US11074715B2
There is provided an image processing apparatus and method that can improve accuracy of corresponding point detection. A plurality of predetermined feature points included in a captured image obtained by capturing a projected image including the feature points are detected, a single or a plurality of dots included in a captured image obtained by capturing a projected image including a dot pattern including the dots are detected, and corresponding points between the projected image and the captured image are detected by identifying the detected feature points on the basis of an appearance pattern of the detected dots in a time direction corresponding to the feature points. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an image processing apparatus, a projection apparatus, an imaging apparatus, a projection imaging apparatus, a control apparatus, a projection imaging system, or the like.
US11074714B2
A method for training a neural network for determining a gaze position of at least one eye in an initial image comprising the at least one eye. A plurality of training initial images are obtained, of which at least one training color component image is extracted, each of the training initial images respectively comprising at least one eye and a known gaze position. Those are fed into a neural network outputting a respective internal representation for each one of the at least one component image. The neural network is trained by readjusting weights in the neural network to have the respective internal representation for each one of the at least one training color component image more consistent with a respective one of the known gaze position. Once trained, the neural network is used to determine the estimated gaze position relative to a screen of an electronic device.
US11074712B2
In a gradient direction calculation device, an element gradient vector calculation unit calculates two mutually perpendicular element gradient vectors with respect to a pixel of interest by using a difference in pixel values in the vicinity of the pixel of interest. A quadrant determination unit determines, based on a combination of positive/negative signs of each of the two element gradient vectors, a quadrant among the four quadrants defined by the two element gradient vectors that contains a gradient direction of the pixel of interest. A ratio comparison unit determines comparison results by comparing each of the ratios of magnitudes of the two element gradient vectors with a predetermined threshold. A gradient direction determination unit determines a gradient direction corresponding to a combination of the positive/negative signs and the comparison results.
US11074711B1
A system for estimating a pose of one or more persons in a scene includes a camera configured to capture an image of the scene; and a data processor configured to execute computer executable instructions for: (i) receiving the image of the scene from the camera; (ii) extracting features from the image of the scene for providing inputs to a keypoint subnet and a person detection subnet; (iii) generating one or more keypoints using the keypoint subnet; (iv) generating one or more person instances using the person detection subnet; (v) assigning the one or more keypoints to the one or more person instances by learning pose structures from the image data; and (vi) determining one or more poses of the one or more persons in the scene using the assignment of the one or more keypoints to the one or more person instances.
US11074705B2
Provided is an information processing device including an acquisition unit that acquires a first captured image, a second captured image, and a distance to a subject, and a derivation unit that derives an imaging position distance which is a distance between the first imaging position and the second imaging position, on the basis of a plurality of pixel coordinates for specifying a plurality of pixels of more than three pixels which are present in the same planar region as an emission position irradiated with the directional light beam on the real space and correspond to the position on the real space in each of the first captured image and the second captured image which are acquired by the acquisition unit, emission position coordinates which are derived on the basis of the distance acquired by the acquisition unit, a focal length of an imaging lens, and dimensions of imaging pixels.
US11074702B2
Methods for registering a three-dimensional model of a body volume to a real-time indication of a sensor position that involve analyzing scanned and sensed voxels and using parameters or thresholds to identify said voxels as being either tissue or intraluminal fluid. Those voxels identified as fluid are then used to construct a real-time sensed three-dimensional model of the lumen which is then compared to a similarly constructed, but previously scanned model to establish and update registration.
US11074696B2
An image processing device includes at least one memory configured to store instructions and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to: from input subject data that include positions of a plurality of subjects, detect subject appearance data including an appearing subject and subject disappearance data including a disappearing subject; based on the subject appearance data and the subject disappearance data that are detected and an appearance position distribution and a disappearance position distribution of subjects that are learned in advance, calculate appearance validity of the subject appearance data and disappearance validity of the subject disappearance data; and based on the appearance validity and the disappearance validity calculated, acquire a combination of subject appearance data and subject disappearance data detected, the combination satisfying a predetermined condition.
US11074694B2
An image processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires a plurality of pieces of tomographic data indicating tomographic information on substantially the same part of a subject to be inspected, a threshold calculation unit that calculates a threshold from tomographic data associated with a target pixel for which motion contrast data is to be calculated of the plurality of pieces of tomographic data, and a pixel value calculation unit that calculates the pixel value of the target pixel of a motion contrast image based on the threshold and the motion contrast data calculated from the tomographic data associated with the target pixel.
US11074680B2
An object identification and collection method is disclosed. The method includes receiving a pick-up path that identifies a route in which to guide an object-collection system over a target geographical area to pick up objects, determining a current location of the object-collection system relative to the pick-up path, and guiding the object-collection system along the pick-up path over the target geographical area based on the current location. The method further includes capturing images in a direction of movement of the object-collection system along the pick-up path, identifying a target object in the images; tracking movement of the target object through the images, determining that the target object is within range of an object picker assembly on the object-collection system based on the tracked movement of the target object, and instructing the object picker assembly to pick up the target object.
US11074678B2
Embodiments relate to biasing an image noise filter to reduce edge and texture blurring of image data. Pixel values used to determine photometric coefficients for a bilateral filter are modified by offset values. The offset value for a pixel value is determined by applying a high pass filter to the pixel (referred to as the center pixel) and neighboring pixels of the center pixel. By adding the offset value to the center pixel value, the pixel value difference between the neighboring pixels and the center pixel becomes smaller for pixels on the same side of an edge as the center pixel. Thus, pixels on the same side of the edge get more weight in the bilateral noise filter. Conversely, pixels on the opposite side of the edge as the center pixel get less weight in the bilateral filter. As a result, the biased bilateral filter reduces blurring of edges and increases preservation of texture in the image data.
US11074666B2
In a multi-GPU simulation environment, frame buffer management may be implemented by multiple GPUs rendering respective frames of video, or by rendering respective portions of each frame of video. One of the GPUs controls HDMI frame output by virtue of receiving frame information from the other GPU(s) and reading out complete frames through a physically connected HDMI output port. Or, the outputs of the GPUs can be multiplexed together.
US11074663B2
A system and method is provided for the facilitation of secure intellectual property transactions. The system may receive intellectual property information from system users. The system may match system users based on the provided intellectual property information to facilitate the initiation of an intellectual property transaction. The system may further provide a secure audit trail of all activity that occurs surrounding the intellectual property transaction, thereby increasing levels of trust between the involved parties.
US11074658B1
Methods and systems for facilitating loss reporting and resolution are described. In some embodiments, a method includes identifying a bounded geographical area affected by a weather event potentially causing property losses to customers of an insurer. The weather event may have an intensity profile in the bounded geographical area. The method further includes generating a customer density profile in the bounded geographical area and predicting resource utilization based on the customer density profile and the weather event intensity profile in the bounded geographical area.
US11074654B1
A computer-implemented method and an interactive computer system has a user interface with computer software application tool(s) for retirement planning purposes. The user interface is generally referred to herein as an income dashboard.
US11074653B2
Methods and system are described for optimizing data processing in cloud-based, machine learning environments. For example, through the use of a machine learning model utilizing a self organizing map and/or the use of specific processing nodes in a computer system to perform specific tasks the methods and system may more efficiently distribute tasks through a cloud computing environment and increase overall processing speeds despite increasing amounts of data. The methods and system described herein are particularly related to collateral allocation computer systems that automate the management of numerous collateral assets. For example, as the amount of collateral assets and the complexity of given transactions grow, typical allocation systems face frequent processing delays related to collateral allocations (e.g., allocations of collateral associated with Tri-Party Repos).
US11074652B2
A system and method for crowd-sourced refinement of natural phenomenon for risk management and contract validation, comprising at least a heterogeneous mixture of sensors and data-gathering techniques, a sensor fusion suite, and a business operating system, which ingests, transforms if necessary, and analyzes received data and develops and applies models of prediction of consequences of the sensor data and future events based on such data for purposes such as insurance liability and risk assessment, emergency services planning, and financial market predictions, and comparing historical models and data with current data and models to attempt to refine and utilize a more precise predictive model for these purposes.
US11074651B2
Systems and methods for transforming an electronic portfolio. A system includes an electronic crossing platform that receives data defining trade orders of the electronic portfolio during an initial time period; compares portions of the data to determine an imbalance of the trade orders remaining after the initial time period and receives, during a final time period, a final trade order from a fund agent device to offset the remaining imbalance. The platform receives, after the final time period, a benchmark value of the electronic portfolio from a fund device; compares the final trade order with the remaining imbalance to determine an adjustment value; converts the benchmark value to a final value by applying the adjustment value to the benchmark value; and transforms the electronic portfolio into the transformed portfolio by creating paired buy and sell orders among the trade orders received during the initial time period at the final value.
US11074648B1
Examples described herein relate to systems, apparatuses, and methods for automating loan securitization by a loan marketplace server, including defining a security blockchain supporting a financial security smart contract and posting, on the security blockchain, loan links. Each of the loan links identifies a loan structured as a loan smart contract supported by a loan blockchain. The loan blockchain stores a financial profile link that identifies a dynamic financial profile for a borrower of the loan.
US11074637B2
Self-checkout technologies for retail stores are improved by incorporation of enhanced fraud detection arrangements. For example, if a shopper enters an item on a self-checkout tally, while positioned at a location remote from the normal stock location for that item, a responsive action may be taken. Likewise, if a shopper enters the same item on a self-checkout tally twice, at widely separated times, a responsive action may be taken. These responsive actions can include dispatching a store clerk to assist the shopper, or increasing a risk score that is repeatedly re-calculated during the shopper's visit. A great variety of other features and arrangements (e.g., powering arrangements for mobile phones in shopping carts) are also detailed.
US11074635B2
Methods and systems for analyzing and evaluating item recommendations presented on a web site are disclosed. In one aspect, a user interface is generated for display on a website. Item recommendations personalized for an individual user are displayed within in item recommendation region of the website. Impression, clickstream, and sales data are received from user activity on the website. The impression, clickstream, and sales data are displayed on a dashboard of an administrator user interface. An administrator user can select visualizations to display on the dashboard using selectors for impressions, clicks, sales, users, and time. Two or more sets of data can be overlaid to illustrate relationships between user interactions with recommended items and actual sales of those items. The dashboard is dynamically updated in response to new data received from the website in real-time.
US11074632B2
A method, computer program product, and system are disclosed for compiling a virtual transaction for a person within an environment having a plurality of items. The method includes acquiring, using at least one visual sensor, first image information including a person. The method further includes identifying the at least one person from the first image information by classifying the person into a class. The method also includes acquiring second image information including the person and an item. The method further includes identifying a behavior of the person relative to the item, and updating, based on the identified behavior, the virtual transaction.
US11074619B2
A machine-learning algorithm is trained with features relevant to a visual/video analysis performed on subjects conducting transaction at transaction terminals. The algorithm is also trained on weather data known at the time of the transactions and on selective details of the transactions. The algorithm produces as output predictions relevant to: whether a given subject for a current transaction is likely to enter a store, likely items that the given subject might purchase if the subject were to enter the store and likely amount of money that the subject would spend in the store, an effectiveness of providing an incentive for the subject to enter the store, and what type of incentive would most likely entice the subject to enter the store.
US11074611B2
A method and computer program product for managing information about transactions occurring in a physical establishment includes gathering information about multiple transactions at a physical establishment, and storing the information as metadata. A byte stream corresponding to the metadata is generated. Several elements of the metadata are associated with a particular session based on predefined criteria.
US11074606B2
Systems and methods for using wireless beacons in point of purchase (“POP”) displays to facilitate the delivery of consumer oriented content to mobile devices is disclosed herein. Wireless beacons may be used to broadcast wireless signals from POP displays, where the wireless signals include data packets with unique identifiers for the wireless beacons. A wireless signal from a POP display may be received by a mobile device. The mobile device may provide the unique identifier in the wireless signal and a retail location of the mobile device to a remote server. The retail location of the mobile device may be provided by a mobile application (e.g., a retailer app) on the mobile device. The remote server may determine the retail location of the POP display by associating the retail location of the mobile device with the wireless beacon.
US11074598B1
New client acquisition insights and forecasting are provided. A system, method, and computer readable storage device analyze historical data for identifying various client segments based on various combinations of similar attributes; determine cumulative marginal values (CMVs) associated with provisioning clients in each client segment, wherein the CMVs indicate whether provisioning a client within each client segment positively or negatively affects the system; analyze each client segment behavior for learning insights associated with clients in the client segment and effects on the system; and forecast CMVs for a selected client segment based on the learned insights for the selected client segment. In various implementations, a dashboard user interface comprising a data visualization of the forecasted CMVs is generated for display. Based on the learned insights and forecasted CMVs, the system is enabled to manage new client deployments and allocate resources such that the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of the system are improved.
US11074597B1
Described is a system for characterizing communication devices by device type. The system obtains device information for a variety of communication device types, each device type associated with a user account of a bidirectional network. The communication device types are analyzed to perform regional and temporal device characterization, behavioral and feature device characterization, and device homophily analysis on the bidirectional network. The analysis is then used for targeted regional marketing.
US11074593B2
Methods and systems providing digital signage and interactive gaming services in compliance with federal and state laws and regulations are described. A service fee is collected from a retailer, and a service fee may or may not be collected from a retailer (e.g., a bar). An advertising fee is collected from a first advertising provider. The first advertising provider is involved in alcohol distribution/wholesaling or manufacturing. A second advertising fee from a second advertising provider is collected. The second advertising provider is involved in a non-alcohol related industry. A portion of a subscription fee is collected based on a separate source of fees (e.g., text message or jukebox fee) received from a patron. The message may contain information indicating that the patron wishes to pay a service fee. Revenue sharing is implemented by distributing a portion of the service fee to the retailer and distributing a portion of the advertising fee from the second advertising provider to the retailer in compliance with federal and state laws.
US11074591B2
A method in one embodiment comprises receiving at least one new authoritative source, accessing a plurality of existing controls and a plurality of existing authoritative sources, converting a data structure of the at least one new authoritative source and data structures of the plurality of existing controls and existing authoritative sources into a plurality of vector representations, using the plurality of vector representations to compute similarities between the at least one new authoritative source and at least a subset of the plurality of existing controls and existing authoritative sources, generating a plurality of candidate controls for mapping to the at least one new authoritative source, and transmitting to a user a recommendation identifying a proposed mapping of one or more of the plurality of candidate controls to the at least one new authoritative source.
US11074587B2
Disclosed are systems and methods for mitigation of fraudulent transactions. In some embodiments, a server is communicatively coupled to a user device, and is configured to receive a proposed transaction from a merchant device communicatively coupled to the server, apply a dynamic classification algorithm to the proposed transaction to determine if the proposed transactions appears to be fraudulent, generate a user verification request when the proposed transaction appears to be fraudulent, transmit the user verification request to a user computing device communicatively coupled to the server, receive an approval or a refusal of the proposed transaction based on the user verification request, and process the proposed transaction based on the received approval or refusal of the proposed transaction.
US11074583B2
Various embodiments are generally directed to method and devices to receive biometric data and transaction data relating to a transaction, apply a model to the biometric data and the transaction data to determine an emotional state of the user during the transaction, and determine an action associated for the transaction based on the emotional state of the user during the performance of the transaction. Embodiments further include causing performance of the action.
US11074576B2
The present disclosure provides an electronic certificate processing method that includes: generating, based on an identifier of a first user, a first electronic certificate by using which the first user obtains a target product, and sending the first electronic certificate to the first user; receiving a sharing request for the first electronic certificate; determining, based on an identifier carried in the first electronic certificate, the target product that can be obtained by the first user by using the first electronic certificate; determining a second user having a social relationship with the first user and satisfying a sharing condition, and generating, based on an identifier of the second user, a second electronic certificate by using which the second user obtains the target product, the identifier carried in the second electronic certificate being different from that of the first electronic certificate; and sending the second electronic certificate to the second user, which is used for enabling the second user to obtain the target product.
US11074571B2
A method of adding a computerized agent to an instant messaging (IM) session managed by an IM service for identifying automatically textual instructions to perform a transaction related to participant(s) of the IM session, comprising: using a computerized agent subscribed to an IM service by a telephone number and participates in an IM session managed by an IM service to acquire text content in an IM session and analyzing at least the text content of the IM session to identify automatically textual instructions to perform a transaction from the user which uses the IM client module, automatically instructing an operation of the transaction and submitting by the computerized agent at least one IM message in the IM session.
US11074558B1
A computer-implemented method performed by an access economy payment system includes receiving a request from a consumer to commission an access economy service. The method also includes generating a smart contract based on the requested access economy service and generating a consumer sub-account associated with a consumer financial account and a supplier sub-account associated with a supplier financial account. The method further includes allocating funds to the supplier sub-account and placing a financial hold on the funds allocated to the supplier sub account. The method also includes detecting the initiation of performance of the requested access economy service, monitoring the performance of the initiated access economy service, increasing a financial hold on the funds allocated to the consumer sub-account, and decreasing the financial hold on the funds allocated to the supplier sub-account in real-time based on each of the monitored performance and the terms of the smart contract.
US11074556B2
A waste collection system includes waste containers for receiving waste, sensors associated with the waste containers, a server system for receiving signals from the sensors. The server system determines that a waste container needs to be collected, determines a location of the waste container and whether the waste container is in a waste collection vehicle accessible location. A notification is sent to an operator of the waste container if the waste container is not in a waste collection vehicle accessible location. When the waste container is moved to a waste collection vehicle accessible location, an optimal waste collection strategy for a waste collection vehicle to collect waste from the waste container at the waste collection vehicle accessible location is determined and the waste collection vehicle is routed to the location of the waste container.
US11074555B2
An event orchestrator that enables one or more users to simply and efficiently plan, create and execute a group event through automated and intelligent group interaction where a group interaction is one or more action between two or more members of the group including making a decision, sharing information, developing a plan, sharing state information, providing assistance via reminders, coordinating logistics, confirming a task, approving an action, etc. The group orchestration engine enables one or more users to use intelligence to manage and automate communication workflow between all of the participants to ensure that each is aware of their individual responsibilities, the timing and location of the event/task, the status of each task and status of each individual (location, completion of responsibilities, timely reminders to those involved, etc.). The system provides both open and closed loop management of each task and provides for state based automated reminders to individual participants.
US11074548B2
Computer-implemented systems and methods for intelligent generation of purchase orders are disclosed. The systems and methods may be configured to: receive an order quantity for a product from a system determining optimal order quantities for products based on demand forecast data; prioritize the order quantity based on actual constraints; and assign the prioritized order quantity to one or more locations.
US11074545B2
In some embodiments, methods and systems are provided that provide for facilitating delivery, via unmanned aerial vehicles, of products ordered by a customer of a retailer to a customer-selected physical location of a person other than the customer.
US11074544B2
Evaluating node fulfillment capacity in node order assignment by receiving a current order for node order assignment, retrieving data of each node, the retrieved data of each node including current capacity utilization, determining a probability of backlog on an expected ship date of each node, the probability of backlog being based on the retrieved current capacity utilization, determining a capacity utilization cost of each node based on the probability of backlog on the expected ship date, automatically calculating a fulfillment cost of each node of the current order based on the capacity utilization cost, identifying one or more nodes for the current order with the lowest fulfillment cost and automatically generating a node order assignment assigning the current order to one of the one or more nodes with the lowest fulfillment cost.
US11074543B1
A method including receiving, in a server, a selection of a first recipient from a group of contacts in a database for a package from a user, is provided. The method includes scheduling a delivery of the package to a first mailing address, providing a code configured to be scanned by a second recipient to indicate that the first recipient is not available at the first mailing address, and triggering a first notification to be sent to the first recipient when the code is scanned. The method includes receiving, from a first client device associated with the first recipient, a second mailing address of the first recipient in response to the first notification, and scheduling a pickup of the package to be shipped to the second mailing address. A system and a non-transitory, computer-readable medium storing instructions to perform the above method are also included.
US11074535B2
Particular embodiments may receive, by one or more processors of an information processing system, results of a benchmark task performed by a set of one or more workers. Performance of each of the workers in the set on the benchmark task may be determined. One or more best workers of the workers in the set may be selected. Particular embodiments may then determine whether at least one of the best workers is available for a new task. If one of the best workers is available, the new task may be assigned to the available best worker; else the new task may be assigned to a random worker.
US11074530B1
A method for managing a budget includes determining, by a budget management system, funds of a project management account that are to be routed to a task manager for a project. The determining comprises: determining a current progress of a task managed by the task manager, the task included in a budget for the project that identifies the task manager and that includes payment information for the task manager that specifies a financial account, determining an amount owed to the task manager, and setting the amount owed to the task manager as the amount of the funds to be routed to the task manager. The method further comprises transmitting, by the budget management system to a financial computing system, a request to transfer the determined funds to the financial account specified by the payment information.
US11074527B2
A project management system comprising a first, second, third, fourth and fifth processing sequences embodied in a computer readable medium. The first processing sequence is operable to provide a user interface to display a plurality of alert indicia corresponding to a plurality of alert status of a plurality of project requirements. The second processing sequence is operable to convert an incomplete requirement to a complete requirement upon completion of a task corresponding to the incomplete requirement. The third processing sequence is operable to determine the alert status of the requirements of the plurality of projects based on a time difference between a current date and a target date corresponding to each requirement. The fourth and fifth processing sequences are operable override the alert status based on user selections.
US11074523B2
A software solution for managing, sorting and ranking lists of tasks and integrating task and time management, such that tasks can be automatically or manually assigned to specified time blocks. Users can monitor the relationship between volume of tasks and available time in which to complete them. The solution and method can be applied to individual task lists as well as to the management of time across multiple projects and can be employed either by individuals or by collaborative groups. The solution and method employ multiple filters, sorts and handling rules to embody users' personal planning preferences. It can be used to manage task lists both with and without employing a scheduling component. The solution can interoperate with existing computer- and web-based calendar software and can use third-party calendar clients to display its output and to accept input from users.
US11074521B2
In an example embodiment, profile and/or usage data of a social networking service is leveraged to automatically generate potential career paths for users of the social networking service. Additionally, specific recommendations as to actions the users can take to increase their odds of progressing along particular career paths can be determined, and these recommendations can be shared with users. Both recommendations may be performed in a manner that is scalable for personalized service.
US11074516B2
Dynamic generation and implementation of assignment mappings of data items in large data files to distributed processors to achieve objectives such as reduced overall processing time like. Any appropriate key (e.g., character string) can be identified or obtained for each data item in a data file and the file can be segmented into sequential data blocks, where each data block includes a set of data items. The data items in each of a first plurality of the blocks (e.g., sampled block set) may be initially sorted into one of a plurality of key ranges of a search space (each corresponding to a different respective processor) and analyses conducted on the data items totals in each key range. The key range boundaries can be adjusted by accounting for uncertainty in the sample estimates to more evenly distribute data items from all blocks sent to each processor and thereby achieve the objective.
US11074513B2
A method for forecasting time delays added to a scheduled start time and a scheduled end time of a task includes generating a stochastic model of the task and resources affecting the task, the stochastic model includes a reactionary delay component that is a function of previous task end times and a root cause delay component that is an independent random process at a specific time. The method further includes: calculating a probability distribution of time delays added to the scheduled start time as a combination of the reactionary delay component and the root cause delay component using the stochastic model to provide a probability distribution of start times; and calculating a probability distribution of time delays added to the scheduled end time as a combination of the reactionary delay component and the root cause delay component using the stochastic model to provide a probability distribution of end times.
US11074509B1
Embodiments are directed to managing data correlation over a network. Role success models that correspond to roles and to success criteria may be provided. A student profile that includes skill vectors may be provided based on student information. Role success models may be employed to determine intermediate scores based on the skill vectors and the success criteria. A predictive score for the student that corresponds with a predicted performance of the student in the roles may be generated based on the one or more intermediate scores. Actions for the student may be determined based on a mismatch of the skill vectors and role skill vectors that correspond to the roles. In response to the student performing the actions: updating the one or more skill vectors based on a completion of the actions; and updating the predictive score based on the role success models and the updated skill vectors.
US11074486B2
The present invention provides a method, computer program product, and system of generating predicted reactions of a user. In some embodiments, the method, computer program product, and system include receiving an intelligence data store, receiving a current data object with a current query and at least one knowledge graph, identifying one or more patterns in the at least one knowledge graph, comparing using a deep neural net, the previous queries and associated one or more patterns with the current query and identified one or more patterns of the current data object, classifying the plurality data objects from the intelligence data store based on a closeness of the current query and identified one or more patterns with each of the previous queries and associated one or more patterns in the intelligence data store, and identifying, by the classification engine, potential dispositions based on the classification of the plurality of data objects.
US11074483B2
A computing system receives a request to validate, according to a validation specification, a response of a system of operation. The validation specification relates to determining deviation from a specified result in response to testing one or more candidate inputs. The initial design space defines design points for the system of operation according to the respective candidate inputs for each factor. The computing system, responsive to the request to validate the response of the system of operation, generates data representing a covering array for design points defined by the initial design space or a subset design space. The computing system generates, based on the data, a test suite for testing the system of operation. The computing system obtains the response of the system of operation and generates an output indicating the deviation from the specified result.
US11074481B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for training a reinforcement learning system. In one aspect, a method of training an action selection policy neural network for use in selecting actions to be performed by an agent navigating through an environment to accomplish one or more goals comprises: receiving an observation image characterizing a current state of the environment; processing, using the action selection policy neural network, an input comprising the observation image to generate an action selection output; processing, using a geometry-prediction neural network, an intermediate output generated by the action selection policy neural network to predict a value of a feature of a geometry of the environment when in the current state; and backpropagating a gradient of a geometry-based auxiliary loss into the action selection policy neural network to determine a geometry-based auxiliary update for current values of the network parameters.
US11074478B2
A method of training an image classification model includes obtaining training images associated with labels, where two or more labels of the labels are associated with each of the training images and where each label of the two or more labels corresponds to an image classification class. The method further includes classifying training images into one or more classes using a deep convolutional neural network, and comparing the classification of the training images against labels associated with the training images. The method also includes updating parameters of the deep convolutional neural network based on the comparison of the classification of the training images against the labels associated with the training images.
US11074469B2
A method for detecting user liveness is provided that includes selecting first and second images from a sequence of images. The first and second images are captured under different illumination conditions. The method further includes locating feature calculation windows in corresponding positions on the first and second images. Each window includes a first area and a second area. Moreover, the method includes calculating, by a computing device, a feature value for each window position based on pixels, within the windows located at the position, from the first and second images. Furthermore, the method includes calculating a feature vector from the feature values, calculating a confidence score from the feature vector, and determining the sequence of images includes images of a live user when the confidence score is equal to or greater than the threshold score.
US11074462B2
A system and method for lateral vehicle detection is disclosed. A particular embodiment can be configured to: receive lateral image data from at least one laterally-facing camera associated with an autonomous vehicle; warp the lateral image data based on a line parallel to a side of the autonomous vehicle; perform object extraction on the warped lateral image data to identify extracted objects in the warped lateral image data; and apply bounding boxes around the extracted objects.
US11074461B2
A people-flow-estimation device includes a person-count-estimation unit for estimating the number of people included in a partial area of an image; a crowd-direction-estimation unit for estimating the direction of a crowd in the partial area; a movement-amount-estimation unit for estimating the amount of movement in the partial area; and a generation unit for extracting a partial area where people exist from a plurality of partial areas on the basis of the number of people and generating, on the basis of the number of people, the extracted partial area, and the direction and movement amount of a crowd associated with the partial area, people's flow information relating to a people's flow representing the flow of people in the partial area.
US11074457B2
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a computer-implemented method for identifying advertisements in a video. The method includes obtaining a plurality of copies of the video and processing each of the plurality of copies of the video, wherein the processing identifies a plurality of iframes in each of the plurality of copies of the video. The method also includes comparing the plurality of iframes of each of the plurality of copies of the video. The method further includes identifying one or more common portions of each of the plurality of copies of the video one or more advertisement in the video, based on the comparison.
US11074456B2
According to one implementation, a system for automating content annotation includes a computing platform having a hardware processor and a system memory storing an automation training software code. The hardware processor executes the automation training software code to initially train a content annotation engine using labeled content, test the content annotation engine using a first test set of content obtained from a training database, and receive corrections to a first automatically annotated content set resulting from the test. The hardware processor further executes the automation training software code to further train the content annotation engine based on the corrections, determine one or more prioritization criteria for selecting a second test set of content for testing the content annotation engine based on the statistics relating to the first automatically annotated content, and select the second test set of content from the training database based on the prioritization criteria.
US11074453B2
An example video analytics device can include a memory, a processor executing instructions stored in the memory, an active region detector to identify a plurality of active regions of a plurality of video streams, wherein the plurality of active regions are sections in the plurality of video streams that change from a first frame to a second frame, and a bin packer communicatively coupled with the processor to combine the plurality of active regions to produce a multi-batch of an individual slice, wherein the multi-batch of the individual slice is a batch including the plurality of active regions that is processed at once.
US11074452B1
An illustrative multiscale data system obtains first and second datasets representative of respective first and second objects in a scene as viewed from a virtual vantage point at the scene. The system determines respective distances between the respective first and second objects and the virtual vantage point. Based on these distances, the system scales one or more respective representations of the objects rendered from the datasets to cause a first representation of the first object to be of a first quality level higher than a second quality level of a second representation of the second object. The system also generates a tiled representation that is associated with the virtual vantage point and includes the first representation of the first object at the first quality level and the second representation of the second object at the second quality level. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed.
US11074451B2
In an exemplary process for providing content in an augmented reality environment, image data correspond to a physical environment are obtained. Based on the image data, predefined entities of the plurality of predefined entities in the physical environment are identified using classifiers corresponding to predefined entities. Based on the one or more of the identified predefined entities, a geometric layout of the physical environment is determined. Based on the geometric layout, an area corresponding to a particular entity is determined. The particular entity corresponds to one or more identified predefined entities. Based on the area corresponding to the particular entity, the particular entity in the physical environment is identified using classifiers corresponding to the determined area. Based on the identified particular entity, a type of the physical environment is determined. Based on the type of the physical environment, virtual-reality objects are displayed corresponding to a representation of the physical environment.
US11074446B2
An information processing apparatus comprising: one or more processing devices; and one or more storage devices storing instructions for causing the one or more processing devices to: store observation information obtained through observation of a target region on the earth from a flying object moving in outer space into the one or more storage devices; output to a terminal device a map image corresponding to the target region on which a dividing line for dividing the target region into a plurality of areas is superimposed; accept designation input for designating multiple ones of the plurality of areas divided by the dividing line from the terminal device; extract area observation information being a part of the observation information and corresponding to each of the multiple ones of the plurality of areas designated; and output to the terminal device the area observation information extracted.
US11074443B2
A method, a device, a terminal and a storage medium for acquiring slant value of slant image are provided. The method for acquiring slant value of a slant image comprises: analyzing the slant image and acquiring coordinate information of a plurality of boundary lines of the slant image; acquiring first slant values of the boundary lines by analysing and calculating the coordinate information; acquiring a correction value; calculating difference values between the first slant values and the correction value respectively; determining the first slant value corresponding to the minimum difference value as the slant value of the slant image. The technical solution of the present disclosure can uniquely determine a slant value of slant image.
US11074441B2
Image analysis processing is performed on a scanned image to detect a document area and, based on the detected document area, a tilt-corrected document image is obtained by extraction and tilt correction of the document image. Further, an image output size of printing an image in a repeat target area specified based on the tilt-corrected document image is specified, magnification of the image in the repeat target area is changed to the output size, and the image is repeatedly laid out within a specified sheet size. Thus, in an apparatus that generates a repeat layout processed output image and controls print processing, an image output size which is the same as an image output size for the front side of a sheet is specified for the back side of the sheet in a case where the repeat layout processing is performed on both the sides of the sheet.
US11074426B1
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for semiconductor tool part tracking and kit verification. Data relating to part identification and performance are encoded to a unique code that is encoded into machine-readable form, such as a data matrix. A multi-dimensional array (MDA) of the data matrices of a group of parts is a ‘golden MDA’. When assembled into a kit, the parts are scanned and compared to the golden MDA. If there's a match, a kit unique code is used to generate a kit data matrix. The part data matrix codes are provided to a database to determine if a part combination will cause a coupling effect, based on part usage history.
US11074424B2
This disclosure relates to displaying and recognizing two-dimensional codes. In one aspect, a method includes receiving, at a user device, an instruction for displaying a two-dimensional code. The user device obtains multiple two-dimensional codes corresponding to a user. The user device sequentially displays the multiple two-dimensional codes based on one or more predetermined time intervals, so that the multiple two-dimensional codes form a dynamic two-dimensional code on a display page. A ratio of each of the one or more predetermined time intervals to a validity period of each of the multiple two-dimensional codes is less than a predetermined threshold.
US11074415B2
Disclosed embodiments provide techniques for expanding user-chatbot conversations to include other relevant users. In some embodiments, the users are deemed to potentially be interested in learning information regarding the conversation topic. In other embodiments, the users are deemed to be potentially able to provide additional information regarding the conversation topic. In embodiments, a submitted question to a chatbot in a conversation on a messaging platform is received. The topic of the submitted question is identified. A probability that one or more additional users would benefit from an answer to the submitted question is determined. One or more additional users are invited to the conversation based on the determined probability that one or more additional users would benefit from an answer to, and/or provide information regarding, the submitted question.
US11074413B2
Computer-based implementations of context-sensitive salient keyword unit surfacing for multi-language comments are disclosed. A set of target keyword units in a target written language are caused by a computing system to be presented in a graphical user interface such as, for example, as part of a tag cloud or the like. The set of target keyword units are determined by the system by a context-sensitive mapping of a set of source keyword units in an intermediate written language to the set of target keyword units. The context sensitive mapping is constructed based on in-context machine translation of survey comments in the target language to the intermediate language and then identifying translation keyword unit pairs in the target language survey comments and the translated survey comments that represent a mapping of the in-context translation of a keyword unit in the target language to a keyword unit in the intermediate language.
US11074399B2
An information processing apparatus includes a setting unit, a sticky note screen generator, and an allocation unit. The setting unit is configured to set a person-in-charge for a position on a mount. The sticky note screen generator is configured to generate a sticky note screen displaying the mount and a sticky note attached to the mount. The allocation unit is configured to, in accordance with a position of the sticky note attached to the mount, allocates contents of the sticky note to the person-in-charge corresponding to the position.
US11074387B2
A method of electrical device manufacturing that includes measuring a first plurality of dimensions and electrical performance from back end of the line (BEOL) structures; and comparing the first plurality of dimensions with a second plurality of dimensions from a process assumption model to determine dimension variations by machine vision image processing. The method further includes providing a plurality of scenarios for process modifications by applying machine image learning to the dimension variations and electrical variations in the in line electrical measurements from the process assumption model. The method further includes receiving production dimension measurements and electrical measurements at a manufacturing prediction actuator. The at least one of the dimensions or electrical measurements received match one of the plurality of scenarios the manufacturing prediction actuator using the plurality of scenarios for process modifications effectuates a process change.
US11074372B2
A secure terminal, particularly for protecting smartphones or tablets, includes: a display system including a screen and a graphical component for carrying out commands to display visual data on the screen; a central processing unit for carrying out executable program instructions and sending display commands to the display system; and a communication device connecting the central processing unit to the display system; a security processor for securely interpreting and/or processing display commands of secure visual data on the screen; a communication device connecting the security processor to the display system; and a means for visual recognition, by a user of the terminal, of a secure mode for displaying the secure visual data, which is displayed on the screen when the secure visual data is displayed, and is controlled by the security processor.
US11074371B2
A computer processor and a security enhancing chip may be provided. In one aspect, the computer processor may comprise a storage for storing an encryption key, a central processing unit (CPU) configured to execute one or more software programs, and a circuit configured to calculate a hash function to generate a hash value for data loaded into the computer processor and generate an authentication token for a request initiated by a software program running on the CPU. In another aspect, the security enhancing chip may comprise a first storage for storing an encryption key, a second storage for storing a certificate, a hash storage and circuit components configured to validate, using the first certificate, command(s) adding the encryption key to the first storage and storing a first hash to the hash storage, and to process a request if a second hash in the request is equal to the first hash.
US11074359B2
A mapping between private information to be protected and identifier information for an object is recorded. The object is detected by analyzing sensor data received from a sensor device within a private computer network, in which the object has one or more attributes associated therewith. An analysis report is generated about the object by excluding the private information from the analysis report based on the mapping, in which the analysis report includes a non-private part of the one or more attributes. The analysis report is transmitted to a remote computer system located outside the private computer network without the private information.
US11074355B2
Access control list entries are managed as a function of access control list entry metadata for the object and the requesting user, and of an access control list rule applicable to the requesting user and the requested object. The access control list entry metadata for the object and the user is updated in response to request authorizations and denials. The access control list entry metadata for the object and the user is linked to the object and the user. Updating of the access control list entry metadata for the object and the user does not overwrite metadata for another access control list entry that is associated with the object and with another user that is different from the user.
US11074354B2
Segmentation and classification of documents in a mixed security environment includes receiving a document including a plurality of subcomponents. A security classification level of each of the plurality of subcomponents is determined using a first classification model. The security classification level of each subcomponent includes one of a first classification level and a second classification level. A first subcomponent having the first classification level is routed to a first environment having a first security level. A second subcomponent having the second classification level is routed to a second environment having a second security level. A pointer for the second subcomponent is determined in which the pointer references a portion of the first subcomponent.
US11074352B2
A method, implementable by a data processing server comprising a trusted execution environment, includes: obtaining a ciphertext of target data from an external system; obtaining one or more parameters of a model for processing the target data; obtaining, via a data transmission channel between the trusted execution environment and the external system, an encryption key associated with the ciphertext of the target data; inputting the ciphertext of the target data and the one or more parameters of the model to the trusted execution environment; decrypting, in the trusted execution environment, the ciphertext using the encryption key to obtain the target data; processing, in the trusted execution environment, the obtained target data using the model with the one or more parameters to obtain a result; encrypting, in the trusted execution environment, the result using the encryption key; and sending the encrypted result to the external system.
US11074345B2
A system and method (referred to as the system) detect infectious code. The system injects a repetitive software code that causes malware in a monitored device to render a detectable direct current power consumption profile. A guide wave generator generates a guide wave signal that establishes an observational window that is applied to data that represent a direct current source power consumption of the monitored device. An extraction device extracts a portion of the data that represent the direct current source power consumption of the monitored device. A deviation engine identifies the malware on the monitored device without processing data associated with a prior identification of the malware or identifying a source of the malware or identifying a location of the malware on the monitored device.
US11074343B2
A requester device 12 registers inspection target data in a file server 18. An inspector device 14 operated by an inspector who inspects whether the inspection target data is illegitimate or not acquires, from the file server 18, the inspection target data registered by the requester device 12 and registers an inspection result of the inspection target data in a blockchain network 22. A viewer device 16 acquires, from the blockchain network 22, the inspection result registered by the inspector device 14 and executes data processing based on the inspection result.
US11074331B2
An information processing apparatus comprises a controller configured to: (1) receive, from a first user authorized to access a resource, an access control setting applicable to a second user, the access control setting set within an authority of the first user; (2) receive, in response to a successful authentication of the second user, an access permission request for the resource from the second user; and (3) request, if what is requested in the access permission request is allowed by the access control setting, the resource to execute a process according to the access permission request.
US11074316B1
An interface or platform to process and satisfy the citation requirements and accept payment. The submission and verification of documentary evidence to satisfy at least one outstanding citation using the camera sensors on a computing device.
US11074312B2
The present invention generally relates to systems and methods for simulation of web based content. Specifically, the systems and methods described herein are configured to provide simulation of the rendering and behavior of web (e.g., HTML) documents within multiple client, browser and device platforms. Although the principles can be generally used, the invention is particularly aimed towards simulating emails within different email clients and devices. Embodiments of the present invention further generally relate to synchronization of links with dynamic imagery provided to a remote computing device. Specifically, these embodiments of the invention relate to a web-based system and method for synchronizing URLs and other hyperlinks to dynamic imagery provided to a remote computing device by a server or other content providing device.
US11074310B2
A computer-implemented method for managing links to resources in a content management system utilizes a link analysis function, the link analysis function being adapted for receiving a link to a target resource; determining a content model of the target resource based at least on content of the target resource; and storing the content model. The method comprises generating a first target model of a first target resource by executing the link analysis function with a first link comprised by the content management system; monitoring the first target resource by generating a temporary first target model of the first target resource by repeating the execution of the link analysis function with the first link; and in response to detecting a difference between the first target model and the temporary first target model, triggering an automatic response action, which comprises storing a change record comprising information indicative of the detected difference.
US11074309B2
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving an input of n-grams from a client device, and identifying media items having keywords that match the n-grams from a media-item index that indexes a plurality of media items in association with respective keywords. A media-item score for each of the identified media items is calculated, and one or more of the identified media items having media-item scores greater than a threshold media-item score are returned to the client device.
US11074308B2
A system for collecting data from different sources is described. In one example embodiment, the system obtains content-related data from a plurality of source computer systems, automatically identifies, based on the content-related data, content items having respective popularity values greater than a predetermined threshold value as popular content items, and automatically generates a list of popular content items based on the popular content items.
US11074299B2
A computer-implemented method, system and computer program product for identifying relationships of interest of entities in a data modeling environment, where the data modeling environment represents objects as entities with links representing relationships between the entities. A query is received, where the query includes entity(ies) and link(s) with at least one of the entities or links designated as an output item. The query is analyzed to identify each dumbbell in the query, where a dumbbell is a link with a first entity at a first end of the link and a second entity at a second end of the link. Each identified dumbbell is examined to determine if the dumbbell includes an output item; and, if the dumbbell includes an output item, adding the dumbbell to a catalogue of relationships if a dumbbell is not already listed having the link type and entity types of the identified dumbbell.
US11074297B2
Provided is a method for communication with an intelligent industrial assistant and industrial machine. The method may include receiving a first natural language input from a user. The first natural language input may be associated with a first command for an industrial machine to perform a first process. The industrial machine may be instructed to perform the first process based on the first natural language input. A second natural language input may be received from the user while the industrial machine is performing the first process. A first response may be determined based on the second natural language input. Communication of the first response to the user may be initiated while the industrial machine is performing the first process. A system and computer program product are also disclosed.
US11074294B2
The disclosure relates a method to encode Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAG) as linked networks of blocks, with each block containing the fingerprints of preceding blocks in the form of their hashes. This results in the DAG being represented by a series of blocks sequentially connected by hash pointers. This requires the hashes of every block that is an immediate predecessor to be included in a succeeding block. The blocks are associated with DAG vertices. A block may therefore have multiple succeeding blocks or multiple preceding blocks as in a DAG. The method determines the DAG starting vertices. Block creation and hash operations are subsequently performed. Successor vertices are determined, and their blocks and block hashes progressively generated when it is determined that the hashes of all blocks corresponding to preceding vertices have been generated. This continues until all DAG vertices have been processed and are associated with a block.
US11074291B2
Disclosed are an apparatus and method for providing an image. The image providing apparatus includes an image storage unit storing an image obtained through a camera, and a display unit including a display area for displaying the image stored in the image storage unit and a timeline area for displaying a timeline corresponding to a reproduction time of the image, and displaying a type of an event that has occurred in the image in a different color on the timeline corresponding to a time point when the event occurred.
US11074290B2
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for modifying the spelling of a list of names based on a score associated with a first name. The systems and methods may receive a media asset, determine a first source of data corresponding to the media asset, and receive, from the first source of data, a list of names, each name in the list of names being associated with a respective copy of the media asset. The systems and methods may generate a reduced list of names, retrieve a criterion from storage, determine a set of scores corresponding to each name from the reduced list of names based on the criterion, select a first name from the reduced list of names based on the set of scores, and modify the spelling of a second name in the list of names based on the first name.
US11074285B2
An example method of document clustering comprises: representing each document of a plurality of documents by a vector comprising a first plurality of real values, wherein each real value of the first plurality of real values reflects a first frequency-based metric of a term comprised by the document; partitioning the plurality of documents into a first set of document clusters based on distances between vectors representing the documents; representing each document cluster of the first set of document clusters by a vector comprising a second plurality of real values, wherein each real value of the second plurality of real values reflects a second frequency-based metric of a term comprised by the document cluster; and partitioning the first set of document clusters into a second set of document clusters based on distances between vectors representing the document clusters of the first set of document clusters.
US11074283B2
Systems and methods are disclosed involving user interface (UI) search tools for visualizing or summarizing a data set. A number of summarizations may be created that summarizes the data set in different ways. The summarizations may be linked, such that selecting a data element of a first summarization causes display of a second summarization. To assist in linking of summarizations, a user interface is further provided to display suggested linkings between summarizations based on affinities of the two summarizations. Affinities can reflect similarities in the data content of the two summarizations, such as an output of a first summarization being a valid input to the second summarization.
US11074278B2
Methods, non-transitory machine readable media, and search engine devices are disclosed that annotate documents based on concepts and a generated composite score for each of the concepts. The concepts have an association with terms included in the documents. A query that includes at least one of the terms is received, and an associated concept and at least one additional related concept are identified in order to expand the query. The identified concepts are then applied to the annotated documents to generate a search result in response to the expanded query. This technology advantageously facilitates improved automated searching (e.g., across dialects and languages) and enables improved search result faceting.
US11074276B2
A method for generating a graphical depiction of summarized event sequences includes receiving a plurality of event sequences, each event sequence in the plurality of event sequences including a plurality of events, and generating a plurality of clusters using a minimum description length (MDL) optimization process. Each cluster in the plurality of clusters including a set of at least two event sequences in the plurality of event sequences that maps to a pattern in each cluster. The pattern in each cluster further includes a plurality of events included in at least one event sequence in the set of at least two event sequences in the cluster. The method includes generating a graphical depiction of a first cluster in the plurality of clusters, the graphical depiction including a graphical depiction of a first plurality of events in the pattern of the first cluster.
US11074274B2
A method of complementary clustering of a vast population of objects is disclosed. The method aims at maximizing a global measure of object affinity within naturally-formed clusters. A first clustering procedure produces primary centroids of clusters of objects and a second clustering procedure produces secondary clusters of the primary centroids and corresponding secondary centroids. Refined clusters of the population of objects are formed based on object proximity to the secondary centroids. The first clustering procedure is preferably based on a variation of the K-means method, and the second clustering procedure is preferably based on the Density-Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise (DBSCAN). An apparatus implementing the method is devised to facilitate conflict-free parallel processing.
US11074264B2
Example implementations relate to a database and a data stream query. For example, a computing device may include a processor. The processor may receive a query associated with at least one of a database and a buffer storing streamed data from a data stream, where the database stores database data previously stored in the buffer. The processor may identify at least one postponed command relevant to the query, the at least one postponed command being associated with at least one of the database data and the streamed data. The processor may generate a modified query based on the query and the at least one postponed command, the modified query being a modification of the query to account for the at least one postponed command. The processor may process the modified query and provide a query result of the query based on the modified query being processed.
US11074263B2
In one implementation, a method is provided that receives multiple potential listings associated with an entity. A listing is selected from the multiple listings and is designated as a representative listing of the entity. A first request is transmitted to synchronize the representative listing with the entity. Responsive to an indication that a synchronization is complete, a second request is provided to suppress a second listing as a duplicate listing. A confirmation of the second request is received and the suppression of the second listing is verified.
US11074262B2
Computer based methods, systems, and computer readable media for classifying documents within a content repository or documents within the document subsets are provided. Documents may be pre-processed to render document sections visible to machine readers. Document subsets may be generated based on user-defined terms. The machine readable documents may be classified within the content repository into one of a group of categories, based-upon the number of times classification terms appear in a specific document section of the document. Documents may be ranked based upon the frequency of classification terms in the specific section. Documents may be associated with specific diseases such as cancer, genes, gene variants, and drugs or synonyms thereof by comparing relevant search terms to specific sections of the documents.
US11074260B2
Techniques are described herein for space-efficient encoding of label information of property graphs. In an embodiment, an input graph is received. The input graph comprises a plurality of entities and a plurality of label sets. Each entity of said plurality of entities is associated with a label set of the plurality of label sets and each label set of the plurality of label sets comprises zero or more labels of a plurality of labels. A first mapping is generated that maps each label of the plurality of labels to a label code. A second mapping is generated that maps each label integer set of a plurality of label integer sets to a label code. Each label integer set of the plurality of label integer sets corresponds to a label set of the plurality of label sets, wherein each label integer set of the plurality of label integer sets comprises label codes from the first mapping that are mapped to each label included in the corresponding label set. A compressed label set is generated for each entity of the plurality of entities. Each compressed label set comprises a plurality of bits that indicate a zeroth state, a first state, a second state, or a third state. The compressed label sets and the first and second mappings are used to efficiently evaluate graph label queries.
US11074245B2
A method for writing transaction data in a blockchain system is disclosed. The blockchain system comprises at least one blockchain. The method comprises: receiving a blockchain transaction data writing request comprising transaction feature information of transaction data to be added to the blockchain; determining a blockchain matching the transaction data to be added to the blockchain according to a blockchain data record table and the transaction feature information of the transaction data to be added to the blockchain, wherein the blockchain data record table records transaction type identification information associated with the blockchain for reflecting transaction feature information of transaction data in the blockchain; and writing an execution result of the transaction data to be added to the blockchain into the blockchain matching the transaction data to be added to the blockchain.
US11074239B2
A system may include a database containing representations of configuration items associated with a managed network that is managed by a remote network management platform. The system may also contain a server device that may be configured to determine a set of duplicate representations of a particular configuration item of the configuration items. The configuration items may relate to computing devices and software applications disposed within the managed network. The server device may be further configured to generate a master representation from the set of duplicate configuration items. The server device may replace, in the database, the set of duplicate representations with the master representation.
US11074238B2
Techniques are described for real time anonymization. In one example, a first a first query associated with a table is received, the table associated with a first anonymization operation satisfying satisfies a privacy requirement. The first anonymization operation is applied at runtime to generate a first anonymized data set against which the first query is executed. At T2 after T1, a subsequent query is received. A determination is made as to whether a change to the table has occurred since T1. If so, a determination is made as to whether the first anonymization operation satisfies the privacy requirement as applied to the current table. If the operation does not satisfy the privacy requirement when applied to the current table, a second anonymization operation satisfying the defined privacy requirement is determined and applied at runtime to generate a second anonymized data set against which the subsequent query can be executed.
US11074237B2
A system and method for the estimation of the cardinality of large sets of transaction trace data is disclosed. The estimation is based on HyperLogLog data sketches that are capable to store cardinality relevant data of large sets with low and fixed memory requirements. The disclosure contains improvements to the known analysis methods for HyperLogLog data sketches that provide improved relative error behavior by eliminating a cardinality range dependent bias of the relative error. A new analysis method for HyperLogLog data structures is shown that uses maximum likelihood analysis methods on a Poisson based approximated probability model. In addition, a variant of the new analysis model is disclosed that uses multiple HyperLogLog data structured to directly provide estimation results for set operations like intersections or relative complement directly from the HyperLogLog input data.
US11074233B1
A data hub for servicing data hub dependent data consumers includes a persistent storage and a data validator. The persistent storage stores validated data. The data validator obtains a data validation request; in response to obtaining the data validation request: imports data from a data aggregator to obtain the validated data; performs a continuity analysis of the validated data to generate a data deviation report; and provides a portion of the validated data to one of the data hub dependent data consumers.
US11074232B1
A method is used in managing deduplication of data in storage systems. A digest is determined for a data object received for deduplication. A candidate data object is identified for deduplicating the data object. A digest associated with the candidate data object matches the digest associated with the data object. The digest in a digest segment is maintained based on identification of the candidate data object. The digest segment includes a set of digests associated with a set of data blocks identified for deduplication in an ordered arrangement.
US11074220B2
Techniques described herein relate to systems and methods of data storage, and more particularly to providing layering of file system functionality on an object interface. In certain embodiments, file system functionality may be layered on cloud object interfaces to provide cloud-based storage while allowing for functionality expected from a legacy applications. For instance, POSIX interfaces and semantics may be layered on cloud-based storage, while providing access to data in a manner consistent with file-based access with data organization in name hierarchies. Various embodiments also may provide for memory mapping of data so that memory map changes are reflected in persistent storage while ensuring consistency between memory map changes and writes. For example, by transforming a ZFS file system disk-based storage into ZFS cloud-based storage, the ZFS file system gains the elastic nature of cloud storage.
US11074209B2
Circuitry of a physical layer for interfacing with a communication bus of a wired local area network is disclosed. The circuitry includes a variable delay driver operably coupled to a communication bus. The communication bus includes a shared transmission medium. The variable delay driver is configured to control a slew rate of a driven transmit signal at the driver output. The circuitry also includes receiver circuitry operably coupled to the communication bus. The circuitry further includes a common mode dimmer operably coupled to the receiver circuitry and the communication bus. The common mode dimmer is configured to protect the receiver circuitry from common mode interference.
US11074199B2
Some examples described relate to securing a memory device of a computing system. For instance, a method may comprise comparing a command for the memory device to each command in a list of commands. The command is accepted when the command matches an authorized command in the list of commands. The accepted command is issued to the memory device.
US11074198B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods related to a computer system having a processor and a main memory storing scrambled data are described. The processor may have a secure zone configured to store keys and an unscrambled zone configured to operate on unscrambled data. The processor can convert the scrambled data into the unscrambled data in the unscrambled zone using the keys retrieved from the secure zone in response to execution of instructions configured to operate on the unscrambled data. Another processor may also be coupled with the memory, but can be prevented from accessing the unscrambled data in the unscrambled zone.
US11074193B2
A method is provided that includes performing, by a processor in response to a vector permutation instruction, permutation of values stored in lanes of a vector to generate a permuted vector, wherein the permutation is responsive to a control storage location storing permute control input for each lane of the permuted vector, wherein the permute control input corresponding to each lane of the permuted vector indicates a value to be stored in the lane of the permuted vector, wherein the permute control input for at least one lane of the permuted vector indicates a value of a selected lane of the vector is to be stored in the at least one lane, and storing the permuted vector in a storage location indicated by an operand of the vector permutation instruction.
US11074187B2
Techniques manage addresses in a storage system. In such techniques, an address page of an address pointing to target data in the storage system is determined in response to receiving an access request for accessing data in the storage system. A transaction for managing the address page is generated on the basis of the address page, here the transaction at least comprises an indicator of the address page and a state of the transaction. A counter describing how many times the address page is referenced is set. The transaction is executed at a control node of the storage system on the basis of the counter. With such techniques, the access speed for addresses in the storage system can be accelerated, and then the overall response speed of the storage system can be increased.
US11074184B2
Methods, systems and computer program products for monitoring delivered packages are provided. Aspects include receiving, by a co-processor, a data stream and performing processing on the data stream. Aspects also include writing, by the co-processor, a data record into the output buffer. Based on a determination that the data record should replace a most recently stored data record in a cache, aspects include providing, by the co-processor to the cache controller, an instruction for the cache controller to write the data record to a location in the cache obtained from a most recently used address register. Based on a determination that the data record should not replace the most recently stored data record in the cache, aspects include writing, by the cache controller, the data record to an available location in the cache.
US11074178B2
According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a nonvolatile memory and a controller. The controller receives a movement request from a host, the movement request designating a logical address of movement target data. When update data corresponding to the designated logical address is not written to the nonvolatile memory by a write request from the host in a period from the reception of the movement request to start of movement of data corresponding to the designated logical address, the controller executes a movement process of moving data corresponding to the designated logical address to a movement destination block in the nonvolatile memory. When the update data is written to the nonvolatile memory in the period, the controller does not execute the movement process.
US11074176B2
A memory apparatus includes: a plurality of non-volatile (NV) memory elements each including a plurality of physical blocks; a volatile memory for storing a global page address linking table; a transmission interface, for receiving commands from a host; and a processing unit, for obtaining a first host address and first data from a first host command, and a second host address and second data from a second host command, linking the first host address to a first page of a physical block and storing the first data in the first page, and linking the second host address to a second page of the physical block and storing the second data in the second page to build a local page address linking table; wherein a difference value of the first host address and the second host address is greater than a number of pages of the physical block.
US11074164B1
A regression test generator device configured for real-time monitoring of a user's interaction with an application running within a production environment and definition of a scope of regression testing to be carried out on one or more components of the application in response to changes made within a development environment. The regression test generator device identifies new user flows through an application, and stores the underlying software classes used to facilitate a given task associated with the new user flows. In addition, the regression test generator device monitors software classes changed in a development environment, and matches the changed software classes to one or more flows that are to be regression tested.
US11074157B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a splicing screen debugging method, a splicing screen and a splicing wall. The splicing screen debugging method includes: receiving, by the currently-debugged splicing screen, at least two debugging commands sent by the debugging equipment in a wireless broadcast way, each of the at least two debugging commands being adapted to debug one splicing screen of the at least two splicing screens; selecting, by the currently-debugged splicing screen, a target debugging command from the at least two debugging commands; reading, by the currently-debugged splicing screen, location identification information in the target debugging command; reading, by the currently-debugged splicing screen, debugging parameters in the target debugging command in response to the location identification information matching local location information pre-stored in the currently debugging splicing screen; and debugging the currently-debugged splicing screen according to the debugging parameters.
US11074155B2
Embodiments for generating representative microbenchmarks in a computing environment are provided. One or more tracing points may be selected in a target application. Executed instructions and used data of the target application may be dynamically traced according to the one or more tracing points according to a tracing plan. Tracing information of the dynamic tracing may be replicated in an actual computing environment and a simulated computing environment.
US11074151B2
Processor having embedded non-volatile random access memory to support processor monitoring software
A method is described. The method includes monitoring reliability, power consumption and performance of a processor and writing reliability, power consumption and performance data of the processor into an embedded non-volatile random access memory that is integrated into the processor's semiconductor chip.
US11074144B2
Before an active program replacement is carried out, a storage controller confirms a communication state between a redundant storage controller having a redundant configuration with the storage controller and the second storage device, and prohibits, in a case where an abnormality is detected in the communication state between the redundant storage controller and the second storage device, the active program replacement of the first storage controller. This inhibits occurrence of system down when active firmware replacement process is to be carried out in a storage system including multiple storage devices connected to one another.
US11074140B2
Systems and methods for providing and/or facilitating live browsing of granular mail or mailbox data, such as data stored within Exchange mailboxes, are described. For example, the systems and methods may provide mechanisms for browsing and/or restoring granular data (e.g., email data) from an Exchange database backup copy (or other secondary copy), without having to restore the entire database from the backup copy.
US11074137B2
Techniques are described for exchanging files between users via a server environment that maintains copies of file system data from user computing devices. For example, the server environment can maintain a copy of file system data from the file system of a first computing device associated with a first user. The server environment can receive a file request from a second user that requests a file (e.g., by describing the file) from the first user whose files are backed up at the server environment. The server environment can send a request to the first user to approve the file request. After receiving approval, the server environment can send the file to the second user (e.g., as an automatic download to a computing device associated with the second user).
US11074124B2
One embodiment facilitates data access in a storage device. During operation, the system obtains, by the storage device, a file from an original physical media separate from the storage device, wherein the file comprises compressed data which has been previously encoded based on an error correction code (ECC). The system stores, on a physical media of the storage device, the obtained file as a read-only replica. In response to receiving a request to read the file, the system decodes, by the storage device based on the ECC, the replica to obtain ECC-decoded data, wherein the ECC-decoded data is subsequently decompressed by a computing device associated with the storage device and returned as the requested file.
US11074123B2
A device for detecting an error of data stored in a memory device includes an error detection trigger circuit configured to transmit an error detection trigger information for instructing an error detecting operation for at least a part of the data, at each first cycle, in the case where an error detection performing condition is satisfied; an error detection performing circuit configured to receive the error detection trigger information, instruct an error calculation engine to perform an error detecting operation for part or all of the data, and receive an error detection result information from the error calculation engine; and a reporting circuit configured to transmit reporting information depending on the error detection result information, to a target device.
US11074114B1
The described system provides one or more processors and memory, coupled to the one or more processors, storing thereon a first OS kernel that receives a system call to access a second OS kernel function from a subsystem of the second OS retransmits the system call to one or more drivers of the first OS, support the subsystem. The system further comprises a subsystem of the second OS, comprising one or more user space components executing natively in a non-privileged mode of the one or more processors, a set of drivers associated with the second OS, the set of support components, and the one or more drivers of the first OS. The one or more drivers of the first OS receive the system call originating from the subsystem, wherein the system call is retransmitted by the first OS kernel and process the system call.
US11074113B1
Method and apparatus for performing atomic operations on local cache slots of a shared global memory
A storage system includes at least two independent storage engines interconnected by a fabric, each storage engine having two compute nodes. A shared global memory is implemented using cache slots of each of the compute nodes. Memory access operations to the slots of shared global memory are managed by a fabric adapter to guarantee that the operations are atomic. To enable local cache operations to be managed independent of the fabric adapter, a cache metadata data structure includes a global flag bit for each cache slot, that is used to designate the cache slot as globally available or temporarily reserved for local IO processing. The cache metadata data structure also includes a mutex (Peterson lock) for each cache slot to enforce a mutual exclusion concurrency control policy on the cache slot between the two compute nodes of the storage engine when the cache slot is used for local IO processing.
US11074111B2
Examples described herein include systems and methods for prioritizing workloads, such as virtual machines, to enforce quality of service (“QoS”) requirements. An administrator can assign profiles to workloads, the profiles representing different QoS categories. The profiles can extend scheduling primitives that can determine how a distributed resource scheduler (“DRS”) acts on workloads during various workflows. The scheduling primitives can be used to prioritize workload placement, determine whether to migrate a workload during load balancing, and determine an action to take during host maintenance. The DRS can also use the profile to determine which resources at the host to allocate to the workload, distributing higher portions to workloads with higher QoS profiles. Further, the DRS can factor in the profiles in determining total workload demand, leading to more efficient scaling of the cluster.
US11074107B1
An operating system (OS) and methods via a software development kit for constructing and managing the full artificial intelligence (AI) or machine learning (ML) product development lifecycle. Embodiments of the present disclosure provide for an integrated computing environment comprising one or more software components call blocks, each pre-loaded with an AI OS intelligent functionality. In accordance with certain aspects of the present disclosure, blocks may be linked in a sequential, parallel, or complex topology to form a pipeline for enabling user-friendly data science experimentation, exploration, analytic model execution, prototyping, pipeline construction, and deployment using a GUI. The OS may incorporate an execution engine for constructing and/orchestrating the execution of a pipeline enabling automatic provisioning of optimal computing resources.
US11074102B2
A parallel processing apparatus includes: nodes that execute information processing; and a control device, wherein the control device includes processing units provided corresponding to the nodes and configured to process a command received from the corresponding node and a data string, each of the processing units includes a reception data register in which data pieces in a reception data string are stored, a reception data buffer to which the data piece is transferred from the reception data register, a reception completion detector that detects completion of transfer of the reception data string, a fault detector that detects whether the received command is a fault command, and an interrupt issuer that issues an interrupt based on detection of the fault command, and issues an interrupt based on detection of the completion of the transfer of the reception data string when the fault detector does not detect the fault command.
US11074098B2
A virtual machine (VM) management utility tool may deploy an object model that may persist one or more virtual machine dependencies and relationships. Through a web front-end interface, for example, the VMs may be started in a specific order or re-booted, and the tool automatically determines the additional VMs that need to be re-booted in order to maintain the integrity of the environment. Through the web interface, for example, the object model may be managed, and start-up orders or VM dependencies may be updated. For VMs that may not start under load, the object model may block access to the VM until the VM is fully initialized.
US11074091B1
A distributed network controller that is configured in a containerized architecture is described. The network controller includes a plurality of microservices packaged and deployed using respective containers for the microservices, according to a plurality of charts, each chart comprising one or more templates that define a manner in which the microservices, for performing respective operations of the network controller, are deployed on a plurality of servers within the data center. Execution of the microservices of the distributed network controller establishes a virtual network for packetized communications among virtual execution elements executing on the plurality of servers in the data center. Each container that includes one of the plurality of microservices is executed by a server of the plurality of servers as an isolated user-space instance on the server.
US11074090B2
A system and method for aiding a user in troubleshooting a problem includes extracting one or more entities and actions from a problem statement received from a user computing device, wherein, in response to the extracting: mapping, the one or more entities and actions to one or more images related to the one or more entities and actions, and ordering, the one or more entities and actions into a user action sequence, creating a pictorial sequence of user-taken actions to correct the problem, comparing the pictorial sequence of user-taken actions to correct the problem with a correct pictorial sequence to correct the problem, to identify a correct action that the user failed to perform, and isolating a portion of the correct pictorial sequence that corresponds to the correct action that the user failed to perform, for displaying to the user on the user computing system.
US11074087B2
A mobile application development system includes a developer portal that receives an application from a developer and provides a routing library to the developer to augment the application. An offline analysis system analyzes the application to (i) determine a set of activities that a handler within the application is programmed to resume in response to respective resumption requests from a host operating system and (ii) determine parameters for each of the activities. The offline analysis system generates a set of links that each corresponds to a respective one of the activities. The routing library, installed as part of the augmented application onto a user device, receives a link, from the user device's operating system, that identifies a first activity. The routing library includes instructions for generating a first resumption request based on parameters corresponding to the first activity and transmitting the first resumption request to the augmented application's handler.
US11074086B2
Systems and methods for automatically changing application start state based on device orientation may include receiving a request to open an application, installed on a mobile device, capable of opening using at least two different open behaviors. Then, in response to receiving the request, the method may include (1) using one or more sensors of the mobile device to detect a physical orientation of the mobile device at the time the request is received and (2) opening the application by (i) opening the application using a first open behavior based at least in part on detecting a first orientation of the mobile device or (ii) opening the application using a second open behavior based at least in part on detecting a second orientation of the mobile device. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US11074082B2
A method for camera processing using a camera application programming interface (API) is described. A processor executing the camera API may be configured to receive instructions that specify a use case for a camera pipeline, the use case defining at least one or more processing engines of a plurality of processing engines for processing image data with the camera pipeline, wherein the plurality of processing engines includes one or more of fixed-function image signal processing nodes internal to a camera processor and one or more processing engines external to the camera processor. The processor may be further configured to route image data to the one or more processing engines specified by the instructions, and return the results of processing the image data with the one or more processing engines to the application.
US11074081B2
A method in a multiprocessor system for processing multiple perception streams is disclosed. The method comprises: reading data from a plurality of perception streams according to a reading schedule determined by a predetermined policy, each perception stream comprising perception data from a different perception sensor; assigning a unique identification tag to each perception stream; writing each perception stream with its unique identification tag to a server input queue based on the predetermined policy; and processing the tagged perception streams using a server. The processing includes: retrieving tagged perception streams from the server input queue; applying a processing algorithm to process the retrieved tagged perception streams; and outputting the processed perception streams to a server output queue. The method further includes retrieving the processed perception streams from the server output queue and dispatching each retrieved processed perception stream to an appropriate post-processing destination based on the tag associated with the retrieved processed perception stream.
US11074078B2
Representative apparatus, method, and system embodiments are disclosed for a self-scheduling processor which also provides additional functionality. Representative embodiments include a self-scheduling processor, comprising: a processor core adapted to execute a received instruction; and a core control circuit adapted to automatically schedule an instruction for execution by the processor core in response to a received work descriptor data packet. In another embodiment, the core control circuit is also adapted to schedule a fiber create instruction for execution by the processor core, to reserve a predetermined amount of memory space in a thread control memory to store return arguments, and to generate one or more work descriptor data packets to another processor or hybrid threading fabric circuit for execution of a corresponding plurality of execution threads. Event processing, data path management, system calls, memory requests, and other new instructions are also disclosed.
US11074068B1
Systems and methods that augment an entity's building and deployment of multiple applications using a metadata library component and a metadata orchestrator that controls details of the configurations of data stores, metadata which may include linkage rules of the metadata structures and that leverages the metadata across individual application development and completed application silos are discussed.
US11074059B2
A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing instructions which cause, when executed by a controller, a mobile terminal to execute a first receiving process of receiving second version information from an image processing device and first version information concerning a firmware for update from the server, a displaying process of displaying update information when the firmware of the image processing device can be updated a second receiving process of receiving the second version information from the image processing device, a determining process of determining whether the firmware installed in the image processing device is updated to a newer version based on one of the first and second version information received in the first receiving process, and the second version information received in the second receiving process, and a hiding process of hiding the update information when it is determined that the firmware has been updated in the determining process.
US11074055B2
Systems, computer-implemented methods, and computer program products that facilitate identifying computer software vulnerabilities, and more specifically, execute an approximate representation of software to produce a fingerprint are provided. In one example, a system is provided. The system can comprise a memory that stores computer executable components and a processor that executes the computer executable components stored in the memory. The computer executable components can include a filter component and an execution component. The filter component can filter a platform-independent intermediate representation to a filtered representation. The execution component can execute the filtered representation on a virtual machine to produce an output vector which can be used to identify computer software vulnerabilities.
US11074046B2
Disclosed herein a method for generating code to enable a honest/flexible functional dependency injection approach. The method may include receiving, using a communication device, a composition code from a user device. The composition code contains a usage of a composition operator. The composition operator is associated with at least two functions. A first function of the at least two functions includes a dependency parameter. The method may include analyzing, using a processing device, the composition code. The method may include generating, using the processing device, a new code based on the analyzing. The new code enables the composition operator for injecting the second function or the output of the second function as a value for the dependency parameter in the first function. The injecting provides a resulting function. The method may include a step of transmitting, using the communication device, the new code to the user device.
US11074042B2
An apparatus for managing input/output (I/O) data may include a streaming I/O controller to receive data from a load/store domain component and output the data as first streaming data of a first data type comprising a first data movement type and first data format type. The apparatus may also include at least one accelerator coupled to the streaming I/O controller to receive the first streaming data, transform the first streaming data to second streaming data having a second data type different than the first data type, and output the second streaming data. In addition, the apparatus may include a streaming interconnect to conduct the second data to a peer device configured to receive data of the second data type.
US11074023B2
There is provided a transmission device including: an image processing unit that sets region information corresponding to a region set in an image for each of rows in the image and causes the set region information and region data corresponding to the region to be transmitted for each row. The region information includes information indicating a position of the row and information indicating a position of a column of the region included in the row.
US11074021B2
An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit, a generating unit, an issuing unit, and an output unit. The acquisition unit acquires print process information including a print target file that is to be printed. The generating unit generates integrated print process information in accordance with a request for unifying multiple pieces of print process information. The integrated print process information is information in which the pieces of print process information are unified. The issuing unit issues identification information for identifying the integrated print process information which is generated. When a user specifies the identification information, the output unit outputs, to an image forming apparatus, the integrated print process information corresponding to the specified identification information.
US11074019B2
An image forming apparatus includes a detector, a reception unit, an output unit, and a controller. The detector detects a distance between the image forming apparatus and a mobile terminal apparatus that is located near the image forming apparatus. The reception unit receives printing data from a mobile terminal apparatus. The output unit outputs, when a specific operation is performed by a user, a printing result based on the printing data received by the reception unit. The controller controls, in a case where the printing data received by the reception unit is printing data from a mobile terminal apparatus for which the distance detected by the detector is within a preset range, the output unit to output the printing result without requiring the specific operation by the user.
US11074016B2
A method of using flash storage devices with different sized erase blocks is provided. The method includes allocating a plurality of erase blocks of heterogeneous erase block sizes to a RAID stripe, to form a tile pattern having the heterogeneous erase block sizes in the RAID stripe. The method includes writing the RAID stripe across the flash storage devices in accordance with the allocating, and stopping the writing the RAID stripe, responsive to contents of the RAID stripe reaching a threshold.
US11074010B2
A processor of a storage controller stores a parameter according to a command that has been transferred from a front-end unit to a first area in a first memory area and issues notification to the front-end unit regarding an address of a second area in a second memory area which is mapped to the first area, the front-end unit generates a data packet whose destination is the notified address and stores the generated data packet at the address of the second memory area, and an interface unit reads the parameter stored in the first area in the first memory area which is mapped to the second area of the address based on the destination address stored in a header of the data packet which has been stored in the second memory area and executes processing of the system function according to the command.
US11074007B2
A system having a processing device and a controller, operatively connected to a memory sub-system via a communication channel, to: store information identifying an amount of available capacity of a buffer of the memory sub-system; transmit, through the communication channel to the memory sub-system, one or more write commands to store data in memory components of the memory sub-system, where the memory sub-system queues the one or more write commands in the buffer; update the information by deducting, from the amount of available capacity, an amount of buffer capacity used by the one or more write commands to generate a current amount of available capacity of the buffer; and determine whether to generate an information request to the memory sub-system based at least in part on the current amount of available capacity.
US11074001B2
Cloning of virtual-machine images can be managed. For example, a computing device can copy a segment of a virtual-machine image stored in a second storage device to a first storage device in response to receiving a first read request for the segment from a virtual machine. The first storage device may be capable of responding to read requests from the virtual machine with less latency than the second storage device. The computing device can also update a log to indicate that the segment is stored on the first storage device. Thereafter, the computing device can receive a second read request for the segment. In response, the computing device can determine that the segment is stored in the first storage device using the log, and provide the segment by obtaining the segment from the first storage device.
US11073981B1
A mobile computing device includes computer-executable instructions contained in nonvolatile computer-readable memory which, when executed by a processor of the device, perform a method including the steps of providing a plurality of application user interface screens, and enabling the person to navigate between the application user interface screens based on receiving user input by the person. Each application user interface screen represents a different context of use of the application for accomplishing a different respective result or performing a different respective activity by a person interacting with the application on the computing device. In variations thereof for use on PCs, application user interface windows are provided. In other variations, different user roles with different access privileges and/or different functionality forms the basis of the different contexts. I still other variations, both types of contextual bases are utilized.
US11073978B2
A method for controlling a plurality of mobile agricultural devices that includes establishing electronic communication with a plurality of transceivers mounted to the mobile agricultural devices and building a model including a virtual representation of each of the mobile agricultural devices. The method also includes displaying the model at a user interface including a display and a gesture sensor. The method further includes receiving location data regarding the mobile agricultural devices via the transceivers and adjusting at least one of the virtual representations of the mobile agricultural devices within the model to reflect the location data. The method still further includes receiving, via the gesture sensor of the user interface, a user input comprising a command relating to operation of a first one of the mobile agricultural devices and transmitting the user input command to one of the transceivers, which is mounted to the first mobile agricultural device, so as to implement a change in operation of the first mobile agricultural device.
US11073977B2
According to various disclosed embodiments, a method for setting a date and time by an electronic device may include: displaying a user interface that includes a plurality of time points arranged at regular intervals along a circumferential direction in an edge area of a substantially circular dial and including a date change point, a first icon positioned at a first point among the plurality of time points, and a second icon positioned at a second point among the plurality of time points; receiving an input for at least one of the first icon and the second icon; displaying movement of the at least one of the first icon and the second icon on the plurality of time points based on the received input; and displaying a date and time corresponding to a movement direction and movement location of the at least one of the first icon and the second icon.
US11073956B2
A conductive member is arranged on a display panel in which a plurality of pixels are arrayed in a mosaic array or a delta array, and includes a transparent insulating substrate and at least one conductive layer which has a plurality of thin metal wires and is arranged on the transparent insulating substrate, in a case of being viewed from a direction perpendicular to the transparent insulating substrate, a mesh pattern is formed by the plurality of thin metal wires, the mesh pattern is constituted by a plurality of quadrangular mesh cells having two acute angles of less than 90 degrees and two obtuse angles of more than 90 degrees, and a degree of the acute angles is 44 degrees or more and 54 degrees or less.
US11073954B2
Embodiments related to an electronic device having an adaptive input row. The adaptive input row may be positioned within an opening of a device and include a cover for receiving a touch and a display that is configured to present an adaptable set of indicia. The adaptive input row may also include one or more sensors for detecting the location of a touch and/or the magnitude of a force of the touch. The adaptive input row may be positioned adjacent or proximate to a keyboard of the electronic device.
US11073946B2
Touch input from a user may be selectively ignored. Responsive to receipt of touch input to a physical control, the physical control at least partially overlapping a touchscreen configured to display onscreen controls, a size of an exclusion zone surrounding the physical control may be increased from a default size to an enlarged size greater than the default size, the exclusion zone representing an area of the touchscreen within which touch input to the touchscreen is not passed to an application executed by the processor. Responsive to a lack of receipt of the touch input to the physical control, the size of the exclusion zone may be decreased from the enlarged size to the default size, allowing touch input to onscreen controls outside the default size of the exclusion zone to be passed to the application.
US11073945B1
A touch-sensitive display device includes a first touch-sensitive display including a first plurality of display electrodes configured to detect proximity of input objects to the first touch-sensitive display, and a second touch-sensitive display including a second plurality of display electrodes configured to detect proximity of input objects to the second touch-sensitive display. A touch controller detects a non-stylus touch input at a first display electrode of the first touch-sensitive display based on a first signal from the first display electrode, and a stylus touch input from a stylus at a second display electrode of the second touch-sensitive display based on a second signal from the second display electrode. A two-dimensional position of the stylus touch input is determined relative to the second touch-sensitive display based at least on the second signal and noise compensation derived from the first signal.
US11073940B2
A touch substrate, a touch device and a touch detection method are provided. The touch substrate includes: a base substrate, including a touch region and a trace region surrounding the touch region; multiple sensing electrodes arranged in the touch region; and multiple sensing electrode traces arranged in the trace region and connected to the multiple sensing electrodes respectively. The sensing electrodes includes first sensing electrodes and second sensing electrodes, each first sensing electrode is connected at a first side of the touch region to a sensing electrode trace, and each second sensing electrode is connected at a second side of the touch region opposite to the first side to a sensing electrode trace. In this disclosure, sensing electrodes are connected at two opposite sides of the touch region to the sensing electrode traces, therefore, two sensing electrodes may be scanned each time, shortening a scanning period of the sensing electrodes.
US11073936B2
An interactive poster includes one or more first near-field communications (NFC) antennas, a memory to store first content, and a controller control operation of a display. The NFC antennas may be located at predetermined positions, and the controller changes display of first content to second content when one or more of the antennas are tapped by a user device including an NFC circuit.
US11073935B2
A touch type distinguishing method may be provided for a touch input device including a touch screen. The method may determine a touch on the touch screen. For example, a touch on the touch screen may be determined as an authentication touch when a condition that the time period for which the input touch maintains is equal to or greater than the predetermined reference time period is satisfied prior to the long touch determination criterion time point. The touch on the touch screen may be determined as a long touch when the condition is not satisfied.
US11073933B2
One variation of a method for manipulating virtual objects within a virtual environment includes: determining a first position of a touch sensor within real space; based on the first position of the touch sensor within real space, bounding a virtual surface of a virtual object within the virtual environment tractable through inputs across the touch sensor; generating a first force vector comprising a magnitude related to a force magnitude of a first input on the touch sensor surface and a direction related to an orientation of the touch sensor within real space; locating an origin of the first force vector within the virtual environment based on a first location of the first input on the touch sensor surface and the first position of the touch sensor within real space; and manipulating the virtual surface of the virtual object within the virtual environment according to the first force vector.
US11073932B2
A touch display panel and a display device are provided. The touch display panel includes a display area and a non-display area around the display area. The non-display area includes a plurality of pressure sensors. At least one of the plurality of pressure sensors is located a distance of H away from a closest corner of the touch display panel, where H satisfies: 2.5 mm
US11073923B2
The disclosed apparatus reduces necessary electric power for moving a touch pad of an input device to a predetermined height and maintaining the touch pad at the height, the touch panel creating a sense of touch when operated. The input device includes: a contact member to be in contact with a contact body; a housing for supporting the contact member in a movable manner; and a drive device for moving the contact member with respect to the housing, wherein the drive device is equipped with a rotatable rotary body, first magnets disposed on the rotary body, and second magnets disposed on the contact member, and wherein the first magnets and the second magnets are arranged so as to be able to face each other.
US11073922B2
A mouse includes a button portion and a deformable holding portion. The button portion has an upper housing and a lower housing. The upper housing is assembled to the lower housing. The deformable holding portion is connected to the button portion and includes at least one electroactive material layer and a flexible material layer. The flexible material layer covers the electroactive material layer. When the electroactive material layer is in an energized state, the deformable holding portion has a first shape. When the electroactive material layer is in an unenergized state, the deformable holding portion has a second shape.
US11073920B1
A multi-touch input system may include a control device having a body, multiple legs connected to the body; and each of the multiple legs having a distal end and each of the distal ends having an electrically conductive contact surface where each of the electrically conductive contact surfaces are independently movable with respect to each other.
US11073903B1
Disclosed herein are techniques for imaging in eye tracking. An imaging system for eye tracking includes a camera configured to detect light in a first wavelength range, a substrate configured to be placed in front of an eye of a user, and at least one reflector located within the substrate. The at least one reflector is configured to receive light in the first wavelength range reflected by the eye of the user, reflect at least a portion of the received light in the first wavelength range to the camera, and transmit light in a second wavelength range different from the first wavelength range to the eye of the user. The substrate is transparent to both the light in the first wavelength range and the light in the second wavelength range.
US11073902B1
An artificial reality system includes a head mounted display (HMD) and a hand-held device. A virtual boundary can provide for user safety during an artificial reality session. For example, the virtual boundary may be defined to protect the user from collisions with physical objects, such as walls, furniture, or the like, while the user is immersed in the artificial reality session. The artificial reality system can constrain the predicted motion path of a portion of a user's body based on body configuration parameters and range of motion of the joints associated with the body portion. The artificial reality system can then use the constrained motion paths to determine whether or not the virtual boundary warning should be activated.
US11073901B2
An HMD includes an image display section configured to display an image to be visually recognizable through an outside scene. The HMD includes a position detecting section configured to recognize an input and a control section configured to cause the image display section to display information and change the display in the image display section according to the input recognized by the position detecting section.
US11073899B2
Techniques for multidevice, multimodal emotion services monitoring are disclosed. An expression to be detected is determined. The expression relates to a cognitive state of an individual. Input on the cognitive state of the individual is obtained using a device local to the individual. Monitoring for the expression is performed. The monitoring uses a background process on a device remote from the individual. An occurrence of the expression is identified. The identification is performed by the background process. Notification that the expression was identified is provided. The notification is provided from the background process to a device distinct from the device running the background process. The expression is defined as a multimodal expression. The multimodal expression includes image data and audio data from the individual. The notification enables emotion services to be provided. The emotion services augment messaging, social media, and automated help applications.
US11073898B2
Touch detection may include determining, based on data from an IMU on a first device that monitors movement of a touching object, a touch event, wherein the touch event indicates contact between the touching object and a surface, obtaining a depth image captured by a second device, comprising a touch image, determining a touch point of the object based on the touch image, and providing a response based on the touch point of the object and the touched surface.
US11073895B2
A display apparatus includes a display panel; a touch sensing unit (TSU) on the display panel and including first and second transmission touch lines (TTL); and a touch driving circuit (TDC). The TDC applies first and second touch driving signals (TDS) to the first and second TTL, respectively. The TDC includes first and second sharing switch devices (SSD) respectively connected to the first and second TTL. The first and second SSD are connected to each other. The first TDS has a first voltage level during a first period, and the second TDS has a second voltage level different than the first voltage level during the first period. The TDC is configured to turn on the first and second SSD during a second period after the first period such that the first and second TDSs have a voltage level between the first voltage level and the second voltage level.
US11073892B2
An apparatus to switch a central processing unit between operational modes includes, in one embodiment, a central processing unit (“CPU”) having at least a first operation mode and a second operation mode, where the second operation mode is a higher performance operation mode than the first operation mode. The apparatus also includes a switching unit that switches a state of the CPU to the second operation mode in response to starting one of an operating system or an application program based on a user operation in a state in which the first operation mode is set, and switches the state of the CPU to the first operation mode in response to a determination that a condition is met.
US11073888B2
Platform power management includes boosting performance in a platform power boost mode or restricting performance to keep a power or temperature under a desired threshold in a platform power cap mode. Platform power management exploits the mutually exclusive nature of activities and the associated headroom created in a temperature and/or power budget of a server platform to boost performance of a particular component while also keeping temperature and/or power below a threshold or budget.
US11073873B1
An electronic device may include a substrate having a substrate body. The electronic device may include a first interconnect region, for example located proximate to a first end of the substrate. The first interconnect region may extend from the substrate body. The first interconnect region may include a first set of interconnects, and the first set of interconnects may be located proximate to the substrate body. The first interconnect region may include a second set of interconnects, and the second set of interconnects may be located remote from the substrate body. The second set of interconnects may be physically separated from the first set of interconnects, for example by an inactive region. The first set of interconnects may be located between the inactive region and the substrate body.
US11073871B2
Disclosed is an electronic device comprising: a housing comprising an upper plate part portion and a lower plate part portion; and a flexible hinge connecting the upper plate part portion and the lower plate part portion. The upper plate part portion comprises a first surface facing in a first direction, a second surface facing in a second direction that is opposite to the first direction, and a third surface partially surrounding the space between the first surface and the second surface. The lower plate part portion comprises a fourth surface facing in the first direction, a fifth surface lacing in the second direction, and a sixth surface partially surrounding the space between the fourth surface and the fifth surface. The fourth surface faces the second surface of the upper plate part portion in a first state. The flexible hinge comprises: a first segmented portion having a first magnetic body arranged therein, the first magnetic body having a magneticity equal to or larger than a first designated magnitude, the first segmented port ion being made of a first material having a strength equal to or larger than a second designated magnitude, a second segmented portion having a second magnetic body arranged therein, the second magnetic body having a magneticity equal to or larger than a third designated magnitude, the second segmented portion being made of a second material having a strength equal to or larger than a fourth designated magnitude; and a cover portion at least partially surrounding the first segmented portion and the second segmented portion, the cover portion being made of a third material having a strength below a designated fifth magnitude. When changing from the first state to a second state, the first magnetic body and the second magnetic body bind the first segmented portion and the second segmented portion in a substantially straight type. In the second state, the upper plate part portion is cradled on the lower plate part portion while forming a first designated angle with the lower plate part portion. Besides, various embodiments inferable from the specification are possible.
US11073870B2
Disclosed is a display device including first and second frames arranged adjacent to each other, a panel arranged on inner surfaces of the first and second frames, and a folding hinge unit configured to enable the first and second frames to be folded, and connected to the first and second frames. The folding hinge unit includes a pair of panel support plates configured to support the panel so that a position of the panel is changed, and spaced apart from each other, first and second hinge links arranged under the panel support plates and coupled to each other to be movable about a central axis of folding, and a pair of hinge brackets configured to support the panel support plates and the first and second hinge links to be movable, and respectively connected to the first frame and the second frame.
US11073868B2
The foldable mobile terminal includes: a flexible display screen; a first shell and a second shell, the flexible display screen being provided on the first shell and the second shell; and a foldable mechanism including a first rotation assembly connected to the first shell and a second rotation assembly connected to the second shell. The first and second rotation assemblies both comprise sliding plates, rotation shafts, and connection rods. The sliding plates are at least partially received in the shells, and can extend or retract with respect to the shells in a sliding manner. First ends of the connection rods are slidably and hingedly connected to the rotating shafts, and second ends are rotatably connected to the shells.
US11073866B2
An foldable electronic device and method are disclosed. The device includes: a foldable housing rotatable about a hinge, enabling folding of a flexible display. The device further includes a touch sensor, a first processor and a second processor. The processors implement the method, including: by the first processor, detecting an external object contacting the flexible display and requesting activation of the second processor based on the detection; and by the second processor: activating and outputting a notification warning of potential damage to the flexible display if the device is folded closed with the external object present on the flexible display.
US11073863B2
A foldable display device is described. The foldable display device comprises: a first support member and a second support member, which are separated from each other, a display module disposed on the first support member and the second support member, a hinge coupling one side of the first support member and one side of the second support member, a hinge cover surrounding the hinge and comprising a dust cap on an upper edge thereof, a first back cover disposed under the first support member and comprising a first protrusion at one end thereof, and a second back cover disposed under the second support member and comprising a second protrusion at one end thereof, the dust cap is in contact with the first protrusion and the second protrusion when the display module is folded.
US11073862B2
A synchronization circuit and a cascaded synchronization circuit for converting an asynchronous signal into at least one synchronous signal are provided. The synchronization circuit includes a signal control circuit, a flip-flop circuit, a clock enable circuit and a clock control circuit. The flip-flop circuit is coupled to the signal control circuit, the clock enable circuit is coupled to the signal control circuit and the flip-flop circuit, and the clock enable circuit is coupled to the signal control circuit and the flip-flop circuit. The signal control circuit and the clock control circuit can guarantee hold time and setup time is sufficient to allow the flip-flop circuit to output the synchronous signal without glitch regardless of the asynchronous signal.
US11073860B2
A method of performing a complex Fourier transform of an input function including amplitude and phase information, including decomposing the input function into a plurality of sub-functions, wherein the Fourier transform of each sub-function includes an amplitude function and a phase function in which the phase is constrained to a plurality of possible phase values. The phase function of the Fourier transform of each sub-function is determined with an optical system that measures the amplitude function of an optical Fourier transform of the sub-function and changes in the amplitude function of the optical Fourier transform caused by applying a perturbation function to the sub-function. The determined phase functions and the measured amplitude functions are combined for each of the sub-functions to form the complex Fourier transform of the input function.
US11073856B2
An input circuit includes a first input transistor and a second input transistor connected to an input terminal; a current source which makes a current flow in the second input transistor through a current mirror; a switch provided between the current mirror and the current source, and having a switch control terminal connected to the drain of the first input transistor; and a transistor connected to the first input transistor, on/off of the transistor being controlled by an output signal, wherein a current drivability of the second input transistor is switched by an output signal, and a threshold voltage to the input signal is determined based on the current drivability of the second input transistor and the current source.
US11073832B1
A system and method for avoiding or mitigating collisions by an autonomous vehicle is provided. Raw sensor data for the vehicle's environment is received, such as through a perception system of the vehicle. A trajectory is also received, the trajectory having a width corresponding to a distance that is at least as wide as the vehicle. The trajectory and raw sensor data are projected onto a grid, such as a static occupancy grid, having a plurality of cells. It is determined whether any cell that overlaps with the trajectory includes the raw sensor data. It is further determined, based on the raw sensor data, whether an obstacle is present along the trajectory. When no obstacles are determined to be present along the trajectory, the trajectory may be verified. However, where obstacles are determined to be present, the vehicle may take an action to avoid collision.
US11073831B2
In one embodiment, perception data is received from a number of autonomous driving vehicles (ADVs) over a network. The perception data includes information describing a set of trajectories that a number of vehicles having driven through a road segment of a road and perceived by one or more ADVs using their respective sensors driving on the same road segment. In response to the perception data, an analysis is performed on the perception data, i.e., the trajectories, to determine one or more lanes within the road segment. For each of the lanes, a lane reference line associated with the lane is calculated based on the trajectories within the corresponding lane. The lane metadata describing the lane reference lines for the one or more lanes are stored in a lane configuration data structure such as a database. The lane configuration database can then be utilized for autonomous driving at real-time subsequently without having to use a high definition map.
US11073827B2
A mobile robot may include a plurality of position information transmitters installed in an area to transmit signals for determining position information, a terminal configured to analyze the signals received from the position information transmitters and a mobile robot configured to receive the signals from the position information transmitters to determine the position information, and to set a boundary in the area based on the position information, wherein the terminal evaluates an installation position of the position information transmitters by analyzing the signals received from the position information transmitters. Accordingly, even when a work area is reduced or enlarged, a position information transmitter may be further provided, such that a boundary may be reset easily for an enlarged area. And by evaluating an installation position for the position information transmitter in an area, a position that facilitates signal transmission and reception may be determined for installation, thereby preventing a problem that an obstacle interrupts signal reception, and position information may be confirmed easily, thereby improving accuracy of positions.
US11073818B2
A program development support unit includes an arithmetic unit and a storage unit. A ladder diagram editing program and an edited ladder diagram program are stored in the storage unit. The arithmetic unit is configured to execute the ladder diagram editing program to edit the ladder diagram program, and store the ladder diagram program in the storage unit. The arithmetic unit is configured to allocate two-dimensional coordinates to a ladder diagram expressed by the ladder diagram program. The arithmetic unit is configured to detect two-dimensional coordinates and types of circuit elements included in the ladder diagram, and detect two-dimensional coordinates of any vertical connection lines included in the ladder diagram. The arithmetic unit is configured to store the circuit elements, the vertical connection lines, the two-dimensional coordinates of the circuit elements, and the two-dimensional coordinates of the vertical connection lines in the storage unit in association with each other.
US11073814B2
To provide a data management apparatus, a data management method, and a data management program capable of restricting the output of machine information to an external location according to the level of confidentiality of each piece of machine information. An edge server that provides machine information in a factory to an external location includes an execution unit configured to execute an application referring to a database storing the machine information, a setting unit configured to acquire lists of transmission destinations and transmission items defined for each application and set, as transmission conditions, a transmission destination and a transmission item permitted by a user from the lists, a data processing unit configured to sort out transmitted data output from the application according to the transmission conditions, and a transmission and reception unit configured to transmit the transmitted data processed to the external location.
US11073811B2
Exemplary embodiments are provided of wireless emergency stop systems. In an exemplary embodiment, a wireless emergency stop system includes a machine safety device wired to a machine stop circuit for stopping operation of a machine when the machine stop circuit is activated. The machine safety device includes a wireless communication interface. The system also includes multiple personal safety devices. Each personal safety device includes a wireless communication interface for wireless communication with the machine safety device, and an emergency stop switch. The emergency stop switch is configured to, when activated, transmit an emergency stop signal to the machine safety device to trigger an emergency stop of the machine. The machine safety device is configured to maintain wireless connections with more than one of the multiple personal safety devices at the same time. Example methods of operating a wireless emergency stop system are also disclosed.
US11073809B2
Devices, systems and methods for controlling electrical loads in one or more areas. A method includes transmitting, with a microcontroller via a transceiver, a sync packet including a unique address of the lighting fixture control module to a bus. The method includes listening, via the transceiver, on the bus. The method includes placing the microcontroller into a master operation mode when a master sync timeout period expires without receiving a second sync packet including a unique address for a second master device from the bus. The method includes placing the microcontroller into a subordinate operation mode when the second sync packet is received from the bus during the master sync timeout period.
US11073801B2
The instant disclosure provides an ability to use an array of data inputs to enter a network and thereby provide a realtime improvable database. The present invention is novel in its ability to maximize the customer's interface with a pest control system, thus allowing for maximum efficiency for current and future designs as well as a high level of compatibility with ancillary regulatory, financial and planning type functions.
US11073793B2
An example device includes a conveyor to convey a printed medium along a path from a print engine towards a printed media output. The device further includes a housing to hold the conveyor. The housing defines an air intake, an exhaust port, and a conveyor volume to contain the conveyor. The air intake provides air to the conveyor volume to dry the printed medium. The device further includes a tortuous exhaust passage extending from the conveyor volume to the exhaust port to exhaust air from the conveyor volume.
US11073790B2
A process cartridge includes a photosensitive drum and a coupling member operatively connected to the photosensitive drum, with the coupling member including an arm portion and a projection projecting from the arm portion. The arm portion of the coupling member extends from a point that is upstream in the rotational direction of the photosensitive drum towards a point that is downstream in the rotation direction of the photosensitive drum.
US11073782B2
An image forming apparatus includes a detection unit that optically detects a density of a reference toner image for density measurement formed on an image carrier. Either a first detection method for detecting the density of the reference toner image by receiving specularly reflected light reflected by the image carrier and the reference toner image for density measurement formed on the image carrier or a second detection method for detecting the density of the reference toner image by receiving diffusely reflected light from the image carrier and the reference toner image, is selected in accordance with color information of a toner, the color information being stored beforehand in a storage unit, and the density of the reference toner image is optically detected.
US11073779B2
An image heating apparatus including: a first rotating member; a second rotating member which forms a nip portion between the first rotating member and the second rotating member; a frame member which supports the second rotating member; a biasing member which biases the first rotating member toward the second rotating member; a moving member which supports the biasing member at an end portion of the biasing member on an opposite side to a side of an end portion where the first rotating member is arranged; and an adjustment member which comes into contact with the moving member and which adjusts a position of the moving member with respect to the frame member, wherein a contact portion between the moving member and the adjustment member in the biasing direction regulates relative movement of the moving member and the adjustment member in a direction perpendicular to the biasing direction.
US11073777B2
A sensor unit (12) includes a thermistor (21) and a connector (22). A protection unit (13) includes a thermal cutoff (31) and a connector (32). First and second intermediate connector units (14-1, 14-2) electrically connects the connectors (22, 32) and an external connection connector (11) to each other, respectively. An intermediate wire (53) electrically connects the first and second intermediate connector units (14-1, 14-2) to each other. The first intermediate connector unit (14-1) electrically connects an end of a loopback wire (23) of the connector (22) to the external connection connector (11), the second intermediate connector unit (14-2) connects an end of the thermal cutoff (31) to the external connection connector (11), the intermediate wire (53) electrically connects an other end of the loopback wire (23) and an other end of the thermal cutoff (31) to each other.
US11073775B2
A transfer device includes a rotatable image bearer configured to bear a toner image to be transferred to a recording medium, a first rotator, and a second rotator. The second rotator is configured to contact the first rotator via the rotatable image bearer to form a transfer nip in which the recording medium is sandwiched. The second rotator is rotatable with the image bearer. The transfer device satisfies a conditional expression (t1+R)/(t2+R)>0.98, where t1 represents a thickness of a thinnest recording medium, t2 represents a thickness of a thickest recording medium, and R represents a radius of curvature of the transfer nip.
US11073773B1
According to one embodiment, the image forming apparatus includes a developing device and a control unit. The developing device includes a rotator for rotating to cause a developer contained in a container to flow, and performs development using the developer. The control unit has a first control for rotating the rotator in a first direction during development. The control unit has a second control that rotates the rotator in a second direction opposite to the first direction at a predetermined timing when development is not performed. When the second control is performed a plurality of times during a predetermined period, the control unit gradually reduces an interval at which the second control is performed.
US11073769B2
A conveyance apparatus that is advantageous in terms of productivity is provided. The conveyance apparatus includes a holding unit configured to hold and convey a substrate, and an outlet unit which is disposed in the holding unit and includes a first outlet port configured to blow a gas in a first direction, which is a direction oblique to a first surface of the substrate held by the holding unit, toward the first surface.
US11073766B2
A reflective optical element for the extreme ultraviolet (EUV) wavelength range having a multi-layer system extending over an area on a substrate. The system includes layers (54, 55′) made of at least two different materials with different real parts of the refractive index in the EUV arranged alternately. A layer of one of the two materials forms a stack with the layer or layers arranged between this layer and the nearest layer of the same material with increasing distance from the substrate. In at least one stack (53′), the material of the layer (55′) with the lower real part of the refractive index and/or the material of the layer (54) with the larger real part of the refractive index is a combination (551, 552) made of at least two substances.
US11073756B2
A photomask blank is provided comprising a transparent substrate, a first film of chromium-containing material on the substrate, and a second film of silicon/oxygen-containing material disposed contiguous to the first film. The second film includes a first layer contiguous to the first film and a second layer spaced apart from the first layer in film thickness direction. The oxygen content of the first layer is lower than the oxygen content of the second layer. During etching of the first film, this setting prevents an etching rate from ramping up at the interface between the first and second films.
US11073755B2
The present disclosure provides a photolithography mask. The photolithography mask includes a substrate that contains a low thermal expansion material (LTEM). A multilayer (ML) structure is disposed over the substrate. The ML structure is configured to reflect radiation. The ML structure contains a plurality of interleaving film pairs. Each film pair includes a first film and a second film. The first film and the second film have different material compositions. Each film pair has a respective thickness. For at least a subset of the plurality of the film pairs, the respective thicknesses of the film pairs change randomly along a predefined direction.
US11073748B2
An accessory attachable to an image pickup apparatus through an adapter includes a body portion configured to contact the adapter, a screw engageable with a screw hole in the image pickup apparatus through a through-hole formed in the adapter, an operation unit configured to move the screw relative to the body portion. The screw is movable in a plurality of directions including a direction along an optical axis of the image pickup apparatus and a direction orthogonal to the optical axis in accordance with an operation of the operation unit by a user.
US11073745B2
An illumination module comprises a semiconductor light source and a light guide, which comprises a solid body with essentially parallel entry and exit faces and side faces extending between the entry and exit faces; and wherein the entry face receives light emitted by the semiconductor light source; the exit face is offset from the entry face and the area of the exit face exceeds the area of the entry face; a first side face comprises a uniform plane subtending an angle of inclination to the entry face; a second side face, opposite to the first side face, comprises a plurality of offset sub-faces, each sub-face subtends an angle of inclination relative to the entry face; and the inclined faces are formed so that the direction of light leaving the exit face is essentially the same as the direction of light entering the entry face.
US11073744B1
The portable backdrop for filming and photography is configured for use in filming and photography. The portable backdrop for filming and photography is an opaque structure that forms a blind used to control the image captured by a camera. The portable backdrop for filming and photography comprises a roller clutch and spring system, one or more interchangeable blinds, a fastening structure, and a suspension structure. The fastening structure attach an interchangeable blind selected from the one or more interchangeable blinds to the roller clutch and spring system. The roller clutch and spring system deploys the selected interchangeable blind during a photographic or film session. The roller clutch and spring system retracts the selected interchangeable blind onto a scroll for storage. The suspension structure suspends the roller clutch and spring system and the selected interchangeable blind from an anchor point.
US11073726B2
A display device including a backlight module is provided. The backlight module includes: a substrate, a backlight cavity, a plurality of light emitting elements, and an optical adjustment layer. The backlight cavity is located on the substrate. The plurality of light emitting elements is disposed in the backlight cavity. The optical adjustment layer covers the plurality of light emitting elements and fills the remaining space of the backlight cavity. The optical adjustment layer has a refractive index n greater than the refractive index n0 of the air.
US11073715B2
A method for producing a glass article from a glass member including a glass substrate including a first main surface, a second main surface and an end face, and an irregular layer formed in at least one of main surfaces, includes forming an irregular layer having a glass transition point Tg which is equal to or lower than a glass transition point in a central part of the glass member in a thickness-direction sectional view and performing a heat treatment on the glass member so as to have an equilibrium viscosity in the central part of the glass member in thickness-direction sectional view of 1017 Pa·s or lower.
US11073714B2
A liquid crystal capsule includes: a shell; and a liquid crystal molecule in the shell, wherein a critical surface tension of the shell is smaller than a critical surface tension of the liquid crystal molecule. Further, the liquid crystal molecule includes a nematic liquid crystal and the shell includes polytetramethyldisiloxane. The liquid crystal capsule also includes an additive in the shell and the additive has a critical surface tension smaller than that of the liquid crystal molecule.
US11073713B2
According to an aspect, a display device includes: a substrate having a display region; a shield conductive layer provided above the substrate; and a plurality of wiring units for temperature detection disposed at positions overlapping with the display region and the shield conductive layer when seen in a plan view. Each wiring unit for temperature detection has one end coupled to a first wire and the other end coupled to a second wire to detect resistance that changes in accordance with a change in temperature, between the first wire and the second wire.
US11073711B2
The present invention teaches a LCD device and a related manufacturing method. The LCD device includes a LCD panel and a shielding plate. The LCD panel includes an array substrate and a color filter substrate. The array substrate includes a display section attaching to the color filter substrate, and a bonding section extending from the display section and reaching beyond the color filter substrate. The shielding plate includes a first section above the color filter substrate, and a second section extending from the first section and corresponding to the bonding section. Encapsulation adhesive is filled between the second section and the bonding section. With shielding plate along a LCD panel's periphery to cover black edges of the LCD device, the LCD panel is guaranteed to have smooth edges and no additional bezel is required to hide the FPC board, fulfilling the bezel-less design.
US11073708B2
A flexible display panel includes a flexible substrate including a first region including a display region and having a curved display surface, and a plurality of non-display regions that is located outside the display region and including a second region located outside the first region and folded in a direction different from a display direction of the first region, and an encapsulation member for encapsulating the display region along the curved display surface.
US11073706B2
A transmitter includes an optical modulator, a drive unit, a deviation identification signal generation unit, and a bias control unit. The deviation identification signal generation unit generates a signal value in accordance with a deviation of a bias voltage of the optical modulator by amplifying a signal value of a dither signal extracted from a modulated signal output from the optical modulator by a factor set for each of a plurality of modulation schemes so as to generate a uniform signal value. The bias control unit generates a bias value at which a center of a variation range, which is a range from a maximum value to a minimum value of the drive signal, corresponds to transmission characteristics of the optical modulator according to one predetermined adjustment method by using the signal value generated by the deviation identification signal generation unit.
US11073703B2
A system for displaying three dimensional (3D) images. The system includes a 3D display operating in a first state to display a 3D image by outputting light into a viewing space and operating in a second state in which the 3D image is not displayed. The system further includes a screen element positioned between the 3D display and the viewing space. The screen element reflects light from the viewing space to appear opaque to a viewer in the viewing space when the 3D display operates in the second state. The screen element transmits the light output by the 3D display, whereby the 3D display image is perceivable by the viewer in the viewing space. The screen element includes a sheet of mesh or netting material that transmits light output by the 3D display through its pores or openings and may be a planar sheet of scrim or tulle.
US11073688B2
Head mounted display device for very large field of view virtual reality experience, adapted to be mounted on a user's head, the head mounted display device including at least on image display, at least two eyepieces associated to each of the user's eyes and arranged between the image display(s) and the location of one of the user's eyes, each eyepiece having at least one Fresnel surface, wherein the at least one Fresnel surface of each eyepiece is planar and is arranged at an angle below 70°, preferably at an angle between 45° and 70°, in particular at an angle between 50° and 67.5° relative to the on-axis field gaze direction and where the surface optical center of the at least one Fresnel surface is decentered relative to the on-axis field gaze direction.
US11073687B2
Methods and systems for cleaning an optic include cleaning an optic with ultrasonic vibrations. The locations of nodes in a standing wave of the ultrasonic vibrations are changed by changing a frequency of vibration during cleaning.
US11073686B2
Systems and methods are provided for monitoring properties of a microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) oscillating structure. A system includes a MEMS oscillating structure configured as a non-linear resonator to oscillate about a rotation axis; a driver configured to generate a driving force for driving the MEMS oscillating structure about the rotation axis according to an operating response curve during which the MEMS oscillating structure is in resonance, the driver further configured to decrease the driving force when the MEMS oscillating structure is at a predefined tilt angle to induce an oscillation decay of the MEMS oscillating structure; a measurement circuit configured to measure an oscillation frequency and a tilt angle amplitude of the MEMS oscillating structure during a decay period; and processing circuitry configured to determine at least one characteristic of the MEMS oscillating structure based on at least one of the measured oscillation frequency and the measured tilt angle amplitude.
US11073683B2
A projection lens structure mainly includes a first group of lenses with a negative dioptric value, a second group of lenses with a positive dioptric value, a third group of lenses with a positive dioptric value and a fourth group of lenses with a negative dioptric value. The first group of lenses further includes at least a first lens and a second lens, of which the first lens ha a plastic aspheric lens in a meniscus shape with a focal length between −25˜−80 mm. The second group of lenses further includes at least a third lens. The third group of lenses further includes at least a first doublet with a focal length between 25˜80 mm. The fourth group of length further includes at least a group of doublets, a fourth lens and a fifth lens.
US11073677B2
This disclosure describes optical assemblies that generate output with substantial stability over a wide variation in temperature. The optical assemblies can be integrated, for example, as part of array generators arranged to project an array or other pattern of dots onto an object or projection plane.
US11073676B2
A lens unit may include a plurality of lenses, and a mirror cylinder that holds the plurality of lenses. At least one of the plurality of lenses may include a glass lens held in a lens holder having a cylinder part. The lens holder may include an annular projection part that protrudes radially inward from the cylinder part, on the opposite side of the cylinder part from an installation opening for the glass lens. The glass lens may be press-fitted and fixed in the cylinder part with a gap between the glass lens and the annular projection part.
US11073673B2
A cable fixation device (100, 200, 300, 400) includes a base (102, 202) with fastener holes (104), an upright (110, 208) projecting from the base and including a fixation projection (126, 212, 316, 318) having a reduced dimensional portion (128, 214, 324) for receiving a cable tie (152, 222, 326). Protrusions (130, 218, 320) are provided for engaging the cable jacket. Variations on the cable fixation device include a fixation element (130, 218, 320) which can slide and/or rotate about a vertical rod; a plate element (304) which includes a plurality of fixation projections extending between two rods; and a plurality of uprights (208) integrally formed with the base and including forwardly and rearwardly projecting projections. The base (102, 202) and the fixation projections (126, 212, 316, 318) can be made from molded plastic.
US11073672B2
A fiber optic telecommunications device includes a rack for mounting a plurality of chassis, each chassis including a plurality of trays slidably mounted thereon and arranged in a vertically stacked arrangement. Each tray includes fiber optic connection locations and a cable manager coupled to the tray and also coupled to the chassis, the cable manager for routing cables to and from the fiber optic connection locations and defining a plurality of link arms pivotally connected such that the manager retracts and extends with a corresponding movement of the tray, wherein the link arms pivot relative to each other to prevent cables managed therein from being bent in an arc having a radius of curvature less than a predetermined value, each link arm defining a top wall, a bottom wall, and two oppositely positioned sidewalls, each link arm defining an open portion along at least one of the sidewalls and an open portion along the top wall for receiving cables therein, the open portions along the top wall and the at least one of the sidewalls communicating with each other.
US11073661B1
Aspects described herein include an optical waveguide emitter that includes a first optical waveguide and a second optical waveguide that are evanescently coupled and collectively configured to selectively propagate only a first mode of a plurality of optical modes. Each of the first optical waveguide and the second optical waveguide extend through an input waveguide section, a turning waveguide section, and an output waveguide section. One or more of the input waveguide section, the turning waveguide section, and the output waveguide section includes an optically active region. The optical waveguide emitter further includes a refractive index-increasing feature in the turning waveguide section.
US11073660B2
Disclosed herein is a method for cleaving an optical fiber. The method includes providing an optical fiber (62), which is a bend-insensitive, single-mode optical fiber having a depressed index cladding layer that does not include any air inclusions. The method further includes applying energy to a section of the optical fiber (62) between a first location of the optical fiber and a second location of the optical fiber. The method also includes mechanically cleaving the optical fiber between the first and second locations of the optical fiber to provide cleaved optical fiber ends.
US11073656B2
An aim is to provide an optical coupler that contributes increasing pump-efficiency in an optical amplifier, and the optical amplifier. The optical amplifier includes: a main optical fiber that includes a core transmitting signal light, an inner cladding portion formed around an outer periphery of the core and having a refractive index lower than a refractive index of the core, and an outer cladding portion formed around an outer periphery of the inner cladding portion and having a refractive index lower than the refractive index of the inner cladding portion, a part of the outer cladding portion of which in a longitudinal direction being removed; and at least one pump-light input-output optical fiber that is fusion-spliced to the inner cladding portion of the main optical fiber at the portion where the outer cladding portion is removed, an average refractive index of which in a contact region where the pump-light input-output optical fiber is in contact with the inner cladding portion being larger than the refractive index of the inner cladding portion. Pump-light propagating in the pump-light input-output optical fiber is coupled to the inner cladding portion from the contact region and propagates in the inner cladding portion, or the pump-light propagating in the inner cladding portion is coupled to the pump-light input-output optical fiber from the contact region and propagates in the pump-light input-output optical fiber.
US11073653B2
A backlight apparatus can include a lens to receive light and generate light with a collimated batwing configuration. The lens can include a receiving surface and an opposing transmission surface. The lens can be symmetric about a plane of symmetry. The transmission surface can include an angle of curvature that increases closer to the plane of symmetry.
US11073646B2
Thin multilayer reflectors are described. In particular, thin multilayer reflectors that partially transmit blue light and reflect green and red light are described. The thin multilayer reflectors have a uniform left bandedge across each dimension of the film, wherein the location of the left bandedge varies in a range of no more than 10% of the average left bandedge across that dimension.
US11073629B2
A method for identifying a location of a distributed acoustic system channel in a distributed acoustic system. The method may comprise generating a two or three dimensional layer model interface with an information handling system, preparing a P-wave first arrival pick time table, estimating an initial model layer properties, estimating a location of the distributed acoustic system channels, preparing an overburden file of layer properties, running an anisotropic ray tracing, defining an upper and a lower limits for model parameters, specifying parameters for the inversion, running an inversion, selecting a solution based at least in part on stored error predictions, and calculating a mean and a standard deviation of an inverted model parameter.
US11073627B2
A system for obtaining downhole azimuthal imaging information includes a pressure housing. The system also includes a source arranged within the pressure housing, the source including a directable electron beam. The system further includes an anode positioned proximate the source, within the pressure housing, the anode having a tapered face adapted to interact with the directable electron beam and direct an x-ray beam away from the anode. The system also includes a detector arranged proximate the anode, the anode being between the source and the detector, wherein the detector receives scattered x-rays, from the x-ray beam, the received scattered x-rays corresponding to imaging information to determine one or more properties of a wellbore.
US11073624B2
A radiographic imaging apparatus, includes: a planar-shaped flexible scintillator board that emits light at an intensity according to a radiation dose of received radiation; a flexible photoelectric conversion panel that includes a plurality of photodetection elements formed so as to be distributed two-dimensionally on a surface of a flexible support board, and is arranged such that an element-formed surface on which the photodetection elements are formed faces the scintillator board, the photodetection elements generating charges according to an intensity of the received radiation; and a moisture barrier layer that is formed of a material having characteristics of preventing moisture from passing therethrough, and covers a surface of the scintillator board opposite to a surface facing the photodetection elements, a side surface of the scintillator board, and a surface of the photoelectric conversion panel opposite to the element-formed surface.
US11073618B2
A coherent lidar system includes a light source to output a continuous wave, and a modulator to modulate a frequency of the continuous wave and provide a frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) signal. The system also includes an aperture lens to obtain a receive beam resulting from a reflection of an output signal obtained from the FMCW signal, and an optical amplifier in a path of the receive beam to output an amplified receive beam. A method of fabricating the system includes arranging a light source to output a continuous wave, and disposing elements to modulate the continuous wave and provide the FMCW signal. The method also includes arranging an aperture to obtain a receive beam resulting from a reflection of an output signal obtained from the FMCW signal, and disposing an optical amplifier in a path of the receive beam to output an amplified receive beam.
US11073617B2
Methods and systems for performing three dimensional LIDAR measurements with a highly integrated LIDAR measurement device are described herein. In one aspect, the illumination source, detector, and illumination driver are integrated onto a single printed circuit board. In addition, in some embodiments, the associated control and signal conditioning electronics are also integrated onto the common printed circuit board. Furthermore, in some embodiments, the illumination driver and the illumination source are integrated onto a common Gallium Nitride substrate that is independently packaged and attached to the printed circuit board. In another aspect, the illumination light emitted from the illumination source and the return light directed toward the detector share a common optical path within the integrated LIDAR measurement device. In some embodiments, the return light is separated from the illumination light by a beam splitter. In some other embodiments, the optical design avoids losses associated with a beam splitter.
US11073615B2
A proximity sensor module with two sensors, including a package housing, a circuit substrate, an light emitter and a sensing assembly. The package housing includes a first package structure, a second package structure, a partition structure, a first accommodating space defined by the first package structure and the partition structure, and a second accommodation space defined by the second package structure and the partition structure. The light emitter is arranged in the first accommodating space and is disposed on the circuit substrate. The sensing assembly includes a first sensor and a second sensor. The first sensor and the second sensor are arranged in the second accommodating space, and the first sensor is farther from the light emitter than the second sensor.
US11073613B2
A method is provided for the optimization of the process decoding coded ultrasound signals that comprises: defining/selecting a coding function for ultrasound pulses transmitted to a body under examination by means of a predetermined probe; defining the coefficients of a filter decoding the received signal depending on the selected coding function; using said filter coefficients as the setting of the decoding filter corresponding to said predetermined probe for all the ultrasound systems provided in combination with said probe; and wherein the coefficients of the decoding filters are determined by the minimization, by a heuristic iterative process, of the difference between the characteristics of a receive signal, obtained in a real transmit/receive sequence and filtered with a decoding filter, and the characteristics of an ideal receive signal, that is a nominal one, by using as the coefficients of the decoding filter those obtained in the last iterative step.
US11073598B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for radar detection by an apparatus. In certain aspects a method for radar detection by an apparatus includes selecting one or more radar transmission parameters based on a reference time, wherein the reference time is common to at least a group of vehicles. The method further includes performing radar detection using the selected radar transmission parameters and the reference time.
US11073597B2
A method of operating a vehicle image system supported by a vehicle is provided. The method includes receiving data from one or more sensors supported by the vehicle. The one or more sensors capture sensor data of objects in the surrounding environment of the vehicle. The method also includes receiving a storage indication from a user input device. The storage indication is indicative of storing the data from the one or more sensors in the non-transitory memory. The method also includes storing the data after receiving the storage indication and transmitting a command to one or more remote devices causing the one or more remote devices to generate a two-dimensional image or a three-dimensional object based on the received data.
US11073595B2
Two or more objects, or an object and an environment are each fitted with two or more range measurement devices. Each of the range measurement devices is provided with a transceiver capable of outputting a unique code and information that can be used in range measurement, and receiving from other range measurement devices unique codes and information that can be used in range measurement. Range measurements from range measurement devices on the object or located in the environment are used to derive the relative position of the range measurement devices, from which a relative position of the objects, or of the object and an environment can be derived.
US11073590B2
A calibration array for calibrating a network analyzer, the array having multiple calibration points for direct or indirect connection to a network analyzer, and a main body connected to the calibration points, at least one of the calibration points being rotatable in relation to the main body.
US11073589B2
An inspection device has an attachment part for attaching a probe card in an inspection operation but attaching a diagnosis substrate in a self-diagnosis operation. During the inspection operation, a tester of the inspection device applies electrical signals to devices formed on a substrate through the probe card and multiple connectors of a connection member to inspect electrical characteristics of the devices During the self-diagnosis operation, a diagnosis substrate is attached to the attachment part of the inspection device instead of the probe card and a stabilization process is performed for stabilizing a contact between the diagnosis substrate and the connectors of the connection member after the diagnosis substrate is attached. The diagnosis of the multiple connectors is performed after the stabilization process.
US11073588B2
A method is provided for performing a quality analysis of a radio frequency (RF) coil of a magnetic resonance imaging device. In an operational mode, the RF coil is configured to acquire MR signals from an object to be observed. In a test mode: a test signal is emitted by a RF transmitter; the test signal from the RF transmitter is received directly by the RF coil, wherein the RF coil provides an output signal; and a performance indicator is provided by analyzing the output signal of the RF coil for performing the quality analysis.
US11073587B2
An image corrected for body motion with high accuracy in a short time when performing retrospective body motion correction on an MRI image is provided, and the time from imaging to image display is reduced. A body motion corrector of an MRI apparatus has a weighting factor calculator that calculates a three-dimensional weighting factor based on signals received by multi-channel receive coils. A processing space converter converts three-dimensional frequency space data of a measurement signal and the three-dimensional weighting factor respectively into hybrid space data and a two-dimensional weighting factor. A synthesized signal calculator calculates a synthesized signal by convolution integration of the hybrid space data and the two-dimensional weighting factor; and a body motion position detector detects a body motion occurrence position in the hybrid space from the hybrid space data and the synthesized signal.
US11073575B2
The present invention provides a magnetoresistance effect element that has a first ferromagnetic metal layer, a second ferromagnetic metal layer, and a tunnel barrier layer provided between the first ferromagnetic metal layer and the second ferromagnetic metal layer. The tunnel barrier layer has a cubic crystal structure, and the first ferromagnetic metal layer or the second ferromagnetic metal layer is formed of a material having a cubic crystal structure represented by Fe2CoSi. A crystal surface for crystals constituting the tunnel barrier layer and a crystal surface for crystals constituting the first ferromagnetic metal layer or the second ferromagnetic metal layer are matched to be inclined at 0° or 45° in at least a part of a crystal interface between the tunnel barrier layer and the first ferromagnetic metal layer or the second ferromagnetic metal layer.
US11073573B2
An apparatus comprises a first substrate and two coils supported by the first substrate and arranged next to each other, the coils configured to each generate a magnetic field which produces eddy currents in and a reflected magnetic field from a conductive target, the two coils arranged so their respectively generated magnetic fields substantially cancel each other in an area between the coils. One or more magnetic field sensing elements are positioned in the area between the coils and configured to detect the reflected magnetic field.
US11073569B2
A battery monitoring system includes a plurality of battery cells connected in series; a cell voltage measurement circuit for measuring a voltage of the battery cells; a first terminal connected to the cell voltage measurement circuit; a second terminal isolated from the cell voltage measurement circuit; a plurality of protection elements each corresponding to each of the battery cells; and a protection circuit connected to the second terminal for discharging an electric current from the protection elements through the second terminal.
US11073567B2
A vehicle battery diagnosis method and apparatus are provided. The vehicle battery diagnosis method includes receiving battery state history data including data stored based on state of charge (SOC) ranges of a battery and SOCs of the battery. Maximum distributions of the SOCs of the battery are then determined based on the battery state history data. A state of the battery is diagnosed based on a reduction rate among the maximum distributions of the SOCs of the battery based on the battery state history data.
US11073566B2
Disclosed is a battery management apparatus and method. The battery management apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may be configured to, when the voltage of a battery being discharged is equal to or lower than a preset discharge threshold voltage, predict the time left for a lower limit of discharge voltage preset lower than the discharge threshold voltage from the current time, and maintain or adjust the output parameter of the battery based on the predicted remaining time.
US11073565B2
A method for calculating a remaining capacity of a battery includes: recording a sleep time of a battery monitor in sleep mode; reading an open circuit voltage measured and stored in sleep mode when the sleep time is greater than a preset time period and determining a first remaining capacity ratio based on the open circuit voltage; calculating charges consumed based on a preset current and the sleep time; calculating a second remaining capacity ratio based on charges consumed, a stored first remaining capacity value and a preset total capacity; reading values of battery parameters; determining a third remaining capacity ratio based on the values of battery parameters; and determining a current remaining capacity ratio based on the first remaining capacity ratio, the second remaining capacity ratio and the third remaining capacity ratio.
US11073564B2
A system and method for monitoring characteristics of an electric energy device includes generating an external short from the electric energy device. The external short occurs at a known distance from a sensor and has at least one known external resistance. The received signal representing change in electromagnetic field due to the applied external short may be analyzed to determine a signal parameter that is then analyzed in comparison to a lookup table, based on the known conditions inclduig distance, temperature and the external resistance. The output of this analyses in comparison with expected values may be utilized to identify a characteristic of the energy device.
US11073554B2
Apparatuses of a scan controller include memory and circuitry, where the circuitry is configured to respond to a first signal by sending a second signal to isolate state retention elements from non-state retention elements in a scan chain of power gating circuitry and cycling through the scan chain while obtaining state retention data from the state retention elements during each cycle. The circuitry may be further configured to determine a first error detection code from the state retention data and store the error detection code in the memory. The circuitry may be configured to determine a second error detection code in response to another signal and compare the first error detection code with the second error detection code. The circuitry may be configured to send a signal indicating that the state retention data is corrupted if the first error detection code does not match the second error detection code.
US11073548B2
Disclosed is a system and method for monitoring a characteristic of an environment of an electronic device. The electronic device may include a printed circuit board and a component. A sensor is placed on the printed circuit board, and may be between the component and the board, and connects to a monitor, or detector. An end user device may be used to store, assess, display and understand the data received from the sensor through the monitor.
US11073546B1
A device for securing aircraft wiring, monitoring the aircraft wiring, and detecting degradation of the aircraft wiring includes a first clamp body and a sensing device. The first clamp body has a first end, a second end opposite the first end, a concave portion extending semi-annularly between the first end and the second end, a first exterior surface, and a second exterior surface opposite the first exterior surface, the concave portion configured to at least partially define a wire-receiving space. The sensing device is adjacent the wire receiving space and is configured to sense a characteristic of the aircraft wiring indicative of integrity of the aircraft wiring. A wireless module can be configured to communicate data from the sensing device to a receiver. An electronics housing can support the sensing device and/or other electronics, and can releasably mate and fasten to the first clamp body.
US11073544B2
An apparatus and method for managing an electrostatic charge of a workpiece are disclosed. The method includes coupling an electrostatic voltmeter to a conductor, coupling a charge-adjustment system to the conductor, and coupling the conductor to the workpiece. A level of charge in the workpiece is adjusted, via the conductor, with the charge-adjustment circuit and a voltage of the workpiece is monitored, via the conductor, with the electrostatic voltmeter. A controller may be used to adjust the charge on the workpiece based upon the monitored voltage.
US11073540B2
In some examples, a controller may include a processing resource and a memory resource storing machine readable instructions executable to cause the processing resource to set an electrical power threshold, monitor an amount of electrical power distributed between a plurality of phases of a multi-phase converter operation. The controller may detect a load disparity between a particular phase of the plurality of phases, disable the particular phase, and redistribute the electrical power amongst the remaining phases of the multi-phase converter operation.
US11073533B2
A method for detecting swiping of a card applicable in an electronic device controls a motion detecting device to acquire motion data of the electronic device, controls a distance detecting device to detect a distance between the electronic device and a card, determining whether the motion data is within at least one predetermined range of motion data, determines whether the detected distance is less than or equal to a predetermined value; controls the recording device to record sounds at the proximity of the electronic device if the motion data is within the at least one predetermined range of motion data and the detected distance is less than or equal to the predetermined value, determining whether the recorded sounds are the same as responsive sounds of card-swiping; and determines that swiping of the card is successful if the recorded sounds are the same as the responsive sounds of card-swiping.
US11073527B2
An automated sample inspection system is provided with a conveyance line for conveying sample carriers; an empty sample carrier line for conveying empty sample carriers; and a buffer line for temporarily holding empty sample carriers supplied from the empty sample carrier line to the conveyance line. According to the depletion status of the buffer line of each processing system, and the depletion status of other processing systems adjacent to each processing system, the number of empty sample carriers to be conveyed from the empty sample carrier line to the buffer line of each processing system, and the number of empty sample carriers to be conveyed from the empty sample carrier line of each processing system to the empty sample carrier line of another adjacent processing system are determined. Consequently, delays in the processes in the system can be suppressed due to the suppression of the depletion of sample carriers.
US11073524B2
The present invention provides methods, devices, and compositions to rapidly detect analytes, including small analytes, using a lateral flow device. Described herein is such a lateral flow device that can detect and quantify vitamin D in a whole blood, serum, or plasma sample by employing a sandwich-based immunoassay.
US11073515B2
The invention is directed to a method for detecting a target moiety in a sample of biological specimens by: a) providing at least one conjugate with the general formula (I) Xn—P—Ym, b) contacting the sample of biological specimens with at least one conjugate, thereby labeling the target moiety recognized by the antigen recognizing moiety Y with the conjugate c) exciting the labelled target moieties with light having a wavelength within the absorbance spectrum of fluorescent moiety X d) detecting the labelled target moieties by detecting the fluorescence radiation and e) degrading the fluorescent moiety X of the labelled target moieties by irradiating the conjugate with light having a wavelength within the absorbance spectrum of fluorescent moiety X Use of the method in fluorescence microscopy, flow cytometer, spectrofluorometry, cell separation, pathology or histology.
US11073514B2
In a method of detecting a test substance, a test substance is detected using a sample analysis cartridge supplied with a sample. The sample analysis cartridge includes: a passage part having a gas-phase space; and liquid containers communicating with the passage part through openings. The liquid containers include: a first liquid container containing a first liquid containing magnetic particles; and a second liquid container containing a second liquid containing a labeled substance. The magnetic particles are sequentially transported to the liquid containers through the gas-phase space in the passage part. Thus, the magnetic particles carry a complex of the test substance and the labeled substance. The test substance is detected based on the labeled substance in the complex.
US11073511B2
A device (“the ExoTIC device”) for the isolation of extracellular vesicles from an extracellular vesicle-containing sample in which the sample is flowed through a membrane in a flow chamber to capture and purify the extracellular vesicles on the membrane. The extracellular vesicles may be washed and collected and utilized in any one of a number of ways including, but not limited to, identifying biomarkers of a disease, identifying the presence of a biomarker in a patient to determine whether a patient has a disease, and therapeutically treating existing diseases by re-introducing the extracellular vesicles, potentially modified, back into a body.
US11073506B2
Establishing a rancidity index table and allocating a rancidity index value to an absorption or reflection spectrum of oil fruits, nuts and seeds (2) comprises: irradiating a sample of an oil fruit, a nut or a seed (2) with a light source (3), projecting the reflected and/or transmitted light onto a photosensor (4), detecting the absorption or reflection spectrum by means of the photosensor (4), extracting ingredients of the sample by determining volatile compounds, separating volatile components of the sample by means of gas chromatography, identifying separated volatile components by mass spectroscopic detection of relevant ones, determining a rancidity index value of the sample from identified volatile components of the sample, allocating the detected absorption or reflection spectrum of the sample to the rancidity index value, repeating the previous steps for a representative number of samples and forming a rancidity table from the determined rancidity index values and allocated absorption or reflection spectra.
US11073505B2
An Internet-of-Things-based crop growth monitoring device includes a plurality of monitoring mechanisms. Each monitoring mechanism includes a base and a support rod fixed on the base. The support rod is provided with an electric element installation casing formed by snap-fitting an upper conical cover and a lower conical cover. A component for driving a swing cantilever to rotate is provided on the support rod at a position near a lowermost surface of the upper conical cover. A plurality of distance measuring laser sensors are provided on the swing cantilever. A component for driving an ultra-high-definition camera to rotate is provided on the support rod at the section of the upper conical cover. The images captured by the ultra-high-definition camera is used to obtain the leaf growth situation of the crops, and the data collected by the distance measuring laser sensors is used to determine the plant height of the crops.
US11073503B2
An area monitoring device is placed in a location to monitor volatile organic compounds emissions. The device includes a gas sensor capable of detecting VOCs, a sorbent material capable of absorbing VOC molecules, and a heating element positioned in close relation to, or in direct contact with, the sorbent material. After a period of time during which the sorbent material absorbs VOC molecules, the sorbent material is heated to cause the sorbent material to release a gas containing VOC molecules. The amount of released VOC molecules is sensed and calculated. Data is compiled and analyzed. This is accomplished without removing the device from the location. A pump may be provided to force ambient air through the device.
US11073498B2
According to one embodiment, a detection system of an embodiment includes a sensor configured to detect elastic waves and a determiner. The determiner determines a region where an elastic wave generation source is positioned on the basis of waveform information if the waveform information including a plurality of peak groups related to one elastic wave is included in a detection result of the sensor.
US11073493B2
To reduce effects of noise and improve detection accuracy, a sensor device includes: a detection electrode opposing an external electrode to which a predetermined voltage is applied, and configured to generate a voltage corresponding to a change in electrostatic capacitance; and a capacitive amplifier circuit having a first capacitor and a second capacitor connected in series to each other, and configured to detect the voltage generated in the detection electrode, and output a detection signal obtained by amplifying the voltage generated in the detection electrode based on a capacitance ratio between the first capacitor and the second capacitor.
US11073487B2
Methods and systems for positioning a specimen and characterizing an x-ray beam incident onto the specimen in a Transmission, Small-Angle X-ray Scatterometry (T-SAXS) metrology system are described herein. A specimen positioning system locates a wafer vertically and actively positions the wafer in six degrees of freedom with respect to the x-ray illumination beam without attenuating the transmitted radiation. In some embodiments, a cylindrically shaped occlusion element is scanned across the illumination beam while the detected intensity of the transmitted flux is measured to precisely locate the beam center. In some other embodiments, a periodic calibration target is employed to precisely locate the beam center. The periodic calibration target includes one or more spatially defined zones having different periodic structures that diffract X-ray illumination light into distinct, measurable diffraction patterns.
US11073484B2
An image acceleration processing device including a field programmable gate array (FPGA) processing platform; and a personal computer (PC). The FPGA processing platform includes: a first fiber interface configured to receive configuration parameters and test commands, and to output test results; a second fiber interface configured to exchange data with the PC; a third fiber interface configured to receive image data and output the configuration parameters and the test commands; a fourth fiber interface configured to control the generation of a screen lighting signal; and a fifth fiber interface configured to control an input/output (IO) light source.
US11073482B2
A multi-functional precious stone testing apparatus includes a microcontroller, a measuring unit for measuring properties of the testing object, and a functional unit. The measuring unit is arranged to measure one of a combination of ultraviolet and infrared distributions of the testing object and a combination of thermal and electrical conductivities of the testing object. The microcontroller analyzes a result from the measuring unit to generate a test result of the testing object, wherein the microcontroller includes a communication unit for connecting with an electronic device to transmit the test result thereto. The functional unit includes a voice indicator that generates a voice indication signal of the test result.
US11073481B2
A compact optical imaging system including a single filter and a light source that provides lateral illumination for bead detection in digital assays. The light source is configured to emit light toward the detection vessel. The single filter is positioned to receive light reflected from a sample in the detection vessel, that originated from the light source, and receive an output from a sample in the detection vessel. A detector is configured to receive a portion of the reflected light and a portion of the output that passes through the single filter.
US11073478B2
A device and method for determining substances within a fluid stream through the employment of light projected therethrough or emitted by the substances energized in the fluid stream. The device features a fluid chamber through which light, at known wavelengths, is projected through the fluid stream to a light sensor. The substances in the fluid stream are determinable by ascertaining which respective light wavelengths emitted by the light emitter do not contact the light sensor because they are absorbed by respective substances in the fluid stream. Alternatively, the substances in the fluid stream can be energized to emit light in wavelengths which can be ascertained as emitted by individual substances.
US11073473B2
A turbidity measurement method includes irradiating a first irradiation light L1 having a first spectrum E1, detecting a first measured light ML1 based on the first irradiation light L1, irradiating a second irradiation light L2 having a second spectrum E2 different from the first spectrum E1, detecting a second measured light ML2 based on the second irradiation light L2, calculating turbidity of a liquid to be measured, and correcting at least one of a first parameter related to turbidity calculation associated with the first irradiation light L1 and a second parameter related to turbidity calculation associated with the second irradiation light L2 so that the calculated turbidity of the liquid to be measured corresponds to the turbidity of the liquid to be measured as measured using another light source serving as a standard of comparison.
US11073465B2
A system and method include a resonator device including walls forming a channel, where the walls are shaped to simultaneously confine light in an optical mode and to confine vibration in a mechanical mode, and where the mechanical mode is selected so that vibration in the mechanical mode can couple to the optical mode. A waveguide is coupled with the resonator device for guiding a probe light through the resonator device. An electro-mechanical actuation mechanism provides a mechanical drive force to the resonator device. A photodetector measure light outputted by the waveguide after passing through the resonator device, the outputted light including a modulated version of the probe light based on passing through the resonator device and interacting with a fluid, or a fluid containing a particle, contained by the channel of the resonator device.
US11073463B2
Methods for simulating the movement of fluid through a formation volume comprises defining a lab-scale model representing rock fabric and associated permeability along a single well location within a formation volume and converting the lab-scale model to a field-scale model representing rock fabric and associated permeability at the single well location. The field-scale model representing rock fabric and associated permeability is correlated with field-scale log data and interpolated between multiple well locations so as to create a field-scale model representing rock fabric and associated permeability across the formation volume so that the movement of fluid through the formation volume can be simulated.
US11073459B2
Provided is a method for evaluating a pretreatment effect for organic solid waste based on fractal dimension, relating to biological conversion of organic solid waste. Samples of the organic solid waste are collected, and dried and broken up to obtain dried samples. The mixtures obtained are analyzed using a laser particle size analyzer, so as to measure a wave vector Q and a scattering intensity I of each of the mixtures. According to a fractal theory, the wave vector Q and the scattering intensity I obtained are analyzed using a data processing software to obtain a two-dimensional fractal dimension Df of each of the samples. Based on data from documents and experiments, a total organic carbon or an apparent activated energy is evaluated, so as to evaluate the pretreatment effects of samples of the organic solid waste.
US11073457B2
A device is provided for determining material properties of a material, preferably a wood or a wooden material, having a pin arrangement having at least two pins, a drive unit for at least partially driving the pins into the material using a defined force, and a measuring unit for measuring both the penetration depth of at least one of the at least two pins and also an electrical resistance between two of the pins.
US11073456B2
A test force generating spring that is interposed between an indenter shaft provided with an indenter at a distal end and a press that linearly displaces the indenter shaft toward a sample stage so as to press the indenter into a surface of a sample is configured as an annular spring having left/right symmetry, the annular spring including a left/right pair of through-holes that are formed running from one side surface of a substantially rectangular metal block to another side surface on a rear side of the block and a slit that is formed so as to connect the pair of through-holes. With this configuration, a highly accurate test force can be generated and a hardness test can be favorably performed by a hardness tester.
US11073450B2
A filter arrangement with a top element and a bottom element and a filter element therebetween captures oversized particles on the upper surface of the filter element and tangentially rinses these particles using an elution fluid to provide a concentration of particles in a relatively low volume of fluid for further analysis. In an intermediate step, the particles captured by the filter may be rinsed with a rinsing fluid such as water to pass additional undersized particles through the filter, thereby providing a purer sample. To improve efficiency, check valves may be used for passageways with one-way flow. Additionally, a configuration of three-way stopcocks may also be utilized. Finally, a sandwich arrangement is possible, wherein a single bottom element is sandwiched between two opposing top elements.
US11073448B1
A soil sampler assembly includes a utility vehicle and a soil sampler module coupled to the utility vehicle. The utility vehicle includes a cab, and the soil sampler module is configured to deposit a soil sample in the cab. For example, the soil sampler assembly includes a conveyor system configured to convey the soil sample to the cab. The conveyor system includes a central conveyor and a lateral conveyor that feeds the central conveyor. The central conveyor is on a travel track. The soil sampler assembly further includes a sampler arm assembly. The sampler arm assembly includes a power cylinder, a guide cylinder, a transfer block, and a probe. The probe has a tip, and the tip of the probe includes an outer surface defining an outer taper bore and an inner surface defining an inner taper bore.
US11073446B2
A wear inspection apparatus includes a data acquisition unit which is configured to acquire surface shape data including information indicating a shape of a surface of a part wearing as a vehicle travels, and an approximation processing unit which is configured to calculate an approximation line for the acquired surface shape data and calculates a degree of wear of the part from the approximation line and a worn portion included in the surface shape data.
US11073441B2
Determining when to calibrate a pressure sensor of a mobile device. Particular systems and methods determine values of a plurality of metrics based on how data collected at a first location of a mobile device relates to threshold conditions, determine weights for the metric values, determine weighted metric values by applying the weights to the metric values, use the weighted metric values to determine if a pressure sensor of the mobile device should be calibrated using information associated with the first location, and calibrate the pressure sensor of the mobile device using the information associated with the first location if a determination is made that the pressure sensor of the mobile device should be calibrated using information associated with the first location.
US11073434B2
Provided are a method of manufacturing a shear and normal force sensor including fabricating raised and sunken polymers having a plurality of bent parts of bent shapes, forming an electrode pattern on one surface of a piezoelectric element, and embedding the piezoelectric element between the raised and sunken polymers, and a shear and normal force sensor including raised and sunken polymers having a plurality of bent parts of bent shapes, a piezoelectric element embedded between the raised and sunken polymers and having an electrode pattern on one surface, and a flexible printed circuit board (FPCB) embedded between the sunken polymer and the piezoelectric element and electrically connected to the electrode pattern.
US11073430B2
A high-voltage device has an inner conductor and an insulating member that surrounds the inner conductor along the longitudinal direction thereof. In order to increase the reliability of the high-voltage device, at least one optical waveguide rests against the inner conductor in at least some sections, extends out of the insulating member and can be connected to an evaluation unit for recording measured temperature values. Furthermore a method measures a temperature of the inner conductor of the high-voltage device.
US11073428B2
A temperature-sensing device configured to monitor a temperature includes: a first conductive line; a second conductive line, wherein the first and second conductive lines have respective different cross-sectional dimensions; a sensing circuit, coupled to the first and second conductive lines, and configured to determine a logic state of an output signal based on a difference between respective signal levels present on the first and second conductive lines; and a control circuit, coupled to the sensing circuit, and configured to determine whether the monitored temperature is above or below a pre-defined threshold temperature based on the determined logic state.
US11073421B2
Optical detectors and methods of forming them are provided. The detector includes: a controller, pump and probe laser generators that generate modulated pump laser and probe lasers, respectively, a microring cavity that receives the lasers, a microbridge, and a photodetector. The microring cavity includes covered and exposed portions. The microbridge is suspended above the exposed portion and interacts with an evanescent optical field. The wavelength and modulated power of the pump laser are controlled to generate the evanescent optical field that excites the microbridge to resonance. The microbridge absorbs optical radiation which changes the resonance frequency proportionately. The probe laser is modulated in proportion to a vibration amplitude of the microbridge to form a modulated probe laser which is provided to the photodetector. The controller receives data from the photodetector, determines a change in resonance frequency, and calculates the amount of absorbed radiation from the change in resonance frequency.
US11073418B2
A liquid level sensing device and a packing structure are provided. An outer tube fastener is connected to a signal module. A protective soft tube is connected to the outer tube fastener. An end of a double-layer flexible tube is connected to the protective soft tube. The double-layer flexible tube includes a flexible conductive outer tube and a fluorine-containing plastic inner tube coaxially attached in the flexible conductive outer tube. The fluorine-containing plastic inner tube is made of a flexible material. The flexible conductive outer tube is made of a conductive flexible material to form a grounding layer. A sensing module is disposed in the fluorine-containing plastic inner tube. A magnetic floater is assembled outside the double-layer flexible tube. A hanger is connected to another end of the double-layer flexible tube.
US11073410B2
A position-measuring device for determining an absolute position includes a measuring scale and a scanning unit that is movable relative to the measuring scale along at least one measuring direction. To generate a scannable signal pattern, the measuring scale has a measuring graduation which includes a raster of stripe elements arranged along the measuring direction at a measuring-scale longitudinal period. For the encoding of an absolute position, the stripe elements have a periodic structure having a measuring-scale transverse period along a transverse direction that is oriented perpendicular to the measuring direction. For scanning the signal pattern, the scanning unit has a two-dimensional detector system having a plurality of detector elements, which includes multiple detector columns having a plurality of detector elements in each case. The detector columns are periodically arranged along the measuring direction and the detector elements are periodically arranged along the transverse direction, so that by scanning the signal pattern, at least three periodic partial incremental signals are able to be generated with regard to relative movements along the measuring direction, as well as at least one absolute-position signal per detector column.
US11073408B2
A rotary sensor arrangement is configured to be used with a rotatable magnetic source and comprises a first and a second pair of magnetic field sensors, each pair arranged symmetrically with respect to rotation axes and providing respective sensor values. An evaluation unit determines a first sum value corresponding to a sum of the sensor values of the first pair, and a second sum value corresponding to a sum of the sensor values of the second pair. The evaluation unit further determines a difference value corresponding to a difference between the first and the second sum value and compares the difference value or a value derived thereof to a threshold value. Based on the comparison result, it is determined whether a failure status of the sensor arrangement is present.
US11073402B2
A method for exchanging digital map data between a first and a second vehicle, each vehicle comprising a communication unit for exchanging messages between vehicles, a positioning unit for detecting the position of the vehicle, a map unit for storing and processing a digital map, and an evaluation unit for creating a quality measurement regarding a map section of the digital map. The method includes creation of a quality measurement regarding map data of a map section of the digital map by the first vehicle and checking of whether the quality measurement for the map data of the map section is below a threshold value which defines a minimum quality.
US11073399B2
The present invention relates to a method for estimating a position of an ego vehicle for autonomous driving including the steps of: receiving first sensor inputs from first sensors to extract visual road information; allowing the extracted visual road information to match first map data to produce a first matching score group; receiving second sensor inputs from second sensors; allowing the received second sensor inputs to match the second map data to produce a second matching score group; checking whether the first matching score group is consistent to the second matching score group; and estimating any one of the position candidates in the position candidate group of the ego vehicle as the position of the ego vehicle according to the consistency checking result.
US11073392B2
A physical quantity sensor includes: a movable body that includes a beam, a coupling portion that is connected with the beam and is provided in a direction intersecting with the beam, and a first and second mass portions that are connected with the coupling portion at connection positions; a first and second fixed electrodes are opposed to the first and second mass portions; and a protrusion are provided and protrude toward the first and second mass portions. In the intersecting direction, in a case where a distance from connection positions to end portions of the first and second mass portions opposite to the beam is L, and a distance from the protrusions to end portions of the first and second mass portions opposite to the beam is L1, the distance L1 is 0.5 L or longer and 3.1 L or shorter.
US11073390B2
Provided are a lidar system and an autonomous driving system using the same. The lidar system includes: a light emitter configured to include a light source generating a laser beam and a scanner moving the laser beam from the light source to scan an object with the laser beam; a receiving sensor configured to convert light reflected and received by the object into an electrical signal; and a signal processor configured to include a trans impedance amplifier amplifying an output signal of the receiving sensor, an analog to digital converter converting an output signal of the trans impedance amplifier into a digital signal, and a gain controller varying a gain of the trans impedance amplifier. According to the lidar system, an autonomous vehicle, an AI device, and an external device may be linked with an artificial intelligence module, a drone, a robot, an Augmented or Virtual Reality device, etc.
US11073386B2
A sensing element includes a plurality of sensing pixel areas arranged in matrix, wherein each of the plurality of sensing pixel areas includes a first pixel, a second pixel, a first shielding layer, a second shielding layer and at least one micro lens. The second pixel is adjacent to the first pixel in a predetermined direction. The first shielding layer is disposed on the first pixel and has a first opening, wherein an aperture of the first opening increases along the predetermined direction from a center of the first pixel. The second shielding layer is disposed on the second pixel and has a second opening, wherein a shape of the second opening is mirror symmetrical with that of the first opening in the predetermined direction. The at least one micro lens is disposed on the first shielding layer and the second shielding layer.
US11073382B2
A method of compensating errors in a coordinate measuring machine adapted for determination of at least one spatial coordinate of a measurement point on an object to be measured. The method comprises measuring a distance from the first reference element to the first structural component, wherein the measured distance indicates a displacement or a deformation of the first structural component, defining a dynamic model with a first set of state variables, the state variables being related to a set of physical properties of the reference module and representing an actual state of the reference module, deriving the actual state of the reference module by a calculation based on the dynamic model, and deducing compensation parameters based on the actual state.
US11073377B2
Provided herein are measurement systems including a micrometer assembly for receiving a length of tubing, the micrometer assembly including a plurality of non-contact optical micrometers disposed around the length of tubing for measuring an outer diameter (OD) at a first plurality of positions along a circumference of the length of tubing. The measurement system may further include a displacement gauge assembly for receiving the length of tubing from the optical micrometer assembly, the displacement gauge assembly including a plurality of non-contact gauges disposed around the length of tubing for measuring a wall thickness at a second plurality of positions along the circumference of the length of tubing. A controller receives the OD measurements and thickness measurements, and determines an inner diameter and a concentricity of the length of glass tubing based on an index of refraction of the length of glass tubing, the OD measurements, and the thickness measurements.
US11073370B2
An optical system comprising an optical coherence tomography (OCT) measuring device and a beam deflection unit for laterally deflecting the position or angle of a beam path of the OCT measuring device. There is an optical component in the beam path, said optical component being embodied in such a way that a back-reflection of the optical component has a different configuration in terms of its longitudinal location along the beam path depending on the lateral position of the deflected beam path on the optical component. The optical system comprises an evaluation unit which is embodied in such a way that a value of the lateral position or angle deflection of the beam deflection unit is determinable on the basis of a longitudinal location of the back-reflection at the optical component determined by the OCT measuring device.
US11073365B2
A hand-wearable device capable of electro muscular incapacitation is disclosed. The device may comprise a glove portion including a back side and a palm side, a stun hardware component including a charging port, a rechargeable battery, and a capacitor. First and second terminals may be positioned on the back side of the glove portion and electrically connected to the stun hardware component. The glove portion may encompass a traditional five-fingered glove, cycling glove, lifting glove, or gauntlet. In addition, the glove portion may comprise a cuff or bracer. When the hand-wearable device comprises a glove, the glove portion may be an insulated glove. A switch for actuating discharge of an electrical charge from the first and/or second terminal may be activated when contact is made with the switch; an accelerometer may be adapted to prevent the discharge when acceleration of the glove portion has not reached a predetermined rate.
US11073360B2
A ballistic resistant article includes a first layer that has first unidirectional fibers disposed in a first polymer matrix. The first polymer matrix is composed of a thermoset polyurethane. A second layer is laminated to the first layer. The second layer includes second unidirectional fibers disposed in a second polymer matrix. The second unidirectional fibers are cross-oriented with respect to the first unidirectional fibers.
US11073357B2
An electromagnetic launcher with a curved or spiral-shaped, open-ended guideway and conductors for launching a projectile. The projectile, movably retained on or within the guideway, is accelerated along the guideway using electromagnetic forces until it reaches an end of the guideway, then the projectile is launched in a desired direction. The direction of the launch of the projectile is determined by orienting the guideway in the desired direction using an actuator.
US11073351B2
A pistol device includes a handgrip portion having a grip body defining an accommodation space, a snap hole extending through a front side of the grip body, and two positioning holes extending through left and right sides of the grip body. The snap and positioning holes communicate with the accommodation space. A magazine base is detachably disposed on a bottom end of the handgrip portion, and includes a surrounding wall, a snap block detachably engageable with the snap hole, and a connecting portion connected to the surrounding wall and having at least one pin hole extending therethrough. A positioning pin is detachably inserted through the positioning holes and the pin hole to fix the magazine base to the handgrip portion.
US11073345B2
A header tank for a heat exchanger comprises a casing having a hollow interior and a header assembly coupled to the casing. The header assembly comprises a header having a plurality of tube openings formed therein and a stiffening element coupled to the header. The stiffening element includes a stiffening wall extending from a first longitudinal side of the header to an opposing second longitudinal side of the header to provide additional bending stiffness to the header assembly.
US11073340B2
A method and apparatus for pool boiling includes introducing a fluid into a chamber of a housing which has one or more protruding features. One or more diverters extend at least partially across the one or more protruding features in the chamber. One or more bubbles are formed in the fluid in the chamber as a result of bubble nucleation. At least one of growth and motion of the one or more of the bubbles are diverted with the one or more diverters to generate additional localized motion of the fluid along at least one of the one or more protruding features and other surfaces in the chamber of the housing to at least of transfer additional heat to the liquid and increase the critical heal flux limit.
US11073338B2
A liquid-cooled heat dissipation device is disclosed, comprising a main body, a centrifugal pump, an inlet pipe and an outlet pipe. The main body comprises liquid flow channels and liquid storage tanks. The liquid flow channels are circumferentially arranged and spaced apart. The liquid storage tanks are located on both sides of the main body, and the liquid storage tanks on the same side are connected by liquid flow channels. The centrifugal pump is installed in one of the liquid storage tanks. The inlet pipe and the outlet pipe are in spatial communication with the other two liquid storage tanks, respectively. The centrifugal pump guides a cooling liquid through the inlet pipe, main body and outlet pipe. The cooling liquid travel through the liquid storage tanks via the liquid flow channels and forms radial jet flows after being pumped by centrifugal pump.
US11073330B2
Power distribution for end-point failure detection and recovery for a transport refrigeration system
A transport refrigeration system including a method for fault tolerant power management. The system includes a first sensor identified as required for operation of the transport refrigeration system and a second sensor operable as a backup for the first sensor. The system also includes a first power supply operably connected to the first sensor and configured to operate the first sensor and a second power supply operably connected to the second sensor and configured to operate the second sensor. The system further includes a controller operably connected to at least the first power supply as well as the first sensor and the second power supply as well as the second sensor, the controller configured to monitor at least the first power supply and the second power supply, if a fault is detected in the first power supply, operate the transport refrigeration system from the second sensor.
US11073324B2
A drainage system comprising a first bracket having a horizontal structure and one or more vertical structures, a second bracket having a horizontal structure and one or more vertical structures and a drain pan having a plurality of locking mechanisms, each configured to interlock with one of the vertical structures of the first bracket or the second bracket.
US11073320B2
A method of making clear ice including filling an ice piece forming tray having an axis of rotation, a distal end, a motor engaging end, and plurality of ice piece making compartments with water. Freezing the water into ice by providing heat sinks disposed on and thermally connected to a bottom side of the ice piece forming tray. Removing heat from the plurality of heat sinks. Removing defrost water from the heat sinks by providing at least one defrost water channel along the axis of rotation, providing at least one defrost water channel along one of the distal end and the motor engaging end and connected to the defrost water channel along the axis of rotation. And delivering defrost water to a drain or defrost water catch tray positioned at one of the distal end and the motor engaging end.
US11073318B2
Provided is a method for adaptive control of a refrigeration system, the method including calculating a Number of Transfer Units (NTU) rate or an indicator representing the ease of variation of temperature (FVT) of an evaporator of the refrigeration system, to detect a frost level in the evaporator, to define the most suitable defrosting time, the energization of the drainage resistors and the adaptive management of the evaporator fan combining different operating modes, including an ice-free mode that uses only the cooling capacity of the refrigerant, and different modes with ice, which take advantage of the latent heat stored in the ice to save energy, depending on the frost level in the evaporator.
US11073312B2
A facility has a storage unit comprising a housing enclosing a storage volume for receiving goods and/or equipment. It comprises an operating system provided with a tempering unit associated with the storage volume for maintaining a defined or set temperature in the storage volume. The operating system is provided with a refrigerant circuit comprising an internal heat exchanger, arranged in the tempering unit, an external heat exchanger as well as a compressor unit for compressing refrigerant. The operating system is provided with an engine for driving said compressor unit as an independent power source and an electric generator unit mechanically coupled to said engine. The compressor unit and/or the generator unit are driven by the engine independent power source, with the operating system connected to a local energy supply system of said facility to provide a local electric mains power supply system connected to the electric generator unit.
US11073311B2
A climate-control system includes a first working-fluid circuit, a second working-fluid circuit and a first heat exchanger. The first working-fluid circuit includes a first compressor, a second heat exchanger and a first pump. The second heat exchanger is in fluid communication with the first compressor. The first pump receives a first working fluid from the second heat exchanger and circulates the first working fluid through the first working-fluid circuit. The second working-fluid circuit is fluidly isolated from the first working-fluid circuit and includes a second pump and a fourth heat exchanger. The second pump is in fluid communication with the fourth heat exchanger. The first heat exchanger is thermally coupled with the first working-fluid circuit and the second working-fluid circuit.
US11073307B2
The invention relates to a calibration method for a group of reflectors for concentrating solar radiation onto a radiation receiver, having the following steps: A) aligning the reflectors in order to at least partly expose a calibration surface to solar radiation reflected by the reflectors; B) modifying the intensity distribution of the radiation incident on the calibration surface by carrying out a pattern of movements by each reflector of the group, wherein at least one specified parameter for the pattern of movements of each reflector differs from the parameters of the other reflectors, said parameter being selected from the group: —movement frequency,—movement amplitude,—movement phase angle, and—trajectory of the solar radiation, reflected by the reflector, within the calibration surface; C) recording rows of pixels for a plurality of differently located location points of the calibration surface by at least one camera, each row of pixel having at least five temporally offset pixel recordings; D) ascertaining a spectrum for each row of pixels by transforming the row of pixels into the frequency domain; E) assigning a subset of spectra to the reflectors on the basis of the movement pattern parameter of the reflector; and F) determining at least one reflection target position for each reflector at least on the basis of the subset of spectra assigned to the reflector. The invention additionally relates to a calibration device for a group of reflectors for concentrating solar radiation onto a radiation receiver.
US11073305B2
A solar energy capture, conversion and storage system for use on a roof of a building for capturing and converting incident solar radiation to heat and electricity. The invention provides an optimized solar energy capture and conversion system that monitors immediately available incident radiation comprising a mounting structure which supports a matrix in which is embedded a conduit containing a working fluid. The fluid or fluid mixture includes at least one hydro-fluoro-ether (HFE). Valves are arranged to open/close ports which connect the solar energy capture system to either a combined heat/electrical generating system or an energy storage system that incorporates a phase change material to store heat energy. Control of the valves is supervised by an energy management system.
US11073303B2
A combustion tube assembly of a water heater includes a combustion tube having an open end, a closed end, and an outflow opening located between the open end and the closed end. A cavity of the combustion tube provides a chamber for a combustion of a water heater fuel that produces an exhaust gas that flows down toward the closed end. The combustion tube assembly further includes a diverter structure positioned inside the combustion tube to divert the exhaust gas such that the exhaust gas flows toward the closed end on a first side of the diverter structure and flows from the first side of the diverter structure to the second side of the diverter structure through a flow opening proximal to the closed end. The outflow opening provides an outlet for the exhaust gas that flows to the second side of the diverter structure to exit the combustion tube.
US11073297B2
Provided are an air conditioner defrosting control method and a device thereof. The air conditioner defrosting control method is: entering a defrosting mode, and detecting the number of defrosting operations executed in the present defrosting mode; according to the number of defrosting operations and an initially set defrosting time, setting the present set defrosting time recording the present defrosting time; detecting that the present defrosting time, and determining that the present defrosting time reaches the preset defrosting time; updating the number of defrosting operations; and setting the next set defrosting time. Through the air conditioner defrosting control method and device, the maximum defrosting time can be self-adaptively adjusted without affecting the use of a user, and preventing the accumulation of a frosting layer, and avoiding the risk of pipes bursting.
US11073293B2
A heat exchanger system includes a heat exchanger coil, a base of a foam structure including a clamp with a first arm and a second arm, where the first arm and the second arm are configured to exert a clamping force against the heat exchanger coil, and a vertical member of the foam substructure coupled to the base and abutting a cover of the heat exchanger system, where the base and the vertical member are configured to block air flowing through the heat exchanger from flowing into a void between the heat exchanger coil and the cover.
US11073291B2
An external control unit to be connected between a power source and an electrically driven pump to act as a smart switch to convert a “dumb” pump into a smart pump. The control system of this invention comprises a microcontroller-operated switch, located between the power source and the pump, or other fluid flow control device to be operated by electricity, and which can be programmed to record usage data of, e.g., hot water, by the household; it sets up the operating times in accordance with such usage. A temperature sensor is connected to the microcontroller to sense a temperature change, in a hot water system is turned on, by measuring an increase in temperature to indicate flow through the hot water pipe, and to record such data. This will determine, in the context of a hot water system, when the pump should be activated to bring up hot water.
US11073282B2
A heat transfer arrangement includes two or more heat transfer cells. The heat transfer cells together define a boundary between a higher temperature region and a lower temperature region. Each of the two or more heat transfer cells includes two or more walls defining a fluid tight cavity. One or more wick is fused to an inner surface of one or more of the walls to wick liquid from a lower temperature portion of the cavity to a higher temperature portion of the cavity. Combustors having heat transfer arrangements with heat transfer cells and methods of making heat transfer arrangements are also described.
US11073281B2
Methods and systems for programming and controlling a control system of a gas valve assembly. The methods and systems include programming a control system in an automated manner to establish an air-fuel ratio based at least in part on a burner firing rate. The established air-fuel ratio may be configured to facilitate meeting a combustion constituent set point of combustion constituents in the combustion exhaust. The methods and systems include controlling operation of a combustion appliance based on closed-loop control techniques and utilizing feedback from a sensor measuring combustion constituents in exhaust from a combustion chamber in the combustion appliance. The combustion constituents on which control of the combustion appliance may be determined include oxygen and/or carbon dioxide.
US11073278B2
Liquid is flash evaporated in a series of cells along and surrounding an exhaust duct to generate a pressurized vapor where at least one of the surfaces is in communication with the source of heat sufficient to maintain the surface at a temperature such that the liquid injected into the chamber is substantially instantly converted to a superheated vapor with no liquid pooling within the chamber. The liquid is introduced by controlled injectors operating at a required rate. Each of the cells is periodically discharged by a pressure controlled relief valve and the vapor from the cells combined to form a continuous stream feeding a turbine or other energy conversion device. The outer wall of the cell is offset so that it contacts the inner wall at one point around the periphery. Heat transfer ribs and bars can be provided in the duct to provide increased heat transfer where necessary.
US11073275B2
A light for use in a light fixture includes a light source adapted to produce light in an area including the light and a connector configured for connection to the fixture. The light further includes a communication apparatus configured to generate one or more signals indicative of a presence of a person in the area, and a controller that is operative to control the light source in a normal mode in response to the one or more signals.
US11073274B2
Illumination devices, kits that include an illumination device, and methods of using an illumination device are described herein. An example embodiment of an illumination device includes a base, a frame support, a frame, a support arm, a light source, and a switch. The base has first and second ends. The frame is attached to the base and has a frame main body that defines a frame opening. The support arm is releasably attached to the frame and is partially disposed within the frame opening. The support arm has a support arm attachment portion that is sized and configured to releasably attach an electronic device to the support arm. The light source is attached to the frame and has an on state and an off state. The switch is operatively connected to the light source and is adapted to move the light source between the on state and the off state.
US11073252B2
A light bulb includes a housing, an illuminating component, a driving circuit board, a light transmitting component and a lens. The housing has a circumferential opening and a cavity chamber therein. The illuminating component is disposed within the cavity chamber. The driving circuit board is disposed inside the cavity chamber. The driving circuit board is also electrically coupled to the illuminating component. In addition, the driving circuit board drives the illuminating component while being powered up. The light transmitting component is disposed within the cavity chamber and affixed to the illuminating component. The light transmitting component includes a plurality of transmitting microstructures on its surface that uniformly distribute lights emitted from the illuminating component along an axial direction of the light bulb. The lens is disposed within the cavity chamber. The lens also focuses the uniformly distributed lights on a predetermined range along the axial direction of the light bulb.
US11073241B2
A Sealed and thermally insulated tank has a tank wall on a carrier structure. The tank wall has an insulating barrier, sealed barrier and an anchoring member. The sealed barrier has a first undulating metal membrane and a second undulating metal membrane which are located at one side and the other of the anchoring member, along an assembly edge which is oriented parallel with a longitudinal direction of the anchoring member. The first and the second membrane undulate with a first series of undulations which intersect with the assembly edge Terminal undulation portions which are associated with the first series of undulations of the first membrane extend in a direction transverse to the assembly edge in the direction of the second membrane, beyond the terminal undulation portions which are associated with the first series of undulations of the second membrane.
US11073239B2
A thermostatic steam trap includes a lower casing; an upper casing secured with the lower casing; and a mechanism that is operatively secured with the lower casing and the upper casing and that includes a stack of bimetallic strips. The stack of bimetallic strips includes two opposed cantilevered portions separated by a neutral flexion axis thereof. A stem member slidably extends through the stack of bimetallic strips and the lower casing, and a valve portion includes a valve member that is operatively secured to a first end of the stem member and that selectively closes the valve portion with movement of the cantilevered portions of the stack of bimetallic strips.
US11073229B2
A water valve may include a valve shell, and a rotating base is installed in the valve shell. A lower end of the rotating base is sequentially connected to a driving valve piece and a fixed valve piece, and the driving valve piece and the fixed valve piece are installed in the valve shell. A bottom portion of the driving valve piece comprises a concave portion to form a mixing chamber, and the mixing chamber has a first mixing space and a second mixing space, and the diameter of the first mixing space is larger than the second mixing space so as to increase the coverage of the mixing chamber. Each of two sides of the second mixing space comprises a pressure relief slot.
US11073223B2
A fluid control valve includes a multi-stage piston actuator unit with first piston and second pistons coaxially and slidably arranged therein and a valve unit provided with an inlet port for inflow of a control fluid and an outlet port for outflow of the control fluid. The first and second pistons are slidable in a sliding direction perpendicular to an imaginary line connecting the center of the inlet port and the center of the outlet port. The multi-stage piston actuator unit has a smaller thickness in a direction perpendicular to the imaginary line and perpendicular to the sliding direction than the thickness of the valve unit in the direction perpendicular to the imaginary line and perpendicular to the sliding direction. The first and second pistons have either an elliptic or oval cross-section taken perpendicular to the sliding direction, the cross-section having a long axis parallel to the imaginary line.
US11073216B2
The present invention provides a flow channel switching valve with a reduced number of components as well as a reduced weight, and a method for assembling the same. A valve shaft adapted to be coupled to a valve element so as to transmit torque of a rotary drive portion to the valve element is inserted through a vertical through-hole, which penetrates through the valve element in the direction of the rotation axis O (i.e., vertical direction), and through a fit-insertion hole provided in a valve body. Then, a drive gear that forms the rotary drive portion is fixed to the upper coupling portion of the valve shaft protruding from the fit-insertion hole so that the valve shaft is rotatably supported with respect to the valve body.
US11073207B2
A method for operating a parking lock device (21) with a hydraulic system (1), the method including, when there is a demand to engage the parking lock device (21) originating from a disengaged operating condition of the parking lock device (21), applying a pilot pressure (p_EDS4) at the parking lock valve (PSV) and applying the main pressure (p_sys) at the parking lock valve (PSV), if necessary, via the positioning valve (POSV). The pilot pressure (p_EDS4) and the main pressure (p_sys) are each guided to defined pressure levels at which the parking lock valve (PSV) is transferrable into the further operating condition range of the parking lock valve (PSV) by the active actuating force against the pilot pressure (p_EDS4) and against the pressure between the parking lock valve (PSV) and the parking lock cylinder (23).
US11073199B2
A breather device that communicates an inside of a case with an outside of the case in a vertical direction includes a cylindrical body having a hollow portion that extends in the vertical direction, a stopper inserted in the hollow portion, and a blocking body that is located in a space defined by the stopper in the hollow portion, and blocks a communicating hole provided in a lower part of the cylindrical body as viewed in the vertical direction. The communicating hole ceases to be blocked when the pressure inside the case exceeds a first predetermined value, and the blocking body moves upward in the vertical direction in the space.
US11073192B1
Embodiments of the present invention generally relate to a novel system, device, and methods for providing an isolator for components and instrumentation to isolate vibrations, shock, static or quasi-static loads, thermal loads, and electrical currents. The novel isolator has an asymmetrical shape, experiences uniform motion under quasi-static loading, and reduces the effective modal mass across a range of frequencies. The novel isolator outperforms conventional vibration isolators in terms of cost, schedule (manufacturing time and lead time), heat dissipation, and performance.
US11073190B2
Electrorheological fluid is loaded in a shock absorber (1) as hydraulic fluid (2). The shock absorber (1) controls a generated damping force by causing a potential difference to be generated in an electrode passage (19) and controlling a viscosity of the electrorheological fluid passing through this electrode passage (19). A plurality of partition walls (20) is provided between an inner cylinder (3) and an electrode cylinder (18). By being configured in this manner, the shock absorber (1) forms a plurality of helical flow passages (21) between the inner cylinder (3) and the electrode cylinder (18). In this case, an inclination angle of each of the partition walls (20) is not constant, and each of the partition walls (20) includes a sharply inclined portion (20A) inclined at a large angle on at least an entrance side of an extension-side flow passage (21).
US11073187B2
A brake pad according to an embodiment includes a friction material containing copper at 0.5 wt % or less, a back plate, and an under-layer material laminated between the friction material and the back plate and having an average loss modulus of 500 MPa or more at −50° C. to 0° C. in a bending mode.
US11073173B2
Disclosed here is a method for arranging at least one composite element at a component. The composite element includes a sleeve element and an insert element. The method involves: arranging the sleeve element in a bore of the component; connecting the sleeve element and the insert element so that a composite element is formed; inserting an engagement apparatus in the composite element, wherein the engagement apparatus aligns and/or assembles the sleeve element and the insert element to each other. Also disclosed here is use of an engagement apparatus and at least one composite element for arranging the composite element at a component. The at least one composite element includes a sleeve element and an insert element. The engagement apparatus aligns and/or assembles the sleeve element and the insert element to each other.
US11073170B2
A hydraulic system including: a pressure line; a pump; an actuator; a valve device configured to control the flow of pressurized hydraulic fluid to the actuator; an electronic control unit configured to control the valve device by a control signal proportional to the desired speed of the actuator at any given time; a pressure accumulator capable of supplying, together with the pump, pressurized hydraulic fluid for moving the actuator; a sensor device configured to measure, directly or indirectly, the amount of pressurized hydraulic fluid in the pressure accumulator at any given time; setting devices configured to set a setting signal to be proportional with the desired speed of the actuator at any given time. The electronic control unit is configured to restrict the targeted speed of the actuator not to exceed a predetermined maximum speed which is proportional to the amount of pressurized hydraulic fluid in the pressure accumulator.
US11073167B2
A compressor 100 includes: a rotor 10 having a rotary shaft 11 rotating around an axis A, and an impeller 12 provided integrally with the rotary shaft 11; a casing 5 having a casing main body 51 which surrounds the rotor 10 and forms an annular inlet flow path F1 surrounding the axis A at a front stage of the impeller 12, and an inlet nozzle 52 which introduces a fluid into the inlet flow path F1 from an outer side in a radial direction Dr; an external pipe 2 connected to the inlet nozzle 52 to introduce the fluid from the outside to the inlet nozzle 52; and a cleaning liquid supply part 4 which is configured to supply a cleaning liquid from a plurality of locations in a circumferential direction of the external pipe 2 to an interior of the external pipe 2.
US11073165B2
A blower configured for a breathing apparatus which can have a diffuser for increasing static pressure and/or reducing noise and/or mitigating pressure instabilities and/or managing reverse flow. The diffuser can be located within a housing, such as along with a motor, between an impeller and an outlet. The diffuser can include diffuser elements arranged in cascades, and can include one or more circumferential rings to direct air.
US11073158B2
Embodiments are provided for a fluid pump having a hollow shaft centrifugal impeller capable of using suction or pressure to move large volume flows of fluids including liquids and gasses. In one or more non-limiting embodiments, the pump has an impeller assembly that is capable of being attached to the inner circumference of a housing tube and said housing tube is connected to a magnetic rotary. The magnetic rotary is capable of spinning the hollow shaft and the impeller assembly inside the hollow shaft and moving the fluid through the hollow shaft.
US11073154B2
A water pumping control device may include a primary power source and a secondary power source. The primary power source may be configured to provide a primary power input to a processing unit, and the secondary power source may be configured to provide a secondary power input to the processing unit. A primary pump and a secondary pump may be in communication with the processing unit, and the primary pump and the secondary pump may each be variable in speed. The primary pump and the secondary pump may each be in fluid communication with a sump so that when a pump is activated, the pump may remove water from the sump. A water level sensor may be in communication with the processing unit, and the water level sensor may be configured to provide a water level input describing a water level in the sump to the processing unit.
US11073152B2
Disclosed herein may be a compressor. The compressor may include: a casing; a compression unit configured to suck refrigerant from a suction space of the casing, compress the sucked refrigerant, and discharge the compressed refrigerant to a discharge space of the casing; an oil recovery passage configured to recover oil separated from refrigerant in the discharge space to the suction space; and a reducer inserted into the oil recovery passage to reduce a pressure of oil passing through the oil recovery passage. The reducer may include a deformation preventing unit configured to prevent the reducer from being damaged when the reducer is inserted into the oil recovery passage. Therefore, the reducer may be prevented from being damaged when the reducer is inserted into the oil recovery passage. The costs required to prevent the reducer from being damaged, check the conditions of the reducer, and repair reducer may be reduced.
US11073145B2
A pressure pulsation trap is provided. The pressure pulsation trap includes a channel extending from an inlet to an outlet, and a plurality of branches extending from the channel, each of the branches having different lengths than one another. The different lengths are configured such that the branches attenuate noise and/or vibration over a range of operating frequencies.
US11073140B2
This invention disclosures a liquid storage tank upper cover assembly of a drawing or adding liquid machine and a drawing or adding liquid machine. The liquid storage tank upper cover assembly includes an upper cover, a switching valve foundation disposed at an upper end of the upper cover and a valve cartridge cooperated with the switching valve foundation. The upper cover and the switching valve foundation are a one-piece molded part. The switching valve foundation has a sliding hole, a lower part of the upper cover has a first through-hole and a second through-hole which are spaced apart, and the first through-hole and the second through-hole are both connected to the sliding hole. The switching valve foundation has a third through-hole connected with the sliding hole. The valve cartridge is glidingly provided in the sliding hole.
US11073138B2
A wind turbine nacelle platform structure including a beam assembly with at least two beams arranged to extend from a front region of a nacelle outward beyond the back end of the nacelle and a platform assembly mounted to the underside of the outward extending portion of the beam assembly. The disclosed further describes a wind turbine including a nacelle mounted on top of a tower, and such a nacelle platform structure secured to the nacelle.
US11073135B2
It is a general object of the present invention to provide a new and less expensive method of creating a horizontal axis wind turbine for electrical power generation. This approach is based on a tensioned support ring in the shape of a regular polygon. This support ring is well suited to the construction of large wind turbines because it is very light, strong, and cost efficient to create. Also provided are two types of rotor supporting tower structures including a wheeled version for land use and another that floats on water. Additionally, a method of using the support ring to generate electrical power from underwater currents. Further provided is a rope drive method of transmitting energy from the support ring to a generator below. Finally, two methods of controlling blade pitch. Both methods have similar automatic feathering systems to protect against excessive rotational speeds.
US11073130B1
A pitch energy module comprising one or more ultracapacitors storing electrical energy for a wind turbine emergency pitch energy event. The pitch energy module replaces at least one battery within a battery housing of a wind turbine and interfaces with the existing battery wiring harness to communicate with a control system of the wind turbine. The pitch energy module is installed without further modification to the battery housing or the battery wiring harness.
US11073129B2
The disclosure presents a wind turbine blade and a method of manufacturing a wind turbine blade, wherein the wind turbine blade is manufactured as a composite structure comprising a reinforcement material embedded in a polymer matrix, the method comprising: providing a first blade mould with a first blade shell part having a leading edge, a trailing edge, and a first leading edge glue surface at the leading edge, the first blade mould comprising a first leading edge flange; providing a second blade mould with a second blade shell part having a leading edge, a trailing edge, and a second leading edge glue surface at the leading edge, the second blade mould comprising a second leading edge flange; applying glue to a leading edge glue surface; providing one or more leading edge spacer elements at a leading edge flange; arranging the second blade mould on the first blade mould, such that the one or more leading edge spacer elements are arranged between the first leading edge flange and the second leading edge flange; applying a pressure to the second blade shell part; and curing the glue.
US11073128B1
Described herein is essentially a high-efficiency, hybrid fluid-aeolipile. In operation, this hybrid device is placed in the stream of a moving fluid, preferably air. Energy is extracted from the fluid stream by directing a portion of the stream through and, optionally, around the device. As the fluid-flow moves through the device, it is directed into nozzles. These nozzles, which are free to pivot in a cyclical manner, employ the established phenomenon of “nozzle-effect” to accelerate the velocity of the air-flow passing through them, which is ultimately ejected from each nozzle tip, producing thrust. This thrust, amplified by nozzle-effect, drives the nozzles to pivot around a shared axis. The wind energy, thereby converted into cyclical motion, that may be used to perform useful work, is converted with greater efficiency, than is possible in conventional blade-type wind turbines.
US11073119B2
A metering valve for a pump unit for feeding fuel from a tank to an internal combustion engine; the metering valve having: a sleeve having an axis A and provided with a first open end for receiving a thruster, a second opposite end provided with an opening for axially discharging the fuel and at least one side opening for feeding fuel; a plug-shaped piston housed slidably along the axis A inside the sleeve, the piston being provided with a closed end having an outer surface in contact with the thruster, an open opposite end and at least one side opening; a plug housed inside the discharge opening of the sleeve and provided with an axial opening; a spring arranged between the plug and the inner surface of the closed end of the sleeve.
US11073116B1
A cooling system is for cooling a marine engine having an engine block and a cylinder head, and a supercharger configured to provide charge air for combustion in the marine engine. The cooling system has a charge air cooler configured to cool the charge air prior to combustion in the marine engine. The cooling system is configured to circulate cooling water from a body of water in which the marine engine is operating to the marine engine and then back to the body of water. The cooling system is further configured to convey the cooling water in parallel to the marine engine and the charge air cooler. A sprayer is configured to spray the cooling water into exhaust gas discharged from the marine engine. The cooling system is configured to convey the cooling water in series to the charge air cooler and then to the sprayer.
US11073114B2
Embodiments of a combustion section including a fuel injector assembly are provided. The combustion section includes the fuel injector assembly coupled to an outer casing and a liner assembly. The fuel injector assembly includes a body defining a first inlet opening and a second inlet opening spaced apart from one another along a first direction. The body further defines a fuel-oxidizer mixing passage therewithin extended along a second direction at least partially orthogonal to the first direction. The first inlet opening and the second inlet opening are each in fluid communication with the fuel-oxidizer mixing passage. The body defines an outlet opening at the fuel-oxidizer mixing passage at a distal end relative to the first inlet opening and the second inlet opening. The first inlet opening and the second inlet opening are each configured to admit a flow of oxidizer to the fuel-oxidizer mixing passage. The fuel-oxidizer mixing passage is configured to provide a flow of fuel-oxidizer mixture to a combustion chamber via the outlet opening.
US11073113B2
An exhaust manifold may include first to fourth exhaust pipes respectively connected to first to fourth cylinders which is sequentially disposed in an engine, the exhaust manifold may include a first exhaust manifold including the second exhaust pipe connected to the second cylinder and the third exhaust pipe connected to the third cylinder; a second exhaust manifold including the first exhaust pipe connected to the first cylinder, the fourth exhaust pipe connected to the fourth cylinder and the first exhaust pipe, and a recirculation valve apparatus mounted in the first exhaust pipe; wherein the second exhaust pipe and the third exhaust pipe are directly connected to a converter housing for mounting a catalytic converter in which purifies exhaust gas, and wherein the fourth exhaust pipe is connected to the first exhaust pipe at upstream of the recirculation valve, and the first exhaust pipe is directly connected to the converter housing.
US11073104B2
Aspects of the disclosure are directed to a thrust reverser system of an aircraft comprising: a translating cascade sleeve, a blocker door, and a kinematic mechanism configured to actuate the blocker door, the kinematic mechanism comprising: a first link coupled to the translating cascade sleeve, a second link coupled to the first link and a fixed structure, and a third link coupled to the first link and the blocker door.
US11073096B2
A vehicle is provided and includes a GPF (gasoline particulate filter) that is configured to store a soot generated in an engine and burn the soot and a sensor that is configured to detect a first soot mass included in the GPF. A controller is configured to calculate a second soot mass estimated at the ignition off based on the detected first soot mass and determine an inlet temperature of the GPF based on the second soot mass and a predetermined reference value. The engine is then operated based on the determined inlet temperature of the GPF.
US11073094B1
Methods and systems are provided for monitoring corking of a valve in a fuel vapor line during diagnostics of the fuel vapor system. In one example, a method may include, upon sealing the fuel vapor system during a diagnostic routine, estimating a threshold pressure of the fuel vapor system based on a fuel level in the fuel tank, and in response to an estimated pressure of the fuel system decreasing to the threshold pressure, opening a canister vent valve coupled to a vent line of the fuel vapor system.
US11073086B2
Disclosed herein are apparatus, assemblies, and methods for mitigating thermal bow in the rotor of an engine at start-up. One apparatus includes a control module that facilitates operating the rotor prior to starting the engine and an acceleration module that facilitates accelerating the rotor to at least a threshold speed prior to starting the engine. An assembly includes a start-up device coupleable to the rotor and configured to start the rotor and a start-up module coupled to the start-up device in which the start-up device and the start-up module are configured to coordinate operations to accelerate the rotor to at least a threshold speed prior to starting the aircraft engine. One method includes transmitting a control signal to control the rotor prior to starting the engine and commanding the start-up device to accelerate the rotor to at least a threshold speed prior to starting the engine.
US11073071B2
A fuel delivery system and a direct injector for directly injecting fuel into a cylinder are provided. In one example, a direct fuel injector includes a nozzle in fluidic communication with a fuel source, the nozzle includes at least one fuel flow path that divides into two exit flow paths within the nozzle defining a plurality of exit orifices stemming from a common inlet orifice thereby improving the atomization and mixing of the fuel as it enters the cylinder. A plurality of spaced-apart divided fuel flow paths may be positioned within the nozzle to further optimize mixing and reduce wall and piston wetting.
US11073065B2
A control device comprising a first exhaust temperature calculation part calculating a temperature of exhaust flowing into a PM trapping device as a first exhaust temperature, a second exhaust temperature calculation part calculating a temperature of exhaust flowing out from the PM trapping device as a second exhaust temperature, a rate of change over time calculation part calculating a rate of change over time of the first exhaust temperature and a rate of change over time of the second exhaust temperature, and a judgment part judging if the PM trapping device is in a removed state removed from the exhaust passage based on a difference between the rate of change over time of the first exhaust temperature and the rate of change over time of the second exhaust temperature.
US11073061B2
Methods and systems are provided for a multicomponent aftertreatment device arranged in a vehicle exhaust gas passage. In one example, a system may include an oxygen storage catalyst and an underbody trap catalyst comprising metal modified zeolite, the oxygen storage catalyst arranged upstream of the underbody trap catalyst in an exhaust passage of the vehicle.
US11073051B2
A first high side switch is configured to connect and disconnect a first reference potential to and from a first node, the first node configured to be electrically connected to a second node and a first end of a first inductor coil of a fuel injector of a cylinder and a first end of a second inductor coil of an oil control valve of the cylinder. A second high side switch is configured to connect and disconnect a second reference potential to and from the second node. A first low side switch is configured to connect and disconnect a ground reference potential to and from a second end of the second inductor coil of the oil control valve. A second low side switch is configured to connect and disconnect the ground reference potential to and from a second end of the first inductor coil of the fuel injector.
US11073048B2
The invention relates to an exhaust gas turbine, comprising a turbine wheel (7) with a multiplicity of moving blades (8) and an exhaust-gas outlet duct (15), which is arranged downstream of the moving blades of the turbine wheel. The exhaust-gas outlet duct (15) is delimited radially on the outside by an axial turbine diffuser (1) and radially on the inside, at least partially, by a spinner (2). The axial turbine diffuser (1) is formed by a number N>1 of successive conical diffuser segments. An axial diffuser opening angle A between successive diffuser segments is A>1.0°. A ratio L/H between an axial diffuser segment length L and an entry height H of the exhaust-gas outlet duct (15) is L/H>0.01. A ratio H/S between the entry height H of the exhaust-gas outlet duct and a maximum radius S of the spinner (2) is H/S>1.0. The spinner (2) is formed by a number P>1 of successive conical spinner segments. An axial spinner opening angle B between successive spinner segments is B>1.0°. A ratio M/H between an axial spinner segment length M and the entry height H of the exhaust-gas outlet duct (15) is M/H>0.01.
US11073041B2
An aircraft engine having an oil circuit and a transmission that can be supplied with oil via the oil circuit. Oil fed to the transmission can be directed out of the transmission into an oil reservoir, from which oil can be introduced directly back into the transmission via a hydraulic line path. According to the invention, the oil fed to the oil reservoir can only be fed to the hydraulic line path below a defined filling level of the oil reservoir. When the defined filling level of the oil reservoir is reached, oil can also be introduced into a further hydraulic line path.
US11073033B2
A stator attachment system couples a stator to a compressor case that is split to define a first half and a second half. The stator attachment system includes a plurality of retention slots defined in each of the first half and the second half of the compressor case. The plurality of retention slots is spaced apart about a perimeter of the first half and the second half such that at least one of the plurality of retention slots associated with the first half is vertically aligned with at least one of the plurality of retention slots associated with the second half. The stator attachment system includes a plurality of tabs defined on the stator that extend radially outward from the stator. Each of the plurality of tabs is configured to engage with one of the plurality of retention slots to couple the stator to the compressor case.
US11073032B2
A cascade array vane is provided that includes a vane, a first longitudinal portion, a second longitudinal portion, and at least one coupling feature. The vane includes an airfoil portion extending between a first end and a second end. The first longitudinal portion is disposed at the first end of the vane extending outwardly from the vane. The second longitudinal portion is disposed at the second end of the vane extending outwardly from the vane. The at least one coupling feature is incorporated with at least one of the first longitudinal portion or the second longitudinal portion.
US11073031B2
There is disclosed a blade for a gas turbine engine comprising an asymmetrical blade root.
US11073024B2
A vane ring for a gas turbine engine component includes a multiple of vanes that extend between an inner vane platform and an outer vane platform, each of the multiple of vanes contains an airfoil cooling circuit that receives cooing airflow through a feed passage located in the outer vane platform and an extension from the outer vane platform, the extension comprises a metering passage in communication with the feed passage.
US11073015B2
A downhole system has a plurality of telemetry systems and a control system configured to obtain information from one or more sensors and transmit that information on one or more of the plurality of telemetry systems. The configuration of a controller may be changed so as to change which information is transmitted on a given telemetry system and how the information is to be transmitted on the given telemetry system.
US11073004B2
A well screen assembly residing in a well bore has a base pipe and a filtration screen carried on the base pipe. The screen is radially extended with force from fluid while maintaining the base pipe radially unextended.
US11073002B2
A subsea manifold layout interconnects subsea pipelines that extend beside each other to convey hydrocarbon production fluids in use. Each of the pipelines has an in-line manifold portion that is apt to be installed with the pipeline as an in-line accessory structure lowered with the pipeline from the surface, for example using S-lay, J-lay or reel-lay techniques. Thus, the in-line manifold portions of the respective pipelines are structurally separate from each other. Bridging pipes complete a subsea manifold structure having two or more of the in-line manifold portions, providing for production fluids to flow between the pipelines via the manifold portions of the respective pipelines.
US11072997B2
A pressure shock wave apparatus applies shock waves to separate substances, such as oil, from a water mixture in an enclosure. The substance, such as oil, is moved toward a substance removal conduit and the water moved toward a water conduit from action of the shock wave apparatus.
US11072992B1
A wellbore isolation device, comprising: a mandrel 24 having a cylindrical body, a sealing element 38 disposed about the mandrel 24 and radially expandable from a first run-in diameter to sealing engagement with the an inner surface 50 of the wellbore 6; a metal backup ring 60 disposed on the mandrel 24 contacting one side of the sealing element system 38 with an initial height H and radially expandable and axially deformable to abut the inner surface 50 of the wellbore 6; wherein the metal backup ring 60 is a concave cross-section about the mandrel 24 with an uphole leg and a downhole leg; and wherein an applied compressive force expands the sealing element system 38 into sealing engagement with the wellbore 6 and the metal backup ring 60 radially expands while axially deforming to abut the inner surface 50 of the wellbore 6 with no contact pressure.
US11072988B2
A fluid control system includes an apparatus comprising a first and second fluid port, first and second control lines, a valve arrangement being configurable between a first state in which the first fluid port is in fluid communication with the first control line and the second fluid port is in fluid communication with the second control line, wherein the apparatus is switchable between first and second configurations responsive to pressure differentials between the first and second control lines, and a second state in which the second fluid port is in fluid communication with a pressurized line and the first fluid port is in fluid communication with a vent arrangement to thereby configure the apparatus into the second configuration, and a control arrangement for reconfiguring the valve arrangement between the first and second states in response to an actuation signal.
US11072983B2
A system includes a cable and a toolstring. The toolstring may couple to the cable to enable the toolstring to be placed in a wellbore. The toolstring includes a sensor that can collect measurements relating to the wellbore. An electromagnetic or anchoring device may selectively hold the toolstring or the cable against a surface of the wellbore.
US11072982B2
A conduit forming part of a drilling fluid return path from a wellbore has at least one flow restrictor disposed on an interior surface of the conduit. A drill string is disposed through the interior of the conduit and has at least one flow restrictor disposed on an exterior surface of the drill string. The drill string is longitudinally movable through the conduit to enable placing the flow restrictor in the conduit, and the flow restrictor on the drill string at a selected longitudinal distance from each other.
US11072977B2
Provided is a two-piston hydraulic striking device that has stable operativity. This two-piston hydraulic striking device includes two striking mechanisms for striking one transfer member. Each striking mechanism has a pressure receiving area ratio between the front and rear of a piston thereof set in such a way that the two striking mechanisms have the same cycle time.
US11072969B2
A system, device, kit, assembly and methods for a frame assembly, including a door sill as shown and described. The assembly may be a door frame assembly and may, by way of example, be a door jamb and/or a door mullion including a door sill. Some inventions of the present disclosure may be considered a door sill having a deck.
US11072966B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for monitoring system with a video analytic enhanced pet door. The methods, systems, and apparatus include actions of obtaining video from a camera, determining from the video that an object is approaching the camera, in response to determining from the video that an object is approaching the camera, determining whether the object is an animal, in response to determining that the object is an animal, determining from the video whether the animal is authorized to enter a home, and in response to determining from the video that the animal is authorized to enter the home, opening a pet door.
US11072965B2
An automatic door operator (30) for a swing door assembly (10) having a door leaf (14) rotationally supported by a door frame (12) is disclosed. The automatic door operator has a motor (34) for causing opening of the door leaf (14) with respect to the door frame (12), and a controller (31) being configured for performing different functions (60) of the automatic door operator. The controller (31) is configured to detect (42) a movement of the door leaf (14), not caused by the motor (34), identify (44) a predefined movement matching the detected movement, determine (46), among the different functions, a function (61-A, 61-B) being associated with the predefined movement, and perform (48) the determined function.
US11072959B2
A hinge has a side part fixable on a wall and a hinge part, which is pivotable in relation to the side part and is fixable on a door. Two levers are provided on the side part and the hinge part, which are each rotatably mounted on the side part and on the hinge part, and a linear damper having a housing and a piston rod is arranged in the side part.
US11072953B2
The invention relates to a hinge for a switchgear cabinet housing, comprising a first and a second hinge half, which can be connected to each other by means of a hinge pin and which can be pivoted relative to each other about a longitudinal axis of the hinge pin, the hinge pin extending only into the first or the second hinge half in a release position and extending into both the first and the second hinge halves in a locking position, wherein the hinge pin is releasably locked by means of at least one spring clip both in the release position and in the locking position. The invention further relates to a corresponding switchgear cabinet housing and to a corresponding method for mounting a door element on a switchgear cabinet body.
US11072952B2
A door keeper, for keeping a door opening angle of a door within a predetermined angle, includes a hinge bracket attached to a support structure; a keeper plate having a bracket side end portion pivotally mounted to the hinge bracket, a door side end portion, and a keeper guide slot having a door side slot end portion disposed proximate to the door side end portion of the keeper plate, the keeper guide slot extending from the door side slot end portion to an opposite slot end portion disposed at a location between the bracket side end portion and the door side end portion of the keeper plate; and a keeper member movably disposed in the keeper guide slot and fixedly attached to a lower part of the door. An opening motion of the door stops when the door side slot end portion engages the keeper member.
US11072951B2
A door latch assembly, includes: a catch support assembly, the catch support assembly including a strike body having a pin receiving aperture therein; a catch arm assembly rotatably mounted to the catch support assembly; a latch pin positioned in the pin receiving aperture and movable between a retracted position and an extended position, the latch pin protruding above the strike body in the extended position to impede rotational movement of the catch arm assembly; and a first roller mounted to the catch arm assembly and configured to engage a first side of the latch pin in the extended position; and a second roller mounted to the catch support assembly and configured to engage a second side of the latch pin in the extended position. The latch pin includes a material having a hardness of 60 Rockwell C or more, the first roller includes a material having a hardness of 33 Rockwell C or less, and the second roller includes a material having a hardness of 60 Rockwell C or more.
US11072937B1
The inflatable pool divider is configured for use with a swimming pool. The inflatable pool divider is placed in the swimming pool such that each inflatable pool divider bifurcates the swimming pool into two regions called a swimming lane. The inflatable pool divider is a floating structure. The inflatable pool divider is an inflatable structure. The inflatable pool divider comprises a master bladder, a plurality of valves, a plurality of end caps, a plurality of tensioning devices, a plurality of carabiners, and a sleeve. The plurality of valves and the plurality of end caps attach to the master bladder. The plurality of tension devices and the plurality of carabiners anchor the plurality of end caps to the swimming pool.
US11072935B1
The embodiments disclose a method including fabricating a pool filter guard apparatus including a pool filter guard debris screen and spreader anchor apparatus installation device for coupling to the pool filter guard apparatus for installing into a pool skimmer to prevent debris from clogging a pool skimmer basket, fabricating a pool filter guard angular safety module with infrared detection sensors, chemical testing devices, temperature sensors, WIFI and cellular connectivity, a digital processor, digital memory device, panoramic camera for reporting pool conditions to a pool owner and for transmitting alerts on potential unintentional drowning, and creating a pool filter guard digital app for installation in a user digital device for receiving real-time pool condition reports and alerts transmitted from the pool filter guard angular safety module.
US11072933B2
A method of forming a concrete panel that includes forming a concrete base with a plurality of holes, where the plurality of holes are distributed proximate to a perimeter of a casting surface of the concrete base, and securing casting rails along the casting surface of the concrete base to form a concrete panel form with a closed perimeter. The casting rails are secured using a plurality of anchors through the plurality of holes in the concrete base to couple the casting rails to the concrete base. A reinforcement device and/or an attachment device is introduced within the concrete panel form, and concrete is poured into the concrete panel form. After the poured concrete has solidified into a concrete panel, the concrete panel is removed.
US11072929B2
A wall or ceiling panel, which, on one side edge, comprises a male coupling part and, on an opposite side edge, comprises a female coupling part. The male coupling part comprises a tongue and the female coupling part comprises a groove. The groove is bordered by a front lip and a rear lip, with the characteristic that the panel forms a ceiling-high wall panel and/or has a length of at least 2400 mm.
US11072925B2
A new design and rapid construction method for flush assembly of prefabricated steel beams and floor slabs is disclosed. The upper flange of prefabricated steel beams is “” shaped, which consists of horizontal flange, vertical flange and top flange. Both beam stiffeners and studs are set on the horizontal flange, in which the former can strengthen the bearing capacity of the beam and avoid its local deformation, and the latter can fix the floor slab; prefabricated studs and precast concrete inside the vertical flange in the factory are used to constrain the deformation of upper flange. There is no limitation with respect to the form of floor slab, which is connected with the prefabricated steel beam by hitching the prefabricated rebar ring of the floor slab to the welded studs of the upper flange of the prefabricated steel beam.
US11072922B2
A building system that utilizes an improved beam and coupling system for building a frame or structure having improved strength and durability and improving performance and/or spanning distance of the beam.
US11072913B2
A wear assembly for use on various kinds of earth working equipment that includes a base with a supporting portion, a wear member with a cavity into which the supporting portion is received, and a lock to releasably secure the wear member to the base. The supporting portion is formed with top and bottom recesses that receive complementary projections of the wear member. These recesses and projections include aligned holes so as to receive and position the lock centrally within the wear assembly and remote from the wear surface. The hole in the wear member is defined by a wall that includes a retaining structure provided with an upper bearing surface and a lower bearing surface for contacting and retaining the lock against upward and downward movement in the hole. The lock includes a mounting component that defines a threaded opening for receiving a threaded pin that is used to releasably hold the wear member to the base. The separate mounting component can be easily manufactured and secured within the wear member for less expense and higher quality than forming the threads directly in the wear member.
US11072906B2
This description provides an autonomous or semi-autonomous excavation vehicle that is capable of navigating through a dig site and carrying out an excavation routine using a system of sensors physically mounted to the excavation vehicle. The sensors collect any one or more of spatial, imaging, measurement, and location data representing the status of the excavation vehicle and its surrounding environment. Based on the collected data, the excavation vehicle executes instructions to carry out an excavation routine. The excavation vehicle is also able to carry out numerous other tasks, such as checking the volume of excavated earth in an excavation tool, and helping prepare a digital terrain model of the site as part of a process for creating the excavation routine.
US11072901B2
A foundation (1) for a structure such as an off-shore wind turbine. The foundation (1) comprises a body (4) having a lateral surface (8,9) and a distal end (5) for insertion into a soil (2). At least a region of the lateral surface (8,9) forms a first electrode. A second electrode (7) is provided on the lateral surface (8,9) of the body (4) and is electrically insulated from the first electrode. The body (4) further comprises a spacing formation (6) for forming a gap (11) between the second electrode (7) and the soil (2) when the body (4) is inserted into the soil (2). In use, an electric potential may be established between the electrodes to induce electro-osmosis in the soil for allowing the foundation to be installed more easily. The polarity of the electric potential may also be reversed for stabilising the foundation.
US11072895B2
A method for correcting the tilt of adjacent concrete slabs on subsided ground and connected at a joint part by tie bars or dowel bars caused by the subsidence of the joint part. The method comprises pushing up a tilted concrete slab by: drilling an injection hole for injecting an expandable resin in one concrete slab at a point 10 to 200 cm away from the joint part and also in the other concrete slab at a point 10 to 200 cm away from the joint part, the point in the other concrete slab being on a line that is orthogonal to the joint part and has the point in the one concrete slab thereon; and simultaneously starting an operation of intermittently injecting an expandable resin from both of the injection holes wherein the expandable resin expands below both of the concrete slabs.
US11072894B2
A milling assembly includes a drum housing including a discharge port; a cutting rotor located within the drum housing; and a flow director positioned within the drum housing proximate the discharge port and configured to direct a flow of material removed by the cutting rotor towards a first stage conveyor positioned near the discharge port.
US11072888B2
Technology for efficiently extracting fiber from a feedstock containing fiber. A subunit has a mesh drum configured as a rotatable cylinder with mesh in at least part of its surface, and a case that houses the mesh drum. The case has a first opening and a second opening that communicate with a first area, and a third opening that communicates with a second area. First screened material is supplied from the first opening to the first area. The subunit discharges from the third opening waste, which is a first component of the first screened material moved by an air current from the first area to the second area, and discharges from the second opening by an air current processing feedstock, which is a second component of the first screened material that does not pass through the mesh drum with the air current and remains in the first area.
US11072887B2
A compactly configurable device that classifies material containing fiber can more reliably recover classified content. A classifier has a mesh disc with numerous holes, and separates screenings that pass through the holes from remnants that do not pass through; a defibrated material spray nozzle disposed to one side of the mesh disc sprays defibrated material containing fiber onto the mesh disc; a suction conduit disposed to the other side of the mesh disc suctions the waste screenings that pass through the holes; and a recovery conduit disposed on the one side of the mesh disc suctions the processing feedstock that do not pass through the holes and in the mesh disc and remain on the mesh disc. The mesh disc is disposed so the a position of the holes can move from a spraying position opposite the defibrated material spray nozzle to a suction position opposite the recovery conduit. The recovery conduit suctions, at the suction position, processing feedstock that was left at the spraying position.
US11072884B2
A method of making an antimicrobial textile comprising TiO2 nanoparticles is described. The TiO2 nanoparticles are immobilized by first treating a textile with a base, and then contacting with TiO2 nanoparticles in a solution of an alcohol and acid. The textile may be subsequently irradiated with UV light prior to use. The antimicrobial textile shows high effectiveness against the growth and proliferation of microorganisms transmitted within indoor environments.
US11072882B2
A laundry appliance system includes a universal pedestal configured for receiving a raising a washing machine appliance or a dryer. Specifically, the pedestal includes a top side defining a first set of receiving pockets configured for receiving a set of washer leveling legs, and an opposite bottom side defining a second set of receiving pockets configured for receiving a set of dryer leveling legs. Riser leveling legs may be mounted to either side of the pedestal using identical mounting brackets.
US11072881B2
A drainage control mechanism comprises a valve plug capable of being stretchable and retractable, wherein the valve plug moves upwards to close the drainage port of an inner tub, and moves downwards to open the drainage port. A lower end of the valve plug is connected with a link of a crank-link structure, an idle stroke is arranged between the link and a crank, and/or between the link and the valve plug. When the valve plug sticks out but not into the drainage port, the valve plug will stick to the bottom of the inner tub, the driving motor drives the crank or the link to move in the idle stroke. When the driving motor drives to move over the highest point, the driving motor further drives the valve plug to move downwards to reset and to re-enter the next working circle.
US11072880B2
A driving device for a washing machine includes a motor comprising a stator and a rotor configured to rotate inside the stator, a shaft configured to receive torque of the motor and rotate an inner tub of the washing machine, a planetary gear located at a front end of the shaft and configured to adjust a rotation speed of the inner tub by changing the torque of the motor at a preset reduction gear ratio, and an electronic clutch located between the shaft and the planetary gear and configured to operate to adjust connection and disconnection between the shaft and the planetary gear according to an operation mode change signal of the washing machine.
US11072874B2
An auxetic polygonal cell may have a plurality of chiral structures capable of rotation. The plurality of chiral structures may at least partially enclose a volume. Each of the chiral structures may include a first cross member having a first set of distal ends and a second cross member intersecting the first cross member, the second cross member having a second set of distal ends. The chiral structures may also include a first set of legs, wherein each leg of the first set of legs extends from at least one distal end of the first set of distal ends and a second set of legs, wherein each leg of the second set of legs extends from at least one distal end of the second set of distal ends.
US11072872B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a core shell particle having high luminous efficacy and excellent durability; a method of producing the same; and a film obtained by using the core shell particle. The core shell particle of the present invention includes: a core which contains a Group III element and a Group V element; a first shell which covers at least a part of a surface of the core; and a second shell which covers at least a part of the first shell, in which at least a part of a surface of the core shell particle contains a metal-containing organic compound containing a metal element and a hydrocarbon group.
US11072869B2
The present invention provides a precursor of positive electrode active substance particles for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary batteries which have a high discharge voltage and a high discharge capacity, hardly suffer from side reactions with an electrolyte solution, and are excellent in cycle characteristics, positive electrode active substance particles for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary batteries, and processes for producing these particles, and a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery. The present invention relates to positive electrode active substance particles for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary batteries having a spinel structure with a composition represented by the following chemical formula (1), in which the positive electrode active substance particles satisfy the following characteristic (A) and/or characteristic (B) when indexed with Fd-3m in X-ray diffraction thereof: (A) when indexed with Fd-3m in X-ray diffraction of the positive electrode active substance particles, a ratio of I(311) to I(111) [I(311)/I(111)] is in the range of 35 to 43%, and/or (B) when indexed with Fd-3m in X-ray diffraction of the positive electrode active substance particles, a gradient of a straight line determined by a least square method in a graph prepared by plotting sin θ in an abscissa thereof and B cos θ in an ordinate thereof wherein B is a full-width at half maximum with respect to each peak position 2θ (10 to 90°) is in the range of 3.0×10−4 to 20.0×10−4; and Li1+xMn2−y−zNiyMzO4 Chemical Formula (1) wherein x, y, z fall within the range of −0.05·x·0.15, 0.4·y·0.6 and 0·z·0.20, respectively; and M is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Mg, Al, Si, Ca, Ti, Co, Zn, Sb, Ba, W and Bi.
US11072867B2
Described herein are systems and methods for performing a surface mechanical attrition treatment (SMAT) to the surface of a variety of materials including thin films, nanomaterials, and other delicate and brittle materials. In an aspect, a surface of a material is modified to a modified surface and from an original state to a modified state, wherein the modified state comprises a physical modification, a chemical modification, or a biological modification. In another aspect, a surface mechanical attrition treatment (SMAT) is applied to the modified surface of the material for a defined duration of time, wherein a condition associated with the SMAT is adjusted based on a structural composition of the material. In yet another aspect, a defined strain is imposed on the structural composition of the material based on the SMAT.
US11072864B2
Lead is recycled from lead paste of lead acid batteries in a process that employs alkaline desulfurization followed by formation of plumbite that is then electrolytically converted to pure lead. Remaining insoluble lead dioxide is removed from the lead plumbite solution and reduced to produce lead oxide that can be fed back to the recovery system. Sulfate is recovered as sodium sulfate, while the so produced lead oxide can be added to lead paste for recovery.
US11072859B2
In a process chamber in which a substrate is processed, a gas supply unit is in the process chamber and configured to supply a process gas that processes the substrate. A plasma generation unit is in the process chamber and configured to activate the process gas, and a buffer part is configured to form a buffer chamber accommodating at least a part of the plasma generation unit and include a gas supply hole through which the activated process gas is supplied to the substrate. The buffer part includes a groove portion in which a part of the gas supply hole is cut out.
US11072848B2
A method for producing high-temperature sputtered stoichiometric TiN thin films. A substrate is placed in a sputtering chamber a Ti target to be sputtered and the substrate temperature is controlled to be between room temperature and about 800° C. The sputtering chamber is evacuated to a base pressure of 2×10−7 Torr or lower, The Ti target is presputtered under an Ar gas flow at a pressure of 2-15 mTorr in a radio frequency (RF) power of 50-200 W. The Ti is then sputtered onto the substrate in the presence of N2 and Ar gas flows under the same pressure and RF power, with the ratio of N2 to Ar favoring N to ensure that the film is nitrogen-saturated.
US11072843B2
Systems and methods of non-contact tensioning of a metal strip during metal processing include passing the metal strip adjacent a magnetic rotor. The magnetic rotor is spaced apart from the metal strip by a first distance. The systems and methods also include tensioning the metal strip through the magnetic rotor by rotating the magnetic rotor. Rotating the magnetic rotor induces a magnetic field into the metal strip such that the metal strip is tensioned in an upstream direction or a downstream direction. In other aspects, rotating the magnetic rotor induces a magnetic field into the metal strip such that a force normal to a surface of the metal strip is applied to the metal strip.
US11072842B2
Provided is a rare earth thin film magnet having Nd, Fe and B as essential components, which is characterized in that a Nd—Fe—B base film is formed on a Si substrate having an oxide film formed on a surface thereof and has a composition in which the Nd content is higher than that of a stoichiometric composition and that a film (nano composite film) is formed on the base film and has a texture in which an α-Fe phase and Nd2Fe14B are alternately arranged and three-dimensionally dispersed. The rare earth thin film magnet provided is less susceptible to the occurrence of film separation and substrate breakage and exhibits favorable magnetic properties.
US11072838B2
To optimize equipment and processes to enhance magnetic domain refinement efficiency and to enhance workability to improve processing capability, a method of refining a magnetic domain of a grain-oriented electrical steel plate includes zigzag controlling for transferring the steel plate without being inclined in right and left directions along a production line center, steel plate support roll position adjusting for controlling a position of the steel plate in up and down directions while supporting the steel plate, laser beam irradiating for irradiating a laser beam to a surface of the steel plate to melt the steel plate to form a groove in the surface of the steel plate, and removing for absorbing and removing radiant heat due to reflection of the laser beam irradiated to the surface of the steel plate during the laser beam irradiating.
US11072831B2
The present invention relates to a method for the diagnosis or the prognosis of metastasis in breast cancer which comprises determining if the c-MAF gene is amplified in a primary tumor sample. Likewise, the invention also relates to a method for the diagnosis or the prognosis of metastasis in ER− breast cancer, as well as to a method for determining the tendency to develop bone metastasis with respect to metastasis in other organs, which comprise determining the c-MAF gene expression level. Finally, the invention relates to the use of a c-MAF inhibitor as therapeutic target for treating the ER− breast cancer metastasis.
US11072824B2
This application relates to methods for ligating oligonucleotides having complementarity to a target nucleic acid, and amplifying the ligated oligonucleotides, where ligation and amplification occur in the same reaction mixture.
US11072822B2
In general, according to one embodiment, a method containing, reverse-transcribing the first sequence in the target RNA, to obtain a reverse-transcription product containing a first′ sequence complementary to the first sequence, dissociating the reverse-transcription product from the target RNA, hybridizing an elongation primer and the reverse-transcription product to elongate both, thereby obtain an elongation product, and maintaining the amplification reaction liquid containing the elongation product, a primer set and Tin(exo-) DNA polymerase and/or Bsm DNA polymerase under an amplification reaction condition, to amplify the first′ sequence.
US11072818B2
The present invention provides for novel methods for regulating and detecting the cytosine methylation status of DNA. The invention is based upon identification of a novel and surprising catalytic activity for the family of TET proteins, namely TET1, TET2, TET3, and CXXC4. The novel activity is related to the enzymes being capable of converting the cytosine nucleotide 5-methylcytosine into 5-hydroxymethylcytosine by hydroxylation.
US11072817B2
In a first aspect, the invention concerns a method for detecting or quantifying DNA methylation at a locus. In one embodiment, a methylation-sensitive endonuclease is formulated together with a polymerase enzyme in an appropriate reaction mixture such that amplification of DNA occurs in a methylation specific manor. Quantitative DNA amplification at selected loci can be used to determine the level of methylation. Kits and reagents for performing such methods are also provided.
US11072815B2
The present disclosure provides improved methods for generating asymmetrically-tagged nucleic acid constructs, compositions comprising such constructs, and kits and systems for generating such constructs.
US11072810B2
Systems and methods are provided herein for rapid detection, separation, purification, and quantification of viral particles in a sample. According to some embodiments, a microfluidic device is provided for receiving the sample which may contain viral particles. An electrode of the microfluidic device may be used to generate dielectrophoretic (DEP) and/or electroosmotic (EO) forces acting on the sample. The applied DEP and/or EO forces may immobilize components of the sample on the surface of the electrode, may aggregate viral particles of the sample in one region of the microfluidic device, and may separate other components of the sample from the viral particles. The techniques may be performed rapidly, for example, in eight hours or less, and may not affect infectivity of the viral particles. In some embodiments, the sample may be labeled to enhance a response of one or more of the sample components to the DEP and/or EO forces.
US11072807B2
This invention relates to the biosynthesis of organic acids in genetically modified microorganisms. More specifically, this invention provides genetically modified microorganisms that are particularly tolerant to organic acids at low pH and are capable of producing organic acids by fermentation at low pH.
US11072800B2
The present invention is directed to seedless fruit producing watermelon plants. The present invention also comprises methods for production of said plants and methods for producing seedless watermelon fruits.
US11072789B2
Methods and apparatus of some aspects of the invention relate to the synthesis of high fidelity polynucleotides. In particular, aspects of the invention relate to concurrent enzymatic removal of amplification sequences and ligation of processed oligonucleotides into nucleic acid assemblies. According to some embodiments, the invention provides a method for producing a target nucleic acid having a predefined sequence. In some embodiments, the method comprises the step of providing a plurality of oligonucleotides, wherein each oligonucleotides comprises (i) an internal sequence identical to a different portion of a sequence of a target nucleic acid, (ii) a 5′ sequence flanking the 5′ end of the internal sequence and a 3′ flanking sequence flanking the 3′ end of the internal sequence, each of the flanking sequence comprising a primer recognition site for a primer pair and a restriction enzyme recognition site.
US11072788B2
The present invention relates to an expansin-agarase enzyme complex and a method of degrading agar by using the same. The use of the enzyme complex according to the present invention can efficiently degrade agar obtained from marine biomass, and thus can efficiently provide not only galactose or glucose, necessary for ethanol production, but also useful biologically active substances, such as diose, triose, and oligosaccharides.
US11072786B2
The present invention relates to alpha-amylase variants with improved stability in the presence of glucose and/or relatively higher activity on long chain versus short chain substrates. The present encoding invention also relates to polynucleotides encoding the variants; nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides; and methods of using the variants.
US11072781B2
Provided are methods and compositions for obtaining genome-engineered iPSCs, and derivative cells with stable and functional genome editing at selected sites. Also provided are cell populations or clonal cell lines derived from genome-engineered iPSCs, which comprise targeted integration of one or more exogenous polynucleotides, and/or in/dels in one or more selected endogenous genes.
US11072769B2
Digester (1) having an agitating device (10) and an agitating device (10) and a method for manufacturing an agitating device (10), the agitating device (10) comprising multiple agitator blades (21-29) which agitator blades (11-13) comprise a plurality of blade sections (21-29) angled relative to one another. The blade sections (21-29) of the agitator blade (11-13) are angled relative to one another such that the agitator blade gradient (11-13) decreases with the distance (30) from a central rotational axis (19) increasing to configure the agitator blade in a flow-optimized three-dimensional shape.
US11072765B2
The present invention relates to endoglucanase variants and methods for obtaining endoglucanase variants. The present invention also relates to polynucleotides encoding the variants; nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides; and methods of using the variants.
US11072763B2
The present invention relates to a hand dishwashing cleaning composition. In particular, the composition includes a surfactant system, the surfactant system includes an anionic surfactant having a weight average degree of alkyl branching between 41% and 50% and a primary co-surfactant selected from the group consisting of amphoteric surfactant, zwitterionic surfactant and mixtures thereof, and wherein the composition further includes a specific cyclic polyamine.
US11072761B2
The present invention relates to odorous 2- and/or 3-substituted 3-(allyloxy)propenes which are useful as fragrance or flavor ingredients in particular in providing green, fruity, pear and/or waxy olfactory notes. The present invention also relates to novel perfume, aroma or deodorizing/masking compositions comprising said odorants.
US11072754B2
A method for production of at least one tannic product and a bark product having enhanced fuel value is disclosed. The method comprises disintegrating bark; compressing the disintegrated bark to recover a first liquid extract comprising tannic substances; impregnating the compressed bark with a first aqueous impregnation composition at a pH below 7, and at temperature within the range of 45-80° C.; dewatering the impregnated bark to recover a second liquid extract comprising tannic substances and a dewatered bark product; recirculating at least a part of the second liquid extract to the impregnation step, wherein the first aqueous impregnation composition comprises a mixture of said recirculated part of the second liquid extract and optionally fresh water; optionally combining said first liquid extract with the non-recirculated part of said second liquid extract; and adding sulphite salt to said first liquid extract and to said non-recirculated part of said second liquid extract.
US11072749B2
A novel process/system for flexibly producing chemicals and fuels from a petroleum feed such as crude comprise a flashing drum, a first cracker (e.g., a fluidized bed pyrolysis cracker or an oxidative cracker), and an olefin-to-gasoline reaction zone. The process/system can also include a steam cracker and a hydrotreater. The process/system can convert crude oil into hydrogen, C2-C4 olefins, gas oil and distillates with various amounts by adjusting the cut point of the bottoms effluent exiting the flashing drum.
US11072746B2
A process is presented to treat a process stream containing a hydrocarbon (oil and/or gas) and hydrogen sulfide with a liquid treatment solution containing a sulfur dye catalyst. The process stream can be within a pipeline, wellbore, subsea pipeline or a wellhead that contains hydrogen sulfide where the liquid treatment solution is injected at a predetermined point to define a scavenger zone such that the sulfur dye catalyst in the liquid treatment solution causes the sulfide from the hydrogen sulfide to react with the catalyst. The hydrocarbon component is separated substantially free of the hydrogen sulfide from a spent treatment solution containing spent sulfur dye catalyst which can then be fed to an oxidation vessel where it is contacted with an oxygen containing gas causing the sulfide to oxidize to thiosulfate and converting the spent sulfur dye catalyst to regenerated sulfur dye catalyst. The thiosulfate can be recovered, and the regenerated sulfur dye catalyst can be recycled as part of the liquid treatment solution.
US11072742B2
A liquid-crystalline media (LC media) containing a low-molecular-weight, non-polymer component, and a combination of self-alignment additives for vertical alignment of two or more of the specified kinds (formulae IA to IM). The combination of two or more self-alignment additives affect homeotropic (vertical) alignment of the LC media at a surface or the cell surfaces of a liquid-crystal display (LC display).
US11072741B2
An optically anisotropic layer is formed by a liquid crystal compound represented by General Formula 1, in which the long axes of the molecules are oriented. wherein L1 and L2 independently represent a linking group having a carbonyl group; F1 and F2 independently represent an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, an alkoxy group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, or a halogen atom; n and m independently represent an integer from 0 to 4; a and b independently represent an integer from 1 to 4; T1 and T2 independently represent a spacer portion including a straight chain or branched alkylene or alkylene oxide group having 2 to 20 carbon atoms; and Ar represents a divalent group having at least one aromatic ring selected from a group consisting of aromatic hydrocarbon rings and aromatic heterocycles, the number of Π electrons in the Ar group being 8 or greater.
US11072737B2
A wellbore servicing composition comprising: cement kiln dust (CKD), an organic acid, and water. A method of servicing a wellbore penetrating a subterranean formation, comprising: placing a wellbore servicing composition into the wellbore, wherein the wellbore servicing composition comprises CKD, an organic acid, and water. A method of servicing a wellbore with annular space between a wellbore wall and casing disposed therein, wherein a first fluid is present in at least a portion of the annular space, comprising placing a second fluid into at least a portion of the annular space and displacing at least a portion of the first fluid from the annular space, and placing a third fluid into at least a portion of the annular space and displacing at least a portion of the second fluid from the annular space, wherein the second fluid, the third fluid, or both comprise CKD, an organic acid, and water.
US11072731B2
The invention provides protein adhesives and methods of making and using such adhesives. One type of protein adhesive described herein contains lignin and ground plant meal or an isolated polypeptide composition obtained from plant biomass. Other types of protein adhesives described herein contain a plant protein composition and either a hydroxyaromatic/aldehyde, urea/aldehyde, or amine/aldehyde component.
US11072727B2
An adhesive member for a display device is disclosed. The adhesive member may include an adhesive film configured to roll along a rolling axis. The adhesive film may include an adhesive portion including a plurality of adhesive lines. The plurality of adhesive lines may not be orthogonal to the rolling axis.
US11072725B2
The present disclosure provides a polyurethane composition comprising a reaction product of an isocyanate component comprising one or more aromatic isocyanates, wherein the aromatic isocyanate has an isocyanate (NCO) content of about 2-30% NCO; and a polyol component comprising a polyol having an equivalent weight (EW) of about 1500-2500, an aromatic diamine, a moisture scavenger and a catalyst. A process for preparing the polyurethane composition and an article, coating or film comprising the polyurethane composition are also provided.
US11072723B2
Provided is a surface treatment agent which does not use fluorine-containing monomers, particularly fluoroalkyl group-containing monomers. The surface treatment agent is a water-based emulsion which includes: a copolymer (1) which includes a first polymer formed from first monomers, and a second polymer formed from second monomers, wherein the second polymer is polymerized in the presence of the first polymer, the first monomers include a long-chain acrylate ester monomer (a) represented by the formula CH2═CA11—C(═O)—O-A12 (in the formula, A11 represents hydrogen, a monovalent organic group, or a halogen, and A12 represents a C18-30 straight-chain or branched hydrocarbon group), the first monomers do not include a halogenated olefin monomer (b), and the second monomers include the halogenated olefin monomer (b); a surfactant (2) including a nonionic surfactant; and a liquid medium (3) including water.
US11072717B2
In the field of consumable materials for automatic analytical instruments, transparent plastic cuvettes having increased scratch resistance and a method for producing same includes contacting exclusively an outer surface of the transparent plastic cuvette with a liquid comprising at least one surfactant or with a triglyceride and subsequently drying the outer surface such that scattered-light optical properties of the transparent plastic are not adversely affected.
US11072707B2
Provided are a resin material for an acoustic wave probe which contains a polymer formed of at least one of a structural unit (a) having a specific polysiloxane bond or a structural unit (b) having a specific partial structure, in which the structural unit (b) having the specific partial structure is an acryloyloxy structural unit (b1), an acrylamide structural unit (b2), or a styrene structural unit (b3); an acoustic lens; an acoustic wave probe; an acoustic wave measurement apparatus; an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus; a photoacoustic wave measurement apparatus; and an ultrasound endoscope.
US11072700B2
A composition having excellent scorch resistance and storage stability, the composition containing composite particles and a fluoropolymer, and the composite particles including a polymer and inorganic particles dispersed in the polymer.
US11072697B2
A polymeric composition which can be used for the manufacture of rubber articles, in general, such as soles, shoes, boots, sealing rings, rugs, footwear straps and sandals, by the same thermoplastic injection process in equipment (injectors) used for plastics without the need for vulcanization or crosslinking and with different embodiments, according to the final product of interest. The basic components of the present polymeric composition are ethylene vinyl acetate, which may be a combination of ethylene vinyl acetate having a VA content of 19% and ethylene vinyl acetate having a VA content of 28%, and a copolymer of alpha olefin ethylene.
US11072696B2
A rubber composition including a nitrile group-containing copolymer rubber with an iodine value smaller than or equal to 120; short fibers with an average fiber length smaller than or equal to 12 mm; and an organophosphorus compound, wherein a glass transition temperature difference ΔTg of the nitrile group-containing copolymer rubber is lower than or equal to 10° C.
US11072694B1
A composition comprised of a component selected from the group consisting of a biobased bis-alkyl succinate and a biobased bis-alkyl sebacate, each derived, for example, from the esterification of biobased diacid such as succinic acid or sebacic acid, and a biobased alcohol and a biobased polyester.
US11072692B2
Hollow beads having a skin of thermoplastic elastomer and a gas-filled cell are useful in the manufacture of shaped porous articles by thermally bonding or adhering the hollow beads together.
US11072688B2
A method for preparation of (meth)acrylate esters of polysiloxanes. The method comprises contacting in the presence of zirconium acetylacetonate or hafnium acetylacetonate: (i) a polysiloxane having at least two hydroxyl groups, each of which is attached to a carbon atom, and (ii) a C1-C4 alkyl (meth)acrylate.
US11072682B2
A liquid cyclopentene ring-opened polymer having a weight average molecular weight (Mw) of 1,000 to 50,000 and a cis double content of 55% or more in repeating units.
US11072672B2
The invention provides a process for producing a modified molded article capable of providing a diaphragm that is less likely to generate particles. The process for producing a modified molded article includes: molding modified polytetrafluoroethylene containing a tetrafluoroethylene unit and a modifying monomer unit based on a modifying monomer copolymerizable with tetrafluoroethylene to provide a molded article; and irradiating the molded article with not lower than 30 kGy but lower than 70 kGy of radiation at 270° C. to 310° C. to provide a modified molded article.
US11072663B2
Cysteine engineered monospecific and bispecific EGFR and/or c-Met FN3 domain containing molecules comprising one or more free cysteine amino acids are prepared by mutagenizing a nucleic acid sequence of a parent molecule and replacing one or more amino acid residues by cysteine to encode the cysteine engineered FN3 domain containing monospecific or bispecific molecules; expressing the cysteine engineered FN3 domain containing molecules; and recovering the cysteine engineered FN3 domain containing molecule. Isolated cysteine engineered monospecific or bispecific FN3 domain containing molecules may be covalently attached to a detection label or a drug moiety and used therapeutically.
US11072660B2
Provided are binding molecules, such as TCRs or antigen binding fragments thereof and antibodies and antigen-binding fragments thereof, such as those that recognize or bind human papilloma virus (HPV) 16, including HPV 16 E6 and HPV 16 E7. Also provided are engineered cells containing such binding molecules, compositions containing the binding molecules or engineered cells, and methods of treatment, such as administration of the binding molecules, engineered cells, or compositions.
US11072658B2
Provided herein are anti-PD-1/LAG3 bispecific antibodies and antigen-binding fragments. Also provided here are methods and uses of these antibodies and antigen-binding fragments in the treatment of cancer or infectious disease.
US11072655B2
Markers of acute myeloid leukemia stem cells (AMLSC) are identified. The markers are differentially expressed in comparison with normal counterpart cells, and are useful as diagnostic and therapeutic targets.
US11072647B2
An isoform of the TGF beta receptor II comprising a sequence of about of 80 amino acids and lacking a transmembrane domain. The isoform comprises the amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID No. 12. The isoform may have the amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID No. 2 or sequences having at least 85% sequence identity to the sequence set forth in SEQ ID No. 2. A fusion peptide is provided comprising an isoform of the TGF beta II receptor fused to a ligand, wherein a vector comprising the fusion peptide is used to treat cancer and/or hepatic fibrosis. An antibody binding the soluble isoform of the TGF beta II receptor is provided. The antibody binds the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID No. 12 and is used in in vitro methods.
US11072646B2
The present invention relates to a novel epitope that converts T cell to type 1 helper T (TH1) cell. Specifically, the present invention relates to an epitope constituting the 56th to 65th amino acids (SEQ ID No. 2) of extracellular domain (ECD) of activation-inducible tumor necrosis factor receptor (AITR), an antibody recognizing the epitope, a polynucleotide encoding the epitope, a polynucleotide encoding the antibody, an expression vector comprising the polynucleotide encoding the epitope or antibody, a transformant introduced with the vector, a composition comprising the antibody for converting T cell to TH1 cell and a method for converting T cell to TH1 cell, a pharmaceutical composition comprising the antibody for preventing or treating cancer, a method for treating cancer using the antibody, a composition comprising the antibody for enhancing immunity, and a method for enhancing immunity using the antibody.
US11072645B2
The present invention relates to modified T cell receptor (TCR) α or β chains, or heterodimers comprising the same, wherein in the variable domain of said modified α or β chain, an amino acid at position 44 according to the IMGT numbering is substituted by another suitable amino acid in order to improve pairing of desired chains.
US11072643B2
The present invention relates to a fusion protein selectively binding collagen and having ectonucleotidase activity. The fusion protein comprises an amino acid sequence of the extracellular domain of glycoprotein VI fused via a first linker sequence to the N-terminus of an amino acid sequence of an Fc region, whereby the C-terminus of the Fc region is linked via a second linker sequence to an amino acid sequence of the extracellular domain of a CD39 protein. The fusion protein is useful in the treatment or prevention of cardiovascular disease or diabetes, such as in the treatment of acute atherothrombotic events with a favorable risk-benefit ratio.
US11072640B2
The invention provides methods for treating non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) using FGF21 mutant polypeptides.
US11072638B2
The invention provides for novel immunostimulating peptides, peptide constructs and compositions. Further, the invention provides for methods of treatment utilising the peptides, peptide constructs and compositions.
US11072627B2
This disclosure relates to uridine diphosphate (UDP) derivatives, compositions comprising therapeutically effective amounts of those UDP derivatives and methods of using those derivatives or compositions in treating disorders that are responsive to ligands, such as agonists, of P2Y6 receptor, e.g., neuronal disorders, including neurodegenerative disorders (e.g., Alzheimer's disease) and traumatic CNS injury, as well as pain.
US11072619B2
A compound or its acid addition salt of the general formula (I), wherein R1 represents phenyl substituted with one or two substituents selected from the group consisting of halogen and C1-C3 alkoxyl, or 6-membered heteroaryl with 1 or 2 nitrogen atoms, which is unsubstituted or substituted with a substituent selected from the group consisting of —NH2, halogen, alkyl C1-C4, alkoxyl C1-C3, and 6-membered heterocyclyl comprising 1 or 2 heteroatoms selected from the group consisting of N and O. The compound has the activity of kinase JAK1/JAK3 inhibitor and can find use in the treatment of chronic inflammatory and autoimmunological diseases.
US11072618B2
The present disclosure relates generally to methods and compositions for preventing or arresting cell death and/or inflammation.
US11072614B2
Disclosed are crystalline forms of sepiapterin free base selected from polymorphs A, B, C, D, E, F, and G, and combinations thereof, as well as crystalline polymorphs of salts of sepiapterin. Also disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions containing one or more such polymorphs and methods for preparing such polymorphs. Sepiapterin is useful in the treatment of a number diseases associated with low cellular levels of BH4, for example, phenylketonuria.
US11072610B2
The invention provides compounds of Formula (I) as described herein, along with pharmaceutically acceptable salts, pharmaceutical compositions containing such compounds, and methods to use these compounds, salts and compositions for treating viral infections, particularly infections caused by herpesviruses.
US11072599B2
The present invention provides pyrazole derivatives of Formula (I), and in particular N1-(4-(5-(cyclopropylmethyl)-1-methyl-1H-pyrazol-4-yl) pyridin-2-yl)cyclohexane-1,4-diamine derivatives and related compounds as casein kinase 1 (CK1) and/or interleukin 1 receptor associated kinase 1 (IRAKI) inhibitors for treating cancer, inflammatory and immune related disorders.
US11072598B2
Described herein are compounds that are somatostatin modulators, methods of making such compounds, pharmaceutical compositions and medicaments comprising such compounds, and methods of using such compounds in the treatment of conditions, diseases, or disorders that would benefit from modulation of somatostatin activity.
US11072580B2
A sulfuric acid ester containing a plurality of carbonyl groups or a salt thereof, and a surfactant. The sulfuric acid ester is a compound represented by the following formula: R1—C(═O)—R2—C(═O)—R3—OSO3X wherein R1, R2 and R3 are as defined herein; X is H, a metal atom, NR44, imidazolium optionally containing a substituent, pyridinium optionally containing a substituent, or phosphonium optionally containing a substituent, where R4s are each H or an organic group and are the same as or different from each other; and any two of R1, R2, and R3 optionally bind to each other to form a ring.
US11072573B2
The present invention relates to binaphthyl compounds of the formula (I), which are suitable as monomers for preparing polycarbonate resins having beneficial optical properties and which can be used for producing optical lenses: Formula (I) where X is C2-C4-alkandiyl or C1-C4-alkandiyl-C(O)—, where C(O) is bound to the oxygen atom of the hydroxyl group and where C2-C4-alkandiyl or C1-C4-alkandiyl, respectively, are unsubstituted or carry a phenyl ring; R and R′ are identical or different and selected from mono or polycyclic aryl having from 6 to 36 carbon atoms and mono- or polycyclic hetaryl having a total of 5 to 36 atoms, which are ring members, where 1, 2, 3 or 4 of these atoms are selected from nitrogen, sulfur and oxygen, while the remainder of these atoms are carbon atoms, where mono- or polycyclic aryl and mono- or polycyclic hetaryl are unsubstituted or carry 1 or 2 radicals Ra, which are selected from the group consisting of CN, CH3, OCH3, O-phenyl, O-naphthyl, S-phenyl, S-naphthyl, CI or F; and, if X is C1-C4-alkandiyl-C(O)—, the esters thereof, in particular the C1-C4-alkylesters thereof.
US11072559B2
An article includes a glass, glass-ceramic or ceramic substrate including a primary surface. A functional coating is disposed over the primary surface of the substrate. The coating includes a first portion disposed over the primary surface. One or more interrupting layers are disposed over the first portion. A second portion is disposed over the one or more interrupting layers. The one or more interrupting layers includes a microstructure different than one of the first and second portions and the coating has an average optical transmittance greater than about 10% over the visible wavelength range from about 450 nm to about 650 nm.
US11072554B2
A preform element, it production and fiber production methods from preform assemblies are disclosed. The preform element has a length and a center axis along its length, a first and second end defined by its length and an outer preform element surface. The preform element comprises a plurality of longitudinal structures disposed to form longitudinal hole(s) in a background material. At least one slot extending from its outer preform element surface and intersecting at least one of the longitudinal holes, wherein the at least one slot does not fully intersect the preform element. The preform element may be a preform center element or a preform ring element and may be assembled to a form part of a preform assembly for an optical fiber.
US11072540B2
A water filter cartridge has a cap with radially oriented first and second (either inlet or outlet) flow channels on first and second generally cylindrical portions. First and second seals encircle the first flow channel on the first portion and third and fourth seals encircle the second flow channel on the second portion. The second and third seals form a void volume during use which may be accessed by a vent path to eliminate moisture or to test for or indicate leaks. The radial flow paths reduce axial, push out forces on the filter cartridge and allow smaller locking tabs to be used. The first seal forms a top void volume during use which may be accessed by a vent path to eliminate moisture or to test for or indicate leaks.
US11072530B2
A novel compound semiconductor which can be used for a solar cell, a thermoelectric material, or the like, and the use thereof.
US11072525B2
A system for supplying hydrogen gas to a lighter-than-air (LTA) vehicle includes a manifold having multiple vessels. Each vessel has a first chamber that is separated from a second chamber by a barrier. A trigger assembly integrated with the barrier allows a liquid to be combined with a reactant and a catalyst in the second chamber to form a chemical reaction to generate hydrogen gas. A pressure relief valve located on each vessel opens to allow the hydrogen gas to exit when a predetermined pressure is reached, and the hydrogen gas is supplied to the LTA vehicle connected to the manifold.
US11072518B2
A winch comprising one or more of an overwinding prevention unit, a load spin prevention device, a power supply board comprising substantially circular electrical contacts, a rope tension control unit, and a system comprising the winch and a load, attached to the winch, having a load battery chargeable via the winch.
US11072517B2
A jib crane assembly having a vertical pole and a boom for lifting a load. The pole has a length and cylindrical outer surface. A pivot structure is arranged at an upper segment of the pole such that the boom is rotatably secured at a pivot point, thereby dividing the boom into first and second portions. A compression support extends from the first portion of the boom to a compression roller engagement assembly, and a tension roller engagement assembly is secured to the second portion of the boom, opposite the compression roller assembly. The tension roller assembly is attached to a tension frame, wherein said compression support, compression roller assembly, tension frame, and second portion of the boom provide structural support and counter-balance when lifting the load, and the pivot structure and roller assemblies facilitate rotation of the load around the pole.
US11072512B2
An Off-Road Rolling Film Vision System has a Controller Module (200), a Takeup Module (300), and a Rollout Module (400). The Controller Module (200) remotely controls a Motor (325) in the Takeup Module (300) with a Command Input (205) that has at least one Button to accept a knuckle bump for controlling a Motor (325) in the Takeup Module (300) when the Controller Module (200) is attached to a handlebar of an off-road vehicle. The Takeup Module (300) has a Motor Compartment (305), a Takeup Spool Compartment (310), a Takeup Spool Gear Compartment (315), a Takeup Film Window (320), a Motor (325), a Motor Gearbox (330), and at least one Takeup Spool Gear (340). The Takeup Module (300) may have a Takeup Spool Window (350) to provide a view of a Takeup Spool (345) within the Takeup Module (300).
US11072509B2
An example apparatus includes a media receiving portion having a leading edge receiving region and a trailing edge receiving region for receiving media traveling onto the media receiving portion in a direction from the trailing edge receiving portion the leading edge receiving portion. The example apparatus further includes a leading edge stop coupled to the media receiving portion at the leading edge receiving portion. The leading edge stop is resiliently coupled to the media receiving portion to bias against movement of the leading edge stop from a resting position.
US11072507B2
This disclosure relates to a banknote validator. The banknote validator comprises a banknote path disposed within an interior of the banknote validator, the banknote path including a banknote imaging zone, one or more banknote edge detection surfaces each configured to provide images of edges of a banknote in the banknote path, a banknote imaging sensor configured to provide an image of at least one portion of the banknote imaging zone, and an image sensor configured to capture the images of the edges of the banknote provided by the one or more banknote edge detection surfaces, and capture the image of the at least one portion of the banknote imaging zone provided by the banknote imaging sensor.
US11072503B1
A discarding rail system for unloading waste material on a conveyor belt in continuous motion and method for using said system are disclosed. According to some embodiments, the system includes (1) an upper assembly for support the underside of a conveyor belt, (2) a actuation mechanism for inclining the upper assembly so that the conveyor belt is pivoted to one side, creating a gradient causing content on the conveyor belt to roll of the side of the conveyor belt, and (3) a set of retaining devices positioned on the side of the conveyor belt to hold conveyor belt in place as the conveyor belt is pivoted.
US11072499B2
A board turner assembly may include an endless chain, first and second groups of turning arms pivotably coupled with the endless chain and disposed along opposite sides thereof, an upper guide with an inclined surface, an actuator selectively operable to move the upper guide between a resting position and an extended position, and one or more endless belts. The turning arms may be spaced apart at regular intervals that are offset on one side of the chain relative to the other. The groups of turning arms may be operated in an alternating fashion to turn selected boards to a desired orientation (e.g., wane side up). Corresponding methods and systems are also described.
US11072496B2
A conveyor guide unit for use in an elevator of a sugarcane harvester comprises a housing, an axle positioned in and supported by the housing, and a rotor mounted to the axle for rotation about a rotation axis and configured to interface with a conveyor of the elevator. The axle and the rotor mounted thereto are selectively repositionable axially along the rotation axis relative to the housing for lateral adjustment of the rotor relative to the conveyor.
US11072492B2
A bin assembly including a receptacle or a receptacle-crown. The receptacle or receptacle-crown includes at least one wall defining an interior space, a mouth in communication with the interior space that is defined by an upper end of the at least one wall, a rim extending outward and downward from the mouth that includes at least one horizontally convex portion below the mouth, and an aperture in the at least one horizontally convex portion of the rim configured to receive an edge portion of a liner.
US11072485B2
Embodiments of the present invention including an insulated, multi-size vessel container are described. In an embodiment, the container includes a body for receiving a vessel of various shapes and sizes. The container may further include a removable lid configured to engage an opening of the container, where the lid is configured to retain the vessel within the container. The lid may further include a collar for securely retaining the neck of the vessel so that the vessel remains firmly established in the container. The container may further include a body having a tapered or otherwise varying interior, such that vessels of various shapes and sizes can be retained within the body equally well. The container may further include a vacuum insulated layer that serves to maintain the temperature of the vessel's contents. Additional embodiments are described.
US11072483B2
A thermally insulating packaging to hold an item includes a solid compostable or recyclable shell that is formed primarily of starch, and a bottom cover. The shell includes a floor, a plurality of inner side walls that are coupled to the floor, a rim coupled to the plurality of inner side walls, and a plurality of outer side walls that are couple to the rim. The floor and the plurality of inner side walls define an interior space of the shell to receive the item and an opening to the interior space. The plurality of inner side walls and plurality of outer side walls have a space therebetween that defines a gap. The gap can be an air-filled cavity, or be filled with a compostable or recyclable core material.
US11072472B2
The Applicant's invention provides a lid for a food container including a cover, a dressing storage compartment, and a shutter attached to the cover or the dressing storage compartment for sealingly closing the dressing storage compartment. The shutter is configured to allow dispensing of the dressing contained in the dressing storage compartment when the dressing storage compartment is caused to move up relative to the cover, without the need of opening the lid. The Applicant's invention also provides a food container including the lid.
US11072463B2
A modular container assembly includes a housing having a bottom wall and a perimeter wall attached thereto and extending upwardly therefrom. The perimeter wall includes an open top end and a break therein positioned between the top end and the bottom wall to define an upper section and a lower section of the housing that are removably coupled together along the break. The lower section includes an upper edge defining an access. A lid is removably couplable to the bottom wall such that the lid is positioned exterior of the housing. The lid is engageable with the lower section to close the access. The perimeter wall can also include two breaks therein positioned near the open top end and bottom wall to define a top, middle, and bottom section of the housing. The middle section is removable, and the top section is engageable with the bottom section.
US11072461B2
A stackable system container having a base part, with a respective coupling device for connection to a further system container fastened on two opposite side walls of the base part such that it can be moved between a rest position, in which the coupling device can be disengaged from a further system container, and a coupling position, in which the coupling device can be engaged with the further system container. In order to provide for structurally identical system containers to be stacked optionally in a dimensionally stable, interconnected manner or separately, and therefore such that they can easily be singulated, each coupling device is assigned a locking element, which locks the respective coupling device releasably in the rest position.
US11072458B2
The disclosure relates to a container (10) comprising a sealing surface (15), wherein the sealing surface (15) is provided with a pattern (30) of ridges (31, 32) and valleys (33), and wherein the sealing surface (15) has a) oleophobic and/or b) oleophilic properties: a) repelling fat such that any fat on the sealing surface (15) has a tendency not to stick to the pattern (30) on the sealing surface thus creating an essentially fat-free sealing surface orb) attracting fat such that any fat on the sealing surface (15) has a tendency to settle down in the valleys (33) of the pattern (30) on the sealing surface, respectively.
US11072456B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to a carton (90) for packaging one or more articles (B). The carton (90) comprises a plurality of panels (12, 14, 16, 18) for forming a tubular structure. The plurality of panels comprises: a first side wall panel (12); a first end wall panel (14); a second side wall panel (16); and a second end wall panel (18). A first handle structure (H) is defined in a first one of the plurality of panels (12). The first handle structure (H) comprises a severance line (60) defining at least in part a handle opening. A first end closure panel (22b) forms, at least in part, a top wall (22b/24b/26b/28b) which at least partially closes an upper end of the tubular structure and is hingedly connected to the first one of the plurality of panels (12) by a first hinged connection (23b).
US11072452B2
A substantially paper-based composite container for an off-gassing product includes a paperboard can body having a substantially gas-impervious liner attached to an inner surface thereof, and a pair of substantially paper-based end closures attached to the opposite ends of the can body, each end closure defining a generally cylindrical sealing panel in contact with an inner surface of the can body. Heat-sealable materials are disposed on opposing surfaces of the sealing panel and can body. The sealing panels of the end closures are attached to the can body by heat seals. The heat seal for at least one of the end closures is discontinuous such that at least one vent channel extends through the heat seal so as to establish fluid communication between an interior of the composite container and the environment outside the composite container. The at least one vent channel is operable to vent excess gas pressure from the interior of the container.
US11072451B2
Containers can include main bodies of various shapes and include one or more recessed channels that extends from one side to another of the container to provide greater ease of use and improved access to materials contained there, such as food and other solids, liquids, or combinations thereof.
US11072450B2
A laminated bottle formed in a cylindrical shape with a bottom includes: an outer layer; and a flexible inner laminated onto an inner surface of the outer layer and being separable from the inner surface. A bottom section of the outer layer positioned at a bottle bottom portion is provided with: an intake slit allowing outside air to be imported into a space between the outer layer and the inner layer, and a projecting part projecting inward of the laminated bottle. At least part of the projecting part extends in a cross direction crossing a direction in which the intake slit extends, and the projecting part is arranged next to the intake slit in the cross direction.
US11072446B2
A method of preparing a double chamber container is disclosed that includes filling a substance into the container, freeze-drying the substance therein, inserting a middle plunger in the container to form distal and proximal chambers, wherein the middle plunger seals the distal chamber from the proximal chamber and the freeze-dried substance is inside the distal chamber. The method includes filling a reconstitution medium in the proximal chamber, and sealing distal and proximal openings of the container. The method includes providing a holder having a seat and arranging the container in the seat in an upright position wherein a distal end side of the container extends downwardly and a proximal end side of the container extends upwardly. The container is arranged in the seat while the substance is filled, the substance is freeze-dried, the middle plunger is inserted, the reconstitution medium is filled, and the proximal opening is sealed.
US11072442B2
Systems, methods, and devices are disclosed for implementing habitation support appliances. Devices may include a housing defining an internal volume, the housing having an inner surface and an outer surface, the inner surface including a helical groove. Devices may also include a front plate coupled to a first end of the housing, an end plate coupled to a second end of the housing, the front plate and the end plate being configured to seal the internal volume, a thermal loop coupled to the outer surface of the housing, the thermal loop configured to transfer thermal energy with the housing and the internal volume, and a mixing device configured to be positioned within the internal volume, and configured to be moved along the helical groove of the inner surface.
US11072438B2
A fastening system has a fastening element and at least one fastening device having a flanged housing, a closure element, a hollow-sphere element and a spherical insert. The hollow-sphere element pivots about a first pivoting axis relative to the flanged housing, while the spherical insert pivots about a second pivoting axis in the hollow-sphere element. First engagement means in an opening of the spherical insert are of complementary design to second engagement means of the fastening element. The first and second engagement means are designed such that, in a first rotational position, the fastening element can be inserted freely into the opening and, in a second rotational position, the first and second engagement means engage in one another.
US11072436B1
Systems and methods relating to foreign object detection with respect to passenger-accessible stowage compartments are provided. According to one example, sensor data is captured via a sensor subsystem that includes a sensor associated with each of a plurality of stowage compartments. For each of the stowage compartments, a baseline condition is identified in which foreign objects are absent from the stowage compartment. A foreign object is detected within a stowage compartment based on the sensor data received for the stowage compartment and the baseline condition identified for the stowage compartment. An audit of the stowage compartments is conducted, and based on the audit, an indication that the foreign object is detected within the stowage compartment is output. This indication may identify the stowage compartment containing the foreign object among the plurality of stowage compartments.
US11072432B2
A method for manufacturing of a part made of composite material including pre-compacting to a predetermined shape of a mixture of a first thermosetting resin with discontinuous long fibers so as to form a first preform, pre-curing the first preform until an intermediate conversion stage corresponding to a solidification of said first resin, contacting the first preform with a second preform including a fiber structure of continuous fibers impregnated with a second thermosetting resin, polymerizing the first and second preforms so as to form a part made of composite material including a body made of composite material including reinforcement made of continuous fibers consolidated by an organic matrix provided with a portion made of composite material including reinforcement made of discontinuous long fibers consolidated by an organic matrix.
US11072425B2
A locking pin assembly for a cargo loading system includes a shaft, a first retention pin, a second retention pin, and a synchronizer. The shaft defines a first shaft groove and a second shaft groove. The first retention pin and the second retention pin are disposed within the shaft. The synchronizer is disposed about the shaft and defines a first synchronizer groove that crosses over the first shaft groove and a second synchronizer groove that crosses over the second shaft groove.
US11072420B1
A steering system may include a gear assembly and a collar. The gear assembly may include a planet carrier, a planet gear, an internal ring gear, and a sun gear. The planet gear may be disposed between the internal ring gear and the sun gear. The gear assembly may provide a mechanical advantage to the steering system, which may result in a greater powered steering range, a shorter rack assembly, and/or increased design space relative to typical steering systems.
US11072418B2
A hydraulic system for an aircraft. The hydraulic system can include a hydraulic actuator that is operatively coupled to a flight control member. Hydraulic fluid is moved through the hydraulic system by an engine driven pump that delivers hydraulic fluid to the actuator at a first pressure, and a boost pump that delivers hydraulic fluid to the actuator at a second pressure that is higher than the first pressure. The hydraulic system is configured such that the hydraulic fluid returning from the actuator to the engine driven pump can be delivered to the boost pump prior to reaching the engine driven pump.
US11072411B2
Devices and methods to control moisture at a support member in a vehicle. The devices are configured to be attached to the support member and include a moisture absorbing portion and an evaporative portion. Methods of assembling the support member in the vehicle include prefabricating the device and preassembling the device onto the support member prior to the support member being installed in the vehicle.
US11072405B2
The present disclosure relates to sea floor mapping, and more particularly to a method, system, and apparatus for mapping a large swath of sea floor at substantial depths. An example autonomous underwater vehicle may include: a controller; a body having a front end and a rear end and defining a cavity and a center of gravity; a first dive plane extending from the body proximate the center of gravity; a second dive plane extending from the body substantially opposite of the first dive plane proximate the center of gravity; a counterweight disposed within the cavity configured to be moved between the front end and the rear end of the body, wherein a fore-aft pitch of the body of the autonomous underwater vehicle is controlled by the controller through movement of the counterweight toward the front end or the rear end of the body.
US11072403B2
The present invention relates to a ship data consolidated management method and a device for same. Accordingly, the present invention relates to a ship data consolidated management method and device, the method being characterized by comprising the steps of: collecting ship data from at least one piece of ship equipment; converting the ship data to a certain data format; and transmitting the converted ship data to an external device.
US11072401B2
An offshore ocean floating platform equipped with a docking bay with a hull made with multiple steel barrels welded to each other arranged in multiple layers, an upper deck with living premises, laboratory and control tower, having three submersible plankton pumping towers extending from above water level up to 120′ depth, a manned and aerated research submersible vehicle with vertical travel controlled by a telescopic double acting actuator, including two telescopic aeration tubes providing atmospheric pressure air from above sea level, and safety return springs, sealed glass windows, water depth gage and video cameras. The upper deck having plankton pools plankton pumped from ocean floor by a piston traveling within a cylinder by double acting telescopic actuator for fishery feedings. All towers bottom-end secured to seabed dirt with multiple heavy cement poles with embedded cylinder and piston moving under ocean water high pressure into seabed dirt with self-drilling plungers.
US11072393B2
A transmission for a saddled vehicle with which a posture of a rider is easily held during driving of the vehicle and a speed change detection device can be protected. A step for the driver extends outward in a vehicle width direction from a lower frame; a gear change pedal is turn-operated by a rider's foot for speed change; and a link for detection is coupled with the gear change pedal. A speed change detection device is coupled with a tip of the link for detection, and detects a speed change operation by the gear change pedal. The gear change pedal is arranged on an outer side of a lower frame in the vehicle width direction, and the speed change detection device is arranged on an inner side of pivot frames and the lower frame in the vehicle width direction.
US11072389B2
A tiltable vehicle is configured to transform between an autonomous mode and a rideable mode by pivoting the handlebars and steering column of the vehicle about a pitch axis. In the autonomous mode, the steering column is folded back toward the chassis and a tiltable chassis of the vehicle is prevented from tilting. In the rideable mode, the steering column is unfolded and the chassis is free to tilt. In some examples, a tiltable vehicle includes features beneficial for vehicle-sharing, such as parking devices or a basket. These features may be included on any suitable vehicle and are not limited to use on transforming vehicles.
US11072388B2
A bicycle operating device comprises a base member made of a resin material. The base member includes an outer surface, a cylinder bore, and at least one recess. The outer surface includes a first surface, a second surface, a third surface, a fourth surface, a fifth surface, and a sixth surface. The cylinder bore has a cylinder center axis. The cylinder bore is provided between the first surface and the second surface and between the third surface and the fourth surface as viewed along the cylinder center axis. The at least one recess defines a cylinder wall between the cylinder bore and the at least one recess. The at least one recess is provided on at least two of the first surface, the second surface, the third surface, the fourth surface, the fifth surface, and the sixth surface.
US11072373B2
A vehicle structural member includes an elongate hollow member having an integrated structure, and supporting members joined to the elongate hollow member. The elongate hollow member includes: a first portion that includes a first pipe, a second pipe disposed outside the first pipe and extending along the first pipe, and a connection portion extending along the first pipe and the second pipe, formed integrally with the first pipe and the second pipe, and connecting the first pipe and the second pipe; and a second portion that includes the first pipe continuing from the first portion, and does not include the second pipe.
US11072370B2
An underbody structure for a motor vehicle has: at least one underbody panel; and at least one air guide. The air guide is assigned to the underbody panel and has at least one separation edge for bringing about a flow separation. The air guide is passively pivotable back at least in sections behind a plane formed by a carriageway-side outer side of the underbody panel such that the separation edge is capable of yielding upon contact with an obstacle in order to avoid damage.
US11072366B2
A steer-by-wire steering system may include an actuation control system to actuate road wheels via a rack and pinion steering gear and a steering wheel control system to simulate a steering feel of a mechanically linked steering system to a steering device. The actuation control system may have a second control unit, and the steering wheel control system may have a first control unit and an actuator. An automatic driving electronic control unit may decide if a drive mode is vehicle-controlled or driver-controlled. If driver-controlled, the first control unit may rotate the steering wheel by a turning angle by activating the actuator according to a pre-set function depending on a rotation angle of a pinion to simulate the steering feel. If vehicle-controlled, the first control unit may rotate the steering wheel by a reduced turning angle by activating the actuator according to a fraction of the pre-set function.
US11072358B2
There is provided a steering covering member in which it is possible to dispose a wire on a grip section in a wider range while a wrinkle or a slack is suppressed, a steering wheel including the steering covering member, and a method for manufacturing the steering wheel. The steering covering member includes a sheet-shaped sheet member having extensibility and a wire held by the sheet member. The sheet member is set to have a length, in a natural length, having a corresponding relationship with an inner circumferential-side length of a rim section main body portion. Both end portions of the sheet member in the longitudinal direction are disposed at positions corresponding to recessed portions of the rim section main body portion.
US11072356B2
A locomotive control system includes a controller configured to control communication between or among plural locomotive devices that control movement of a locomotive via a network that communicatively couples the vehicle devices. The controller also is configured to control the communication using a data distribution service (DDS) and with the network operating as a time sensitive network (TSN). The controller is configured to direct a first set of the locomotive devices to communicate using time sensitive communications, a different, second set of the locomotive devices to communicate using best effort communications, and a different, third set of the locomotive devices to communicate using rate constrained communications.
US11072340B2
A method of controlling a mobile intelligent transport system (ITS) station. The method includes sensing a power of a signal received on a first channel of a dedicated short-range communication (DSRC) interface; and when a time during which the power of the received signal is greater than a threshold, or a number of times the power of the received signal is greater than the threshold satisfies a first predetermined value, determining a message transmission is impossible on the first channel.
US11072339B2
Embodiments of the present invention utilize mobile devices to provide information on a user's behaviors during transportation. For example, a mobile device carried by a user can be used to detect and analyze driving behaviors during trips in vehicles. The mobile device can further be used to assign and display scores relating to the driving behaviors, scores for individual trips, and an overall driving score for the particular user.
US11072327B2
A method of operating a vehicle includes determining a first plurality of known lane intervals at a first time with a controller of a guidance system of the vehicle, the known lane intervals available to receive the vehicle, determining a plurality of visible lane intervals at a second time after the first time with the controller based on perception data generated by the guidance system, and determining a plurality of occupied lane intervals at the second time with the controller based on the perception data generated by the guidance system. The method further includes determining a second plurality of known lane intervals at the second time as a union of the first plurality of known lane intervals, the plurality of visible lane intervals, and the plurality of occupied lane intervals.
