US11133192B2
An embodiment of the present disclosure provides a method of processing a workpiece in which a plurality of holes are formed on a surface of the workpiece. The method includes a first sequence including a first process of forming a film with respect to an inner surface of each of the holes and a second process of isotropically etching the film. The first process includes a film forming process using a plasma CVD method, and the film contains silicon.
US11133191B2
The etching mask 80 for screen printing according to one embodiment of the present invention includes aliphatic polycarbonate. Further, the method of producing an oxide layer (the channel 44) according to one embodiment of the present invention includes: an etching-mask forming step of forming a pattern of the etching mask 80 including aliphatic polycarbonate; a contact step of, after the etching-mask forming step, contacting the oxide layer with a solution for dissolving a portion of the oxide layer (the channel 44) which is not protected by the etching mask 80; and a heating step of, after the contact step, heating the oxide layer (the channel 44) and the etching mask 80 to or above a temperature at which the etching mask 80 is decomposed.
US11133182B2
The disclosure describes a tunneling field effect transistor having an overlapping structure between the source and drain regions providing a greater tunneling area. The source or drain region may be a doped region in a semi-conductive substrate. The other source or drain region may be formed by epitaxial deposition over the doped region. The gate is formed over the epitaxial region where the doped and epitaxial regions overlap. The doped region may be formed in a fin structure with the epitaxial region and gate being formed on the top and sides of the fin.
US11133178B2
Methods for filling a substrate feature with a seamless dielectric gap fill are described. Methods comprise sequentially depositing a film with a seam, etching the the film to form a recess, and depositing a second film in the recess to form a seamless gap fill.
US11133176B2
In a substrate processing method, as a liquid film forming process, a liquid film of a processing liquid covering a surface of a substrate W is formed by supplying the processing liquid onto the surface of the substrate W while rotating the substrate W at a first rotation number. After the liquid film forming process, as a supply stopping process, a rotation number of the substrate W is set to be of a value equal to or less than the first rotation number and a supply of the processing liquid onto the substrate W is stopped. After the supply stopping process, as a liquid amount adjusting process, a liquid amount of the processing liquid forming the liquid film is reduced by setting the rotation number of the substrate W to a rotation number larger than the first rotation number.
US11133175B2
A substrate treating method and a substrate treating apparatus which can reduce the collapse of a pattern on a substrate. The substrate treating method includes a supply step of supplying a process liquid including a sublimable substance in a molten state to a pattern-formed surface of a substrate; a solidification step of solidifying the process liquid on the pattern-formed surface so as to form a solidified body; a sublimation step of subliming the solidified body so as to remove the solidified body from the pattern-formed surface; and an organic substance removal step of removing, when the solidified body is sublimed, an organic substance precipitated on a sublimation interface, and the organic substance removal step is performed so as to overlap at least part of the sublimation step.
US11133153B2
An ion milling device of the present invention is provided with a tilt stage (8) which is disposed in a vacuum chamber (15) and has a tilt axis parallel to a first axis orthogonal to an ion beam, a drive mechanism (9, 51) which has a rotation axis and a tilt axis parallel to a second axis orthogonal to the first axis and rotates or tilts a sample (3), and a switching unit which enables switching between a state in which the ion beam is applied while the sample is rotated or swung while the tilt stage is tilted, and a state in which the ion beams is applied while the tilt stage is brought into an untilted state and the sample is swung. Consequently, the ion milling device capable of performing cross-section processing and flat processing of the sample in the same vacuum chamber is implemented.
US11133149B2
A focused ion beam apparatus (100) includes: a focused ion beam lens column (20); a sample table (51); a sample stage (50); a memory (6M) configured to store in advance three-dimensional data on the sample table and an irradiation axis of the focused ion beam, the three-dimensional data being associated with stage coordinates of the sample stage; a display (7); and a display controller (6A) configured to cause the display to display a virtual positional relationship between the sample table (51v) and the irradiation axis (20Av) of the focused ion beam, which is exhibited when the sample stage is operated to move the sample table to a predetermined position, based on the three-dimensional data on the sample table and the irradiation axis of the focused ion beam.
US11133131B2
A multilayer ceramic electronic component includes a ceramic body comprising dielectric layers and first and second internal electrodes disposed to face each other with respective dielectric layers interposed therebetween. The first internal electrode comprises a body portion contributing to the capacitance generation and a lead-out portion having a narrower width than the body portion and an end exposed from a surface, and the second internal electrode comprises a body portion contributing to the capacitance generation and a lead-out portion having a narrower width than the body portion and an end exposed from another surface. A ratio (w2/w1) of a width (w2) of the lead-out portion of the first and second internal electrodes to a width (w1) of the body portion satisfies 0.3≤w2/w1≤0.5.
US11133127B2
An automatic toroidal core winding machine, including: a frame, control device, clamping and wire arranging mechanism, winding mechanism, wire delivering mechanism, feeding mechanism, automatic stripping mechanism and wire reclaiming device for reclaiming excessive wires around the shuttle, the winding mechanism including a shuttle and driving device for supporting and driving the shuttle to rotate, the shuttle includes a slider and wire storage and hooking aperture, and the frame includes a detecting and positioning mechanism used for positioning the ring opening, the slider and the wire storage and hooking aperture of the shuttle, and a wire hanging device for hanging the wire allowing the shuttle to store and wind the wire. The machine achieves automation from wire delivery, feeding, shuttle opening to wire hanging, wire winding, wire cutting, product taking and wire reclaiming with significantly improved production efficiency, reduced restriction and effect on the quality of winding from manual proficiency.
US11133126B2
A coil component includes a body including an internal coil and first and second external electrodes respectively disposed on outer surfaces of the body. The first and second external electrodes extend from a lower surface of the body to first and second end surfaces connected thereto, respectively. The first external electrode on the first end surface and the second external electrode on the second end surface each include a base portion and an extending portion extending from the base portion in a height direction, having a predetermined height, and having a width narrower than a width of the base portion.
US11133117B2
An atom interferometer system includes a sensor cell comprising alkali metal atoms. An optical system generates first and second interrogation beams having respective first and second frequencies and a circular polarization. The optical system includes optics that provide the first and second interrogation beams through the sensor cell in a first direction and reflect the first and second interrogation beams back through the sensor cell in a second direction opposite the first direction and in a same circular polarization to drive the alkali metal atoms from a first energy state to a greater energy state during an interrogation stage of sequential measurement cycles. A detection system detects a state distribution of a population of the alkali metal atoms between the first energy state and the second energy state during the interrogation stage based on an optical response.
US11133110B2
A rules engine that allows constructing and processing rules within a software application using protocol driven processing. A machine learning algorithm may be used to assess requested procedures that are initially rejected. The machine learning algorithm may also be saved periodically or at the time of each assessment and accessed at a later time.
US11133108B2
A method for improving a machine learning allergy diagnosis process is provided. The method includes identifying databases comprising data identifying menu items served by food establishments. Allergy data defining a food products associated with potential allergens is analyzed in real time and in response, baseline allergen indication software code for defining an allergen baseline indicator is generated. Ingredients of the menu items are analyzed with respect to the allergy data and allergen baseline levels for the ingredients determined. An allergen baseline level for each menu item is determined and an allergen alert software application for alerting a user with respect to each overall allergen assessment is generated.
US11133106B2
A surgical instrument assembly is disclosed. The surgical instrument assembly comprises a housing, a shaft assembly configured to be operably attached to the housing, a retraction assembly configured to manually retract a firing member, and a lock operably coupled with the retraction assembly and a drive unit.
US11133101B2
This disclosure relates generally to clinical trial management, and more particularly to method of performing a data driven cognitive clinical trial feasibility analysis. In one embodiment, the method comprising (a) receiving, a plurality of protocol requirements to initiate a clinical trial site feasibility; (b) identifying, a plurality of meta-data for at least one protocol requirement from the plurality of protocol requirements; (c) obtaining, an exhaustive list of historic clinical trial site data for the identified meta-data from a site data repository; (d) obtaining, an exhaustive list of third party clinical trial site data for identified meta-data from a third party data repository; and (e) assessing, the exhaustive list of clinical trial site data and the exhaustive list of third party clinical trial site data to obtain a list of identified clinical trial site feasibility.
US11133098B2
A system and method for the preparation of food is provided. The system utilizes a nutritional information module which allows nutritional information to be aggregated for an entire menu along with portion information and the ability to adjust serving weight by preferred caloric value for any individual recipe. The system also utilizes a scheduler module which compiles task information for any individual recipe items per paragraph. The schedule module may have any plurality of different task times including a passive task time and/or an active task time and may time stamp the time it takes to prepare any specific recipe. The schedule may compile cook information and store information in a memory bank for analysis of the individual cook's cooking style and cook time. Moreover, the system may also provide a feedback module which uses personal time co-efficients to predict how long it should take for any particular menu choice preparation. Additionally, the system may include any of a recipe data module, organizer module, shopping assistant modules and a recommendation module to help the individual cook decide of menu pairings for any particular recipe as well as source and purchase recipes, required ingredients, and required cookware and utensils.
US11133097B2
The invention concerns a medical treatment system (1), comprising: a medical treatment device (10), wherein the medical treatment device comprises input means (11) for selecting a treatment, wherein the medical treatment device comprises a device (12) for generating a patient-related and a treatment-related request code, wherein the request code is presented (13) on the medical treatment device (10), a therapy-enabling device (20), wherein the therapy-enabling device (20) comprises a device (21) for receiving request code data, wherein the therapy-enabling device (20) furthermore comprises an enabling code generating device (22) which, as a function of a received request code and stored data (DB), decides whether an enabling code will be generated and sends the generated request code (23), wherein the medical treatment device (10) furthermore comprises means for entering an enabling code (11, 14), wherein the medical treatment device (10) decides, at least as a function of the enabling code and optionally the previously generated request code, whether and if necessary how the requested treatment will be enabled.
US11133096B2
A system, apparatus and method are thereby provided for the non-invasive motion tracking to augment patient administered physical therapy via a motion tracking apparatus, a display, and a computing platform coupled to the motion tracking apparatus and the display. The computing platform serves to provide a menu driven interface to the patient, an instruction to the patient, a determination of the patient's motion or action in response to the instruction, a comparison between the instruction to the patient and the determination of the patient's motion or action, and to provide a feedback display to the patient. In certain embodiments, the system, apparatus and methods further includes a social networking link. In yet other embodiments, a live telemedicine link is provided, and optionally triggered based upon detection of an alert or alarm condition. In yet other embodiments, rehab tools are utilized.
US11133090B2
A stateless, on-demand semantic indexing and search service for a health information exchange is provided that anticipatorily fetches data from one or more external sources, extracts semantic concepts from textual documents, and serves an in-memory semantic search index to users to ease finding of relevant patient data across a set of distributed health record data sources. Clinicians may search for not only text, but for semantic concepts, and the search index is able to return relevant results regardless of whether the source information is located inside or outside the local electronic health record. Predictive algorithms may be incorporated to pre-fetch, semantically process and index data for patients likely to be searched in an upcoming time window. Activity indicators for clinicians and patients may be utilized to pre-fetch, semantically process, and index data.
US11133085B2
The present invention relates to methods for evaluating and/or predicting the outcome of a clinical condition, such as cancer, metastasis, AIDS, autism, Alzheimer's, and/or Parkinson's disorder. The methods can also be used to monitor and track changes in a patient's DNA and/or RNA during and following a clinical treatment regime. The methods may also be used to evaluate protein and/or metabolite levels that correlate with such clinical conditions. The methods are also of use to ascertain the probability outcome for a patient's particular prognosis.
US11133084B2
Determination of a nucleic acid sequence using sequence reads of the nucleic acid. The reads, in sets of reads, include a first portion for a subset of the nucleic acid and a common second portion identifying a reaction partition that formed the read, where the partition has the subset of the nucleic acid in the form of a fragment. A set of k-mers is created for a read, with identifiers of the source reads for each k-mer are retained. The k-mers are used to determine whether to derive a contig sequence representative of the nucleic acid, where the contig comprises an origin node comprising a first set of overlapping k-mers and one of a first destination node comprising a second set of overlapping k-mers and a second destination node comprising a third set of overlapping k-mers. The sequence of the nucleic acid is assembled using at least the contig.
US11133082B2
The non-volatile semiconductor memory device comprises a non-volatile semiconductor memory, a controller for controlling the non-volatile semiconductor memory, the controller includes a reset terminal capable of receiving a reset signal from a host, an interface circuit capable of receiving a sleep command, and a data storing circuit, when the reset signal is received in a state which the interface circuit is being supplied with power, the data storing circuit is reset, when a sleep command is received in a state which the interface circuit is being supplied with power, the data necessary for communication with the host or the non-volatile semiconductor memory device is stored into the data storing circuit and power to the interface circuit is interrupted and when the reset signal is received in a state which power to the interface circuit is interrupted, the data is read from the data storing circuit.
US11133081B2
In a receiver having at least a first equalizer and a sampler, a calibration module jointly calibrates a reference voltage and one or more equalizer coefficients. For each of a set of test reference voltages, an equalizer coefficient for the first equalizer may be learned that maximizes a right eye boundary of an eye diagram of a sampler input signal to a sampler of the receiver following the equalization stage. Then, from the possible pairs of reference voltages and corresponding optimal equalizer coefficients, a pair is identified that maximizes an eye width of the eye diagram. After setting the reference voltage, the first equalizer coefficient may then be adjusted together with learning a second equalizer coefficient for the second equalizer using a similar technique.
US11133076B2
A storage system includes a plurality of solid-state storage devices and a storage controller operatively coupled to the plurality of solid-state storage devices, the storage controller including a processing device, the processing device to receive, from a first solid-state storage device of the plurality of solid-state storage devices, an indication that data stored at the first solid-state storage device is affected by read disturb. In response to receiving the indication, the processing device is further to identify a second solid-state storage device of the plurality of solid-state storage devices for the relocation of the data and transmit, to the first solid-state storage device, a command comprising information associated with the relocation of the data from the first solid-state storage device to the second solid-state storage device, wherein the command causes the first solid-state storage device to relocate the data to the second solid-state storage device.
US11133054B2
A semiconductor device includes a read write control circuit, a bank group selection signal generation circuit, and a bank group address generation circuit. The read write control circuit generates a read bank group selection signal from an external control signal to perform a read operation and generates a write command pulse from the external control signal to perform a write operation. The bank group selection signal generation circuit stores a bank address based on the write command pulse and outputs the stored bank address as a bank group selection signal at a time different from a time that the bank address is stored. The bank group address generation circuit generates a bank group address and an internal bank group address for performing a column operation of a cell array included in a bank group selected based on the read bank group selection signal and the bank group selection signal.
US11133049B2
A memory architecture for 3-dimensional thyristor cell arrays is disclosed. Thyristor memory cells are connected in a 3-dimensional cross-point array to form a bit line cluster. The bit line clusters are connected in parallel to sense amplifier and write circuits through multiplexer/demultiplexer circuits. Control circuits select one of the bit line clusters during a read or write operation while the non-selected bit line clusters are not activated to avoid disturbs and power consumption in the non-selected bit line clusters. The bit line clusters, multiplexer/demultiplexer circuits, and sense amplifier and write circuits from a memory array tile (MAT).
US11133047B2
Methods, systems, and devices for digit line management for a memory array are described. A memory array may include a plate that is common to a plurality of memory cells. Each memory cell associated with the common plate may be coupled with a respective digit line. One or more memory cells common to the plate may be accessed by concurrently selecting the plate and each digit line associated with the plate. Concurrent selection of all digit lines associated with the plate may be supported by shield lines between the selected digit lines. Additionally or alternatively, selection of all digit lines associated with the plate may be supported by improved sensing schemes and related amplifier configurations.
US11133043B2
According to one implementation of the present disclosure, an integrated circuit includes first and second word-line decoder circuitry; one or more core arrays, respective input/output (I/O) circuitry for each of the one or more core arrays, and control circuitry coupled to the first and second word-line decoder circuitries, the one or more core arrays, and the respective I/O circuitries. Also, one or more control signals, activated from one or more control signals generated in the control circuitry, may be configured to select corresponding one or more core arrays of the one or more core arrays.
US11133040B2
A semiconductor memory device includes: a temperature sensor configured to sense an internal temperature of the semiconductor memory device and generate a temperature signal; and a temperature code storage unit configured to receive the temperature signal in response to a temperature code write control signal that is generated when an operation corresponding to a specific command is performed, generate an operating temperature code corresponding to the temperature signal, compare the operating temperature code with a previously stored temperature code, store a larger temperature code of the operating temperature code and the previously stored temperature code as a maximum temperature code, and output the maximum temperature code to an external source in response to a temperature code read control signal.
US11133032B1
A method includes detecting a read error during a first read operation by a read sensor on a first track on a data storage medium. The method also includes, after the read error is detected, performing a second read operation by the read sensor on the first track, carrying out bit error value (BEV) measurements for the second read operation, and determining, from the BEV measurements, whether the read sensor produces a marginal BEV, which is between first and second predetermined BEV thresholds. In response to determining that the read sensor produces the marginal BEV, a third read operation by the read sensor on the first track is carried out, and BEV measurements for the third read operation are performed. When the BEV measurements from the second and third read operations meet at least one predetermined read sensor instability criterion, it is concluded that the read sensor is unstable.
US11133031B2
A multilayer exchange spring recording media consists of a magnetically hard magnetic storage layer strongly exchange coupled to a softer nucleation host. The strong exchange coupling can be through a coupling layer or direct. The hard magnetic storage layer has a strong perpendicular anisotropy. The nucleation host consists of one or more ferromagnetic coupled layers. For a multilayer nucleation host the anisotropy increases from layer to layer. The anisotropy in the softest layer of the nucleation host can be two times smaller than that of the hard magnetic storage layer. The lateral exchange between the grains is small. The nucleation host decreases the coercive field significantly while keeping the energy barrier of the hard layer almost unchanged. The coercive field of the total structure depends on one over number of layers in the nucleation host. The invention proposes a recording media that overcomes the writeability problem of perpendicular recording media.
US11133028B2
A magnetoresistance effect element has a first ferromagnetic metal layer, a second ferromagnetic metal layer, and a tunnel barrier layer that is sandwiched between the first and second ferromagnetic metal layers, the tunnel barrier layer is expressed by a chemical formula of AB2Ox, and has a spinel structure in which cations are arranged in a disordered manner, A represents a divalent cation that is either Mg or Zn, and B represents a trivalent cation that includes a plurality of elements selected from the group consisting of Al, Ga, and In.
US11133018B2
In one aspect, a first playback device is configured to (i) receive a set of voice signals, (ii) process the set of voice signals using a first set of audio processing algorithms, (iii) identify, from the set of voice signals, at least two voice signals that are to be further processed, (iv) determine that the first playback device does not have a threshold amount of computational power available, (v) receive an indication of an available amount of computational power of a second playback device, (vi) send the at least two voice signals to the second playback device, (vii) cause the second playback device to process the at least two voice signals using a second set of audio processing algorithms, (viii) receive, from the second playback device, the processed at least two voice signals, and (ix) combine the processed at least two voice signals into a combined voice signal.
US11133017B2
A system for enhancing artificial reverberation in a noisy listening space includes a sensor configured to generate a signal indicating a current noise level in a listening space, a loudspeaker configured to output sound in the listening space based on an output signal, and at least one processor. The at least one processor is configured to execute instructions to: generate an artificial reverberation signal based on a source signal and a response of a listening space, wherein the artificial reverberation signal includes a first low output-level portion having output levels that are below a compression threshold level and a first high output-level portion having output levels that are above the compression threshold level; generate a compressed artificial reverberation signal based on the artificial reverberation signal by increasing the output levels of the low output-level portion by a first magnitude and increasing the output levels of the high output-level portion by less than the first magnitude; and combine the compressed artificial reverberation signal with the source signal to form an output signal for the listening space.
US11133015B2
A method of predicting a channel parameter of an original signal from a downmix signal is disclosed. The method may include generating an input feature map to be used to predict a channel parameter of the original signal based on a downmix signal of an original signal, determining an output feature map including a predicted parameter to be used to predict the channel parameter by applying the input feature map to a neural network, generating a label map including information associated with the channel parameter of the original signal, and predicting the channel parameter of the original signal by comparing the output feature map and the label map.
US11133014B2
A multi-channel signal encoding method and an encoder, where the encoding method includes obtaining a multi-channel signal of a current frame, determining an initial multi-channel parameter of the current frame, determining a difference parameter based on the initial multi-channel parameter of the current frame and multi-channel parameters of previous K frames of the current frame, where the difference parameter represents a difference between the initial multi-channel parameter of the current frame and the multi-channel parameters of the previous K frames, and K is an integer greater than or equal to one, determining a multi-channel parameter of the current frame based on the difference parameter and a characteristic parameter of the current frame, and encoding the multi-channel signal based on the multi-channel parameter of the current frame. Hence, the method and the encoder ensure better accuracy of inter-channel information of a multi-channel signal.
US11133008B2
Systems and processes for selectively processing and responding to a spoken user input are provided. In one example, audio input containing a spoken user input can be received at a user device. The spoken user input can be identified from the audio input by identifying start and end-points of the spoken user input. It can be determined whether or not the spoken user input was intended for a virtual assistant based on contextual information. The determination can be made using a rule-based system or a probabilistic system. If it is determined that the spoken user input was intended for the virtual assistant, the spoken user input can be processed and an appropriate response can be generated. If it is instead determined that the spoken user input was not intended for the virtual assistant, the spoken user input can be ignored and/or no response can be generated.
US11133007B2
A system and a method for providing information based on speech recognition are provided. The system for providing information based on speech recognition includes a vehicle, and a server that provides an automatic wake-up context of a speech recognition function based on driving environment information and vehicle information of the vehicle, receives speech information associated with the automatic wake-up context from the vehicle, and generates service information through processing of the received speech information to provide the service information to another vehicle, wherein the vehicle automatically obtains the speech information by using the speech recognition when the automatic wake-up context is uttered, and transmits the speech information to the server.
US11132995B2
An artificial intelligence server for setting a language of a robot includes a communication unit and a processor. The communication unit is configured to communicate with the robot. The processor is configured to receive voice data for a control area from the robot, generate first language distribution information using the received voice data, receive event information for the control area, generate second language distribution information using the received event information, determine at least one major output language for the robot based on the generated first language distribution information and the generated second language distribution information, and transmit a control signal for setting the determined major output language to the robot.
US11132994B1
A system for processing user utterances and/or text based queries that tracks context data of a current dialog between the system and the user, can determine values for slots by determining if the value was mentioned in a previous turn of the dialog. The system may employ a question-answer model and construct a question including the domain name, slot name, and potential slot values. The system may process the previous turns of the dialog and the constructed question to determine the slot value. The system may track a dialog that relates to multiple domains and may determine the slot value based on a slot value that is mentioned in relation to another domain.
US11132991B2
Disclosed are a response device determination method and a response device determination apparatus. The method includes receiving audio signals from a plurality of devices respectively; extracting a plurality of distance information indicative of distances between the user and the plurality of devices from the audio signals respectively; and determining a response device to respond to the wake-up voice using the extracted plurality of distance information, wherein the response device is determined based on at least one of first and second steps according to a predetermined condition, wherein the first step includes comparing the extracted plurality of distance information with each other and determining the response device based on the comparison result, wherein the second step includes applying the extracted plurality of distance information to a deep neural network (DNN) model to obtain an application result and determining the response device based on the application result. Thus, in an environment where a plurality of devices recognize the same wake-up voice, the method may select a device to respond to a wake-up voice in response to a single utterance from the user so as to reflect intention of the user.
US11132988B1
A computer implemented method comprising: receiving input data relating to a speech or text signal originating from a user; representing the input data as a first sequence of first representations, each representing a unit of the input data; representing the input data as a second sequence of second representations, each representing one of the units of the input data; using a model to determine a tag sequence from the first sequence of first representations, wherein the model comprises an attention layer using the second sequence of second representations, wherein the tag sequence comprises one or more tags from a set of tags comprising a first tag; if one or more units of the input data correspond to the first tag, determining a system dialogue act based on the part of the input data corresponding to the first tag; and outputting speech or text information specified by the determined dialogue act.
US11132983B2
There is disclosed a music yielding system including a controller, a music yielding device, a music analyzing device, and a musical data transferring device. The music yielding device may yield one or more sets of musical notes conforming to one or more attributes. The controller may cause one or more criteria to be set determining conformance of one or more of the sets of musical notes to one or more of the attributes. The music analyzing device may calculate and transmit one or more correlations within one or more of the sets of musical notes. The musical data transferring device may transfer one or more of the sets of musical notes between one or more origins and one or more destinations.
US11132979B2
A correction device for correcting luminance of a display image based on background illuminance and transmittance of a transparent display panel, a transparent display device using the same, and a method for driving the display device are discussed. The correction device can correct luminance of a display image in real time based on a background-affected illuminance of a transparent display panel. Further, an optimal peak luminance of the display image is adjusted based on the background-affected illuminance of the transparent display panel, while adding a weight to a dark environment such that the peak luminance is further lowered, thereby reducing an amount of power consumption while maintaining display quality of the transparent display image.
US11132972B2
Disclosed is a method for spreading spectrum, which includes: acquiring a modulation signal corresponding to a clock signal, when the clock signal is detected; and spectrum spreading the clock signal according to the modulation signal, wherein the modulation signals respectively corresponding to two adjacent clock signals are opposite in phase. The present disclosure further provides a chip, a display panel, and a computer readable storage medium. The present disclosure solves the technical problem of poor spread spectrum effect on dual clock signals.
US11132970B2
Disclosed are a driving device, a driving method and a display apparatus of a display panel, the display array of which has two kinds of gate driving lines for sub-pixels in the same row. The pixels in the odd-numbered column has a different gate driving signals with those in the even-numbered column. The driving time sequence of the main gate driving signals is the original gates driving time sequence corresponding to the low voltage subpixels in the row direction, and the driving time sequence of the sub-gate driving signals is the gate driving time sequence and the source driving time sequence corresponding to the previous high voltage subpixels that is adjacent to the low voltage subpixels. As such, the charging capability is different of sub-pixels on two adjacent rows of gate driving lines for the same drive voltage.
US11132968B2
A gate on array (GOA) circuit and a built-in touch display panel are provided. The GOA circuit collects a scan signal from a GOA unit, detects whether the scan signal from the GOA unit is abnormal in order to identify an abnormal GOA unit, and then restores a scan signal from the abnormal GOA unit.
US11132962B2
The present disclosure describes a data transmission method, a timing controller, a source driver, and a data transmission system. The method includes: when the timing controller transmits data to the source driver at a speed n times a preset speed, the timing controller suspends transmission of valid data with the source driver after completing transmission of a first data packet; and the transmission of valid data with the source driver is resumed at a transmitting time of a second data packet; the first data packet and the second data packet each includes valid data of a row of sub-pixels, or each includes valid data of a frame. The present disclosure completes the transmission of the first data packet in advance by increasing the transmission speed, then suspends the data transmission, and resumes the data transmission at the transmitting time of the second data packet, thereby reducing the power consumption.
US11132960B1
A backlight driving method is provided to include generating switching signals based on an internal synchronization control (ISC) signal related to refreshing of images on the display, a clock signal, and delay commands contained in a serial input signal that further contains an image stream. A time delay of each switching signal with respect to the ISC signal is determined by the clock signal and a respective delay command, and the time delays of the switching signals are different from one another. The method further includes generating driving signals based on the ISC signal, the clock signal and the serial input signal; and outputting the signals thus generated, to drive the backlight module to emit light in a line scan manner.
US11132950B2
Provided is an electro-optical device including a display region including a pixel circuit and a data line corresponding to the pixel circuit, a data line drive circuit configured to output a gradation voltage, and a first capacitor configured to hold a gradation voltage output from the data line drive circuit, and the capacitor is provided in the display region.
US11132947B2
Disclosed is a display substrate and a display apparatus, the display substrate includes a display area and a peripheral area, wherein the display substrate includes M groups of shift registers and N groups of clock signal lines in the peripheral area, M is greater than or equal to N, M and N are positive integers, each group of shift registers is connected with a group of gate lines positioned in the display area, and adjacent N groups of shift registers are connected with N groups of clock signal lines one by one correspondingly. The N groups of clock signal lines are disposed side by side along a first direction, and configured to make, through an adjustment of a wiring sequence, an impedance difference between two groups of clock signal lines connected to any two adjacent groups of shift registers be less than or equal to an impedance threshold value.
US11132945B2
A display device includes a display module, a first adhesive member including a thermal initiator and directly disposed on a rear surface of the display module, a sensor unit directly disposed on the first adhesive member, and a second adhesive member including a photoinitiator and directly disposed on at least a portion of the first adhesive member and the rear surface of the display module.
US11132942B2
A light-emitting diode (LED) display device includes a display part having LED elements arranged in a matrix structure including scan lines and data lines. The LED display device also includes a scan driver driving the scan lines and each of the scan lines is controlled using a discharge voltage at a discharge timing. The LED display device also includes a data compensation part which compensates driving data of each of the data lines to generate the compensation data of each of the data lines using a compensation value to compensate for a difference in luminous intensity slope of the LED element due to a difference in the number of luminescence data lines at the unit scan timing. Thus, a crosstalk phenomenon of the display image due to a difference in the number of data lines simultaneously sourced is decreased.
US11132940B2
A display system includes a light emitting array and a driving circuit. The light emitting array includes: a plurality of scan lines, a plurality of channel lines, and a plurality of light emitting elements connected to the scan lines and the channel lines. The driving circuit includes: a delay-locked loop generating an internal global clock signal; a signal processor generating a scan control output and a channel control output based on the internal global clock signal and display data; a scan driver driving the scan lines based on the scan control output; and a channel driver providing a plurality of driving current signals respectively to the channel lines based on the channel control signal.
US11132935B2
Provided are correction pattern obtaining apparatuses and methods of obtaining a correction pattern by using the correction pattern obtaining apparatuses. The correction pattern obtaining apparatus includes a flat panel display having an optical element that receives one or more input test patterns, a detector that measures intensity of light emitted from the flat panel display corresponding to each of the one or more input test patterns and a processor that determines a correction pattern comprising one or more of the one or more test patterns at a given ratio based on the measured intensity of light corresponding to each of the one or more input test patterns.
US11132933B2
A circuit device includes a first input terminal, a second input terminal, a reception circuit including a non-inverted input terminal and an inverted input terminal, a first signal line electrically coupling a non-inverted input terminal of the reception circuit and the first input terminal and having a first coupling node and a second coupling node, a second signal line electrically coupling an inverted input terminal of the reception circuit and the second input terminal and having a third coupling node and fourth coupling node, a first variable capacitance circuit having an end coupled to the first coupling node and another end coupled to the second coupling node, and a second variable capacitance circuit having an end coupled to the third coupling node and another end coupled to the fourth coupling node.
US11132920B2
A system provides an intervention for a user and comprises at least one processor. The system monitors behavior and context of a user to generate a behavior history. One or more models are utilized to determine an intervention for the user to induce a behavior modification, wherein the one or more models map interventions to user context and behavior and utilize the behavior history to determine an effective intervention for the user. The intervention is provided to the user and feedback is received in response to the intervention. The one or more models are updated based on the feedback. Embodiments of the present invention further include a method and computer program product for providing an intervention to a user in substantially the same manner described above.
US11132914B2
A method for health education, certification, and recordation is disclosed. The method may include obtaining, at a server, a user input from a user interface. The user input may define an interval for a desired CPR certification schedule. The method may include generating, at the server, a CPR certification program. Generating the CPR certification program may include generating at least two task groups. Each task group of the at least two task groups may include a healthcare certification task. The method may include administering, at the server, the CPR certification program. Administering the CPR certification program may include assigning, at the interval defined by the user input, one task group of the at least two task groups to a user enrolled in the CPR certification program, and receiving an indication that the enrolled user has completed the healthcare certification task of the assigned one task group.
US11132913B1
Systems and methods are provided for acquiring physical-world data indicative of interactions of a subject with an avatar for evaluation. An interactive avatar is provided for interaction with the subject. Speech from the subject to the avatar is captured, and automatic speech recognition is performed to determine content of the subject speech. Motion data from the subject interacting with the avatar is captured. A next action of the interactive avatar is determined based on the content of the subject speech or the motion data. The next action of the avatar is implemented, and a score for the subject is determined based on the content of the subject speech and the motion data.
US11132902B2
Techniques for parking space light are provided. A parking space light can identify, via one or more instruments of the parking space light, a set of parking spaces in a defined region of a parking structure in which the parking space light is installed, monitor, via the one or more instruments, the set of parking spaces, and determine respective occupied statuses of parking spaces of the set of parking spaces, wherein the respective occupied statuses indicate whether the parking spaces are occupied or unoccupied.
US11132894B2
Techniques operate a safety processing installation. Such techniques involve remote operation using a radio remote control unit and a controller assigned to the safety processing installation. A distance monitoring unit determines a distance between the radio remote control unit and the controller. Such components are able to communicate with each other to derive an enable signal for a safety processing procedure from the distance D transmitted from the radio remote control unit or the distance monitoring unit to the controller or the radio remote control unit or a signal corresponding to the distance D and a predetermined safety distance D min, and accordingly to transmit the enable signal to the controller. The controller is additionally configured to trigger a safety processing procedure on the basis of the presence of a user-induced start signal and the enable signal in the controller.
US11132891B2
Devices, methods, and systems for a self-testing fire sensing device are described herein. One device includes an adjustable particle generator and a variable airflow generator configured to generate an aerosol density level sufficient to trigger a fire response without saturating an optical scatter chamber and the optical scatter chamber configured to measure a rate at which the aerosol density level decreases after the aerosol density level has been generated, determine an airflow rate from an external environment through the optical scatter chamber based on the measured rate at which the aerosol density level decreases, and determine whether the self-testing fire sensing device is functioning properly based on the fire response and the determined airflow rate.
US11132884B2
A device for detecting a hazardous condition in an area includes a housing defining a chamber. There is at least one smoke sensing device for detecting the presence of smoke in the chamber. An extremely-high frequency detector includes at least one extremely-high frequency transmitter positioned relative to at least one extremely-high frequency receiver.
US11132883B2
A control system of a detection system for measuring one or more conditions within a predetermined area includes a control unit having at least one processor for implementing an algorithm and a fiber harness having at least one fiber optic cable for transmitting light, the at least one fiber optic cable defining at least one node arranged to measure the one or more conditions. A sensor is operably coupled to the at least one node, wherein the sensor receives scattered light associated with the at least one node and generates signals corresponding to the scattered light. A switch is operably coupled to the sensor and to the control unit. The switch selectively provides signals from the sensor to the control unit for processing to determine at least one of a presence and magnitude of the condition within the predetermined area.
US11132880B2
A system for tracking the location of people as the people move between zones, the system including tracking devices and a central tracking system. The tracking devices each monitor a zone and include a video camera, infrared sensors for detecting people in the zone, an antenna for detecting wireless signals from devices carried by people in the zone that provide unique device identifiers, a light and a processor that communicates with the central tracking system. The processor turns the light on when the infrared sensor detects a person in the zone and analyzes video data from the camera to determine the location of the person, which is sent to the central processor which creates a personal identifier for the person based on the unique identifier of a device carried by the person and tracks the person as the person moves between zones.
US11132864B2
Various embodiments may include an apparatus operable to determine a value of a statistic describing cards that have been dealt from a deck.
US11132863B2
Embodiments disclosed herein concern mobile gaming environments. Portable electronic devices can be supported by the mobile gaming environments. The locations of the portable electronic device can influence how the portable electronic devices operate or what services or features are available to the portable electronic device or their users. According to one embodiment, a mobile gaming system can concern gaming/betting opportunities that can be secured using a portable electronic device even when an individual is located in a location where betting or games of chance are not permitted. According to another embodiment, a mobile gaming system can concern an application program operating on a portable electronic device that supports multiple modes of operation depending upon whether the portable electronic device is in a location where betting or games of chance are permitted.
US11132859B2
A banknote processing device comprises a banknote transport path defined at least in part by a transport plate on one side of the banknote transport path, the banknote transport plate being pivotally mounted about a first axis near an upstream end of the transport plate, the transport plate including a working position and an open position, a display assembly being pivotally mounted about a second axis spaced a defined distance apart from the first axis, the display assembly including an operational position and a non-operational position, and a linkage coupled to display assembly and to the transport plate near a downstream end of the transport plate, wherein, when the display assembly is rotated from the operational position to the non-operational position, the linkage causes the transport plate to move from the working position to the open position.
US11132853B1
A system receives vehicle metric data from a gateway device connected to a vehicle. The vehicle gateway device gathers data related to operation of the vehicle and/or location data. The system receives data from multiple vehicles and multiple fleets. The system uses machine learning to identify cohorts for fleets. The system calculates metrics for fleets and benchmarks for the cohorts. The system presents the metrics and benchmarks in a graphical user interface.
US11132847B2
A vehicle includes an onboard power source, a vehicle interface, and a controller. The controller, responsive to an external power application drawing power from the onboard power source, outputs a power source time to empty for display by the vehicle interface. The power source time to empty is derived from a location of the vehicle and a power drawn from the onboard power source by the external power application.
US11132846B2
A rendering section renders a virtual space object to generate a computer graphics image. A superimposing section superimposes the computer graphics image on a captured real space image to generate a provisional superimposed image. A post-processing section performs post-processing on the provisional superimposed image. A chroma key generation section performs chroma key processing on the computer graphics image on the basis of depth information regarding the captured real space image, to thereby generate a chroma key image. A composing section masks the provisional superimposed image subjected to the post-processing with the chroma key image, to thereby generate a composed chroma key image. The composed chroma key image is superimposed on the captured real space image to generate an augmented reality image.
US11132845B2
A method for object recognition includes, at a computing device, receiving an image of a real-world object. An identity of the real-world object is recognized using an object recognition model trained on a plurality of computer-generated training images. A digital augmentation model corresponding to the real-world object is retrieved, the digital augmentation model including a set of augmentation-specific instructions. A pose of the digital augmentation model is aligned with a pose of the real-world object. An augmentation is provided, the augmentation associated with the real-world object and specified by the augmentation-specific instructions.
US11132840B2
A method and a device for controlling at least one device in a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes rendering a digital representation of a real world environment on a display unit, wherein the digital representation includes a graphical representation of the at least one device based on a status information of the at least one device; receiving a user-input indicating control information of the at least one device; and controlling one or more operations of the at least one device in the real world environment based on the control information.
US11132838B2
An immersive content presentation system and techniques that can detect and correct lighting artifacts caused by movements of one or more taking camera in a performance area consisting of multiple displays (e.g., LED or LCD displays). The techniques include capturing, with a camera, a plurality of images of a performer performing in a performance area at least partially surrounded by one or more displays presenting images of a virtual environment. Where the images of the virtual environment within a frustum of the camera are updated on the one or more displays based on movement of the camera, and images of the virtual environment outside of the frustum of the camera are not updated based on movement of the camera. The techniques further include generating content based on the plurality of captured images.
US11132828B2
Methods and systems may provide for an apparatus having a graphics processing unit (GPU) and a non-volatile memory dedicated to the GPU. If a request for content is detected, a determination may be made as to whether the non-volatile memory contains the content.
US11132824B2
A face image processing method includes: performing face detection on a to-be-processed image, to obtain at least one face region image included in the to-be-processed image and face key point information in the at least one face region image; and processing, for the at least one face region image, an image corresponding to a first region and/or an image corresponding to a second region in the face region image at least according to the face key point information in the face region image, wherein the image corresponding to the second region and the image corresponding to the first region are at least partially non-overlapping.
US11132823B2
Object display control unit causes an object to be displayed on display surface. Scroll instruction detecting unit detects an instruction to scroll the object displayed on touch-screen as a movement instruction. Gradation level setting unit sets a gradation level of the image displayed on display surface. Gradation level setting unit, when notified by scroll instruction detecting unit that a scroll instruction has been detected, reduces the gradation level of the image, for example, from a 256-gradation level to a 2-gradation level. Object display control unit converts the object represented by object data into an object expressed in the reduced gradation level, and causes the resultant object to be displayed.
US11132813B2
A distance to an object is estimated with a monocular camera that estimates a distance from a moving object to feature points on an image from an imaging device mounted on the moving object. The distance estimator sets one or more feature points on the image acquired from the imaging device at a first timing and detects the feature point on the image acquired from the imaging device at a second timing. The distance estimator also determines the movement amount of the feature point on the image between the first timing and the second timing and determines the movement amount of the moving object between the first and second timings. The distance estimator then estimates the distance from the moving object to the feature point based on the movement amount on the image and the movement amount of the moving object between the first and second timings.
US11132802B2
Moving objects are detected from a temporal sequence of images captured from successive viewpoints. Image flow vectors are computed from the temporal sequence of images, for example of flow between difference images derived from the sequence. An average direction of the image flow vectors associated with displacement of image areas between a first image and a second image derived from temporal sequence of images is computed. Preferably, a method of averaging is used that is designed to suppress the effect of outliers. Regions are determined in the first image. For each of the identified regions along range of positions along the computed average direction from a position of the identified region, it is determined whether or not there is a match between first image content in the identified region in the first image and second image content in a patch located within said range of positions in the second image. The set of identified regions is reduced by removing identified regions for which it was determined in said determining step that there was a match.
US11132799B2
A method for classifying diabetic retina images based on deep learning includes: obtaining a fundus image; importing the same fundus image into a microhemangioma lesion recognition model, a hemorrhage lesion recognition model and an exudation lesion recognition model for recognition; extracting lesion feature information from the recognition results, and then using a trained support vector machine classifier to classify the extracted lesion feature information to obtain a classification result. The microhemangioma lesion recognition model is obtained by extracting a candidate microhemangioma lesion region in the fundus image and inputting it into a CNN model for training; the hemorrhage lesion recognition model and the exudation lesion recognition model are obtained by labeling a region in the fundus image as a hemorrhage lesion region and an exudation lesion region, and then inputting the result into an FCN model for training. A system for the same is also disclosed.
US11132795B2
A medical image processing apparatus includes: a medical image acquisition unit that acquires a medical image including a subject image; a display unit that displays a plurality of the medical images; an abnormal region determination unit that determines an abnormal region by using the medical images; a malignancy discrimination unit that discriminates a degree of malignancy of an abnormality included in the abnormal region; and a display control unit that emphasizes or suppresses display of at least some medical images among the plurality of medical images by using the degree of malignancy, in displaying the plurality of medical images on the display unit.
US11132793B2
A method, computer system, and a computer program product for case-adaptive image quality assessment is provided. The present invention may include detecting a current set of features in a current exam associated with a patient. The present invention may also include calculating a current set of quality measurements for the current exam based on the detected current set of features. The present invention may further include in response to determining that the calculated current set of quality measurements for the current exam is below a patient-specific image quality threshold defined by at least one prior exam associated with the patient, automatically registering a negative quality assessment for the current exam associated with the patient.
US11132781B1
Camera heads for use in pipe inspection systems are disclosed. In one embodiment a camera head includes a body, an image sensor disposed in the body for generating images of an interior of a pipe or cavity in which the camera head is inserted, and processing circuitry operatively coupled to the image sensor to automatically capture images or video frames by the camera head within the object.
US11132774B2
An apparatus and method for insuring the proper alignment of a detected vein pattern and a projected vein pattern are disclosed. The apparatus enhances the visual appearance of veins so that an error that can lead to improper patient care or injury can be avoided.
US11132769B2
An image processor (IP) and a related method. The processor (IP) comprises an input interface (IN) for receiving an input sequence (F) of frames acquired by an imaging apparatus (IA). A temporal noise filter (NP) of the processor (IP) is configured to bidirectionally process the input sequence into at least two noise processed sequences (FLR, FRL). A merger (SUM) of the processor (IP) is configured to merge said at least two noise processed sequences into an output sequence (Formula (A)).
US11132758B2
Methods, devices, and computer-program products are provided for adding data to a digital video signal in a visually imperceptible manner. For example, a region of pixels can be identified in a video frame, and one or more pixel characteristics of the region of pixels can be determined. Based on the one or more pixel characteristics of the region of pixels, at least one pixel characteristic of a subset of pixels from the region of pixels can be modified in order to encode a set of data into the region of pixels. An output frame can be provided that includes the modified at least one pixel characteristics for the subset of pixels.
US11132751B2
A network of sensors is utilized to capture and relay data that is relevant to specific types of insurance coverage. Sensors included in the network can be deployed as specialized devices, or can be found in existing consumer products. Behavioral and environmental data collected from the sensor network is used to establish a feedback relationship between an insurance policy holder's behavior and insurance policy pricing. Various types of insurance products can benefit from behavioral and environmental data, including health insurance, dental insurance, disability insurance and automobile insurance. Collected data can be used for other purposes, such as initial risk assessment, risk monitoring, and prevention services.
US11132743B2
An interactive data visualization dashboard visualizes a super-region economy and allows a user to identify companies of interest. The dashboard includes a main region chart portraying main regions in a super-region; a sub-region chart representing sub-regions within the main regions depicted in the main region chart; an industry sector chart of industry sectors that can be drilled down from more generic to more specific levels of industry sector codes; a financial stress chart depicting a financial stress index for the selected region; and a material change chart depicting a material change score for the selected region. The charts are interactive and linked so that a selection of an element in one chart automatically triggers all other charts to redraw based upon the selected element. The selection and redrawing occurs iteratively, and the user interacts with the dashboard to focus and refine until satisfied with the information displayed.
US11132737B2
A system and method for a dynamic customer checkout experience within an automated shopping environment that includes generating a virtual cart for the customer through an automatic checkout system; tracking location of the customer; generating an assessment of the virtual cart; and selecting a processing mode for the customer based in part on the assessment and executing the processing mode within at least one computing device in coordination with the location of the entity.
US11132734B2
A system is disclosed that obtains an image of an apparel item and text describing the apparel item. The system also determines descriptive metadata of the apparel item by extracting information from the text. Further, the system further determines categorization metadata of the apparel item by analyzing the image. Additionally, the system stores the image, the descriptive metadata, and the categorization metadata in a virtual closet. Moreover, the system provides a recommendation of an outfit from a stylist to a user based on the virtual closet.
US11132729B2
Systems, methods, and media for translating requests to acquire or change goods and services by receiving a request in a service catalog. The received request is received in a format that is not suitable for a target vendor. The received request is then translated into a format suitable for the target vendor. The translated received request is then transmitted to the vendor using the translated format.
US11132727B2
A networked communication system allows a vendor that maintains a web site to prioritize, select, and establish human-assisted interaction with visitors to the website. The vendor's human help agents are provided with intuitive interfaces that depict visitor priority based on agent-specific ranking rules. Agents can manage these rules to optimize their performance in responding to visitors, and thus improve the quality of visitors' experiences.
US11132725B2
Verified electronic products are created and distributed by an electronic platform, which includes a client interface, a creator interface, a decider interface, and a backer interface. An unverified product associated with a creator entity is received through the creator interface, where the unverified product comprises an electronic product having a set of clauses. A decider entity and backer entity are associated with the unverified product, which is converted to a verified product. The verified product is then added to a search engine associated with other previously verified products to define a collection of searchable verified products. Client information is obtained through the client interface and is used to identify a verified product from the collection of searchable verified products via the search engine. Based on the identified verified product, and instrument is built and is communicated to the client entity via the client interface for acceptance by the client entity.
US11132716B2
A system is disclosed for promoting a talent of a user. The system includes one or more application servers accessible over a wireless network, and a plurality of mobile clients configured to access the one or more application servers over the wireless network. The application servers and the mobile clients cooperate to execute a profiler mode of operation in which details of talents of profiler users are entered at respective mobile clients and uploaded to the application servers, each of the plurality of profiler users having a corresponding rank. The application servers and mobile clients also cooperate to execute a supporter mode of operation in which supporter users, using respective mobile clients, access the details of the talents and corresponding ranks of the profiler users. The supporter mode of operation facilitates advancement of a profiler user to a higher rank through receipt of endorsements.
US11132715B2
Systems and methods are described which provide targeted advertisements to a charging station for electric vehicles. A data collector records data associated with individuals near a charging station. A meter determines whether the charging station is being used to charge an electric vehicle. When the charging station is being used, a display displays advertisements targeted to the individuals. The targeted advertisements are selected from a database according to the data recorded by the data collector, and the database stores advertising content with discrete advertising segments that are electronically accessible. A processor is coupled to the data collector, the meter, and the display. The processor transmits the data recorded by the data collector, and receives the targeted advertisements.
US11132711B2
A client device receives advertisement content associated with an entity having a physical location and one or more instructions that, when executed, present information identifying the physical location. The client device displays an ad unit including the received advertisement content and a link associated with the instructions to present the information identifying the physical location. If a user selects the link, the client device presents information identifying the physical location, such as a map, within the ad unit. Additional instruction may be included in the advertisement that, when executed by the client device, execute an application installed on the client device to provide directions to the physical location.
US11132704B2
A method for redemption of an electronic voucher via blockchain includes: storing transaction data for a proposed payment transaction comprising a transaction amount; receiving an electronic voucher and a blockchain transaction identifier from a computing device, the voucher including payment credentials associated with a transaction account; receiving blockchain data associated with a blockchain including a transaction data value corresponding to the blockchain transaction identifier including a redemption amount; validating eligibility of the electronic voucher based on a comparison of the transaction data value to the stored transaction data; updating the stored transaction data based on the transaction data value, including updating the transaction amount based on the redemption amount; and transmitting the updated transaction data and the payment credentials included in the electronic voucher to a third party system.
US11132688B2
Computer-implemented methods and systems are provided for generating a distributed representation of electronic transaction data. Consistent with disclosed embodiments, generation may include receiving electronic transaction data including first and second entity identifiers. Generation may also include generating an output distributed representation by iteratively updating a distributed representation using the electronic transaction data. The distributed representation may include rows corresponding to first entity identifiers and rows corresponding to second entity identifiers. An iterative update may include generating a training sample and an embedding vector using the components and the distributed representation; determining, by a neural network, a predicted category from the embedding vector; and updating the distributed representation using the predicted category and the training sample. The embodiments may also include outputting the output distributed representation to determine authorization of electronic transactions. Disclosed embodiments may also receive an electronic transaction and determine whether to authorize the electronic transaction based on a distributed representation of electronic transaction data.
US11132685B1
A system and method in accordance with examples may include an identity verification kiosk. The identity verification kiosk may include a display comprising a user interface; a card reader; a document scanner; a printer; and a processor in data communication with a server and a database storing user information. The processor may be configured to receive an identification verification request from the user interface; receive user information via the document scanner or the card reader; retrieve user information from the database; verify the identity of a user; and print a unique identifier on a document using the printer.
US11132678B1
A system, method, and computer-usable medium are disclosed for managing financial transactions by controlling the purchase of allowed and disallowed purchase items. A transaction control card is used to purchase a purchase item. Account information related to the transaction control card and purchase item data related to the purchase item is then processed to determine whether the purchase item is disallowed for purchase by any single, or combination of, disallowed purchase item data parameters.
US11132676B2
Implementations of this specification include identify a plurality of transactions to be executed in the blockchain, wherein the transactions are arranged in an execution order, and wherein the execution order includes a contract call arranged after the plurality of transactions; identify groups of transactions within the plurality of transactions, wherein each transaction in each group is associated with a same account in the blockchain network as the other transactions in the group; instruct nodes of the blockchain network to execute each of the groups of transactions in parallel, wherein executing each group of transactions includes executing the transactions within the group serially and according to the execution order; determine that the nodes of the blockchain network have completed executing all of the groups of transactions; and in response, instruct the nodes of the blockchain network to execute the contract call.
US11132670B1
Systems and methods are disclosed for performing payment transactions using indicia-based associations between two or more user interfaces. One method includes: receiving transaction information related to a user's selection of goods or services from a merchant; generating an indicia encoding the transaction information related to the selected goods or services, the merchant, and the transaction amount; transmitting the indicia to be displayed, and to enable a user interface of a first user device to scan the indicia and extract the transaction information; receiving from the first user device, an authorization to process the payment transaction using a mobile payment source; and if sufficient resources exist in the mobile payment source: generating and transmitting a low value token to the merchant indicating the authorization of the payment transaction, wherein the low value token conceals the information related to the mobile payment source; and processing the transaction using the mobile payment source.
US11132664B2
The method, the mobile device, and the payment terminal of the invention relate to security of contactless payment performed during a purchase of products or services by using a short-range wireless communication between the mobile device and the payment terminal. Various external parameters associated to the payment transaction may be exchanged between the mobile device and the payment terminal. Preferred embodiments comprise external parameters such as respective positions of the mobile device and the payment terminal, time stamps related to transaction processing time or identifiers of each the mobile device and the payment terminal. Difference values related to these external parameters are verified by both the mobile device and the payment terminal by carrying out comparison with reference values before validation of the payment transaction by the payment terminal.
US11132662B2
A method for online payments includes receiving an instruction to start a payment application. Payment tag information is then received and sent over a network. Product information that is associated with the payment tag information is then received over the network and displayed on a first payment page that includes a request for payment account credentials. The first payment page is provided through the payment application immediately following the sending of the payment tag information. Payer account credentials are then received through the payment application and sent over the network. Payer account information is then received over the network and displayed on a second payment page that includes a payment confirmation indicator. The second payment page is provided through the payment application immediately following the first payment page. A selection of the payment confirmation indicator is then received through the payment application and sent over the network.
US11132657B2
A method of encoding a transaction flow is described. The method comprises: receiving information from a user about a transaction type to be executed; creating a transaction flow comprising a sequence of states, where at least some states include text to be displayed and inputs to be enabled for that state; and encoding the transaction flow into a machine-readable code.
US11132654B2
A point of sale terminal of a merchant includes a third party payment provider display area for payment using a third party payment provider. The point of sale terminal receives an authentication notification for a consumer from the third party payment provider. The consumer is authenticated using one or more of a personal identification number, an image of the consumer, a quick response code scanned from a mobile device of the consumer, or a code received via near field communications with the mobile device of the consumer. The point of sale terminal requests payment from the third party payment provider for a transaction with the consumer using the transaction amount and authentication information. The third party provider display area allows new payment modalities to be used at the point of sale terminal without requiring modification of the instructions for the point of sale terminal.
US11132653B1
Techniques are described for using a supplemental data layer of a real time payments channel to send data. For example, an entity may request a transaction with another entity, and the transaction may be performed using a channel that includes a supplemental data layer. Supplemental data, in addition to the data for the transaction itself, may be communicated using the supplemental data layer to entities involved in the transaction, and/or to third parties. The supplemental data may be sent in real time with respect to the sending of the data for the transaction. In some instances, supplemental data layer is present in one or both directions in the two-way communications between the entities involved in the transaction. The supplemental data layer can be leveraged to provide additional information and/or services to a user involved in the transaction.
US11132649B2
One or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to detect a vehicle that enters into a parking lot, identify an individual associated with the vehicle, retrieve context information corresponding to the individual, dynamically determine a first parking space based on the context information and available parking spaces, and provide the individual with directions to the first parking space.
US11132648B2
A method, computer system, and a computer program product for a cognitive-based meeting format recommendation is provided. The present invention may include receiving an input. The present invention may also include determining a preferred mode of user communication based on analyzing the received input. The present invention may then include analyzing an upcoming meeting based on the determined preferred mode of user communication. The present invention may further include analyzing a plurality of technical equipment available based on the analyzed upcoming meeting. The present invention may also include providing a recommendation to a user based on the group of analyses consisting of the preferred mode of user communication, the upcoming meeting and the plurality of technical equipment available. The present invention may then include analyzing the provided recommendation. The present invention may further include adjusting a recommendation model based on the analyzed recommendation.
US11132626B2
A computer-implemented method, apparatus are provided for controlling the availability of start-time deferment of a pre-booked vehicle journey.
US11132619B1
Some embodiments perform, in a multi-layer neural network in a computing device, a convolution operation on input feature maps with multiple convolutional filters. The convolutional filters have multiple filter precisions. In other embodiments, electronic design automation (EDA) systems, methods, and computer-readable media are presented for adding such a multi-layer neural network into an integrated circuit (IC) design.
US11132617B2
Embodiments of the disclosed technology concern a quantum circuit configured to implement a real time evolution unitary of a Hamiltonian in a quantum computing device, wherein a unit time evolution unitary operator is decomposed into overlapping smaller blocks of unitary operators. In some implementations, (a) the size of the overlap is proportional to the logarithm of a number of qubits in the simulated system, (b) the size of the overlap is proportional to the logarithm of a total simulated evolution time, and/or (c) the size of the overlap is proportional to a Lieb-Robinson velocity.
US11132599B2
Processors and methods for neural network processing are provided. A method in a processor including a pipeline having a matrix vector unit (MVU), a first multifunction unit connected to receive an input from the MVU, a second multifunction unit connected to receive an output from the first multifunction unit, and a third multifunction unit connected to receive an output from the second multifunction unit is provided. The method includes decoding instructions including a first type of instruction for processing by only the MVU and a second type of instruction for processing by only one of the multifunction units. The method includes mapping a first instruction for processing by the matrix vector unit or to any one of the first multifunction unit, the second multifunction unit, or the third multifunction unit depending on whether the first instruction is the first type of instruction or the second type of instruction.
US11132595B1
An apparatus can include a plurality of antennas. The apparatus can include a first transceiver coupled to the plurality of antennas. The apparatus can include a second transceiver. The second transceiver can be an RFID transceiver. The apparatus can include a controller coupled to the first transceiver and coupled to the RFID transceiver. The controller can detect the presence of an RFID tag. The controller can retrieve, in response to detecting the presence of the RFID tag, information corresponding to the RFID tag. The information can include radio-frequency shielding information regarding electrically conductive material of an article of clothing. The controller can adjust the first transceiver based on the information retrieved corresponding to the RFID tag.
US11132593B2
An RFID tag is provided that includes a first plane conductor; a second plane conductor that partially or entirely faces the first plane conductor; and an RFIC, a capacitor, an inductor, and terminals that form a part of a closed current loop. The closed current loop has two places with a large potential difference, including one place electrically connected to the first plane conductor, and the other place electrically connected to the second plane conductor. Moreover, the terminals are electrically connected to the second plane conductor and project outward from a region where the first plane conductor and the second plane conductor face each other.
US11132589B2
A method for configuring a sensor tag may include providing a flexible substrate layer comprising a thin film of thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU); depositing a sensor inlay on the flexible substrate layer; and applying a protective coating over the sensor inlay encapsulating the sensor inlay between the flexible substrate layer and the protective coating.
US11132577B2
A system and method for for grouping of similar image classes for image recognition is provided. The invention comprises extracting one or more features from multiple classes of images for determining a correlation value between each of the multiple classes of images based on assessment of the extracted features of each one of the classes of images with respect to other classes of images in the multiple classes of images. Further, the one class of image is grouped with the other class of image in the multiple classes of images to form one or more groups of super-classes of similar class of images based on analysis of the determined correlation values with respect to a pre-determined threshold value. An input image is recognized based on the formed groups of super-classes followed by sub-class classification of the images.
US11132567B2
Various embodiments of the disclosure relate to devices and methods for user authentication on an electronic device. The electronic device comprises a plurality of lighting devices, a camera, a display, and a processor. The processor is configured to display an object on the display, obtain, through the camera, a plurality of images based on an image obtaining pattern randomly generated, obtain biometric information using at least one of the plurality of images, obtain information about a variation in a user's gaze corresponding to a movement of the object displayed on the display using the plurality of images, and perform authentication on the user based on the biometric information and the user gaze variation information. Other embodiments are available as well.
US11132566B1
The innovation discloses systems and methods of authenticating users using vein or blood vessel characteristics. The innovation retrieves, based on an authentication request, an authentication image associated with a user. The authentication image comprises a first predetermined point and a second predetermined point. The innovation projects the authentication image onto a body part of the user and reads a blood vessel from the body part. The user orients the blood vessel such that it corresponds to the predetermined points in the projected authentication image. The user is authenticated when the blood vessel appears to connect the predetermined points in the direction of the blood flow.
US11132561B2
An information processing device is configured to: obtain sensing data from an optical sensor; obtain position information of a mobile body which includes the optical sensor; obtain map information; determine, in sensing data, a specific sensing data region corresponding to a specific region in a sensing region of the optical sensor by using the position information and the map information that have been obtained; determine input information to be provided to an object detection model, according to the specific sensing data region; and cause the object detection model to perform object detection processing by using the input information.
US11132551B2
Various embodiments of a cyber-physical system for providing cloud prediction for photovoltaic array control are disclosed herein.
US11132547B2
Emotion recognition-based artwork recommendation method and device, medium, and electronic apparatus
The present disclosure provides an emotion recognition-based artwork recommendation method and device. The method includes: obtaining a current biometric parameter of a user; determining a current emotion type of the user according to the current biometric parameter; selecting an image of an artwork corresponding to the current emotion type according to the current emotion type; and recommending an image of the artwork to the user by displaying the image of the artwork on the display screen.
US11132537B2
This electronic device comprises: a sensor including a plurality of pixels disposed in a first direction; a processor electrically connected to the sensor; and a memory electrically connected to the processor. When implemented, the processor uses sensing data sensed by the sensor and determine user position information, and the memory may store instructions for carrying out a movement corresponding to the user position information.
US11132533B2
The present technology enables viewing, analyzing, and improve a variety of motions for a subject by facilitating comparison to a target video. Motions can include activities such as walking, athletic activities, and educational activities. The comparison can be accomplished by adjusting spatial aspects of a target and subject video to match. The comparison can also include identifying synchronization points, between the videos, that identify a temporal correspondence between of motions or objects in the videos and adjusting playback of one or more segments in the videos so corresponding synchronization points are displayed at the same time during playback. A version of one of the videos can be provided as an outline or as partially transparent, which can be overlaid with the other video to create a video combination for playback.
US11132526B2
The present disclosure relates to the field of display, and provides a fingerprint recognition panel, a fingerprint recognition method, and a display device. The fingerprint recognition panel includes: a touch screen including at least one fingerprint pressing area; and a sensor located below the touch screen, configured to send a driving signal to the touch screen when a press is detected in the fingerprint pressing area, to increase brightness of a pixel corresponding to the fingerprint pressing area in the touch screen.
US11132521B2
The present disclosure provides a display device and a mobile terminal. The display device includes a display panel, a fingerprint identification module, and a spacer. The display panel includes a display surface and a rear surface opposite to the display surface; the display surface defines a display region for displaying images. The fingerprint identification module is spaced apart from the rear surface, and configured to identify fingerprint information received by the display region. The spacer is attached to the rear surface and sandwiched between the display panel and the fingerprint identification module. The spacer is a transmission medium for allowing a detecting signal that is emitted by the fingerprint identification module to pass through, and allowing the detecting signal after being reflected by an object outside to pass through.
US11132517B2
An approach is provided to use a first translation attribute that is received at a user interface from a user to automatically translate a document. The source document that is in a source natural language is translated to a target document that is in a target natural language by using a machine translator that utilizes the first translation attribute, such as adequacy or fluency. The target document is analyzed with the analysis resulting in a second translation attribute (e.g., either adequacy or fluency, whichever is different from the first translation attribute). The target (translated) document and the second translation attribute are then provided to the user, such as at the user interface.
US11132513B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to attention-based neural language processing. In an embodiment, a method is disclosed. According to the method, a sentence graph is generated from a sentence containing words. The sentence graph comprises nodes representing words and edges connecting the nodes, at least one of the edges being constructed to indicate a syntactic relationship between words represented by nodes connected therebetween. Word representations for the words are determined based on the sentence graph by applying an attention mechanism on respective ones of the nodes and respective sets of neighbor nodes for the nodes. A set of neighbor nodes for a node has edges connected to the node. A sentence representation for the sentence is determined based on the word representations for use in a natural language processing task related to the sentence. In other embodiments, a system and a computer program product are disclosed.
US11132494B2
A computer system for allowing user to communicate with text enhanced with emotional preset having attributes and kinetics including computer readable instructions that, when executed by a processor, perform the steps of: receiving a set of text characters, receiving an emotional preset selection information, creating a unlined animated text message or unlined social message, transmitting the unlined messages to a recipient using CMC or social media to receive the message to convey to the recipient the emotional communications selected by the sender.
US11132484B1
A method for testing a design is provided. The method includes generating a sequence of bits, mapping the sequence of bits to a combination, and generating an enable signal based on the combination. The enable signal enables an asynchronous signal in the design. The method also includes driving an element of the design based on the enabled asynchronous signal.
US11132477B1
The model builder may generate a model object, and initiate the solver to determine whether the model object has constraints that effect the model object. The solver can generate solution data these constraints. The solver may pass any solution data it obtains to the solution display generator, so that the user can view the solution data while the user is building the model with the model builder.
US11132470B2
Memory devices, systems including memory devices, and methods of operating memory devices are described, in which security measures may be implemented to control access to a fuse array (or other secure features) of the memory devices based on a secure access key. In some cases, a customer may define and store a user-defined access key in the fuse array. In other cases, a manufacturer of the memory device may define a manufacturer-defined access key (e.g., an access key based on fuse identification (FID), a secret access key), where a host device coupled with the memory device may obtain the manufacturer-defined access key according to certain protocols. The memory device may compare an access key included in a command directed to the memory device with either the user-defined access key or the manufacturer-defined access key to determine whether to permit or prohibit execution of the command based on the comparison.
US11132465B1
Systems and techniques for real-time feature level software security are described herein. A request may be received from a computing device for data from the feature of the software application. The request for data may include authorization information of a user of the computing device. It may be identified that the feature of the software application contains code containing a reference to a security configuration service. A security configuration may be determined for the feature of the software application by comparing a resource identifier and a feature identifier of the feature of the software application to a set of security configurations of the security configuration service. The security configuration may provide access rules for the feature of the software application. A response may be sent to the computing device based on a comparison of the received authorization information of the user of the computing device to the determined security configuration.
US11132463B2
Systems and methods may be provided for masking data on public networks. At a publishing node, the system may monitor data input fields in a webpage, and intercept and encode content, such as text, images, and video input at the data input fields, prior to the content being posted online on a public service provider's website. A policy may be defined to control which users are permitted access to a key to decode the encoded content. The policy may defer to a third party policy node in determining key access. An account for a controlling entity, such as a guardian or employer, may be configured to control the encoding status of posts made by another. The controlling entity may control who has key access to decode posts made by the other account. The guardian account may be configured to have preemptive rights over posting decisions made by the minor.
US11132457B2
A system is provided for controlling access to data stored in a cloud-based storage service. Data associated with a user account is stored at the cloud-based storage service. A portion of the data is associated with a heightened authentication protocol, a first request receiving, at the cloud-based storage service, for an application to access data that is associated with the heightened authentication protocol. The first request is authenticated based on the heightened authentication protocol. In response to authenticating the first request, permission is granted to the application to access the data that is associated with the heightened authentication protocol. The permission is time-limited. It is determined that the application is editing the data that is associated with the heightened authentication protocol. Permission for the application to access the data while the application is editing the data is temporarily extended.
US11132445B2
A system and method for testing for software vulnerabilities within components installed within a compartmentalized testing environment is presented herein. The system allows software code to be run within a software simulation environment, providing representative signals, whether Radio Frequency, microwave, or other portions of the electromagnetic spectrum, to test signals to the component under test while its execution is monitored and controlled within the compartmentalized testing environment. The system and method is particularly effective for searching for and identifying vulnerabilities to combined Cyber/Electronic Warfare attacks.
US11132443B1
An anti-malware application can emulate a suspicious program in a sandbox environment and retrieve any exception handlers the suspicious program attempts to register with the operation system. When the suspicious program triggers an exception, the anti-malware application can save a current context of the suspicious program being emulated. To emulate the handling of the exception, the anti-malware application can validate an exception handler chain including one or more exception handlers added by the suspicious program. The anti-malware application can then select and emulate an exception handler based on the saved context of the suspicious program at the time the exception was triggered. If the first exception handler is successful at resolving the exception, the anti-malware application can then save an updated post-exception context and continue emulation of the suspicious program based on the result of the first exception handler.
US11132431B2
A password input and identification system includes a one-button password input component and a controller. The one-button password input component generates a series of trigger signals in response to a series of triggers that correspond to a series of user-input digits. The controller determines a value of each of the user-input digits by counting a number of the trigger signal(s) that correspond(s) to the user-input digit to serve as the value of the user-input digit. The controller compares the user-input digits with the predetermined password after the input of the user-input digits is finished, and performs a predetermined action when the user-input digits match the predetermined password.
US11132421B1
In an embodiment, operations include crawling a set of web pages and labeling one or more items of a first web page based on user input. Each item corresponds to a node in a first tree data structure of the first web page. The operations further include generating a first extraction rule to extract a first item from the one or more first items. The first extraction rule includes a first path, in the first tree data structure, for a first node of the first item, and includes first visual information of each node in the first path. The operations further include comparing the first visual information in the first path with second visual information of each of a plurality of candidate nodes in a second tree data structure of a second web page and further refining the first extraction rule to generate a second extraction rule.
US11132417B2
Briefly, embodiments disclosed herein relate to acquisition of web content publishing.
US11132414B2
An experience rating and skill discovery system (ERSDS) and a method for determining credibility of experience ratings provided by one or more reviewers and discovering skills of opportunity seekers based on a relationship between the reviewers and the opportunity seekers are provided. A skill profile module of the ERSDS reads profile data from a user profile list and generates a skills profile list. An invitation module transmits invitations to reviewer devices for providing the experience ratings. An aggregation module aggregates the experience ratings and generates an aggregated experience credibility measure and an aggregated experience plausibility measure, and further an aggregated skill amount measure and an aggregated skill credibility measure corresponding to the experience summaries in an experience summary list and the skills of the opportunity seeker respectively, using a relationship depth computed from the relationship data and the experience ratings received by a user association module and a rating module respectively.
US11132411B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for processing search information. One of the methods includes receiving search information from a user and sending the search information to a cloud server to cause the cloud server to perform search processing based on the search information. The method further includes pushing display information to the user on a display interface before the cloud server returns a result associated with the search processing.
US11132406B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving, responsive to a search query from a user device, search operation output elements based on a search operation performed in response to the search query, wherein each search operation output element is an element that can be displayed in a search results environment in which search operation output elements responsive to the search query are displayed to a user of the user device, and are each individually selectable by the user, determining whether to provide an action indicator for each search operation output element, and providing, to the user device for display in the search results environment, the search operation output elements, and for each search operation output element for which one or more action indicators are to be provided, action indicator data for the search operation output element.
US11132398B2
An electronic device and method are disclosed. The electronic device includes a display, a processor and memory. The processor may implement the method, including analyzing, by a processor, a first video to identify any characters included in the first video, displaying one or more icons representing one or more characters identified in the first video via a display, receiving, by input circuitry, a first user input selecting a first icon representing a first character from among the one or more icons, based on the first user input, selecting image frames of the first video that include the first character from among image frames included in the first video, and generating, by the processor, a second video including the selected image frames. A second embodiment includes automatically selecting images from a gallery including one or more characters for generation of a video.
US11132395B2
A content server generates media playlists for social events. The content server receives a seed value describing desired characteristics of media to present during a social event, and event parameters describing conditions for selecting media items to generate a media playlist for the social event. The content server selects media items based on the event parameters and the seed value, and uses the selected media items to generate the media playlist for the social event. The media items in the playlist are retrieved from a media database and provided to a media player for presentation at the social event.
US11132393B2
A computer-implemented method for identifying an expression for a target concept, includes: obtaining a set of texts as a target set of texts, with each text being associated with one of images relevant to a target concept. Candidate expressions for the target concept are extracted from the target set of texts. The candidate expressions are characteristic of the target set of texts. Each image relevant to one of the candidate expressions is collected by using an image search engine. A target expression for the target concept is selected from the candidate expressions based on a comparison result of the target concept and the collected images.
US11132391B2
A system and method, which may be an offline method, extracts relevant image features about listing items in a network-based publication system for enabling image similarity searching of such listing items. When a seller lists an item, an image of the item is uploaded and may be sent to a picture processing service, which generates several digests. The digests are compressed data structures each representing a particular image feature such as edge, color, texture, or words. These digests are then stored in a search database, where the digests can be used to retrieve listings by image similarity at scale. A similar process can be performed for a query listing for searching the search database for items similar to the query listing.
US11132386B2
Various embodiments are provided for linking of anonymized datasets in a computing environment are provided. A number of linking records may be identified between an anonymized dataset and one or more non-anonymized datasets of a knowledge base according to one or more equivalence classes and a generalization level.
US11132378B2
Systems and methods for generating and rendering interactive analysis are provided. The interactive analysis includes an incident map and heat map that are dynamically changeable based upon selectable incident attributes, filters, or both.
US11132374B2
Techniques for assigning one or more values to properties or form fields. One technique includes receiving a query for a property associated with an attribute of an element of software, executing a search within a storage device for the property that satisfies the query, displaying the property and attributes that support the property, and receiving a first type of input regarding the property. The first type of input includes a value for the property. The technique further includes receiving a second type of input that includes selection of at least one attribute from the attributes identified to support the property, and assigning the value for the property to the at least one attribute.
US11132372B2
The present disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for precise positioning of a scholar based on mining of the scholar's scientific research achievement. The method includes: extracting text information in the scholar's scientific research achievement P to obtain key information, and constructing structural information; mining and constructing implicit information O with a geographic directivity in the scholar's scientific research achievement P according to the key information and the structural information; performing a structural arrangement on the structural information, and acquiring a final result R; and acquiring a mapping of A→R according to the final result R and the matrix U, acquiring and outputting the positioning information of the authors in the set A.
US11132371B2
A computer implemented method, computerised system and computer readable recording medium are disclosed. In one aspect, the computer implemented method comprises steps of: generating an index of electronic objects, comprising steps of: performing, upon each electronic object, natural language processing, using a natural language processor, and readability analysis, using a readability analyser, to generate natural language processing data and a readability score for the respective object; and storing in the index, for each electronic object, electronic object data indicative of the electronic object and associated meta-data indicative of the natural language processing data and the readability score; receiving, from a user operating a user processing system, a request to perform a search of the index, wherein the request has associated therewith input data; performing, upon the input data, natural language processing, using the natural language processor to generate natural language processing data and a readability range for the input data; searching, using a search engine, the index based upon the readability range and the natural language processing data for the input data, to determine a plurality of correlated electronic objects; generating, using a ranking engine, a ranked list of the plurality of correlated electronic objects based on a correlation level for each of the plurality of electronic objects and a machine learned rating generated by a machine learned rating prediction system trained according to a profile associated with the user, the profile being indicative of natural language processing data generated, by the natural language processor, based on previous search requests received from the user and performed by the search engine; and transferring, to the user processing system, search results indicative of at least a portion of the ranked list of the plurality of correlated electronic objects.
US11132368B2
One or more embodiments interpret a configuration graph to efficiently and optimally construct requests and fetch data from a datastore. The values of objects of a requested data type are used to generate additional queries for pre-fetching data from the datastore. Specifically, the values are used to query for and retrieve a corresponding subset of objects of another, related data type. Recursively querying for and retrieving objects of related data types based on already retrieved objects builds a data cache of relevant objects. The cached, relevant objects may be useful in subsequent queries that are likely to follow the initial query.
US11132361B2
A system for responding to natural language medical queries is provided. The system includes a memory storing a computer program and a processor configured to execute the computer program. The computer program decomposes an input medical related user query into medical related sub-queries using pre-defined proxies, rephrases the sub-queries into yes-no queries answerable with a yes or a no, extracts feature values from the yes-no queries and a relational database storing clinical records, generates a feature vector from the extracted feature values, and applies the feature vector along with desired output labels to a supervised machine learning algorithm to generate a classifier configured to answer a new medical related user query.
US11132347B2
Techniques for improving database searches are described herein. In an embodiment, a server computer system stores one or more first datasets in a first data repository and one or more second datasets in a second data repository. The server computer receives a request to perform an analysis on a particular dataset. The server computer determines that the particular dataset is stored in the first data repository and the second data repository. Based, at least in part, on an attribute of the request, the server computer selects the second data repository and responds to the request with data from the particular dataset stored in the second data repository.
US11132343B1
In general, embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods and computer readable media for automatic cleaning of entity resolution (ER) data persistently stored in a data repository.
US11132340B2
A storage unit in a distributed storage network (DSN) transmits resource availability information to a managing unit. The resource availability information includes information indicating a number of available memory devices of the storage unit that are available to be used for storage of encoded data slices. The storage unit receives resource assignment information determined by the managing unit. The resource assignment information includes one or more dispersal parameters, information identifying a set of storage units to be included in a newly instantiated DSN memory, and a DSN address range assigned to the storage unit for use in the newly instantiated DSN memory. The storage unit selects particular available memory devices of the storage unit to assign to the newly instantiated DSN memory. The selection is based on the resource assignment information.
US11132320B2
In order to be able to arrange a master module (M), slave modules (S), and conventional plug modules (K) in a freely configurable manner in a modular plug system, a modular frame (22) is provided with a circuit board (1) which includes at least one continuous conductor path and preferably more than one connection pad.
US11132317B2
A data processing system comprising: a host computer system supporting a software entity and a receive queue for the software entity; a network interface device having a controller unit configured to provide a data port for receiving data packets from a network and a data bus interface for connection to a host computer system, the network interface device being connected to the host computer system by means of the data bus interface; and an accelerator module arranged between the controller unit and a network and having a first medium access controller for connection to the network and a second medium access controller coupled to the data port of the controller unit, the accelerator module being configured to: on behalf of the software entity, process incoming data packets received from the network in one or more streams associated with a first set of one or more network endpoints; encapsulate data resulting from said processing in network data packets directed to the software entity; and deliver the network data packets to the data port of the controller unit so as to cause the network data packets to be written to the receive queue of the software entity.
US11132314B2
An information handling system includes a device, a processor, and a runtime agent. the device provides a System Management Interrupt (SMI) in response to an error on the device. The processor receives the SMI, enters a System Management Mode (SMM), and executes first interrupt handler code in SMM to provide interrupt information associated with the SMI when the SMI is associated with a non-critical error on the device, and exit SMM to a runtime mode. The runtime agent receives the interrupt information during the runtime mode to execute second interrupt handler code to service the non-critical error on the device.
US11132311B2
The present disclosure includes an interface for memory having a cache and multiple independent arrays. An embodiment includes a memory device having a cache and a plurality independent memory arrays, a controller, and an interface configured to communicate a plurality of commands from the controller to the memory device, wherein the interface includes a pin configured to activate upon a first one of the plurality of commands being received by the memory device and deactivate once all of the plurality of commands have been executed by the memory device.
US11132298B2
A system and method are described for integrating a memory and storage hierarchy including a non-volatile memory tier within a computer system. In one embodiment, PCMS memory devices are used as one tier in the hierarchy, sometimes referred to as “far memory.” Higher performance memory devices such as DRAM placed in front of the far memory and are used to mask some of the performance limitations of the far memory. These higher performance memory devices are referred to as “near memory.” In one embodiment, the “near memory” is configured to operate in a plurality of different modes of operation including (but not limited to) a first mode in which the near memory operates as a memory cache for the far memory and a second mode in which the near memory is allocated a first address range of a system address space with the far memory being allocated a second address range of the system address space, wherein the first range and second range represent the entire system address space.
US11132296B1
The embodiments herein store tabulated values representing a linear or non-linear function in separate memory banks to reduce the size of memory used to store the tabulated values while being able to provide upper and lower values for performing linear interpolation in parallel (e.g., the same cycle). To do so, a linear interpolation system includes a first memory bank that stores the even indexed tabulated values while a second memory bank stores the odd indexed tabulated values. During each clock cycle, the first and second memory banks can output upper and lower values for linear interpolation (although which memory bank outputs the upper value and which outputs the lower value can vary). Using the upper and lower values, the linear interpolation system performs linear interpolation to approximate the value of a non-linear function that is between the upper and lower values.
US11132295B2
According to one embodiment, a memory system manages a plurality of management tables corresponding to a plurality of first blocks in a nonvolatile memory. Each management table includes a plurality of reference counts corresponding to a plurality of data in a corresponding first block. The memory system copies a set of data included in a copy-source block for garbage collection and corresponding respectively to reference counts belonging to a first reference count range to a first copy-destination block, and copies a set of data included in the copy-source block and corresponding respectively to reference counts belonging to a second reference count range having a lower limit higher than an upper limit of the first reference count range to a second copy-destination block.
US11132265B2
Embodiments of this application provide a method and an apparatus for multi-replica data restoration. The method is applied to a distributed database and includes: when a first page in replica data of a first node has a fault, obtain N latest LSNs in data log information of a second node that corresponds to a first page identifier. The first page is any page that is in the replica data of the first node and that has a fault. The first node further determines a node corresponding to a largest LSN in the N latest LSNs in the data log information of the second node that corresponds to the first page identifier is a third node. Then the first node performs data restoration on the first page in the replica data of the first node according to replica data of the third node.
US11132264B2
Managing storage volumes in a point-in-time copy cascade. The cascade includes a first source volume, a first target volume and a second target volume. The method detects a corruption of the first source volume and, if a first restoration of the first source volume from the first target volume is in progress, creates a third target volume from the second target volume and directs I/O operations for the first source volume to the third target volume. The first source volume is then restored from the third target volume.
US11132258B2
A method, computer program product, and computing system for receiving a request to reconfigure a data array that currently includes N data drives and P parity drives to include N data drives and P+1 parity drives; confirming the availability of the P+1 parity drive; and distributing a plurality of new parity portions across the N data drives and P+1 parity drives.
US11132244B2
A method includes determining a portion of a block of a storage device to read after programming, and reading the portion of the block and determining a maximum error count for the portion of the block. The maximum error count is compared to a threshold. When the maximum error count exceeds the threshold, a code rate of an error correction coding used to program the block is adjusted, or a code rate test is performed on the entire block.
US11132237B2
A system and method for usage-based application licensing in a hypervisor virtual execution environment. In accordance with an embodiment, the system comprises one or more computers, each with a hypervisor operating thereon and forming a hypervisor environment, together with one or more virtual machine images executing within that hypervisor environment. Each hypervisor aggregates usage statistics by each image instance for physical resources, and reports the statistics to a management framework. The management framework uses the statistics to ensure the system is adequately licensed with usage units. An initial allocation of usage units is recorded in the image and accessed during execution by the hypervisor. As the usage units near expiration, the hypervisor can signal that a particular image is about to become unlicensed. The management framework can then either allocate more usage units, shut down the image, or audit the unlicensed usage for later compensation.
US11132228B2
A computing device and a method of allocating vector register files in a simultaneously-multithreaded (SMT) processor core are provided. A request for a first number (M) of vector register files is received from a borrower thread of the processor core. One or more available donor threads of the processor core are identified. A second number (N) of the vector register files, of the identified one or more available donor threads, are assigned to the borrower thread, where N is ≤M. The borrower thread is parameterized to create a virtualized vector register file for the borrower thread, based on a width of the N vector register files of the identified one or more donor threads.
US11132224B2
The present invention relates to the field of security technology, and in particular to a fine granularity real-time supervision system based on edge computing. A fine granularity real-time supervision system based on edge computing is provided, comprising: an intelligent video monitoring device, an edge computing module, an edge computing node, and a cloud computing center. The system can reduce the redundant information of the system and realizes fine granularity management.
US11132216B2
Systems and methods are provided for implementing a Virtual Switch (vSwitch) architecture that supports transparent virtualization and live migration. In an embodiment, a vSwitch with prepopulated Local Identifiers (LIDs). Another embodiment provides for vSwitch with dynamic LID assignment. Another embodiment provides for vSwitch with prepopulated LIDS and dynamic LID assignment. Moreover, embodiments of the present invention provide scalable dynamic network reconfiguration methods which enable live migrations of VMs in network environments.
US11132214B2
A system for monitoring the health of virtual machines associated with a shared storage pool (SSP) includes a plurality of virtual machines (VMs), two or more virtual input/output servers (VIOSes) participating in the SSP, and an orchestration node. Each VIOS in the SSP is associated with a respective set of VMs of the plurality of VMs. Each VM is configured to transmit respective health data describing the VM to its associated VIOS. The orchestration node is in communication with each of the two or more VIOSes participating in the SSP, where each VIOS is configured to transmit to the orchestration node the respective health data of each VM in the respective set of VMs associated with the VIOS. The orchestration node is configured to monitor the health of a plurality of VMs associated with the two or more VIOSes participating in the SSP.
US11132213B1
Systems and methods are described for transforming a data set within a data source into a series of task calls to an on-demand code execution environment. The environment can utilize pre-initialized virtual machine instances to enable execution of user-specified code in a rapid manner, without delays typically caused by initialization of the virtual machine instances, and are often used to process data in near-real time, as it is created. However, limitations in computing resources may inhibit a user from utilizing an on-demand code execution environment to simultaneously process a large, existing data set. The present application provides a task generation system that can iteratively retrieve data items from an existing data set and generate corresponding task calls to the on-demand computing environment. The calls can be ordered to address dependencies of the data items, such as when a first data item depends on prior processing of a second data item.
US11132212B2
Providing assistance using a device can include determining, using a processor, an application that is currently executing and displayed by the device and determining, using the processor, information that accelerates user interaction with the application. The information can be displayed on the device as application-specific assistance.
US11132211B1
A system includes a state-dependent action policy and a state-dependent transition policy. The state-dependent action policy determines an action based on environment states and a current agent state selected from a predetermined group of agent states. The state-dependent transition policy is implemented using one or more machine learning models and is configured to control transitions between agent states from the predetermined group of agent states.
US11132189B2
A firmware update device and a firmware update method are provided. The firmware update device includes a first storage medium, a baseboard management controller (BMC), a retimer card, and a processor. The first storage medium stores firmware configuration data. The BMC is coupled to the first storage medium, wherein the BMC is configured to update the firmware configuration data. The retimer card stores a card identifier and firmware. The processor is coupled to the first storage medium and the BMC, wherein the processor detects the card identifier of the retimer card and update the firmware of the retimer card according to the firmware configuration data corresponding to the card identifier in response to identifying the card identifier after the retimer card is coupled to the processor.
US11132182B2
A software development support device, a software development support method and a software development support program capable of efficiently developing software are provided. A software development support program executed by a software development device is provided with a connection setting screen in which a object slave ECU to be controlled by a master ECU or a load based on an input from an input device, a label setting screen in which a label is set in a load state based on the input from the input device that are displayed on a display device, and an operation setting screen in which an operation of the master ECU is set for the slave ECU and the load based on the input device that is displayed on the display device selecting.
US11132180B2
Systems, methods, and computer-executable instructions for guiding program synthesis includes receiving a specification that includes an input and output example. Programs are synthesized that meet the specification. During synthesizing each of the programs includes branching decisions. Each branching decision includes a plurality of paths. Synthesizing the programs comprises includes selecting a first score model, for a first branching decision. Each of the programs is scored using the first score model. The paths of the first branching decision are pared based on the score. One the paths is selected. A synthesized program that meets the specification is returned. The synthesized program includes the one of the paths.
US11132174B2
A framework for generating and presenting verbal command suggestions to facilitate discoverability of commands capable of being understood and support users exploring available commands. A target associated with a direct-manipulation input is received from a user via a multimodal user interface. A set of operations relevant to the target is selected and verbal command suggestions relevant to the selected set of operations and the determined target are generated. At least a portion of the generated verbal command suggestions is provided for presentation in association with the multimodal user interface in one of three interface variants: one that presents command suggestions as a list, one that presents command suggestions using contextual overlay windows, and one that presents command suggestions embedded within the interface. Each of the proposed interface variants facilitates user awareness of verbal commands that are capable of being executed and teaches users how available verbal commands can be invoked.
US11132171B1
One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, at an information handling device, an indication of a compatible audio device associated with the information handling device; determining, using a processor, an association between at least one user and the compatible audio device; and dynamically configuring, based on the determined association, audio settings for the information handling device. Other aspects are described and claimed.
US11132170B2
In general, user interfaces for controlling a plurality of multimedia players in groups are disclosed. According to one aspect of the present invention, a user interface is provided to allow a user to group some of the players according to a theme or scene, where each of the players is located in a zone. When the scene is activated, the players in the scene react in a synchronized manner. For example, the players in the scene are all caused to play a multimedia source or music in a playlist, wherein the multimedia source may be located anywhere on a network. The user interface is further configured to illustrate graphically a size of a group, the larger the group appears relatively, the more plays there are in the group.
US11132166B2
(Object) To provide an information processing system for controlling a screen-sharing terminal to perform a process, based on an instruction provided from an administrator terminal. (Means of Achieving the Object) An information processing system including: an information processing apparatus configured to manage sharing of a screen performed by a plurality of screen-sharing terminals coupled communicably to the information processing apparatus; and an administrator terminal configured to have administrative authority and to be coupled to the information processing apparatus via a network. The information processing apparatus includes an information management unit and an instruction delivery unit. The administrator terminal includes an accepting unit a communication control unit.
US11132164B2
A wireless peripheral mode is provided by a host system that communicates to a WiFi infrastructure and, utilizing the same WiFi RF subsystem, also communicates to peripherals. The host system may employ additional RF channels for communicating with high bandwidth peripherals, such as display devices, where high levels of QoS may be managed locally. The host system may be a conventional desktop computer system, a notebook computer system, a multi-media access point, a cell phone, a game machine, a portable game machine, a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), a smart phone or any other type of device that benefits from accessing both a WiFi infrastructure and local peripherals.
US11132161B2
A mobile device and methods for controlling windows displayed thereby are disclosed. Specifically, the windows displayed by the mobile device are conditioned upon the orientation of the device. A feature is also disclosed in which a window from a first application on a first display portion is automatically displayed on a second display portion when the device is rotated. Modal windows can be displayed with the feature in which the modal windows can either be dismissed upon execution of the feature, or can remain being displayed.
US11132151B2
A communication device may send URL and first program to a terminal device, the URL indicating a storage location of update data stored in a first server, the update data being used for updating a setting data, the first program causing a browser program in the terminal device to perform a first process. The first process may include receiving the update data from the first server by using the URL and sending the update data received from the first server to the communication device. The communication device may receive the update data from the terminal device in response to sending the URL and the first program to the terminal device and update the setting data stored in the memory by using the update data received from the terminal device.
US11132145B2
Disclosed herein are techniques for reducing write amplification when processing write commands directed to a non-volatile memory. According to some embodiments, the method can include the steps of (1) receiving a first plurality of write commands and a second plurality of write commands, where the first plurality of write commands and the second plurality of write commands are separated by a fence command (2) caching the first plurality of write commands, the second plurality of write commands, and the fence command, and (3) in accordance with the fence command, and in response to identifying that at least one condition is satisfied: (i) issuing the first plurality of write commands to the non-volatile memory, (ii) issuing the second plurality of write commands to the non-volatile memory, and (iii) updating log information to reflect that the first plurality of write commands precede the second plurality of write commands.
US11132136B2
Devices and techniques for variable width superblock addressing are described herein. A superblock width, specified in number of planes, is obtained. A superblock entry is created in a translation table of a NAND device. Here, the superblock entry may include a set of blocks, from the NAND device, that have the same block indexes across multiple die of the NAND device. The number of unique block indexes are equal to the number of planes and in different planes. A request, received from a requesting entity, is performed using the superblock entry. Performing the request includes providing a single instruction to multiple die of the NAND device and multiple data segments. Here, a data segment corresponds to a block in the set of blocks specified by a tuple of block index and die. A result of the request is then returned to the requesting entity.
US11132132B2
A storage apparatus includes a first memory, which is nonvolatile, a first controller that controls the first memory, a wireless antenna, a second memory, which is operable based on power supplied from the wireless antenna, and a second controller that is operable based on the power supplied from the wireless antenna, and performs communication using the wireless antenna. When performing communication with an external apparatus using the wireless antenna, the second controller performs authentication of the external apparatus, and stores in the second memory an authentication result indicating whether the authentication succeeded or failed. If the authentication result indicates that the authentication succeeded, the second controller permits reading by the external apparatus of first data from the second memory by communication using the wireless antenna or writing by the external apparatus of second data to the second memory by communication using the wireless antenna.
US11132127B2
System on a Chip (SoC) devices include two packetized memory buses for conveying local memory packets and system interconnect packets. In an in-situ configuration of a data processing system two or more SoCs are coupled with one or more hybrid memory cubes (HMCs). The memory packets enable communication with local HMCs in a given SoC's memory domain. The system interconnect packets enable communication between SoCs and communication between memory domains. In a dedicated routing configuration each SoC in a system has its own memory domain to address local HMCs and a separate system interconnect domain to address HMC hubs, HMC memory devices, or other SoC devices connected in the system interconnect domain.
US11132126B1
Embodiments are directed to managing data in a file system that includes storage nodes and storage volumes in a cloud computing environment (CCE). A backup job may be executed to perform further actions, including: providing a backup identifier that is associated with the backup job; determining the storage nodes based on the file system and the CCE; disabling the file system by disabling the storage nodes, wherein each disabled storage node is associated with a shutdown timestamp; determining storage volumes associated with each disabled storage node; and generating storage images that archive a copy of information from the storage volumes; associating the storage images with the backup identifier; confirming that the file system is consistent based on an absence of file system activity occurring subsequent to each shutdown timestamp; and enabling the file system by enabling the storage nodes.
US11132114B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure presents a method and apparatus for generating a customized visualization component. A specific embodiment of the method comprises: determining, in response to receiving a creation instruction for instructing to create a customized visualization component, a visualization instance presented on a current component editing page based on the received creation instruction; determining an initial visualization component corresponding to the visualization instance and a user setting parameter set by a user for the visualization instance; and uploading a creation request for the customized visualization component to a server to enable the server to generate the customized visualization component based on the initial visualization component and the user setting parameter, the creation request including identifier information of the initial visualization component and the user setting parameter.
US11132112B2
A computer system stores information for a plurality of layouts of one or more user interface elements locally. Each layout corresponds to at least one type of display device, and includes one or more objects associated with the one or more user interface elements. Upon receiving a request for rendering a first user interface element on a display device, the computer system identifies a type of the display device and determines a first one of the at least one type of display device accordingly. The computer system then extracts information for a first layout corresponding to the first one of the at least one type of display device (e.g., information for a subset of objects that is stored with the first layout and corresponds to the first user interface element), and renders the subset of objects corresponding to the first user interface element on the display device accordingly.
US11132111B2
Techniques and mechanisms are disclosed that enable network security analysts and other users to efficiently conduct network security investigations and to produce useful representations of investigation results. As used herein, a network security investigation generally refers to an analysis by an analyst (or team of analysts) of one or more detected network events that may pose internal and/or external threats to a computer network under management. A network security application provides various interfaces that enable users to create investigation timelines, where the investigation timelines display a collection of events related to a particular network security investigation. A network security application further provides functionality to monitor and log user interactions with the network security application, where particular logged user interactions may also be added to one or more investigation timelines.
US11132102B2
A layer control tool for controlling the display of geographic data layers in a geographic information system is provided. The layer control tool can be presented in overlaying the geographic imagery. The layer control tool can include a plurality of identifiers associated with a set of geographic data layers that can be displayed in conjunction with the geographic imagery. A user can adjust or control the display of geographic data layers in conjunction with the geographic imagery by interacting with the floating layer control tool. For instance, a user can interact with the floating layer control tool, for instance by tapping a touch screen, to identify a selected geographic data layer in the set of geographic data layers. Responsive to this user interaction, the geographic information system can display the geographic data layer in conjunction with the geographic imagery and hide other previous displayed geographic data layers.
US11132096B2
A display device includes a first substrate including a display area and a non-display area, which is on the periphery of the display area, a light-emitting element disposed on the first substrate and in the display area, a display signal line which is disposed on the first substrate and in the display area, extends in a first direction, and transmits a signal to the light-emitting element, a common voltage supply line disposed on the first substrate and in the non-display area, a pad disposed on the first substrate and in the non-display area, and electrically connected to the display signal line, and an indentation pad disposed on the first substrate and in the non-display area, and electrically connected to the common voltage supply line, where the indentation pad is disposed closer than the pad to edges of the first substrate in a second direction, which intersects the first direction.
US11132094B2
An electronic apparatus includes a plurality of first sensing electrodes, a plurality of second sensing electrodes, a plurality of first sensing lines, a plurality of second sensing lines, and a connection line connecting two second sensing patterns, which are spaced apart from each other, of one second sensing electrode of the second sensing electrodes. Each of the first sensing lines includes a trench line connected to one first sensing electrode of the first sensing electrodes and crossing the connection line so as to be insulated from the connection line. The connection line includes a plurality of line parts spaced apart from each other with the trench line therebetween on a plane and a bridge part on a layer different from that on which the line parts are on, the bridge part connecting the line parts to each other and having conductivity less than that of the trench line.
US11132088B2
An electronic device includes a housing including a first plate facing a first direction, a second plate facing a second direction opposite to the first direction, and a side member disposed in at least part of a peripheral region between the first plate and the second plate, a touch screen display having at least a portion exposed through the first plate of the housing, a fingerprint sensor disposed in a lower portion of the touch screen display, and a cover case that is coupled or integrated with at least part of the housing and that opens or closes the first plate of the housing. An air gap is formed between a first region of the touch screen display that corresponds to the fingerprint sensor and a second region of the cover case that faces at least the first region, with the cover case closing the first plate of the housing.
US11132081B2
A display panel includes an edge area having a rounded shape and a flat inner area in which a plurality of touch electrodes are disposed. A plurality of driving lines applying a touch driving signal to the plurality of touch electrodes are disposed in the display panel. A touch circuit outputs the touch driving signal applied to the edge area at a voltage level higher than a voltage level of the touch driving signal applied to the inner area.
US11132072B2
An electronic device is provided, which includes a housing including an inner space and a hole connected with the inner space, a first conductive coil, a first wireless communication circuitry, a first electro-magnetic resonance (EMR) communication control circuitry, a processor operatively connected with the first EMR communication control circuitry and the first wireless communication circuitry, a memory operatively connected with the at least one processor, and a stylus pen which is insertable into the inner space through the hole. The memory includes instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to transmit or receive a signal by using the first EMR communication control circuitry.
US11132069B2
Techniques for obfuscating user selections during user-input of sensitive information, involving displaying targets, such as keys of a virtual keyboard, on a display device, where each target corresponds to one of multiple options. A visual indication for a current user target can move to a first target in response to a first input event at a first time, and the first target can be actuated in response to a second input event for actuation of the current user target at a second time. An obfuscation system is configured to present to a user, at approximately the second time, a discriminatory signal used to confirm actuation of a target. The discriminatory signal includes one of a haptic signal generated by a device in physical contact with the user, an audio signal, and a modified image.
US11132066B1
Systems and methods for radial gesture navigation are provided. In example embodiments, user input data is received from a user device. The user input data indicates a continuous physical user interaction associated with a display screen of the user device. An initial point and a current point are detected from the user input data. A radius distance for a circle that includes the current point and is centered about the initial point is determined. An action is selected from among multiple actions based on the radius distance being within a particular range among successive ranges along a straight line that starts at the initial point and extends through the circle. Each range among the successive ranges corresponds to a particular action among the multiple actions. The selected action is performed in response to detecting a completion of the continuous physical user interaction.
US11132062B2
Aspects of the technology employ synchronized arrays of low-cost, readily available vibration actuators to emulate and outperform single actuator systems, bringing together sets of actuators to create desired control effects. This approach involves coherent phase switching and modulation of a linear actuator array. A pair of linear resonant actuators (LRAs) may be employed for improved haptic waveform synthesis performance. According to one feature, energy may stored in the mechanical inertia of the LRA via velocity and stiffness of the LRA via displacement and released through modulation of the relative phase of the LRAs. Phase switching and modulation techniques may be used to control more than two LRAs, and in other arrangements than a dual LRA, including, but not limited to architectures that have LRAs arranged in multiple directions in a array spanning, for example, the two dimensions of a plane, or three dimensions of physical space.
US11132060B2
In an embodiment, a method includes detecting a motion pattern in proximity to a first midair interface (MAI) device, the motion pattern being of a body part of a user. In an embodiment, the method includes converting the detected motion pattern to a simulated surface of an object projected from a shared MAI device, wherein the first MAI device and the shared MAI device each correspond to a different user. In an embodiment, the method includes causing a behavior change in the simulated surface being projected from the shared MAI device. An embodiment includes a computer usable program product. The computer usable program product includes a computer-readable storage device, and program instructions stored on the storage device.
US11132058B1
The disclosed system may include (1) a processor that generates an artificial environment that includes a virtual object, (2) a display that presents the artificial environment, (3) an input subsystem that detects tracks positioning of a body, and (4) a plurality of haptic actuators that are arranged to apply haptic feedback to a first plurality of locations on the body, where the processor (a) determines, based on the positioning of the body, a virtual contact of one of a second plurality of locations on the body with the virtual object, where the second plurality of locations is different from the first plurality of locations, and (b) activates, in response to the virtual contact, at least one of the plurality of haptic actuators based on a mapping of the second plurality of locations to the plurality of haptic actuators. Various other systems and methods are also disclosed.
US11132057B2
Various embodiments relate to apparatuses and methods that can determine an amount of force on a tissue. An apparatus can include an optical fiber including a first end and a second end. An electronics module of the apparatus is coupled to the first end of the optical fiber. The electronics module can include a light emitter that can transmit light to the tissue over the optical fiber and a light sensor that can receive light over the optical fiber. The received light includes a component of the transmitted light reflected by the tissue. The electronics module can include a processor that can determine the amount of force on the tissue based on characteristic(s) of the reflected light. The apparatus can also include an end cap coupled to the second end of the optical fiber. The end cap can introduce the transmitted light into the tissue and receive the reflected light.
US11132056B2
Various aspects of the subject technology relate to prediction of eye movements of a user of a head-mountable display device. Predictive foveated display systems and methods, using the predicted eye movements are also disclosed. Predictive variable focus display systems and methods using the predicted eye movements are also disclosed. Predicting eye movements may include predicting a future gaze location and/or predicting a future vergence plane for the user's eyes, based on the current motion of one or both of the user's eyes. The predicted gaze location may be used to pre-render a foveated display image frame with a high-resolution region at the predicted gaze location. The predicted vergence plane may be used to modify an image plane of a display assembly to mitigate or avoid a vergence/accommodation conflict for the user.
US11132053B2
In one implementation, a method includes: displaying simulated reality (SR) content; determining whether an object in a physical environment satisfies one or more interaction criteria; and changing display of the SR content from a first view to a second view, in response to determining that the object in the physical environment satisfies the one or more interaction criteria, wherein, in the first view, the object in the physical environment is occluded by the SR content, and wherein the second view reduces occlusion of the object in the physical environment by the SR content.
US11132048B2
Various systems and methods for adapting a computer based on user attentiveness are described herein. A system for attention-based gesture recognition includes processing circuitry to: access an image of a user, the user proximate to a computing device; determine, based on the image, whether user is attentive to the computing device; and selectively enable or disable a function of the computing device depending on whether the user is attentive.
US11132043B2
A system for detecting power failure in a dual processing system includes a first central processing unit (CPU), a second CPU, a power controlling unit, and a complex programmable logic device (CPLD). The power controlling unit is electrically coupled to the first CPU and the second CPU and the CPLD. The CPLD can determine a power failure occurring in relation to the first CPU and the second CPU. If power to the first CPU does not fail but power to the second CPU does fail, the CPLD controls the power controlling unit to stop supplying power for the second CPU only and make a certain number of power restart attempts. A method for detecting a power failure is also provided.
US11132039B2
An information handling system may include an information handling resource and an energy storage device electrically coupled to the information handling resource and comprising one or more energy storage cells and a control subsystem configured to selectively enable and disable discharging of the one or more energy storage cells to the information handling resource based on a temperature associated with the energy storage device.
US11132012B2
A method, apparatus, system and computer program is provided for controlling an electric power system, including implementation of a voltage control and conservation (VCC) system used to optimally control the independent voltage and capacitor banks using a linear optimization methodology to minimize the losses in the EEDCS and the EUS. An energy validation process system (EVP) is provided which is used to document the savings of the VCC and an EPP is used to optimize improvements to the EEDCS for continuously improving the energy losses in the EEDS. The EVP system measures the improvement in the EEDS a result of operating the VCC system in the “ON” state determining the level of energy conservation achieved by the VCC system. In addition the VCC system monitors pattern recognition events and compares them to the report-by-exception data to detect HVL events. If one is detected the VCC optimizes the capacity of the EEDS to respond to the HVL events by centering the piecewise linear solution maximizing the ability of the EDDS to absorb the HVL event.
US11132006B2
A position controller that performs position control by outputting a drive signal to a control valve of a hydraulic actuator that changes an operation position of an object, includes: a position acquisition unit that acquires an actual value of an operation position of the object; a position control unit that calculates an operation command value for the control valve by closed-loop control so as to reduce a deviation between a target value of the operation position of the object and the actual value; and a vibration wave application unit that applies a vibration wave to a signal of the closed-loop control so that the operation command value vibrates at a predetermined frequency at start of the closed-loop control.
US11132005B2
To avoid interfering with a participant when information on a venue of a competition or an event is provided by using an unmanned aerial vehicle, participant position information acquisition means of an unmanned aerial vehicle escape system acquires participant position information on a position of the participant in the venue of the competition or the event. Movement instruction means instructs an unmanned aerial vehicle for providing information on the venue to move to a position defined based on the participant position information. Layout information acquisition means acquires layout information on a layout of the venue. Escape destination determination means determines an escape destination of the unmanned aerial vehicle based on the participant position information and the layout information. Escape means causes the unmanned aerial vehicle to escape to the escape destination determined by the escape destination determination means.
US11132003B2
An integrated computing system computes a geo-location of a vehicle based on location data generated by a GNSS receiver, operates one or more external communication interfaces, calculates a desired path for steering the vehicle based on the geo-location, and communicates the desired path to one or more external operating units via the one or more external communication interfaces. The integrated computing system may include one or more computer processing units programmed to provide shared coordinated execution of software functions that are all implemented and located within a same integrated circuit or enclosure. The integrated computing system lowers the overall cost and complexity of agricultural guidance systems by reducing and simplifying the number of chassis, boxes, connectors, power supplies, and manufacturing processes.
US11131996B2
An area partitioning method, a partition cleaning method and a robot are provided. The area partitioning method includes: sequentially determining, according to a preset priority order, whether each of candidate directions of a current partition can satisfy a creation condition; creating, when one of the candidate directions satisfies the creation condition, a new partition in the candidate direction satisfying the creation condition; and ending area partitioning when none of the candidate directions satisfies the creation condition. The method can improve the working efficiency of the cleaning robot and avoid the occurrence of random cleaning, which leads to good use experience and has a good application prospect.
US11131994B2
A method for improving an autonomous driving system for an autonomous vehicle is disclosed. The method includes sub-sampling a frame generated by an output of a sensor and transmitting, to a remote device, the sub-sampled frame and classification data corresponding to the sub-sampled frame. The method also includes receiving, from the remote device, an adjustment to the autonomous driving system in response to the transmitted sub-sampled frame and classification data. The method further includes controlling an action of the autonomous vehicle based on the adjusted autonomous driving system.
US11131988B2
A diagnostic apparatus determines, at a reference time, whether a device is normal or abnormal, and in which operation state the device is at the time. A reference data creation unit repeats a process of storing sensor values acquired from the device while changing the operation state at the reference time in association with each of the determined operation states until there is no non-corresponding operation state with which the acquired sensor value is not yet associated. At a diagnosis time at which it is not known whether the device is normal or abnormal, an operation state and a sensor value of the device at the time is acquired. The stored sensor value associated with the acquired operation state is read to compare the sensor value acquired at the diagnosis time with the read sensor value to display a result of determination on whether the device is normal or abnormal.
US11131975B2
A wireless terminal performs communication setting processing in response to connection processing from an air conditioning management apparatus. The air conditioning management apparatus sends, to a wireless terminal, a wireless communication electronic message in which an air conditioning communication electronic message is packaged. Upon receipt of the wireless communication electronic message, the wireless terminal converts the content of the communication. Upon receipt of the air conditioning communication electronic message, an air conditioner executes a request command described in the air conditioning communication electronic message. Upon receipt of the air conditioning communication electronic message, the wireless terminal converts the content of the communication. Upon receipt of the wireless communication electronic message, the air conditioning management apparatus performs response reception processing.
US11131961B2
An image-forming apparatus includes: a main casing; a drawer movable in a first direction relative to the main casing; a process cartridge detachably mountable on the drawer; and a toner cartridge. The drawer includes a first drawer side plate and a second drawer side plate spaced apart from each other in a second direction crossing the first direction. The process cartridge includes: a photosensitive drum rotatable about an axis extending in the second direction when the process cartridge is mounted on the drawer; and a developing device for supplying toner to the photosensitive drum. When the process cartridge is mounted on the drawer and the toner cartridge is attached to the process cartridge, the toner cartridge has a length in the second direction greater than a distance in the second direction between the first drawer side plate and the second drawer side plate.
US11131959B2
A process cartridge comprises a photosensitive drum and a developing roller. A coupling member is provided adjacent to one axial end of the developing roller. The coupling member includes a driven portion, and an intermediary portion configured and positioned to engage with the driven portion. The intermediary portion is also configured to be movable relative to the driven portion in a direction crossing the axis of the developing roller while maintaining engagement with the driven portion. The coupling member further includes a driving portion configured and positioned to receive a driving force for rotating the developing roller. The driving portion is also configured to engage with the intermediary portion, and to be movable relative to the intermediary portion in a direction crossing the axis of the developing roller while maintaining engagement with the intermediary portion.
US11131953B1
According to one embodiment, a paper feeding device includes a containing unit, a conveyance unit, a heater, a wiring, a thermostat, and a switch. The containing unit contains a sheet bundle. The conveyance unit conveys sheets from the sheet bundle contained in the containing unit one sheet by one. The heater heats the sheet bundle contained in the containing unit. The wiring supplies electric power to the heater. The thermostat controls a driving state of the heater. The switch is inserted in a middle of wiring and switches an ON state and an OFF state of the wiring in response to an input control signal.
US11131951B2
In an example, a method includes printing a set of images by transferring print agent between a roller of a print agent source and an electrophotographic surface in a plurality of transfer operations, wherein the roller is controlled to have a first voltage profile during each of the transfer operations. A variation in optical density which is consistent across the set of printed images may be detected, and a second voltage profile correction may be determined based on the variation in optical density. The method may further comprise printing a subsequent image by transferring print agent between the print agent source roller and the electrophotographic surface in a subsequent transfer operation, wherein the roller is controlled to have the second voltage profile during the subsequent transfer operation.
US11131942B1
An image forming apparatus includes: a development device which develops an electrostatic latent image formed on a photosensitive drum into a toner image; a charger which charges the photosensitive drum; a development power supply which applies a bias voltage to the development device; an electric current measuring section which measures a development current flowing in the development device; and a calculating section which calculates a surface potential of the photosensitive drum based on the development current. The charger applies charging biases to the photosensitive drum. The electric current measuring section measures a corresponding value of the development current for each development bias voltage applied to the development device. The calculating section calculates, per charging bias, a development bias voltage at which the development current stops flowing as the surface potential, and calculates a correspondence between the surface potential and the charging bias based on calculated values of the surface potential.
US11131931B2
The present disclosure describes a leakage handling device and a method for handling a fluid leakage in a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus. The semiconductor manufacturing apparatus can include a lithography apparatus with a chuck configured to hold a substrate, and a photoresist feeder configured to dispatch a coating material on one or more areas of the substrate. The photoresist feeder can include a photoresist cartridge configured to output the coating material, a conduit fluidly connected to the photoresist cartridge, and a fluid leakage handling device disposed above the chuck, where the conduit can be configured to fluidly transport the coating material and circulate a coolant and the fluid leakage handling device can be configured to detect a fluid leakage from the conduit.
US11131930B2
A method for manufacturing a female mold is provided in the embodiments of the disclosure, comprising: providing a substrate; forming a substrate layer of the female mold on the substrate; forming on the substrate layer of the female mold a mask layer which is adapted to exposure by an X-ray; and exposing the substrate layer of the female mold to the X-ray from a side of the mask layer away from the substrate. A direction in which the X-ray irradiates is inclined at a predetermined oblique angle to the substrate layer of the female mold, in the process of exposing to the X-ray. Besides, a female mold is also provided.
US11131919B2
A method of removing layers of an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) pattern stack is provided. The method includes forming one or more resist templates on an upper hardmask layer. The method further includes exposing portions of the surface of the upper hardmask layer to a dry etch process to produce modified and activated surfaces. The method further includes etching the modified and activated surfaces to expose an underlying organic planarization layer.
US11131917B2
An image display apparatus according to an aspect of the present technology includes a light source, an image generator, and a projection optical system. The image generator modulates light emitted from the light source and generates image light. The projection optical system includes a lens system and a concave reflective surface. The lens system is configured on a basis of a reference axis at a position on which the generated image light is incident, and has a positive refracting power as a whole. The concave reflective surface is configured on a basis of the reference axis, and reflects the image light emitted from the lens system toward a projection target. In addition, the concave reflective surface reflects at least one or more light beams included in the image light incident on the concave reflective surface, toward a direction that intersects with a direction along the reference axis at an angle of 80 degrees or more.
US11131915B2
A light source device of the present disclosure includes a light source, a wavelength conversion element having a fluorescent material that a light output from the light source enters and a supporting substrate that supports the fluorescent material, an optical element guiding the light output from the light source to the fluorescent material, a holding member holding the optical element, and a housing part providing a housing space in an optical path of the light output from the light source and housing at least the optical element and the holding member in the housing space, wherein the supporting substrate is fixed to the holding member, the holding member is fixed to the housing part, and an elastic member is provided between the supporting substrate and the holding member.
US11131912B2
A projector includes a cooler configured to cool a cooling target based on transformation of a refrigerant into a gas. The cooler includes a refrigerant generator and a refrigerant sender. The refrigerant generator includes a rotating moisture absorbing/discharging member, a first air blower configured to deliver air containing the refrigerant transformed into the gas at the cooling target to a first portion of the moisture absorbing/discharging member located in a first region, a heat exchanger connected to the refrigerant sender, and a second air blower configured to cool the heat exchanger. The air having passed through the first portion of the moisture absorbing/discharging member flows into the heat exchanger. Air exhausted from the heat exchanger is delivered to a second portion of the moisture absorbing/discharging member located in a second region different from the first region.
US11131903B2
A system for controlling a plurality of lighting assemblies and a plurality of imagers configured to capture image data in a plurality fields of an operating region comprises a collapsible armature comprising a plurality of linkages configured to extend between an extended arrangement and a collapsed arrangement. The extended arrangement positions the lighting assemblies in a first spacing, and the collapsed arrangement positions the lighting assemblies in a second spacing. A controller is configured to control lighting emissions from light sources of the lighting assemblies based on the predetermined first spacing and detect at least one object in the fields of view and control the lighting assemblies to illuminate the at least one object.
US11131897B2
A liquid crystal cell and a manufacturing method thereof and a use thereof are provided in the present disclosure. The liquid crystal cell is in a normally transparent mode, and has excellent transmittance-variable characteristics in a transparent mode and a scattering mode and excellent haze characteristics in the scattering mode. Such liquid crystal cell may be applied to various light modulation devices, such as a smart window, a window protective film, a flexible display element, a light shielding plate for transparent displays, an active retarder for 3D image displays or a viewing angle control film.
US11131895B2
A display device includes: an active matrix substrate including pixels arrayed in a matrix shape including rows and columns, and scanning wiring lines extending in a row direction and signal wiring lines extending in a column direction, wherein the active matrix substrate includes, in each of pixels, a TFT, a pixel electrode formed of a transparent conductive material and electrically connected to the TFT, a color filter located between the TFT and the pixel electrode, and a connecting electrode formed of a transparent conductive material and electrically connecting the TFT to the pixel electrode, the color filter includes a first color filter layer provided on the TFT and including a first contact hole, and a second color filter layer provided on the first color filter layer and including a second contact hole, and the first contact hole and the second contact hole do not overlap with each other.
US11131891B2
The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device of a transverse electric field mode that may inhibit internal reflection and realize proper black display to which coloring does not occur. The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device including a first linear polarizer, a first λ/4 retardation layer, a first substrate, a second λ/4 retardation layer configured with a different material from the first λ/4 retardation layer, a liquid crystal layer that contains liquid crystals which are horizontally aligned in a case where no voltage is applied, plural electrode pairs that generate a transverse electric field in the liquid crystal layer by a voltage being applied, a second substrate, a second linear polarizer, and a backlight. In a case where a color of light emitted from the backlight is expressed by using chromaticity coordinates (x, y) of an XYZ color system, both of x and y are 0.32 or greater. The plural electrode pairs include a red electrode pair arranged in a red sub-pixel, a green electrode pair arranged in a green sub-pixel, and a blue electrode pair arranged in a blue sub-pixel. A white display applied voltage of the blue electrode pair is different from the white display applied voltage of the red electrode pair and the white display applied voltage of the green electrode pair.
US11131887B2
The present disclosure provides a display apparatus. The display apparatus includes: an organic light-emitting display panel and a liquid crystal display panel disposed on a light-emitting side of the organic light-emitting display panel. The liquid crystal display panel includes: a wave plate, a linear polarizer, a bottom substrate, a liquid crystal layer and an upper substrate which are stacked successively. The bottom substrate is a transparent substrate. The organic light-emitting display panel includes a metal layer; and the metal layer serves as a backlight source of the liquid crystal display panel.
US11131886B2
Provided is a horizontal electric field mode liquid crystal display device in which light leak and tint change at the time of black display are reduced in case of being seen from an oblique direction. The liquid crystal display device is an IPS mode liquid crystal display device including at least a first polarizer, a first optical compensation layer, a liquid crystal cell, and a second polarizer in this order, in which the first optical compensation layer satisfies a predetermined relational expression, a total thickness-direction retardation Rth total(550) present between the liquid crystal layer and the second polarizer in the liquid crystal cell satisfies a predetermined relational expression, and a slow axis of the first optical compensation layer is parallel to an absorption axis of a polarizer layer.
US11131882B2
A light source control assembly, a display device and a method for manufacturing a light source control assembly are provided in embodiments of the disclosure. The light source control assembly, comprises: a photoelectric converter; at least one light-emitting unit; and a light controlling structure arranged opposite to and spaced apart from the at least one light-emitting unit, and configured to pass therethrough a portion of and to block another portion of light, which light is emitted by various light-emitting units of the at least one light-emitting unit, and to generate a plurality of controlled light beams separated from one another with the portion of light passing therethrough; the another portion of light blocked by the light controlling structure from the various light-emitting units is received by the photoelectric converter.
US11131875B2
A display device according to the present disclosure comprises: a display panel comprising a color filter layer consisting of a plurality of color filters arranged in a matrix form and black matrices disposed between the plurality of color filters; a backlight configured to supply light to the display panel; and a light-collecting layer disposed on the display panel, wherein the light-collecting layer comprises a tunnel member having a plurality of vertical spaces respectively corresponding to the plurality of color filters, and a prism-layer in which first prisms having a first direction and second prisms having a second direction intersecting the first direction are alternately arranged, and disposed on the tunnel member.
US11131861B2
A system and method for retinal image projection are disclosed. The system includes an image projection module that is configured and operable for projecting at least first and second image portions corresponding respectively to first and second parts of an image to be respectively projected on foveal and peripheral regions of an eye retina; and an optical multiplexing module optically coupled to the image projection module and configured and operable to spatially and/or temporally combine/multiplex the projections of the at least first and second image portions for generating a combined image projection output for propagation along a general common optical path which is to be directed towards said eye retina. The optical multiplexing module is configured and operable to multiplex the projections the first and second image portions such that a lateral extent of the combined projection is somewhat similar to a lateral extent of the second image portion in the combined projection which is intended to fall/cover the parafoveal regions of the eye retina, and the lateral extent of the first image portion in the combined projection being smaller and within the lateral extent of the combined projection. The first and second image portions may be projected with different qualities (different resolutions and/or different color depth) and/or with different framerates in accordance with the respective foveal and parafoveally regions of the retina to which there are intended, to the by optimize the image quality/frame rate, and the associated processing and projection capabilities to the anatomical structure of the retina.
US11131852B2
Variable attenuation of an illumination source is provided by an aperture (i.e., an opening in a structure through which light passes) that is sandwiched between two tunable lenses that are configured to apply varying amounts of optical power. A controller operates the first tunable lens to apply optical power to the light to be divergent at the aperture structure so that a portion of the light is clipped. Varying the applied optical power at the first tunable lens can increase or decrease divergence at the aperture structure to thereby increase or decrease clipping and the attenuation of the light. The controller operates the second tunable lens to compensate for changes in light state at the first tunable lens by applying opposite optical power so that collimated light from the illumination source which enters the first tunable lens may exit the second tunable lens in the same collimated state.
US11131850B2
A display apparatus includes a screen configured to form an intermediate image by being irradiated with light, a front windshield configured to display a virtual image by being irradiated with light forming the intermediated image, a reflection member configured to reflect light going out from the screen to the front windshield, and a rotation shaft configured to rotate the reflection member. The rotation shaft is tilted with respect to a pitch axis. The reflection member has notches formed thereon.
US11131847B2
Anomalous images generated by a picture generation unit of a heads up display are suppressed by a light-suppressing horn placed inside the picture generated unit. The horn is sized, shaped and arranged to receive scattered light that is reflected from mirrors of a digital micromirror device, which are in their “off” position but which nevertheless reflect light toward surfaces of the picture generation unit and which are subsequently emitted from the picture generation unit lens.
US11131844B2
The invention relates to a Pivot hinge (1) for a Long-range optical Instrument (10), in particular binocular, comprising: at least two Joint Elements (2, 3) pivotable against each other about a Pivot Axis (4), and an Adjustment Device (5) for adjusting the pivot resistance and/or a Detent (26) between the Joint Elements (2, 3). In order to permit a more accurate and permanent adjustment and to facilitate a space-saving design, the Adjustment Device (5) comprises a Spreader Device (6) with at least one Spreader Element (7) adjustable along the Pivot Axis (4) and at least one Force Transfer Surface (16) that interacts with the Spreader Device (6) in order to transfer the spreading force of the Spreader Device (6) into a force acting from the Adjustment Device (5) on at least one Joint Element (2, 3), preferably in direction of the Pivot Axis (4).
US11131843B2
The binocular bridge system is configured to couple two night vision monoculars together, effectively providing the user with a binocular night vision system. An example binocular bridge system comprises a bridge, two hinged arms, and two dummy battery inserts. Each dummy battery insert is configured to be positioned within the battery compartment of a night vision monocular and conductively connect it to a power source housed within the bridge. In some implementation, each hinged arm of the binocular bridge system includes an objective alignment ring. The hinged arms of such a binocular bridge system, in conjunction with the objective alignment rings, are configured to mechanically collimate the night vision monoculars secured thereto.
US11131819B2
Aspects and techniques of the present disclosure relate to handheld tools for assisting in routing optical fiber, and including advantageous features and methods usable with handheld tools. Disclosed features and techniques relate to: a splicing station, a spool, a groove plate; a substrate; a fiber management device; a tool; and flexible organizers.
US11131810B2
A method for fixing a single-mode fiber to a multimode fiber comprises the following steps: injecting light radiation into the injection end of the single-mode fiber and positioning the junction ends of the single-mode fiber and of the multimode fiber relative to one another so as to propagate at least part of the light radiation in the multimode fiber; modally decomposing the light radiation collected at the injection end of the multimode fiber and measuring a quantity representative of the optical power present in a first group of secondary modes; and adjusting the relative position of the junction ends and freezing them with respect to one another in a determined relative coupling position. Coupling equipment for carrying out the fixing method is also disclosed.
US11131806B2
Integrated-optics systems are presented in which an optically active device is optically coupled with a silicon waveguide via a passive compound-semiconductor waveguide. In a first region, the passive waveguide and the optically active device collectively define a composite waveguide structure, where the optically active device functions as the central ridge portion of a rib-waveguide structure. The optically active device is configured to control the vertical position of an optical mode in the composite waveguide along its length such that the optical mode is optically coupled into the passive waveguide with low loss. The passive waveguide and the silicon waveguide collectively define a vertical coupler in a second region, where the passive and silicon waveguides are configured to control the distribution of the optical mode along the length of the coupler, thereby enabling the entire mode to transition between the passive and silicon waveguides with low loss.
US11131801B2
A backlight assembly, a backlight unit, and a display panel are provided. The backlight assembly includes a back plate, a light source plate, at least one buffer member, and at least one heat dissipation component. The back plate is on a side of the light source plate distal to a light exit side thereof, both the at least one buffer member and the at least one heat dissipation component are between the back plate and the light source plate, the heat dissipation component extends from a side of the buffer member proximal to the light source plate to a side of the buffer member proximal to the back plate, and the surfaces, which are in contact with each other, of two ones of each heat dissipation member, each buffer member, the back plate and the light source plate, are fixed to each other.
US11131780B2
The invention relates to a radiation detector (1), an imaging system and a related method for radiation detection. The detector comprises a direct conversion material (2) for converting x-ray and/or gamma radiation into electron-hole pairs by direct photon-matter interaction. The detector comprises an anode (3) and a cathode (4) arranged on opposite sides of the direct conversion material (2) such that the electrons and holes can respectively be collected by the anode and cathode. The cathode is substantially transparent to infrared radiation. The detector comprises a light guide layer (5) on the cathode at a side of the cathode that is opposite of the direct conversion material, in which the light guide layer is adapted for distributing infrared radiation over the direct conversion material. The detector comprises a reflector layer (6) arranged on the light guide layer (5) at a side opposite of the cathode, in which the reflector layer is adapted for substantially reflecting infrared radiation. The detector comprises at least one light emitter (7), abutting on and/or integrated in the light guide layer (5), for emitting infrared radiation into the light guide layer.
US11131774B2
In a positioning augmentation device (40), a plan making unit (84) selects a subset satisfying selection conditions from within a candidate set that is a set of satellites being selection candidates and saves plan data (43) indicating the selected subset in a memory (72). A plan alteration unit (85) acquires integrity information indicating quality of a positioning signal transmitted from each satellite and detects a satellite of which the quality of the positioning signal does not satisfy quality conditions, from within the subset selected by the plan making unit (84), based on the acquired integrity information. The plan alteration unit (85) replaces the detected satellite in the subset with another satellite included in the candidate set. A message generation unit (87) makes satellites, included in the subset indicated by the plan data (43) saved in the memory (72) among the satellites included in the candidate set, objects of positioning augmentation and generates a message (41) for distribution of augmentation information to be used for the positioning augmentation.
US11131766B2
In a method for the recognition of an object by means of a radar sensor system, a primary radar signal is transmitted into an observation space, a secondary radar signal reflected by the object is received, a Micro-Doppler spectrogram of the secondary radar signal is generated, and at least one periodicity quantity relating to an at least essentially periodic motion of a part of the object is determined based on the Micro-Doppler spectrogram. The determining of the at least one periodicity quantity includes the following steps: (i) determining the course of at least one periodic signal component corresponding to an at least essentially periodic pattern of the Micro-Doppler spectrogram, (ii) fitting a smoothed curve to the periodic signal component, (iii) determining the positions of a plurality of peaks and/or valleys of the smoothed curve, and (iv) determining the periodicity quantity based on the determined positions of peaks and/or valleys.
US11131765B2
A device can determine its position in a communications system. A scalable solution permits multiple devices to be used in one area without detrimental effect on the accuracy or latency of the position determining. The communications system includes a first base station arranged to transmit a first signal to a second base station arranged receive the first signal and transmit a second signal to the first base station in response The first base station is arranged to receive the second signal and transmit a third signal to the second base station in response to the second signal delay time measuring unit, round trip time measuring unit, a base station timings unit and a calculating unit are used to calculate a first time difference of arrival based on a first round trip time, first delay time, second round trip time and a second delay time.
US11131764B2
A transmission antenna section includes a plurality of transmission antennas, and a reception antenna section includes one or more reception antennas. A modulation section causes a continuous wave common signal generated by an oscillation section to be branched into the same number as the transmission antennas, and performs phase shift keying using a different phase rotation amount for each of the plurality of branch signals. Thus, the modulation section generates a plurality of transmission signals inputted into the plurality of transmission antennas. A processing section generates, on the basis of a plurality of signal components, information on an object by which a radiation wave from the transmission antenna section has been reflected, the plurality of signal components being extracted from each of one or more reception signals received by the antenna section and corresponding to the plurality of transmission signals.
US11131751B2
A device for calibrating a radar or an antenna and embedded on an aerial vehicle, comprising: a processing unit configured to apply a delay to an incoming electromagnetic signal, wherein the device is configured to provide said electromagnetic signal with said delay to an emitter for its back transmission, wherein the processing unit is configured to control said delay according to one or more delay values, wherein each delay value simulates a virtual range of the device or of the aerial vehicle with respect to said radar or antenna receiving said transmitted electromagnetic signal, said virtual range being different from an actual range of the device or of the aerial vehicle, for calibrating said at least one radar or antenna based on said transmitted electromagnetic signal which simulates a virtual range of the device or of the aerial vehicle with respect to said at least one radar or antenna.
US11131748B2
A method for detecting at least one radar transmitter in an environment, the method being implemented by a device including a calculating unit and an antenna array including at least one antenna able to make acquisitions of the environment as acquisition signals and to receive and transmit the acquisition signals in a digital form to the calculating unit, the calculating unit being able to make processing on digitised signals, the method including receiving and digitising the acquisition signals as digitised signals and transmitting the digitised signals to the calculating unit; cutting off the digitised signals into pulses, characterising each pulse to obtain primary characteristics and secondary characteristics; gathering the pulses into pulse blocks.
US11131745B2
Techniques are described herein for imaging static or semi-static objects in a wireless power delivery environment and tracking non-static objects contained therein. More specifically, embodiments of the present disclosure describe techniques for determining the relative locations and movement of non-static objects in a wireless power delivery environment. Additionally, the techniques describe methods and systems for generation of motion-based maps such as heat (or dwell) maps and flow maps.
US11131722B2
An apparatus (10) for checking a component (30) is disclosed. The apparatus (10) comprises a sample holder (20) with a module (28) for receiving at least one component (30), at least one magnetic field generator (60a, 60b, 60c) for generating a magnetic field around the module (28), an inlet (40) for feeding a tempered medium into the module (25), and an outlet (45) for discharging a tempered medium from the module (28).
US11131721B2
The semiconductor device includes a Hall element, a first differential pair, a second differential pair, an output amplifier circuit, and a voltage divider circuit. The Hall element outputs a signal that is dependent on stress to be applied to a semiconductor substrate to the first differential pair. The voltage divider circuit divides a voltage into a divided voltage having a voltage dividing ratio that is dependent on the stress. The first differential pair outputs a first current based on the signal. The second differential pair outputs a second current based on the divided voltage and a reference voltage. The output amplifier circuit outputs a voltage based on the first and second currents. A gain of the output amplifier circuit is approximated by a sum of a difference between stress dependence coefficients of transconductances of the first and second differential pairs and a stress dependence coefficient of the voltage dividing ratio.
US11131720B2
Provided is an electronic control device, including: a plurality of grounding terminals provided to a plurality of grounds in the device individually on a one-to-one basis; a grounding common portion for connecting a plurality of grounding points provided to the plurality of grounds individually on a one-to-one basis; a current detection unit configured to detect each of currents flowing between the plurality of grounding points and the plurality of grounding terminals provided for the plurality of grounding points individually on a one-to-one basis or a current flowing through the grounding common portion; and a controller configured to detect a ground open condition for each of the plurality of grounds by comparing a detection result obtained by the current detection unit with a determination value for determining the ground open condition.
US11131717B1
Described methods and systems provide in-situ leakage current testing of battery cells in battery packs even while these packs operate. Specifically, an external electrical current is discontinued through a tested battery cell using a node controller, to which the tested battery cell is independently connected. Changes in the open circuit voltage (OCV) are then detected by the node controller for a set period time. Any voltage change, associated with taking the tested cell offline, is compensated by one or more other cells in the battery pack. The overall pack current and voltage remains substantially unchanged (based on the application demands), while the in-situ leakage current testing is initiated, performed, and/or completed. The OCV changes are then used to determine the leakage current of the tested cell and, in some examples, to determine the state of health of this cell and/or adjust the operating parameters of this cell.
US11131712B2
A device for inspecting the rotor windings of a generator includes a sequential logic circuit that generates a full-cycle pulse. A high-voltage full-cycle pulse matching generator couples the full-cycle pulse generated by the sequential logic circuit to form a corresponding transient bidirectional rotating magnetic field pulse. The transient bidirectional rotating magnetic field pulse is transmitted to two ends and a large shaft of the generator rotor winding through an impedance-matched connecting line. The transient bidirectional rotating magnetic field pulse generates a resonance effect with each large coil in the rotor. The pulse signal coupling feedback acquisition circuit couples all waveforms reflected by the generator rotor to form a magnetic field waveform, and the magnetic field waveform is transmitted to a data acquisition system by an operational amplifier. A central processing unit transmits a digital information stream to an upper computer.
US11131710B2
A photonic circuit testing device, including a photonic test chip including, on the side of a first surface of the chip: micropillars, each intended to be placed in contact with a corresponding electric connection pad of the photonic circuit; and first optical input/output ports, each intended to be optically coupled to a second corresponding optical input/output port of the photonic circuit.
US11131696B2
A method for estimating a property of a signal (1) sensed in an electrical system, comprises the steps of sensing the signal (1) and estimating a fundamental period of a fundamental of the signal (1) by comparing the sensed signal (1) with at least one threshold (2) to detect threshold crossings and estimating the fundamental period from the threshold crossings. The signal property is then estimated from the fundamental period and/or from the sensed signal (1) during an interval of a length of the fundamental period. An electronic device according to the invention comprises a micro controller and/or an analogue circuitry which performs the method for estimating a property of a signal. Preferably, the micro controller and/or analogue circuitry controls other parts of the electronic device depending on the results obtained by the method for estimating a property of a signal.
US11131695B2
The present disclosure is concerned with measuring the amount of electrical energy consumed even when the electric meter has been tampered with. Electric meters may be fraudulently tampered with by connecting a bypass element, such as a conductive wire or cable, across the terminals of the meter in order to bypass the electric meter. This means that only part of the consumed electrical current passes through the electric meter for measurement, resulting in some of the consumed electrical energy not being measured and therefore not being billed for. However, in the present invention a technique has been developed to enable the electric meter to determine the amount of electrical current that bypasses the meter and therefore measure the amount electrical energy consumed even when the electric meter has been tampered with.
US11131684B2
A method of sensing a rotation speed of an encoder includes generating measurement values by a plurality of sensor elements in response to sensing a magnetic field, where the plurality of sensor elements are grouped into a first shifted pair, a central pair, and a second shifted pair; generating a first shifted differential measurement signal based on the measurement values generated by the first shifted pair, a central differential measurement signal based on the measurement values generated by the central pair, and a second shifted differential measurement signal based on the measurement values generated by the second shifted pair; and generating an output signal based on detecting the first shifted differential measurement signal, the central differential measurement signal, and the second shifted differential measurement signal crossing at least one threshold.
US11131680B2
The present invention is directed to a cartridge device for a measuring system for measuring viscoelastic characteristics of a sample liquid, in particular a blood sample, comprising a cartridge body having at least one measurement cavity formed therein and having at least one probe element arranged in said at least one measurement cavity for performing a test on said sample liquid; and a cover being attachable on said cartridge body; wherein said cover covers at least partially said at least one measurement cavity and forms a retaining element for retaining said probe element in a predetermined position within said at least one measurement cavity. The invention is directed to a measurement system and a method for measuring viscoelastic characteristics of a sample liquid.
US11131670B2
A device for determining presence or absence of infection due to an infectious agent is described. The device comprises a sample receiving zone configured to receive a liquid sample from a subject suspected of having an infection due to an infectious agent, the sample receiving zone positioned to distribute the sample along a first fluid flow path to a first label zone and along a second fluid flow path to a second label zone. Test lines in each fluid flow path capture a mobile detectable species as an indicator of presence or absence of the infectious agent. The device also comprises a reference line positioned in the one of the fluid flow paths. The bidirectional fluid flow paths emanate from a common sample zone and provide an efficient approach to detection and differentiate two species as indicators of the same infectious agent or as indicators of two different infectious agents.
US11131668B2
Nanotube based lateral flow test device described herein is a lateral flow based diagnostic device, which uses arrays of fragments of single wall carbon nanotubes as sensor to detect the biomarkers at ultralow concentration (below picogram per milliliter). The device is consisted of the following components: (1) a lateral flow strip which typically is consisted of a backing film laminated with conjugate/sample pads, nitrocellulose membrane, wicking pad, (2) the arrays of single wall carbon nanotube conjugate with antibody which is immobilized on the membrane of the lateral flow device as the test line, (3) pairs of micro-electrode are installed on top part of the cassette, (4) a cassette which holds the lateral flow strip. The device can be used in clinical environments for biomarker detection.
US11131661B2
The invention relates to compounds and methods for restoring or preserving cholesterol efflux in a cell infected with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) by preventing or decreasing an interaction between Negative Regulatory Factor (Nef) protein and Calnexin protein, and methods for screening for such compounds.
US11131660B2
To measure above-saturation water content of hydrocarbons, a liquid hydrocarbon sample is received from a flowline carrying the liquid hydrocarbon. The liquid hydrocarbon sample includes liquid hydrocarbon and liquid water at a concentration greater than a water saturation level. The liquid hydrocarbon sample is mixed with a solvent. The concentration of liquid water in a mixture of the solvent and the liquid hydrocarbon sample is below the water saturation level. After mixing the liquid hydrocarbon sample with the solvent, a water content in the liquid hydrocarbon sample is determined.
US11131655B2
A method of mass spectrometry is provided. The method comprises eluting a sample from a chromatography system, and calculating a desired maximum scan duration for the sample eluting from the chromatographic system based on a duration of a chromatographic peak of the sample as it elutes from the chromatography system, and a minimum number of scans per chromatographic peak to be performed. A maximum accumulation duration is calculated based on the desired maximum scan duration. The sample is ionised to produce sample ions using an ion source. The sample ions are directed along an ion path from the ion source to a mass analyser. A first set of mass analysis scans are performed. Each of the first set of mass analysis scans comprises: accumulating a portion of sample ions at a point along the ion path, wherein the portion of sample ions are accumulated for a duration not exceeding the maximum accumulation duration, and mass analysing the portion of sample ions using the mass analyser. The mass analyser is a Fourier Transform mass analyser or a Time of Flight mass analyser.
US11131653B2
An apparatus, system, program product, and method are disclosed for determining the microstructure and properties of materials using acoustic signal processing. An apparatus includes a one or more sensors for sensing information describing a multiphase material using sound waves. The apparatus includes a processor operably coupled to the one or more sensors and a memory that stores code executable by the processor. The code is executable by the processor to receive sound-wave input from the one or more sensors, perform one or more quantitative analyses on the received sound-wave input in the frequency domain, and determine a microstructure of the multiphase material based on results from the one or more quantitative analyses.
US11131647B2
A method for fabricating a semiconductor device including an ion-sensitive field-effect transistor (ISFET) with enhanced sensitivity includes forming a sawtooth microwell within a base structure formed on a semiconductor chip corresponding to an ISFET, including using a sawtooth mask to etch through the base structure to expose the semiconductor chip, removing the sawtooth mask, and forming a sawtooth macrowell from the sawtooth microwell.
US11131646B2
A device to electrochemically sequence DNA that includes a redox species includes at least one edge electrode, at least one stack of insulator material, and a pair of DNA translocation electrodes including a DNA translocation working electrode and a DNA translocation counter electrode, where the thickness of the at least one edge electrode is about 0.5 nanometers, and the thickness of the at least one stack of insulator material is about 10 nanometers. Methods of electrochemically sequencing a strand of DNA are also provided.
US11131645B2
Systems and methods for hematocrit measurement are provided. In some embodiments, a method for measuring glucose in a blood sample comprises measuring hematocrit in a blood sample using a Thevenin equivalent circuit to calculate a hematocrit complex impedance value, mapping the calculated hematocrit impedance to a hematocrit concentration in the blood sample, and calculating a concentration of glucose in the blood sampled using the mapped hematocrit concentration.
US11131642B2
The present disclosure relates to a measuring circuit for a conductivity sensor, wherein the measuring circuit includes a built-in reference circuit and multiple built-in measuring ranges.
US11131641B2
A method for measuring the oil content of a lithium battery separator by using DSC includes the following steps: taking 5-10 mg of an oil-containing separator sample from the lithium battery separator, and taking 5-10 mg of an oil-free separator sample from an oil-free separator; performing an enthalpy test on the oil-free separator sample at room temperature by using a differential scanning calorimeter to obtain a first enthalpy value, and performing an enthalpy test on the oil-containing separator sample by using the differential scanning calorimeter to obtain a second enthalpy value; subtracting the second enthalpy value from the first enthalpy value to obtain a difference, and then dividing the difference by the first enthalpy value to obtain the oil content of the oil-containing separator sample.
US11131625B2
Gas sensor capable for in-situ non-contact optical measurements of hydrogen gas (H2) and method for measuring hydrogen gas under ambient and elevated pressures without the need for cells with extremely long optical path length. The gas sensor can be configured for dual gas measurements such as H2 and CO2.
US11131623B2
A mixture detection method and device relating to substance detection technology. The proportion contents of substances contained in a mixture can be detected. The method includes: performing measurement spectrum line collection on a to-be-detected mixture to identify the kinds of substances in the to-be-detected mixture; selecting a characteristic peak of a measurement spectrum line of each kind of substance according to the kinds of substances, and obtaining an intensity proportion of the characteristic peak of each kind of substance; querying a relative activity database according to the kinds of the substances to obtain relative activity corresponding to each kind of substance; and determining the proportion contents of the substances contained in the mixture according to the intensity proportion of the characteristic peak of each kind of substance and the quotient of the relative activities.
US11131614B2
An autonomous terrestrial compaction testing vehicle includes a compaction density meter coupled to the vehicle and a controller. The controller is communicatively connected to the compaction density meter and to a controller of a compactor machine that is compacting or has compacted an area of terrain. The controller is configured to autonomously control movement of the vehicle over the compacted area and control the compaction density meter to take a plurality of compaction density measurements at a plurality of locations of the compacted area.
US11131612B2
There is provided a method for estimating a hardness of a cold worked component including: preparing a test piece for hardness measurement having a dent portion of a shape corresponding to a shape of the contact surface of the punch by using a mounting base on which a test piece is mounted and a punch of which a contact surface to be in contact with the test piece is a curved surface, and compressing the test piece mounted on the mounting base using the punch; measuring hardnesses of the test piece for hardness measurement at a plurality of hardness measurement positions in a measurement direction while taking, as the measurement direction, a direction in the dent portion in which a sheet thickness changes; performing numerical analysis to calculate equivalent plastic strains of the test piece for hardness measurement, and acquiring a hardness-equivalent plastic strain curve on the basis of the hardnesses and the equivalent plastic strains at the hardness measurement positions; and specifying a hardness from the calculated value of equivalent plastic strain of an arbitrary part of the cold worked component on the basis of the hardness-equivalent plastic strain curve by performing numerical analysis to calculate a value of equivalent plastic strain of a cold worked component.
US11131608B2
A target analyte is extracted out of a sample fluid in a sample fluid passage by diffusing the target analyte through a supported liquid membrane to a product fluid passage. Extraction of the target analyte is accelerated by applying an electric field across and perpendicular to the supported liquid membrane with electrodes. Passage of selected ions across an exchange membrane extending between one of the electrodes and the supported liquid membrane is inhibited.
US11131606B2
Provided is a method for providing measured values of a technical installation in which measured values in at least one measurement series are captured, wherein a respective measured value is provided by a measurement sensor for a respective physical measurement variable in the technical installation for a respective measurement time. The measured values are categorized as normal measured values or anomalous measured values with the aid of a threshold value comparison and at least one further method stage. The further method stage comprises calculating one or more statistical position parameters for selected measured values from the same measurement series and/or different measurement series. The method makes it possible to increase the reliability of the measured values provided. A technical system comprising the technical installation, at least one measurement sensor and a program-controlled device, and a method for operating the technical system are also proposed.
US11131603B2
A mechanically functional component having at least one sensor arranged to convert one or more physical magnitudes to electrical sensor signals. The sensor includes an electroactive composite deposited directly onto the mechanically functional component and at least one conductive electrode deposited directly on a part of the electroactive composite.
US11131602B2
An intermediate signal is separated into a first sub-signal and a second sub-signal according to a separation coefficient having a known real value. The first sub-signal is delivered to a first photonic circuit containing at least one photonic device to be characterized and a first photonic part. The second sub-signal is delivered to a second photonic circuit containing a second photonic part having a same transfer function as the first photonic part but lacking the at least one photonic device. Optical output signals from the first and second photonic circuits are converted into first and second electrical signals. Losses of the at least one photonic device are determined from processing the electrical signals and from the known real value of the separation coefficient.
US11131600B2
A test fixture includes a base and an adjustable structure. The adjustable structure includes a limiting block, a locking block, and a fixing member. The limiting block is disposed on the base. The locking block is disposed on the base and abuts an edge of the limiting block to lock the limiting block in position. The fixing member is disposed on the limiting block to fix the limiting block on the base. When the locking block is moved from a first position to a second position, the locking block unlocks the limiting block, the fixing member is loosened, and the limiting block can rotate on the base. After the limiting block is rotated, the locking block is moved from the second position to the first position to lock the limiting block, and the fixing member is tightened to fix the limiting block on the base.
US11131597B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium for receiving an indication of damage to a building from a sensor network associated with the building, where the sensor network is responsive to damage to the building. Determining a location and an extent of the damage to the building based on the indication of damage. Automatically coordinating a repair for the damage in response to determining the location and the extent of the damage.
US11131591B2
The present invention belongs to the technical field of joint surface pressure detection of connecting pieces, and provides an FBG sensor-based bolt fastening joint surface pressure detection method, comprising the steps of determining the size and the position of an FBG sensor; and determining the pressure of a joint surface measuring position on the basis of the single bolt connection joint surface pressure distribution theory, and completing calibration in real-time correspondence to the strain and pressure values to realize precise detection of the joint surface pressure. Determining the size and the position of the FBG sensor embedding slot according to the above method can ensure the reliability and accuracy of strain information; and an accurate strain-joint surface pressure curve can be obtained in combination with the determination of the joint surface pressure, which provides a practical and feasible method for the research on the bolt connection joint surface pressure.
US11131590B2
The strain gage includes: a substrate formed from a resin material: a resistor provided on a surface of the substrate; and a fusion layer provided on an opposite surface, to the surface on which the resistor is provided. The fusion layer is a thermoplastic polyimide layer. There is provided the strain gage that has a thickness of as thin as possible and that makes a manufacture process of a load sensor simpler.
US11131576B2
A work vehicle includes a working device which is configured to excavate and unload soil, a load meter which is configured to measure weight of the soil loaded by the working device, a transport vehicle specifier which is configured to specify a transport vehicle to be loaded with the soil, a vehicle weight acquirer which is configured to acquire vehicle weight information on loadable weight of the transport vehicle, a load weight calculator which calculates load weight of the soil loaded on the transport vehicle, according to the weight measured by the load meter, and an output unit which is configured to output information on a remaining loading capacity of the transport vehicle obtained from the vehicle weight information and the load weight.
US11131562B2
In an embodiment, a method includes receiving, by a processor of a mobile device, raw pedometer data from a pedometer included in or coupled to the mobile device. The processor receives raw GNSS data from a GNSS receiver included in or coupled to the mobile device. A first filter uses the raw pedometer data to estimate a step frequency of a user wearing or holding the mobile device. The processor determines a pace change from the estimated step frequency. Responsive to the pace change, the processor adapts a bandwidth of a second filter and estimates, by the second filter, an estimated pace or speed of the user.
US11131560B2
A navigational aid including an intelligent display mode and a communication system communicates with a vehicle's sensor system and/or historical- or time-based information to reduce the number of businesses that are displayed on the map by filtering out unneeded or less preferred services. When the vehicle's fuel level sensor detects that the fuel tank is almost empty, a message can be sent from the sensor system to the navigational aid such that the navigational aid can then begin showing a visual indication (e.g., text or graphical information such as an icon) of the location of fuel stations on the screen. Additionally, the location receiver indicates to the filter when the navigational aid is close to the programmed destination. At that point, the filter can be informed that it should start showing garages or areas where the vehicle can be parked without having cluttered the screen with parking garages that were not close to the destination. Similarly, when in need of other services (e.g., hotel or restaurant services), the navigational aid can display preferred brands (while omitting non-preferred brands) and make reservations when a communication system is included which is capable of communicating with the service provider. Additionally, prices or relative prices for the services may also be indicated.
US11131559B2
A nonlinear route for traveling from a source to a destination is determined. The route includes a sequence of (i) route segments and (ii) intermediate geographic locations defining endpoints of the route segments. A linear visual representation of the route on a titled plane to a create a three-dimensional perspective is generated and displayed via a user interface of a computing device. Indicators of the intermediate geographic locations are positioned along the linear visual representation of the route, interactive controls for retrieving additional information related to the intermediate geographic locations are provided, and the linear representation of the route is displayed via a user interface of a computing device.
US11131555B2
Methods and apparatus are provided for generating a towing preferred navigational route including an input to receive a request for a navigational route wherein the request is indicative of a destination and a tow mode engagement, a memory to store an aggregated segment data wherein the aggregated segment data is generated in response to a plurality of tow enabled vehicles traveling the segment, a processor to generate the navigational route in response to the request for the navigational route and the aggregated segment data, and an output to couple the navigational route for display to a driver.
US11131553B1
A system and method for monitoring driving conditions and reacting to the driving conditions is disclosed. The system includes a risk monitoring system that can detect adverse road conditions. The method includes performing rerouting when hazardous road conditions are detected. The vehicle may be routed along a different route that lacks the hazardous road condition. The method also includes providing feedback to the driver when adverse driver behavior, such as a drowsy driver, is detected.
US11131551B2
A map data providing system stores map data including multiple section data in which a reference point indicated by absolute coordinates is set for each of multiple sections, and a map element is represented by relative coordinates to the reference point of the section to which the map element belongs, detects position coordinates of the vehicle based on a navigation signal, employs a difference between absolute coordinates of the map element indicated by the map data and absolute coordinates of the map element identified based on the relative position of the map element and the position coordinates of the vehicle as a deviation amount, calculates a correction amount based on the deviation amount, corrects the position information of the reference point by using the correction amount, and creates corrected map data indicating position coordinates of the map element.
US11131548B2
A device can determine a set of parameters associated with generating a route plan for routing an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in a three-dimensional (3D) environment. The set of parameters can include a parameter that identifies a radio frequency (RF) condition to be satisfied by the route plan. The device can determine a route, associated with the 3D environment, based on the parameter that identifies the RF condition and using an RF model. The RF model can be associated with predicting RF conditions in the 3D environment. The device can generate the route plan including information associated with the route. The device can provide information associated with the route plan.
US11131546B2
An optical gyroscope includes, in part, an optical switch, a pair of optical rings and a pair of photodetectors. The optical switch supplies a laser beam. The first optical ring delivers a first portion of the beam in a clockwise direction during the first half of a period, and a first portion of the beam in a counter clockwise direction during the second half of the period. The second optical ring delivers a second portion of the beam in a counter clockwise direction during the first half of the period, and a second portion of the beam in a clockwise direction during the second half of the period. The first photodetector receives the beams delivered by the first and second optical rings during the first half of the period. The second photodetector receives the beams delivered by the first and second optical rings during the second half of the period.
US11131541B2
The present disclosure is directed to a method and system for monitoring a distance between a shutter and a reference point in a processing module. For example, the method includes moving a shutter relative to a substrate support in a wafer processing module and determining a distance between the shutter and a wall of the wafer processing module with a measurement device. In response to the distance being greater than a value, the method further includes transferring a substrate to the substrate support, and in response to the distance being equal to or less than the value, the method includes resetting the shutter.
US11131536B2
This disclosure relates to localization and tracking of an object. As one example, measurement data can be stored in memory to represent measured electrical signals at each of a plurality of known measurement locations in a given coordinate system in response to an applied signal at an unknown location in the given coordinate system. A dipole model cost function has parameters representing a dipole location and moment corresponding to the applied signal. A boundary condition can be imposed on the dipole model cost function. The unknown location in the given coordinate system, corresponding to the dipole location, can then be determined based on the stored measurement data and the dipole model cost function with the boundary condition imposed thereon.
US11131524B1
A crossbow having a moving trigger assembly, wherein the moving trigger assembly includes a housing and components capable of select-ably retaining and releasing a bowstring, wherein the trigger arm is movable with the assembly.
US11131519B2
Systems and methods are provided for weapon system monitoring and virtual deployment presentation, including a connection point that receives signals from a plurality of weapons within a deployment location, the signals including sensor information recorded using sensors of the weapons, a server device running application software that receives the signals from the connection point and processes the signals to generate a virtual reality depiction of the deployment location, and a graphical user interface presenting a field of view of the virtual reality depiction of the deployment location with icons indicating at least one of the positions, orientations or affiliations of the plurality of weapons.
US11131515B2
An example charging handle comprises a body having a handle portion, a bolt engaging portion and a shaft portion extending forwardly from the handle portion to the bolt engaging portion. The handle portion of the body may have a starboard arm extending away from the shaft portion in a starboard direction and a port arm extending away from the shaft portion in a portward direction. The charging handle may comprise a grip member disposed about the handle portion of the body so that the grip member encapsulates the handle portion and the handle portion is disposed inside the grip member. The grip member may comprise a thermoplastic material overmolded on the handle portion of the body.
US11131511B2
A method for manufacturing a heat dissipation device that includes stamping a composite plate including a welding material to form a first plate having a plurality of angled grooves, depositing powder in the plurality of angled grooves of the first plate, contacting the first plate to a second plate, and welding the first plate and the second plate together, and sintering powder to obtain a capillary structure.
US11131506B2
An method for forming a cooling apparatus for cooling an electronic component. The apparatus has a planar top member of a thermal energy conductive material and a parallel planar bottom member of the material, the planar bottom member including a surface having regions configured for heat exchange contact with the electronic component. The planar top member has a plurality of stamped indent formations at a plurality of locations, each indent formation providing a contact surface such that the planar top member is affixed to the bottom member by braze or solder at each contact surface. Alternatively, the planar bottom member also has a plurality of stamped indent formations in alignment with indent formations of the top member. The planar top member is affixed to the bottom member by brazing or soldering each respective contact surface of an indent formation of the planar top member to an opposing contact surface of a corresponding indent formation of the parallel planar bottom member.
US11131505B2
The present invention provides a finned heat-exchange system, comprising a heat dissipation chamber, a fin, an air guide element and a base, wherein the heat dissipation chamber is isolated from the outside, and both the fin and the air guide element are connected to the base; and the air guide element and the fin are in communication with the heat dissipation chamber through the base to dissipate heat from the inside of the heat dissipation chamber.
US11131503B2
A method of manufacture for a carbon/carbon part including a method to remove contamination from an intermediate product of the carbon/carbon part and furnace utilizing a gaseous reducing agent hydrogen gas to reduce the contaminates, thereby causing the contaminates to transition to a gaseous state at relatively lower temperatures. A method to remove contamination from an intermediate product of the carbon/carbon part and furnace utilizing hydrogen gas to reduce the contaminates, thereby causing the contaminates to transition to a gaseous state at relatively lower temperatures.
US11131495B2
A method and system for converting a conventional cooler to a refrigerator. A heat transfer module is disposed within the cooler for cooling the contents therein, while an external cooling module includes refrigerant in a closed loop configuration that stays outside of the cooler. The heat transfer module includes a closed loop chilling fluid that extends outside the cooler through a drain port to perform a heat exchange with the refrigerant loop.
US11131492B2
A refrigerator utilizes a dual direction ice maker capable of overlapping multiple ice production cycles in time to accelerate ice production and/or routing ice to multiple storage bins.
US11131491B1
A system for controlling a capacity of a compressor includes a motor of the compressor including a main winding connected at a connection point to an auxiliary winding and a drive configured to control a speed of the motor. The system includes a first switch configured to selectively connect the main winding to either a first line voltage or a first output of the drive, a second switch configured to selectively connect the connection point to either a second line voltage or a second output of the drive, and a third switch configured to selectively connect the auxiliary winding to either a capacitor or a third output of the drive. The system includes a solenoid valve configured to selectively either operate in a first capacity or a second capacity. The system includes a control module configured to control the drive, the first switch, the second switch, and the third switch.
US11131489B2
A refrigerant recovery apparatus is connected between a target apparatus from which a refrigerant is recovered and a refrigerant recovery container. The apparatus includes a compressor, a condenser, and a residual refrigerant recovery path. The compressor sucks the refrigerant from a refrigerant circuit of the target apparatus and compresses the refrigerant. The condenser condenses the refrigerant discharged from the compressor and sends the refrigerant to the refrigerant recovery container through a main refrigerant recovery path. The residual refrigerant recovery path through which a decompression mechanism on a branch path branching from the main refrigerant recovery path decompresses a residual refrigerant in the condenser. The decompressed refrigerant is sucked into the compressor and pressurized. The pressurized refrigerant is sent into the refrigerant recovery container. An auxiliary heat exchanger is connectable near an outlet of the condenser and upstream of a junction between the main and branch paths.
US11131473B2
A heating, ventilation, or air conditioning system (HVAC) design and operational tool includes one or more processors and memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations including obtaining a dynamic temperature model and a dynamic infectious quanta model for one or more building zones, determining an infection probability, and performing a plurality of simulations for a plurality of different equipment configurations using the dynamic temperature model, the dynamic infectious quanta model, and the infection probability to generate results. The operations include generating, using the results of the plurality of simulations, at least one of design including one or more recommended design parameters data or operational data including one or more recommended operational parameters for the HVAC system and initiating an automated action using at least one of the design data or the operational data.
US11131468B2
The present invention relates to a device for absorbing water using a liquid desiccant and the regeneration of said liquid desiccant by evaporating the absorbed water. The device may further be used in an air cooler.
US11131467B2
An HVAC system is described having components of a variable refrigerant flow (VRF) outdoor compressor unit connected to an indoor fan coil unit. The indoor fan coil unit supplies air to ducts that condition a plurality of zones. Each zone has a volume modulating air damper that can maintain a predetermined volume of air flowing through it. As the dampers for some zones vary between open and close positions, the air pressure in the ducts changes. The volume modulating dampers compensate for these pressure changes, ensuring that only the predetermine volume of air is passing into the zones. By regulating the volume of into each zone, the volume modulating air dampers can restrict the air volume through the fan coil causing the outdoor unit to reduce compressor speed, thereby saving energy.
US11131457B2
A combustor includes a combustion chamber; a nozzle supplied with fuel and air to produce a mixed gas of the fuel and the air and configured to inject the mixed gas into the combustion chamber; a fuel supply section coupled to the nozzle casing and configured to supply the fuel to the nozzle; a fuel conditioner that includes a fuel flow path having a serpentine shape and is disposed between the fuel supply section and the nozzle, the fuel conditioner configured to guide the fuel supplied from the fuel supply section to the nozzle along the fuel flow path; and a nozzle casing having an opening into which the nozzle is inserted. The fuel conditioner extends from a first side of the nozzle casing toward a second side. The fuel conditioner and the nozzle casing form a first passage through which fuel may flow to the nozzle.
US11131454B2
A light emitting device array includes a substrate, a heat sink disposed on the substrate, at least two light emitting devices disposed on the heat sink and spaced apart from each other, a connector disposed on the light emitting device and configured to apply power, an insulating layer interposed between the heat sink and the connector, a fixing member configured to support a position of the light emitting device, on the light emitting device, and an adhesive layer provided on the fixing member to make contact with a skin.
US11131451B1
A waterproof plastic lamp, includes a waterproof plastic bulb and a lamp base, wherein the waterproof plastic bulb comprises a bracket, a lampshade, a luminous body and a conductive plug, the luminous body and the conductive plug are fixedly installed on the bracket, the conductive plug is electrically connected with the luminous body through a guide wire, the bracket is hermetically and fixedly connected to an opening of the lampshade, and the luminous body is sealed inside the lampshade; and the lamp base comprises a lamp holder and a conductive socket, a conductive wire is fixed in the lamp holder, two ends of the conductive wire respectively extend out of the left and right ends of the lamp holder, the conductive socket is electrically connected with the conductive wire, the conductive socket is fixedly connected to the inner side of the lamp holder and is matched with the conductive plug.
US11131450B2
A lighting apparatus includes a housing. The housing have a first portion and a second portion. The first portion has a first curving angle, and the second portion has a second curving angle. The first curving angle has a larger diameter than the second curving angle. A light passing cover has a main section and a frame section. The main section has more light passing than the frame section. The frame section is connected to the housing. A light source assemblage is for emitting light through the light passing cover. A driving module is for transmitting a driving current to the light source assemblage for emitting light. A wing structure is attached to a side edge of the housing, and the wing structure has a heat dissipation device for passing a heat out of the housing.
US11131447B2
A lighting fixture includes a lighting tube and a light source assembly assembled in the lighting tube, and two end that respectively covers seal and block two ends of the lighting tube. Each of the two end covers is electrically connected with the light source assembly and an external element. The end cover includes a first connecting part and a second connecting part, the first connecting part is configured for achieving an electrical connection with the light source assembly and the external element; the second connecting part is sleeved outside the lighting tube and the first connecting part along a circumferential direction of the lighting tube, a periphery of the second connecting part is provided with a plurality of engaging parts, and the engaging parts are configured for achieving a mechanical connection with other lighting fixtures.
US11131432B2
A light device and method for producing an output light beam are disclosed. A light source assembly comprising a plurality of light sources is arranged at the first end of the light device and emits light towards the second end and parallel with the longitudinal axis of the device. The device also has a chamber for mixing light emitted from the light source assembly; and a concave reflecting optic for redirecting light exiting the chamber and emitted onto the optic. The redirected light forms an output light beam. The device also has driver circuitry for controlling drive currents to the plurality of light sources individually or in groups thereof to thereby variably control a divergence of the output light beam.
US11131431B2
An LED tube lamp comprises a glass tube, two end caps, an LED light strip inside the glass tube, a plurality of LED light sources on the LED light strip, a power supply module and an adhesive. The glass tube comprises a main body has an outer surface and two rear end regions respectively at two ends of the main body. The outer diameter of each of the rear end regions is less than that of the main body. Each of the end caps comprises a tubular wall sleeving over the respective rear end region and an end wall substantially perpendicular to the axial direction of the tubular wall and connected to an end of the tubular wall. The diameter of the outer surface of the main body is substantially the same as the diameter of the outer surface of the tubular wall. The power supply, comprises a rectifying circuit and a filtering circuit, is configured to drive the plurality of LED light sources. The adhesive is disposed between each of the inner surface of the tubular wall and the outer surface of each of the rear end regions.
US11131424B2
A mount configured to enable coupling of an auxiliary device with a base device, such as a camera. A plate is configured to couple an auxiliary device, and operatively couple with a housing. The plate is capable of movement around a panning axis when coupled with the housing. A friction controller enables adjustment of the housing to change the friction resistance to movement of the plate around the panning axis.
US11131420B2
In some examples, an apparatus includes a housing and a mounting plate to fixably attach to the housing. The mounting plate has a central axis, a first end, a second end opposite the first end, a first lateral side extending axially from the first end to the second end, and a second lateral side extending axially from the first end to the second end. The mounting plate includes a shoulder and a first receptacle to slidingly receive a first tab on an end of an arm coupled to a display. The shoulder extends laterally from the first lateral side to the second lateral side and the first receptacle extends axially into the shoulder.
US11131419B2
A system for operation and integrity management of a pipeline stores field data obtained from an operational system, and in-line data obtained from an in-line inspection vehicle and external data from a video camera on an external companion device. The system performs data processing on the in-line data and field data to generate input for risk modeling and performs risk modeling of the pipeline using the input to predict a risk of one of a plurality of failure mode states at a portion of the pipeline. The system may initiate risk monitoring for the portion of the pipeline by the operational system and the in-line inspection vehicle.
US11131417B2
Example aspects of a stent for repairing a pipe and a method for repairing a pipe are disclosed. The stent for repairing a pipe can comprise a spring comprising a metal wire and defining a tubular structure, the spring defining an outer surface and an inner surface, the inner surface defining a void, an axis extending through the void; and a sealing layer defining a sleeve, the sealing layer wrapped around a circumference of the spring and engaging the outer surface of the spring; the stent configurable in a compressed configuration, wherein the spring is compressed, and an expanded configuration, wherein the spring is expanded
US11131416B2
A pipe coupling assembly for coupling a first end portion of a first pipe with a second pipe includes a socket formed on an end of the second pipe and a locking ring. The socket includes a rim defining an end opening through which at least a portion of the first end portion is inserted, the rim including a rim sealing surface adapted to form a liquid-tight seal around the first end portion. The socket also includes a sleeve portion having an exterior surface and an interior surface defining an interior space for receiving the first end portion, the interior surface comprising at least two socket sealing surfaces adapted to form a liquid-tight seal around the first end portion. The locking ring is adapted to cause the rim sealing surface to compress to form a liquid-tight seal around the first end portion.
US11131407B1
An apparatus for providing a preload to mated pipes including a ring-shaped body formed by a sidewall and an attachment structure on a portion of the body. The ring-shaped body includes an aperture that extends through the sidewall. The attachment structure corresponds to an attachment portion of a pipe in the mated pipes and the attachment structure enables removable fastening of the body to the pipe. The apparatus may further include an adjustable preload mechanism that can be removably attached to the body to hold the body in a preloaded position. The preload mechanism can be adjusted to release a portion of the preload held by the body.
US11131404B2
Improved flow control assemblies for fluid systems (e.g., industrial and/or commercial systems) are provided. More particularly, the present disclosure provides for advantageous ball valve assemblies for fluid systems. In exemplary embodiments, the present disclosure provides for improved ball valve assemblies and related features, systems and methods of use. Exemplary ball valve assemblies of the present disclosure offer advantages over conventional assemblies including, without limitation, advantages in the sealing mechanisms of the ball valve assemblies, and advantages with the user interfaces of the ball valve assemblies (e.g., advantages with the lockout mechanisms). Improved, convenient and effective systems and methods for utilizing improved ball valve assemblies in fluid systems are provided.
US11131401B2
An automotive air control valve comprises a housing, the housing defining an air flow path, a blade pivotally mounted within the housing, the blade pivotable between a closed position, wherein the blade substantially blocks air flow through the housing, and an open position, wherein air can flow through the housing, an actuator adapted to selectively pivot the blade between the open and closed positions, a first stop that provides a positive stop for the blade when rotated to the open position, a second stop that provides a positive stop for the blade when rotated to the closed position; and an over-center cam mechanism, wherein the over-center cam mechanism is adapted to bias the blade in the open position when the blade has been pivoted to the open position, and to bias the blade in the closed position when the blade has been pivoted to the closed position.
US11131393B2
An embodiment includes a gate valve comprising: a valve body including a cavity coupled to a channel having proximal and distal portions; a gate to seal and unseal the channel; proximal and distal seats adjacent the gate; wherein (a) the proximal seat traverses towards the gate and stops at a first position when the gate is closing and the proximal channel portion is more highly pressurized than the cavity, and (b) the distal seat slides away from the gate and stops at a second position when the gate is closing and the cavity is more heavily pressurized than the distal channel portion. Other embodiments are described herein.
US11131391B2
The invention provides a valve disposed in a fluid supply path to control opening or closing of the supply path, configured to comprise, as components of the supply path, an inflow channel, a second channel, a first channel, and an outflow channel that are in communication with each other in sequence, in such a manner that fluid from a supply source entering the inflow channel passes through the second channel and the first channel in sequence and then flows out through the outflow channel. The valve further comprises a first valve piece and a second valve piece disposed movably in the first channel and the second channel respectively. Blocking or unblocking of the communication between the first channel and the outflow channel is controlled by movement of the first valve piece in the first channel, while blocking or unblocking of the communication between the inflow channel and the first channel via the second channel is controlled by movement of the second valve in the second channel. In this way, the valve enables opening or closing of the supply path through dual control by the first valve piece and the second valve piece.
US11131387B2
A sealing ring includes: a supporting element; and a lip seal having at least one first and one second lip seal section having sealing materials differing from one another. The first lip seal section at one end is connected to the supporting element, and at an other end has a free end on which the second lip seal section is arranged. The second lip seal section includes an elastomeric sealing material.
US11131380B2
A position controller includes: an oil temperature acquisition unit that acquires information on an oil temperature of a hydraulic actuator; a position acquisition unit that acquires an actual value of an operation position of an object; a position control unit that calculates an operation command value for a control valve of the hydraulic actuator by closed-loop control so as to reduce a deviation between a target value of the operation position of the object and the actual value; and a gain setting unit that changes at least one gain of the closed-loop control so that sensitivity of the closed-loop control increases as the oil temperature decreases.
US11131376B2
An electromechanical machine that uses electrical power to provide electromechanically-balanced motive torque to one or more mechanical loads, or that uses electromechanically-balanced mechanical power from one or more sources of motive torque to supply electrical power to one or more loads, while seamlessly reconciling the speed and torque differences between such loads-and-sources by use of speed-torque modules and a control means.
US11131362B2
A hydraulic damper for a vehicle including a main tube. A first piston assembly is slideably disposed in the main tube and axially divides the main tube into a rebound chamber and a primary compression chamber. A hydraulic compression stop assembly is disposed in the primary compression chamber and includes a narrowed section extending between an open end and a closed end. A second piston assembly is slideably disposed in the narrowed section and is coupled with the first piston assembly. The second piston assembly has a piston tube that extends between an opened end and a shut end. A displaceable partition is slideably disposed in the piston tube. A first auxiliary compression chamber is defined between the partition and the closed end of the narrowed section. A second auxiliary compression chamber is defined between the partition and the shut end of the piston tube.
US11131359B2
A torque adjustment function-provided rotary damper capable of easily adjusting a torque without needing to use a tool, even in a case where a space cannot be secured on an end portion side of a casing. An adjustment lever is an operation member having an engagement portion and a knob portion. The engagement portion links with an adjuster by engaging with an adjustment end portion such that a cutout fits to a fitting portion. The knob portion is formed integrally with the engagement portion by protruding radially from an outer periphery side of a the casing. The knob portion extends to a guide portion along an axial direction of the casing in its outer periphery. The guide portion has a semi-ring shape which is partially cut out. The guide portion is rotatably disposed along an outer periphery of a shaft side cap that closes an end portion of the casing.
US11131358B2
An energy absorbing beam comprises a top plate and a bottom plate, a plurality of upper pillars extending from the top plate toward the bottom plate, a plurality of lower pillars extending from the bottom plate toward the top plate, and a first beam extending laterally between the top plate and the bottom plate and attached to the upper and lower pillars, wherein energy from an impact onto the top or bottom plate is transferred through the upper and lower pillars and absorbed by the first beam.
US11131355B2
Tone ring mounting structure for an antilock braking system comprising a wheel end assembly rotatable component having at least a first end surface and a first engagement mechanism extending radially and non-cantilevered from the rotatable component, and a tone ring having a second end surface and a second engagement mechanism extending radially from the tone ring. Connecting engagement of the first engagement mechanism of the wheel end assembly rotatable component and the second engagement mechanism of the tone ring affects movement of the second end surface in a direction toward the first end surface. The first engagement mechanism and the second engagement mechanism can be engageable threads. The first engagement mechanism can include lugs formed on the wheel end assembly rotatable component and the second engagement mechanism threads or wedge ramps engageable with the lugs. A corrosion resistant coating can be applied to components of the tone ring mounting structure.
US11131345B2
The present invention discloses a bearing ball assembly device comprising a steel ball output unit, a steel ball control unit and a steel ball assembly unit, wherein said steel ball output unit is connected to said steel ball control unit, said steel ball control unit is connected to said steel ball assembly unit, said steel ball output unit delivers steel balls to said steel ball control unit, said steel ball control unit allows a certain number of steel balls to enter said steel ball assembly unit each time, and said steel ball assembly unit embeds steel balls in a bearing retainer. The present invention automatically realize the process of embedding of steel balls in a bearing retainer.
US11131343B2
Provided is a resin bush capable of slidably supporting a shaft when the bush has been fitted in a housing; particularly, a resin bush suitable for use in an environment in which the effects of a difference in thermal expansion coefficients are likely to be prominent, such as a high-temperature environment, even when the housing and the shaft are made of a material such as a metal that has a different thermal expansion coefficient from that of the resin bush. In the resin bush (1), which is molded by extrusion molding, a slit (12) is formed from one axial end surface (11a) towards another axial end surface (11b). A recessed section (13) for a gate (a gate position), which is provided to the one axial end surface (11a), is provided in a position that is deviated from being symmetrical with the slit (12), at least with respect to a center axis O of a bush body (10). The resin used for the material of the bush (1) is a resin having excellent heat resistance and chemical resistance, such as PPS resin or a PEEK resin.
US11131341B1
A dual membrane restrictor adapted to be connected to an oil supplying device, a loading device, and a recycling device is provided. The dual membrane restrictor includes a casing and first and second membranes. The casing has a first channel connected to the oil supplying device, first and second chambers, a second channel connected to the loading device, and a third channel connected to the recycling device. The first membrane is disposed in the first chamber divided into first upper and lower chambers by the first membrane. The first channel is connected to the first upper chamber. The second membrane is disposed in the second chamber divided into second upper and lower chambers by the second membrane. The second upper chamber is connected to the first lower chamber and the second channel. The second lower chamber is connected to the second channel and the third channel.
US11131329B2
Provided is a pneumatic actuator having improved durability. A pneumatic actuator (10) comprises an actuator body (100) including: a cylindrical tube (110) configured to expand and contract by air pressure; and a cylindrical sleeve (120) formed by weaving cords (121) oriented in predetermined directions, wherein in a no-load and no-pressure state, an average angle (Θ1) of the cords (121) with respect to an axial direction (DAX) of the actuator is 20 degrees or more and less than 45 degrees, and in a state in which an average angle (Θ3) of the cords (121) with respect to the axial direction (DAX) of the actuator is 45 degrees with an air pressure of 5 MPa, a ratio (S2/S1) of a total area (S2) of gaps (122) of the cords (121) to an area (S1) of an outer surface of the actuator body (100) is 35% or less.
US11131327B2
A gas lift for preventing sagging may include in the gas lift comprising a tube and a rod slidably installed inside the tube, and filled with gas inside the tube, a moving member for moving with the rod when the rod slides at one side of the portion received inside the tube of the rod, a first stopping part coupled to the moving member and for stopping sliding of the moving member primarily in the tube, and a second stopping part coupled to the moving member and for stopping sliding of the moving member after the moving member and the first stopping part have been coupled to each other.
US11131326B2
An ejector includes a nozzle, a suction chamber, and a diffuser. A diffuser further includes an attachment configured to change the dimensions of the outlet flow path. The attachment changes the length X of a narrowed flow path and the length Y and the inner diameter D of a parallel flow path such that expressions (1) and (2) are satisfied: X=A×D (1), and Y=B×D (2).
US11131325B2
Provided is a vibration suppressing method for a supercharger, the supercharger including a shaft, a wheel arranged at one end or the other end of the shaft, and a housing including a wheel cover accommodating the wheel; the method including a determining step of determining a suppression target oscillation frequency to be a suppression target from among oscillation frequencies of the housing vibrating with shaft vibration of the shaft transmitted thereto, a preparing step of preparing a vibration suppressing unit having a natural frequency to be tuned in to the suppression target oscillation frequency, and an attaching step of attaching the vibration suppressing unit prepared in the preparing step onto an outer face of the housing.
US11131320B2
A centrifugal blower includes a centrifugal fan having a fan wheel that is configured to rotate about a rotational axis. The centrifugal blower includes a blower housing having a first side panel, a second side panel, and a wall extending about the rotational axis and between the first and second side panels. The centrifugal blower also includes a cutoff plate that is configured to extend about the rotational axis, where the cutoff plate includes a first end with a flange having a camber geometry and a second end that is configured to overlap with the wall such that an amount of overlap between the second end and the wall is adjustable to adjust a position of the flange relative to the fan wheel. The centrifugal blower further includes an exhaust port defined by the first side panel, the second side panel, the wall, and the flange.
US11131316B2
A centrifugal compressor includes a partition wall that is arranged between a ring member and the bottom of a main body in a speed-increaser chamber. The centrifugal compressor further includes an introduction passage that guides oil in a stirring region to a storage region. The stirring region includes a region between the partition wall and the ring member in the speed-increaser chamber. The storage region includes a region between the partition wall and the bottom of the main body in the speed-increaser chamber. The oil that has been stirred by rotation of the ring member collides the inner circumferential surface of a speed increaser housing before flowing toward the partition wall. The oil is then guided to the storage region via the introduction passage. Since the oil stored in the storage region is unlikely to be stirred by rotation of the ring member, only a small amount of oil is stirred by the ring member.
US11131310B1
An airflow assembly with a lightweight airflow mechanism; which is both portable with self-contained power; and easily mounted on various types of head gear; ranging from welding masks, hardhats, police and other first responder helmets, military helmets, baseball caps, cloth hats and other headgear; in order to complete the airflow assembly, provides the mounting of the airflow assembly on the headgear to be permanent or releasable or portable.
US11131306B2
The invention relates to a displacement machine according to the spiral principle, in particular a scroll compressor, with a high-pressure zone which comprises a high-pressure chamber, with a low-pressure chamber and with an orbiting displacement spiral, which engages into a counter spiral such that between the displacement spiral and the counter spiral compression chambers are formed, in order to receive a working medium, wherein between the low-pressure chamber and the displacement spiral a counter pressure chamber is formed. According to the invention, the displacement spiral has only one passage, which at least temporarily produces a fluid connection between the counter pressure chamber and at least one of the compression chambers, wherein the passage is formed in such a portion of the displacement spiral in which the passage in the activated state of the displacement machine is opened on reaching of 85%-100%, in particular of 90%-100%, in particular of 95%, of the relative compression chamber volume, and remains opened during a subsequent rotation, after opening, of the displacement spiral about a rotational angle of 120°-360°, in particular of 255°-315°, in particular of 270°.
US11131296B2
A transverse flux type reciprocating motor and a reciprocating compressor having a transverse flux type reciprocating motor are provided. The transverse flux type reciprocating motor may include a first reciprocating module including a first stator and a first rotor that reciprocates with respect to the first stator, a second reciprocating module including a second stator disposed to be spaced apart from the first stator in parallel to an axial direction and a second rotor that reciprocates with respect to the second rotor in the axial direction, and a connection member that connects side surfaces, which face each other, of the first rotor and the second rotors to each other. Thus, a magnetic resonance spring for allowing the rotor to be resonant with respect to the stator may be realized by using a force that moves to a side at which magnetic resistance is low between the stator and the rotor.
US11131293B2
An enclosure for a nacelle of a wind turbine is connected to a substructure in a manner that allows the enclosure to move relative to the substructure. An imaginary straight line extends over the panel and is aligned with an edge of the panel. The imaginary straight line defines a first sub-portion of the panel, said first sub-portion comprising the edge. The first sub-portion butts against the substructure. The first sub-portion is retained against the substructure by a tension element acting in a direction of tension. The first sub-portion can be displaced relative to the substructure in a direction which intersects the direction of tension. The invention facilitates the operation of assembling the enclosure.
US11131288B2
Substantially horizontal axis water turbine assemblies for generating electrical power in areas having poor sources of water flow including rotors mounted within housings in such a manner so as to minimize water resistance to the rotor blades with rotor blades passing through upper rotor return air spaces created within the housings and wherein the turbine assemblies may be mounted within support structures that both channel water flow to the turbine assemblies and facilitate access to the components thereof.
US11131276B2
The present invention relates to a heat exchanger device for EGR (“Exhaust Gas Recirculation”) systems, with a constructive solution which minimizes thermal fatigue when boiling occurs. The invention is characterized by a specific configuration of the inner space of the shell divided into a first exchange sub-space and a second degassing space communicated with one another, and wherein the inlet and outlet ports are located at the end where the cold baffle is located.
US11131274B1
A fuel discharge nozzle for discharging fuel into an airflow passageway of a barrel of a carburetor includes a nozzle body that is attached to the carburetor and has proximal and distal ends. The nozzle body defines a fuel inlet that receives fuel, a fuel outlet that permits the fuel to flow out of the nozzle body, and a fuel passage fluidly connecting the fuel inlet and the fuel outlet so that the fuel can flow from the fuel inlet to the fuel outlet. The nozzle body is sized and shaped to position the fuel outlet in the airflow passageway of the barrel of the carburetor when the nozzle body is attached to the carburetor so that the fuel flows into the airflow passageway of the carburetor and mixes with air after the fuel flows out of the fuel outlet.
US11131271B2
A fuel supply system for small two-stroke internal combustion engines for e.g. chain saws, line trimmers and similar hand-held power-tools including a diaphragm carburetor (20) equipped with a purging system (80a, 81a) or priming system (80b, 81b) for facilitating starting of the engine (1). Downstream of the diaphragm (30), the carburetor has a fuel valve (60) with a fuel cavity (73), which when the valve is not closed being connected via a fuel conduit (37) to a fuel nozzle (35, 36) in a main air passage (21) in the carburetor. The purging system or priming system including a fuel line (80a; 80b), which is provided with a manually operated pump (81a; 81b) and is connected between a fuel tank (26) and either the fuel cavity (73) or the fuel conduit (37).
US11131268B2
The disclosure provides a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine having a cylinder head that includes an exhaust port capable of cooling exhaust gas more effectively. The cylinder head includes: a first ceiling surface that closes a first cylinder having a cylinder axis separated from an exhaust opening by a first distance; a second ceiling surface that closes a second cylinder having a cylinder axis separated from the exhaust opening by a second distance shorter than the first distance; and an exhaust port that extends toward the exhaust opening from two port openings which are open to a combustion chamber for each individual cylinder. The exhaust port individually extends from each of the port openings and merges with each cylinder outside a joining surface of the cylinder head for a cylinder block in a plan view.
US11131265B2
An engine control system comprises a balancing arrangement together with a knock mitigation controller configured to implement a knock mitigation procedure wherein an offset input value (VI) is applied to the balancing algorithm. The offset input value (VI) may cause the balancing algorithm to adjust the control output (O1) for the respective one of the combustion chambers to progressively vary the fuel supply or ignition timing for the affected cylinder to mitigate the knock condition. Alternatively, the controller may generate an offset output value (VO) to more rapidly vary the fuel supply or ignition timing, with the offset input value (VI) being selected for example to compensate for the resulting change in the control input (I1) from the cylinder to the balancing algorithm, or to provide additional, more gradual adjustment to further mitigate the knock condition.
US11131263B2
In an intake air flow rate calculation process, a pulsation correction coefficient calculation process is executed to calculate a pulsation correction coefficient, which is used to compensate for an output error of the air flow meter resulting from an intake air pulsation, based on an engine rotation speed, a throttle opening degree, and an atmospheric pressure, and the intake air flow rate is calculated by correcting the intake air flow rate with the pulsation correction coefficient.
US11131250B2
A gas turbine engine for an aircraft and a method of operating a gas turbine engine on an aircraft. Embodiments disclosed include a gas turbine engine for an aircraft including: an engine core has a turbine, a compressor, and a core shaft; a fan located upstream of the engine core, the fan has a plurality of fan blades; a nacelle surrounding the engine core and defining a bypass duct and bypass exhaust nozzle; and a gearbox that receives an input from the core shaft and outputs drive to the fan wherein the gas turbine engine is configured such that a jet velocity ratio of a first jet velocity exiting from the bypass exhaust nozzle to a second jet velocity exiting from an exhaust nozzle of the engine core at idle conditions is greater by a factor of 2 or more than the jet velocity ratio at maximum take-off conditions.
US11131245B2
There is described a method and system for in-flight start of an engine. The method comprises rotating a propeller; generating electrical power at an electric generator embedded inside a propeller hub from rotation of the propeller; transmitting the electrical power from the electric generator to an engine starter mounted on a core of the engine via an electric power link; and driving the engine with the engine starter to a sufficient speed while providing fuel to a combustor to light the engine to achieve self-sustaining operation of the engine.
US11131243B2
An auxetic bi-stable structure that comprises an auxetic curved shell movable between a first and a second stable position, and a rigid element. At least part of the surface of the auxetic curved shell is joined to the rigid element such that the curved shell is movable with respect to the rigid element between the first and second stable positions.
US11131233B2
A marine vessel propulsion device having a metal component in contact with water. The marine vessel propulsion device includes an anticorrosive anode made of a metal material that is less corrosion-resistant than the metal component, is electrically connected to the metal component, and is disposed in contact with the water contacting the metal component, a primary reference electrode isolated from the metal component and the anticorrosive anode, and disposed in contact with the water contacting the metal component, and a potentiometer that detects a potential difference of the metal component or the anticorrosive anode with respect to the primary reference electrode.
US11131229B2
A method for producing a honeycomb body for a catalytic converter for treating exhaust gases, the honeycomb body having a plurality of flow ducts, through which gas flows from an inlet end to an outlet end. The honeycomb body is formed from a plurality of metal layers lying one on top of the other. The honeycomb body is produced by forming corrugated sections in a metal strip, wherein the corrugated sections follow one another directly or are spaced apart by smooth sections, creating a pre-bend of the metal strip in the end region of each section, folding the individual sections of the metal strip onto one another to create a layer stack, wherein the individual sections are alternately folded onto one another in opposite directions, inserting the layer stack in a housing, and joining the layer stack to the housing in contact regions between the layer stack and the housing.
US11131226B2
A method for controlling an internal combustion engine system including a catalyst includes receiving a desired output for an internal combustion engine, and receiving sensor information including information indicative of a temperature of the catalyst. The method includes calculating a plurality of sets of engine performance values based on respective sets of candidate control points, the engine performance values including a temperature change rate at which the temperature of the catalyst changes over time, and determining whether the temperature change rate satisfies a minimum warmup rate for the catalyst. The method also includes controlling the internal combustion engine based on a selected set of candidate control points and the minimum warmup rate.
US11131212B2
A component for a gas turbine engine includes a platform that has a gas path side and a non-gas path side. At least one airfoil extends from the gas path side of the platform. At least one airfoil includes a serpentine cavity and a serpentine turn extends from the non-gas path side of the platform. A cover plate is located adjacent the non-gas path side of the platform. The cover plate includes a first plurality of fluid openings that extend through the cover plate. At least one bulge at least partially defines a fluid passageway with the serpentine turn.
US11131208B2
A turbine engine is described that includes an intake, an inlet duct configured to receive fluid from the intake, and an outer bypass duct configured to receive fluid from the intake. The turbine engine further includes a drive shaft, a tower shaft mechanically coupled to the drive shaft, and an electric generator mechanically coupled to the tower shaft. The electric generator is located between the inlet duct and the outer bypass duct.
US11131204B2
A nested segment assembly and a method of additively manufacturing the same are provided. In one example aspect, the nested segment assembly includes a first component segment and a segment component segment positioned adjacent the first component segment. The first component segment has an end face and a tongue projecting outwardly from the end face. The second component segment defines a groove. The groove is defined at an end face of the second component segment that is adjacent the end face of the first component segment. The first component segment and the second component segment are additively printed such that at least a portion of the tongue of the first component segment is nested within the groove defined by the second component segment. Segmented components having a tesla valve formed therebetween are also provided.
US11131202B2
An annulus filler for mounting to a rotor disc in a gas turbine engine includes a body portion having a top wall arranged to bridge the gap between two adjacent blades extending from the rotor disc and to define an air flow surface for air passing between the blades; and a separately formed rear interface portion, fixed to the body portion adjacent to a down-flow end of the top wall. The rear interface portion forms a lip projecting below the top wall.
US11131189B2
A underground support includes a first row of panels, and a second row of panels configured to be secured to the first series of panels to define an interior space for receiving construction aggregate or concrete. Each panel of the first row of panels and the second row of panels includes a body having a top edge, a bottom edge positioned opposite from the top edge, a left edge, and a right edge positioned opposite from the left edge, with the top edges of the panels of the first row of panels configured to abut the bottom edges of the panels of the second row of panels.
US11131182B2
Methods are provided for estimating a quality of cement in the annuli of a multi-string wellbore. Wideband acoustic energy signals are generated and detected in the wellbore and are processed to obtain indications of wideband casing-formation phase slowness dispersions in the wellbore. The indications are compared to reference wideband model casing-formation phase slowness dispersions in order to estimate status of cement or lack of cement in the annuli at that location based on the results of the comparison.
US11131179B2
An electric submersible pump (ESP) gas separator is described. An ESP gas separator includes a propeller upstream of a fluid entrance to a crossover, the crossover including a production pathway and a vent pathway, and the propeller including a plurality of blades comprising washout twist, wherein gas rich fluid of multi-phase fluid traveling through the gas separator flows through the propeller and into the vent pathway, and gas poor fluid of the multi-phase fluid flows around the propeller and then through the production pathway. An ESP assembly includes a gas separator between a centrifugal pump and an induction motor, the gas separator serving as an intake for fluid into the centrifugal pump and including a propeller in a separation chamber, the propeller comprising a plurality of blades, each blade having a pitch that increases in coarseness from a hub towards a shroud of the propeller.
US11131176B1
Systems and methods of hydraulically fracturing subterranean formations include modifying a completion operation parameter for hydraulic fracturing a target well, the target well extending through a subterranean formation and a fracture extending from the target well as a result of the hydraulic fracturing. The modification to the completion operation is responsive to detection of a response of a monitor well extending through the subterranean formation, where the response of the monitor well resulting from interactions between the monitor well and the fracture extending from the target well.
US11131165B2
This disclosure provides a completion tool that uses a rolling seal to actuate a flow valve or replace a piston in a down hole tool. The rolling seal is located in a fluid chamber of the completion tool and divides the fluid chamber into first and second smaller fluid chambers and fluidly seals the first smaller fluid chamber from the second smaller fluid chamber. The rolling seal responds to a fluid pressure within the fluid chamber that causes the closed end of the rolling seal to invert thereby transferring fluid pressure between the first and second fluid chambers, which actuates a flow valve actuation assembly.
US11131154B2
A centralizer apparatus for deployment in a subterranean wellbore, including a tubular adapted to be deployed in the subterranean wellbore such that a long axis of the tubular is parallel to a portion wellbore and a stack of fin modules stacked parallel to the long axis of the tubular. Each one of the fin modules includes a hub having an opening adapted to fit around the outer surface of the tubular, the hub including a stop structure configured to restrict the rotation of adjacent ones of the fin modules in the stack of fin module, and, one or more fin blades projecting from an outer surface of the hub. Rotating the tubular in one rotational direction aligns the fin modules into a screw-shaped state such that the one or more fin blades of adjacently stacked fin modules are progressively offset in a rotational direction perpendicular to the long axis of the tubular. Rotating the tubular in an opposite direction disperses the fin modules into a fanned-out state, such that the one or more fin blades of adjacently stacked fin modules are maximally offset as allowed by the stop structures.
US11131147B1
A core drilling apparatus and a method for converting between a core drilling assembly and a full-diameter drilling assembly by means of a lifting device and a coring drill head with closure elements and integrated cutting implements. The lifting device comprises a release mechanism that when activated, releases forces acting on the lifting device, such that when the lifting device is in an upper position when activated, the lifting device lowers an inner tubing thereby pushing the closure elements of the drill head in an open position, and when the lifting device is in a lower position when activated, the lifting device lifts the inner tubing from the closure elements such that the closure elements is in a closed or partly closed position.
US11131130B2
The present disclosure provides a plastic living hinge. The plastic living hinge includes a blend containing (A) an ethylene-based polymer; (B) a propylene-based polymer; and (C) a composite component selected from the group consisting of a block composite, a crystalline block composite, and a combination thereof.
US11131128B2
A door handle arrangement for a motor vehicle includes a support, a handle which can take a basic position and an operating position, and a drive element which, during normal operation, moves the handle out of the basic position and into the operating position. The handle in its operating position can be grasped by an operator in order to open the door. In an emergency operation, the handle is designed to be movable manually into an emergency operating position in which it is pivoted about a first axis that is oriented transversely with respect to a longitudinal direction of the support. A first longitudinal portion of the handle is pivoted in the direction of the support and a second longitudinal portion protrudes out of the door so as to be able to be grasped by an operator.
US11131126B2
A door handle assembly having a vehicle door handle and a vehicle door. The vehicle door handle moves between a first, retracted position, in which an essentially planar surface of the vehicle door handle is flush with an outer face of the vehicle door, and a second, extended position, in which a grip opening between the outer face of the vehicle door and a grip inner side of the vehicle door handle is cleared for a user. The vehicle door handle is movable between the first and second positions aided by an electric motor, controlled by a control unit. The electric motor can be set in rotation starting from the second position of the door handle by application of a user's external force on the basis of a mechanical coupling of the vehicle door handle to the electric motor sensed by a sensing unit and fed to the control unit.
US11131124B2
An opening device for a motor vehicle latch with a trigger which can be moved from a starting position into an opening position for pivoting of a triggering lever from a starting position into an opening position and which is connected with an inertia component by a deflectable knee lever, with a blockade lever, which can be moved by deflection of the knee lever from a starting position into a blocking position, whereby the movement of the triggering lever into the opening position is prevented when the blockade lever is in its blocking position, whereby the knee lever is deflected by excessive acceleration of the trigger and the blockade lever is thus moved into its blocking position.
US11131123B2
The invention provides an RFID circuit for use with new or pre-existing antitheft tags. An RFID pin replaces the current pin on antitheft tags that retailers already own. The RFID circuit is incorporated into or secured to, the pin structure. By replacing the current pin used on antitheft tags with a low cost RFID pin, existing antitheft tags can be inexpensively upgraded to antitheft tags that are also capable of use as inventory management and/or enhanced theft control devices.
US11131122B2
Disclosed is a self-latching gate latch device. The device comprises a latch and a magnet assembly housing. The latch assembly housing, secured to a hinged gate, comprises a slidable horizontal latch bar, attractable by a magnet. The magnet assembly housing comprises a slidable vertical magnet bar secured with a magnet at the bottom thereof. In a lock position of the magnet bar, the latch bar engages the magnet. The magnet assembly housing further comprises a locking member that, in an engagement position, engages the magnet bar to the magnet assembly housing preventing the magnet bar from any upward movement. Within the magnet bar is disposed a lock bar, which when depressed, frees the magnet bar.
US11131110B1
A hub, an extensible vertical member pivotally attached to the hub for movement between a stowed position and an erect position, and at least three extensible horizontal members each pivotally attached to the hub for movement between a stowed position and an erect position. The vertical member and the horizontal members are each extensible such that a ratio of the extensible length of the vertical member to the extensible length of the horizontal members is adjustable for required stability in high wind applications.
US11131109B2
An enclosure having an outer surface with a vortex-induced vibration suppression function is provided. The outer surface of the enclosure is provided with a plurality of annular recesses surrounding the enclosure, such that alternately concave and convex annular recesses and annular bosses configured for disrupting a boundary layer of a laminar flow are formed on the outer surface of the enclosure. An outer surface of the annular boss is provided with a plurality of air guiding grooves, and the plurality of air guiding grooves are distributed in a circumferential direction of the annular boss. The air guiding grooves are inclined upward or downward, such that part of an upwind incoming flow flowing to the annular boss can be guided into the annular recesses adjacent to the annular boss via the air guiding grooves. With the convex-concave outer surface, the cause of formation of the vortex-induced vibration can be prevented.
US11131100B2
An outdoor laminate floor includes a substrate made from PVC foaming and a wear-resistant, anti-aging covering film that is adhered to the surface of the substrate. The covering film overlays the surface of the substrate after being adhered by hot glue. The covering film is a modified weather-resistant polymeric film. In this way, the outdoor laminate floor has a simple and compact structure, and solid wood is replaced with the substrate and the covering film, which not only protects environment by reducing the use of solid wood, but also reduces the manufacturing cost and improves the competitive edge on the market, owing to the low-cost substrate and covering film.
US11131098B1
An improved flashing system and apparatus. A drip cap is attached to the back side of a panel or board, and extends across the top of the panel or board with a short angled drip section and edge extending downwards on the front side of the panel or board. The drip cap may comprise a single piece of metal, or other suitable materials, including but not limited to plastic, formed by folding or by stamping or molding. The back of the drip cap has an upper section extending upward, and also may have a lower section extending downward. The drip cap may be attached by glue or other adhesive means. The lower section, if present, may attached to the back of the panel or board by fastening means known in the art, such as, but not limited to, staples or nails that penetrate only the lower section and the back of the panel or board. The drip cap prevents water and moisture from penetrating behind the panel or board after installation.
US11131096B2
A method of fastening a wall panel to a wall, according to one illustrative embodiment, comprises coupling a retaining body to a mounting body mounted on an outer surface of the wall adjacent a side edge of the wall panel. Coupling the retaining body to the mounting body may comprise coupling a first connector on an inner surface of the retaining body to a second connector on the mounting body, and positioning a retainer on the retaining body against a retaining surface on the wall panel to fasten the wall panel to the wall. Kits and wall assemblies according to other illustrative embodiments are also disclosed.
US11131089B2
A high performance wall assembly receives an exterior covering of a building. The high performance wall assembly includes a frame assembly having a top member, a bottom member opposite the top member, and a plurality of vertical members. The vertical members are coupled to and extend between the top and bottom members. The high performance wall assembly also includes a rigid foam insulating panel coupled to the frame assembly. A structural foam layer is disposed on the plurality of vertical members and on the rigid foam insulating panel. The structural foam layer couples the rigid foam insulating panel to the frame assembly and couples the plurality of vertical members to the top and bottom members such that the high performance wall is free of fasteners.
US11131088B2
A hinged connector is used to attach two generally coplanar first and second structural members while allowing for pivotal movement of the structural members in the plane of the structural members about an axis that is transverse or perpendicular to the plane in which the structural members rotate.
US11131082B2
A work vehicle for tracking a payload through a dump cycle having am implement, a volume sensor, a location tracker, an operation sensor, and a computing device. The volume sensor may be configured to sense a volume of material in the implement and generate a corresponding volume data signal. The location tracker may be configured to generate a location data signal indicative of the location of the implement. The operation sensor may be configured to detect an operation characteristic of a dump cycle of the implement and generate an operation data signal indicative of the operation characteristic. The computing device may be operable to execute a payload tracking algorithm to receive the volume data signal, the location data signal, the operation data signal, store the input signal to generate a tracking metric corresponding to the payload.
US11131081B2
Provided is a slewing-type working machine including: a slewing motor; a capacity control device; a slewing control device operated by a slewing instruction operation to allow hydraulic fluid to be supplied from a hydraulic pump to the slewing motor; a slewing parking brake; a brake switching device; a brake release instruction unit which inputs a brake release instruction to the brake switching device so as to make the brake switching device switch the slewing parking brake to a brake releasing state after allowing hydraulic fluid to be supplied to the slewing motor; and a capacity limiting unit that limits the capacity of the slewing motor controlled by the capacity control device to a predetermined brake-release capacity value or less until a brake release point and allows the capacity to increase after the brake release point.
US11131080B2
A hydraulic circuit of a construction machine includes: a first pump line that connects a delivery port of a pump to a pump port of a first direction-switching valve; a second pump line that is branched off from the first pump line and is connected to a pump port of a second direction-switching valve; and a priority valve provided on the second pump line. The priority valve is configured to: fully open the second pump line when a pressure difference between a delivery pressure of the pump and a load pressure of a first actuator is greater than a setting value; and decrease an opening degree of the second pump line in accordance with decrease in the pressure difference when the pressure difference is less than the setting value.
US11131074B2
A vertical manhole apparatus for use in a waste facility to provide access to one or more leachate collection pipe access points. The vertical manhole is stabilized using stabilizing features extending out from a vertical pipe of the vertical manhole apparatus.
US11131073B2
A method for foundation of a transformer platform having at least four piles (12), in which precisely one pile driver (1) is brought to the location, the pile driver (1) is supported on the seabed (9) by means of extendable supporting legs (7), driving jigs (11) are attached to the pile driver (1), the piles (12) are inserted through the associated driving jigs (11), the piles (12) are successively driven into the seabed (9) whilst maintaining the position of the pile driver (1), upper ends of the piles (12) driven into the seabed (9) are arranged level with or above the associated driving jig (11), the supporting legs (7) of the pile driver (1) are retracted and the pile driver (1) is moved away from the location.
US11131072B2
A breakwater (10A), including a floating plate (22), including: a floating plate (22), width (54) thereof being at least one wavelength (12) and being non-bendable; and anchors (26), for anchoring the floating plate (22), thereby not allowing the water waves (30A) propagating along the width (54) of the plate (22) to bend the width (54) of the plate (22), thereby not allowing the water waves (30A) to bend themselves along the at least one wavelength (12).
US11131058B2
The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a cord for a power transmission belt, including a first treatment step of treating an untreated yarn of a cord for a power transmission belt with a first treatment agent containing: a rubber composition (A) containing a condensate (A1) of a resorcin and formaldehyde, a rubber component (A2) containing a carboxy-modified latex, and a curing agent (A3) containing a polycarbodiimide resin having a plurality of carbodiimide groups; and a hydrophilic solvent (B).
US11131054B2
A laundry treating apparatus includes: a tub; a drum; an agitator disposed in the drum; a stator; a rotor configured to rotate relative to the stator; a drum-rotating shaft coupled to the drum; an agitator-rotating shaft coupled to the rotor and the agitator; a first serration disposed at an end of the agitator-rotating shaft; a second serration disposed at an end of the drum-rotating shaft; a fixed body fixed between the tub and the rotor; a support body rotatably disposed within the fixed body; a body-driving system configured to move the support body relative to the fixed body; and a shaft-joint configured to reciprocate between a first point and a second point of the support body. The shaft-joint is configured to engage the first serration to the second serration at the first point, and decouple the first serration from the second serration at the second point.
US11131033B2
A heterostructured catalyst includes a 2-dimensional (2D) array of titanium including nanocavities that are all directly attached to a substrate. Each of the titanium including nanocavities have a pore with a nanopore size and a wall with a nanowall thickness. The titanium including nanocavities can be titania nanocavities with a metal layer or a metal compound layer on the titania nanocavities including inside the pores, or the titanium including nanocavities can include SrTiO3 or consist of SrTiO3, each with a surface layer of reduced SrTiO3.
US11131027B2
A pretreatment composition for metal that provides enhanced corrosion resistance, enhanced paint adhesion and reduced chip damage to a wide variety of metal substrates. The pretreatment is also cleaner because it is based on zirconium rather than zinc phosphates. The pretreatment coating composition in use preferably comprises 50 to 300 parts per million (ppm) zirconium, 0 to 100 ppm of SiO2, 150-2000 ppm of total fluorine and 10-100 ppm of free fluorine, 150 to 10000 ppm of zinc and 10 to 10000 ppm of an oxidizing agent and has a pH of 3.0 to 5.0, preferably about 4.0. The coating composition can optionally include 0 to 50 ppm of copper. The suitable oxidizing agents can be selected from a large group.
US11131015B2
Methods of processing thin film by oxidation at high pressure are described. The methods are generally performed at pressures greater than 2 bar. The methods can be performed at lower temperatures and have shorter exposure times than similar methods performed at lower pressures. Some methods relate to oxidizing tungsten films to form self-aligned pillars.
US11131002B2
A method for producing a high strength tube part is provided. The method includes the acts of: producing a sheet metal blank, producing a tube part by cold forming the sheet metal blank, and hardening the tube part at least in some sections to a high strength tube part.
US11130998B2
A method of detecting the presence of a prostate cancer field defect in a human subject comprising the step of (a) obtaining genomic DNA from the human subject and (b) quantitating methylation in at least one target region selected from the group consisting of PLA2G16, CAV1, EVX1, MCF2L, FGF1, NCR2 and WNT2 and EXT1 and SPAG4 target, wherein significant methylation changes indicate the presence of prostate cancer or a prostate cancer field defect, wherein the change is relative to tissue from a second human subject who does not have prostate cancer.
US11130991B2
Methods, compositions and kits are provided to amplify the amount of genomic methylated DNA can by subsequently analyzed and/or sequenced. It has particular use with small amounts of DNA, including, but not limited to cell free DNA samples. In some embodiments, the ratio of polymerase and methyltransferase is controlled in order to provide maximum yields. In some embodiments, a dual primase/polymerase is used.
US11130989B2
An article such as a biosensor having a nonfouling surface thereon is described. The article comprises: (a) a substrate having a surface portion; (b) a linking layer on the surface portion; (c) a polymer layer comprising brush molecules formed on the linking layer; and (d) optionally but preferably, a first member of a specific binding pair (e.g., a protein, peptide, antibody, nucleic acid, etc.) coupled to the brush molecules. The polymer layer is preferably formed by the process of surface-initiated polymerization (SIP) of monomeric units thereon. Preferably, each of the monomeric units comprises a monomer (for example, a vinyl monomer) core group having at least one protein-resistant head group coupled thereto, to thereby form the brush molecule on the surface portion. Methods of using the articles are also described.
US11130986B2
The invention includes methods and apparatus for separating mutations, especially rare and unknown mutations, using heteroduplex binding proteins. Nucleic acids may optionally be nicked at or near the mutation in order to promote heteroduplex binding protein recognition and binding. In particular, using the disclosed methods, it is possible to separate heteroduplexed nucleic acid strand pair from homoduplexed nucleic acid strand pairs having similar sequences and being at a much higher concentration. Once the heteroduplexed nucleic acids are isolated and recovered, it is straightforward to analyze the sequences of the heteroduplexed nucleic acids, e.g., using sequencing or hybrid assays.
US11130980B2
Methods of modulating high mannose glycoform content of a protein in a cell culture by contacting the cells expressing the protein of interest with monesin are provided.
US11130975B2
Methods are provided for saccharifying a starch substrate, comprising contacting the starch substrate with a glucoamylase consisting or comprising of the amino acid sequence of Fusarium verticillioides glucoamylase (Fv-GA) and further contacting the starch substrate with at least one additional glucoamylase. Additional methods are provided for saccharifying and fermenting a starch substrate to produce an end product, a biochemical end product and a fermentable beverage using a combination of Fv-GA and at least one additional glucoamylase.
US11130971B2
Disclosed herein is a process of forming an inorganic water barrier layer on top of a porous substrate by means of microbially induced calcium carbonate or calcite precipitation (MICP), the process comprising the steps of: providing a porous substrate having a surface; depositing a urease-active slurry onto the surface of the porous substrate to form a bioslurry layer; and subjecting the bioslurry layer to one or more treatments with an aqueous solution comprising urea and a water barrier source material to convert the bioslurry layer into an inorganic water barrier layer. The process further comprises a step of covering the bioslurry layer with a layer of a porous material that has a surface, where the one or more treatments with an aqueous solution comprising urea and a water barrier source material are initially applied to the surface of the porous material. The porous material acts as a reservoir for the aqueous solution to sustain the biocementation of bioslurry into the desired inorganic water barrier layer.
US11130965B2
Compositions and methods for controlling plant pests are disclosed. In particular, novel insecticidal proteins having toxicity on coleopteran and/or lepidopteran insect pests are provided. Nucleic acid molecules encoding the novel insecticidal proteins are also provided. Methods of making the insecticidal proteins and methods of using the insecticidal proteins and nucleic acids encoding the insecticidal proteins of the invention, for example in transgenic plants to confer protection from insect damage, are also disclosed.
US11130962B2
The present invention provides for compositions and methods for producing crop plants that are resistant to herbicides. In particular, the present invention provides for wheat plants, plant tissues and plant seeds that contain altered acetyl-CoA carboxylase (ACCase) genes and proteins that are resistant to inhibition by herbicides that normally inhibit the activity of the ACCase protein.
US11130957B2
Provided are isolated polynucleotides and nucleic acid constructs which comprise a nucleic acid sequence at least 80% identical to a nucleic acid sequence selected form the group consisting of SEQ ID NOs: 277, 1-276, 278-469 and 785-2397; and isolated polypeptides which comprise an amino acid sequence at least 80% homologous to an amino acid sequence selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NOs: 482, 470-481, 483-784 and 2398-3818. Also provided are transgenic cells and plants expressing same and methods of using same for increasing nitrogen use efficiency, yield, biomass, growth rate, vigor, oil content, fiber yield, fiber quality, and/or abiotic stress tolerance of a plant.
US11130951B2
Methods of using B2 or Alu nucleic acids, or antisense oligonucleotides that modulate the EZH2/B2 or EZH2/Alu interaction and have the capacity to alter cleavage of B2 and Alu RNA, for increasing or decreasing cell and organismal viability.
US11130937B2
Presented herein are compositions and methods for the long-term in vitro culturing of Treponema species such as T. pallidum. Culture media and systems for Treponema culture are also provided.
US11130935B2
The invention provides a microfluidic device comprising at least one cell culture chamber, the at least one cell culture chamber being connected to at least two openings, the device being configured to supply at least one physiologically active substance from at least one of the openings to the at least one cell culture chamber in such a manner as to form a concentration gradient or concentration gradients in the at least one cell culture chamber when cells and a hydrogel are introduced into the at least one cell culture chamber to culture the cells in a 3D-gel medium.
US11130934B2
Pouring spouts used to filter bottled liquids as they are poured from a bottle containing such liquids.
US11130919B2
Methods and systems of producing chemical feedstocks from crude oil can include: introducing a fraction of crude oil into a catalytic hydrovisbreaker reactor, wherein the crude oil fraction is dealkylated after introduction; introducing a product stream from the catalytic hydrovisbreaker reactor and a solvent into a solvent de-asphalter unit; and introducing de-asphalted oil from the unit into a two-stage hydrocracker to produce the chemical feedstocks. The crude oil fraction can be atmospheric residue or vacuum residue. The chemical feedstocks can include C3− gases, C4-C5 gases, naphtha, BTX, and gas oil. The chemical feedstocks can be used to produce olefins and polymers.
US11130917B2
A modified Y-type molecular sieve has a rare earth content of about 4-11% by weight on the basis of rare earth oxide, a sodium content of no more than about 0.7% by weight on the basis of sodium oxide, a zinc content of about 0.5-5% by weight on the basis of zinc oxide, a phosphorus content of about 0.05-10% by weight on the basis of phosphorus pentoxide, a framework silica-alumina ratio of about 7-14 calculated on the basis of SiO2/Al2O3 molar ratio, a percentage of non-framework aluminum content to the total aluminum content of no more than about 20%, and a percentage of the pore volume of secondary pores having a pore size of 2-100 nm to the total pore volume of about 15-30%. The modified Y-type molecular sieve has a high crystallinity, a structure comprising secondary pores, and a high thermal and hydrothermal stability.
US11130916B2
The invention relates to approach temperatures and approach temperature ranges that are beneficial in operating a pyrolysis reactor, to pyrolysis reactors exhibiting a beneficial approach temperature, to processes for carrying out hydrocarbon pyrolysis in a pyrolysis reactor having a beneficial approach temperature. The pyrolysis reactor can be, e.g., a reverse-flow pyrolysis reactor, such as a regenerative reverse-flow pyrolysis reactor.
US11130914B2
The present invention provides methods, reactor systems and catalysts for converting biomass and biomass-derived feedstocks to C8+ hydrocarbons using heterogenous catalysts. The product stream may be separated and further processed for use in chemical applications, or as a neat fuel or a blending component in jet fuel and diesel fuel, or as heavy oils for lubricant and/or fuel oil applications.
US11130901B2
The present invention relates to a method to inhibit gas hydrate formation in the field of crude oil and natural gas extraction, transportation and processing.
US11130900B2
This document relates to methods for providing long-term zonal isolation in oil wells using cement compositions that contain triazine-based polymeric additives. The cement compositions containing the polymeric additives exhibit increased tensile strength, elastic strength, or both, without suffering a decrease in compressive strength, as compared to the same cement without the polymeric additive.
US11130898B2
The present disclosure provides methods and systems for treatment fluids including an iodide brine. In some embodiments of the present disclosure, an oil-based treatment fluid in the form of an invert emulsion comprising an aqueous internal phase and an oil external phase, wherein the aqueous internal phase comprises an iodide brine is provided. The treatment fluid may be introduced into at least a portion of a well bore penetrating at least a portion of a subterranean formation.
US11130892B2
Methods and compositions for suppressing fugitive dust are provided herein. To suppress fugitive dust, particulate materials, dust and or substrates can be treated with a mixture having a hydrophobizing agent and an oil. The hydrophobizing agent can be an organo- or halosilane, a tallow alkylamine, an amine-functionalized polysiloxane, or an amine-functionalized hydrophobic polymer.
US11130889B2
The present disclosure is directed to a curable precursor of a pressure sensitive adhesive comprising: a) a (co)polymeric material comprising the reaction product of a (co)polymerizable material comprising a (meth)acrylate ester monomer; and optionally, a co-monomer having an ethylenically unsaturated group and which is different from the (meth)acrylate ester monomer; b) a polyfunctional aziridine curing agent; and c) an acid generating agent. The present disclosure is also directed to a method of manufacturing such pressure sensitive adhesives and uses thereof.
US11130884B2
An adhesive composition may include 100 parts by weight of a (meth)acrylic polymer (A), 45 to 65 parts by weight of isoboronyl acrylate (B), and 0.1 to 10 parts by weight of a photoradical polymerization initiator (C). Each molecule of the (meth)acrylic polymer (A) may have at least one group represented by the general formula (1) at a molecular terminal: —OC(O)C(R1)═CH2 (1), where R1 is a hydrogen atom or an organic group containing 1 to 20 carbon atoms. The (meth)acrylic polymer (A) may have a number average molecular weight (Mn) of 3,000 to 100,000, and a ratio (Mw/Mn) of a weight average molecular weight (Mw) to a number average molecular weight (Mn) of less than 1.8.
US11130877B2
Disclosed is a coating material for a coating layer of an injection mold, the coating material including 100 parts by weight of a resin composition and about 30 to 40 parts by weight of a curing agent. The resin composition includes an amount of about 40 to 50 wt % of a first acrylic resin, an amount of about 5 to 15 wt % of a second acrylic resin having a weight average molecular weight less than a weight average molecular weight of the first acrylic resin, an amount of about 10 to 15 wt % of a carbon component, an amount of about 0.5 to 2 wt % of a matting agent, an amount of about 0.1 to 0.3 wt % of a catalyst and an amount of about 20 to 35 wt % of a solvent, all the wt % are based on the total weight of the resin composition.
US11130870B2
To provide a powder coating material capable of forming a coating film excellent in impact resistance, flexibility and adhesion to substrate and excellent in surface smoothness even when formed under low temperature film-forming conditions. The powder coating material of the present invention is a powder coating material comprising a fluorinated polymer having units based on a fluoroolefin, units based on a monomer represented by the formula X—Z and units based on a monomer represented by the formula CHR21═CR22 (CH2)nCOOH, wherein the content of the units based on a monomer represented by the formula X—Z is from 5 to 20 mol % to all units in the fluorinated polymer, and the fluorinated polymer has a melt viscosity at 170° C. of from 20 to 100 Pa·s (in the formulae, X is a specific monovalent polymerizable group, Z is a specific alkyl group, a specific cycloalkyl group or a specific aryl group, R21 and R22 are each independently a hydrogen atom or a specific alkyl group, and n is an integer of from 0 to 12.
US11130867B2
Curable compositions comprising 1,1-di-activated vinyl compounds are provided herein. Also provided are coatings formed from 1,1-di-activated vinyl compounds. Also provided are processes for coating substrates and articles. Curable compositions including 1,1-di-activated vinyl compounds that function as crosslinking agents are described.
US11130865B2
The present invention relates generally to novel rhodamine dyes which upon conjugation with another molecule form single isomeric conjugation products. These novel rhodamine dyes contain only one single functional group on the rhodomine molecule for conjugation so that their conjugation products are single isomeric conjugation products.
US11130860B2
A thermoplastic composite comprising a thermoplastic polymer matrix comprising an amorphous polyester containing 1,4: 3,6-dianhydrohexitol units, an alicyclic diol and terephthalic acid, wherein diol component comprises 1,4:3,6-dianhydrohexitol and alicyclic diol in ratio from 0.32 to 0.75; and thermoplastic fibers comprising a semi-crystalline polyester containing 1,4: 3,6-dianhydrohexitol units, an alicyclic diol and terephthalic acid, wherein diol component comprises 1,4:3,6-dianhydrohexitol and alicyclic diol in ratio from 0.05 to 0.30 are disclosed. Methods for producing the polymer composite are also disclosed.
US11130855B2
Provided is a composition for forming release layers which comprises (A) a polyurea including a repeating unit represented by formula (1), (B) an acid compound or a salt thereof, (C) a crosslinking agent selected from among compounds having a nitrogen atom substituted by a hydroxyalkyl group and/or an alkoxymethyl group, (D) a polymeric additive including a repeating unit represented by formula (a1), a repeating unit represented by formula (b), and a repeating unit represented by formula (c), and (E) a solvent, wherein the polymeric additive (D) is contained in an amount of 5-100 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of the polyurea (A). (In the formulae, the RA moieties each are independently a hydrogen atom or a methyl group; RB1 is a branched C3-4 alkyl group in which at least one hydrogen atom has been replaced with a fluorine atom; RC is a C1-10 hydroxyalkyl group; and RD is a C6-20 polycycloalkyl group or C6-12 aryl group.)
US11130852B2
The present invention is a plasticizer composition which includes a trimellitate-based plasticizer and a citrate-based plasticizer, and does not contain epoxidized oil, and particularly, may provide a plasticizer composition which may improve physical properties such as migration resistance, tensile strength, an elongation rate, a retention characteristic and low-temperature resistance, required in the use of a plasticizer of a resin composition by improving problems inherent in a conventional plasticizer, and a resin composition including the same.
US11130850B2
The present invention relates to a process for recycling polyolefin, comprising the steps of: 1) feeding a solid post-consumer polyolefin composition comprising polyolefin and contaminants and a flow of an extraction fluid to an extractor having a pressure of 100-1000 bar and a temperature of 20-80° C. to obtain a solid extracted composition, 2) melting the solid extracted composition to obtain a melted composition, 3) providing particles from the melted composition by: 3a) mixing a flow of a supercritical fluid in the melted composition in a pressure vessel to obtain a solution saturated with the supercritical fluid and 3b) passing the solution from the pressure vessel through a throttling device to a spraying tower to expand the solution to obtain polyolefin particles in the spraying tower.
US11130842B2
The invention relates to a method for producing polyether carbonate polyols, wherein (i) in a first step a polyether carbonate polyol is produced from one or more H-functional starter substances, one or more alkylene oxides, and carbon dioxide in the presence of at least one DMC catalyst, and (ii) in a second step the polyether carbonate polyol is chain-extended with a mixture of at least two different alkylene oxides in the presence of at least one DMC catalyst. The invention further relates to polyether carbonate polyols that contain a terminal mixed block of at least two alkylene oxides and to a method for producing soft polyurethane foams, wherein a polyol component containing a polyether carbonate polyol according to the invention is used.
US11130839B2
The invention is generally directed to sports bottles and other articles produced by blow molding from polymeric materials containing isosorbide having glass transition temperatures ranging from 90° C. to 130° C., as well as to processes for producing them. These articles can be exposed to water at high temperatures and can be produced by using a suitable combination of a stretch ratio of less than 3× and a preform temperature at least 20° C. greater than the glass transition temperature (Tg) of the polymeric material.
US11130816B2
The current disclosure provides binding polypeptides (e.g., antibodies), and effector moiety conjugates thereof (e.g., antibody-drug conjugates or ADCs), comprising a site-specifically engineered drug-glycan linkage within native or engineered glycans of the binding polypeptide. The current disclosure also provides nucleic acids encoding the antigen-binding polypeptides, recombinant expression vectors and host cells for making such antigen-binding polypeptides. Methods of using the antigen-binding polypeptides disclosed herein to treat disease are also provided.
US11130813B2
Methods are provided for targeting cells for depletion, including without limitation cancer cells, in a regimen comprising contacting the targeted cells with a combination of agents, including (i) an agent that blockades CD47 activity; and (ii) an antibody that specifically binds to EGFR. In some embodiments the cancer cells have a mutated form of one or more of KRAS, NRAS or BRAF. The level of depletion of the targeted cell is enhanced relative to a regimen in which a single agent is used; and the effect may be synergistic relative to a regimen in which a single agent is used.
US11130811B2
The present invention relates to an ICOS binding protein or antigen binding portion thereof that is an agonist to human ICOS and does not induce complement, ADCC, or CDC when placed in contact with a T cell in vivo and methods of treating cancer, infectious disease and/or sepsis with said ICOS binding protein or antigen binding portion thereof. Further the ICOS binding proteins or antigen binding portions thereof of the present invention are capable of activating a T cell when placed in contact with said T cell; stimulating T cell proliferation when placed in contact with said T cell and/or inducing cytokine production when placed in contact with said T cell. The present invention relates to ICOS binding proteins or antigen binding portions thereof comprising one or more of: SEQ ID NO: 1; SEQ ID NO:2; SEQ ID NO:3; SEQ ID NO:4; SEQ ID NO:5; and/or SEQ ID NO:6.
US11130807B2
This disclosure relates to binding agents with specificity for programmed cell death 1 (PD-1) and to methods for using the same to treat, prevent and/or ameliorate an infectious disease (e.g., human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)), cancer and/or autoimmunity.
US11130794B2
The application discloses compounds useful in treatment of diabetes, weight loss and/or reduction of cardiovascular risks. The compounds are bi-functional and therefore suitable as a simple treatment for patients that may benefit from treatment with both a GLP-1 receptor agonist and a PCSK9 inhibitor.
US11130793B2
The invention relates to compounds having agonist activity at the GLP-1 (glucagon-like-peptide 1) and GLP-2 (glucagon-like peptide 2) receptors. The compounds find use, inter alia, in the prophylaxis or treatment of intestinal damage and dysfunction, regulation of body weight, and prophylaxis or treatment of metabolic dysfunction.
US11130785B2
Disclosed are Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) antigens including a recombinant RSV F protein stabilized in a prefusion conformation. Also disclosed are nucleic acids encoding the antigens and methods of producing the antigens. Methods for generating an immune response in a subject are also disclosed. In some embodiments, the method is a method for treating or preventing a RSV infection in a subject by administering a therapeutically effective amount of the antigen to the subject.
US11130781B2
The invention relates to the field of antibiotics, more specifically to peptide antibiotics, such as antimicrobial peptides and their use in the treatment of diseases associated with microbial infections. In particular, the invention provides a peptide with antimicrobial activity comprising an amino acid sequence RRWVQRWIRRWR (SEQ ID NO: 24) or an analogue thereof.
US11130779B2
Provided herein are deuterated compounds and compositions useful in increasing PPARδ activity. The compounds have a formula where L5 comprises at least one deuterium. Exemplary species include The compounds and compositions provided herein are useful for the treatment of PPARδ related diseases (e.g., muscular diseases, vascular disease, demyelinating disease, and metabolic diseases).
US11130778B2
Described herein are CD73 inhibitors and pharmaceutical compositions comprising said compounds. The subject compounds and compositions are useful for the treatment of cancer, infections, and neurodegenerative diseases.
US11130765B2
This invention relates to opioid ketal compounds of Formula (I), Formula (II), or Formula (III): or a pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein R1 is H or CH3, R2 is H or OH, n is 0, 1, 2 or 3, R3 and R4 are independently H or optionally substituted C1-C4 alkyl, or when n is 0, then R3 and R4 and the carbon atoms to which they are attached together form six, or seven membered ring, which is optionally mono or disubstituted by C1-C4 alkyl. The invention also relates to oxycodone ketal compounds of Formula (IV) or (V): or a pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. The invention also relates to the use of such compounds for the treatment, prevention, or amelioration of pain.
US11130754B2
The present invention relates to compounds of formula (I): or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein R1, R2, X, Y, and HET are as defined herein. The invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds, methods of using these compounds in the treatment of various diseases and disorders, processes for preparing these compounds and intermediates useful in these processes.
US11130751B2
The present invention relates to substituted quinoxaline and pyridopyrazine derivatives of Formula (I) wherein the variables have the meaning defined in the claims. The compounds according to the present invention are useful as pI3Kβ inhibitors. The invention further relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising said compounds as an active ingredient as well as the use of said compounds as a medicament.
US11130749B2
The present invention relates to a Rho-associated protein kinase inhibitor of formula (I), a pharmaceutical composition comprising the same, a preparation method thereof, and a use of the same in preventing or treating a disease mediated by Rho-associated protein kinase (ROCK).
US11130747B2
The present invention relates to a plurality of host materials and an organic electroluminescent device comprising the same. By comprising a specific combination of a plurality of host compounds, the organic electroluminescent device according to the present invention provides high efficiency and long lifespan.
US11130741B2
The present invention relates to heterocyclic compounds of Formula I useful as anti-infective agents. The present invention further relates to a method of treating an infection by administering such compounds, and to pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds.
US11130733B2
The present invention relates to a new compound and a preparation method and use thereof. The general structural formula of the compound is shown in Formula I. Animal experiments show that the compound has the effect of saving the memory of animal models. It is of high safety, has no mutagenicity, can remain in blood for several hours after oral or intravenous injection, and can enter the brain. The compound can be used to prepare a medicament for treating Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, vascular dementia, schizophrenia, and autism among other diseases.
US11130721B2
The present invention relates to a method for recovering light olefins, which can achieve an increase in propylene production and a reduction in the basic unit of a process by feeding steam into five serially connected dehydrogenation reactors, and can diversify the product of a propane dehydrogenation reaction process from a propylene single product into propylene and ethylene by separately collecting ethane and ethylene, i.e., by-products of the propylene production process, and converting the ethane into ethylene, thereby improving the economic efficiency of the process and selectivity.
US11130711B2
The present invention relates to a dry refractory particulate composition comprising a zeolithic microstructure, to a green body and to a refractory lining formed therefrom, and to uses thereof.
US11130708B2
Solar reflective roofing granules include a binder and inert mineral particles, with solar reflective particles dispersed in the binder. An agglomeration process preferentially disposes the solar reflective particles at a desired depth within or beneath the surface of the granules.
US11130701B2
A method for laser processing a transparent workpiece includes forming a contour line that includes defects, by directing a pulsed laser beam output by a beam source through an aspheric optical element positioned offset in a radial direction from the beam pathway and into the transparent workpiece such that the portion of the pulsed laser beam directed into the transparent workpiece generates an induced absorption within the transparent workpiece that produces a defect within the transparent workpiece. The portion of the pulsed laser beam directed into the transparent workpiece includes a wavelength λ, an effective spot size wo,eff, and a non-axisymmetric beam cross section having a minimum Rayleigh range ZRx,min in an x-direction and a minimum Rayleigh range ZRy,min in a y-direction. Further, the smaller of ZRx,min and ZRy,min is greater than F D = π w 0 , eff 2 λ , where FD is a dimensionless divergence factor comprising a value of 10 or greater.
US11130699B2
The present disclosure is directed to glass spheroids and methods of making these spheroids that have significantly increased resilience to applied pressure and surface scratching. In addition, the present disclosure is directed to tailless Prince Rupert's Drops and methods of making tailless Prince Rupert's Drops.
US11130697B2
A glass manufacturing method. A plurality of stress values in a glass sheet are determined in a plurality of locations of the glass sheet respectively. A plurality of light leakage degrees are determined in the plurality of locations of a polarization-based display provided with the glass sheet, when the polarization-based display is in a state to block light transmissions. The plurality of determined stress values are modified based on the plurality of determined light leakage degrees. At least one additional glass sheet is manufactured in a glass sheet manufacturing process with at least one process condition of the glass sheet manufacturing process being adjusted based on the plurality of modified stress values.
US11130695B2
A process for purification of waste water from dairy processing, which may include providing waste water from the dairy-processing industry that includes lactic acid and urea; adjusting the waste water to an alkaline pH value, while precipitating the lactic acid as a lactate; subjecting the waste water to a first reverse osmosis step, obtaining a lactate-containing first retentate and a lactate-free first permeate; adjusting the first permeate such obtained to an acid pH value; cooling the permeate that has been adjusted to an acid pH to a temperature within the range of 2 to 10° C.; subjecting the cooled first permeate to a second reverse osmosis step, obtaining a urea-containing second retentate and a second permeate that is practically completely free from organic loading; and, optionally, recycling the second permeate, reintroducing it into a dairy-processing procedure.
US11130688B2
Provided is a method for controlling a pH to a neutral range (pH 6 to 8) by adding an alkali or an acid to decarbonated water, including controlling the amount of the alkali or the acid added using an electrical conductivity meter. The decarbonated water is, for example, water obtained by decarbonating industrial water or groundwater so that the concentration of carbonic acid is 10 ppm or less. The method may further have a step of producing pure water by RO treatment of the decarbonated water with a pH adjusted to 6 to 8 by the pH control.
US11130685B2
Disclosed herein are graphene quantum dot tagged water source treatment compounds or polymers, and methods of making and using. Also described herein are tagged compositions including an industrial water source treatment compound or polymer combined with a graphene quantum dot tagged water source treatment compound or polymer. The tagged materials are tailored to fluoresce at wavelengths with minimized correspondence to the natural or “background” fluorescence of irradiated materials in industrial water sources, enabling quantification of the concentration of the water source treatment compound or polymer in situ by irradiation and fluorescence measurement of the water source containing the tagged water source treatment compound or polymer. The fluorescence measurement methods are similarly useful to quantify mixtures of tagged and untagged water source treatment compounds or polymers present in an industrial water source.
US11130684B2
A water softening device includes a filter configured to decrease hardness of a first stream of raw water to produce a second stream of water with decreased hardness, a first sensor that measures an electrical property of the first stream, a second sensor that measures an electrical property of the second stream, and optionally, a third sensor that detects a water flow through the filter, wherein the filter includes an ion exchange resin operated in H+-mode, and the filter is buffered with at least one salt selected from the group of a potassium salt (K+), a sodium salt (Na+) and a lithium salt (Li+).
US11130680B2
Process for the co-production of methanol and ammonia together with urea production from a hydrocarbon feed without venting to the atmosphere carbon dioxide captured from the methanol or ammonia synthesis gas and without using expensive air separation units and water gas shift. Carbon dioxide removal from flue gas from reforming section to convert partially or fully all ammonia into urea. Synergi of having methanol, ammonia and urea production to produce coating material for the urea production.
US11130675B2
A nanoparticle containing monoclinic lutetium oxide. A method of: dispersing a lutetium salt solution in a stream of oxygen gas to form droplets, and combusting the droplets to form nanoparticles containing lutetium oxide. The combustion occurs at a temperature sufficient to form monoclinic lutetium oxide in the nanoparticles. An article containing lutetium oxide and having an average grain size of at most 10 microns.
US11130670B2
A device includes a substrate, a routing conductive line over the substrate, a dielectric layer over the routing conductive line, and an etch stop layer over the dielectric layer. A Micro-Electro-Mechanical System (MEMS) device has a portion over the etch stop layer. A contact plug penetrates through the etch stop layer and the dielectric layer. The contact plug connects the portion of the MEMS device to the routing conductive line. An escort ring is disposed over the etch stop layer and under the MEMS device, wherein the escort ring encircles the contact plug.
US11130665B1
A mobile recreational lift system, comprising a first lift vehicle and a second lift vehicle, each lift vehicle having an observation platform for carrying passengers, and an articulating lift mechanism for elevating the observation platform above a ground surface. The lift vehicles are positioned at an observation site in a paired configuration, allowing the observation platforms of both vehicles to be elevated simultaneously while retaining the ability to be independently controlled. The lift mechanisms are also adapted to move the observation platforms laterally, allowing the observation platforms to be placed in close proximity to allow the passengers to interact. If one of the lift vehicles malfunctions, the other lift vehicle may immediately position its observation platform to aid the passengers of the malfunctioning vehicle. Cameras mounted on each observation platform are adapted to capture images of the other observation platform and the passengers therein, from a variety of perspectives.
US11130660B2
Lift truck attachment assemblies are shown and disclosed. In some embodiments, the lift truck attachment assembly includes a carriage assembly having a carriage and a linear actuator attached to the carriage. The carriage is mountable to a lift truck, and the linear actuator includes a body and longitudinally opposed piston rods slidably received in the body, each of the piston rods having an end. The attachment assembly additionally includes a frame assembly slidably connected to the carriage. The frame assembly includes upper and lower transverse frame members and end vertical frame members connecting the upper and lower transverse frame members in a spaced relationship to define a frame central cavity therebetween. The linear actuator is disposed within the frame central cavity such that the ends of the piston rods contact the end vertical frame members allowing the linear actuator to slide the frame assembly laterally relative to the carriage assembly.
US11130658B2
An optical detection system for a crane having a counterweight assembly includes an image capture assembly having one or more image capture devices configured to capture an image of the counterweight assembly and an optical control system. The optical control system is configured to detect one or more objects in the captured image, the one or more objects selected from the counterweight assembly, a weight unit of the counterweight assembly, a stack of weight units of the counterweight assembly, and a marker on the counterweight assembly. The optical control system is also configured to analyze the one or more detected objects and determine a status of counterweight assembly based on the analysis of the one or more detected objects.
US11130652B2
Disclosed is a yarn tensioning system for keeping at least one yarn, which is taken from a yarn storage system to a yarn take-off system of a weaving machine, under tension. The system includes a brake roller around which the yarn is at least partially wound, and a motor for supplying a torque to the brake roller, the motor being actuable in generator operation to keep the yarn under tension between the brake roller and the yarn take-off system. Also disclosed is a weaving machine including such a yarn tensioning system, as well as a method for keeping at least one yarn under tension, the at least one yarn being taken from a yarn storage system to a yarn take-off system.
US11130645B2
A medium transporting device includes a driving roller that transports a medium and that is driven to rotate, a driven roller that nips the medium between the driving roller and the driven roller and rotates in accordance with the rotation of the driving roller, a rotary shaft of the driven roller, a first pressing member that presses the rotary shaft in a direction in which the driven roller comes into contact with the driving roller, a second pressing member that presses the rotary shaft in a direction in which the driven roller comes into contact with the driving roller, and a spacer member that is integrally provided with a first spacer interposed between the rotary shaft and the first pressing member and a second spacer interposed between the rotary shaft and the second pressing member.
US11130642B2
A device and a method for the separation of elongated parts (long parts) from bulk materials. The device comprises a conveying device (1), a deflecting device (2) and a rake with webs (4) being oriented longitudinally to the conveying direction. According to the method, the bulk material is transported on the conveying device (1), and then long parts (10) are oriented by means of a deflecting device (2) transversely to the conveying direction. After passing through the deflecting device (2), the transversely oriented long parts are transferred to the rake (4) and discharged as coarse materials (7). Compact parts (11) fall through this rake and thus end up in the fine material (6).
US11130640B2
An apparatus for handling bars includes a store provided with one or more containing elements, with a respective bundle or group of bars positioned in each. A feed station is located downstream of the store and configured to transfer the bars to a destination station. A removal device of the bars is associated with the feed station and is configured to remove the bars from at least one containing element of the store and transfer them onto the feed station. Movement means of the store, suitable to take at least one of said containing elements into correspondence with the removal device, are also included.
US11130630B2
Disclosed autonomous mobile robot systems can be used to safely and efficiently navigate through a facility while avoiding objects in the path of the autonomous mobile robot during completion of a task. Specifically, a safety zone of a first size may be generated around an autonomous mobile robot based at least in part on first data from a first set of sensors associated with the autonomous mobile robot that are configured to identify an object within the safety zone. Information indicating a current speed of the autonomous mobile robot from associated propulsion components may be received and utilized to update the first size and a shape of the safety zone. Instructions to cease propulsion of the autonomous mobile robot may be transmitted to the propulsion components based on first data identifying the object within the updated first size of the safety zone.
US11130629B1
A refuse container or can tipper apparatus is mounted at the passenger side of a refuse collection vehicle having a refuse box with an open upper end. The apparatus includes a pair of lifting arms and a pair of pivot arms which are pivotally connected to a vertically disposed support member which includes a hydraulic cylinder or an electric linear activator for pivotally moving the pair of lifting arms and the pair of pivot arms. The outer ends of the lifting arms and pivot arms have a can or container engagement assembly secured thereto which may be a grip arm assembly or a hook plate assembly. The can engagement assembly is moved into contact with the refuse container and lifts the refuse container to a position above the refuse box and dump the refuse in the refuse container into the refuse box.
US11130624B2
An array of toilet tissue products. A first toilet tissue product can exhibit a first lint value and a total dry tensile strength of greater than 600 g/in, and a second toilet tissue product can exhibit a second lint value which is at least 20% greater than the first lint value and a total dry tensile strength of less than 600 g/in. The first toilet tissue product can be housed within a first toilet tissue product package and the second toilet tissue product can be housed within a second toilet tissue product package. The packages can be designed to be sold individually and wherein the first and second toilet tissue product packages each comprise a common brand name.
US11130623B2
A valve for a container for dispensing pressurized fluid includes a housing which is mounted on a valve cup, a hollow stem provided in a passage of the housing which stem has at least one lateral inlet opening at its lower end and an outlet opening at its upper end, and a spring. The housing has a circumferential step-like contour with an outer, lower part and a central, upper part. The valve cup follows essentially the step-like contour line of the housing and ends horizontally on the top of the housing close to the stem and a sealing is provided on the upper side of the housing between the housing and the valve cup and which seals at the same time the valve cup against the housing and the stem against the housing.
US11130620B1
A laminate includes an outer liner having a filament mesh disposed between a paper sheet and a resin layer. The resin layer and mesh extend between first and second opposed lateral edges of the sheet. A cushion layer is disposed over the resin layer. An inner liner of kraft paper is disposed over the cushion layer. A region of the resin layer is activated into an adhesive bonding the cushion layer and inner liner to the sheet. The laminate defines first and second longitudinally adjacent portions. The outer liner in the first portion has opposed first and second peripheral portions extending laterally outward from opposed lateral edges of the cushion layer and inner liner to the first and second lateral edges of the sheet, whereby a first width between the lateral edges along the first portion exceeds a second width measured the lateral edges along the second portion.
US11130616B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide an apparatus attachable to a container and usable to secure the container closed. The apparatus is transitionable from a nonuse configuration to a use configuration to form an (at least partially) elastic loop attached to the container and usable to circumscribe the container to secure the container closed.
US11130607B2
The present application improves the shape of a curl part of a bottle can to secure high sealability even under high pressure in the can and during heat sterilization, makes bubbling-over occur less during cap opening, and suppresses misrecognition of reseal. A bottle can has a curl part provided at an opening end of a mouth part. The curl part includes an outer wall part extending downward from an upper end bent part. The outer wall part includes a first bent part shaping a locking part that extends continuously and downwardly from the upper end bent part and shapes an outwardly-protruding convex, and a second bent part that extends continuously and downwardly from the first bent part and shapes an inwardly-protruding convex.
US11130598B2
A strapping tool is disclosed herein. In one or more embodiments, the strapping tool includes a motive power source; and a tensioning assembly operatively coupled to the motive power source, the tensioning assembly including a cam member and at least one tensioning foot member, the cam member operatively coupling the at least one tensioning foot member to the motive power source, and the at least one tensioning foot member of the tensioning assembly configured to apply tension to a piece of strapping while being driven in an oscillatory manner by the motive power source. Also, in one or more embodiments, the strapping tool includes a jaw lifting assembly, the jaw lifting assembly configured to raise the at least one sealing jaw member out of a strapping pass line of the strapping tool so that the piece of strapping is capable of being inserted into the strapping tool.
US11130594B2
A drone docking structure of an autonomous vehicle can include: a coil housing having a space for docking a drone to the vehicle; a docking cover configured to open or close a top portion of the coil housing according to whether the drone is docked; and a motor housing installed on a side surface of the coil housing and including a motor configured to actuate the docking cover.
US11130593B2
A system for adjusting an optical path length includes: a camera body; an image sensor coupled to the camera body; a first optical device coupled to the camera body; and a second optical device coupled to the camera body. At least one of the first and the second optical devices are movable relative to the camera body. The optical path length between the image sensor and the camera body opening is continuously adjusted by movement of the at least one of the first and the second optical devices relative to the image sensor. As the at least one of the first and the second optical devices move relative to the image sensor, the first optical device is in continuous contact with the second optical device.
US11130591B2
A cap is disclosed having a collar portion with three or more contact regions arranged to contact the end of a fastener around which the collar portion is provided, the collar portion having a lobed shape in cross-section such that an outwardly projecting lobe extends between each neighbouring pair of contact regions. An advantage of this lobed arrangement is that the cap can tolerate relatively large manufacturing tolerances at the fastener end. The cap may be for fitting over a nut or fastener head, with the contact regions of the cap being arranged to contact corresponding contact regions on a cylindrical collar base portion of the nut or fastener head. The diameter of this cylindrical collar portion may not be well controlled, so that the manufacturing tolerance is high. The lobed shape of the cap base ensures that the contact regions will always provide a good frictional engagement with the nut, whether the cylindrical collar is undersized, oversized, or at its nominal diameter.
US11130589B2
A fuel system for a rotorcraft is provided. The fuel system comprises a housing, a fuel bladder located within the housing, a first fuel reservoir, and a number of pressure relief valves. The first fuel reservoir is in fluid communication with the fuel bladder and stowed within the housing. The number of pressure relief valves are configured to divert fuel from the fuel bladder into the first fuel reservoir at a predetermined pressure such that the first fuel reservoir expands to reduce forces on the housing during a crash event.
US11130574B2
An aircraft cargo restraint system includes a fuselage framework defining a cargo cabin, a webbing configured to restrain cargo positionable within the cargo cabin, one or more spring tension reels configured to bias the webbing towards a top of the cargo cabin, and one or more actuators configured to move the webbing toward a bottom of the cargo cabin against the bias of the one or more spring tension reels.
US11130571B2
An unmanned aerial vehicle according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a storing part configured to store information regarding a geo-fence area, and flight approval information or shooting approval information of a main body of the unmanned aerial vehicle with respect to the geo-fence area; and a controller configured to, when the main body approaches the geo-fence area, extract approval code from the flight approval information or the shooting approval information, and release at least one of a flight mode and a shooting mode prohibited in the geo-fence area.
US11130568B2
An autonomous thrust vectoring ring wing pod is disclosed. A plurality of distributed propulsion element (thruster) layout within a self-articulating ring wing pod allows the pod to selectively control its thrust vector by controlling each propulsion element in the pod. This arrangement allows autonomous and independent control of the tilting of the ring wing relative to the aircraft. The ring wing pod acts as both a nacelle to house the propulsion elements as well as a lifting surface when in wing-borne flight. The autonomous thrust vectoring ring wing pod also provides superior aircraft attitude control in wing-borne flight, thus negating the need for conventional surface controls.
US11130564B2
Systems and methods for enabling aircraft shock strut shrink are provided. The system may comprise a shock strut comprising a shrink piston, an accumulator comprising a gas piston and a hydraulic chamber, wherein the gas piston is configured to apply gas pressure to the hydraulic chamber, and a first valve in fluid communication with the accumulator. The system may further comprise a second valve, wherein the second valve is in fluid communication with a vent, the pneumatic cylinder, and the gas piston, wherein the first valve is in fluid communication with the hydraulic chamber and the shrink piston.
US11130560B2
Aspects of the present disclosure present floor panels and floor panel assemblies that include incorporated burnthrough resistant materials and/or include burnthrough resistant layers applied to floor panels used in floor panel assemblies, along with methods for inhibiting fire penetration into compartments and methods of making and installing burnthrough resistant floor panels and floor assemblies including such apparatuses and methods as they relate to vehicles, including aircraft.
US11130558B2
A barrier for providing isolation between two internal volumes within an aircraft, comprises: a wall section adapted for location within an aircraft, the wall section having an aperture formed therein; mounting means located on the wall section proximate the aperture; and a substantially planar burst panel member having first and second opposingly-facing sides, the burst panel member adapted for location within the mounting means and dimensioned so as to overlie the aperture when received by the mounting means; the burst panel member comprising a line of weakness provided therein, adapted such that, in use, exposure of the burst panel member to an atmospheric pressure differential between air volumes respectively adjacent the first and second sides exceeding a predetermined value causes the burst panel member to rupture along said line of weakness.
US11130555B1
A service door for a cowl for an outboard marine propulsion device that includes a door panel that is positionable in an open position and in a closed position. A first hinge rotatably couples the door panel to the cowl. A biasing device operates in conjunction with the first hinge and biases the door panel towards the open position. A second hinge rotatably couples the door panel to the cowl and at least one of the first hinge and the second hinge provides only one shear of rotation between the door panel and the cowl. A damper operates in conjunction with the second hinge and resists rotation of the door panel towards the open position. The inside of the cowl is accessible when the door panel is in the open position and inaccessible when the door panel is in the closed position.
US11130543B2
A human-machine interaction sport vehicle (10) including a mounting plate, a rotating structure (2), two wheels (3a, 3b), a hub motor, and a balance control system is provided. The rotating structure is configured to connect a first mounting plate (1a) and a second mounting plate (1b), and enables the first mounting plate and the second mounting plate to rotate relative to each other. A first groove (1a3) is formed in a bottom surface of the first mounting plate, a second groove is formed in a bottom surface of the second mounting plate, and the first groove and the second groove are configured to accommodate a rotating rod (2a) in the rotating structure so as to enable the first mounting plate and the second mounting plate to form an integral body with the rotating structure, thus providing a weight-supporting effect.
US11130538B1
The motorcycle groin protector is a guard. The motorcycle groin protector is configured for use with a motorcycle. The motorcycle is further defined with a fuel tank. The motorcycle groin protector forms a guard around a groin of a rider. The motorcycle groin protector comprises a rigid shell, a clip, and a comfort cushion. The clip attaches the rigid shell to the fuel tank of the motorcycle. The comfort cushion attaches to the rigid shell. The rigid shell forms the guard around a groin of a rider.
US11130520B2
A steering assembly for a motor vehicle has a wheel carrier to which a wheel can be secured, a strut via which the wheel carrier is mounted on a vehicle body in an articulated manner, a first transverse link mounted on the wheel carrier in an articulated manner, and a second transverse link mounted on the wheel carrier in an articulated manner. The first transverse link and the second transverse link are coupled to one another on their side facing away from the wheel carrier by a connection member. The connection member is rotatably mounted on the vehicle body.
US11130519B1
The parallel maneuvering system is a steering system for portable devices, portable platforms and the like, allowing individual wheels to be steered in a parallel and simultaneous manner. The parallel maneuvering system includes a first coupler and a second coupler, which are slidably mounted with respect to one another, and which each include a pair of arms for eccentric pivotal attachment to a corresponding pair of wheel assemblies. The first and second couplers are mounted within a hollow chassis, and the wheel assemblies are mounted to the hollow chassis such that respective wheels thereof are mounted external to the hollow chassis, and respective eccentric crank arms thereof are mounted within the hollow chassis. At least one linear actuator may be provided for selectively driving sliding movement of the first coupler with respect to the second coupler.
US11130517B2
An energy dynamic control method for the EPS with hybrid power supply and an energy dynamic control system. Control system collects real-time current of vehicle electric appliances except the steering motor and the super-capacitor and calculates target current of the steering motor according to real-time steering torque and vehicle speed, and determines state of the super-capacitor by comparing rated current of vehicle power supply and sum of the current of vehicle electric appliances and target current of the steering motor. When super-capacitor is in the charging state, charging current is dynamically regulated to make vehicle power supply work in optimal working range, and maximum charging current is limited based on SOC of the super-capacitor. When super-capacitor is in discharging state, discharging current is dynamically regulated to make vehicle power supply work in optimal working range, and maximum discharging current is limited based on SOC of super-capacitor.
US11130513B2
A cart for connecting or attaching to a wheelchair is provided to assist a wheelchair user to more easily collect and move items, such as groceries. In certain embodiments the cart is further defined as a shopping cart.
US11130508B2
This invention relates generally to a device which utilizes a solar powered Internet of Things (IoT) technology to remotely monitor the position of railroad switches and derails and send updates by cellular signal to a database via a cloud platform. This new and novel technology allows for cost effective remote monitoring of railroad switch points and derails in dark territory without the need for wayside power or radio communication equipment. The device is also capable of being integrated with dispatch CAD (computer automated dispatch), wayside signalization, positive train control devices, automatic alert generations, active warning devices, crossing gates, as well as power assisted railroad switches.
US11130494B2
A method of transitioning from an autonomous driving mode to a manual driving mode for a vehicle is provided. The method includes comparing a steering device input angle to an autonomously controlled steering angle to determine a steering angle error. The method also includes comparing an acceleration or deceleration input to an autonomously controlled acceleration or deceleration input to determine an acceleration or deceleration error. The method further includes progressively transitioning to the manual driving mode in a weighted manner based on a confidence level factor determined by a calculation that factors in the steering angle error and the acceleration or deceleration error.
US11130493B2
Trajectory planning method for lane changing, and driver assistance system for implementing the same
A trajectory planning method for lane changing of a vehicle includes steps of: calculating a current position of a reference point of the vehicle on a preliminary lane change trajectory that is received from an LCA system of the vehicle at a current time point; based on kinematics data received from an IMU of the vehicle, calculating longitudinal and lateral displacements of the reference point moving during a unit of time from the current time point to a next time point, and a yaw angle of the vehicle at the next time point; and obtaining a calibrated lane change trajectory based on the preliminary lane change trajectory, the current position, the longitudinal and lateral displacements, and the yaw angle.
