US11096777B2
A breast shaping method using a barbed suture and a suture handling device. The breast shaping method includes inserting a tensioning barbed suture in medialmost and lateralmost portion of the inframammary fold from deep soft tissues (muscle/pericondrium-periostium to and along the subdermal layer of the inframammary fold, with an end portion of the barbed suture being left outside of the skin, thereby allowing the barbed suture to be tensioned, tensioning the end portion of the barbed suture arranged by the insertion of the barbed suture, so that the barbed suture pulls tissues of the subdermal layer, thereby lifting the inframammary fold and defining a nice indentation of the inframammary fold, and cutting the end portion of the barbed suture outside of the skin after the tensioning of the barbed suture.
US11096775B2
The techniques of this disclosure generally relate to an assembly including a single multibranch stent device. The single multibranch stent device includes a main body, a proximal coupling extending radially from the main body, and a distal coupling extending radially from the main body. The main body, the proximal coupling, and the distal coupling are permanently coupled to one another and the single multibranch stent device is a single piece. By forming the single multibranch stent device as a single piece, the single multibranch stent device can be deployed in a single deployment thus simplifying the deployment procedure.
US11096766B2
A method and system are provided for providing patient data useful for dental procedures, including scanning a dental structure of a patient when coupled to a geometric structure to provide a virtual model representative of the coupling and the dental structure, and relating the virtual model to a body reference of the patient.
US11096745B2
A transperinealprostate intervention device comprises a prostate intervention instrument (10), a transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) probe (12), and a mechanical or optical coordinate measurement machine (CMM) (20) attached to the TRUS probe and configured to track the prostate intervention instrument. The CMM may include an articulated arm with a plurality of encoding joints (24), an anchor end (30) attached to the TRUS probe, and a movable end (32) attached to the prostate intervention instrument. The prostate intervention instrument may, for example, be a biopsy needle, a brachytherapy seed delivery instrument, a tissue ablation instrument, or a hollow cannula. An electronic processor (40) computes a predicted trajectory (54) of the prostate intervention instrument in a frame of reference of the TRUS probe using the CMM attached to the TRUS probe. A representation (56) of the predicted trajectory is superimposed on a prostate ultrasound image (50) generated from ultrasound data collected by the TRUS probe.
US11096740B2
An electrode arrangement according to the invention for a bipolar resectoscope (50) comprises an elongate electrode carrier (2), an active electrode disposed at a distal end of the electrode carrier (2) and a neutral electrode, wherein a distal end section of the electrode carrier (2) is embodied as an electrode body (4, 40) through which a supply line (20) of the active electrode is guided and wherein the neutral electrode is formed by the electrode body (4, 40) or a portion of the electrode body (4, 40). The invention also relates to a resectoscope (50).
US11096730B2
An aiming guide system configured for connection to a bone plate including an aiming arm and a connection assembly. The aiming arm has a rigid body extending from a proximal end to a distal end with a plurality of aiming holes defined through the rigid body between the proximal end and the distal end thereof. The distal end defines an attachment slot through the body. The connection assembly is configured to engage an attachment screw hole of the bone plate and the attachment slot such that the aiming arm is fixed in position relative to the bone plate with each of the aiming holes aligned with a respective hole along the bone plate.
US11096729B2
A TPLO plate configured to accommodate flexible strands (flexible loops) attached to tissue to be attached to bone. The TPLO plate has one or more suture eyelets, to allow the user (surgeon) to pass a flexible strand through the eyelets and attach/reattach the tissue to the plate at the anatomical location, and to improve the rotational stability of the joint or bone. The eyelets may have various shapes, forms and configurations and may be provided on or within a surface of the TPLO bone plate in any number, depending on the characteristics of the fractured bone or bone segments, or of the plate design. The eyelets preferably receive one or more flexible strands.
US11096728B2
The invention relates to an implant (1) for osteosynthesis, comprising a securing region (3) that has a plurality of holes (2) for receiving securing means, and two projections (4) which extend away, at least partially curved, from said securing region (3), wherein at least one of the two projections (4) takes the form of a snap-on lug (5) that can snap onto a bone segment (7, 8) of a mammal bone (6); the invention also relates to an implant kit comprising such an implant (1).
US11096721B2
This disclosure relates to methods and systems to assist in surgery of a joint. The system determines a mechanical property of one or more ligaments associated with the joint based on measurement data indicative of a movement of the bones relative to each other under multiple mechanical loads. The system then determines a predicted characteristic of the joint after the surgery based on a spatial parameter of the surgery and based on the mechanical property of the one or more ligaments and generates an output signal indicative of the predicted characteristic to assist the surgery. Since the predicted characteristic of the joint is determined based on the mechanical property of the ligaments, the prediction is more accurate than other methods that rely on only bone geometries to predict a surgery outcome.
US11096718B2
According to one embodiment, a method includes positioning a portion of a trocar into a patient cavity and inserting a surgical instrument into the trocar. The method also includes measuring, by a pressure sensor disposed in, on, or through a medical appliance, a pressure indicative of a pressure in the patient cavity. The method also includes supplying, based at least in part on the measured pressure, an insufflation gas to the patient cavity by providing the insufflation gas through the trocar.
US11096717B2
Versatile tissue collection devices that can provide reduced crossing profiles, fluid pressure release, and/or easy cleaning or removal. In particular, devices having tissue collection devices with multiple configurations to facilitate navigation through narrow vessel cross-sections while also providing adequate tissue storage capacity. Additionally, the devices may include detachable components that allow easy removal, cleaning, and replacement during a procedure. Furthermore, venting elements and sections may be included to relieve fluid buildup in storage reservoirs.
US11096716B2
Medical devices and methods for using medical devices are disclosed. A rotational atherectomy device may include an elongate drive coil having a proximal end region and a distal end region, the elongate drive coil having a coil winding extending in a first helical direction, the elongate drive coil having a coil pitch. A tubular member is welded to the distal end region of the elongate drive coil via one or more helical welds that extend helically at least part way around the tubular member and a cutting member welded to the tubular member.
US11096709B1
A surgical device controllable by a surgical robotic system is provided. The surgical device includes a housing capable of being coupled to the surgical robotic system, a drive system at least partially mounted in the housing; and a shaft rotatably coupled to the drive system at a first end of the shaft. The surgical device further includes a tissue-removal assembly coupled to the second end of the shaft. The tissue-removal assembly includes a first cutting member having a plurality of rotatable blades. The first cutting member is coupled to a second end of the shaft. The tissue-removal assembly further includes a second cutting member, one or more support elements slidably or fixedly coupled to the second cutting member, and one or more extendable elements slidably or fixedly coupled to the second cutting member.
US11096697B2
The disclosure relates to a fibula bone material removal and transfer template including a center part with a central body each end of which has a separating tool guide portion, at least one of the bone separating tool guide portions being mounted such that it can be moved away from and pushed towards the center part.
US11096689B2
An end effector is disclosed comprising a cartridge channel, a staple cartridge positionable in the cartridge channel, and a firing assembly configured to lock itself if the staple cartridge is not positioned in the cartridge channel. Moreover, the firing assembly is configured to lock itself if the staple cartridge has been at least partially spent.
US11096682B2
A suture manipulating instrument for passing and retrieving suture through a tissue includes a handle mechanism, an elongate shaft extending from the handle, and a working distal end. The working distal end includes a needle body, a lumen defined by the needle body, a tissue penetrating distal tip, and a lateral slot. A preformed inner member is movably disposed within the lumen of the needle. The handle mechanism is used to extend the wire from the lateral slot of the needle, and to retract the wire into the lateral slot, allowing the working end of the instrument to grasp and manipulate suture by pinning and/or trapping the suture against the needle. In embodiments the inner member is further retracted within the needle lumen, drawing a length of suture into the needle lumen. The suture is subsequently ejected from the needle lumen to form a suture loop.
US11096681B2
An all-suture suture anchor system includes an all-suture anchor, an inserter, and a specially designed drill. The drill is used to enlarge the hole and create a pocket under the bone surface from the pre-drilled hole. The created pocket is intended to accommodate the expansion of the anchor when deployed into the bone, generating a true mechanical interference under the bone surface. The anchor is loaded on the inserter and placed at full length vertically inside the drilled hole. While holding the inserter on top of the drilled hole, so that a feature on the inserter keeps the anchor to a desired depth below the bone surface, tension is applied to the suture limb that is connected to the bottom end of the anchor. This tensioning step causes the length of the anchor to contract vertically and the anchor is simultaneously expanded circumferentially to fill the pocket previously created by the drill. Since the pocket created by the drill is intended to contain the deployed anchor, the deployed position of the anchor is consistently predictable.
US11096674B2
A method and means to utilize machine learning to train a device to generate a confidence level indicator (CLI). The device is a CAD system that has been initially trained using initial machine learning to recommend classifications for image features presented to the device. Probabilistic classification is utilized to incorporate intermediate values given by a human operator to better indicate a level of confidence of the CAD system's recommendations as to what classes should be associated with certain image features.
US11096670B2
An ultrasound diagnostic device including: a transmitter which outputs a driving signal for a C-mode image to an ultrasound probe sending and receiving ultrasound; a receiver which obtains a reception signal from the ultrasound probe; and a controller which: calculates an inner product value of packet data of the reception signal and a first orthonormal basis for each degree; sets a conversion function to convert the inner product value into a removal rate to remove a clutter component; converts the calculated inner product value into the removal rate for each degree by using the set conversion function; and generates image data from which a signal component of the C-mode image is removed according to the removal rate for each degree.
US11096665B2
An ultrasound diagnostic device includes: a probe including plural elements that generate and transmit ultrasound waves and receive ultrasound waves reflected from an inspection target; a transmission unit that transmits ultrasound waves from the plural elements so as to transmit an ultrasound beam by forming a transmission focus in a first direction set in advance; and a second reception focusing unit that performs reception focusing for each reception signal received by each element of the probe according to reflection on a path in a second direction other than the first direction, among transmission wave paths of the ultrasound beam transmitted into the inspection target by the transmission unit.
US11096663B2
A system for providing navigational guidance to a sonographer acquiring images may provide haptic feedback to the sonographer. The haptic feedback may be provided through an ultrasonic probe or a separate device. Haptic feedback may include vibrations or other sensations provided to the sonographer. The system may analyze acquired images and determine the location of acquisition and compare it to a desired image based, at least in part, on the acquired image. The system may then provide the haptic feedback to guide the sonographer to move the ultrasonic probe to the location to acquire the desired image.
US11096658B2
Provided is a non-invasive system and method of determining pennation angle and/or fascicle length based on image processing. An ultrasound scan image is processed to facilitate distinguishing of muscle fiber and tendon. The processed ultrasound scan image is then analyzed. The pennation angle and/or fascicle length is determined based on the analysis. An example method includes receiving an ultrasound scan image of at least a portion of a skin layer as disposed above one or more additional tissue layers, the image provided by a plurality of pixels. The method continues by introducing noise into the pixels of the image and thresholding the pixels of the image to provide a binary image having a plurality of structural elements of different sizes. The method continues with morphing the structural elements of the binary image to remove small structural elements and connect large structural elements. With this resulting image, the method distinguishes muscle fiber and tendon from remaining elements and determines the pennation angle and/or the fascicle length from the muscle fiber and the tendon. Associated apparatuses and computer program products are also disclosed.
US11096656B2
A tool navigation system employing an ultrasound probe, an ultrasound scanner, an interventional tool, a tool tracker and an image navigator. In operation, the ultrasound probe generates an acoustic image plane for scanning an anatomical region, and the ultrasound scanner generates an ultrasound image of the anatomical region from a scan of the anatomical region. During the scan, the interventional tool is navigated within the anatomical region relative to the acoustic image plane, and the tool tracker tracks a position of the interventional tool relative to the acoustic image plane. The image navigator displays a graphical icon within the ultrasound image for illustrating a tracking of the interventional tool relative to the acoustic image plane by the tool tracker. Additionally, a special attachment on the US probe with PZT type sensors can help this navigation by emitting acoustic waves off the central axis of the imaging plane.
US11096652B2
A bioacoustic sound testing device includes a band power calculator that calculates a band power in a predetermined period for each of a plurality of predetermined frequency bands on the basis of a bioacoustic sound, a reference power calculator that calculates a respiratory airflow reflecting power on the basis of a band power of a band reflecting a respiratory airflow, calculates a specific change reflecting power on the basis of a band power of a band reflecting a specific change in a living body, and calculates a reference power on the basis of the respiratory airflow reflecting power and the specific change reflecting power, and an index value calculator that calculates at least one index value on the basis of the reference power and the band powers of the plurality of predetermined frequency bands.
US11096648B2
For dose calibration (39) in functional imaging, different precision sources (22, 25) for a same long-lived isotope are used to calibrate, avoiding having to ship one source from one location to another location. A ratio of sensitivities of a gas ion chamber-based dose calibrator (20) at a reference laboratory to the precision source (22) of the long-lived isotope to a source (23) with an isotope to be used for imaging is found. At the clinical site (e.g., radio-pharmacy or functional imaging facility), a measure (34) of the sensitivity of a local gas ion chamber-based dose calibrator (24) to the other source (25) with the long-lived isotope and the ratio from the remote gas ion chamber-based dose calibrator (20) are used to determine sensitivity of the local gas ion chamber-based dose calibrator (24) to the isotope of the radiopharmaceutical (26). The bias and corresponding dose for the radiopharmaceutical (26) to be used for imaging a patient are based on activity for the radiopharmaceutical (26) as calibrated to account for the sensitivity of the local gas ion chamber-based dose calibrator (24) to the isotope of the radiopharmaceutical (26).
US11096647B2
Systems and methods for digital radiography are provided. The method may be implemented on the implemented on a DR system including an imaging device and a computing device. The computing device may include at least one processor and at least one storage device. The method may include directing multiple dose sensors to detect a dose of radiation rays emitted from a radiation source of the imaging device. The multiple dose sensors may correspond to multiple imaging detectors, respectively. The method may also include determining the dose of the radiation rays. The method may further include directing, based on the dose of the radiation rays, at least one imaging detector of the multiple imaging detectors to proceed to detect the radiation rays for generating an image of a target object to be examined.
US11096632B2
A method for monitoring and visualizing a patient's medical condition, wherein a graphical representation of the patient comprising a body having at least a torso and a head, as well as particularly two legs and two arms, is displayed using a display device, wherein said displayed graphical representation comprises at least one region which is allocated to at least one or several provided (e.g. measured and/or determined) patient monitoring quantities, and wherein the appearance of the at least one region is altered in real-time when the at least one patient monitoring quantity to which said at least one region is allocated changes.
US11096626B2
A fetal scalp monitor is disclosed that enables a medical professional to monitor the well-being of a fetus in utero. The fetal scalp monitor has a main body, with a central core having a temperature sensor, conductive dome, grounding ring, and tocodynamometer. The main body also has at least one adhesive portion to facilitate the attachment of the device onto the scalp of a fetus, and a plurality of concentric rings to militate against amniotic fluids from entering the adhesive portion. The vital signs of the infant and conditions inside the uterus are then transmitted, either wired or wirelessly, to a fetus monitoring device.
US11096624B2
Systems, methods, and devices provide alarms and alerts in an on-body networked diabetes management system. Methods may include receiving glucose sensor data from a continuous glucose monitor and determining a dosage of insulin delivery based at least in part on the glucose sensor data. The method may include detecting an alarm or alert condition, and sending a wireless communication regarding the alarm or alert condition to a remote user-interface device. The method may include triggering an audible, visual, or haptic alarm or alert on the insulin delivery device unless an acknowledgement of the alarm or alert condition is received within a predetermined period of time.
US11096616B2
A portable medical device having improved ECG trace display and reporting. Embodiments implement features to ameliorate artifacts created by virtue of attempting to eliminate compression artifacts due to mechanical compression devices. Other embodiments additionally implement features to seek to detect the occurrence of ROSC while chest compressions are ongoing.
US11096613B2
Exemplary embodiments described in this disclosure are generally directed to systems and methods for reducing anxiety in an occupant of a vehicle. In one exemplary method, a computer that is provided in a vehicle receives from a source such as a server computer, information that is used to determine a behavioral profile of an occupant of the vehicle. The computer utilizes the behavioral profile to identify a behavior characteristic of the occupant. The behavior characteristic is matched by the computer to one of various behavior categories such as an amaxophobia sufferer category or a controlling personality category. The computer then executes one or more operations in the vehicle based on the behavior category to which the occupant belongs. If the occupant belongs to the amaxophobia sufferer category, the computer may, for example, play an audio track, display a video clip, and/or change a driving characteristic of the vehicle.
US11096609B2
Provided is a brain function measurement device capable of improving the reliability of brain function measurement using a simple configuration. The brain function measurement device includes light source probes LD2 and LD12 for irradiating the scalp of a test subject with light beams; linearly polarizing films P2 and P3 for polarizing the light beams emitted from the light source probes LD2 and LD12 in a first direction; a linearly polarizing film P1 for blocking components in the first direction of reflected light beams that are generated as the light beams emitted from the linearly polarizing film P2 and P3 are reflected by the hairs of the test subject; and a detection probe PD1 for detecting the intensity of a light beam that has passed through the linearly polarizing film P1.
US11096607B2
A system for thermoregulatory sweat testing of a subject includes a chamber for accommodating the subject, the chamber having a heating device for operably elevating the core body temperature of the subject to a target temperature so as to induce sweating over a skin surface of the subject; a cooling device for operably creating forced evaporative cooling of the skin surface of the subject after the core body temperature of the subject is elevated to the target temperature; an imaging device for acquiring images of the subject at different times, each image having imaged pixels, the imaging device including one or more infrared cameras, one or more infrared sensors, or a combination of them; and a controller coupled with the chamber and the imaging device for controlling operations of the chamber and the imaging device and processing the acquired images to determine skin surface sweat distributions of the subject.
US11096606B2
A method and wireless sensor device for determining body postures and activities. In one aspect, a method includes receiving sensor data. The method also includes detecting and classifying a body transition of a body based on the sensor data. The method also includes detecting if there is activity of the body based on the sensor data. If there is activity, the method also includes classifying the activity. If there is no activity, the method also includes classifying a rest position of the body based on the sensor data and based on a previous body transition.
US11096602B2
Methods and systems for characterizing tissue of a subject include acquiring and receiving data for a plurality of time series of fluorescence images, identifying one or more attributes of the data relevant to a clinical characterization of the tissue, and categorizing the data into clusters based on the attributes such that the data in the same cluster are more similar to each other than the data in different clusters, wherein the clusters characterize the tissue. The methods and systems further include receiving data for a subject time series of fluorescence images, associating a respective cluster with each of a plurality of subregions in the subject time series of fluorescence images, and generating a subject spatial map based on the clusters for the plurality of subregions in the subject time series of fluorescence images. The generated spatial maps may then be used as input for tissue diagnostics using supervised machine learning.
US11096587B2
An intra-oral scanning device includes a main part having a first mount structure, a scanning arm having at least one signal collector, a drive mechanism connected to the scanning arm to move a head portion of the scanning arm, and a mouthpiece positionable in an oral cavity. The mouthpiece has a hollow interior, an opening to access the hollow interior and a second mount structure. The scanning arm extends into the hollow interior when the first mount structure is connected to the second mount structure. The scanning arm is mounted to a pivot manipulator of the drive mechanism such that an axis of rotation of the pivot manipulator is essentially perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the scanning arm. The scanning arm is mounted to a linear manipulator of the drive mechanism such that a distance between the pivot manipulator and the head portion of the scanning arm is modifiable.
US11096586B1
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for detecting carious lesions are described herein. In an example, the systems in an optical interrogator including a single-pixel photodetector responsive to short-wave infrared light and operatively coupled to a controller. In an example the optical interrogator includes a plurality of lasers for emitting laser light, a scanning mirror assembly and a single-pixel photodetector. In an example, the methods include causing the plurality of lasers to emit the laser light having wavelengths in a range of about 900 nm to about 1,700 nm; selectively directing the laser light over different portions of a tooth with a scanning mirror assembly to provide scattered light; and correlating scattered light signals generated by the single-pixel photodetector in response to the scattered light with the portion of the tooth.
US11096582B2
The present technology relates to vascular access devices, systems, and methods configured to monitor a patient's health. In some embodiments, the vascular access device may include a sensing element, and the system of the present technology may be configured to obtain physiological measurements of the patient via the sensing element, determine at least one physiological parameter based on the physiological measurement, compare the at least one physiological parameter to a predetermined threshold, and, based on the comparison, provide an indication of the patient's health.
US11096578B2
A device includes an overlay mechanism, system with devices each including an overlay mechanism with an individually programmable delay or method for overlaying data. A method for overlaying data includes redirecting an access which is directed to a first memory location to a second memory location. The method for overlaying data selectively delays access to the second memory location in case of a redirection by a time.
US11096577B2
Health care monitoring and alerting systems are presented. Contemplated systems include a rule repository storing rules for sending notifications to interested parties regarding a patient's wellness status. An inference engine correlates actual, possibly real-time, patient wellness information with rule sets. If a patient's wellness status satisfies triggering criteria of a rule sets, the inference engine instructs a communication engine to send a notification to interested parties according to the rules set.
US11096549B2
A dishwasher, in particular a household dishwasher, includes a mechanism for modifying odor. The mechanism for modifying odor includes an ozone generator for odor neutralization in a dishwasher cavity and a system for fragrance introduction into the dishwasher cavity. A control device has stored therein a process, which firstly provides for the odor neutralization by the ozone generator and then introduction of a new fragrance by the system for fragrance introduction.
US11096544B2
A surface cleaning apparatus adapted for movement across a surface to be cleaned. The surface cleaning apparatus can dock within a storage tray and charge a power supply. Electrical contacts on the surface cleaning apparatus and the storage tray can be shielded when the surface cleaning apparatus is not docked within the storage tray. Furthermore, the storage tray can include a reservoir for a self-cleaning mode.
US11096543B2
A surface cleaning apparatus includes a housing including an upright handle assembly and a base mounted to the upright handle assembly and adapted for movement across a surface to be cleaned. The surface cleaning apparatus is further provided with a fluid delivery system comprising a fluid dispenser configured to dispense fluid to a brushroll and at least one fluid delivery channel forming a portion of a fluid delivery pathway. The fluid delivery channel can extend adjacent to a portion of the suction nozzle assembly. An interference wiper interfaces with a portion of the brushroll to remove excess liquid from the brushroll.
US11096535B2
A robotic vacuum (1) includes a main body (2) having a suction port (15) in a bottom surface (2B) thereof; a storage unit (6) housed in the main body and configured to store dust and debris suctioned in via the suction port (15); and at least one wheel (9) that supports the main body (2). The main body (2) has a width Wb in a first direction that is parallel to a rotational axis (AX) of the wheel (9), the storage unit (6) has a width Ws in the first direction, the main body (2) has a height Hb in a second direction that is perpendicular to the rotational axis (AX) and perpendicular to the first direction, and the storage unit (6) has a height Hs in the second direction. The width Wb is 470-600 mm, and the condition 0.5×Wb≤Ws≤0.7×Wb is satisfied.
US11096532B2
A vacuum cleaner is provided with a cleaner main body having an electric blower and a handle. The handle is shaped such that a gravity center position of the cleaner main body remains substantially unchanged in a state in which any one region is gripped.
US11096529B1
A toothpaste rolling assembly for squeezing toothpaste from a tube of toothpaste includes a key that has a slot extending therethrough to receive an end of a toothpaste tube thereby facilitating the toothpaste tube to be wrapped around the key. A gear is positionable around the key and a sleeve is slidable over the key. The sleeve has a slot therein to accommodate the toothpaste tube when the sleeve is slid over the key. The sleeve has a pair of lobes thereon and each of the lobes releasably engages the gear for retaining the sleeve at various points of rotation about the key. In this way the sleeve can be continually rotated on the key for squeezing toothpaste out of the toothpaste tube.
US11096518B2
Systems for controlled heating and/or agitation for liquid food or beverage product creation are disclosed. A dispenser for producing a food or beverage liquid product from a frozen contents in a receptacle includes a chamber configured to hold a receptacle containing the contents and a dilution liquid inlet configured to supply a dilution liquid to the interior of the receptacle. The dispenser also includes a perforator configured to perforate the receptacle and form a product outlet from the receptacle for the liquid product and an agitator configured to impart motion to the receptacle and/or the contents in the receptacle that increases a flow path from the liquid inlet to the product outlet taken by at least a portion of dilution liquid, when supplied, relative to a flow path from the liquid inlet to the product outlet taken by the portion of dilution liquid without the imparted motion.
US11096512B2
Disclosed is an artificial tree having a plurality of electrified tree sections that couple together to provide power and/or command signals to devices connected thereto. One or more tree sections may have a trunk portion, one or more electrical connectors having a plurality of terminals, branches, a light string, and an electrical distribution system located at least partially within the trunk portion. A first tree section may be configured to couple to a second tree section such that an electrical connector of the first tree section is in electrical connection with an electrical connector of the second tree section, thereby mechanically and electrically connecting the first tree section to the second tree section such that power and/or the control data are transmitted to the second tree section. Further, each trunk segment may include an axial electrical connector that permits adjacent trunk segments to connect in a plurality of radial orientations relative to each other.
US11096506B2
An anti-theft assembly for deterring theft of a ring is provided. The anti-theft assembly includes a base that can be used to support an electronic article surveillance marker; a product engagement member including a support member that supports the ring during use and a locking member that secures the support member to the base; and an attachment member for securing the ring to the support member. In one embodiment, the support member and the locking member are a single, unitary member. In another embodiment, the support member and the locking member are separate members. Once assembled, upon applying a twisting force to the ring the engagement member rotates within the opening so that the attachment member is not broken.
US11096504B2
A refrigerated merchandiser is provided including a case having a first case section. The first case section defines a first product display area and an air passageway. The air passageway supports a fan and is in fluid communication with an airflow inlet and an airflow outlet. The air passageway is at least partially defined by a refrigeration system including an evaporator. A portion of the air passageway is further defined by a plenum having a stepped profile configured to channel and adjust a direction of an airflow within the first air passageway prior to entering the evaporator. The refrigerated merchandiser may further include a second case section defining a second product display area and including a glass panel. A first airflow portion of an airflow is configured to flow through the airflow inlet toward the evaporator and a second airflow portion is configured to flow through a second airflow outlet via an evaporator bypass channel. The first airflow portion is cooled by the evaporator and the second airflow portion is uncooled by the evaporator. The second airflow portion may be further directed through the second airflow outlet over an exterior of the glass panel of the second case section.
US11096501B2
A bedding retention assembly retains a fitted sheet over a mattress. The bedding retention assembly includes at least one base disposed adjacent the mattress. The base is flat in one embodiment and has a flange extending perpendicularly thereto in a second embodiment. At least one boss extends out from the at least one base. Each of a plurality of lines is partially redirected by the at least one boss. Each of the plurality of lines includes an attachment portion and a tightening portion. A plurality of attachment devices is fixedly secured to each of the attachment portions for attaching a portion of the bedding periphery to the bedding retention assembly.
US11096493B1
A folding chair includes a left frame rod, right frame rod, front left leg rod, front right leg rod, left armrest rod, right armrest rod, left armrest supporting rod, right armrest supporting rod, left connecting rod, right connecting rod, left backrest rod, right backrest rod, first front supporting rod, second front supporting rod, first rear supporting rod, second rear supporting rod, left frame rotating component, right frame rotating component, left positioning slider, right positioning slider, left sliding component, right sliding component, left armrest fixing component, right armrest fixing component, left supporting rod sliding component, right supporting rod sliding component, leg shoes, backrest rod sliding components, front limiting components, seat portion and backrest portion.
US11096488B2
A three-section linkage drawer slides apparatus, includes an upper rail, a middle rail, a fixed rail, an upper linkage rack, and a lower linkage rack, wherein the middle rail is slidably connected to the fixed rail through the lower linkage rack, the upper rail is slidably connected to the middle rail through the upper linkage rack, the upper linkage rack and the lower linkage rack are of separate structures, the upper linkage rack is mounted between the middle rail and the upper rail after being assembled, and the lower linkage rack is mounted between the fixed rail and the middle rail after being assembled. The upper linkage rack and the lower linkage rack are configured as separate structures, the manufacturing process can thus be simplified, so the manufacturing cost is reduced.
US11096484B2
A lifting cabinet has left and right lifting mechanisms each comprising a steel cable; a power mechanism which is connected with a first end of the steel cable; an internal guide rail which is connected with a second end of the steel cable; and an external guide rail which is fixed on a frame of the lifting cabinet and is configured with an accommodation space therein. The internal guide rail is located within the accommodation space. The lifting cabinet solves the problem of exposure of the steel cable.
US11096483B2
A household appliance, in particular a refrigerator or a freezer or a furniture item comprising at least one storage space, in which a support plate is positioned comprising a storage area and a shelf which can be rotationally and translationally moved on the storage area of the support plate, wherein: the shelf comprises a flat storage area which is oriented plane-parallel to the storage area of the support element; the shelf can be rotated relative to the support plate in a first rotational direction and can be displaced in a predefined direction; mutually facing bearing surfaces of the storage areas each have closed peripheral raceway grooves in which rolling elements are guided; the raceway grooves are formed such that, when a force is applied to the shelf in a direction defined in the plane of the storage area, the shelf can be moved, in a movement which is at least partially forcibly guided and which is simultaneously rotational and translational, from a base position into an intermediary position, the shelf being rotated relative to the support plate in one of two possible opposing rotational directions and being displaced in a predefined direction; and the shelf, after being moved into the intermediary position, can be further rotated relative to the support plate in the one of two possible opposing rotational directions and can be displaced counter to the predefined direction and, when rotated by 180°, resumes the base position.
US11096481B2
A table includes a table top having a frame attached to a lower surface of the table top. The table also includes a first leg having lugs and a second leg having lugs. The lugs of the first leg and the second leg are received in slots of the frame to attach the legs to the table. The legs are telescopically movable to adjust the height of the table top.
US11096479B2
A furniture system is disclosed comprising a guiding bracket (1), a first furniture part (8) and a second furniture part (13). The first furniture part (8) is movable in view of the second furniture part (13) along a sliding direction (SD). The guiding bracket (1) comprises a through-going passage (3) forming part of a guide and having an extension coinciding with the sliding direction (SD), and an attachment protrusion (11) having an extension in a direction transverse the sliding direction (SD). The second furniture part (13) comprises a recess (12) arranged to lockingly receive the attachment protrusion (11) of the guiding bracket (1). The first furniture part (8) comprises a rail (7) arranged to extend through the through-going passage (3) of the guiding bracket (1) and to be slidable along said through-going passage (3) thereby allowing the first furniture part (8) to be movable in view of the second furniture part (13) along the sliding direction (SD). Further a guiding bracket (1) and the use of such guiding bracket in a furniture of the extendable type is disclosed.
US11096474B2
A hand attachable animal washing apparatus, attachable upon the hand of a user, enables singlehanded control of waterflow and application of water into the coat of an animal. Control of waterflow though a molded body member is enabled by operation of a compressible portion disposed to control a valve assembly disposed interiorly within the molded body member. A proximal arced edge is disposed projected rearwardly from the molded body member and curved downward to direct waterflow away from a user operating the device, particularly when the device is elevated above a user, as when washing a large animal such as a horse, for example. A user may thereby control and apply water to an animal with one hand while securing and comforting the animal with the other hand.
US11096470B2
Provided is a sealed packaging for cosmetics, defining a longitudinal axis and a normal plane perpendicular to a longitudinal axis and including a first containing body, a second containing body and a central body, including a base and an applicator.
US11096469B2
A lid is detached from a container main body, a mobile body and an application body are moved forward by an elastic body so as to move a mobile body side stepped portion toward a lid side stepped portion. An inclined tilt portion tilting downward as the inclined tilt portion goes inward in the radial direction on a stepped surface forming the stepped portion is positioned on the lid side stepped portion. The mobile body side stepped portion is moves forward, and the mobile body side stepped portion and a tile surface of the inclined tilt portion are caused to collide with each other so that the application body reaches a forward movement limit.
US11096466B2
A nail polish application system may include a nail polish applicator to apply a curable nail polish to a nail of a user. An energy source may emit energy to selectively cure the curable nail polish. A sensor may be provided to detect a boundary of the nail of the user. The energy source may be configured to direct the energy to (i) the detected boundary of the nail during a first curing stage or (ii) to an area within the detected boundary of the nail during the first curing stage, and to (iii) avoid directing the energy to an area outside the detected boundary of the nail during the first curing stage.
US11096464B2
A hairstyling flat iron includes a first arm having a first gripping portion and a first styling portion; a second arm having a second gripping portion and a second styling portion; a biasing member coupled with the first gripping portion and the second gripping portion to move the second arm relative to the first arm; a first heat heating plate located on the first styling portion and facing the second arm, the first heating plate having a first heat transmissive plate and a first coating disposed on the first heat transmissive plate, the first coating having ceramic and lava rock incorporated therein; and a second heat heating plate located on the second styling portion and facing the first arm, the second heating plate having a second heat transmissive plate and a second coating disposed on the second heat transmissive plate, the second coating having ceramic and lava rock incorporated therein.
US11096461B2
A retention device for portable audio, video, and power adapters commonly used with portable electronic devices (e.g., mobile phones) includes a shell that is configured to receive a removable insert formed from a resiliently deformable material, which retains and protects an adapter for a portable electronic device. The removable insert may be interchangeable with a plurality of inserts, each of which comprises a cutout region configured to accommodate and retain a corresponding adapter.
US11096449B2
A clip includes an inner housing slidably received in an outer housing with a spring housed in the outer housing between a base of the outer housing and the inner housing. Each of the inner and outer housings include a side opening and a main cavity. When a user manipulates the inner housing, the side openings are aligned with one another, such that a user can insert an object through the respective side openings to be secured within the main cavity of the clip. The clip may further include a decorative member coupled to the outer housing, wherein the decorative member includes a design or a safety feature formed on an outerwardly directed surface thereof.
US11096448B1
A tongue of an article of footwear is split into two pieces having an upper and lower section. The lower section is built into/a part of the footwear as it is fixedly attached to a vamp and/or throat of the footwear such as of a sneaker. The upper end is removably attachable to the footwear along a straight line (line of demarcation) between the upper and lower pieces. This straight line extends generally horizontally. The upper end of the lower region of the tongue and the lower end of the upper region of the tongue have fastening mechanisms designed/configured to removably attach the upper and lower regions to each other along a horizontal axis.
US11096446B2
A fluid-filled chamber may include a pair of polymer layers that define a plurality of subchambers and a web area. The subchambers are protruding portions of the polymer layers that enclose a fluid, and the web area is portions of the polymer layers that are located between the subchambers and lay adjacent to each other. The subchambers may have greater thickness than the web area. A perimeter bond joining the polymer layers and extends around a periphery of the chamber. In addition, a plurality of interior bonds join the polymer layers and extend around the subchambers, which may seal the fluid within the subchambers.
US11096442B2
An outer sole for a golf shoe includes a plurality of cleats distributed along a forefoot area and a heel area. The cleats are integrated with the outer sole and extend from a surface of the outer sole that faces away from the shoe. The plurality of cleats includes at least a larger sized set of cleats and a smaller sized set of cleats. Such outer sole for a golf shoe gives good traction on the golf course but is also useable as a casual shoe off the golf course.
US11096431B1
A nursing garment has the outward appearance of a conventional women's top while including an integral privacy flap which allows for discrete and concealed breastfeeding even in public spaces. The nursing garment functions to provide a privacy flap that is integrally formed with the front of the garment and configurable between a normally worn configuration wherein the privacy flap forms the front outer layer of the garment and is affixed to the garment by invisible fasteners running along the side seams and nursing configuration wherein the front layer is deployed to form a privacy flap capable of concealing the breast and infant while breast feeding or utilizing a breast pump in pubic.
US11096428B1
A suspender system and method of use includes an elongated belt strap that removably engages around the midsection of the user; a first connector secured to a top edge of the elongated belt strap and engaged with a first garment of clothing worn by the user; a second connector secured to a bottom edge of the elongated belt strap and engaged with a second garment of clothing worn by the user.
US11096425B2
A heating device, an atomizer and an electronic cigarette having the same are disclosed, a heating device includes a shell, with a receiving chamber formed therein; a heating element, received in the receiving chamber to contact with a liquid conductive body; the liquid conductive body, configured for absorbing tobacco liquid and supplying the tobacco liquid to the heating element; the liquid conductive body includes multiple annular liquid conductive layers stacked inside the shell, along an axial direction of the shell; outer diameters of multiple annular conductive layer are equal to an inner diameter of the receiving chamber such that the multiple annular liquid conductive layers are capable of being received in the receiving chamber and abutting against an inner surface of the shell.
US11096423B2
An e-vapor device may include a reservoir, a heater, and a bimetallic actuator. The reservoir is configured to hold a pre-vapor formulation. The reservoir defines an outlet configured to release the pre-vapor formulation therefrom. The heater is configured to heat the pre-vapor formulation released from the reservoir to generate a vapor. The bimetallic actuator may be configured to seal the outlet of the reservoir when vaping is not occurring and configured to unseal the outlet when vaping is occurring.
US11096413B2
There is provided a multi-segment component for an aerosol generating article, the multi-segment component including a combustible heat source having at least one shaped recess on an outer surface thereof; an aerosol-forming substrate downstream of the combustible heat source; a wrapper circumscribing the combustible heat source along at least part of a length of the combustible heat source; and an inorganic glue located between the combustible heat source and the wrapper, the inorganic glue at least partially filling the at least one shaped recess.
US11096404B2
The present invention relates to feed stuffs for fish to prevent, treat and/or control a variety of diseases, infections and/or infestations in fish. The invention provides supplemented fish feed and other compositions as well as uses and methods exploiting the same. Additionally, the patent provides methods of making supplemented fish feeds.
US11096400B2
Disclosed herein is a method for producing a package of cheese shreds. Cheese shreds and anticaking agent are mixed at a load between 2 wt. % and 10 wt. % in relation to the cheese shreds to form anticake-coated cheese shreds. The anticaking agent comprises 15-30 wt. % reducing sugar; 0.2-0.8 wt. % glucose oxidase; and 0.5-2 wt. % salt chosen from sodium chloride, calcium chloride, and magnesium chloride. The anticake-coated cheese shreds are then sealed into a package without modifying the atmosphere in the package or using an inert gas flush.
US11096393B2
The present invention relates to a soft bakery product having a slowly-available-glucose (SAG) content of at least 15 wt % and a water activity of from 0.4 to 0.9, the product comprising a dough-based, baked portion and optionally a coating and/or a filling, the product comprising: cereals in an amount of at least 35 wt %; at least 5 wt % sugars, having a degree of polymerisation of 1 or 2, by weight of the soft bakery product; and from 0.1 to 15 wt % maltitol by weight of the soft bakery product.
US11096385B2
The present invention relates to a system for dispensing liquid mixtures, having a main stream line for passage of a main stream of a carrier liquid, a secondary stream line, which branches off from the main stream line at a first junction and leads back into the main stream line at a second junction, and at least one tank for accommodating a mixture component, the tank having a discharge opening connected to the secondary stream line. The system tank includes a metering pump for delivering the mixture component located in the tank through the discharge line into the secondary stream line and the system comprises a drive unit which is coupled detachably to the metering pump to drive the metering pump. The invention further relates to a method of using the above-stated system and to use of the system to dispense a plant protection product.
US11096383B2
The present disclosure relates to the genetically modified non-human animals that express a human or chimeric CTLA-4, and methods of use thereof.
US11096358B2
A soybean cultivar designated 88340813 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 88340813, to the plants of soybean cultivar 88340813, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 88340813, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 88340813. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 88340813. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 88340813, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 88340813 with another soybean cultivar.
US11096355B2
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH100811. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH100811, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH100811 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH100811.
US11096354B1
A novel maize variety designated 6CWXI1550 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant comprise crossing maize variety 6CWXI1550 with another maize plant are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into 6CWXI1550 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are provided. Hybrid maize seed, plants or plant parts are produced by crossing the variety 6CWXI1550 or a locus conversion of 6CWXI1550 with another maize variety.
US11096353B2
The invention provides seeds and plants of cucumber hybrid SV8592CS. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds, plant parts, and tissue cultures of cucumber hybrid SV8592CS and to methods for producing a cucumber plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another plant, such as a cucumber plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to plants, seeds, plant parts, and tissue cultures of cucumber hybrid SV8592CS comprising introduced beneficial or desirable traits.
US11096350B2
A novel canola variety designated G00555 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof. Methods for producing a canola plant that comprise crossing canola variety G00555 with another canola plant. Methods for producing a canola plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into G00555 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the canola seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. Hybrid canola seed, plant or plant part produced by crossing the canola variety G00555 or a locus conversion of G00555 with another canola variety.
US11096347B1
A novel maize variety designated X05N267 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are produced by crossing inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant by crossing hybrid maize variety X05N267 with another maize plant are disclosed. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X05N267 through backcrossing or genetic transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are described. Maize variety X05N267, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X05N267 are provided. Methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X05N267 and methods of using maize variety X05N267 are disclosed.
US11096335B2
An agricultural storage system including an agricultural storage bin for storing agricultural products therein. At least a mixed air flow fan is connected to the agricultural storage bin for generating an air flow and air pressure and providing the same to the agricultural storage bin.
US11096330B2
A fork assembly including a retention mechanism to retain an agricultural machine having a remotely controllable moveable element that is moveable between a number of positions. The retention mechanism includes a control element positioned so that, when engaged with the agricultural machine, the movement of the control element due to movement associated with the remotely controllable moveable element is arranged to cause actuation and deactuation of the retention mechanism.
US11096328B2
An agricultural header includes: a header frame; at least one cutting unit carried by the header frame and including a cutting element and a driveshaft coupled to the cutting element; and a gearbox configured to drive the cutting element. The gearbox includes a gearbox output rotatably coupled to the driveshaft; and a clutch including an intermediate shaft and at least one clutch shoe rotatably coupled to the intermediate shaft and displaceable between a non-engaging position where the at least one clutch shoe does not engage the gearbox output and an engaging position where the at least one clutch shoe engages the gearbox output. The clutch is configured such that the at least one clutch shoe displaces to the engaging position when a rotational speed of the intermediate shaft reaches a threshold value.
US11096325B2
A lawn mower robot includes an inner body provided with casters and wheels for moving, a plurality of blades rotatably provided on a bottom surface of the inner body to cut grass, a drive motor mounted on the wheels, respectively, to independently drive the wheels, and an outer cover mounted on and configured to surround an outer side of the inner body to be movable in forward, backward, leftward and rightward directions with respect to the inner body when colliding with an obstacle. A plurality of ultrasonic sensors are provided to sense an obstacle, and an ultrasonic guide unit is formed to be recessed rearward from a front end portion of the outer cover so as to restrict a downward propagation angle of ultrasonic waves generated from the ultrasonic sensors.
US11096324B2
A fertilization design device calculates a fertilization amount of a field to be fertilized and includes the following units. A database reception unit receives one or both of growth data indicating growth potential of the field and soil data indicating plant growth potential of soil in the field and receives position data as position coordinate information for the field. A designated position reception and retrieval unit receives a freely selected position designated by a user and retrieves information of the freely selected position from the position data. A user input fertilization amount value reception unit receives a fertilization amount value freely set by the user for the freely selected position or for a range including the freely selected position. A calibration curve generation unit generates a calibration curve, based on one or both of the growth data and the soil data, the position data, and the fertilization amount value.
US11102919B2
Management apparatus, mount substrate manufacturing system, and mount substrate manufacturing method
A management apparatus is connected to a mount substrate manufacturing line including a print apparatus, a component mounting apparatus, and a reflow apparatus, through a network. The management apparatus instructs at least one of apparatuses that are at a more upstream side than a reflow apparatus in a mount substrate manufacturing line to start production of the mount substrate, based on first data relating to the period of time necessary to complete preparation for the performing of a process by the reflow apparatus.
US11102917B2
The disclosed embodiments are directed to a casing for housing electronic components, comprising a casing wall structure surrounding a casing interior region for accommodating the electronic components, the casing wall structure defining a fluid flow passageway for thermal regulation fluid, the fluid flow passageway extending within the casing wall structure separated from said casing interior region from an inlet to and an outlet at the casing wall structure, characterized in that the casing wall structure completely encloses the casing interior region to make it a closed interior volume, and that the casing wall structure is double-walled by including an inner shell and an outer shell which form a space in between in communication with the inlet and the outlet such that between the inner and outer shells the fluid flow passageway is defined as a continuous and coherent flow space which completely encloses the interior volume of the casing wall structure.
US11102912B2
A two-phase liquid immersion cooling system is described in which heat generating computer components cause a dielectric fluid in its liquid phase to vaporize. The dielectric vapor is then condensed back into a liquid phase and used to cool the computer components. Using a pressure controlled vessel and pressure controller, the disclosed system may be operated at less than ambient pressure. By controlling the pressure at which the system operates, the user may influence the temperature at which the dielectric fluid vaporizes and thereby achieve increased performance from a given computer component. Utilizing robotic arms and slot-in computing components, a self-healing computing system may be created.
US11102911B2
Dew condensation in a housing of an inverter device can be prevented. The inverter device includes: a housing accommodating a power electronic element and an electrolytic capacitor; an opening formed in the housing; a thermal insulator disposed along a periphery of the opening; and a water jacket having a body portion, and a flow-in pipe and a discharge pipe for cooling water, the water jacket being disposed such that a first surface of the body portion closes the opening from an outside of the housing, with the thermal insulator interposed therebetween. The power electronic element is mounted on the first surface of the body portion, and the electrolytic capacitor is mounted in the housing so as to be in contact with an inner surface of the housing.
US11102903B2
A formed enclosure part for mounting an electronic component on a printed circuit board includes a receiving side having an enclosure opening for receiving the electronic component in an enclosure interior, a connection side adjoining the receiving side and having connection leadthroughs for electrical connections of the electronic component, and a mounting side having a formed-on mounting profile for positioning the formed enclosure part and holding the formed enclosure part on the printed circuit board without the use of tools. An electronic subassembly, which is also provided, receives a printed circuit board and the formed enclosure part having an electronic component disposed therein.
US11102898B2
A method of manufacturing a display device includes forming on a first substrate a display element and a metal layer surrounding the display element, the metal layer including a first portion having a first width and a second portion having a second width less than the first width, forming on a second substrate a sealing member surrounding the display element, the sealing member including a first sealing portion having a first forming width and a second sealing portion having a second forming width greater than the first forming width, arranging the first substrate and the second substrate such that the sealing member on the second substrate faces the first substrate, the first sealing portion overlaps the first portion of the metal layer, and the second sealing portion overlaps the second portion of the metal layer, and sealing the first and second substrates by melting and curing the sealing member.
US11102894B2
A printed circuit board enclosure employs a box having an open base and opposing side plates. Securing tabs extend laterally from the side plates. The securing tabs have bottom surfaces that are coplanar extensions of a bottom surface of the box and are configured to be attached to the main circuit board. A cover is received on the box. The cover is configured to close the open top of the box. The cover has side flanges extending downwardly from a top plate with mating tabs extending laterally from the side flanges aligned with the securing tabs.
US11102881B2
A flat harness includes a plurality of flat circuit bodies that are stacked to each other. A mark is provided on a side surface of each of the plurality of flat circuit bodies. A position of the mark in a length direction of the flat circuit body is provided so as to be different for each type of the flat circuit body.
US11102873B1
A system and related method provide an ability at a local level to develop and modify an aircraft lighting configuration. Local maintenance may modify and replace a lighting configuration file associated with an aircraft lighting control defining default values and preset intensities for interior, exterior, cabin, and cargo bay lighting. A Graphical User Interface (GUI) offers a maintenance technician and a crewmember efficient flight deck control of each zone and field enabling efficient user control of each aspect of aircraft lighting.
US11102861B1
A driver electronics is provided for powering a light engine including light emitting diodes (LEDs). The driver electronics arrangement includes at least two drivers that alternate power to a light engine. By alternating between the two drivers to power the light engine, the service life of the luminaire is increased. In one embodiment, the driver electronics includes at least two drivers, a light engine and a control relay block. The control relay block controls the at least two drivers so that only one of the drivers is powering the light engine at a time.
US11102859B2
An LED lighting system is provided for connection to a variable power source providing input power, the LED lighting system having at least one power analyzing and processing circuitry connecting to the variable power source, and being configured to identify one or more characteristics of the input power, where the characteristics are selected from amplitude, frequency and pulse width of the input power, compare one or more of the characteristics of the input power to preset control criteria either in hardware or software or both to yield a comparison result, and then control the current control circuitry according to the comparison result.
US11102850B1
Device and method for levitation melting using induction units which are arranged in a tilted manner
The invention relates to a levitation melting method and an apparatus for producing casting bodies with tilted induction units. During this method, induction units are employed in which the opposing ferrite poles with the induction coils are not arranged lying in one plane, but tilted at a determined angle to the levitation plane. In this way, an increase in efficiency of the induced magnetic field for melting the batches can be achieved with the induction units. The tilted arrangement increases the portion of the induced magnetic field that effectively contributes to the holding force of the field for levitation of the melt.
US11102844B2
Embodiments of this application provide a policy control method, device, and system. The method includes: sending, by a mobility management network element to a first session management network element, a first request message used to create a first session, where the first request message includes an identifier of a terminal, single network slice selection assistance information (S-NSSAI), and a data network name (DNN); receiving, by the first session management network element, the first request message from the mobility management network element, and sending a second request message to a binding support network element, where the second request message includes the identifier of the terminal, the S-NSSAI, and the DNN; and receiving, by the first session management network element, an identifier of a policy control network element from the binding support network element, and selecting the policy control network element based on the identifier of the policy control network element.
US11102837B2
A radio terminal (3) can perform carrier aggregation using a first cell (10) of a first radio station (1) and a second cell (20) of a second radio station (2). The first radio station (1) performs, with the radio terminal (3), radio resource control for the first cell (10) and the second cell (20) in order to perform the carrier aggregation. At least one of the second radio station (2) and the radio terminal (3) is configured to transmit, to the first radio station (10), information about a problem occurring in a radio link in the second cell (20) between the second radio station (20) and the radio terminal (30) while the carrier aggregation of the first cell (10) and the second cell (20) is being performed.
US11102830B2
A mobile terminal (communication apparatus) selects a data item that needs to be obtained from an MFP (information processing apparatus) according to a user instruction given via an operation screen. Upon establishment of NFC communication between the mobile terminal and an NFC tag of the MFP as a result of the mobile terminal being brought closer to the NFC tag by the user, the mobile terminal reads, from the NFC tag, connection information for connecting to the MFP by using the Wi-Fi Direct. The mobile terminal connects to the MFP by using the Wi-Fi Direct based on the obtained connection information, and obtains data corresponding to the selected data item from the MFP through the Wi-Fi Direct communication.
US11102825B2
The present disclosure relates to a method and a device for responding to a random access. The method includes: a user equipment (UE) sending a random access request, wherein information including a UE identifier is carried in the random access request; and the UE receiving a random access response, wherein when UE identifier carried in the random access response is consistent with the UE identifier in the random access request, a contention resolution is completed; when the UE identifier carried in the random access response is inconsistent with the UE identifier in the random access request, the UE determines that the random access fails this time, and re-initiates a random access attempt; and when no UE identifier is carried in the random access response, the UE falls back to a random access process in which no UE identifier information is carried in the random access request.
US11102817B2
A computer implemented method for operating an access node includes: generating, by the access node, an initial block and a time-dependent signal for transmission in a channel occupancy time (COT) of a shared communications channel, the initial block including a time-independent initial sequence that enables the initial block to be transmitted over any slot in the COT, wherein the time-dependent signal is transmitted after the initial block; and transmitting, by the access node, the initial block and the time-dependent signal in a first slot of the COT. An access node is also described.
US11102815B2
Improvements to asynchronous spatial listen before talk (LBT) procedures are disclosed. In a shared spectrum network spatial LBT procedures are used for directionally targeting the channel reservation process. Prior to transmitting channel reservation signaling, the transmitter and receiver determine an effective interference considering available multiple input, multiple output (MIMO) configuration information. When the effective interference exceeds a predefined threshold, the node may without transmission of its channel reservation signal. Otherwise, when the effective interference remains within the threshold, each node's transmitted channel reservation signal may also identify at least a beamforming matrix either as payload or used to precede the node's channel reservation signal.
US11102814B2
Described are mechanisms for eNB support of DRS in LAA, in which DRS is transmitted at one or more DRS occasions within a DMTC window, subject to LBT. In some embodiments, an eNB may include hardware processing circuitry comprising an antenna port, a first circuitry, a second circuitry, and a third circuitry. The first circuitry may be operable to determine a DMTC window of a wireless communication channel. The second circuitry may be operable to initiate one or more CCA checks through an antenna coupled to the antenna port prior to a DRS occasion within a DMTC time window. The third circuitry may be operable to initiate a DRS transmission through the antenna within the DMTC window upon a CCA check of the set of one or more CCA checks sensing that the wireless communication channel is idle. Also described are mechanisms for proactive support of DRS in LAA.
US11102811B2
The present disclosure discloses a method and a device in wireless communication. A User Equipment receives first information; and then transmits a first radio signal; and transmits a second radio signal. The first information comprises P1 piece(s) of configuration information, each of which is used to determine first-type resources, a first-type integer, and a first-type set; the first radio signal and the second radio signal comprises M1 first and M2 second radio sub-signal(s), respectively; the M2 is an element within a target set which is a positive integer; time-frequency resources occupied by the first radio signal belong to the first-type resources determined by first configuration information, the M1 is the first-type integer determined by the first configuration information, the target set is the first-type set determined by the first configuration information. The present disclosure provides a method of determining a number of non-grant uplink repeated transmissions while avoiding timing confusion.
US11102798B2
The present disclosure provides a method and a device in a User Equipment (UE) and a base station used for wireless communication. The UE in sequence receives a first radio signal in a first time interval, conducts blind decoding for the first radio signal in a second time interval and receives a second radio signal in a third time interval, and receives a third radio signal in a fourth time interval. The second radio signal and the third radio signal are transmitted by the same antenna port. The end time of the second time interval is behind the start time of the third time interval, and the fourth time interval is behind the third time interval. The present disclosure reduces the delay in beam scheduling, improves the efficiency of transmission and improves the flexibility of system scheduling.
US11102797B2
The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). A scheduling method by a base station in a wireless communication system, the method comprising receiving a message including capability information from a first terminal and a second terminal, setting a first secondary cell having a first frame structure to the first terminal, and setting a second secondary cell having a second frame structure to the second terminal, based on the capability information and performing scheduling for the first secondary cell and second secondary cell, wherein in the second frame structure, all subframes are at least one of a downlink subframe, an uplink subframe, and an empty subframe.
US11102783B2
A method for operating a user equipment (UE) includes receiving, by the UE from a transmit-receive point (TRP), a sounding reference signal (SRS) configuration for a SRS resource, determining, by the UE, at least one transmit beam for transmitting a SRS, wherein the at least one transmit beam is determined in accordance with TRP receive beam information and the SRS configuration, and transmitting, by the UE, the SRS on the SRS resource using the at least one transmit beam in accordance with the SRS configuration.
US11102775B2
Systems and methods for transmitting and receiving resource blocks using OFDM-based signals are provided. The OFDM-based signal has a number of sub-bands, and employs a respective numerology in each sub-band. Each numerology has a respective subcarrier spacing and OFDM symbol duration. For a given receiver, content is mapped to resource blocks within an assigned one of the sub-bands, using the sub-carrier spacing of the sub-band.
US11102770B2
Disclosed are methods and systems for determining, by a terminal device, downlink control information that includes a first information field and a second information field. The first information field is used to indicate whether to switch an active bandwidth part of a terminal device. When the first information field indicates to switch the active bandwidth part of the terminal device, the second information field is used to indicate one or more active bandwidth parts and frequency domain resource location of a data channel in the active bandwidth parts to switch; or when the first information field indicates not to switch the active bandwidth part of the terminal device, the second information field is used to indicate a frequency domain resource location of a data channel in a currently accessed active bandwidth part. A working bandwidth part of the terminal device can be indicated, and resource utilisation is improved.
US11102758B2
In a wireless communication system, user equipment (UE) can reselect a sidelink resource used for vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication. Reselection of a sidelink resource may be triggered by various conditions, and especially can be triggered when one or more resource pools are configured by an upper layer. In particular, the user equipment determines that data for V2X is present in a sidelink traffic channel (STCH), determines that the one or more resource pools are configured by the upper layer, and reselects the sidelink resource.
US11102756B2
In one aspect, a User Equipment (UE) performs Radio Resource Management (RRM) measurements on downlink signals with a first cycle period equal to the UE's Discontinuous Reception (DRX) cycle period. The RRM measurements cycle period is lengthened when UE detects that a signal quality measurement of the primary cell is greater than the sum of a positive offset and a signal quality measurement of a neighboring cell having the best signal quality among all of UE's neighboring cells. In another aspect, a UE de-multiplexes a paging indication which precedes a Synchronization Signal Block (SSB) in time and is generated using the same sequence generation formula as that for generating a Secondary Synchronization Signal (SSS) in the SSB. From the de-multiplexed paging indication, the UE detects that it is paged for message reception and wakes up to receive the message in a next data reception period of the UE's DRX cycle.
US11102755B2
A method of operating an infrastructure node in a wireless communications system is provided. The method comprises detecting that downlink messages for a communications device to decode should be transmitted by the node in one or more of a plurality of temporally spaced paging occasions, and determining that a wake-up signal (WUS) should be transmitted by the node to the communications device in advance of each of the one or more paging occasions which comprise the downlink messages for the communications device to decode, determining that a time since a most recent transmission of a signal which can be used by the communications device to re-synchronise with the node is greater than a predetermined threshold and transmitting, in response to determining that the time since the most recent transmission from the infrastructure equipment to the communications device is greater than the predetermined threshold, a preamble signal to the communications device.
US11102746B2
A positioning system, includes a plurality of anchor stations each configured to transmit a radio frequency signal. A mobile station includes a radio frequency transceiver configured to transmit and receive a radio frequency signal from at least one of the plurality of anchor stations. A processing unit is configured to determine position information of the mobile unit based upon the transmitted and received radio frequency signal. Another positioning system uses a number of beacons ranging a number of mobile tags with ultra-wide band ranging, and communicating wirelessly with an application server.
US11102744B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a downlink synchronization method, an apparatus, and a system, and relate to the communications field, so as to reduce downlink synchronization complexity and improve downlink synchronization efficiency. According to the downlink synchronization method, abase station sends downlink synchronization reference information to UE by using dedicated signaling or a system message, where the downlink synchronization reference information is used to instruct the UE to perform downlink synchronization in a second cell by referring to a downlink synchronization channel of a first cell; and the base station sends, in the second cell according to location information of the UE, a beam including a downlink synchronization channel to the UE, where the first cell and the second cell include an overlapped coverage area. The embodiments of the present disclosure are applied to synchronization channel sending.
US11102741B2
Embodiments are provided herein for determining a synchronizing master for device-to-device (D2D) communication in a cellular network environment. In an embodiment, a user equipment (UE) receives a discovery signal comprising a timing reference, and determines a transmitter of the discovery signal. In accordance with the determination of the transmitter of the discovery signal, the UE performs one of synchronizing to the timing reference in the discovery signal and transmitting a second discovery signal. The UE performs the synchronizing to the timing reference if the transmitter of the discovery is a cellular network. Alternatively, the UE transmits the second discovery signal upon determining that the transmitter of the discovery signal is a second UE that is out of coverage of a cellular network.
US11102740B2
A method for providing a mode of wireless local area network (WLAN) operation includes: sending beacons from an access point (AP) in a discovery channel; sending an association request from a wireless station (STA) to the AP over the discovery channel; receiving an association response from the AP at the STA over the discovery channel in response to the association request; and after associating with the AP, switching between the discovery channel and a scheduled access channel to provide wireless communication between the AP and the STA based on a traffic condition and a bandwidth requirement.
US11102728B2
Provided are a device and method for a wireless communication system, and a computer readable storage medium. The device comprises a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to: acquire the current three-dimensional spatial location of a user equipment, and determine a resource for the user equipment according to information showing a mapping relationship at least between three-dimensional spatial regions and resources. According to an aspect of the embodiment of the present disclosure, time delay can be decreased and transmission performance can be optimized by pre-establishing a mapping relationship between three-dimensional spatial regions and resources and assigning to the user equipment an uplink/downlink time-frequency resource on the basis of the mapping relationship.
US11102726B2
An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) user equipment (UE) device determines uplink transmission power based on a reduced power factor in response to receiving an interference indicator from a neighboring base station. The reduced power factor results in an uplink transmission power for an uplink signal that is less than the uplink transmission power based on a standard power factor.
US11102712B2
Antenna weights of a plurality of beamformed directions are determined. Transmission on the first beamformed direction is prioritized over transmission on the second beamformed direction, e.g., during beam sweeping. Such techniques may find application in discovery of an access node by a device attached to a wireless network.
US11102699B1
A wireless communication relay wirelessly serves User Equipment (UEs) with wireless data services. Relay circuitry tests data throughputs over a Fifth Generation New Radio (5GNR) network Transceiver (XCVR), Long Term Evolution (LTE) network XCVR, and wireline network XCVR. The relay circuitry selects sets of network XCVRs for the user XCVRs based on the data throughput testing. The relay circuitry indicates the selected network XCVRs to the user XCVRs. The user XCVRs wirelessly exchange user data with the wireless UEs and exchange the user data with the selected network XCVRs. The selected network XCVRs exchange the user data with one or more data communication networks.
US11102693B1
Systems and methods are described for assigning a mobility parameter to a wireless device. One or more measurement reports may be collected at an access node from the wireless device. A pathloss change for the wireless device may be calculated based on the collected measurement reports. When the calculated pathloss change exceeds a threshold, the wireless device may be instructed to report surplus transmit power at the access node. The reported surplus transmit power may be correlated to preset location environments and a position of the wireless device classified based on the correlation. A mobility parameter may be assigned for the wireless device.
US11102689B2
Connection control circuitry is provided for a User Equipment (UE) configurable to offload communication of packet data from a cellular radio-access network comprising a Trusted Wireless Local Access Network (TWLAN) and a Trusted Wireless Access Gateway (TWAG) with IP Address preservation. The connection control circuitry has a connection requesting module configured to send a distinguishable-connection establishment message to the TWAG, requesting setup of a TWAG-routed data connection comprising at least one of a Packet Data Network (PDN) connection and a Non-Seamless Wireless Offload (NSWO) connection. A unique virtual gateway interface address is used to identify a point-to-point link between the UE and the TWAG. This allows the TWAG to distinguish between multiple substantially simultaneous point-to-point links which support multiple substantially simultaneous packet data connections. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US11102683B2
A first radio access network (RAN) accesses information indicating an availability status of an interface between an access and mobility management function (AMF) in a first wireless communication system and a mobility management entity (MME) in a second wireless communication system. The first RAN receives a trigger for a handover of a user equipment between the first RAN and a second RAN. The handover is selectively performed via the interface or a redirect via a network element shared by the first and second wireless communication systems based on the availability status. In some cases, the first RAN receive the information indicating the availability status prior to providing the request for the handover and stores the information in a database associated with the first RAN, which access the information from the database.
US11102674B2
A transmission method, apparatus and system for feedback acknowledge information are provided. The method includes: receiving by a terminal device downlink control information sent by an access network device, the downlink control information comprising a first information field and a second information field, wherein the first information field is used for indicating a timing relationship of a feedback acknowledge information corresponding to the downlink control information and the second information field is used to indicate a downlink allocation index; and determining, according to the first information field and the second information field, the number of first bits of the feedback acknowledge information transmitted in a target transmission unit.
US11102672B2
A wireless device receives configuration of logical channels grouped into logical channel groups comprising a first logical channel group. A truncated buffer status report is transmitted. The truncated buffer status report comprises: a presence bit, and a plurality of buffer size fields. The presence bit indicates a presence of a buffer size field for the first logical channel group. The plurality of buffer size fields are for logical channel groups with logical channels having data for transmission following a decreasing order of priority. A number of the plurality of buffer size fields are determined based on a number of padding bits.
US11102668B2
Based on an entering condition for reporting reception quality of a cell via Measurement Report, UE (200) transmits to a radio access network the Measurement Report. The UE (200) judges numberOfTriggeringCell that triggers transmission of the measurement report to the radio access network, and transmits the Measurement Report when the number of neighbor cells that fulfill the entering condition is equal to or more than the numberOfTriggeringCell.
US11102667B2
A communication device of handling a wireless local area network (WLAN) measurement configuration comprises instructions of establishing a connection to a base station (BS) of a cellular network; receiving the WLAN measurement configuration on the connection from the BS; performing WLAN measurement on a WLAN according to the WLAN measurement configuration; transmitting a first WLAN measurement result of the WLAN measurement on the connection to the BS according to the WLAN measurement configuration; receiving a cellular-WLAN aggregation (CWA) configuration on the connection from the BS; communicating a plurality of packets with the WLAN according to the CWA configuration; keeping the WLAN measurement configuration, when detecting a connection failure on the WLAN; and releasing the WLAN measurement configuration, when detecting a connection failure on the cellular network.
US11102666B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to monitor WI-FI media streaming using alternate access points. An example apparatus disclosed herein monitor wireless traffic includes an example traffic monitor to identify a connection of a WI-FI client to a primary access point and capture a management frame transmitted from the primary access point to the WI-FI client. The example apparatus further includes an example frame generator to insert a change channel announcement into the captured management frame and a router to cause a wireless interface to transmit the beacon frame to the WI-FI client.
US11102653B2
Methods, apparatuses, and computer readable media for location measurement reporting in a wireless network are disclosed. An apparatus of a responder station (RSTA) is disclosed, the apparatus including processing circuitry configured to decode a null data packet (NDP) announce (NDPA) frame from an initiator station (ISTA), the NDPA frame including an indication of a temporary key and an identification of the RSTA. The processing circuitry further configured to decode a NDP from the ISTA, the NDP including long training fields (LTFs), the NDP received on a channel. The processing circuitry further configured to determine whether the NDP from the ISTA is consistent with the NDP being generated using a temporary key shared between the ISTA and RSTA based on a comparison of the channel estimates. The processing circuitry may be further configured to determine for authentication whether the indication of the temporary key was generated based on the temporary key.
US11102645B2
Disclosed is an external electronic device for enabling an Internet of Things-supporting device to subscribe to a network. The external electronic device, according to the present disclosure, may provide, on a display thereof, an interface enabling the subscription of an Internet of Things device which does not comprise a separate display. In addition, the external electronic device, according to the present disclosure, may perform, via an external server, the subscription of the Internet of Things device to an Internet of Things service provider. In addition, various embodiments are possible as identified in the specification. In addition, various embodiments are possible as identified in the specification.
US11102642B1
A wireless mesh network may have a plurality of nodes, each of which is able to dynamically establish itself as a gateway when a connection with an end-user device is detected. To route data to an end-user device, each node that is not, itself, a gateway to that device may route traffic along a path to the appropriate gateway. If a node does not have such a path in memory, it may broadcast an inquiry to all nodes with which communicates directly, to determine whether any of those nodes are a gateway to the end-user device, or have a path to the end-user device in memory. Thus, paths to gateways may propagate among the nodes. If multiple paths are available, a node may select the path that provides the best data transmission. Each node may replace pathways that are no longer valid, allowing the network to repair itself if needed.
US11102639B2
Method performed by a first network node (111) for handling content in an Information-Centric Network (ICN). The first network node (111) operates in a wireless communications network (100). The first network node (111) obtains (502) an indication about one or more network nodes (130) where a request for a content by a wireless device (151) operating in the wireless communications network (100) is predicted to be received in one or more future time periods. The one or more network nodes (130) operate in the wireless communications network (100) supporting ICN. The first network node (111) then initiates instructing (503) at least a subset of the one or more network nodes (130) to obtain the content prior to the one or more future time periods. Also described are a second network node (112), a third network node (133), and the wireless device (151), for facilitating handling the content in the ICN.
US11102636B1
A system for facilitating personal information exchange includes a first computer peripheral device comprising a first near field communication system. A second computer peripheral device includes a second near field communication system. The first near field communication system is communicatively coupled to the second near field communication system. A web server is communicatively coupled to the first computer peripheral device and the second computer peripheral device. The web server is configured to receive personal information from the first computer peripheral device and the second computer peripheral device into a database. The near field communication between the first computer peripheral device and the second computer peripheral device results in sharing the information in the database.
US11102632B2
In accordance with example embodiments of the invention there is at least a method and apparatus to perform identifying, by a network node of a communication network, information from at least one network device of the communication network, wherein the information comprises a number of service requests for data communication by the at least one network device and an indication of an identifier identifying a purpose for each data communication mapped to each of the number of service requests; and based on the identifying, granting at least one service request of the number of service requests for the communicating.
US11102618B2
The present disclosure is directed to providing smart signaling of location updates. A method includes receiving a first location update from a tracking device; determining a remaining time for the tracking device to reach a destination location; determining whether the remaining time is within a threshold time of a timing of an arrival alert to be sent to a device associated with the destination location; based on whether the remaining time is within the threshold time or not, configuring the tracking device to send location updates to a server in one of a continuous reporting mode or a significant reporting mode, wherein the tracking device is configured to send the location updates to the server less frequently in the significant reporting mode compared to the continuous reporting mode; and determining when to send the arrival alert based on the location updates received from the tracking device.
US11102615B2
A master system for providing a single interface between a user and service providers associated with the user's telematic devices. A storage module stores information, including serial numbers of the telematic devices, car information associated with the telematic devices, buyer information associated with the telematic devices, and location information associated with the telematic devices. An interface receives queries from the user and provides selected subsets of the information as responses to the user. An input-output holds multiple simultaneous communication sessions with service providers. A processor receives the queries from the user through the interface, analyzes the information on the storage module to identify a selection of the service providers to which the queries pertain, requests data from the selection of the service providers through the input-output, receives feedback from the selection of the service providers through the input-output, associates the feedback with relevant portions of the information, and presents at least portions of the feedback with the relevant portions of the information to the user through the interface as the response to the user's query.
US11102614B2
A method for receiving a service by a user equipment (UE) is provided. The method includes transmitting an attach request message to a network, upon detection of entry into an area of a non-legacy mobile communication system, receiving an attach accept message from the network including information indicating whether the network supports VoIP or CSFB and receiving voice service by the VoIP or the CSFB through the non-legacy mobile communication system if the information included in the attach accept message indicates that the network supports the VoIP or the CSFB.
US11102604B2
An apparatus, a method and a computer program product are provided for use in rendering audio. An apparatus is configured for: receiving a first audio signal representative of a virtual sound scene, wherein the first audio signal is configured for rendering on an arrangement of loudspeakers to a user; determine a first portion of the virtual sound scene to be rendered on headphones of the user; generating a second audio signal representative of the first portion of the virtual sound scene; determining a second portion of the virtual sound scene to be rendered on the arrangement of loudspeakers; generating a third audio signal, representative of the second portion of the virtual sound scene; and wherein the second and third audio signals are generated such that, when rendered, an augmented version of the virtual sound scene is rendered to the user.
US11102590B2
A hearing device, e.g. a hearing aid, comprises a) a multitude of input units, each providing an electric input signal representing sound in the environment of the user in a time-frequency representation, wherein the sound is a mixture of speech and additive noise or other distortions, e.g. reverberation, b) a multitude of beamformer filtering units, each being configured to receive at least two, e.g. all, of said multitude of electric input signals, each of said multitude of beamformer filtering units being configured to provide a beamformed signal representative of the sound in a different one of a multitude of spatial segments, e.g. spatial cells, around the user, c) a multitude of speech probability estimators each configured to receive the beamformed signal for a particular spatial segment and to estimate a probability that said particular spatial segment contains speech at a given point in time and frequency, wherein at least one, e.g. all, of the multitude of speech probability estimators is/are implemented as a trained neural network, e.g. a deep neural network. The invention may e.g. be used in hearing aids or communication devices, such as headsets, or telephones, or speaker phones.
US11102586B2
An MEMS microphone is provided, comprising a first substrate and a vibration diaphragm supported above the first substrate by a spacing portion, the first substrate, the spacing portion, and the vibration diaphragm enclosing a vacuum chamber, and a static deflection distance of the vibration diaphragm under an atmospheric pressure being less than a distance between the vibration diaphragm and the first substrate, wherein: one of the vibration diaphragm and the first substrate is provided with a magnetic film, and the other one of the vibration diaphragm and the first substrate is provided with a magnetoresistive sensor cooperating with the magnetic film, the magnetoresistive sensor being configured to sense a change in a magnetic field of the magnetic film during a vibration of the vibration diaphragm and output a varying electrical signal.
US11102573B2
A waterproof speaker having a waterproof rating of 8 or more and that is capable of providing a waterproof function at a high water pressure is provided. The waterproof microspeaker includes: a frame comprising a sidewall and a flange portion extending outward from an upper edge of the sidewall; a vibrating portion within the frame; a diaphragm mounted on the flange portion of the frame; and a waterproof ring placed on a sidewall of the frame and configured to protrude further outward than the flange portion of the frame.
US11102572B2
An apparatus and a method for drawing attention to an object are provided. The apparatus includes an information acquisition unit configured to acquire personal information of a person, a processor that determines a target object based on the personal information and identifies positional information of the target object, and an emitter for emitting at least one of ultrasound waves and light to the target object based on the positional information. The method includes the steps of acquiring personal information of a person, determining the target object based on the personal information and identifying positional information of the target object, and emitting at least one of ultrasound waves and light from an emitter to the target object based on the positional information.
US11102571B2
A speaker position determination system includes a server, wherein the server includes: a processor configured to: acquire a first reproduction sound output from a first speaker and a second reproduction sound output from a second speaker at the same timing as the first reproduction sound, which are picked up by a sound pickup device arranged at a position of a speaker to be determined; calculate a first time lag indicating a time lag from an output timing of the first reproduction sound until a pickup timing of the first reproduction sound and a second time lag indicating a time lag from an output timing of the second reproduction sound until a pickup timing of the second reproduction sound; and determine the position of the speaker based on the first time lag and the second time lag.
US11102567B2
This disclosure includes several different features suitable for use in circumaural and supra-aural headphones designs. Designs that reduce the size of headphones and allow for small form-factor storage configurations are discussed. User convenience features that include synchronizing earpiece stem positions and automatically detecting the orientation of the headphones on a user's head are also discussed. Various power-saving features, design features, sensor configurations and user comfort features are also discussed.
US11102558B2
An example includes a segment collector to: access impression records indicative of media access segments, the media access segments including start times and end times corresponding to media accessed by a panelist; and determine ones of the impression records that include a watermark corresponding to a first media platform presenting the media; a segment classifier to convert a first one of the impression records including the watermark to a converted impression record; and combine the converted impression record corresponding to the first media platform and a second impression record corresponding to a second media platform; and a media creditor to generate audience measurement metrics based on the combined impression records.
US11102554B2
A system comprises a storage and a processor. The storage is for storing a plurality of Internet protocol multicast video streams, each associated with a live television program content. The processor is in communication with the storage, and the processor is configured to receive the Internet protocol multicast video streams. The processor is also configured to receive a request for a previously transmitted portion of one of the Internet protocol multicast video streams from customer premises equipment in response to the customer premises customer requiring the previously transmitted portion for display. The processor is also configured to begin transmission of the previously transmitted portion as an Internet protocol unicast video stream to the customer premises equipment for immediate display.
US11102551B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device that facilitates sharing, by a mobile phone user, content that the user has viewed on a television coupled to a media processor. A message is initiated via a messaging client of the mobile phone, and a video clip is obtained by the mobile phone from the media processor. Additional video content provided at the mobile phone is attached to the video clip. The format of the video clip is converted to enable presentation of the converted video clip at a recipient device; the converted video clip is transmitted to the recipient device via the messaging client. The media processor and the mobile phone form a natively integrated device, so that a video clip of the content can be produced and transmitted without installation of an application on the mobile phone.
US11102550B2
A media system, receives a received sequence of media content, for presentation at the media system and generates a comparison fingerprint of the received sequence of media content. The comparison fingerprint is for comparison with a plurality of reference fingerprints so as to identify the received sequence of media content. The media system sends a request for identification of additional content to a server system. The request is based at least in part on the comparison fingerprint. The media system receives a response to the request, including information enabling additional content to be selected for display at the media system based at least in part on the identification of the received sequence of media content, and presents a displayed sequence of media content that includes at least a portion of the received sequence of media content and at least a portion of the additional content.
US11102541B2
A digital broadcast receiving apparatus capable of executing a function with a higher added value is provided. A broadcast receiving apparatus configured to receive contents includes: a receiving unit configured to receive the contents; an interface via which the contents received by the receiving unit is outputted; a control unit configured to control an output state of the contents from the interface. In this case, the control unit is configured to determine the output state of the contents from the interface in accordance with a combination of control information indicating a copy control state of the contents, control information for specifying necessity or not of protection when to output the contents, information indicating resolution of video of the contents, and information indicating transmission characteristics of video of the contents, which are received by the receiving unit together with the contents.
US11102531B2
Apparatus, systems, articles of manufacture, and methods are disclosed for correcting systematic tuning defects. An example apparatus includes a defect analyzer to identify a suspect time window in tuning volume data of return path data reported by set top boxes. The example apparatus further includes a return path data transformer to identify a first return path data entry indicating a first set top box reported a first transition to an off state at a first time during the suspect time window and to modify the first return path data entry to (1) eliminate the first transition to the off state at the first time and (2) assign the first return path data entry a first duration to remain in an on state after the first time, where the first duration is determined based on monitoring data reported from media device meters monitoring media presentation devices.
US11102527B2
A video distribution apparatus includes a holding unit configured to hold a captured video image in a predetermined unit, a reception unit configured to receive a request regarding a segment length which is transmitted from an external reception apparatus, a generation unit configured to generate from the predetermined unit held by the holding unit a segment of the video image of the segment length corresponding to the request received by the reception unit, and a distribution unit configured to distribute to the reception apparatus the segment generated by the generation unit.
US11102524B2
Systems and methods for selective audio segment compression for accelerated playback of media assets
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for selective audio segment compression for accelerated playback of media assets. A playback speed of the video segment of a media asset is calculated based on the duration of the video segment and a received playback time period. A priority weight for each of the various audio segments is then determined. The audio segments with the lowest priority weight are removed from the group of various audio segments. The system then determines whether the duration of the remaining audio segments exceeds the received playback time period. If so, the system modifies the remaining audio segments by removing another audio segment with the lowest priority weight from the remaining audio segments. The system then rechecks whether the received playback time period is exceeded. If not, the system generates for playback the video segment based on the video playback speed and the remaining audio segments.
US11102522B2
According to one implementation, an electronic program guide (EPG) provisioning system includes a computing platform having a hardware processor and a system memory storing a software code. The hardware processor executes the software code to receive traffic data for programming content included in a programming content stream, extract programming content metadata describing the programming content from the traffic data, and obtain supplemental metadata further describing the programming content. In addition, the hardware processor executes the software code to enrich the programming content metadata using the supplemental metadata to produce an enhanced programming content metadata, conform the enhanced programming content metadata to each of multiple formats corresponding respectively to EPG providers for the programming content stream, and distribute the enhanced programming content metadata to the EPG providers in real-time with respect to receiving the traffic data.
US11102515B2
Chroma deblock filtering of reconstructed video samples may be performed to remove blockiness artifacts and reduce color artifacts without over-smoothing. In a first method, chroma deblocking may be performed for boundary samples of a smallest transform size, regardless of partitions and coding modes. In a second method, chroma deblocking may be performed when a boundary strength is greater than 0. In a third method, chroma deblocking may be performed regardless of boundary strengths. In a fourth method, the type of chroma deblocking to be performed may be signaled in a slice header by a flag. Furthermore, luma deblock filtering techniques may be applied to chroma deblock filtering.
US11102511B2
A method for intra prediction comprises determining a first MPM candidate corresponding to a left-side candidate block on the basis of a position of the left-side candidate block adjacent to a left side of a current block; determining a second MPM candidate corresponding to an upper-end candidate block on the basis of a position of the upper-end candidate block adjacent to an upper end of the current block; generating an MPM candidate list including a plurality of MPM candidates, on the basis of the first MPM candidate and the second MPM candidate; and determining one MPM candidate of the plurality of the MPM candidates that constitute the MPM candidate list as an intra prediction mode of the current block, and performing intra prediction for the current block on the basis of the determined intra prediction mode to generate a prediction block corresponding to the current block.
US11102504B2
processors set a search-range from a first processing-block to a side closer to the first processing-block by a size of a second processing-block from a boundary between a refreshed area and an unrefreshed area in a second picture preceding a first picture in which the first processing-block exists in the encoding order, detect a first motion vector for the first processing-block in the search-range, perform a weighted average of a second motion vector detected in the second processing-block around the first processing-block and the first motion vector to obtain the first motion vector, generate first prediction data by using the first motion vector and the second picture, use another block in an intra slice line of the first picture to generate second prediction data in the block in the intra slice line, and encode the first picture by using the first and second prediction data.
US11102498B2
A method includes receiving a reference frame, determining, for a current block, a scaling constant; scaling a block of the reference frame according to the scaling constant, the block of the reference frame corresponding to the current block, and reconstructing pixel data of the current block and using the scaled block of the reference frame. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described.
US11102492B2
Use of multiple sensors to determine whether motion of an object is occurring in an area is described. In one aspect, an infrared (IR) sensor can be supplemented with a radar sensor to determine whether the determined motion of an object is not a false positive.
US11102488B2
A processing system analyzes pixel activity levels of blocks of a picture at a plurality of spatial scales and/or dynamic ranges to generate a multi-scale metric that indicates how bit allocation or assignment of a given quantization parameter (QP) will affect the perceptual quality of the block. Blocks that have similar multi-scale metrics are likely to be visually similar and to benefit from similar bit allocations or QPs. Based on the multi-scale metric, an encoder encodes each block of the picture with a QP and/or a number of bits.
US11102472B2
A video decoding device, in the case where a video of the progressive format is inputted, processes a frame as a picture, in the case where a video of the interlace format is inputted, processes a field as a picture. A video decoding device performs display control corresponding to a format of the both video by analyzing display control information in display control information analyzer. The display control information includes sequence unit display control information which is commonly used in a display process of all pictures that belong to a sequence to be decoded and picture unit display control information which is individually used in a display process of a picture to be decoded. A second code string analyzer acquires each of the sequence unit display control information and the picture unit display control information from an extended information area in units of pictures.
US11102467B2
A depth camera assembly (DCA) captures data describing depth information in a local area. The DCA includes an array detector, a controller, and an illumination source. The array detector includes a detector that is overlaid with a lens array. The detector includes a plurality of pixels, the plurality of pixels are divided into a plurality of different pixel groups. The lens array includes a plurality of lens stacks and each lens stack overlays a different pixel group. The array detector captures one or more composite images of the local area illuminated with the light from the illumination source. The controller determines depth information for objects in the local area using the one or more composite images.
US11102462B2
In certain embodiments, vision defect information may be generated via a dynamic eye-characteristic-based fixation point. In some embodiments, a first stimulus may be displayed at a first location on a user interface based on a fixation point for a visual test presentation. The fixation point for the visual test presentation may be adjusted during the visual test presentation based on eye characteristic information related to a user. As an example, the eye characteristic information may indicate a characteristic of an eye of the user that occurred during the visual test presentation. A second stimulus may be displayed during the visual test presentation at a second interface location on the user interface based on the adjusted fixation point for the visual test presentation. Vision defect information associated with the user may be generated based on feedback information indicating feedback related to the first stimulus and feedback related to the second stimulus.
US11102460B2
Image processing apparatus, display apparatus, and image processing and display apparatus and method
The present disclosure relates to an image processing apparatus, a display apparatus, and an image processing and display apparatus and method. The image processing and display apparatus includes a data acquisition module, a data conversion and storage module, a data analysis module, a light-emitting module, and an image modulation module. The data conversion and storage module stores brightness data of a color of each pixel of an image as N-bit grayscale data based on data of a highest brightness of the color of the image and stores a brightness increase index of the color of the image. The light-emitting module adjusts emitted illumination light of the color based on the brightness increase index, so that the image modulation module modulates the illumination light of the color based on the N-bit grayscale data to modulate a displayed image.
US11102459B2
One embodiment can provide a machine-vision system. The machine-vision system can include a structured-light projector, a first camera positioned on a first side of the structured-light projector, and a second camera positioned on a second side of the structured-light projector. The first and second cameras are configured to capture images under illumination of the structured-light projector. The structured-light projector can include a laser-based light source.
US11102450B2
A method for censoring inappropriate images during a video call is disclosed. The method includes: receiving, from a first terminal, a stream including a plurality of images captured by the first terminal; attempting to detect a face in each of one or more sample images selected among the plurality of images included in the stream; determining that the face has not been detected in at least some of the sample images; performing image processing on at least one of the plurality of images included in the stream; and displaying the plurality of images included in the stream.
US11102447B2
An image transmission apparatus for a multi-screen for reducing display timing differences of images displayed on the multi-screen is proposed. To this end, the apparatus is a video transmission apparatus for a multi-screen, including an operating server that generates and transmits an image source according to image scheduling; a router that receives an image from the operating server and transmits the image to a preset IP address; a plurality of client terminals for which IP addresses are respectively set and which receive images corresponding to the IP addresses from the router; and a plurality of display units provided to correspond to the plurality of client terminals and displaying an image transmitted from the respective client terminals on a multi-screen.
US11102444B2
Provided are an apparatus and a method that are capable of performing reliable display control with no caption display interruption of the TTML caption data. Specifically, when a set value of the caption display end time specification attribute of the TTML caption data is the continuous display instruction value, memory storing and display processing of caption data currently displayed are continued even after reproduction end timing of an image file, and switching processing of TTML caption data files is performed. When a set value of the caption display start time specification attribute of the TTML caption data is the continuous display instruction value, whether or not there is a text string, display processing of the text string is continued, is determined, and when there is the text string, the displayed text is continuously displayed. With the processing, it is possible to achieve display control with no caption display interruption of the TTML caption data.
US11102438B2
A two-by-two array consists of four pixels. Each pixel comprises one light-sensing transistor and one reading transistor. Both the light sensing transistor and the reading transistor are formed above a same P-type semiconductor substrate, and have a composite dielectric gate structure. The substrates of the four reading transistors are connected to form a regular octagonal ring structure located in the center of the array. On four sides of the regular octagonal ring structure, four heavily-doped N+ regions are formed on the substrates not covered with the composite dielectric gate, of which every two regions are opposite to each other and form right angles, wherein two opposite heavily-doped N+ regions are connected to form a shared N+ source, and the other two are connected to form a shared N+ drain.
US11102437B2
A memory circuit includes a memory array, a word line, and a bit line. The memory array includes a plurality of memories arranged in a matrix shape in a first direction and a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The word line extends in the first direction and reads signals from the plurality of memories arranged in the first direction. The bit line includes a digit line connected to the plurality of memories arranged in the second direction and an output line connected to the digit line and extending in the first direction and transmits a signal from a memory corresponding to the word line to the output line as the word line reads a signal.
US11102436B2
Provided is a solid-state imaging device that includes a pixel array portion in which a plurality of pixels are arranged in a two-dimensional array, an AD conversion unit configured to perform AD conversion with respect to a pixel signal output from the pixel of the pixel array portion, a memory configured to retain a digital pixel signal after the AD conversion, and an image signal processing circuit configured to perform predetermined signal processing with respect to the digital pixel signal. The image signal processing circuit includes two or more PUs including one or more PEs configured to execute predetermined arithmetic processing, and a CU configured to operate the PE in an SIMD format, an IMEM configured to store one or more arithmetic processing instructions, and a CCU configured to control the PU.
US11102430B2
In one example, a pixel cell comprises a first photodiode to generate a first charge and a second photodiode to generate a second charge. The pixel cell may include a charge sensing unit shared between the first photodiode and the second photodiode. The charge sensing unit may include a charge storage device to temporarily store a charge and convert the charge to a voltage. The pixel cell may include a quantizer to quantize the voltage output by the charge sensing unit, and a memory to store the quantization output. Depending on an operation mode, the first charge and the second charge can be controlled to flow simultaneously to the charge sensing unit for read out, or can be controlled to flow separately to the charge sensing unit for read out. The pixel cell further includes a memory to store a quantization result of the first charge and the second charge.
US11102428B2
An integrated image sensor for capturing a mixed structured-light image and regular image using an integrated image sensor are disclosed. The integrated image sensor comprises a pixel array, one or more output circuits, one or more analog-to-digital converters, and one or more timing and control circuits. The timing and control circuits are arranged to perform a set of actions including capturing a regular image and a structured-light image. According to the present invention, the structured-light image captured before or after the regular image is used to derive depth or shape information for the regular image. An endoscope based on the above integrated image sensor is also disclosed. The endoscope may comprises a capsule housing adapted to be swallowed, where the components of integrated image sensor, a structured light source and anon-structured light source are enclosed and sealed in the capsule housing.
US11102421B1
An incoming image stream may be obtained from an image capture device operating in low-light conditions and/or a simulated long exposure image capture mode. As images are obtained, a weighting operation may be performed on the pixels of the captured images to generate and/or update an accumulative weight map, wherein the weighting is based, e.g., on the proximity of the captured pixels' values to the respective image capture device's maximum observable pixel value. As batches of images are obtained, they may be fused, e.g., according to the accumulative weight map, in a memory-efficient manner that places an upper limit on the overall memory footprint of the fusion operations, to simulate an actual long exposure image capture. In some embodiments, the weight map may be stored at a lower resolution than the obtained images and then upscaled, e.g., via the use of guided filters, before being applied in the fusion operations.
US11102419B2
An imaging control device includes: a brightness measurer that acquires a first captured image signal obtained from an imager imaging a subject through a focus lens, and obtains brightness of each of divided areas of a focusing target area set in the first captured image signal; an imaging condition controller that controls an imaging condition of the imager to a state where brightness of a lowest divided area which is one of the divided areas having lowest brightness is set to the set value; a transmittance controller that decreases brightness of other divided areas than the lowest divided area by controlling light transmittance of the areas corresponding to the other divided areas; and a focusing controller that performs focusing control for the focus lens based on the focusing target area of a second captured image signal in a specific state.
US11102416B2
Some embodiments include a camera system having a first camera unit and a second camera unit. The first camera unit may include a first actuator. The second camera unit may include a second actuator. In some embodiments, the first actuator may move one or more components of the first camera unit to provide autofocus and/or optical image stabilization functionality to the first camera unit. In some embodiments, the second actuator may move one or more components of the second camera unit to provide autofocus and/or optical image stabilization functionality to the second camera unit. In some examples, the first camera unit may be configured to capture a first image of a first visual field. The second camera unit may be configured to capture, simultaneously with the first camera unit capturing the first image, a second image of a second visual field.
US11102413B2
Implementations generally relate to locking a camera onto a sub-region to capture images of the sub-region with a moving camera. In some implementations, a method includes determining a first region in a scene detected by a camera while the camera is in a first physical position. The method further includes receiving user input to target a sub-region within the first capture region of the scene and capturing the first image of the sub-region while the camera is in the first physical position. The first image is displayed in a fixed orientation on a preview portion of a display screen. The camera is moved to a second physical position and a second capture region of the scene is detected. The method further includes capturing a second image is of the sub-region and displaying it in the fixed orientation on the preview portion of the display screen. The second image is effective to inform a user of whether capture of the sub-region is altered by camera movement.
US11102408B2
An output apparatus controls a display function of displaying a captured image on the display, and an output function of outputting the captured image to the external apparatus. The output apparatus performs control to restrict the display function and stop image capturing when an unoperated state in which no user operation is performed on the output apparatus has continued for a predetermined time period in a state where the display function is in execution and the output function is not in execution, and restrict the display function and continue image capturing when the unoperated state in which no user operation is performed on the output apparatus has continued for a predetermined time period in a state where both the display function and the output function are in execution.
US11102405B2
A rear-stitched view panorama (RSVP) system is provided that includes at least one processor and a memory storing software instructions that, when executed by the least one processor, cause the RSVP system to compute a disparity map for a left center rear image and a right center rear image captured by a stereo camera mounted on a rear of a vehicle, transform a right rear image, a left rear image, a reference center rear image, and the disparity map to a virtual world view, the right rear image and left rear image captured by respective right and left cameras mounted on the vehicle, compute an optimal left seam and an optimal right seam based on the transformed disparity map, and stitch the transformed images based on respective optimal seams to generate a panorama.
US11102403B2
An imaging device includes an imaging optical system configured to capture a plurality of images of an object; a sensor configured to detect a tilt of the imaging device with respect to a reference direction; and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to set a fixed amount of correction to be commonly applied to the plurality of images, based on the detected tilt; and correct the tilt of each of the plurality of images using the fixed amount of correction.
US11102395B2
An electronic apparatus and a method for generation of media content having multi-focus video and multi-directional audio, is provided. The electronic apparatus includes an image-capture device and determines plurality of focus windows on a field-of-view (FOV) region of the image-capture device. The electronic apparatus control the audio-capture device to capture a plurality of audio references based on the determined plurality of focus windows. The electronic apparatus further controls the image-capture device to capture a sequence of image frames of the FOV region. Each image frame of the sequence of image frames is captured while a focus point of the image-capture device is set on a corresponding focus window of the determined plurality of focus windows. The electronic apparatus generates media content based on the captured sequence of frames and captured plurality of audio references.
US11102375B2
A sheet reading apparatus includes a sheet table on which a sheet is placed, a conveyor configured to convey the sheet, a reading guide configured to guide the sheet conveyed by the conveyor, and a reading device configured to read a shadow of the sheet conveyed by the conveyor, for detection of an inclination of the sheet. The sheet reading apparatus further includes a transparent member disposed at a position on a reading line of the reading device. The position on the reading line is withdrawn from the sheet and adjacent to the reading guide.
US11102374B2
In an information processing terminal, a processor receiving identification information from another program. The identification information is for identifying an image processing operation. The processor performs a first determination process determining whether the specified apparatus is capable of executing the image processing operation identified by the identification information. The processor performs a first display process displaying determination information indicating a result of the first determination process. The processor receives operation condition information from the external program in a case where the first determination process determines that the specified apparatus is capable of executing the image processing operation. The operation condition information indicates a condition for executing the image processing operation. The processor transmits a command to the specified apparatus. The command instructs execution of the image processing operation under the operation condition information.
US11102371B2
A terminal device performs operations includes: a file information receiving process to receive M pieces of file information for identifying M image files from a printer storing M image files; a specific signal receiving process to receive a specific signal from the printer; a determination process to determine whether an inter-device distance is equal to or less than a predetermined distance by using a received radio field intensity of the specific signal; a selection process to select N pieces of file information, which is a part of the M pieces of file information when it is determined in the determination process that the inter-device distance is equal to or less than the predetermined distance; and a print instruction transmission process to not transmit the print instruction to the printer when it is determined that the inter-device distance is not equal to or less than the predetermined distance.
US11102367B2
According to one embodiment, an information processing method includes instructing a multifunction peripheral performing scanning and printing to perform setting regarding scanning, transmitting a scan signal for performing scanning to the multifunction peripheral, instructing the multifunction peripheral to perform setting regarding printing, and transmitting a print signal for printing a scan image obtained through scanning to the multifunction peripheral.
US11102362B2
An example system includes a processor and a non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored therein instructions that are executable to cause the system to perform various functions. The functions include, for each sample print of a plurality of sample prints, receiving respective color-measurement data indicative of color measurement patches printed on the sample print. The functions also include determining, using the respective color-measurement data for the sample prints, a respective color gamut volume for each sample print. Further, the functions include ordering the sample prints in order of increasing color gamut volume using the respective color gamut volumes for the sample prints. Still further, the functions include providing for display a presentation order for the sample prints, with the sample prints of the plurality of sample prints being arranged in order of increasing color gamut volume.
US11102355B2
A dynamic communication management system manages the exchange of phone-based communications between devices using dynamically determined routing data. The routing for the phone-based communications can be dynamically determined such that certain identifying information is provided to destination devices instead of the identifying information that would be provided without the services of the dynamic communication management system.
US11102353B2
A video stream of a video call between a communication endpoint of customer and a communication endpoint of a contact center agent is received. The video stream of the video call is processed in real-time to generate a real-time emotion transcript. The real-time emotion transcript tracks a plurality of separate emotions based on non-verbal expressions (e.g. facial expressions) that occur in the video stream of the video call. For example, different emotions of both the customer and the contact center agent may tracked in the real-time emotion transcript. The real-time emotion transcript is compared to an emotion transcript of at least one previous video call to determine if the video call should be handled differently in the contact center. In response to determining that video call should be handled differently in the contact center, an action determined to change how the video call is managed in the contact center.
US11102350B2
Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for delivering content to a client device placed on hold. A communication system establishes a communication session between a client device placed on an initial hold and a content delivery service, during which the client device placed on the initial hold may place a subsequent hold, resulting in multiple concurrent holds. The communication system allocates a unique identifier to the subsequent hold and updates records associated with the initial and subsequent holds to include an indication that the client device that ends the hold should be placed on hold. The communication system terminates the communication session between the client device placed on the initial hold and the content delivery service and returns the unique identifier allocated to the subsequent hold to the client device that initiated the subsequent hold.
US11102347B1
Disclosed is a message back system that can provide a means for a recipient of robo messages or spam messages to take action. The message back system includes a mobile device operating in conjunction with a server to activate the system and initiate one or more texts to be sent to the source phone number. The server can be programmed to try to send many texts to the source phone number to try to swamp the phone number with texts. The system may provide satisfaction to the user as a tool to respond to these on-going nuisances.
US11102341B1
A protective casing is enabled. For instance, a straw storage apparatus comprises a straw container configured to attach to a mobile phone or a mobile phone case and a chamber within the straw container configured to removably receive a straw.
US11102336B2
Communication apparatus includes a transceiver configured to transmit and receive signals over a wireless channel in accordance with both a first communication protocol and a second communication protocol. The second communication protocol is backward-compatible with the first communication protocol, while defining an enhanced communication bandwidth that is at least twice the nominal communication bandwidth of the first communication protocol. A communication controller generates data frames for transmission by the transceiver, including frame headers in a header format that is compatible with both the first communication protocol and the second communication protocol, such that the frame headers are transmitted within the nominal communication bandwidth. The data frames that are transmitted in accordance with the second communication protocol have first and second frame headers that are transmitted in parallel in respective first and second sub-bands of the enhanced communication bandwidth.
US11102332B2
According to some embodiments, an application launcher of a media player device launches an application bundle, the application bundle including a binary code. In response, a first server is accessed based on a universal resource locator (URL) specified by the application bundle to download an executable script. The executable script is parsed to configure a script runtime environment based on a predetermined template associated with the executable script. A first application programming interface (API) and a second API are enabled, where the first API is used to access a predetermined library maintained by the media player device and the second API is used to communicate with the binary code. The executable script is executed within the script runtime environment to render content, including rendering standard content by invoking the predetermined library via the first API and rendering customized content by invoking the binary code via the second API.
US11102320B2
A computer-implemented method for dynamically controlling push notifications post-delivery is provided. The method includes obtaining, by a server computer, a push notification and rules associated with the push notification. The rules specify a notification strategy to be implemented by a client device in presenting the push notification. The method also includes encoding, by the server computer, the rules in metadata. The method also includes transmitting, by the server computer, the push notification and the metadata to the client device, wherein the client device is configured to present the push notification according to the rules encoded in the metadata.
US11102315B2
One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for determining activity patterns based upon user activity and/or performing operations based upon the activity patterns are provided. For example, activity performed using a communication interface associated with a user account may be detected. The activity may be analyzed to determine an activity pattern associated with a first set of conditions. The activity pattern may be stored in a user profile associated with the user account. The user profile may comprise a plurality of activity patterns. Each activity pattern of the plurality of activity patterns may be associated with a set of conditions of a plurality of sets of conditions. It may be determined that the first set of conditions are met. Responsive to determining that the first set of conditions are met, one or more operations associated with the activity pattern may be performed.
US11102313B2
A system performs autosave. The system receives, by a web browser of a client device, a user action performed by a user that interacts with a website corresponding to a server. The system determines a change record corresponding to the user action, queues the change record in a first queue to commit corresponding changes to local models, and queues the change record in a second queue that communicates with the server to persist the change record at the serve. The first queue may be an ordered persistence queue that maintains a history of change records for performing undo and redo operations in interacting with the website. The second queue may be an ordered queue where change records are processed one at a time and each change record is sent to the server only if a prior change record in the second queue has been successfully recorded on the server.
US11102312B1
A method of managing content distribution. The method comprises associating a primary identity to a first communication channel identity and to a second communication channel identity by an identity unifying application executing on a computer system, tracking a first plurality of events associated to the first communication channel identity by a content segmentation application executing on a computer system, tracking a second plurality of events associated to the second communication channel identity by the content segmentation application, analyzing the first plurality of events and the second plurality of events by the content segmentation application, based on analyzing the events and based on a first content segment associated with the primary identity, associating the primary identity to a second content segment by the content segmentation application.
US11102304B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-storage media, for context-based evaluation to enhance the relevance and usefulness of computer system output. In some implementations, a computer system is configured to customize its interactions for a particular situation or user. The system can obtain context information and evaluate the relevance and usefulness of potential outputs and actions with respect to the context indicated by the context information. For example, the system can vary the type and format of output information based on information that describes the intended recipient and the situation of the recipient. The system can take into account many different factors in its evaluation, including timing, user preferences, user history, user classification, impact or effect of the system's decisions on users, and more.
US11102295B2
Systems, methods and devices relating to a network-accessible data storage device comprising a network interface in data communication with a network, the network interface for receiving and sending data units, the data units being assigned to at least one of a plurality of network data queues depending on at least one data unit characteristic; a data storage component communicatively coupled with the network interface, the data storage component comprising a plurality of data storage resources for receiving and responding to data transactions communicated in data units; and a queue mapping component for mapping each network data queues to at least one data storage resource for processing of data transactions.
US11102290B2
A method for transferring digital content items in a peer-to-peer network in which a plurality of nodes participate includes receiving requests for receipt of one or more digital content items from a plurality of requesting nodes belonging to the peer-to-peer network. A capacity of the requesting nodes to upload data is assessed. Network resources available to the peer-to-peer network for delivering the digital content items or chunks thereof to the receiving nodes are allocated based at least in part on the capacity of the requesting nodes to upload data. The digital content items or chunks thereof are sent to the requesting nodes over the peer-to-peer network in accordance with the network resources that are allocated to each of the requesting nodes.
US11102287B2
A method, computer program product, and system for optimizing service pools supporting resource sharing and enforcing SLAs, to minimize service restart. A computer processor determines a first resource to be idle, wherein a service instance continues to occupy the first resource that is idle. The processor adds the first resource to a resource pool, wherein the service instance continues to occupy the first resource as a global standby service instance on the first resource. The processor receives a request for a resource, wherein the request for the resource includes a global name associated with a service that corresponds to the global standby service instance, and the processor allocates, from the resource pool, the first resource having the global standby service instance, based on the request for the resource that includes the global name associated with the service corresponding to the global standby service instance.
US11102284B2
Methods, systems and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for consortium blockchain network-based service processing. In one example, the method includes generating, by a target client device associated with a target service node of a consortium blockchain network, a service-related transaction; sending, by the target client device, the service-related transaction to the target service node; determining that the service-related transaction has not been recorded in the consortium blockchain network by the target service node; identifying, by the target client device, one node identifier in a candidate list maintained at the target client device as a designated node identifier; and sending, by the target client device, the service-related transaction to a different service node in the consortium blockchain network that corresponds to the designated node identifier.
US11102280B1
A method includes a dispatch node receiving a policy file and infrastructure plan data from a cloud infrastructure provisioning platform. The policy file comprises one or more imports that include a configuration import, a plan import, and/or a state import. Each import of the one or more imports comprises one or more data fields. The dispatch node parses the policy file to determine at least the one or more imports. The dispatch node queries the infrastructure plan data stored in a memory via an API for object data related to the one or more data fields of the one or more imports. The dispatch node determines, based on the query, the object data via the API. The dispatch node executes the policy file based on the object data to obtain a policy check result. The dispatch node then provides the policy check result to the cloud infrastructure provisioning platform.
US11102279B2
Embodiments of the invention are directed to a system, method, or computer program product for generating and using a block chain distributed network for tracking and validating protocols and other operations associated with the transition of one or more resources from being arranged in a consolidated, privately-held structure to being arrange and/or distributed in a publicly available structure. In example implementations, the block chain database is used and updated to reflect the status degree of completion of protocols associated with the identification, characterization, and dissemination of resource characteristics and resource shares, including the fractional distribution of resource portions to effectuate the efficient transition of a resource.
US11102278B2
A method for managing a software-defined data center is disclosed. The method involves implementing redundant cloud management stacks, processing duplicate application program interface (API) calls in parallel with the redundant cloud management stacks, and performing a data center operation corresponding to the processed duplicate API calls.
US11102276B2
A method, computer program product, and computer system for receiving, by a computing device, a question from a user. A first answer provided by a first subject matter expert is identified. A second answer provided by a second subject matter expert is identified. It is determined that a profile of the user matches a first profile of the first subject matter expert more than a second profile of the second subject matter expert. The first answer provided by the first subject matter expert is sent to the user with a preference over the second answer provided by the second subject matter expert based upon, at least in part, determining that the profile of the user matches the first profile of the first subject matter expert more than the second profile of the second subject matter expert.
US11102270B2
A network address assigned a shared designation by a first client computer is received, in a first data format, automatically, at a host computer from the first client computer. The network address is categorized and published. Publishing the network address includes converting the network address into a second data format, receiving, at the host computer, a subscription request from a second client computer, and sending the network address to the second client computer in response to receiving the subscription request.
US11102261B2
Provided herein are systems and methods that allow for converting or translating Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) to HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) and vice versa.
US11102258B2
In using a virtual extensible local area network (VXLAN) for stream processing, a management system allocates resources for a streaming application based on an operator graph of the streaming application. The management system assigns the resources to a group of VXLAN segments based on the operator graph of the streaming application. A first processing element of the streaming application multicasts data on the group of VXLAN segments. A second processing element on a given VXLAN segment of the group of VXLAN segments receives the data. If the second processing element is an intended recipient of the data, then the second processing element processes the data. If the second processing element is not the intended recipient of the data, then the second processing element ignores the data.
US11102257B2
In various implementations, a signage manager may manage digital sign content. The signage manager may transmit playlists and/or media to signage devices to be presented on a display and/or on a set of displays. The signage manger may allow independent customization of playlists. The media items associated with the playlists and presented on display(s) may be stored on a memory of the signal device and/or streamed media from another source.
US11102256B2
A method, computer program product, and computer system for identifying, in a dynamically formed cloud, a plurality of voluntary compute nodes, wherein the plurality of voluntary compute nodes may include personal computing devices of a plurality of users, and wherein at least a portion of the plurality of voluntary compute nodes may be configured to communicate with each other to receive and send streaming data. A first compute node of at least the portion of the plurality of voluntary compute nodes may be identified to receive and distribute a streams operator of a streams graph requested by a client computing device. A second compute node of at least the portion of the plurality of voluntary compute nodes may be identified for verifying computational correctness of a tuple stream computation for the stream operator by replicating the tuple stream computations for the stream operator on the second compute node. A final result tuples of the graph may be sent to the client computing device.
US11102254B2
In a system for streaming data comprising multimedia content, one or more controllers comprising a controller interface are arranged to be connected to an end-user device via a first control network link. One or more multimedia receiver devices comprise a multimedia interface suitable for connection to a video reception device. Each of the one or more multimedia receiver devices is arranged to be connected to an associated controller via a second control network link and is further arranged to be directly connected to the end-user device via a media streaming network link. A control server hosts a list of the one or more multimedia receiver devices and associated controllers. The end-user device comprises a user interface connected to the control server. The system provides for the selection of a multimedia receiver device from the list and the user interface is arranged for selection of the multimedia content to be streamed. The end-user device and the controller associated with the selected multimedia receiver device are arranged to initiate a media streaming session via the media streaming network link between the end-user device and the selected multimedia receiver device upon receiving a user input via the controller interface or via the end-user device.
US11102250B2
Identifying policy violations for controlling behavior of an Internet of Things (IoT) automation system is provided. Traditional systems and methods provide for controlling IoT based automation system based upon a static analysis of a system model and rules. The embodiments of the proposed disclosure provide for controlling behavior of the IoT automation system by identifying one or more policy violations, wherein the one or more policy violations are identified by generating a plurality of models representing behavior, relationships and functions of one or more sub-systems corresponding to the IoT automation system; extracting a set of modelled rules; constructing, using each of the plurality of models and the set of modelled rules, an integrated model; and identifying, from the integrated model, the one or more policy violations via a Model Verifier Component for controlling behavior of the IoT automation system.
US11102244B1
In one example, intelligence is gathered about an attacker that is attempting an attack via a malicious exploit message by exploiting the attacker's belief that the attack is succeeding. A received message (e.g., malicious message) sent from a first message account (e.g., attacker) to a second message account (e.g., intended victim) is received. A security risk associated with the received message is determined. It is determined that the security risk associated with the received message meets one or more criteria. Based on the determination that the security risk associated with the received message meets the one or more criteria, a responsive message is sent in response to the received message from a third message account (e.g., security service) to the first message account. The responsive message includes a content reference identified as referring to a content for a user of the first message account. In response to receiving a request made by the user of the first message account using the content reference, access to a message repository associated with the first message account is requested. Once access is granted, the message repository can be analyzed and intelligence about the first message account can be gathered and reported.
US11102224B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a data analysis system that may automatically generate memory-efficient clustered data structures, automatically analyze those clustered data structures, automatically tag and group those clustered data structures, and provide results of the automated analysis and grouping in an optimized way to an analyst. The automated analysis of the clustered data structures (also referred to herein as data clusters) may include an automated application of various criteria or rules so as to generate a tiled display of the groups of related data clusters such that the analyst may quickly and efficiently evaluate the groups of data clusters. In particular, the groups of data clusters may be dynamically re-grouped and/or filtered in an interactive user interface so as to enable an analyst to quickly navigate among information associated with various groups of data clusters and efficiently evaluate those data clusters in the context of, for example, a fraud investigation.
US11102220B2
A method and system for runtime detection of botnets in containerized environments. The method includes creating a domain name system (DNS) policy for a software container, wherein the DNS policy defines at least a plurality of allowed domain names for the software container, wherein the DNS policy is created based on historical DNS queries by the software container; detecting a botnet based on traffic to and from the software container, wherein the botnet is detected when at least a portion of the traffic does not comply with the DNS policy, wherein the botnet is implemented via communication with a bot executed in the software container; and blocking at least one DNS query in the at least a portion of traffic, wherein each blocked DNS query is to a domain having a domain name that does not match any of the plurality of allowed domain names for the software container.
US11102217B2
A method and a system for confirming e-mail authenticity and a non-transitory storage medium thereof are provided. A sender electronic device produces a data fingerprint based on mail content of an e-mail, inserts the data fingerprint into the e-mail, and transmits the data fingerprint and the mail content to a data storage device to be stored. A receiver electronic device obtains the data fingerprint from the e-mail and acquires, based on the data fingerprint, the corresponding mail content from the data storage device. If the corresponding mail content is not stored in the data storage device or the acquired mail content does not accord with the mail content of the received e-mail, the receiver electronic device marks the e-mail as counterfeit.
US11102216B2
The disclosure is directed to a network gateway device (“gateway”) that provides various network management features, including a device zoning feature in which client computing devices (“client devices”) connected to the gateway are assigned to different device zones. The client devices connected to the gateway form a local area network (LAN) of the gateway, and can access an external network, e.g., Internet, using the gateway. Each of the device zones has a specific set of network access privileges. Different device zones can have different network access privileges and can provide device isolation in the LAN at different degrees.
US11102215B2
A method, computer system, and a computer program product for restricting and anonymizing a graphical user interface for a remote access session is provided. The present invention may include determining a plurality of appropriate permissions for the graphical user interface of a client computer for fixing a problem. The present invention may also include determining a plurality of restricted graphical user interface panels associated with the graphical user interface, wherein the determined plurality of restricted graphical user interface panels includes a minimum access level for the third party to fix the problem.
US11102211B2
A computer network (1) adapted to provide secured access to online applications hosted on application servers (10) to a requesting user (U). The network (1) comprises a login security server (20) configured for deciding access for the user based on data contained in a central generic access control file (32) and in the access request. The network (1) further comprises a centralized user identification component (40) configured for receiving identification data from user through a central login panel (42) and for sending an access grant or denial command to the application servers (10).
US11102201B2
This disclosure details image and audio signal processing methods and associated equipment to robustly encode transaction parameters in rendered displays, printed objects and audio. It also details corresponding decoding methods and equipment to recover these parameters. Further, it details object authentication processing and equipment to validate a transaction for an object, employing a trust network protocol for maintaining a trusted transaction history of the object. Various alternative forms of this technology are described.
US11102192B2
According to certain embodiments, a delivery manager comprises an interface and processing circuitry. The interface is configured to receive a certificate that a Domain Name Service (DNS) associates with a DNS name of a recipient system. The processing circuitry is configured to distribute the certificate to a plurality of sending systems. Each sending system is configured to store the certificate in a local memory of the sending system, use the certificate from the local memory of the sending system to perform encryption in response to a future determination to send an encrypted message to the recipient system, and send the encrypted message directly to the recipient system.
US11102188B2
A method performed by a computing system includes receiving from a client component of an enterprise application, a request destined for a service component of the enterprise application, the request comprising authentication data and request data, the authentication data being associated with a current user of the client component, the user associated with an organization. The method further includes performing an authentication process to create principal data and role data associated with the request, the principal data identifying a user. The method further includes using the authentication data and request data, determining a current tenant of the client component. The method further includes replacing the principal data with updated principal data, the updated principal data identifying the organization. The method further includes updating the role data associated with the request to create updated role data that indicates roles of the user within the organization.
US11102179B2
A system and method for anonymous message broadcasting uses secret shares of a first vector of size i and a second vector of size j from each client device with a message in an anonymity set of client devices. Each secret share of the first and second vectors is received at each of a plurality of message broadcasting servers to construct a matrix M of i and j dimensions, which is added to a matrix A of i and j dimensions maintained at that message broadcasting server. The matrix A at each message broadcasting server is shared with the other message broadcasting servers and a final matrix A is constructed using the shared matrices A at each message broadcasting server, wherein the final matrix A includes the messages from the client devices in the anonymity set. The messages in the final matrix A are broadcasted from the message broadcasting servers.
US11102172B2
A transfer apparatus comprises: a first storage unit configured to store a whitelist for storing reliable information indicating that communication between a source address and a destination address is authorized; a second storage unit configured to store an addition list including a specific address not included in the reliable information and a valid period of the specific address; a receiving unit configured to receive data; a check unit configured to check whether either a destination address or a source address included in data within the valid period is the specific address; and a generation unit configured to generate specific reliable information indicating that communication between the destination address and the source address included in the data is authorized and register the generated specific reliable information to the whitelist in a case where the check unit confirms within the valid period that either address is the specific address.
US11102170B2
The application relates to a route delivery method and device. A location information of user equipment UE is received by a control plane network element device. A client IP address used by the control plane network element device to access a third-party server is determined based on the location information by the control plane network element device. An access request message is sent by the control plane network element device to the third-party server carrying the client IP address. A UE IP address assigned by the third-party server to the UE based on the client IP address is received by the control plane network element device. A user plane network element device configured to deliver a route to the UE is determined based on the UE IP address and the location information by the control plane network element device.
US11102161B2
An example implementation for social networking service content sharing provides a computer-implemented method that includes analyzing content to be shared on a social networking service, the content being directed to a plurality of potential recipients. The method further includes analyzing the plurality of potential recipients to calculate a plurality of probability scores for each of the plurality of potential recipients. The method further includes calculating a recipient score for each of the plurality of potential recipients based at least in part on the plurality of probability scores for each of the plurality of potential recipients. The method further includes generating a metadata table for the plurality of potential recipients based at least in part on the recipient score for each of the plurality of potential recipients and designating a subset of the plurality of potential recipients to receive the content based at least in part on the metadata table.
US11102160B2
An electronic information system which enables email based transactions comprises an information database storing information regarding a plurality of individuals in a group and selections available to individuals in the group. A first email message with a mailto hyperlink having a plurality of fields including actionable parameter is generated and sent. A reply email message is received in response to selection of the mailto hyperlink. The received email message includes the plurality of fields and the actionable parameter that indicates that a specific selection has been made. A processor performs the action indicated by the actionable parameter in response to the received email message, including updating the information database to indicate the specific selection that has been made.
US11102155B2
The disclosed systems and methods join a user to a primary communication channel that is associated with an automated human interface module. The automated human interface module includes a plurality of nodes. A message including a text communication is posted by the user and sent to a decision module associated with a plurality of classifiers. The decision module is configured to identify a node that best matches the text communication in accordance with the plurality of classifiers. Each respective classifier produces a respective classifier result thereby producing a plurality of classifier results. Each respective classifier result identifies a respective node of the plurality of nodes best matching the text communication. The plurality of classifier results is collectively considered, and the node best matching the text communication is identified and the text communication is sent to the identified node.
US11102151B1
A messaging server employs a chat agent for gather and transmitting abbreviations and definitions via a messaging application. In this application, abbreviations include acronyms, shortened phrases, and colloquial terms or language. Definitions describe an abbreviation and may include textual information and contextual media. The chat agent may receive an abbreviation and definition from a user or may automatically determine the abbreviation and definition from messages on the messaging application. The chat agent transmits the definition and abbreviation to an approval system, which verifies the definition. Once approved, the abbreviation database stores the abbreviation and definition. When another user requests the definition for an abbreviation, the chat agent queries abbreviation database and returns the definition in a message to the user via the messaging application. In some embodiments, the abbreviation database stores abbreviations and definitions in relation to group tags, which describe user groups within the messaging application.
US11102150B2
A communication apparatus capable of efficiently creating transmission packets even when a free space of a storage unit storing transmission packet headers is insufficient includes a first storage unit to store a header of a transmission packet when the transmission packet is created in a first processing procedure, a first creation unit to create the transmission packet in the first processing procedure using the first storage unit, a second storage unit to store the transmission packet header when the transmission packet is created in a second processing procedure, a second creation unit to create the transmission packet in the second processing procedure using the second storage unit, and a control unit to control which one of the first and second creation units is used based on a data size necessary for the first creation unit to create the header and a free space of the first storage unit.
US11102131B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving a first service request via a network, transmitting a query to service layer equipment, and receiving, from the service layer equipment, first service requirements to fulfill the first service request. Responsive to receiving the first service requirements, a request for network resource capacity information is transmitted to instantiated software defined network (SDN) controllers. Network capacity information is received from the instantiated SDN controllers and an insufficiency thereof is determined according to the service requirements and the network capacity information. Another software defined network controller is instantiated into the network, responsive to the determined insufficiency, to fulfill the first service request. The first service requirements are met, in part, by the instantiated software defined network controllers that are instantiated and, in part, by the other software defined network controller. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11102129B2
A network adapter includes circuitry and one or more ports. The ports connect to a communication network including multiple network elements. The circuitry accesses outbound messages that are pending to be sent over the communication network to multiple remote nodes via the ports. At least some of the outbound messages request the remote nodes to send respective amounts of data back to the network adapter. Based on the amounts of data requested by the outbound messages, the circuitry forecasts a bandwidth of inbound response traffic, which is expected to traverse a selected network element in response to the outbound messages toward the network adapter, determines a schedule for transmitting the outbound messages to the remote nodes so that the forecasted bandwidth meets a bandwidth supported by the selected network element, and transmits the outbound messages to the remote nodes in accordance with the determined schedule.
US11102120B2
A network device determines, based on a size of a lookup value, that the lookup value is to be stored across a set of two or more memory banks including a first memory bank and a second memory bank of a database. A first hash function is for determining locations for storing lookup values entirely in the first memory bank, whereas a second hash function is for determining locations for storing lookup values entirely in the second memory bank. A hash operation is performed on the lookup value using the first hash function to determine a memory location for storing the lookup value. A first segment of the lookup value is stored in the first memory bank at the memory location determined using the first hash function, and a second segment of the lookup value is stored in the second memory bank at the memory location determined using the first hash function.
US11102117B2
Methods, apparatus, and systems for implementing in Network Interface Controller (NIC) flow switching. Switching operations are effected via hardware-based forwarding mechanisms in apparatus such as NICs in a manner that does not employ use of computer system processor resources and is transparent to operating systems hosted by such computer systems. The forwarding mechanisms are configured to move or copy Media Access Control (MAC) frame data between receive (Rx) and transmit (Tx) queues associated with different NIC ports that may be on the same NIC or separate NICs. The hardware-based switching operations effect forwarding of MAC frames between NIC ports using memory operations, thus reducing external network traffic, internal interconnect traffic, and processor workload associated with packet processing.
US11102115B2
According to an example of a method for forwarding a packet, a ESGW device decapsulates a received downstream data packet to obtain a downstream IP data packet when a destination MAC address of the downstream data packet is an MAC address of the ESGW device; determines a matching ARP entry of an IP address of a target user terminal based on the destination IP address of the downstream IP data packet to obtain a session ID of the target user terminal; determines a length field of a PPPoE header by a microcode, and obtains a pre-stored fixed-value field of the PPPoE header from a data storage area; encapsulates the downstream IP data packet into a downstream PPPoE data packet based on the session ID, the length field, and the fixed-value field, and forwards the downstream PPPoE data packet through an egress port of the matching ARP entry.
US11102114B2
Apparatus and methods include receiving a first packet, the first packet including a first source Internet protocol (IP) address and a first destination IP address; adding a first outer header to the first packet to generate an encapsulated packet, the first outer header including a second source IP address and a second destination IP address; forwarding the encapsulated packet to a Server Load Balancer (SLB) associated with the second destination IP address; receiving a response packet from a front end server having a front end server private IP address; and saving the front end server private IP address to bypass the SLB.
US11102108B2
Systems and methods for multicast send duplication instead of replication in a high performance computing environment. A method can provide a plurality of switches, a plurality of hosts, the plurality of hosts being interconnected via the plurality of switches, wherein a host of the plurality of hosts comprises a multicast sender node, the sender node comprising a system image generation module and a current message sequence module. The method can organize the plurality of switches into two rails, the two or more rails providing redundant connectivity between the plurality of hosts. The method can send two or more duplicate multicast packets on different rails. Upon a receiving node receiving at least two versions of the same multicast packet, only one will be delivered to the communication stack/clients above the layer that handles the encapsulation header.
US11102106B2
One or more embodiments of the invention may relate to a method, and/or non-transitory computer readable medium including instructions, for distributing link state information. In one or more embodiments of the invention, the method includes building a link state database on a plurality of network devices; electing a leader from among the plurality of network devices; computing, by the leader, a flooding topology; encoding, by the leader, the flooding topology to obtain an encoded flooding topology; distributing, by the leader, the encoded flooding topology to other network devices of the plurality of network devices.
US11102085B2
An example electronic device includes a processor to receive, from an intent publishing device, a resource agreement associated with a service to be implemented via the intent publishing device. The processor is further to transmit the resource agreement to a claiming device. The processor is further to receive a confirmation from the claiming device, wherein the confirmation is to indicate that the claiming device is to implement the resource agreement. The processor is further to match the intent publishing device with the claiming device based on the confirmation.
US11102080B2
Methods, systems and software program products for configuring a virtual network port for a physical server to support packets transfer between the physical server and other network nodes in a virtual network, comprising transmitting one or more configuration Protocol Data Units (PDU) comprising extension configuration message(s) of a network management protocol to a network circuitry connecting a physical server to a network. One or more of the extension configuration message comprise one or more virtual network settings for a virtual network port mapping the physical server in a virtual network. The network circuitry is configured to deploy the virtual network port to support exchange of packets between the physical server and one or more of a plurality of nodes of the virtual network by encapsulating and de-capsulating outgoing and incoming packets according to one or more virtual network encapsulation protocols using one or more of the virtual network settings.
US11102069B2
In accordance with embodiments disclosed herein, an exemplary system or computer implemented method for implementing the virtualization of access node functions may include, for example: a memory to store instructions for execution; one or more processors to execute the instructions; a control plane interface to communicably interface the system with an access node over a network, in which the access node is physically coupled with a plurality of broadband lines; a virtualized module to provide a virtualized implementation of a plurality of functions of the access node at the system, in which the virtualized module executes on a virtualized computing infrastructure; the control plane interface of the system to receive current operational data and current operating conditions for the plurality of broadband lines from the access node; the virtualized module to update the virtualized implementation of the plurality of functions of the access node at the system according to the current operational data and the current operating conditions received from the access node; an analysis module to analyze the current operational data and the current operating conditions received from the access node; an instruction module to generate control parameters to affect operation of the access node based on the analysis of the current operational data and the current operating conditions received; and the control plane interface to send the control parameters to the access node for adoption at the access node. Other related embodiments are disclosed.
US11102066B1
Network service providers are managed using a server-side configuration approach. According to an example embodiment of the present invention, a host network location includes two or more servers that automatically reconfigure their services in response to controller service settings corresponding to each server. Each server reads configuration information provided at a controller such as a domain name server (DNS), and in response, runs a network-based service corresponding to the configuration information.
US11102060B2
Examples herein relate to identifying a soft failure at member within a cluster dedicated to a microservice. Examples disclose identifying a statistical evaluation for each member within the cluster. Based on the statistical evaluation, identifying a soft failure among one of multiple members within the cluster. In response to the identification of the soft failure at one of the members within the cluster, performing an action.
US11102058B1
Systems and methods described herein include receiving, from a first network function, a request to receive a notification when a second network function becomes available after a failure. A status update may be received from the second network function indicating that the second network function is available. It may be determined that the second network function is in a stable state. A notification may be sent, to the first network function, that the second network function is available along with an indication of a time period in which to switch from accessing a third network function to accessing the second network function.
US11102046B2
Provided are methods and devices for transmitting/receiving downlink signals in a Wireless communication system. Carrier information is provided to user equipment, the carrier information including cell identifier information which indicates Whether a first cell identifier related to a first carrier operating on one resource block (RB) and a second cell identifier used for a cell-specific reference signal (CRS) on the first carrier are the same or different. If the second cell identifier is the same as the first cell identifier, the user equipment assumes that the number of antenna ports for the CRS on the first carrier is the same as the number of antenna ports for a reference signal defined for NB-IoT (reference signal for NB-IoT, NRS). If the second cell identifier is different from the first cell identifier, the carrier information further includes antenna port number information, and the user equipment assumes that the number of the antenna ports for the CRS is the same as the number of antenna ports based on the antenna port number information.
US11102045B2
A method for receiving, by a terminal, downlink control information in a wireless communication system according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises the steps of: receiving information on a reference subcarrier spacing (SCS) from among a plurality of SCS numerologies; receiving downlink control information through a terminal group common physical downlink control channel (PDCCH); and obtaining information on a slot format from the downlink control information, wherein the downlink control information indicates the slot format on the basis of the reference SCS, and when the SCS of the terminal is different from the reference SCS, the terminal may convert the slot format of the reference SCS according to the SCS of the terminal.
US11102044B2
Systems, methods and computer software are disclosed for providing high resolution timing advance estimation based on Physical Random Access Channel (PRACH). An example method includes receiving a preamble signal r(n); performing signal conditioning on r(n); down sampling the signal and performing antialiasing filtering to provide a y(n) signal; correlating y(n) with a reference preamble with a reference preamble sequence c(n) to provide correlation output Ryc; using a peak value P of the correlation output Ryc to detect a preamble ID and a timing advance; constructing a sequence s(n) by segmenting r_centered(n) for length L around an index P*24; performing time domain interpolation of c(n) around index P to obtain a sequence c_interpolated(n); performing time domain interpolation between sequences s(n) and c_interpolated(n); detecting a peak position Q of the correlation; and deriving TA as P*24−L/2+q in terms of Ts.
US11102040B2
In a multi-carrier wireless system, potential problems from reconfiguring mobile station resources to accommodate changes in component-carrier configuration are mitigated by inserting a guard period each time the configuration of component carriers changes, so that transceiver reconfiguration can be carried out without interfering with ongoing transmission. A base station is configured to transmit data to a mobile station according to a first configuration of two or more component carriers, to determine that a change of configuration to a second component carrier configuration is required, and to signal the change of configuration to the mobile station, using the first configuration of component carriers. The base station then refrains from transmitting data to the mobile station during a pre-determined guard interval of at least one transmission-time interval subsequent to the signaling of the change of configuration. After the guard interval, data is transmitted to the mobile station according to the second component carrier configuration.
US11102039B2
For a wireless communications system, scalable orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) numerology is incorporated in a manner that can apply to radio link transmissions in future wireless network for frequency division duplex (FDD) and time division duplex (TDD) communications.
US11102033B2
A method and apparatus for implementing a virtual local area network. The method includes determining a global virtual local area network for transmitting a data frame in response to receiving the data frame at a first switch, encapsulating the data frame based at least in part on said determination and transmitting it to at least one second switch over the determined global virtual local area network. The data frame is received at the second switch and an identifier of the global virtual local area network is obtained according to the data frame. Based at least in part on the identifier of the global virtual local area network, it is determined that which local virtual local area network served by the second switch the de-capsulated data frame can be sent to.
US11102029B1
Techniques are described for using information from a knob sensor of an appliance in a property monitoring system. In some implementations, a monitoring system may be configured to receive sensor information from a knob, receive monitoring device information from a monitoring device and, based on the sensor information from the knob, identify a knob event. The monitoring system may integrate the knob event with the monitoring device information and analyze the integrated knob event and monitoring device information against one or more rules related to usage of the appliance in view of the state of the property. Based on analyzing the integrated knob event and monitoring device information, the monitoring system may determine whether to perform an action, such as notifying a user or activating an appliance.
US11102024B2
Standalone MBSFN cells may provide an improved user experience for an individual with a non-legacy UE since the bandwidth of that cell is mostly allocated to broadcasting streaming services. However, an individual with a legacy UE may be able to detect cell acquisition information associated with a standalone MBSFN cell but not to acquire standalone MBSFN cells. In order to solve this problem, the present disclosure provides various UE avoidance schemes that enable non-legacy UEs to acquire a standalone MBSFN cell and prevents legacy UEs from trying to acquire a standalone MBSFN only cell. The apparatus may receive cell acquisition information associated with an eMBMS standalone cell. The apparatus may detect a UE avoidance scheme based on a characteristic associated with the cell acquisition information. The apparatus may perform cell acquisition with the eMBMS standalone cell based on the characteristic.
US11102023B2
A system including a digital component request server that receives digital component requests for a supplemental digital component that will be presented in an additional multicast stream that is different to a multicast stream that is delivering content; a digital component distribution server that i) selects supplemental digital components to distribute over the additional multicast streams, the supplemental digital components being selected for one of the additional multicast streams being different to the supplemental digital component selected for each of the other additional multicast streams, and that ii) assigns one group of a plurality of groups of the multiple client devices to a respective one of the additional multicast streams; and an instruction generation server that generates instructions for the multiple client devices to tune to the respective additional multicast streams assigned to the group of multiple client devices that includes the different client device that submitted the request.
US11102019B2
An apparatus for managed updating of meeting handout data is disclosed. A method and system also perform the functions of the apparatus. An apparatus is disclosed that, in one embodiment, includes an acquisition unit that acquires from a server, meeting information and meeting handout data for a meeting, and stores the acquired meeting information and meeting handout data to a storage area in a memory unit of a meeting device. The apparatus also includes an authentication unit that authenticates a participating terminal to participate in the meeting; and a management unit that, after authenticating the participating terminal, changes a locator for the meeting handout data that the participating terminal acquires from a storage place of the server to the storage area in the memory unit of the meeting device.
US11102016B2
The present disclosure relates to a PUF apparatus and method for generating a persistent, random number. The generated number is random in that each particular instance of PUF apparatus should generate a randomly different number to all other instances of PUF apparatus, and is persistent in that each particular instance of the PUF apparatus should repeatedly generate the same number, within acceptable error correction tolerances. The persistent, random number is determined by selecting one or more PUF cells, each comprising a matched pair of transistors that are of identical design, and comparing an on-state characteristic of the pair (e.g., turn-on threshold voltage or gate-source voltage). The difference in on-state characteristic of each selected pair of transistors is caused by random manufacturing differences between the transistors. This causes the randomness between each different instance of PUF apparatus, and should be relatively stable over time to provide persistence of the generated number.
US11102011B2
Implementations of the present disclosure include obtaining, from a trusted certificate authority (CA) by an owner of a unified blockchain domain name (UBCDN) of a blockchain instance (a UBCDN owner) in a unified blockchain network, a domain certificate of the UBCDN of the blockchain instance; signing the UBCDN of the blockchain instance; and publishing a UBCDN message of the blockchain instance. The UBCDN of the blockchain instance includes a blockchain domain name and a chain identifier of the blockchain instance. The domain certificate of the UBCDN includes the blockchain domain name, a public key of the UBCDN owner, and a digital signature of the CA on the blockchain domain name and the public key of the UBCDN owner. The UBCDN message includes the UBCDN, a digital signature of the UBCDN owner resulting from the signing the UBCDN, and the domain certificate of the UBCDN.
US11102007B2
A system and method are described that enables mobile devices (e.g. including but not limited to a mobile phone or the like), to intercept and respond to contactless card authentication requests, allowing mobile devices to be used in place of contactless cards. Enabling mobile phone devices to emulate contactless cards decreases issues related to lost or damaged cards, enabling a single device to be used to provide tokens related to multiple different contactless cards, and leverages functionality of the mobile device to provide dual-factor authentication.
US11102005B2
A non-transitory computer-readable medium includes an encrypted dataset, a first access control measure, and instructions. The encrypted dataset includes a first encrypted block of data, encrypted using a first encryption algorithm, and a second encrypted block of data, encrypted using a second encryption algorithm stronger than the first. The first access control measure is associated with a first access control characteristic and is configured to selectively prevent access to the encrypted dataset. The instructions are configured, when executed by a processor of a device of a first user, to determine that a first characteristic of the first user matches the first access control characteristic. In response, the instructions are configured to decrypt the encrypted dataset to form a plain text dataset and provide the device of the first user access to the plain text dataset. Decrypting the encrypted dataset includes decrypting the first and second blocks of data.
US11102002B2
An established root of trust supports a secure execution environment (SEE) that supports execution of validated software instructions on behalf of trust domains that operate within the SEE to implement functions and to support hardware supported by the IHS. Embodiments support isolated operation of such trust domains within the SEE while avoiding the overhead of isolation within separate software environment enclaves. Signed instructions for the operation of a trust domain are retrieved and authenticated based on a signing token associated with the trust domain. If authenticated, the trust domain is granted access to resources set forth in a privilege policy token linked to the signing token of the trust domain. The privileges assigned to a trust domain may be modified by linking the trust domain's signing token to a new privilege policy token.
US11102000B2
Disclosed are methods and devices for deriving keys for coding the contents of data frames, which are to be transmitted in a keyless entry system during an ultra-wide band ranging session between a transceiver device coupled to a base structure to be opened and closed and/or to be locked and unlocked, and a mobile transceiver device associated with the structure-coupled transceiver device.
US11101991B2
Described is a system for biometric authentication. The system converts biometric data into a cryptographic key r′ using a reusable fuzzy extractor process having an underlying hash function modeling a random oracle model. The system allows access to secured services when a comparison of r′ to a previously computed cryptographic key r shows a match.
US11101982B1
Methods and systems for encrypting sensitive information are disclosed comprising hashing sensitive information by a hash function and selecting a salt or key salt based, at least in part, on the hashed sensitive information. If a salt is selected, the selected salt is combined with the hashed sensitive information to yield combined sensitive information, which is encrypted and stored. If a key is selected, such as an AES key, for example, the sensitive information is encrypted by the selected encryption key, and stored. The keys and salts may be encrypted by a cryptographic processing system that generates and stores keys, such as a key management system and/or a hardware security module, for further protection. The salts may be concatenated into a binary large object prior to encryption. Methods and systems for updating of stored records comprising encrypted sensitive information are also described.
US11101980B2
An encryption system and method that addresses private computation in public clouds and provides the ability to perform operations of encrypted data are provided.
US11101970B2
An operating method of a repeater, the operating method comprises: receiving a first communication signal according to a first mobile communication standard, generating a time division duplex (TDD) switching signal based on information about a start point of the received first communication signal, and controlling switching of an uplink and a downlink of a repeater that relays a second communication signal according to a second mobile communication standard based on the generated TDD switching signal.
US11101969B2
The present invention is designed so that uplink transmission is carried out adequately even when CA is executed by applying different duplex modes between multiple cells. A user terminal that receives downlink control information (DCI) including Downlink Assignment Index (DAI) in a frequency division duplex (FDD) cell and controls, based on the DAI, transmission of a transmission acknowledgement signal for a downlink shared channel that is scheduled to the FDD cell by the DCI.
US11101958B2
A method for signaling transmission includes: receiving a control signaling transmitted by a target 5G base station, where the target 5G base station is a 5G base station being accessed by a target terminal, the target terminal is a terminal used for managing and controlling a target NB-IoT device, and the target NB-IoT device is an NB-IoT device having accessed the NB-IoT base station; and transmitting the control signaling to the target NB-IoT device so as to allow the target NB-IoT device to execute a corresponding operation on the basis of the control signaling.
US11101957B2
This application discloses a reference signal sending method and apparatus, to resolve a problem that only a fixed mapping manner and a single function are available in an existing RS mapping and configuration solution, so as to improve spectral efficiency. The method includes: determining a time-frequency resource used to carry a first reference signal, where the time-frequency resource is a dedicated time-frequency resource of at least one second reference signal; and sending the first reference signal by using the determined time-frequency resource.
US11101956B2
The present disclosure relates to a method and a device for a terminal transmitting a reference signal in a wireless communication system. According to the present disclosure, a method and a device may be provided, the method comprising: receiving, from a base station, configuration information associated with a configuration of a first demodulation reference signal for demodulating uplink data; and on the basis of the configuration information, transmitting the first demodulation reference signal and the uplink data to the base station via at least one antenna port, wherein the first demodulation reference signal and the uplink data are transmitted in a sub frame by means of frequency hopping, and the first demodulation reference signal is positioned on the same time axial symbol as that of at least one other demodulation reference signal transmitted on another antenna port.
US11101955B2
Embodiments of this application provide a channel state information transmission method, a terminal device, and a network device. The method includes: sending, by a terminal device, a first reference signal through a first antenna port set, where the first antenna port set includes n antenna ports; receiving, by the terminal device, a second reference signal through a second antenna port set, where the second antenna port set includes N antenna ports, and the first antenna port set is a proper subset of the second.
US11101952B2
A method and an apparatus for mapping a reference signal. The method includes: mapping a target-class signal to a target symbol, where the target symbol is some symbols in a first symbol set on a time-frequency resource block, the first symbol set is a set of some symbols or all symbols on the time-frequency resource block, the target-class signal has at least two functions, and the at least two functions include a function of estimating a parameter that affects signal transmission; and mapping the reference signal to a symbol in the first symbol set other than the target symbol, where the reference signal has the function of estimating a parameter that affects signal transmission.
US11101943B2
The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). The present disclosure discloses a method of a user equipment (US) for transmitting uplink control information (UCI) in a wireless communication system. The method performed by the user equipment includes: determining a hybrid automatic retransmission request (HARQ) timing or HARQ timings of a dynamically scheduled physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) and/or a semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) PDSCH and/or a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) that indicates SPS releasing according to information sent from a base station; and transmitting generated hybrid automatic retransmission request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) information according to the HARQ timing or the HARQ timings determined. By applying present disclosure, it is possible to simplify the HARQ-ACK timing determination mode and can perform HARQ-ACK information transmission in time.
US11101930B2
A programmable integrated circuit may be provided with a memory interface for communicating with an external memory over a serial communications path. To accommodate a variety of different memory interface protocols while satisfying low-latency performance criteria, part of the memory interface may be formed from programmable logic and part of the memory interface may be formed from hardwired circuitry. The programmable logic of the memory interface may be used to implement packet formation logic that creates packets that include empty fields for sequence number information, acknowledgement information, and cyclic redundancy check information. The hardwired circuitry of the memory interface may be used to insert a sequence number, an acknowledgement, and cyclic redundancy check information into the empty fields.
US11101925B2
Network communication systems may employ coding schemes to provide error checking and/or error correction. Such schemes may include parity or check symbols in a message that may add redundancy, which may be used to check for errors. For example, Ethernet may employ forward error correction (FEC) schemes using Reed-Solomon codes. An increase in the number of parity symbols may increase the power of the error-correcting scheme, but may lead to an increased in latencies. Encoders and decoders that may be configured in a manner to produce variable-length messages while preserving compatibility with network standards are described. Decoders described herein may be able to verify long codewords by checking short codes and integrating the results. Encoders described herein may be able to generate codewords in multiple formats without replicating large segments of the circuitry.
US11101923B2
Circuitry and methods for receiving data that may be compliant with a specific protocol is discussed. The described systems may be employed to implement a physical media access (PMA) sublayer and/or physical coding sublayer (PCS) for high-speed Ethernet protocols. Embodiments described herein may have reduced circuitry footprint that may be achieved by the use of a single recovered clock to drive the operations of PCS circuitry. Efficient use of components may also be achieved by the use of smaller-sized words for processing by the PCS circuitry. The circuitry may process the smaller-sized words by implementing pipelined circuitry. Implementations that employ programmable circuitry, hardened circuitry, or hybrid implementations are also discussed.
US11101921B2
A method and apparatus are provided for reporting channel state information (CSI) by a user equipment (UE). The method includes identifying two interference measurement resources, if the UE is configured with two CSI subframe sets by a base station (BS); obtaining CSI based on an interference measurement resource within a subframe set; and reporting the obtained CSI associated with the subframe set to the BS.
US11101920B2
A transmitting device performs a channel assessment in a previous sub-frame in an unlicensed carrier. After a successful channel assessment, the transmitting device starts a data transmission. The transmitting device transmits a control message for indicating the data transmission in (E)PDCCH. The control message may include the starting time of the data transmission and/or at least one transmission characteristic in the previous sub-frame. The transmission device may transmit an initial control message for indicating a potential data transmission being started in the sub-frame in which the initial control message is transmitting. Method and apparatus enable (E)CCA to take place at any time, and data transmission to start earlier than the next sub-frame boundary after a successful completion of (E)CCA, thus improving the data transmission capacity, especially in circumstances when the maximum length of transmission is constrained.
US11101918B2
Techniques are described for wireless communication at a wireless device. One method includes transmitting, during a TTI, a first message using a first MCS; and transmitting, during the TTI, a second message using a second MCS. The first message includes indications of a location, a heading, and a speed of the wireless device, and the second MCS is higher than the first MCS. Another method includes decoding a first message received during a TTI; performing a Doppler effect compensation for a second message based at least in part on the first message; and decoding the second message based at least in part on the Doppler effect compensation. The second message is also received during the TTI. The first message is decoded in accordance with a first MCS, and the second message is decoded in accordance with a second MCS, with the second MCS being higher than the first MCS.
US11101917B2
Devices, computer-readable media, and methods for selecting a type of transmission for an immersive visual stream based upon a latency estimate. For instance, a processing system including at least one processor may obtain a latency estimate for an immersive visual stream, determine whether the latency estimate exceeds a latency threshold for selecting a type of transmission for the immersive visual stream, and select the type of transmission for the immersive visual stream from among a field of view restricted type of transmission and a field of view plus out of scene type of transmission based upon the determining. When the latency estimate is determined to not exceed the latency threshold, the field of view restricted type of transmission is selected. When the latency estimate is determined to exceed the latency threshold, the field of view plus out of scene type of transmission is selected.
US11101913B2
This patent document provides optical processing and switching of optical channels based on mode-division multiplexing (MDM) and wavelength division multiplexing (WDM). In one implementation, a method is provided for processing different optical signal channels to include receiving different input optical signal channels in different optical waveguide modes and in different wavelengths; converting input optical signal channels in multimodes into single-mode optical signal channels, respectively; subsequent to the conversion, processing single-mode optical signal channels obtained from the different input optical signal channels to re-group single-mode optical signal channels into different groups of processed single-mode optical signal channels; and converting different groups of the processed single-mode optical signal channels into different groups of output optical signal channels containing one or more optical signal channels in multimodes multimode signals to direct the groups as different optical outputs.
US11101912B2
A TORminator module is disposed with a switch linecard of a rack. The TORminator module receives downlink electrical data signals from a rack switch. The TORminator module translates the downlink electrical data signals into downlink optical data signals. The TORminator module transmits multiple subsets of the downlink optical data signals through optical fibers to respective SmartDistributor modules disposed in respective racks. Each SmartDistributor module receives multiple downlink optical data signals through a single optical fiber from the TORminator module. The SmartDistributor module demultiplexes the multiple downlink optical data signals and distributes them to respective servers. The SmartDistributor module receives multiple uplink optical data signals from multiple servers and multiplexes them onto a single optical fiber for transmission to the TORminator module. The TORminator module coverts the multiple uplink optical data signals to multiple uplink electrical data signals, and transmits the multiple uplink electrical data signals to the rack switch.
US11101907B2
Disclosed is a system and method for determining output transmission power for radio signal transmission, from an interception transmitter and from an announcement transmitter, respectively, to at least one announcement receiver, wherein each announcement receiver is in a respective motor vehicle, the method comprising: receiving an input signal to be suppressed; determining a first field strength of the input signal, at a first frequency fI, at a position POSR; determining a first transmission power of a first radio signal, intended to be transmitted by the interception transmitter, needed to suppress the input signal at an interception transmission distance; determining a second field strength of at least one of atmospheric noise and the input signal at a second frequency fA, at the position POSR; and determining a second transmission power of second radio signal comprising an announcement to be transmitted by the announcement transmitter to the at least one announcement receiver.
US11101904B2
The described techniques relate to improved methods, systems, devices, or apparatuses that support communication schemes for small cyclic delay diversity (SCDD) reference signals. A base station may transmit a control message comprising at least one channel state information (CSI) configuration parameter to a user equipment (UE). The UE may identify a time offset between a plurality of virtual antennas of the base station based at least in part on the CSI configuration parameter. The UE may perform measurements of a plurality of CSI reference signals (CSI-RSs) transmitted by the base station and associated with the virtual antennas. The UE may transmit a feedback message based at least in part on the determined time offset and the measurements of the CSI-RSs.
US11101900B2
A radio wave environment analysis device includes: a processor which acquires radio wave environment data obtained by associating, with position information within an area including a plurality of observation points, an analysis result based on an analysis of the radio wave environment corresponding to a radio wave transmitted from at least one wireless transmitter disposed within the area; and a memory configured to store the radio wave environment data. The processor is configured to select a region that is a part of the area, extract partial radio wave environment data corresponding to the selected part, and output predetermined radio wave environment distribution data based on the extracted partial radio wave environment data on a display device.
US11101897B1
Disclosed is an optical receiver. The optical receiver includes an optical splitter that splits an external light signal to output a first light signal and a second light signal, a first amplifier that amplifies the first light signal in a linear gain section to output an amplified first light signal, a second amplifier that amplifies the second light signal in a saturation gain section to output an amplified second light signal, a polarization division hybrid that outputs an in-phase hybrid light signal and a quadrature-phase hybrid light signal, based on a reference light signal and the amplified second light signal, and an optoelectronic conversion unit that outputs an electrical signal, based on the amplified first light signal, the in-phase hybrid light signal, and the quadrature-phase hybrid light signal.
US11101884B1
Systems and methods for displaying a localization of one or more anomalies in a fiber optic network are provided. In one implementation, a system includes a processing device and a memory device. The memory device is configured to store an anomaly localization module having logic instructions, which, when executed, cause the processing device to display, on a Graphical User Interface (GUI), Network Elements (NEs) and physical fiber plant links of a fiber optic network on a generalized geographical map. Responsive to a user selection, the logic instructions are further configured to cause the processing device to display, on the GUI, a physical fiber plant map based on obtained geographical coordinates of components associated with the fiber optic network.
US11101882B1
A network element configured to operate in an Optical Transport Network (OTN) network includes one or more modules including a first regenerator port and a second regenerator port, wherein the one or more modules are configured to provide a Low Order (LO) regenerator function; and circuitry configured to detect the one or more modules are part of the LO regenerator function, and, responsive to detection of a fault on the first regenerator port, cause forward traffic conditioning at a High Order (HO) path to the second regenerator port. The forward traffic conditioning can include an Alarm Indication Signal (AIS) on the HO path.
US11101874B1
A method for providing aircraft network communications is provided. The method includes checking, by an onboard server of an aircraft, for aircraft network connection readiness; receiving, by the onboard server, a connection request from one or more user devices on the aircraft that subsequently and periodically continue scanning for aircraft network connection readiness; in response to finding, by the onboard server, a secure connection to an aircraft communications network based on one or more connection rules, connecting the onboard server to the aircraft communications network; notifying the one or more user devices that a network is available; authenticating the one or more user devices; connecting the one or more user devices to the aircraft network; monitoring network connection status; and in response to determining that the network connection status is insecure based on the one or more connection rules, disconnecting the onboard server from the aircraft communications network.
US11101868B2
This document discloses a solution for improving transmission characteristics of a communication signal transmitted from a transmitter. According to an aspect, a method includes arranging, in a transmitter, information to be transmitted to a receiver, to a plurality of spatial layers where each spatial layer is associated with a unique precoding configuration amongst the plurality of spatial layers, wherein the information includes at least one signal that is identical in a plurality of the plurality of spatial layers; performing, in the transmitter, a decorrelation operation across the plurality of spatial layers such that the at least one signal in one of the plurality of spatial layers becomes decorrelated with the at least one signal in another one of the plurality of spatial layers; and causing, in the transmitter, transmission of a transmission signal including the information in the plurality of spatial layers to the receiver.
US11101863B2
Disclosed is a method for transmitting and receiving a channel state information (CSI)-reference signal (RS) in a wireless communication system. Specifically, the method performed by a base station may include: configuring control information indicating that an antenna port for all CSI-RS resources included in a CSI-RS resource set is same, wherein the CSI-RS resource set is used for tracking at least one of a time or a frequency; transmitting the configured control information to a user equipment (UE); and transmitting the CSI-RS to the UE through all the CSI-RS resources. In doing so, the UE is capable of performing time/frequency tracking more precisely.
US11101862B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described that provide efficient beam updates in beamformed communications between a transmitting device and receiving device. The transmitting device and the receiving device may establish a connection using one or more beamformed transmission beams. The devices may periodically perform beam refinement procedures or beam training procedures and may update the transmission beams used for communications based on such procedures. Signaling to indicate the updated transmission beams may be transmitted that indicates one or more of a difference or delta from a prior beamforming parameter, a beam that was used at the receiving device for one or more measurements of a reference signal from the transmitting device, or any combinations thereof.
US11101859B2
Disclosed are a communication technique for merging, with IoT technology, a 5G communication system for supporting a data transmission rate higher than that of a 4G system, and a system therefor. The disclosure can be applied to an intelligent service (for example, smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car or connected car, health care, digital education, retail, security and safety-related services, and the like) on the basis of 5G communication technology and IoT-related technology. According to an embodiment of the present invention, a method by which a base station transmits a signal in a wireless communication system comprises the steps of: transmitting, to a terminal through at least one beam, at least one beam index including information on beam direction; receiving, from the terminal, a preferred beam index determined by the terminal; determining a channel matrix between the base station and the terminal on the basis of the preferred beam index; and allowing the base station to transmit a signal to the terminal on the basis of the channel matrix. The study has been performed under the support of the “Government-wide Giga KOREA Business” of the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning.
US11101854B2
The present disclosure provides a method of generating codebook in a wireless communication system with multiple antenna arrays, as well as a wireless communication system, base station and terminal using the codebook for communication. The method comprises steps of: providing a basic codebook which contains multiple pre-coding matrices; and assigning phase offsets to certain pre-coding matrices in the basic codebook to form a codebook with phase offset. The feedback overhead from a client to a base station side is reduced and a good precision of feedback for multi-antenna array is kept by applying the method of generating codebook and using the generated codebook in the wireless communication system, base station and terminal.
US11101847B1
Managing power distribution according to a common activity mutually performed by a set of connected devices. The common activity is divided into a series of device-specific steps for completion by the connected devices. Charge level of the connected devices is maintained according to an electrical connectivity plan that assures adequate power is available to each device for performing the series of device-specific steps.
US11101837B2
A tethered pouch adapted to carry an device, tool or equipment, has a shell with a proximal opening that leads to an interior pocket, wherein the shell is constructed of a first material and a second material where the second material may be configured as a viewing window and the shell has at least one access opening configured to receive a digit of a user's hand for contacting and operating the item, such as a mobile phone.
US11101831B2
Provided are a radio frequency (RF) signal transmission apparatus and a control method of the RF signal transmission apparatus, in which a local oscillator (LO) leakage signal may be suppressed. The RF signal transmission apparatus may perform beamforming to form a beam based on a plurality of RF signals generated in a plurality of transmission chains, measure magnitude of an LO leakage signal of the beam formed by performing beamforming, and generate an LO leakage suppression signal based on the magnitude of the LO leakage signal.
US11101830B2
A system for clock calibration is described herein which comprises a serializer configured to convert an input data stream in parallel format to provide an out data stream in a serial format; a clock source configured to generate one or more clock signals; a first frequency divider configured to provide at least one divided clock signal of the one or more clock signals; a delay line configured to delay at least one divided clock signal; and a clock calibrator configured to control delay of the at least one divided clock signal at the delay line to adjust the one or more divided clock signals at a fixed relationship with respect to the one or more clock signals based on voltage and temperature variation.
US11101822B1
A data writing method, a memory control circuit unit and a memory storage apparatus are provided. The method includes: receiving first data and second data from a host system; generating a first array error correcting code based on the first data, and generating a second array error correcting code based on the second data; programming a first group including the first array error correcting code into a first chip enable group by using a first programming mode; and programming a second group including the second array error correcting code into a second chip enable group by using a second programming mode.
US11101820B1
A memory control method for a rewritable non-volatile memory module is provided according to an exemplary embodiment of the disclosure. The method includes: sending a first read command sequence which indicates a reading of a first physical unit by using a first read voltage level to obtain first data; decoding the first data; sending a second read command sequence which indicates a reading of the first physical unit by using a second read voltage level to obtain second data; decoding the second data with assistance information to improve a decoding success rate of the second data if the second read voltage level meets a first condition or the second data meets a second condition; and decoding the second data without the assistance information if the second read voltage level does not meet the first condition and the second data does not meet the second condition.
US11101818B2
Provided are a method and device for storing time series data with adaptive length encoding, including: acquiring data values corresponding to timestamps according to a sequential order of timestamps; using a ratio of storage space values required to pre-store the previous n data values to storage space values required to pre-store rule information of a preset encoding rule and encoding data according to the previous n data values as a storage gain corresponding to the time at which the n-th data value is acquired; storing the rule information of the preset encoding rule and the encoding data corresponding to a previous n−1 data values when the storage gain corresponding to the time at which the n-th data value is acquired is less than that corresponding to the time at which the (n−1)-th data value is acquired.
US11101816B2
An A/D converter includes: a sampler that includes a sampling capacitor and samples an input signal; a D/A converter that selectively outputs an analog voltage; an integrator that integrates an input from the sampler and an input from the D/A converter; Multiple switches that include a first switch independently connecting the sampler to the integrator, a second switch independently connecting the D/A converter to the integrator, a third switch, and, a fourth switch, a quantizer that quantizes an output of the integrator; a control circuit that outputs a digital value based on an output of the quantizer, and a reference potential generation circuit that provides a second reference potential to an integrator side of the sampler through the third switch and provides a first reference potential to the integrator side of the D/A converter through the fourth switch.
US11101813B2
A multiple-input analog-to-digital converter device includes analog-to-digital converter circuits arranged between input nodes and output nodes. The analog-to-digital converter circuits operate over respective conversion times to provide simultaneous conversion of the analog input signals into respective conversion time signals. A time-to-digital converter circuit includes timer circuitry common to the plurality of analog-to-digital converter circuits. The timer circuitry cooperates with the analog-to-digital converter circuits to convert the conversion time signals into digital output signals at the output nodes.
US11101811B2
A method for testing an A/D converter with a built-in diagnostic circuit with a user supplied variable input voltage includes generating a charge by a binary-weighted capacitor array responsive to an external voltage and a user specified code. The method further includes applying the charge to a first input of a voltage comparator and applying a bias voltage to a second input of the voltage comparator, and generating, by the voltage comparator, a comparison voltage responsive to the applied charge and the bias voltage. The method also includes applying the comparison voltage to an input of a successive approximation register and generating, by the successive approximation register, an approximate digital code responsive to the comparison voltage. The method also includes determining if at least one bit of the approximate digital code fails to toggle independent of adjacent bits.
US11101807B2
One example includes a phase-locked loop (PLL) circuit. The circuit includes a frequency divider and phase detector configured to generate a plurality of non-overlapping switching signals based on an input signal and a PLL output signal. The circuit also includes a linear frequency-to-current (F2I) converter configured to generate a control current having an amplitude that is based on the plurality of non-overlapping switching signals. The circuit further includes a linear current-controlled oscillator configured to generate the PLL output signal to have a frequency and phase to be approximately equal to the input signal based on the amplitude of the control current.
US11101805B2
Improvements to the process of providing patient assistance to conform with prescribed courses of treatment are provided. Providing assistance based on patient-specific data is implemented via an assistance analyzer communicated with a processing clearinghouse, and the process of determining how to assist the patients in adhering to their courses of treatment at the time the prescription is filled, without the patient engaging in a separate process to apply for a discount. By applying the present disclosure, existing systems improve their sensitivity to patient need when providing time sensitive information, and may be configured to use fewer processing resources than before; improving the functionality of the systems themselves.
US11101804B2
An integrated circuit device may include a programmable fabric die having programmable logic fabric and configuration memory that may configure the programmable logic fabric. The integrated circuit device may also include a base die that may provide fabric support circuitry, including memory and/or communication interfaces as well as compute elements that may also be application-specific. The memory in the base die may be directly accessed by the programmable fabric die using a low-latency, high capacity, and high bandwidth interface.
US11101798B2
A random bit cell includes a selection transistor, a first P-type transistor, and a second P-type transistor. The selection transistor has a first terminal coupled to a source line, a second terminal coupled to a common node, and a control terminal coupled to a word line. The first P-type transistor has a first terminal coupled to the common node, a second terminal coupled to a first bit line, and a floating gate. The second P-type transistor has a first terminal coupled to the common node, a second terminal coupled to a second bit line, and a floating gate. During an enroll operation, one of the first P-type transistor and the second P-type transistor is programmed by channel hot electron injection.
US11101793B2
A drive circuit for driving a switching element on a SiC substrate, includes: a comparator for comparing a current flowing through the switching element with an overcurrent threshold; a determination unit for determining whether an overcurrent flows, based on a comparison result; a control unit for generating a drive signal for controlling a drive operation of the switching element based on a drive command, and for turning off the switching element when determining that the overcurrent flows; and a setting unit for variably setting the overcurrent threshold according to a physical quantity correlated with a voltage between main electrodes of the switching element.
US11101792B2
In specific examples, aspects are directed towards eliminating, mitigating or reducing gate loss in circuits including, for example, WBG power devices. One such example is directed towards an apparatus including first and second types of field-effect transistor (FET), where the first type is characterized as being a normally-on FET in a switching-circuit operation with a high-voltage rating, and the second type of FET is characterized as being a normally-off FET in a switching-circuit operation with a voltage rating that is much less than the high-voltage rating of the first type of FET circuit. The FET are arranged in a cascode manner so that, in response to a switching control signal received by the second type of FET circuit, the second type of FET circuit is active to drive the first type of FET.
US11101790B2
A comparator circuitry includes an input pair circuit, a load circuit, and a compensation circuit. The input pair circuit is configured to compare a first input signal with a second input signal, in order to control a first bias current. The load circuit is coupled to the input pair circuit, and is configured to output an output signal having a first level from a first output terminal of the load circuit in response to the first bias current. The compensation circuit is coupled to the input pair circuit and the load circuit, and is configured to drain a compensation current from the first output terminal to a voltage source during a period that the load circuit generates the output signal having a first level, in which the voltage source is configured to provide a voltage having a second level.
US11101780B2
According to an embodiment, a comparator circuit includes first and second PMOS transistors that compose a differential pair, a first switching transistor with a main current path that is connected between an input terminal and a gate of the first PMOS transistor, a voltage source that applies a reference voltage to a gate of the second PMOS transistor, and a first bias circuit that applies a first bias voltage to a control electrode of the first switching transistor.
US11101777B2
An output OUT is coupled to a load. A high-side transistor MH is arranged such that its source is coupled to a power supply line, and such that its drain is coupled to an output terminal OUT. A first OCP circuit compares a first current detection signal ICS1 that corresponds to a current ISRC that flows through the high-side transistor MH with a first threshold value IOCP having a positive correlation with a power supply voltage VDD of a power supply line, and generates a first OCP signal SOCP that indicates the comparison result. A driving circuit latch-stops the driving operation of the high-side transistor MH according to the first OCP signal SOCP.
US11101774B1
One example includes a differential amplifier, a voltage weighting element, coupled to a voltage source which provides an input voltage, to provide a reference voltage with a constant power limit when the input voltage varies, an error amplifier configured to receive and compare the reference voltage provided from the voltage weighting element and a feedback sensed voltage provided from the differential amplifier to identify whether the sensed voltage exceeds the reference voltage, and a pulse width modulation (PWM) controller, coupled to a power transformer and the error amplifier, that reduces a transformer input current provided to the power transformer based on the comparison of the reference voltage from the voltage weighting element and the feedback sensed voltage from the differential amplifier.
US11101768B2
A solar tracker apparatus includes an adjustable hanger assembly that has a clam shell hanger assembly. The clam shell hanger assembly may hold a torque tube comprising a plurality of torque tubes configured together in a continuous length from a first end to a second end. A center of mass of the solar tracker apparatus may be aligned with a center of rotation of the torque tubes, in order to reduce a load of a drive device operably coupled to the torque tube. Solar modules may be coupled to the torque tubes. The solar tracker includes an energy system that includes solar panel, a DC to DC converter, a battery, and a micro-controller. The energy system may facilitate full operation movement of the tracker apparatus without any external power lines.
US11101759B2
A motor controller for an electric motor is provided. The electric motor is configured to drive a blower to generate an airflow. The motor controller includes a memory and a processor coupled thereto. The memory is configured to store a speed-to-airflow ratio associated with an airflow restriction on the blower. The processor is configured to receive a command for a calibrating airflow and operate the electric motor in a constant airflow mode to generate the calibrating airflow at a calibrating speed. The processor is further configured to write the calibrating speed and the calibrating airflow to the memory as the speed-to-airflow ratio.
US11101757B2
A method of controlling an electric vehicle, wherein the electric vehicle comprises an electric motor, a controller, and an inverter, wherein the controller receives a control signal with an instruction to operate the electric motor. In one embodiment, the method includes collecting an operational data set on a plurality of output signals of the inverter and a rotation angle of the electric motor. In one embodiment, the method includes computing a voltage change of the inverter and a magnetic flux of the electric motor based on a predetermined data set and the operational data set. In one embodiment, the method includes adjusting an output of the inverter to offset the voltage change and the magnetic flux, the output being provided to the electric motor to control the electric motor in accordance with the instruction.
US11101748B2
Provided is a method of manufacturing an electrostatic induction transducer, the method including: providing a conductive substrate; providing a first electret material film on a first surface of the conductive substrate; providing a second electret material film on a second surface of the conductive substrate; forming a through hole that penetrates the conductive substrate, the first electret material film, and the second electret material film; mounting a supported member being conductive to the conductive substrate while allowing the conductive substrate to move in an in-plane direction; and applying charges to the first electret material film and the second electret material film by a charging process.
US11101742B2
A cascaded H-bridge (CHB) inverter for higher rated power conditioning systems which operates at medium voltages while providing high power quality and low dv/dt. By incorporating battery energy storage, the power conditioning system operates at night to provide power to a load or grid and stabilizes the system during sudden changes in climatic conditions. Various energy storage system (ESS) configurations such as AC side coupled ESS, dual active bridge based ESS, and chopper based ESS configurations for cascaded H-bridge inverters are described. A comparison of these configurations on the basis of cost, control complexity, controller hardware requirements was performed and the advantages of chopper based ESS configurations over other ESS configurations was demonstrated. A control algorithm for the chopper based configurations was developed to operate the system in standalone and grid-connected modes of operation.
US11101740B2
A modular power supply system includes: a main controller, configured to output a main control signal; N local controllers, wherein each of the local controllers is configured to receive the main control signal to output at least one local control signal; and N power units, in one-to-one correspondence with the N local controllers, wherein each of the power units includes a first end and a second end, and the second end of each of the power units is connected to the first end of an adjacent one of the power units, each of the power units is configured to include M power converters, wherein each of the power converters includes a third end and a fourth end, the fourth end of each of the power converters is connected to the third end of an adjacent one of the power converters.
US11101737B2
An on-board charging/discharging system includes a bidirectional converter and a low-voltage converter. When the high-voltage battery is charged or discharged by the bidirectional converter, the bidirectional converter is operated in a variable-frequency mode and the low-voltage converter is also operated in the variable-frequency mode. The on/off states of different switches are controlled according to the output gain of the bidirectional converter, and thus the on-board charging/discharging system has optimized volume and reduced cost. Moreover, the soft switching is achieved when the output gain is lower than 1, greater than 1 or equal to 1. Consequently, the efficiency of the on-board charging/discharging system is enhanced. Moreover, while the low-voltage converter is operated in a fixed-frequency mode, the first bridge of the bidirectional converter is correspondingly controlled. Consequently, the voltage of the bus capacitor is within a reasonable range.
US11101735B2
In a described example, an apparatus includes a first switch coupled between a terminal for receiving an input voltage and a top plate node, and having a first control terminal; a second switch coupled between the top plate node and a switching node, and having a second control terminal; a third switch coupled between the switching node and a bottom plate node and having a third control terminal; a fourth switch coupled between the bottom plate node and a ground terminal, and having a fourth control terminal; a flying capacitor coupled between the top plate node and the bottom plate node; a fifth switch coupled between the top plate node and an auxiliary node; a sixth switch coupled between the auxiliary node and the bottom plate node; and an auxiliary capacitor coupled between the auxiliary control terminal and a ground terminal.
US11101730B2
A power supply circuit having a rectifier circuit that rectifies an AC voltage, an inductor, a transistor that controls an inductor current flowing through the inductor, a drive signal generating circuit that generates a drive signal based on the inductor current and an output voltage generated from the AC voltage, and a drive signal output circuit outputting the drive signal. The drive signal generating circuit includes a command-value output unit that outputs a command value for increasing and decreasing the inductor current when the output voltage is lower or higher than a target level, respectively, an inductance calculation unit that calculates an inductance of the inductor based on first and second current values of the inductor at first and second timings after the inductor current increases from zero and decreases, respectively, and an ON-period calculation unit that calculates an ON period in a switching period of the transistor.
US11101727B1
A power converter includes a watchdog circuit having an input adapted to be coupled to a pause signal of a switching power supply. The watchdog circuit is configured to provide a start signal at an output thereof based on the pause signal indicating that the power converter has stopped switching for a threshold duration that is less than an audible range. A pulse generator circuit has an input coupled to the output of the watchdog circuit and is configured to generate at least one pulse based on the start signal. A switch circuit has an input terminal adapted to be coupled to an input voltage and at least one other terminal adapted to be coupled to an inductor. The switch circuit is configured to provide negative current from an output of the power converter through the at least one other terminal based on the at least one pulse.
US11101719B2
Provided are a method and apparatus for determining motor temperature, and a storage medium. The method includes: obtaining an electromagnetic loss of each node in ξ nodes acquired by decomposing components of a motor, wherein the ξ is a natural number greater than 1, and at least one component in the components of the motor is decomposed into multiple nodes in the ξ nodes; obtaining a thermal resistance between every two nodes in the ξ nodes; and determining a temperature of the motor based on the electromagnetic loss of the each node in the ξ nodes and the thermal resistance between the every two nodes in the ξ nodes.
US11101713B2
A vehicle motor is equipped with a downwind side air guiding member to guide air, flowing in from a suction port formed in an end of a frame at a first bracket side, through a stator ventilating path, into contact with an end portion of a stator coil, along the stator coil from an end portion of the stator coil, and then toward a stator core, and then to an exhaust port formed in a second bracket side of the frame end portion or in a second bracket.
US11101709B2
An electric motor includes a rotor and a stator. The rotor includes a rotor core and a plurality of permanent magnets fixed to an outer surface of the rotor core. The stator includes a stator core including a tooth part and a winding wound around the stator core. The electric motor satisfies an expression of 1
US11101706B2
The invention relates to a rotor (3) for an electric rotating machine (1), in particular a synchronous machine (20), comprising a shaft (5) and at least one pole shoe (7). In order to keep overhead and costs low while achieving high reliability, according to the invention, a metal sheet (8) is placed between the shaft (5) and the pole shoe (7); said metal sheet (8) has a first contact area (12) that is in contact with a contact area (14) on the pole shoe (7), the metal sheet (8) and the pole shoe (7) being made of different materials.
US11101700B1
An impedance matching network optimization method for a wireless power transfer system under maximum efficiency tracking belongs to the field of wireless power transfer. The present invention proposes a novel impedance matching network optimization method for a WPT system under maximum efficiency. The method analyzes the nonlinearity of a bridge rectifier circuit, the adaptability of load change and other factors related to the maximum efficiency tracking, and provides an important reference for the WPT system in terms of maximum transfer efficiency.
US11101699B2
Provide are a power reception device, a wearable device, and a non-contact power feeding system that can improve the transmission efficiency while suppressing upsizing of the circuit thereof. A power reception device (3) includes a variable capacitance circuit (100) and a power reception coil (41) constituting a resonance circuit together with the variable capacitance circuit (100), in which the variable capacitance circuit (100) includes a first capacitor (C1) and a second capacitor (C2) connected in parallel to each other, a first switch (Tr1) connected in series to one end side of the first capacitor (C1), and a switch control circuit (110) that controls turning on and off of the first switch (Tr1) and includes a first comparator (OP1) that supplies a first control voltage to the first switch (Tr1) according to a comparison result between a reference voltage and an AC voltage applied to the second capacitor (C2).
US11101696B2
A transmitter has a transmitting resonant circuit, a transmitting circuit that supplies high-frequency power to the transmitting resonant circuit, and a demodulator. A receiver has a receiving resonant circuit; a receiving circuit that converts high-frequency power received by the resonant circuit into DC power; a load circuit that consumes the DC power; a resonance modulator that varies an input impedance, viewed toward the load circuit from the transmitting circuit, to switch whether an electromagnetic resonance condition is established; and a transmission-signal controller that converts a transmission signal into a variation pattern, representing a pattern of variation per predetermined time period of the input impedance, to control the resonance modulator. The demodulator detects a variable that varies with whether the electromagnetic resonance condition is established, and demodulates the transmission signal based on a pattern of variation per predetermined time period with respect to temporal variation of the variable.
US11101695B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a receiving circuit configured to wirelessly receive power and output AC power, a rectifying circuit configured to rectify the AC power from the receiving circuit, wherein the rectifying circuit may include a first P-MOSFET configured to transfer a positive amplitude of power to an output terminal of the rectifying circuit while the AC power has the positive amplitude and to prevent transferring a negative amplitude of power to the output terminal of the rectifying circuit while the AC power has the negative amplitude, and a forward loss compensating circuit connected with the first P-MOSFET configured to reduce a threshold voltage of the first P-MOSFET while the AC power has the positive amplitude.
US11101690B2
Systems, methods, techniques and apparatuses of DER registration and de-registration are disclosed. One exemplary embodiment is a power distribution system including a distributed energy resource (DER), a DER controller, and a central controller. The DER interface controller includes a DER controller interface configured to communicate with the DER controller using a DER controller native format, an external device interface configured to communicate with the central controller using one of a plurality of communication protocols, a registration circuitry configured to transmit a registration request to the central controller, and a mapping circuitry. The central controller is configured to receive the registration request, and update a DER registry in response receiving the registration request. The mapping circuitry is configured to receive input defining power distribution characteristics in response to the central controller updating the DER registry.
US11101682B2
A power receiving apparatus comprises a power receiving unit that receives first power or second power from a power transmission apparatus; and a control unit that (a) requests the power transmission apparatus to transmit the first power, (b) determines whether or not a battery is a genuine battery by using the first power transmitted from the power transmission apparatus, (c) requests the power transmission apparatus to transmit the second power, when the battery is not a genuine battery, and (d) notifies a user of a reason why the battery is not being charged by using the second power transmitted from the power transmission apparatus.
US11101681B2
A power converter arrangement, for feeding a plurality of energy stores of electrically driven vehicles has a transformer having a first multiphase winding and a plurality of second multiphase windings. The first winding is embodied to be connected to a power supply system, in particular to a medium-voltage power supply system, and the second windings are each connected to a first connection of an associated power converter. The invention also presents an installation having such a power converter arrangement, wherein the transformer is arranged in a weatherproof enclosure and at least a plurality of power converters form parts of respective charging stations.
US11101665B2
The invention provides a safe multi-directional charger, including a charging portion and a battery portion, wherein the charging portion is provided with a current display and a charging slot, and the battery portion is provided with a battery. The battery is connected with a USB interface and a switch. The bottom of battery portion is provided with a solar panel for power generation, and the shell is equipped with a connecting ring and a hook. The invention can solve the problems of abnormal equipment working and current during charging through current display device and the charging failure without direct connection of power supply through solar panel.
US11101658B2
Techniques are disclosed for providing a variable output micro-grid frequency in order to cause loads and producers coupled to a micro-grid to change operating modes/behaviors accordingly. For example, the utility frequency delivered via the micro-grid may be used as a control signal for the purposes of demand response, e.g., increasing or decreasing load, energy storage control, e.g., to cause storage of energy or the discharging of energy, and generator output curtailment as is mandated by generator interconnection standards such as UL1741 for output power curtailment under high frequency.
US11101653B2
A method for estimating an amount of solar generation capacity on a portion of the electrical grid such as a feeder. The method calculates maximum irradiance conditions for the feeder's geographic location and the time of year, and also records actual changes in electrical load measured periodically at a source over a time span such as a month. An additional analysis of active power against reactive power on the feeder is used to identify changes in load which were driven by real consumption versus those driven by changes in solar generation. A comparison of the actual changes in electrical load due to solar generation variation to the maximum irradiance curve yields a scaling factor and provides an estimate of the solar generation capacity on the feeder.
US11101645B2
A power supply system includes a wireless power supply end and a wireless receiving end. The wireless receiving end includes a resonant receiving component and a rectifying and voltage-stabilizing component that is connected to the resonant receiving component to output a voltage-stabilized power supply (VCC). A load sudden-change protection circuit includes an overvoltage protection component and an under-voltage protection component that are each respectively connected to the voltage-stabilized power supply and a load. The overvoltage protection component turns on the load when the voltage of the voltage-stabilized power supply is higher than a first preset voltage due to sudden turn-off of the load. The under-voltage protection component turns off the load when the voltage of the voltage-stabilized power supply is lower than a second preset voltage due to sudden turn-on of the load.
US11101640B1
Systems, methods, techniques and apparatuses of fault protection. One exemplary embodiment is a protection system including a solid-state switching device, a galvanic isolation switching device, and a controller. The solid-state switching device is coupled between a switch arrangement of a power converter and a direct current (DC) link capacitor of the power converter. The galvanic isolation switching device is coupled between the DC link capacitor and a DC network. The controller is structured to determine a fault is occurring within the DC network, open the solid-state switching device in response to determining the fault is occurring, receive a measurement corresponding to an electrical characteristic of a fault current flowing through the galvanic isolation switching device while the solid-state switching device is open, and determine a location of the fault based on the received measurement.
US11101634B2
A personal electronic device can include a main printed circuit board having disposed thereon a processing unit, one or more auxiliary circuits coupled to the main printed circuit board by one or more corresponding flexible printed circuits and one or more temperature sensors disposed on one of the flexible printed circuits. A processing unit of the portable electronic device can be configured to monitor the one or more temperature sensors, provide a warning in response to a monitored temperature exceeding a first threshold, and to cause a shutdown of at least a portion of the personal electronic device in response to the monitored temperature exceeding a second threshold. The temperature sensors can be negative temperature coefficient resistors.
US11101633B2
A DC and/or an AC power transmission circuit protection system is for protection of a cabling medium. The circuit protection system includes a power supply, a powered device and a circuit protection module that includes an over-current and/or over-voltage circuit module and/or a heat circuit protector. The protection system is disposed between the power supply and the powered device, and interrupts an electrical current that flows through the cabling medium when the over-current and/or over-voltage circuit module and/or the circuit protector exceeds a predetermined level. There is also provided a method to dispose the circuit protection system and the circuit protection module within the circuit and to interrupt the circuit when over-current and/or over-voltage circuit module and/or heat circuit protector exceeds a predetermined level.
US11101632B2
A system and apparatus for detecting and handling circuit faults in a field loop circuit of an industrial safety system is disclosed. The field loop circuit extends from the emergency shutdown device of the system to an instrument switch and back to an ESD input. The monitoring circuit is installed in the field loop circuit at the edge between the control and field sides of the system and is configured to detect high current events in the field loop, as distinguished from circuit conditions caused by instrument switches. If a high current event occurs, the monitoring circuit is configured to immediately isolate the field-side loop and close the control-side of the circuit by recycling a 24 VDC signal back to the monitored input of the ESD. The monitoring circuit is further configured to initiate an alarm to alert operators of the issue.
US11101624B2
A switching device has an encapsulation housing and lashing points. The lashing points are arranged in such a manner that a center of gravity of the switching device lies below the lashing points in a lashing direction.
US11101619B1
A method for sweeping an electromagnetic radiation source (12) to produce single mode operation having an optimized side-mode suppression ratio over a continuous range of wavelengths within a prescribed temporal profile, the electromagnetic radiation source is configured to output electromagnetic radiation at a given wavelength based upon parameters. The method includes determining a set of parameter combinations that satisfy a condition for a desired set of wavelengths and a maximum side mode suppression ratio over the range of wavelengths. The set of parameter combinations define sub-paths for transitioning from one wavelength to another wavelength. Combinations of select sub-paths provide a multivariate path for transitioning over the range of wavelengths. The method also includes controlling the semiconductor laser to emit electromagnetic radiation over the range of wavelengths by traversing the multivariate path in a desired manner.
US11101618B1
A laser illumination or dazzler device and method. More specifically, examples of the present invention provide laser illumination or dazzling devices power by one or more violet, blue, or green laser diodes characterized by a wavelength from about 390 nm to about 550 nm. In some examples the laser illumination or dazzling devices include a laser pumped phosphor wherein a laser beam with a first wavelength excites a phosphor member to emit electromagnetic at a second wavelength. In various examples, laser illumination or dazzling devices according to the present invention include polar, non-polar, or semi-polar laser diodes. In a specific example, a single laser illumination or dazzling device includes a plurality of violet, blue, or green laser diodes. There are other examples as well.
US11101617B2
A wafer includes a number of die, with each die including electronic integrated circuits and optical devices. The wafer has a top surface and a bottom surface and a base layer. The bottom surface of the wafer corresponds to a bottom surface of the base layer. A wafer support system is attached to the top surface of the wafer. A thickness of the base layer is removed to expose a target layer within the wafer and to give the wafer a new bottom surface. A replacement handle structure is attached to the new bottom surface of the wafer. The replacement handle structure includes a first thickness region and a second thickness region. The first thickness region is positioned closest to the new bottom surface. The first thickness region is formed of an optical cladding material that mitigates optical coupling between optical devices within the die and the replacement handle structure.
US11101605B2
The present disclosure discloses a board-to-board RF connector including a male plug and a female socket which are mated. The male plug includes: a male plug insulation body; at least two male plug high-frequency signal terminals arranged on the male plug insulation body; at least two male plug low-frequency signal terminals arranged on the male plug insulation body; a male plug shield terminal located between the male plug low-frequency signal terminals and the male plug high-frequency signal terminals and arranged on the male plug insulation body. In contrast with the conventional technology, it is capable of realizing transmissions of the high-frequency signal and the low-frequency signal, meanwhile, it is also capable of reducing the influence caused by the high frequency signal interferes with the low frequency signal.
US11101599B2
A plug connector assembly includes a first plug connector part arranged on a printed circuit board (PCB) and a second plug connector part. Stamped/bent parts are positioned next to respective sides of the first plug connector part and are fastened to the PCB. In one variation, each stamped/bent part forms a spring arm, and when the plug connector parts are connected, end sections of the spring arms engage in respective detent recesses (or notches) in a base body of the second plug connector part thereby fixing the plug connector parts together. In another variation, each stamped/bent part has a detent recess, and a base body of the second plug connector part has spring arms on respective sides of the base body which lock with the detent recesses in the stamped/bent parts when the plug connector parts are connected thereby fixing the plug connector parts together.
US11101596B1
A radio frequency connector includes an outer shell, a connector and a waterproof gasket. The outer shell is provided with partition walls opposite to each other and convex structures protruding toward the partition walls. The first side of the connector is provided with a plurality of plug terminals. The waterproof gasket is disposed surrounding all the plug terminals. When the connector is accommodated in the outer shell, the plug terminal is received corresponding to the through hole of the partition wall. The convex structures abut the second side opposite to the first side to push the connector toward the partition wall for reducing the distance between the first side and the partition wall. Thus, the waterproof gasket can be tightly sandwiched between the first side and the partition wall to enhance the waterproof effect.
US11101595B2
The present disclosure relates to a mobile terminal including: a circuit board provided in a case; a connector mounting part penetrating one side of the case and enabling connection with an external device; and a connector combined with the circuit board and provided in the connector mounting part, wherein the connector includes: a connector body mounted and installed on the connector mounting part so that the rear end portion is supported by the case; and a terminal part which is combined with the connector body, and in which a plurality of contact pins are molded for connection with an external device, and which extends toward the connector mounting part, wherein a waterproofing member is provided between the connector mounting part and the connector body to block the movement of fluid introduced through the connector mounting part.
US11101593B2
A wall device is described comprising a power source base body for installation in a wall, where the power source base body comprises at least one accommodating space. The accommodating space is configured for placement of a first metal piece, a second metal piece, a third metal piece, and a fourth metal piece, where the first metal piece is a first live wire circuit, the second metal piece is a second live wire circuit, the third metal piece is an earth wire circuit, and the fourth metal piece is a neutral wire circuit. Partition plates are provided in the accommodating space to separate the positions of the first metal piece, the second metal piece, the third metal piece, and the fourth metal piece, so as to prevent the first metal piece, the second metal piece, the third metal piece, and the fourth metal piece from contacting in the accommodation space.
US11101589B2
A socket comprises an annular socket part and a lamella basket at least partly disposed in the interior of the annular socket part. The lamella basket comprises a plurality of lamellae and an annular carrier strip located at the rear part of the lamella basket. Each of the lamellae has a first end and a second end, with the first end being firmly attached to, or integrally moulded with, the annular carrier strip and with the second end being implemented as a free end. The lamellae extend from the annular carrier strip towards the front end of the socket. The inner surface of the annular socket part comprises a bulge that: protrudes in a radially inward direction; and is configured for supporting the lamellae when the lamellae are resiliently deformed in a radially outward direction.
US11101585B1
A first receptacle pitch inner surface and a first plug pitch outer surface opposite each other are both flat surfaces, and they are configured to come into surface contact with each other in the mated state. A distance in the pitch direction between a second receptacle pitch inner surface and a second plug pitch outer surface opposite each other in the mated state is larger than a distance in the pitch direction between the first receptacle pitch inner surface and the first plug pitch outer surface opposite each other in the mated state. A distance in the pitch direction between the first receptacle pitch inner surfaces of two receptacle pitch inner surfaces is longer than a distance in the pitch direction between the first plug pitch outer surfaces of two plug pitch outer surfaces.
US11101583B2
A terminal block includes a housing having insulation properties, the housing having a holding portion provided in the housing and a terminal connection surface, a first opening portion through which a conductor portion of an electric wire can be inserted and pulled out and a second opening portion that is adjacent to the first opening portion and through which a jig can be inserted and pulled out being arranged in series in an array direction on the terminal connection surface and each communicating with the holding portion, and an opening surface being provided on a side of the holding portion in a width direction intersecting the array direction and a direction intersecting the terminal connection surface, and a terminal electrode portion and a leaf spring portion arranged in the holding portion. The housing is provided with a first movement restriction portion that restricts the movement of the moveable portion of the leaf spring portion in the width direction.
US11101577B2
An electric connector terminal assembly which allows numerous different terminal connector ends and wire diameters to be connected to a single size and type crimp cylinder using an rolled metal strip insert. Preferably, the metal strip is made of copper, and preferably the copper strip is coated with tin. The metal strip is then formed into a cylinder for insertion to the crimp cylinder. A method for connecting a crimp terminal to an electric wire is also disclosed. The method requires cutting a metal strip to form a plurality of parallel compliant members (e.g., fingers) connected to a base, rolling the cut strip to form a cylindrical insert, positioning the insert within a crimp cylinder of an electric connector with the fingers extending toward the mating end, inserting an electric wire within the cylindrical insert, and crimping the crimp cylinder to secure the electric wire within the cylindrical insert and crimp cylinder.
US11101572B2
Antenna array having a different beam-steering resolution in one dimension than in another dimension
In an embodiment, an antenna includes a one-dimensional array of antenna cells, a signal feed, and signal couplers. The antenna cells are each spaced from an adjacent antenna cell by less than one half a wavelength at which the antenna cells are configured to transmit and to receive, are configured to generate an array beam that is narrower in a dimension than in an orthogonal dimension, and are configured to steer the array beam in the dimension. And the signal couplers are each configured to couple a respective one of the antenna cells to the signal feed in response a respective control signal having an active level. For example, the antenna cells can be arranged such that a straight line intersects their geometric centers.
US11101565B2
An improved low-profile antenna has a radiating element disposed apart from a ground plane, with at least one microstrip disposed between the radiating element and the ground plane. A feed is electrically coupled to the radiating element and to the at least one microstrip. The at least one microstrip is also electrically coupled to the ground plane, completing a closed path. When driven by an electrical signal, the antenna more efficiently generates electromagnetic signals in the horizontal direction and also has decreased sensitivity to foreign objects.
US11101558B2
There is provided an apparatus comprising a substrate having a first surface and a second surface, the substrate comprising a conductive signal line, a first conductive ground plane member and a second conductive ground plane member disposed in a first plane on the first surface of the substrate such that the conductive signal line is configured to convey a signal having a phase. The apparatus comprises a third conductive ground plane member disposed in a second plane, different from the first plane and means for causing relative movement between the third conductive ground plane member and the conductive signal line to cause a change in the phase of the signal.
US11101556B2
An antenna includes: a feeding point; an antenna element unit having one end connected to the feeding point and the other end connected to the ground conductor; and a first conductive portion connected to the ground conductor. The antenna element unit has, between one end and the other end, a second conductor portion having a shape in which a plurality of bent parts are formed, and at least a part of the antenna element unit and at least a part of the first conductive portion are electromagnetically coupled with each other.
US11101555B2
The antenna structure as an example of a structure including a mesh-like transparent conductor includes: a film made of an electrical insulating material transmitting visible light; a surface section provided on one face of the film, made of a mesh-like conductive material, and having a predetermined shape; and a bordering section provided on the one face of the film and configured to border at least a part of edges of the surface section α with a conductive material.
US11101552B2
An antenna device includes a dielectric substrate, a ground plane, an antenna unit, a reflection unit, and an interruption unit. The interruption unit includes a plurality of second conductor patches disposed around the antenna unit, and a plurality of through-holes permitting electrical conduction between each of the second conductor patches and the ground plane, and interrupts a surface current flowing on a surface of the dielectric substrate.
US11101547B2
An antenna apparatus sited within a metal housing with improved frequency isolation between individual antennas includes the housing, a first ground portion, a first feed portion, and a second ground portion. A side frame of the housing defines at least one gap, the gap separates a first antenna and a second antenna. The first ground portion is formed by extending an end of the first antenna away from the gap. One end of the second ground portion is connected to the first feed portion, other end of the second ground portion is connected to ground. A first feed point feeds power and signal to the first antenna. A wireless communication device using the antenna apparatus is also provided.
US11101538B2
The present invention discloses a modular deployable antenna mechanism based on a symmetrically structural tetrahedron combination unit. The deployable antenna mechanism is formed by multiple deployable antenna modules, two adjacent deployable antenna modules are connected through a first face plate at the bottom of one deployable antenna module and a second face plate at the bottom of the other deployable antenna module, the first face plate and the second face plate are connected through a Hooke joint, an unconnected first face plate and second face plate of the two adjacent deployable antenna modules are connected through a first synchronizing bar, a middle portion of a bar body of the first synchronizing bar can be folded, and the first synchronizing bar is rotationally connected with the first face plate and the second face plate.
US11101536B2
A transition device includes a first metal layer, a signaling metal line, an excitation metal piece, a first dielectric layer, a plurality of conductive via elements, a reflector, and a waveguide. The first metal layer has a notch. The notch extends to the interior of the first metal layer, forming a first slot region. The signaling metal line is disposed in the notch. The excitation metal piece is disposed in the first slot region and is coupled to the signaling metal line. The first dielectric layer has a pair of first openings. The first dielectric layer includes a bridging portion disposed between the first openings. The bridging portion is configured to carry the excitation metal piece. The conductive via elements penetrate the first dielectric layer and are coupled to the first metal layer. The conductive via elements at least partially surround the first slot region.
US11101534B2
The present invention relates to a guiding set for radio-electric waves comprising a pair of waveguides made up of a first waveguide and a second waveguide forming successive segments of a same transmission way for the radio-electric waves. The set is characterized in that it further comprises a connecting piece comprising two plates arranged opposite one another while defining an inner space between them, and delimiting means delimiting, in the inner space, a radio-electric wave transmission channel, the transmission channel emerging on the one hand on the first waveguide and on the other hand on the second waveguide.
US11101527B2
A method for assembling a battery module including a unified connection array with a flexible connector is described. The flexible connector can include a plurality of pads that are secured to a central spine. The flexible connector may be a single piece connector. The flexible connector can include monitors that are mounted to the flexible connector to gather data regarding battery cells of the battery module.
US11101522B2
The present disclosure is related to articles (e.g., containers, battery packs, etc.) including a lithium material (e.g., one or more lithium-containing batteries) housed therein. The articles include sulfur hexafluoride located within an interior compartment of the article to provide an inert atmosphere within the interior compartment. The present disclosure is also related to methods of inerting such articles (e.g., containers, battery packs, etc.) with sulfur hexafluoride. Additionally, the present disclosure is related to conveyed (e.g., pumped, blown, etc.) looped cooling apparatuses and systems.
US11101516B2
A battery holder includes a first base, a first restriction portion and a holding portion. The first base is opposed to one end of a battery unit in a first direction in the state in which the battery unit is located at a holding position. The first restriction portion is configured to restrict relative movement of the battery unit and the first base in the first direction. The holding portion is movable to a first position, at which the battery unit contacts a held portion of the battery unit, and a second position, at which the holding portion is separated from the held portion.
US11101514B2
A battery assembly includes a battery that has a top surface surrounded by a circumferential edge; and a removable tab attached to the top surface. The removable tab includes a first tab end and an oppositely disposed second tab end; a gripping region disposed adjacent to the first tab end; and a battery cell attachment region disposed adjacent to the second tab end and attached to the top surface of the battery. The battery cell attachment region has first and second oppositely disposed sidewalls, wherein at least one of the first and second sidewalls is curved inwardly away from the circumferential edge of the battery such that a portion of the top surface of the battery is exposed between the sidewall and the circumferential edge of the battery.
US11101510B2
Provided are a heat-dissipation fluid composition, a method of preparing the heat-dissipation fluid composition, and a battery module and battery pack including the heat-dissipation fluid composition. The heat-dissipation fluid composition can include 100 parts by weight of a nonconductive oil; 1 to 30 parts by weight of thermally conductive inorganic particles; and 1 to 30 parts by weight of an inorganic precipitation inhibitor, wherein a viscosity at 20° C. and 50 rpm is 850 cP or more, and a viscosity at 30° C. and 50 rpm is 750 cP or less. The heat-dissipation fluid composition exhibits excellent electrical insulating properties and thermal conductivity and, especially, excellent heat dissipation performance even after long-term use because thermally conductive inorganic particles are not permanently precipitated during use.
US11101508B2
A battery module includes: a plurality of battery cells; a first plate supporting lower surfaces of the battery cells and dissipating heat generated in the battery cells; and a second plate being in contact with upper sides of the battery cells and dissipating heat generated in the battery cells, wherein the second plate includes accommodation grooves to receive sealing portions of the battery cells, and a heat transfer material is disposed in the accommodation grooves.
US11101503B2
A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery that is an example of an embodiment includes a flat electrode body that has a winding structure in which a positive electrode and a negative electrode are wound with a separator interposed in between, in which flat portions and bend portions are formed in the flat electrode body. A negative electrode mixture layer is provided in the negative electrode to a winding outer end thereof. The negative electrode includes an extension portion that extends out from a winding outer end of the positive electrode towards a winding direction outer side. A length L of the extension portion in a winding direction satisfies a condition L/((a−b)×2+bπ)>0.135, where a is a width of the electrode body and b is a thickness of the electrode body.
US11101498B2
The present application relates to the technical field of lithium-ion batteries and, specifically, relates to an electrolyte and a lithium-ion battery containing the electrolyte. The electrolyte of the present application comprises a lithium salt, an organic solvent and additives that include additive A, additive B and at least one of additive C and additive D; in which, the additive A is a cyclic sultone; the additive B is a cyclic sulfate; the additive C is a silane phosphate compound and/or a silane borate compound; and the additive D is a fluoro-phosphate salt. The battery of the present application has low gas production at high temperature, high capacity retention rate and high power at low temperature as a function of synergistic effects of additives.
US11101488B2
A fuel cell system includes a plurality of fuel cell stacks, a power generation control unit that controls power generation of the plurality of fuel cell stacks based on a required power for the plurality of fuel cell stacks, and a refreshing control unit configured to perform a refreshing process of decreasing a voltage on the plurality of fuel cell stacks. The refreshing control unit performs the refreshing process on the first fuel cell stack when the required power changes from a state in which the required power is less than a first predetermined value to a state in which the required power is equal to or greater than the first predetermined value and when the required power is in a range which is equal to or greater than the first predetermined value and less than the second threshold value.
US11101484B2
An electrochemical cell stack includes an electrochemical cell disposed between a first separator and a second separator. The electrochemical cell includes an anode, a cathode, and a solid electrolyte layer disposed between the anode and the cathode. The solid electrolyte layer, containing a zirconia-based material as a main component, has an upstream part and a downstream part. The upstream part is positioned on the upstream side in the flow direction of a fuel gas in the fuel flow passage between the anode and the first separator. The downstream part is positioned on the downstream side in the flow direction. The upstream part includes a first region within 3 μm from the anode side surface, and a second region provided on the first region. An intensity ratio of tetragonal zirconia to cubic zirconia in a Raman spectrum of the first region is greater than that of the second region.
US11101480B2
The present disclosure provides fuel cell units formed from a plurality of flow plate assemblies disposed in a stack configuration, with adjacent flow plate assemblies in the stack configuration disposed at an offset angle relative to each other. Fuel cell stacks can be formed from a plurality of the fuel cell units placed into a stack aligned with each other with no offset. The present disclosure also provides for methods of forming the fuel cell units, fuel cell stacks, and fuel cell systems containing the former.
US11101472B2
A resin film equipped MEA of a power generation cell includes a membrane electrode assembly and a resin film. An inner peripheral end of a first frame shaped sheet of the resin film is positioned outside an outer peripheral end of a cathode, and faces the outer peripheral end of the cathode so as to be separated by a gap. An inner peripheral portion of a second frame shaped sheet is held between the anode and the cathode. A first metal separator facing the first frame shaped sheet is provided with protruding support structure configured to support an inner peripheral portion of the first frame shaped sheet and an outer peripheral portion of the cathode.
US11101460B2
To provide a lithium-ion secondary battery having higher discharge capacity and higher energy density and a manufacturing method thereof. The lithium-ion secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolyte provided between the positive electrode and the negative electrode. The positive electrode includes a positive electrode current collector and a positive electrode active material layer provided over the positive electrode current collector. In the positive electrode active material layer, graphenes and lithium-containing composite oxides are alternately provided. The lithium-containing composite oxide is a flat single crystal particle in which the length in the b-axis direction is shorter than each of the lengths in the a-axis direction and the c-axis direction. Further, the lithium-containing composite oxide is provided over the positive electrode current collector so that the b-axis of the single crystal particle intersects with a surface of the positive electrode current collector.
US11101456B2
A secondary battery 10 includes a first electrode 11, a first current collection part 12, a second electrode 16, and a separation membrane 21. The first electrode 11 is a columnar body including a first active material. The first current collection part 12 is connected to the first electrode. The second electrode 16 includes a second active material. The separation membrane 21 has ionic conductivity and insulates the first electrode 11 from the second electrode 16. The secondary battery 10 has a structure in which a plurality of the first electrodes 11 are bundled together, with each of the first electrodes 11 being adjacent to the second electrode 16 with the separation membrane 21 disposed therebetween. The plurality of the first electrodes 11 is connected to the first current collection part 12 via a connection part 13 formed of a low-melting-point metal.
US11101455B2
A vapor deposition mask is provided with: a resin film, which has at least one of first to third opening patterns in which first to third openings, for forming first to third subpixels that configure one pixel of a display panel, are disposed with a fixed periodicity; and a metal support layer, which is bonded to the resin film and has an opening pattern for fourth openings that are formed so as to be able to encompass all of the first to third openings of the resin film. In regions of the resin film exposed by the fourth openings of the metal support layer, one or two of the first to third openings of the resin film are formed.
US11101447B2
An apparatus includes a substrate; a display panel on the substrate; and a protective film protecting one of the substrate and the display panel, wherein the protective film includes a first protective film and a second protective film, wherein the first protective film is disposed closer to the display panel than the second protective film, and wherein the first protective film includes a polymerizable compound having an adhesive strength that changes with energy irradiated onto the polymerizable compound.
US11101444B2
A sealed structure which has high sealing capability and whose border can be slim is provided. The sealed structure includes a pair of substrates whose respective surfaces face each other with a space therebetween, and a glass layer which is in contact with the substrates, defines a space between the substrates, and has at least one corner portion and side portions in continuity with the corner portion. The width of the corner portion of the glass layer is smaller than or equal to that of the side portion of the same. The sealed structure may comprise a highly reliable light-emitting element including a layer containing a light-emitting organic compound provided between a pair of electrodes.
US11101435B2
Tetradentate platinum and palladium complexes based on biscarbazole and analogues for full color displays and lighting applications.
US11101433B2
A light-emitting material containing a compound represented by the general formula (1) is capable of achieving an excellent external quantum efficiency on using in an organic light-emitting device. R1 to R8 represent a hydrogen atom or a substituent, provided that at least one of R1 to R8 represents a substituted or unsubstituted carbazolyl group; and Ar1 to Ar3 represent a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic ring or heteroaromatic ring.
US11101432B2
A novel light-emitting element is provided. A light-emitting element with a long lifetime is provided. A light-emitting element with high emission efficiency is provided. A novel organic compound is provided. A novel organic compound having a hole-transport property is provided. A novel hole-transport material is provided. A hole-transport material including an organic compound having a substituted or unsubstituted benzonaphthofuran skeleton and a substituted or unsubstituted amine skeleton is provided. A light-emitting element using the hole-transport material is provided. An organic compound in which an amine skeleton including two aromatic hydrocarbon groups having 6 to 60 carbon atoms is bonded to the 6- or 8-position of the benzonaphthofuran skeleton is provided.
US11101422B2
A pyroelectric infrared sensor device comprising: a pyroelectric infrared sensor part (2); and a cover member (3). The pyroelectric infrared sensor part comprises: a pyroelectric element (21); a housing (24) that the pyroelectric element is placed inside of and comprises an opening at a position facing a light receiving surface of the pyroelectric element; and an infrared transmission filter (25) that is located to cover the opening of the housing. The cover member covers at least a top surface of the pyroelectric infrared sensor part. The infrared transmission filter transmits light equal to or greater than a wavelength of 1 μm. The cover member has a property that a transmittance of infrared light having a wavelength of from 3 μm to 5.5 μm is equal to or greater than 10% and has a uniform material quality in an area corresponding to the top surface of the pyroelectric infrared sensor part.
US11101406B2
An efficient wide bandgap GaN-based LED chip based on a surface plasmon effect and a manufacturing method therefor. The efficient wide bandgap GaN-based LED chip is of a flip-chip structure, and comprises, from bottom to top in sequence, a substrate, a buffer layer, an unintentionally doped GaN layer, an n-GaN layer, a quantum well layer, an electron blocking layer, a p-GaN layer, a metallic reflecting mirror layer, a passivation layer, a p-electrode layer, an n-electrode layer; and a position of a bottom surface of the metallic reflecting mirror layer connected to a surface of the p-GaN layer is provided with a micro-nano composite metal structure. A micro metal structure comprises alternating protrusion portions and recess portions; and a nano metal structure is distributed on an interface of the micro metal structure and the p-GaN layer.
US11101405B2
Methods and structures for forming arrays of LED devices are disclosed. The LED devices in accordance with embodiments of the invention may include an internally confined current injection area to reduce non-radiative recombination due to edge effects. Several manners for confining current may include etch removal of a current distribution layer, etch removal of a current distribution layer and active layer followed by mesa re-growth, isolation by ion implant or diffusion, quantum well intermixing, and oxide isolation.
US11101401B2
Disclosed herein are approaches to fabricating solar cells, solar cell strings and solar modules using roll-to-roll foil-based metallization approaches. Methods disclosed herein can comprise the steps of providing at least one solar cell wafer on a first roll unit and conveying a metal foil to the first roll unit. The metal foil can be coupled to the solar cell wafer on the first roll unit to produce a unified pairing of the metal foil and the solar cell wafer. We disclose solar energy collection devices and manufacturing methods thereof enabling reduction of manufacturing costs due to simplification of the manufacturing process by a high throughput foil metallization process.
US11101398B2
Described herein are methods of fabricating solar cells. In an example, a method of fabricating a solar cell includes forming an amorphous dielectric layer on the back surface of a substrate opposite a light-receiving surface of the substrate. The method also includes forming a microcrystalline silicon layer on the amorphous dielectric layer by plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD). The method also includes forming an amorphous silicon layer on the microcrystalline silicon layer by PECVD. The method also includes annealing the microcrystalline silicon layer and the amorphous silicon layer to form a homogeneous polycrystalline silicon layer from the microcrystalline silicon layer and the amorphous silicon layer. The method also includes forming an emitter region from the homogeneous polycrystalline silicon layer.
US11101391B2
A method for screen printing, including: by using a screen printing apparatus provided with a screen printing plate having an opening part corresponding to a printing pattern, a scraper, and a squeegee, filling a paste supplied on an upper surface of the screen printing plate into the opening part of the screen printing plate by the scraper; and, after that, pushing out the paste to a predetermined position of an object to be printed from the opening part of the screen printing plate by the squeegee to screen-print the paste corresponding to the printing pattern on the object to be printed, wherein the humidity in the screen printing apparatus is adjusted during the screen printing. As a result, by controlling an amount of moisture in the paste on the screen printing plate, a screen printing method is capable of improving the printing property of the paste.
US11101387B2
A low temperature polysilicon layer, a thin film transistor, and a method for manufacturing same are provided. The low temperature polysilicon layer includes a substrate, at least one buffer layer, and a polysilicon layer. The polysilicon layer is disposed on the at least one buffer layer. The polysilicon layer includes a channel region, two low doped regions disposed on two sides of the channel region, and two high doped regions disposed on an outer side of the low doped regions. Thicknesses of an edge of the channel region and at least one portion of the low doped regions are less than a thickness of another position of the polysilicon layer.
US11101386B2
A semiconductor device having favorable electrical characteristics is provided. The semiconductor device includes an oxide; a first conductor and a second conductor over the oxide; a third conductor over the oxide; a first insulator provided between the oxide and the third conductor and covering a side surface of the third conductor; a second insulator over the third conductor and the first insulator; a third insulator positioned over the first conductor and at a side surface of the second insulator; a fourth insulator positioned over the second conductor and at a side surface of the second insulator; a fourth conductor being in contact with a top surface and a side surface of the third insulator and electrically connected to the first conductor; and a fifth conductor being in contact with a top surface and a side surface of the fourth insulator and electrically connected to the second conductor. The first insulator is between the third insulator and the third conductor, and between the fourth insulator and the third conductor.
US11101384B1
A power semiconductor device includes a substrate, a first well, a second well, a drain, a source, a first gate structure, a second gate structure and a doping region. The first well has a first conductivity and extends into the substrate from a substrate surface. The second well has a second conductivity and extends into the substrate from the substrate surface. The drain has the first conductivity and is disposed in the first well. The source has the first conductivity and is disposed in the second well. The first gate structure is disposed on the substrate surface and at least partially overlapping with the first well and second well. The second gate structure is disposed on the substrate surface and overlapping with the second well. The doping region has the first conductivity, is disposed in the second well and connects the first gate structure with the second gate structure.
US11101383B2
A semiconductor device of an embodiment includes: a first semiconductor layer of a first conductive type; a second semiconductor layer of the first conductive type, being provided on the first semiconductor layer and including a first trench, a plurality of holes, a plurality of second trenches, and a plurality of third trenches; a first semiconductor region of a second conductive type, being provided on the second semiconductor layer; a second semiconductor region of the first conductive type, being provided on the first semiconductor region; a first electrode electrically connected to the second semiconductor region; a second electrode disposed in the first trench via a first insulation film; a plurality of first field plate electrodes having a column shape, being electrically connected to the first electrode, interposing the second electrode, and being disposed in the holes via a second insulation film; a plurality of third electrodes extending from ends of the first insulation films in a first direction to the first direction, being disposed in the second trenches via third insulation films and extending from ends of the second electrodes in the 1st direction to the first direction; a plurality of second field plate electrodes extending in the first direction, being apart from the first field plate electrodes, being disposed in the third trenches via fourth insulation films, being electrically connected to the first field plate electrode via the first electrode, and interposing the third electrode; and a fourth electrode electrically connecting the second electrode and the third electrode.
US11101381B2
A structure of a high voltage transistor includes a substrate. A gate insulating layer is disposed on the substrate. A shallow trench isolation structure is formed in the substrate adjacent to the gate insulating layer. The shallow trench isolation structure includes a first sidewall and a second sidewall. A top portion of the first sidewall merges with a side region of the gate insulating layer. A bottom surface of the shallow trench isolation structure is gradually decreasing in depth from the second sidewall to the first sidewall. A source/drain region is formed in the substrate at a side of the gate insulating layer and surrounding the shallow trench isolation structure.
US11101378B2
An Enhancement-Mode HEMT having a gate electrode with a doped, Group III-N material disposed between an electrically conductive gate electrode contact and a gate region of the Enhancement-Mode HEMT, such doped, Group III-N layer increasing resistivity of the Group III-N material to deplete the 2DEG under the gate at zero bias.
US11101370B2
A method for forming layers suitable for a V-NAND stack is disclosed. Specifically, the method may include multiple cycles for forming an oxide and a nitride in order to form an oxynitride layer.
US11101364B2
Structures for a field-effect transistor and methods of forming a field-effect transistor. A gate structure of the field-effect transistor is arranged over an active region comprised of a semiconductor material. A first sidewall spacer is arranged adjacent to the gate structure. A second sidewall spacer includes a section arranged between the first sidewall spacer and the active region. The first sidewall spacer is composed of a low-k dielectric material.
US11101359B2
A method of manufacturing a device includes forming a plurality of stacks of alternating layers on a substrate, constructing a plurality of nanosheets from the plurality of stacks of alternating layers, and forming a plurality of gate dielectrics over the plurality of nanosheets, respectively. The method allows for the modulation of nanosheet width, thickness, spacing, and stack number and can be employed on single substrates. This design flexibility provides for design optimization over a wide tuning range of circuit performance and power usage.
US11101344B2
Structures and formation methods of a semiconductor device structure are provided. The semiconductor device structure includes a semiconductor substrate and a gate stack over the semiconductor substrate. The gate stack includes a gate dielectric layer and a work function layer. The gate dielectric layer is between the semiconductor substrate and the work function layer. The semiconductor device structure also includes a halogen source layer. The gate dielectric layer is between the semiconductor substrate and the halogen source layer.
US11101342B1
A semiconductor device has a deep trench in a semiconductor substrate of the semiconductor device, with linear trench segments extending to a trench intersection. Adjacent linear trench segments are connected by connector trench segments that surround a substrate pillar in the trench intersection. Each connector trench segment has a width at least as great as widths of the linear trench segments connected by the connector trench segment. The deep trench includes a trench filler material. The deep trench may have three linear trench segments extending to the trench intersection, connected by three connector trench segments, or may have four linear trench segments extending to the trench intersection, connected by four connector trench segments.
US11101339B2
A flexible display panel, a manufacturing method thereof and a display device are provided. The flexible display panel includes a flexible base substrate, a conductive layer arranged in display area of the flexible base substrate, a plurality of wires arranged in an edge bending area of the substrate, and inorganic insulating layer, the inorganic insulating layer is arranged between the conductive layer and the flexible base substrate, and between the plurality of wires and the flexible base substrate. The conductive layer is electrically connected with the plurality of wires. The panel further includes: first organic insulating layer which is at least arranged in the edge bending area of the flexible base substrate, and located between the plurality of wires and the inorganic insulating layer. The first organic insulating layer may prevent crack caused in the inorganic insulating laver from extending to a plurality of wires, the display failure is avoided.
US11101329B2
A display device may include a display panel including a substrate that includes a display area and a pad area adjacent to the display area, and a first pad and a second pad on the pad area of the substrate, and a chip-on-film package over the pad area of the substrate with the first pad and the second pad in between, the chip-on-film package including an insulation layer, a first wiring on an upper surface of the insulation layer and electrically connected to the first pad, and a second wiring on a lower surface of the insulation layer and electrically connected to the second pad. A first signal having alternating voltage levels may be applied to the first wiring, and a second signal having a constant voltage level may be applied to the second wiring.
US11101328B2
Provided is a vapor deposition apparatus including: a plasma generator configured to change at least a portion of a first raw material gas into a radical form; a corresponding surface corresponding to the plasma generator; a reaction space between the plasma generator and the corresponding surface; and an insulating member separated from, and surrounding the plasma generator.
US11101316B2
An optical pressure touch device, a manufacturing method thereof, and a touch display apparatus, so as to reduce the influence on the display effect while realizing the touch function. The optical pressure touch device includes a first substrate, a second substrate opposite to the first substrate, a light source, and a photodetector array and a touch scanning circuit located on a side of the first substrate facing the second substrate, the touch scanning circuit being electrically connected to a photodetector in the photodetector array. A gap exists between the touch scanning circuit and the second substrate, and the light source is used to generate a light field within the gap.
US11101312B2
A semiconductor apparatus comprising: a first semiconductor component including a first semiconductor layer and a first insulation film; and a second semiconductor component including a second semiconductor layer and a second insulation film, wherein the first semiconductor component and the second semiconductor component are bonded to each other by each of a plurality of first electric conductor portions provided in the first insulation film and each of a plurality of second electric conductor portions provided in the second insulation film, each of the plurality of first electric conductor portions is constituted by one pad surrounded by the first insulation film and N vias bonded to the one pad so as to be positioned between the one pad and the first semiconductor layer, and a volume VTR of the one pad and a total volume VTH of the N vias satisfy VTR/VTH≥N.
US11101311B2
Photodetectors and fabrication methods thereof and imaging sensors are provided. An exemplary photodetector includes a first substrate formed with pixel circuits and common electrode connection members and first wiring boards electrically connected to the corresponding pixel circuits; and a second substrate formed with pixel units and isolation wall members isolating pixel units. Each isolation wall member includes a conductive member and a sidewall; second wiring boards are formed on a front surface of the second substrate; the second wiring boards are electrically connected to first terminals of the pixel units; a transparent electrode layer is formed on a back surface of the second substrate; and a second terminal of each pixel unit is electrically connected to the transparent electrode layer. The second wiring boards are bonded and electrically connected to the first wiring boards and the transparent electrode layer is electrically connected to the common electrode connection members.
US11101304B2
A diode and its fabrication method are provided. The diode includes a substrate, a buffer layer on a side of the substrate, a first film layer, a second film layer and a third film layer. The first film layer is a polycrystalline silicon film layer; the second film layer is an amorphous silicon film layer; and the third film layer is one of the polycrystalline silicon film layer and the amorphous silicon film layer. The diode at least includes a first portion, a second portion, a third portion, a first electrode, and a second electrode. The first portion is located in the first film layer; the second portion is located in the second film layer; and the third portion is located in the third film layer. The first electrode is electrically connected to the first portion, and the second electrode is electrically connected to the third portion.
US11101298B2
A thin film transistor array substrate includes: a first conductive layer including first lines for transmitting data signals to the thin film transistors; a second conductive layer disposed on the first conductive layer and including second lines for supplying a driving voltage to the thin film transistors; a first insulating layer disposed between a semiconductor layer and the first conductive layer and including a first material layer; a second insulating layer disposed between the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer and including a second material layer having a dielectric constant greater than that of the first material layer; and a contact plug penetrating the second insulating layer and the first insulating layer, and connecting the second conductive layer to the semiconductor layer. A taper angle of the contact plug in the second material layer is greater than that of the contact plug in the first material layer.
US11101279B2
A semiconductor memory device includes: a substrate including a first and a second regions; first wiring layers disposed in a first direction; a second wiring layer; a third wiring layer closer to the substrate than the first and the second wiring layers; a semiconductor film that penetrates the first and the second wiring layers, and is connected to the third wiring layer; and a gate insulating film disposed between the semiconductor film and the first wiring layers. The first wiring layers include first conductive films opposed to the semiconductor film in the first region, and first films in the second region. The second wiring layer includes a second conductive film opposed to the semiconductor film in the first region, and a second film in the second region. The second film is different from the first films.
US11101274B2
A ferroelectric capacitor comprises two conductive capacitor electrodes having ferroelectric material there-between. At least one of the capacitor electrodes comprise MxSiOy, where “M” is at least one of Ru, Ti, Ta, Co, Pt, Ir. Os, Mo, V, W, Sr, Re, Rh, Pd, La, Zn, In, Sn, and Nb. Other aspects, including method, are disclosed.
US11101271B2
A method of forming an array of cross point memory cells comprises using two, and only two, masking steps to collectively pattern within the array spaced lower first lines, spaced upper second lines which cross the first lines, and individual programmable devices between the first lines and the second lines where such cross that have an upwardly open generally U-shape vertical cross-section of programmable material laterally between immediately adjacent of the first lines beneath individual of the upper second lines. Arrays of cross point memory cells independent of method of manufacture are disclosed.
US11101267B2
Integrated circuit including multiple-height cell and method of manufacturing the integrated circuit
Provided is an integrated circuit including: at least one active region extending in a first row in a first direction; at least one active region extending in a second row in the first direction; and a multiple height cell including the at least one active region in the first row, the at least one active region in the second row, at least one gate line extending in a second direction crossing the first direction, wherein each of the at least one active region in the first row and the at least one active region in the second row is terminated by a diffusion break.
US11101256B2
An optoelectronic device. The optoelectronic device operable to provide a PAM-N modulated output, the device comprising: M optical modulators, M being an integer greater than 1, the M optical modulators being arranged in a cascade, the device being configured to operate in N distinct transmittance states, as a PAM-N modulator, wherein, in each transmittance state of the N distinct transmittance states, each of the M optical modulators has applied to it a respective control voltage equal to one of: a first voltage or a second voltage. One or more of the modulators may include a substrate; a crystalline cladding layer, on top of the substrate; and an optically active region, above the crystalline cladding layer. The crystalline cladding layer may have a refractive index which is less than a refractive index of the optically active region.
US11101253B2
Disclosed are semiconductor packages and methods of fabricating the same. The semiconductor package includes a first semiconductor chip on a first substrate, a first molding layer covering a sidewall of the first semiconductor chip and including at least two guide holes that expose the first substrate and are spaced apart from each other in a periphery of the first substrate, a second substrate on the first molding layer, a connection terminal between the first substrate and the second substrates and connecting the first and second substrates to each other, and an alignment structure that extends from a bottom surface of the second substrate into each of the at least two guide holes of the first molding layer. A height of the alignment structure is greater than a height of the first molding layer and the first semiconductor chip.
US11101248B2
A light emitter device includes a submount with a top surface and a bottom surface, electrically conductive traces on the top surface of the submount, light emitting diodes (LEDs) arranged on the top surface of the submount in light emitter zones, with the LEDs being electrically connected to respective traces of the traces, a retention material disposed over the top surface of the submount in a form of walls which physically separate the light emitter zones, and encapsulants that are dispensed in respective light emitter zones of the light emitter zones. The LEDs are individually addressable to independently control an output of light from each of the LEDs to produce a specified light output.
US11101246B2
In a semiconductor device, a first semiconductor chip and a second semiconductor chip are disposed between a first support member and a second support member. A first underlayer bonding material is disposed between the first semiconductor chip and the first support member. A second underlayer bonding material is disposed between the second semiconductor chip and the first support member. A first upper layer bonding material is disposed between the first semiconductor chip and the second support member. A second upper layer bonding material is disposed between the second semiconductor chip and the second support member.
US11101240B2
A semiconductor package including an improved isolation bonding film and methods of forming the same are disclosed. In an embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a first die bonded to a package substrate, the first die including vias extending through a substrate, the vias extending above a top surface of the substrate; a first dielectric film extending along a top surface of the package substrate, along the top surface of the substrate, and along sidewalls of the first die, the vias extending through the first dielectric film; a second die bonded to the first dielectric film and the vias; and an encapsulant over the package substrate, the first die, the first dielectric film, and the second die.
US11101239B2
A process for packaging at least one component includes the steps of: a) providing a substrate and a packaging material layer, b) forming the packaging material layer into an adhesively semi-cured packaging material layer, c) adhering the adhesively semi-cured packaging material layer to an array, d) providing a packaging unit including at least one eutectic metal bump pair, e) permitting the eutectic metal bump pair to be in contact with at least one electrode pair on the array, f) subjecting the electrode pair to eutectic bonding to the eutectic metal bump pair, g) encapsulating the component by pressing, h) completely curing the adhesively semi-cured packaging material layer, and i) removing the substrate.
US11101235B2
A semiconductor package includes a build-up structure; a semiconductor disposed on the build-up structure in a flip-chip manner and having a plurality of bumps penetrating therethrough; an electronic element disposed on the semiconductor chip; and an encapsulant formed on the build-up structure and encapsulating the semiconductor chip and the electronic element, thereby improving the product yield and the overall heat dissipating efficiency.
US11101234B2
A material for Cu pillars is formed as cylindrical preforms in advance and connecting these cylindrical preforms to electrodes on a semiconductor chip to form Cu pillars. Due to this, it becomes possible to make the height/diameter ratio of the Cu pillars 2.0 or more. Since electroplating is not used, the time required for production of the Cu pillars is short and the productivity can be improved. Further, the height of the Cu pillars can be raised to 200 μm or more, so these are also preferable for moldunderfill. The components can be freely adjusted, so it is possible to easily design the alloy components to obtain highly reliable Cu pillars.
US11101231B2
Provided is a semiconductor package including a semiconductor chip, a molding portion surrounding at least a side surface of the semiconductor chip, a passivation layer including a contact plug connected to the semiconductor chip and having a narrowing width further away from the semiconductor chip in a vertical direction, below the semiconductor chip, and a redistribution layer portion electrically connecting the semiconductor chip with an external connection terminal, below the passivation layer. The redistribution layer portion includes an upper pad connected to the contact plug and a fine pattern positioned at a same level as the upper pad, a redistribution layer and a via plug, which has a widening width further away from the semiconductor chip in the vertical direction, and a lower pad connected to the external connection terminal and exposed to an outside of the semiconductor package in a lower part of the redistribution layer portion.
US11101228B1
Aspects of the present disclosure provide an integrated circuit package having an inductive element with a magnetic core. An example integrated circuit package generally includes a semiconductor die, a redistribution layer, and a magnetic core. The semiconductor die includes a metal layer having first conductive traces and conductive pillars coupled to and extending from the metal layer. The redistribution layer is disposed below the semiconductor die and includes second conductive traces. A portion of the first conductive traces, a portion of the conductive pillars, and a portion of the second conductive traces are arranged to form an inductive element disposed below a portion of the semiconductor die. The magnetic core is disposed in the inductive element.
US11101220B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to a chip package having through-package partial vias. An example chip package generally includes a first substrate, a second substrate, an integrated circuit die, and one or more conductive vias. The integrated circuit die is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The one or more conductive vias are disposed on at least one edge of at least one of the first substrate or the second substrate and electrically coupled to at least one of the first substrate or the second substrate.
US11101218B2
Some embodiments include an integrated assembly which has a semiconductor material with a surface. A first layer is over and directly against the surface. The first layer includes oxygen and a first metal. The relative amount of oxygen to the first metal is less than or equal to an amount sufficient to form stoichiometric metal oxide throughout the first layer. A second metal is over and directly against the first layer. A second layer is over and directly against the second metal. The second layer includes nitrogen and a third metal. Some embodiments include an integrated assembly which has a semiconductor material with a surface. A metal is adjacent the surface and is spaced from the surface by a distance of less than or equal to about 10 Å. There is no metal germanide or metal silicide between the metal and the surface.
US11101217B2
A method of forming a buried power rail for transistor devices is provided. The method includes forming an adjacent pair of transistor devices on a substrate, wherein the adjacent pair of transistor devices is separated by a gap distance, GD, filled by a fill layer. The method further includes forming a dielectric plate between the adjacent pair of transistor devices by removing a portion of the fill layer, and forming a protective liner on each of the adjacent pair of transistor devices. The method further includes forming a sidewall spacer on each of the protective liners, and forming a buried power rail on the dielectric plate and between the sidewall spacers. The method further includes removing a portion of the sidewall spacers above the buried power rail to form spacer bars on the dielectric plate, and forming a power rail cap on the buried power rail and spacer bars.
US11101215B2
The various embodiments described herein include methods, devices, and circuits for reducing or minimizing current crowding effects in manufactured superconductors. In some embodiments, a superconducting circuit includes: (1) a first component having a first connection point, the first connection point having a first width; (2) a second component having a second connection point, the second connection point having a second width that is larger than the first width; and (3) a connector electrically connecting the first connection point and the second connection point, the connector including: (a) a first taper having a first slope and a non-linear shape; (b) a second taper having a second slope; and (c) a connecting portion connecting the first taper to the second taper, the connecting portion having a third slope that is less than the first slope and less than the second slope.
US11101210B2
A memory array comprising strings of memory cells comprises laterally-spaced memory blocks individually comprising a vertical stack comprising alternating insulative tiers and conductive tiers. Operative channel-material strings of memory cells extend through the insulative tiers and the conductive tiers. Intervening material is laterally-between and longitudinally-along immediately-laterally-adjacent of the memory blocks. The intervening material comprises longitudinally-alternating first and second regions that individually have a vertically-elongated seam therein. The vertically-elongated seam in the first regions has a higher top than in the second regions. The seam tops in the second regions are elevationally-coincident with or below a bottom of an uppermost of the conductive tiers. Methods are disclosed.
US11101202B2
A lead pin includes a shaft portion, a head portion formed on one end of the shaft portion, and having a diameter greater than a diameter of the shaft portion, a tin-based first plated layer exposed at a surface of the head portion visible from the other end of the shaft portion, and a second plated layer exposed at an end surface of the shaft portion visible from the other end of the shaft portion. The second plated layer has a reflectivity with respect to visible light and a conductivity higher than a reflectivity with respect to the visible light and a conductivity of the first plated layer, respectively.
US11101197B2
Leadframe systems and related methods. Specific implementations of leadframe systems may include a die pad, a semiconductor die coupled to the die pad, where the semiconductor die has a perimeter. A leadframe may be coupled over the die pad and the semiconductor die where the leadframe has a solder dam coupled around the semiconductor die and, the solder dam has a perimeter that corresponds with the semiconductor die The die pad may have no groove adjacent to the semiconductor die.
US11101195B2
A package structure and method for forming the same are provided. The package structure includes a first interconnect structure formed over a first substrate, and the first interconnect structure includes a first metal layer. The package structure further includes a second interconnect structure formed over a second substrate. The package structure includes a bonding structure between the first interconnect structure and the second interconnect structure. The bonding structure includes a first intermetallic compound (IMC) and a second intermetallic compound (IMC), a portion of the first IMC protrudes from the sidewall surfaces of the second IMC, and there could be a grain boundary between the first IMC and the second IMC.
US11101189B2
The present disclosure relates to a semiconductor device package. The semiconductor device package includes a substrate, a support structure, an electronic component and an adhesive. The support structure is disposed on the substrate. The electronic component is disposed on the support structure. The adhesive is disposed between the substrate and the electronic component and covers the support structure. A hardness of the support structure is less than a hardness of the electronic component.
US11101184B2
A method of determining a parameter of a patterning process, the method including: obtaining a detected representation of radiation redirected by a structure having geometric symmetry at a nominal physical configuration, wherein the detected representation of the radiation was obtained by illuminating a substrate with a radiation beam such that a beam spot on the substrate was filled with the structure; and determining, by a hardware computer system, a value of the patterning process parameter based on optical characteristic values from an asymmetric optical characteristic distribution portion of the detected radiation representation with higher weight than another portion of the detected radiation representation, the asymmetric optical characteristic distribution arising from a different physical configuration of the structure than the nominal physical configuration.
US11101171B2
An apparatus comprises a structure including an upper insulating material overlying a lower insulating material, a conductive element underlying the lower insulating material, and a conductive material comprising a metal line and a contact. The conductive material extends from an upper surface of the upper insulating material to an upper surface of the conductive element. The structure also comprises a liner material adjacent the metal line. A width of an uppermost surface of the conductive material of the metal line external to the contact is relatively less than a width of an uppermost surface of the conductive material of the contact. Related methods, memory devices, and electronic systems are disclosed.
US11101170B2
The present disclosure relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to a dual airgap structure and methods of manufacture. The structure includes: a lower metal line; a plurality of upper metal lines; and a first airgap between the lower metal line and at least one upper metal line of the plurality of upper metal lines.
US11101156B2
A substrate treating apparatus includes the following elements: an indexer block including indexer robots provided for respective carrier receivers and disposed in horizontally fixed positions, each of the indexer robots having arms for taking substrates out of a carrier and loading the substrates into the carrier on the carrier receiver; a bridge block disposed adjacent the indexer block; and a treating block including a plurality of stacked stories each having at least one treating unit. The bridge block includes a buffer, a pass having a plurality of tables covering a range from a bottom story to a top story of the plurality of stories, and two bridge robots each having an arm for transferring the substrates to and from the pass.
US11101155B2
A lid body side substrate receiving portion includes a lower side substrate guiding inclined face and an upper side substrate guiding inclined face. In a direction in which a groove extends while a container main body opening portion is closed by a lid body, a length of the lower side substrate guiding inclined face in the upper-lower direction becomes longer as approaching a center of the container main body opening portion.
US11101152B2
Techniques herein provide a hot plate with extremely precise and uniform temperature control. Such techniques herein include a hotplate containing a fluid and being configured to maintain and/or control a phase mixture of this fluid. A corresponding temperature of the phase mixture in turn heats the hot plate. A given phase change temperature is controlled by material selection and material additives. Accordingly, a temperature of an entire hot plate chassis can be controlled by maintaining a phase change mixture of liquid and solid material, or gas and liquid material, thereby providing an exact temperature within 0.01 to 0.0001 degrees uniformly across the entire hot plate chassis.
US11101148B2
A semiconductor processing apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a body portion, which includes at least one semiconductor processing unit that has a recess formed on an upper surface of the body portion, wherein a bottom surface of the recess has at least one location and a peripheral. The bottom surface ascends from the at least one location toward the peripheral against a direction of gravity or descends from the at least one location toward the peripheral following the direction of gravity. Each semiconductor processing unit also includes a first channel that connects to the recess at the at least one location, and at least one second channel connecting to the recess at the peripheral. Each of the first and second channels serves as an inlet or an outlet via which a fluid enters or exits the recess.
US11101137B1
A process is applied to develop a plurality of reverse conducting insulated gate bipolar transistors (RCIGBTs). The process comprises the steps of providing a wafer, applying a first grinding process, patterning a mask, applying an etching process, removing the mask, implanting N++ type dopant, applying a second grinding process forming a TAIKO ring, implanting P+ type dopant, annealing and depositing TiNiAg or TiNiVAg, removing the TAIKO ring, attaching a tape, and applying a singulation process. The mask can be a soft mask or a hard mask. The etching process can be a wet etching only; a wet etching followed by a dry etching; or a dry etching only.
US11101127B2
An acceleration voltage generator (7) generates a high-voltage pulse to be applied to an electrode in an orthogonal accelerator by turning on/off a high DC voltage generated by a high-voltage power source through MOSFETs (741) in a switch circuit (74). A controller (6) sends driving pulse signals to the switch circuit (74) through a primary-side driver section (71), transformer (72) and secondary driver section (73). An adjustment circuit (742) formed by a gate resistor (742a) and gate capacitor (742b) is provided between the secondary-side driver section (73) and the MOSFET (741). The resistance value of the resistor (742a) and the capacitance value of the capacitor (742b) are determined so as to suppress an overshoot of the gate voltage due to the resonance while preventing a decrease in steepness of the waveform in its rising and falling phases.
US11101114B2
A plasma processing apparatus includes a baffle structure between a mounting table and a processing chamber. The baffle structure has a first member and a second member. The first member has a first cylindrical part extending between the mounting table and the processing chamber, and a plurality of through-holes elongated in the vertical direction is formed in an array in the circumferential direction in the first cylindrical part. The second member has a second cylindrical part having an inner diameter greater than the outer diameter of the cylindrical part for the first member. The second member moves up and down in a region that includes the space between the first member and the processing chamber.
US11101110B2
In one embodiment, the present disclosure may be directed to an impedance matching network that includes an electronically variable capacitor (EVC). The EVC includes discrete capacitors and corresponding switches, each switch configured to switch in and out one of the discrete capacitors to alter a capacitance of the EVC. The switches are operably coupled to a power supply providing a blocking voltage to the switches. A control circuit determines a blocking voltage value of the power supply. Upon determining the blocking voltage value is at or below a predetermined first level, the control circuit causes a limited altering of the capacitance of the EVC, the limited altering limiting the number or type of discrete capacitors to switch in or out based on the extent to which the blocking voltage value is at or below the first level.
US11101106B2
A multi-beam exposure device reducing variations of electron beam optical systems for electron beams, and preventing vacuum leakage. An exposure device is provided, including: a body tube depressurized to produce a vacuum state therein; multiple charged particle beam sources provided in the body tube, and emitting multiple charged particle beams in a direction of extension of the body tube; multiple electromagnetic optical elements, each provided corresponding to one of the multiple charged particle beams in the body tube, and controlling the one of the multiple charged particle beams; first and second partition walls arranged separately from each other in the direction of extension in the body tube, and forming a non-vacuum space between at least parts of the first and second partition walls; and a supporting unit provided in the body tube, and supporting the multiple electromagnetic optical elements for positioning of the multiple electromagnetic optical elements.
US11101104B2
Cryo compatible sample grids having multi-modal cryo-EM compatible GUIDs, according to the present disclosure include an outer support structure that defines a region of the grid for holding one or more samples, and a plurality of inner support structures that define a plurality of apertures that are each configured to hold a sample. Cryo compatible sample grids further include a first identifier located on the outer support structure, and a second identifier located within the region of the grid for holding the one or more samples. The first identifier is readable with an optical detector, while the second identifier is readable with an electron detector (e.g., within an electron microscope). Specifically, the second identifier is readable with an electron detector when one or more teeth and/or holes that comprise the second identifier are filled with ice from a vitrification process.
US11101101B2
Methods and systems for implementing laser-based phase plate image contrast enhancement are disclosed herein. An example method at least includes forming at least one optical peak in a diffraction plane of an electron microscope, and directing an electron beam through the at least one optical peak at a first location, where the first location determines an amount of phase manipulation the optical peak imparts to an electron of the electron beam.
US11101091B2
To enable an increase in a service life of a modular safety relay circuit, a modular safety relay circuit is provided for the safe switching on and/or off of at least one machine comprising at least one relay module to which the at least one machine is connected, wherein the relay module comprises at least two relay contacts that are connected in series and that can be brought from a first position into a second position and vice versa; and wherein one relay contact switches in advance by a delay of the other relay contact; and a control unit controlling the relay contacts that alternatingly controls the relay contacts in accordance with a state detection of the relay contacts with the delay.
US11101087B2
A control device for a movable contact relative to a fixed contact of a vacuum bottle of an electrical switching device. The control device includes a principal mechanism for disconnection and connection of the contacts, of the mechanical energy accumulation type. The control device further includes an auxiliary disconnection-assistance mechanism arranged such as to accumulate mechanical energy when the movable contact is moved towards the connection position and such as to restore the mechanical energy thus accumulated in such a manner as to exert an additional disconnection force in the form of an impact tending to move the movable contact from the connection position towards the disconnection position when the movable contact is immobilized in the connection position despite the action of the principal disconnection force.
US11101083B2
The electrical switch includes a first and a second fixed contact, and a rotatable knife contact including at least one pair of blades being flexibly connected to each other and rotating around a rotational axis. A third fixed contact is positioned on an opposite side of the rotational axis in relation to the adjacent first and second fixed contact and a middle portion of the rotatable knife contact is electrically connected to the third fixed contact. The rotatable knife contact connects in a first switching position the first fixed contact and in a second switching position the second fixed contact to the third fixed contact.
US11101072B2
A capacitor that prevents generation of a substrate capacitance composed of an upper electrode, a substrate, and a lower electrode. Specifically, the capacitor includes a substrate; a lower electrode disposed on the substrate; a dielectric film disposed on the lower electrode; an upper electrode disposed on a part of the dielectric film; and a first terminal electrode that is connected to the upper electrode. Moreover, the upper electrode and the first terminal electrode are formed in a region for forming the lower electrode in a plan view of the capacitor viewed from the first terminal electrode side.
US11101060B2
A high temperature superconducting, HTS, field coil. The HTS field coil comprises a plurality of turns and a partially insulating layer. The plurality of turns comprises HTS material and metallic stabilizer. The partially insulating layer separates the turns, such that current can be shared between turns via the partially insulating layer. The partially insulating layer comprises an electrically conducting layer, and first and second insulating layers. The electrically conducting layer is coated on one side with the first insulating layer and on the other side with the second insulating layer. Each insulating layer has one or more windows through which electrical contact can be made between the turns and the electrically conducting layer. The windows in the first insulating layer are offset in the plane of the electrically conducting strip from the windows in the second insulating layer.
US11101054B2
A core wire for multi-core cables includes a conductor obtained by twisting a plurality of elemental wires, and an insulating layer coated on an outer peripheral surface of the conductor. The insulating layer contains polyethylene-based resin as a main component, and the product of a linear expansion coefficient C1 of the insulating layer in the range of 25° C. to −35° C. and an elastic modulus E1 at −35° C., namely (C1×E1) is 0.01 MPaK−1 or more and 0.90 MPaK−1 or less. The melting point of the polyethylene-based resin is 80° C. or higher and 130° C. or lower.
US11101051B2
A metal grid includes: a member which includes a curved principal surface; an anodic oxide film which is formed on the principal surface of the member, and a lattice structure which has an uneven shape periodically formed on the anodic oxide film. A production method for a metal grid includes: a step of forming a valve metal film on a principal surface of a member, a step of forming an anodic oxide film by performing an anodic oxidation treatment on the valve metal film while the principal surface is curved; and a step of forming a lattice structure with a periodic uneven shape on the anodic oxide film by forming an etching mask with a periodic opening on a surface of the anodic oxide film and etching the anodic oxide film through the opening.
US11101046B2
The invention concerns a nuclear reactor comprising a vessel closed at the top by a radially external fixed closing structure and by a radially internal mobile closing structure. The vessel contains a core immersed in a primary cooling fluid and comprising fuel elements, control rods, shutdown rods, and a hydraulic separation structure delimiting a hot manifold and a cold manifold in which the primary fluid circulates. The control rods and the shutdown rods are inserted in respective penetrations of the fixed closing structure and are therefore located radially external to the mobile closing structure and external to an upper portion of the separation structure containing respective heads of the fuel elements.
US11101044B2
Methods and systems for providing decentralized healthcare services are provided. An example method may commence with receiving a request for a healthcare service from a patient. The method may continue with providing the request to a responding healthcare provider and receiving a response from the responding healthcare provider. The method may continue with establishing a bidirectional communication between the patient and the responding healthcare provider in real-time and receiving a plan of actions to treat the patient from the responding healthcare provider. The method may further include instructing a diagnostic and laboratory service to physically contact the patient and collect real-time vital parameters of the patient. The method may continue with receiving, from the diagnostic and laboratory service, the real-time vital parameters of the patient and making the real-time vital parameters available to the patient and the responding healthcare provider in an electronic medical record database.
US11101039B2
According to one or more embodiments herein, a machine-learning algorithm is provided that uses current and past clinical data in order to accurately and precisely predict the future onset of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and dementia for individual patients, thus enabling early identification of those having high risk for Alzheimer's disease. In particular, a newly defined “All-Pairs” technique combines data from each doctor's visit for each patient with data from each of the patient's other doctor's visits. By correlating clinical data obtained from patients at one time point with the progression of Alzheimer's disease in the future, the techniques herein are able to increase the likelihood of identifying Alzheimer's disease patients at early stages.
US11101038B2
Contemplated systems and methods allow for prediction of chemotherapy outcome for patients diagnosed with high-grade bladder cancer. In particularly preferred aspects, the prediction is performed using a model based on machine learning wherein the model has a minimum predetermined accuracy gain and wherein a thusly identified model provides the identity and weight factors for omics data used in the outcome prediction.
US11101028B2
A computer-implemented system may include a treatment device configured to be manipulated by a user while the user is performing a treatment plan and a patient interface comprising an output device configured to present telemedicine information associated with a telemedicine session. The computer-implemented system may also include a first computing device configured to: receive treatment data pertaining to the user while the user uses the treatment device to perform the treatment plan; write to an associated memory, for access by an artificial intelligence engine, the treatment data; receive, from the artificial intelligence engine, at least one prediction; identify a threshold corresponding to the at least one prediction; and, in response to a determination that the at least one prediction is outside of the range of the threshold, update the treatment data pertaining to the user to indicate the at least one prediction.
US11101017B2
A memory system includes a memory device including a test region; and a processor configured to write pattern data transferred from a host device to a pattern data region included in the test region, read test data from the test region, and transmit the read test data to the host device. A position of the pattern data region may be adjustable in the test region.
US11101016B2
A semiconductor system includes a first semiconductor device and a second semiconductor device. The first semiconductor device controls a test mode. The first semiconductor device outputs a chip identification and receives external data. The second semiconductor device includes a plurality of memory chips. At least one of the plurality of memory chips are activated based on the chip identification to store input data into each of the plurality of memory chips that have been activated while a write operation is performed in the test mode. At least two of the plurality of memory chips are activated based on the chip identification to output the stored input data as the external data while a read operation is performed in the test mode.
US11101012B2
A magnetic storage device includes a magnetic body including first and second magnetic regions and a magnetic connection region that connects the first and second magnetic regions, and in which a plurality of magnetic domains each storing information by a magnetization direction thereof is formed, a read element that is electrically connected to the magnetic connection region and by which a magnetization direction of one of the magnetic domains is read, and a write element by which a magnetic domain having a magnetization direction is formed in the magnetic body according to information to be stored. The magnetic domains formed in each of the first and second magnetic regions are shifted in a predetermined direction in response to current that flows through the corresponding one of the first and second magnetic regions.
US11101001B2
A non-volatile memory system includes a control circuit connected to non-volatile memory cells. The control circuit is configured to simultaneously program memory cells connected to different word lines that are in different sub-blocks of different blocks in different planes of a die.
US11101000B2
A semiconductor device includes a memory cell formed on a semiconductor substrate. The memory cell includes a first source region and a first drain region that are formed in the semiconductor substrate and a first selection gate, and a first floating gate disposed in series between the first source region and the first drain region. A first floating gate transistor including the first drain region and the first floating gate has a threshold set lower than a threshold of a first selection gate transistor including the first source region and the first selection gate.
US11100999B2
A controller controls a memory including first and second strings. The first and second strings configure first and second string groups, respectively. In each string group, a set of memory cell transistors each from each string configures a unit. The controller is configured to: sequentially write, in the first string group, data in first units to which serially-coupled memory cell transistors respectively belong; sequentially write, in the second string group, data in first units to which serially-coupled memory cell transistors respectively belong; and sequentially write, in the first string group, data in second units to which serially-coupled memory cell transistors respectively belong.
US11100997B2
The disclosure relates to a storage device, a controller and a method for operating a controller. The controller described in embodiments of the disclosure may include a word line grouping circuit configured to group a plurality of word lines in a semiconductor memory device into a plurality of word line groups based on program time information on program times of the respective word lines. Also, the controller may include a super page configuration circuit configured to configure a plurality of super pages including some of the word lines, based on word line group information on the word line groups. Embodiments of the disclosure may provide a storage device, a controller and a method for operating a controller, capable of minimizing program performance degradation that may occur due to deviations in program time among word lines.
US11100995B2
A structure of nonvolatile memory device includes a substrate, having a logic device region and a memory cell region. A first gate structure for a low-voltage transistor is disposed over the substrate in the logic device region, wherein the first gate structure comprises a single-layer polysilicon. A second gate structure for a memory cell is disposed over the substrate in the memory cell region. The second gate structure includes a gate insulating layer on the substrate. A floating gate layer is disposed on the gate insulating layer, wherein the floating gate layer comprises a first polysilicon layer and a second polysilicon layer as a stacked structure. A memory dielectric layer is disposed on the floating gate layer. A control gate layer is disposed on the memory dielectric layer, wherein the control gate layer and the single-layer polysilicon are originated from a preliminary polysilicon layer in same.
US11100989B2
A multiply-accumulate operation apparatus is capable of sufficiently restraining a sneak current when employing a precharge method where the magnitude of an electric current flowing through an output line is detected. In a synapse operation section, memory cells storing respective synaptic connection weights are arranged in rows and columns. Output lines are connected to memory cells in the corresponding column, and input lines are connected to memory cells in the corresponding row. Each output line is precharged, and then its electric potential is decreased during the corresponding memory cells flow cell currents corresponding to their synaptic connection weights. A memory element of each memory cell includes a memory transistor, a drain side transistor, and a source side transistor connected in series, and is connected between the corresponding input and output line. The memory transistor stores a synaptic connection weight according to the amount of charge in a charge storage layer.
US11100980B2
An Orthogonal Dual Port Ram (ORAM) memory cell may be provided. The ORAM memory cell may comprise a data storage element, a first port bit line, and a second port bit line that may be substantially perpendicular to first port bit line. The ORAM memory cell may further comprise a first word line that may be substantially perpendicular to first port bit line wherein the ORAM memory cell may be configured to read data from the data storage element to the first port bit line when the first word line is enabled. The ORAM memory cell may further comprise a second word line being substantially perpendicular to the second port bit line wherein the ORAM memory cell may be configured to read data from the data storage element to the second port bit line when the second word line is enabled.
US11100976B2
An integrated circuit device outputs a sequence of differently delayed calibration data timing signals to a DRAM component via a data-signal timing line as part of a timing calibration operation and then stores a delay value, based on at least one of the calibration data timing signals, that compensates for a difference in signal propagation times over the data-signal timing line and a command/address-signal timing line. After the timing calibration operation, the integrated circuit device outputs write data to the DRAM component and outputs a write data timing signal, delayed according to the delay value, to via the data-signal timing line to time reception of the first write data within the DRAM.
US11100971B2
A ferroelectric domain regulated optical readout mode memory and a preparing method thereof. The memory has such a structure that a two-dimensional semiconductor and a ferroelectric film layer are sequentially arranged on a conductive substrate. The method for preparing the memory includes the steps of preparing the two-dimensional semiconductor on the conductive substrate, preparing a ferroelectric film, then writing a periodic positive-reverse domain structure into the ferroelectric film on the two-dimensional semiconductor by using a piezoresponse force microscopy technology, and regulating a photoluminescent intensity of the two-dimensional semiconductor WS2 by using a ferroelectric domain. A fluorescent picture taken by a fluorescent camera shows light and dark areas corresponding to polarization directions, the light and dark areas represent an on state (‘1’) and an off state (‘0’) of the memory respectively, and accordingly the purpose of storage is achieved.
US11100965B1
Various implementations described herein are related to a device having an array of bitcells that are accessible via wordlines and bitlines including unselected bitlines and a selected bitline. Each bitcell in the array of bitcells may be selectable via a selected wordline of the wordlines and the selected bitline of the bitlines. The device may include precharge circuitry that is configured to selectively precharge the unselected bitlines and the selected bitline before arrival of a wordline signal on the selected wordline.
US11100961B2
A semiconductor storage device includes a first word line electrically connected to a first memory cell, a second word line electrically connected to a second memory cell, and a voltage generation circuit configured to supply a first voltage to a first line electrically connected to the first word line and a second voltage to a second line electrically connected to the second word line. The voltage generation circuit includes a first regulator configured to output the first voltage to the first line and output a first signal according to the first voltage, a second regulator configured to output the second voltage to the second line and output a second signal according to the second voltage, and a switch circuit configured to open or close an electrically conductive path between the first line and the second line, based on at least one of the first signal and the second signal.
US11100952B2
A storage apparatus includes a disk-shaped recording medium having a surface, a motor configured to drive and rotate the recording medium, a head configured to read information from and write information to the recording medium, a ramp mechanism configured to move the head from a position above the surface of the recording medium to a head receded position, and a ramp retracting mechanism configured to move the ramp mechanism from a position above the surface of the recording medium to a ramp retracted position. Each of the head receded position and the ramp retracted position is outside a range of the recording medium in a plan view viewed from above the recording medium in a direction perpendicular to the surface of the recording medium.
US11100947B1
According to one embodiment, a magnetic disk device includes a disk including a servo sector including burst data, a head including a write head which writes data to the disk, and a read head which reads data from the disk, and a controller which generates a first normal servo gate for applying servo read to the servo sector, wherein when a short servo gate for at least applying servo read to the burst data is generated, the controller generates the short servo gate and the first normal servo gate, and when the short servo gate is not generated, the controller generates the first normal servo gate and a second normal servo gate different from the first normal servo gate.
US11100943B1
A system for processing and presenting a conversation includes a sensor, a processor, and a presenter. The sensor is configured to capture an audio-form conversation. The processor is configured to automatically transform the audio-form conversation into a transformed conversation. The transformed conversation includes a synchronized text, wherein the synchronized text is synchronized with the audio-form conversation. The presenter is configured to present the transformed conversation including the synchronized text and the audio-form conversation. The presenter is further configured to present the transformed conversation to be navigable, searchable, assignable, editable, and shareable.
US11100934B2
A method and an apparatus for voiceprint creation and registration, comprising: prompting to create a voiceprint and register when a device is enabled for a first time(101); using a text-related training method to create a voiceprint model for a user(102); generating an ID for the user(103); and prompting the user to input user ID-related data; storing the ID for the user and the voiceprint model correspondingly in a voiceprint registration database(104). The problems in the prior art that the technology of the voiceprint creation and registration method has a high learning cost and is more disturbing to the user may be avoided. The voiceprint creation process may cover various scenes, the voiceprint creation may guide the user in all stages, or the voiceprint creation is separated from registration through a frequency to minimize user's disturbance, and after the user is guided to register the voiceprint, the speech interaction product may provide personalized service to the user based on the voiceprint.
US11100933B2
A method and system of audibly broadcasting responses to a user based on user queries about a specific patient molecular report, the method comprising receiving an audible query from the user to a microphone coupled to a collaboration device, identifying at least one intent associated with the audible query, identifying at least one data operation associated with the at least one intent, associating each of the at least one data operations with a first set of data presented on the molecular report, executing each of the at least one data operations on a second set of data to generate response data, generating an audible response file associated with the response data and providing the audible response file for broadcasting via a speaker coupled to the collaboration device.
US11100931B2
Implementations are directed to determining an audio delay, of a computing device, by causing an audio data stream to be transmitted to the computing device via a wireless communication channel. The computing device causes audio output generated using the audio data stream to be rendered via speaker(s). The rendered audio output is captured via microphone(s), and the audio delay determined by comparing the captured audio output with the audio data stream. A delay audio segment can be appended to an additional audio data stream transmitted to the computing device, where the length of the delay audio segment is determined using the audio delay. A noise reduction technique can additionally or alternatively be adapted based on the audio delay. Implementations are additionally or alternatively directed to determining if an audio data stream transmitted to a computing device for rendering through speaker(s) driven by the computing device—is actually being rendered.
US11100927B2
An information providing device includes circuitry configured to: acquire an uttered word which is uttered by a user and an utterance time at which the Littered word is uttered by the user; control output of offer information associated with the uttered word to the user; and restrict output of the offer information associated with the uttered word within a predetermined masking period from the utterance time of the uttered word.
US11100920B2
A speech recognition system includes an encoder to convert an input acoustic signal into a sequence of encoder states, an alignment decoder to identify locations of encoder states in the sequence of encoder states that encode transcription outputs, a partition module to partition the sequence of encoder states into a set of partitions based on the locations of the identified encoder states, and an attention-based decoder to determine the transcription outputs for each partition of encoder states submitted to the attention-based decoder as an input. Upon receiving the acoustic signal, the system uses the encoder to produce the sequence of encoder states, partitions the sequence of encoder states into the set of partitions based on the locations of the encoder states identified by the alignment decoder, and submits the set of partitions sequentially into the attention-based decoder to produce a transcription output for each of the submitted partitions.
US11100919B2
There is provided an information processing device including an analysis unit configured to analyze a character string indicating contents of utterance obtained as a result of speech recognition, and a display control unit configured to display the character string indicating the contents of the utterance and an analysis result on a display screen.
US11100915B2
The invention disclosed is an improved audio output module for use with an artificial voice generation device, having a housing separated into a sound system chamber, an interface chamber, and a power source chamber. The interface and power source chambers may be combined. The sound chamber is isolated from external air by the housing, the cover plate, and a separating wall, which separates it from other chambers of the module. Volumetric parameters based on speaker characteristics and design requirements can thus be implemented independent from the choice of interface type. The module is configurable to be mounted to an external structure or to a speech generating system. It may likewise be detachable from a quick release cradle and receive wireless audio signals from the speech generating system.
US11100914B1
A phononic coupler. In some embodiments, the phononic coupler includes a sheet, including a plurality of standard reflectors, and a plurality of divergent reflectors. The divergent reflectors define, among the standard reflectors, a first waveguide, and a second waveguide. The coupler has a first port, at a first end of the coupler, a second port, at the first end of the coupler, and a third port, at a second end of the coupler. The first waveguide has a first end at the first port. The second waveguide has a first end at the second port, and a second end at the third port. The coupler is configured to couple longitudinal sound waves to both the first port and the second port.
US11100906B1
A bow for a stringed musical instrument comprises resilient strips of bamboo, wood, or other wood-like materials, bonded together to form laminated layers. The principal layers are a central core layer, a top layer bonded to a top side of the core layer and a bottom layer bonded to a bottom side of the core layer. Each layer consists of one or more strips. The layers extend longitudinally along the shaft and are oriented perpendicularly to a plane that runs through a central axis of the shaft and a central axis of the hair of the bow. The top layer and the bottom layer preferably each comprise at least one strip of bamboo. The bamboo layers can produce the desired physical and playing characteristics that resemble those made with traditional exotic wood materials. It is beneficial to use bamboo as it is an organic, biodegradable, inexpensive and readily available material.
US11100903B2
An electronic device according to the present invention includes at least one memory and at least one processor which function as: a display controlling unit configured to perform control so as to display a range of a part of a VR content as a display range on a display, and configured to be able to change a position of the display range, wherein the display controlling unit performs control so that, when a part of a VR content that is a display target is a non-video range, a range of a part of the VR content is displayed as a display range and a guide indicating a positional relationship between a video range and the non-video range of the VR content is displayed.
US11100896B1
A display device includes a plurality of LCD displays, a plurality of LED strips, an image splitter, an image extractor, and a driving circuit. Each of the LCD displays displays corresponding split data. The LED strips are disposed among the LCD displays. Each of the LED strips displays patch data according to a corresponding driving signal. The LCD displays and the LED strips form a display wall to display image data. The image splitter splits the image data to generate the split data. The screen extractor generates the patch data according to the image data. The driving circuit generates the driving signals according to the patch data.
US11100892B2
A system may include a display element. The display element may include pixel groups. Each of the pixel groups may include: a first sub-pixel configured to output light of a first color; a second sub-pixel configured to output light of a second color; a third sub-pixel configured to output light of a third color; and a fourth sub-pixel configured to output light, wherein the fourth sub-pixel has a maximum brightness that is dimmer than a maximum brightness of each of the first sub-pixel, the second sub-pixel, and the third sub-pixel.
US11100891B2
An electronic device using an under-display fingerprint identification technology and a waking method of the electronic device are provided. The electronic device includes a display panel, a central processing unit and a fingerprint sensing module. The electronic device executes an operating system. When the central processing unit and the operating system are in a power-saving mode, the fingerprint sensing module enters a default operation mode and the display panel enters an always-on display mode. Then, the fingerprint sensing module senses a specified region of the display panel to acquire a first image. If the content of the first image contains an image of a finger, the fingerprint sensing module issues an interrupt signal to the central processing unit. Consequently, the central processing unit is woken up from the power-saving mode and the operating system is woken up.
US11100884B2
This application discloses a booster circuit of a display panel, a boost control method and a display device. The booster circuit of the display panel includes: a potential boosting circuit, used for boosting a potential of an input signal to generate a drive signal; a current detection circuit, used for detecting a real-time current value of the drive signal and outputting a corresponding detection signal; and a main control circuit in control connection with the potential boosting circuit, the potential boosting circuit outputting the drive signal to an output end of the booster circuit, and the main control circuit controlling the booster circuit to stop outputting the drive signal when the detection signal output by the current detection circuit satisfies a preset condition.
US11100883B2
A source driver 130 includes a first latch 131 outputting a first data signal D1(1) having multiple bits (e.g., eight bits), a second latch 132 outputting a second data signal D2(1) by latching the first data signal D1(1) in a plurality of steps in units of one or more bits, a DAC 133 converting the second data signal D2(1) into an analog signal A(1), and an amplifier 134 receiving the analog signal A(1) to output a source signal S(1). The second latch 132 latches the first data signal D1(1), e.g., one bit at every clock, one bit at every plurality of clocks, a plurality of bits at every clock, or a plurality of bits at every plurality of clocks.
US11100882B1
In a display device that adopts an SSD scheme, a demultiplexer circuit has provided for each source bus line, a compensating transistor whose first conduction terminal is connected to the source bus line and whose second conducting terminal is maintained in a floating state. In such a configuration, for example, at the same timing as a connection control transistor changes from an on state to an off state due to a change from a high level to a low level of a control signal that is supplied to a control terminal of the connection control transistor, a control signal that is supplied to a control terminal of the compensating transistor changes from the low level to the high level.
US11100881B2
A display panel includes an amorphous silicon gate driver in which a lower voltage than the gate-off voltage output from the gate driver is applied to an adjacent stage as a low voltage transmission signal.
US11100873B2
A display system includes a memory, a timing controller, a backlight module, a backlight controller, and a display array. The memory is configured to store a first look-up table and a second look-up table. The timing controller is configured to determine a target illumination value according to a target duty cycle of a backlight control signal and the first look-up table, and determine an original duty cycle according to the target illumination value and the second look-up table, and output the backlight control signal according to the original duty cycle. The backlight controller is configured to control the backlight module according to the backlight control signal. The display array is configured to cooperate with the backlight module to display an image.
US11100872B2
Method and apparatus for mode switching are provided in the disclosure. Aspects of the disclosure provide a method for switching a display mode of a device. The method includes receiving an intensity value of ambient light when the device is in a first control mode in which backlights of a liquid crystal display screen are controlled in order to control a display brightness of the liquid crystal display screen, determining whether the intensity value is less than a predetermined threshold, and when the intensity value is less than the predetermined threshold, controlling the device to enter a second control mode in which voltages provided to data lines of the liquid crystal display screen are scaled according to a ratio in order to control the display brightness of the liquid crystal display screen.
US11100865B2
A display panel includes a substrate and a plurality of pixels arranged on the substrate, and the pixel includes a plurality of sub pixels, and a driving circuit. The sub pixel includes a first electrode layer on the substrate, a light-emitting layer on the first electrode layer, and a second electrode layer on the light-emitting layer. The driving circuit is arranged between the substrate and the first electrode layer, and electrically coupled with the sub pixels. The driving circuit includes a driving control module and a drive line electrically coupled with the driving control module. The driving control module is arranged below a part of the sub pixels electrically coupled with the driving circuit, and the drive line is electrically coupled with the sub pixels, respectively.
US11100864B2
Provided are a data driver and a display driving circuit including the data driver. A data driver configured to drive a display panel including a plurality of subpixels connected to a plurality of sensing lines includes: a plurality of sample-and-hold circuits configured to perform a sampling operation on a plurality of sensing signals received via the plurality of sensing lines; a switching block configured to provide a first sensing signal among the plurality of sensing signals to a first sample-and-hold circuit in a first sensing period, and in a second sensing period, provide the first sensing signal to a second sample-and-hold circuit not being adjacent to the first sample-and-hold circuit in a second sensing period; and a converting circuit configured to generate a plurality of sensing values by amplifying and analog-to-digital converting on outputs of the plurality of sample-and-hold circuits.
