrate, silicate and mixtures thereof; a nonionic surfactant; and a dispersant polymer comprising: (a) 5 to 75 wt % of structural units of itaconic acid; (b) 10 to 85 wt % of structural units having formula I wherein each R3 is independently selected from a hydrogen and a —C(O)CH3 group; and (c) 10 to 65 wt % of structural units of (meth)acrylic acid; wherein the dispersant polymer has a lactone end group and wherein the dispersant polymer has a weight average molecular weight of 1,500 to 6,000.
