US11147696B2
A multilayer bioresorbable stent having sustained drug delivery is disclosed herein. The bioresorbable stent releases a therapeutic substance from the body of the bioresorbable stent starting when the bioresorbable stent is implanted within an anatomical lumen and ending when the entire mass of the bioresorbable stent is no longer present within the anatomical lumen. The bioresorbable stent releases the therapeutic substance gradually during the treatment as the mass of the each layer of the bioresorbable stent erodes. Methods of making the therapeutic layers within the bioresorbable sent are further disclosed. Sustained drug delivery reduces the risk of late and very late stent thrombosis.
US11147695B2
Medical devices and methods for making and using a medical device are disclosed. An example medical device may include an implantable medical device. The implantable medical device may include a stent having a covered portion and an uncovered portion. The covered portion may be releasably attached to the uncovered portion. A cover member may be disposed along the covered portion. The uncovered portion may include a release tab that is designed to release the uncovered portion from the covered portion. A removal member may be coupled to the covered portion for aiding in the removal of the covered portion from an implantation site.
US11147694B1
A medical implant may include a structural member and a radiopaque marker. The structural member may include a first surface, a second surface disposed opposite the first surface, an opening extending from the first surface to the second surface and defining a central axis, and a plurality of barbs extending into the opening toward the central axis. The barbs may be spaced apart from one another and spaced apart from each of the first surface and the second surface. The radiopaque marker may be disposed within the opening.
US11147690B2
A revision instrument for positioning and securing an intervertebral implant in an intervertebral space between vertebrae is provided. The revision instrument includes a shaft having a body extending from a first end to a second end. A first port and a second port extend through the body of the shaft and a connection tool having a first end and second end is positioned within the first port. The connection tool extends through the first end of the shaft through the second end of the shaft. The first end of the connection tool includes a mating feature configured to couple with an expandable implant and the second end of the connection tool includes a rotation feature configured to rotate the connection tool to engage or disengage the connection tool with the expandable implant. The second port is configured to receive an expansion driver for expanding or compressing the expandable implant.
US11147689B2
An acetabular cup remover with a blade for removing tissue adjacent an acetabular cup. The blade is oscillated against an arcuate section of tissue. Once a section of tissue is cut, an indexing assembly rotates the blade. The blade is again oscillated to cut a new arcuate section of tissue.
US11147687B2
Provided is a cage for spinal surgery, in which an elastic structure having elasticity and a porous structure are combined with each other to elastically support the vertebra and increase a bone fusion rate. The cage for the spinal surgery includes an elastic structure having a plurality of leaf springs provided, respectively, on both sides of a frame, one end of which protrudes, and a porous structure coupled to the elastic structure while being elastically supported by the elastic structure, and disposed in space between neighboring vertebrae, with a plurality of bone fusion holes for bone growth being formed on a surface of the porous structure.
US11147682B2
In accordance with one aspect, a spinal implant for fusing vertebral bones is provided that includes a monolithic body for being inserted between bones. The body has a through opening of the body for receiving bone growth material and a wall of the body extending about the through opening. The wall includes nubs extending into the through opening that increase the surface area of the wall available for bone on-growth.
US11147679B2
There is disclosed a bone fixation device that can include a cage having an optional mesh portion. The bone fixation device can be configured to couple a leg portion to a foot portion of a user's body. In at least one embodiment, the device includes at least one cage having a plurality of struts forming cells. There can be an optional mesh portion having a pre-set porosity that can be either constant or variable in density. In at least one embodiment there can be a cage portion which is substantially spherical shaped. Alternatively, the device can be substantially egg shaped. In at least one embodiment there can be a central post hole for receiving a post. In another embodiment at least one plate or shaft can connect to the cage.
US11147672B2
An exemplary valve repair device for repairing a native valve of a patient includes: a strip of material; a coaption element formed from the strip of material; a pair of paddles formed from the strip of material and connected to the coaption element; a cap attached to the paddles; and a pair of extension members connected to the cap and the paddles via attachment portions. The paddles are movable between an open position and a closed position and are configured to attach to the native valve of the patient. Movement of the cap toward the coaption element causes the pair of paddles to move to the closed position, and movement of the cap away from the coaption element causes the pair of paddles to move to the open position. The extension members extend to end portions attached to the strip material. The end portions extend beyond the strip of material.
US11147670B2
An annuloplasty system is provided which comprises an annuloplasty ring assembly (2), at least one sensor (8) and an external monitor (5) or a prompting device. The annuloplasty ring assembly (2) has an interface adapted to establish an operative connection with a manipulator. The manipulator is utilized for manipulating the annuloplasty ring assembly (2). The sensor (8) is configured to detect regurgitation (13, 34). The external monitor (5) or the prompting device is adapted to provide, e.g. display, information based on the detected regurgitation (13, 34).
US11147666B2
A prosthetic heart valve includes a stent extending in a longitudinal direction, the stent being formed of a plurality of struts forming cells and having a plurality of commissure features, a collapsed condition and an expanded condition. A valve assembly may be secured to the stent, the valve assembly including a cuff and a plurality of leaflets. The cuff may be formed of a fabric and a second material different from the fabric, the cuff having commissure peaks and a plurality of midpeaks disposed between the commissure peaks. Each of the leaflets may have a free edge.
US11147665B2
Prosthetic mitral valves and their methods of manufacture and use.
US11147663B2
An intraocular lens comprising a lens optic coupled to at least one haptic and at least one deformable connecting bar positioned between the lens optic and the at least one haptic.
US11147661B2
A kink resistant stent graft includes a graft forming a tube with a central lumen extending from a first end of the tube to a second end of the tube and a stent secured to the graft adjacent the first end of the tube. The graft includes a corrugated inner graft layer forming at least a middle portion of the tube, and an outer graft layer covering the corrugated inner graft layer.
US11147650B2
Apparatus, system, and methods are provided for reducing infectious agents at a sterile site by preventing infectious agents from coming into contact with the sterile site. A barrier is produced for infectious agents that may come in proximity or otherwise communicate with the site. The apparatus is configured to create a void-free barrier in which infectious agents are reduced with minimal exposure of potentially harmful effects of the barrier to the sterile site, objects, or users of the apparatus.
US11147648B2
A medical headlamp headband assembly, having a preferred orientation relative to a wearer's head, and comprising a closed form headband, adapted to encircle a human head horizontally, thereby defining a head-facing side and having a tightness adjustment feature in a rear central location relative to a wearer's head when the headband assembly is worn in its preferred orientation. A tightness adjustment subassembly, at a central rear location, is opposed to the front location. A resiliently deformable wing-set is supported by the headstrap subassembly on the head-facing side, about the tightness adjustment subassembly and including a central part and two wings, each extending laterally outwardly from the central part. Each wing extends forward as it extends laterally from the central part, to contact the wearer's head at a rear side location, thereby holding the tightness adjustment assembly back from the wearer's head.
US11147645B2
The subject invention provides devices and methods for alleviating discomfort associated with neuroma formation. The devices and methods of the invention effectively use the body's natural response of reconstructing implanted biomaterials to minimize the size of isolate, and protect a neuroma. In preferred embodiments, the subject device is a cylindrical cap, wherein the internal chamber of the cylindrical cap physically partitions the nerve to enable an arrangement of nerve fibers (as opposed to haphazardly arranged nerve fibers often produced in neuromas). Tabs arranged on the outside of the cap can be used to manipulate the cap into place on a nerve. The open end can also be configured with flaps that can be used to widen the open end for easier insertion of the nerve into the cap. In addition, the cap's material remodels into a tissue cushion after implantation, which protects the neuroma from being stimulated and inducing pain.
US11147633B2
Described herein are systems and methods related to image management. A system may include an instrument that includes an elongate body and an imaging device. The elongate body can be configured to be inserted into a luminal network. The imaging device may be positioned at a distal tip of the elongate body. The system may receive from the imaging device one or more images captured when the elongate body is within the luminal network. For each of the images, the system may determine one or more metrics that are indicative of a reliability of an image for localization of the distal tip of the elongate body within the luminal network. The system may determine a reliability threshold value for each of the one or more metrics. The system can utilize the one or more images based on whether the one or more metrics meet corresponding reliability threshold values.
US11147631B2
Disclosed are systems, devices, and methods for performing treatment along a lumen network, an exemplary method comprising receiving image data of a patient's lungs, mapping one or more luminal networks inside the patient's lungs based on the received image data, identifying a treatment target in the image data, determining a luminal pathway to the treatment target via at least one of the luminal networks, configuring treatment parameters for treatment of the treatment target and at least one of the luminal networks, navigating a tool inside at least one of the luminal networks to the treatment target, treating the treatment target with a primary treatment modality, and treating the luminal pathway of at least one of the luminal networks leading to or from the treatment target with a secondary treatment modality.
US11147627B2
A computer process including receiving first patient bone data of a patient leg and foot in a first pose, the first pose comprising a position and orientation of the patient leg relative to the patient foot as defined in the first patient bone data. The computer process may further include receiving second patient bone data of the patient leg and foot in a second pose, the second pose comprising a position and orientation of the patient leg relative to the patient foot as defined in the second patient bone data. The computer process may further include generating a 3D bone model of the patient leg and foot. Finally, the computer process may include modifying the 3D bone model of the patient leg and foot such that the plurality of 3D bone models are reoriented into a third pose that matches the second pose.
US11147626B2
Systems and methods facilitate the planning and performance of hip and other surgeries. A computer model of a hip may be generated and displayed. A template of a hip component that replaces a native portion of the hip may be superimposed on the model. Changes in leg length, offset, or anterior-posterior (AP) position as well as a virtual distance between a landmark on the model and a location on the template may be determined. During surgery, a physical distance corresponding to the virtual distance may be obtained. The template may be moved relative to the model to match the physical distance, and new change values in leg length, offset, or anterior-posterior (AP) position may be determined. The new change values may be evaluated, and the surgery may proceed, or the process may be repeated using templates corresponding to alternative components.
US11147623B2
An apparatus for treatment of soft tissue includes a source of radiation, a handpiece which is adapted to transmit radiation emitted from the source of radiation to a region of soft tissue, resulting in irradiated soft tissue, said handpiece being positioned adjacent to or in contact with said soft tissue region, a grid element adapted to hold at least one temperature sensor in contact with or embedded in said region of soft tissue, and a microprocessor, which converts a signal from the at least one temperature sensor into a measure of damage produced in at least two components of the irradiated soft tissue, said components comprising at least one normal tissue component and at least one malignant, hypertrophic, diseased, or unwanted component.
US11147615B2
An electrode unit for a medical resectoscope for the electrosurgical resection of tissue in a fluid-filled cavity in a patient includes an elongated rod-shaped electrode shaft which on its distal end has an electrode support and a cutting electrode that is fastened to the electrode support and may be acted on by alternating current. A spatula element that is designed for supporting tissue and that extends distally beyond the cutting electrode is situated on the electrode support, the spatula element having two support flanks that extend distally on both sides of the cutting electrode to form outer edges of the spatula element, at least one of the support flanks having an inwardly directed indentation to form a constriction in the area of the cutting electrode.
US11147614B2
A method and apparatus are disclosed for providing forward fluid delivery through an energy delivery device that avoids coring when it delivers energy to a tissue. The device has a distal face defining an opening, with the distal face including at least one electrically exposed portion and at least one electrically insulated portion. An embodiment of the energy delivery device includes an elongate member defining a lumen structured to receive a fluid, and a distal face defining an aperture in communication with the lumen. The distal face includes an electrically exposed conductive portion and an electrically insulated portion. The electrically exposed conductive portion is configured such that the energy it delivers while the energy delivery device is advanced into a tissue punctures the tissue without the tissue substantially occluding the lumen and without creating embolic particles.
US11147609B2
A cordless surgical knife comprises an enclosure and a blade extending from the enclosure. The enclosure contains a differential amplifier circuit configured to provide an RF signal, an output monitor feedback circuit, a return monitor feedback circuit, and a microprocessor that receives data from the feedback circuits and adjusts the RF signal. The enclosure contains a receiving antenna that is operable to receive a wireless signal associated with the RF signal from tissue of a patient. A transmitting antenna may be in electrical contact with tissue of the patient and transmit the wireless signal. Optionally, both the receiving antenna and transmitting antenna include at least two separate inductive circuits aligned on different planes, or each of the receiving antenna and the transmitting antennas is encapsulated inside an enclosure floating in a liquid so that the antennas are aligned by gravity.
US11147608B2
The invention relates to a medical probe signal generator. More particularly, it relates to a medical probe signal generator architecture. The present invention further relates to a system including a medical probe signal generator having an automatic probe type detector for detecting an identifier and at least one instrument cable comprising the identifier.
US11147604B2
A device and method for stabilizing a broken bone while it heals is disclosed. The device preferably has a (a) first (or proximal) section with a driving head, threads and a first diameter, and (b) second (or distal) section that is threaded and has a second diameter. The first section is preferably greater in diameter than the second section so that greater torque can be applied to tighten the device. The device may include one or more self-tapping structures to lessen the torque required to screw it into a bone.
US11147597B2
A hinged bone screw and tool set is used for implanting such bone screws in a human spine, followed by the implantation of a longitudinal connecting member into the bone screws. The hinged bone screw includes a shank with an upper portion and a receiver with integral arms forming a U-shaped channel. A lower curved seat partially defining the U-shaped channel cooperates with an upper portion of the bone screw shank for hinged movement of the shank with respect to the receiver. The tool set includes an insertion tool, a bone screw driver, a reduction tool and a closure starter. The insertion tool includes a bone screw attachment structure and a laterally opening channel. The insertion tool further includes a threaded portion for cooperation with the reduction tool to provide synchronized placement of a closure structure in the bone screw receiver while reducing and capturing a longitudinal connecting member within the receiver. Further alternative bone screws are hinged, polyaxial or fixed and include lordosing or kyphosing lateral surfaces.
US11147595B2
A surgical implant includes a first portion and a second portion. The first portion includes a body and connector assemblies. The body includes a posterior surface and defines a first bore defining an acute angle with respect to a first axis that is orthogonal to the posterior surface. The connector assemblies are disposed on opposing lateral sides of the body. Each connector assembly is selectively rotatable relative to the body. The second portion includes a base extending in a cephalad direction from the first portion, and an extension extending in the cephalad direction from the base. The base defines second bores configured to receive respective bone screws. The extension defines a third bore. The first bore of the body and the third bore of the extension define a second axis. The second bores are defined along a third axis orthogonal to the second axis.
US11147592B2
A pivotal bone anchor assembly includes a receiver having a first channel configured to receive an elongate rod and an axial bore with a bottom opening, and a shank having a head portion positionable into the axial bore with the shank extending downward through the bottom opening. The assembly also includes an insert positionable into the axial bore above the head portion and having a second channel alignable with the first channel, opposite extensions extending outwardly in the direction of the channels to block rotation between the receiver and the insert, and upward-facing surfaces located radially outward from a central opening. The upward-facing surfaces are configured for releasable compressive engagement by a compressing tool after the elongate rod is received within the channels and prior to a final locking of the assembly with a closure top, so as to provisionally lock the shank from pivoting with respect to the receiver.
US11147584B2
A method, apparatus, and system for cutting anatomic members, such as ligaments, in surgical procedures such as carpal tunnel release, plantar fasciotomy, gastroc release, and cubital and tarsal tunnel release. The apparatus includes a guide tool for guiding a knife and a scope during surgery which may be employed with a translating knife. Relevant features include a knife stop for preventing the knife from inadvertently raising out of the knife channel, indicia viewable to show the proper orientation for the guide tool, a self dilating tip and channel design on the guide tool, a cover piece and/or pivotable panel system for preventing ligaments and other anatomy from getting caught in the guide tool, a pivot pin and groove system for stabilizing the knife and also assuring that the knife blade is not inadvertently raised out of the channel, and a use indicator employable to prevent re-use of the device.
US11147583B2
An occlusion crossing device includes an outer shaft, an inner shaft, an optical fiber, and a handle attached to the inner shaft and the outer shaft. The inner shaft extends within the outer shaft. The inner shaft includes a drill tip at a distal end thereof. The optical fiber extends within the inner shaft substantially along a central axis of the inner shaft. The distal tip of the optical fiber is attached to the drill tip. The handle is configured to rotate the inner shaft and drill tip at speeds of greater than 500 rpm.
US11147578B2
The present invention is directed to a method of endoscopically ablating/resecting/excluding (A/R/E) the mucosa of the gastric fundus and body. The method of the present invention is intended to cause cellular death to the X/A-like, ghrelin producing and other hormone cells. This is in contrast to present methods to provide only transient ischemia. The use of the method of the present invention results in a more permanent and robust method of reducing ghrelin and other hormone levels. In addition, a method according to the present invention can be used to induce scarring of the gastric fundus which will reduce gastric accommodation of excess food and result in early satiety.
US11147567B2
Instrumentation sets and methods for preparing and implanting an osteochondral allograft to a bone lesion. Instrumentation sets include a pair of guide blocks, a recipient guide block and an allograft guide block, for preparing a cavity at the bone lesion matched by a similarly sized and shaped allograft. Guide blocks provide simple and direct techniques for preparing a matching cavity, formed at the bone lesion, to a bone implant, to be secured within the cavity. Methods include use of the instrumentation to restore bone surfaces for any number of sites using any allograft source. In some cases, the bone lesion is in a humeral head and the allograft source is a talus.
US11147561B2
A reload assembly a shell housing, a staple cartridge, a pusher assembly, a knife carrier, an annular knife, and a spring clip. The shell housing includes an inner housing portion that defines a central bore. The knife carrier includes a body defining a longitudinal axis and a cutout and is movable within the shell housing between advanced and retracted positions. The spring clip is supported on the inner housing portion of the shell housing and has a locking tang and an engagement portion. The spring clip is movable from a first position in which the locking tang is received within the cutout of the knife carrier to obstruct advancement of the knife carrier to a second position in which the locking tang is removed from the cutout of the knife carrier.
US11147557B1
An applicator for applying a surgical clip to a patient's tissue has a frame assembly with an applicator tube having a distal end configured to releasably receive the surgical clip. The applicator has a surgical-clip opening assembly including a clip-opening trigger, a clip-opening rod disposed in the applicator tube and a clip-opening jaw. Activation of the clip-opening trigger displaces the clip-opening rod proximally opening the clip-opening jaw. A surgical-clip closing assembly has a clip-closing trigger, a clip-closing rod disposed in the applicator tube and a clip-closing beam. Activation of the clip-closing trigger displaces the clip-closing rod distally closing the clip-opening jaw. A surgical-clip ejection assembly has a clip ejection knob, a clip-ejection rod disposed in the applicator tube and a clip ejection beam. Activation of the clip-ejection knob ejects the surgical clip. The clip-opening trigger, clip-closing trigger and clip ejection knob are independently activatable.
US11147553B2
An end effector assembly for use with a surgical instrument is disclosed. The end effector assembly comprises a first jaw defining a channel therein, a second jaw, and a threaded rod extending within the channel. The end effector assembly further comprises a replaceable staple cartridge comprising a sled, wherein the replaceable staple cartridge is configured to be seated in the channel, and a firing member operably engaged with the threaded rod, wherein the sled and the firing member are configured to move from a proximal position toward a distal position when the threaded rod is rotated in a first direction.
US11147547B2
A surgical stapler comprising stored or storable staple cartridges is disclosed. The staple cartridges can have different unfired sizes. In at least one instance, a first stored staple cartridge comprises first staples having a first unfired height and a second stored staple cartridge comprises second staples having a second unfired height which is different than the first unfired height.
US11147527B2
There is provided a method and system for filling micromechanical structures with x-ray absorbing material. The method includes providing a wetting layer for enabling melted x-ray absorbing material to flow over the surface of an overall structure including the micromechanical structures, melting the x-ray absorbing material, and applying gas pressure to press the melted x-ray absorbing material into the micromechanical structures.
US11147524B2
Various embodiments of medical detector systems as well as their methods of operation are disclosed. In one embodiment, one or more detectors are coupled to wearable structures for detecting at least a first tracer within a body portion. In another embodiment, one or more detectors are coupled to a wearable structure, where the detector corresponds to a CMOS chip that directly detects a first radioactive tracer.
US11147523B2
A PET imaging device for observing a brain includes a hollow three-dimensional structure with a shape capable of housing a head. The PET imaging device comprising multiple independent gamma ray detection modules that together form a structure capable of surrounding the head, said detection modules comprise continuous scintillation crystal blocks, wherein “continuous” means that the crystal blocks can be continuous in one or in two directions, each of the continuous scintillation crystal blocks has a polygonal main cross-section, and said structure is an elongated structure having a major axis in a direction corresponding to the front-nape direction and a shorter axis in a direction corresponding to a straight line joining ears on the head. The continuous scintillation crystal blocks are positioned adjacent to fit laterally in an exact manner with each other throughout their entire thickness, building a mosaic, without gaps between adjacent crystal blocks and without overlapping each other.
US11147521B2
An apparatus for health care which guides a user to measure a target component. According to one embodiment, the apparatus for health care may include a physiological information acquirer configured to acquire physiological information related to a target component and a processor configured to monitor a measurement event of the target component based on the acquired physiological information and guide a user to measure the target component based on a monitoring result.
US11147519B2
Imperfect RF pulses in a multi-spin-echo (MSE) sequence disturb prediction of relaxation times. Provided are a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) apparatus and method of operating the same, whereby a characteristic parameter value may be acquired from MR signal data via training using an artificial neural network (ANN) and a parametric map may be generated based on the acquired characteristic parameter value. The ANN may be trained to compensate for imperfect RF pulses while providing reduced computation times to produce an output image.
US11147516B2
The exemplified methods and systems described herein facilitate the quantification and/or removal of asynchronous noise, such as muscle artifact noise contamination, to more accurately assess complex nonlinear variabilities in quasi-periodic biophysical-signal systems such as those in acquired cardiac signals, brain signals, etc.
US11147509B2
A method for customizing a mounted sensing device including a first set of similar or identical sensors having different location and/or orientation, each sensor configured to measure at least one first parameter relating to a wearer of the mounted sensing device, the method including: a sensor selecting during which at least one of the sensors is selected to be used to measure the at least one first parameter, wherein the at least one selected sensor is selected among the first set of similar or identical sensors based on wearer data indicative of morphology of the wearer, and based on their respective location and/or orientation such that the selected at least one sensor is a most appropriate for the wearer and/or for measuring the at least one first parameter.
US11147508B2
Utilizing a computing device to generate a personalized maternal nutrition plan for a pregnant mother. The computing device receives real-time maternal physiological data, fetal physiological data, and real-time environmental data associated with the pregnant mother. A real-time relationship is established. The real-time relationship is compared with historically established relationships between pregnant mothers and fetuses. The maternal physiological data is compared with pre-pregnancy data of the pregnant mother. The computing device detects one or more abnormalities in the real-time established relationship between the pregnant mother and the fetus based upon the comparison of the real-time established relationship with historically established relationships and the comparison of the maternal physiological data with pre-pregnancy data of the pregnant mother. The computing device generates a maternal nutrition plan. A notification is generated by the computing device and outputted to one or more electronic devices associated with the pregnant mother and/or one or more physicians.
US11147507B2
There is provided herein a decision support system for cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), the system comprising: a medical monitoring device configured to produce CO2 waveforms of exhaled breath of a subject undergoing CPR, and a computing unit configured to extract one or more features related to the CO2 waveforms and/or a trend thereof produced by said device, obtain one or more parameters/variables selected from a group of one or more background parameters, one or more physiological variables and one or more baseline parameters related to the subject undergoing CPR, and determine effectiveness of CPR and/or CPR outcome based at least on the one or more features and/or the trend thereof and on the one or more parameters/variables.
US11147506B2
A system and method for conducting a sleep test includes initiating a sleep test script, and providing the script to a patient. Testing hardware is shipped from a provider to the patient, and instructions are provided to the patient for connecting the testing hardware to a mobile computing device. A mobile sleep application is downloaded and installed onto the mobile computing device. The testing hardware is connected to the mobile computing device, and the sleep test is conducted using the mobile sleep application operating on the mobile computing device.
US11147496B2
A system including a catheter including multiple, spatially distributed electrodes configured to measure electrical signals of a heart, a system configured to determine a position of the electrodes at multiple, different catheter positions in the heart, and a processing unit for mapping electrical activity in the heart. The processing unit is configured to receive the measured electrical signals from each position of the multiple, different catheter positions and determine whether the measured electrical signals at the position are organized. If the measured electrical signals at the position are organized, the processing unit is configured to determine at least one of velocity vectors, cycle length, and degree of organization at the position from the measured electrical signals.
US11147480B2
Methods and devices include automated coaching for management of glucose states by receiving a user's glucose levels using a continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) device, determining a time in range (TIR) value, determining a TIR state, receiving a glucose variability (GV) value, determining a GV state, determining a starting state based on the TIR state and the GV state, determining that the starting state corresponds to a non-ideal state, generating an optimized pathway to reach an ideal state based on one or more account vectors such as addressing self-management behavior including food, activity, and medication use. The optimized pathway may further be based on computer detection and classification of significant events of interest over time.
US11147476B2
Apparatus and methods are described, including apparatus for use with a subject who shares a bed with a second person. A motion sensor detects motion of the subject and motion of the second person, and generates a motion signal in response thereto. A control unit identifies components of the motion signal that were generated in response to motion of the subject, by distinguishing between components of the motion signal that were generated in response to motion of the subject, and components of the motion signal that were generated in response to motion of the second person. The control unit analyzes the components of the motion signal that were generated in response to motion of the subject and generates an output in response thereto. Other applications are also described.
US11147475B2
The present invention relates to a device for measuring an object, comprising a winder of a measuring element arranged to form a loop about the said object, which has at least one wall and an exit opening arranged to allow the exit of at least one unwound portion of the said measuring element, which is defined between the said exit opening and a distal end of the said measuring element, which is provided with a connecting element that abuts against the said exit opening, and a connecting means being located at a distance d from the said exit opening, characterised in that the said connecting means is located on the said at least one wall, is adjacent to the said exit opening, is presented in the form of a protrusion which extends towards the said distal end, and is arranged to receive the said connecting element in a stationary manner.
US11147466B2
A system is disclosed to simultaneously acquire a magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) image and a plurality of images in which the structure of a tissue other than a blood vessel can be ascertained without performing imaging for the MRA image, and to shorten a time of MR examination. Two or more kinds of physical property dependent images obtained from a nuclear magnetic resonance signal measured in accordance with a predetermined pulse sequence under a plurality of imaging conditions are combined using a predetermined combination function. At this time, a plurality of division regions are set in the physical property dependent image, and the combination parameter satisfying a condition that a difference between a pixel value of the specific tissue and a pixel value of a tissue other than the specific tissue increases is determined at each of the division regions in the actually measured two or more kinds of physical property dependent images, using standard data of the two or more kinds of physical property dependent images, and the combination parameter is used to combine the two or more kinds of images.
US11147462B2
A method of analyzing a complex rhythm disorder in a human heart includes accessing signals from a plurality of sensors disposed spatially in relation to the heart, where the signals are associated with activations of the heart, and identifying a region of the heart having an activation trail that is rotational or radially emanating, where the activation trail is indicative of the complex rhythm disorder and is based on activation times associated with the activations of the heart.
US11147456B2
A system, particularly a photo-plethysmographic system, determines vital sign information of a subject. A marker includes a marker area such as fluorescent or luminescent pigments, that emits light towards a skin of the subject. Light reflected by the skin is encoded with information about blood in the skin. An attachment layer attaches the marker to the subject. A detector, such as an optical camera, detects radiation reflected from the skin of the subject, and an analysis processor determines the vital sign information, such as heart rate and blood oxygen (SpO2), of the subject from the detected radiation reflected from the skin of the subject.
US11147454B1
A pre-event connectome of a subject brain is accessed, the pre-event connectome defining i) first functional nodes in the subject brain and ii) first edges that represent connections between the first functional nodes before the subject has undergone an event. A post-event connectome of the subject brain is accessed, the post-event connectome defining i) second functional nodes in the subject brain and ii) second edges that represent connections between the second functional nodes after the subject has undergone the event. A connectome-difference map data is generated that records the difference between the pre-event connectome and the post-event connectome. An action is taken based on the connectome-difference map data.
US11147435B2
A suction catheter of the invention includes: a catheter main body that includes a suction passage along a longitudinal direction thereof; a control unit that is attached to an end portion of the catheter main body which is opposite to an operation portion; and an imaging unit that is attachable to and detachable from the control unit.
US11147434B2
An insertion device for a single port robotic surgery apparatus can include an insertion section with first and second camera channels and an instrument channel, the first camera channel configured to facilitate insertion and removal of a primary camera, the second camera channel configured to enclose a secondary camera, and the instrument channel configured to permit insertion and removal of a surgical instrument from the insertion section, The insertion device can include a housing attached to the insertion section, the housing including a passage configured to permit at least a portion of the primary camera to pass through the housing into the first camera channel and exit the first camera channel. The secondary camera can be configured to provide image data of a surgical site to facilitate insertion into the surgical site of at least one of the surgical instrument or the primary camera.
US11147432B2
An endoscope includes an insertion section configured to be inserted into a subject, an operation section configured to be consecutively provided on a proximal end side of the insertion section, a rigid partition wall provided inside the insertion section or inside the operation section and configured to maintain watertightness between a first space including an inside of the insertion section and a second space formed on a distal end side of the first space, and a first check valve provided in the partition wall and configured to block circulation of gas from the second space to the first space and circulate gas from the first space to the second space.
US11147423B2
A dust collector includes a housing configured to form an outer appearance of the dust collector; a cyclone formed inside the housing to cause a swirling flow to separate dust from air introduced into the housing; axial inlet type swirl tubes configured to receive air and fine dust that have passed through the cyclone, and cause a swirling flow to separate the fine dust from the air; and a mesh configured to surround an outside of the axial inlet type swirl tubes to form a boundary between the cyclone and the axial inlet type swirl tubes, wherein the axial inlet type swirl tubes are stacked in multiple stages, and the axial inlet type swirl tubes in each stage are radially arranged such that the inlet faces an inner surface of the mesh and the outlet faces the center of a region defined by the housing.
US11147421B2
A handy-stick type vacuum cleaner is disclosed. The disclosed vacuum cleaner can comprise: a first part including a dust collection unit; a second part including a suction motor and a handle; a third part for connecting the first and second parts such that the first and second parts rotate with each other; and a mode setting unit disposed inside the second part so as to selectively lock and unlock the third part, thereby setting a rotating mode enabling the first and second parts to rotate with each other and a fixing mode disabling the rotation thereof.
US11147418B2
A fryer includes a cooking chamber for holding a cooking medium at least one heating element positioned within the cooking chamber, and a chain conveyor for selectively advancing food product through the cooking chamber along a movement path. The chain conveyor includes first and second chains coupled together by a plurality of baskets extending therebetween. The movement path includes a series of legs, including a first leg wherein the food product moves substantially vertically from above the cooking medium to a greatest depth within the cooking medium and including a second leg subsequent to the first leg wherein the food product moves substantially horizontally at the greatest depth within the cooking medium. Automated filtering systems and methods for removing debris from cooking medium are also provided.
US11147411B2
Beverage preparation machine with two-liquid circuits and electronic device for controlling the same
The present invention relates to a beverage preparation machine (10) for preparing a liquid beverage from a cartridge, the machine comprising a first liquid supply circuit (13) configured for selectively providing liquid of predefined temperature and/or volume from a liquid reservoir (22) of the machine (10) to a cartridge inserted into the machine, a second liquid supply circuit (14) configured for selectively providing liquid of predefined temperature and/or volume from the liquid reservoir (22) of the machine to a liquid delivery outlet (11b) of the machine, a control unit (15) for controlling the first and second liquid supply circuit (13, 14), and a network unit (16) comprising a network interface for communication with an external electronic device (1) over a network, wherein the control unit (15) is configured to individually control the selective provision of liquid from the first and the second liquid supply circuit (13, 14) in response to information obtained via the network unit (16).
US11147406B2
An apparatus for fastening an end of a strap is provided. The apparatus comprises a workpiece, a first slit at a proximity of an edge of a first rectangle of the workpiece, a second slit at a proximity of an edge of a second rectangle of the workpiece opposite to first rectangle, a first fastening member affixed to a third rectangle of the workpiece perpendicular to the first and second rectangles, and a second fastening member affixed to a fourth rectangle of the workpiece opposite of the third rectangle. The fourth rectangle adapted to fold over so that the first fastening member and the second fastening member may engage to lock the strap. The strap may be inserted through the first slit and the second slit and its end held in position when the fastening members are engaged. In an embodiment, the strap is of a phylactery.
US11147405B2
A system that includes a cabinet and an accessory capable of being stored within a storage compartment of the cabinet. The cabinet may include a cabinet housing and a mirrored door having a ferromagnetic element. The mirrored door may include a first mirror having a reflective surface forming an outer surface of the mirrored door and a second mirror having a reflective surface forming an inner surface of the mirrored door. The ferromagnetic element may be embedded within the first and second mirrors. In an example the first ferromagnetic element may be an elongated plate formed of a ferromagnetic material. The accessory may include another ferromagnetic element that may include one or more magnets. The accessory may be sized and shaped to be capable of being stored within a storage compartment of the cabinet. The accessory may be mounted to the mirrored door by magnetic attraction between the ferromagnetic elements.
US11147404B1
A garment organizer assembly for storing garments and hats includes a pair of boxes for storing garments. Each of the boxes has a trough integrated therein for removing the garments from the boxes. Moreover, the boxes are removably attachable together having the boxes being vertically distributed. A plurality of hooks is each coupled to a respective one of the boxes to have a hat suspended thereon. A plurality of grapples is each coupled to and extends upwardly from a respective one of the boxes to engage an upper edge of a door for suspending the boxes on the door.
US11147399B2
Disclosed is a jewelry holding device for storing and displaying earrings, necklaces, bracelets, and other items of jewelry. The jewelry holder has a base from which extends a stem which supports a cover. The cover has one or more openings for storing and displaying piercing jewelry. The base of the jewelry holder is capable of releasable attachment to a storage support. The device stem optionally accommodates holding other items of jewelry such as necklaces, cuffs and bracelets. Also disclosed is a method for displaying and organizing jewelry using such a device.
US11147397B1
This document describes a wedge apparatus for retail device display. The techniques described herein provide a seamless graphic panel on an attachment surface that can be used to present any one of a plurality of different hardware devices on a complex plastic-injection molded assembly. The attachment surface of the wedge apparatus includes a single surface with a plurality of hole patterns, each usable for mounting a different hardware device for retail display. The wedge apparatus provides connection points for attachment of an interchangeable graphic panel, which includes a single hole-pattern accommodating one of the plurality of devices to be displayed. The seamless joining of the various parts of the wedge apparatus enables the graphic panel to be wrapped around the wedge apparatus without a seam being visible through the material of the graphic panel.
US11147390B2
A pocketed spring assembly comprises a plurality of parallel strings of individually pocketed springs. Each string is joined to at least one adjacent string. Each string has first and second opposed plies of fabric and a plurality of pockets formed along a length of the string by transverse seams joining the plies. At least one spring is positioned in each of the pockets. The water permeable fabric used to make at least some strings comprises warp knit polyester fabric.
US11147389B1
A temperature modulation system for a bed, blanket, or other furniture includes a fluid for moderating temperature change, a number of conduit circuits for directing the fluid through respective zones, a control unit including a thermoelectric device for modulating temperature of the fluid, and a pump. Each of the conduit circuits selectively and independently directs fluid through its respective zone in order to produce a temperature within the zone that is independent of the temperature outside the zone. The system also includes an arrangement of one or more zones in an arrangement in which the control unit is programmed to vary the zone temperature over time according to a schedule.
US11147381B2
An adjustable chair support system includes a first seat back support member spaced from a second seat back support member, and a seat back tensioning assembly extending between the first and second seat back support members, the seat back tensioning assembly includes a carrier, an adjustable tension member coupled to the carrier, and a cable, wherein the cable extends between the first and second seat back support members a plurality of times, and wherein the adjustable tension member is configured to adjust a tension of the cable.
US11147375B2
The present disclosure provides systems, components, and methods for leveling millwork. In one or more implementations, a millwork leveling device and/or kit for leveling millwork include a track, a first leveling post, and a second leveling post. The leveling posts are movably positionable along the track. The first leveling post has a first adjustable height and the second leveling post has a second adjustable height. The device and/or kit may further include a plate associated with the first leveling post, the plate having one or more through holes and attaching a finishing piece thereto.
US11147374B2
A drawer pull-out guide includes a first guide rail, a second guide rail displaceably supported relative to one another, and a running carriage having load-transmitting rolling bodies displaceably arranged between the first guide rail and the second guide rail. The running carriage includes at least two rolling bodies rotatable about a rotational axis, and the at least two rolling bodies—in a view onto a plane perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the guide rails—are arranged so as to be laterally offset to one another. Each of the at least two rolling bodies has a cylindrical form and is rotationally supported about a horizontally extending rotational axis in a mounted position of the drawer pull-out guide, the rotational axes of the at least two rolling bodies are arranged in the same running plane, and the at least two rolling bodies have the same diameter.
US11147372B2
A micro linear slide rail assembly and a slider are disclosed. The slider straddles a slide rail. A rolling member is disposed between the slide rail and the slider. The slider is linearly displaced on the slide rail by rolling of the rolling member. The slider includes a main body, a frame coupled to the main body, and two end caps connected to two opposite ends of the main body. The slider has a first unloaded track surface. The first unloaded track surface surrounds an accommodating area. A first engaging portion extends from a lower edge of the accommodating area. The frame has a second unloaded track surface. The frame is mounted to the main body through a second engaging portion to be engaged with the first engaging portion. The first unloaded track surface and the second unloaded track surface are combined to form an unloaded path.
US11147370B2
The invention relates to a rack comprising at least one longitudinal profile, which can be vertically aligned, to which retaining means can be attached, into which trays, cabinet elements or other shelf elements can be inserted, which retaining means are held in clamping fashion via clamping jaws on the longitudinal profile. The clamping jaws are attached to a first plate-shaped based body and to a second plate-shaped base body, which are arranged lying one atop the other and can be moved against each other, guided by guiding means, and as a result the clamping jaws can be tensioned against lateral surfaces of the longitudinal profile. A rotation axle of an eccentric for moving the clamping jaws is rotatably mounted in the first plate-shaped base body and the eccentric body protrudes into a recess of the second plate-shaped base body. A simply designed retaining means is thus obtained which can be easily clamped on the longitudinal profile.
US11147344B2
A running shoe includes medial and lateral eyelets arranged on the medial and lateral side in the longitudinal direction from the front foot area of the running shoe to the heel section, wherein in each case a medial eyelet and a lateral eyelet located at the same height in the longitudinal direction form an eyelet pair; reinforcing ribs are arranged on the medial and lateral side in the front foot area, wherein the reinforcing ribs are arranged at an acute rib angle to the longitudinal direction of the running shoe, and a lace having lace sections for lacing, wherein the lace is led through the eyelets in such a way that the lace sections extending from the eyelets of the first lace pair in relation to the front foot area, each run at an acute lacing angle to the longitudinal direction to at least one further eyelet closer to the heel section.
US11147340B2
A method of forming a plate for an article of footwear includes applying a first strand portion to a base layer including positioning adjacent segments of the first strand portion to form a first layer on the base layer. The adjacent segments of the first strand portion having a greater density across a width of the plate between a medial side and a lateral side at a midfoot region of the plate than at a forefoot region of the plate and at a heel region of the plate. The method also includes applying at least one of heat and pressure to the first strand portion and to the base layer to conform the first strand portion and the base layer to a predetermined shape.
US11147339B2
A cleat assembly mounting system includes a shoe sole with a curved underside portion with mounting holes. A cleat assembly for engaging a bicycle pedal is mounted to a curved underside portion of the sole. A shim between the sole and the cleat assembly has shim holes configured for alignment with the mounting holes. Each mounting hole is a slot extending in a first direction with a width less than its length. Each shim hole is a slot extending in a second direction with a width less than its length. The first and second directions are substantially orthogonal. Nut assemblies have one or more nuts for securing the cleat assembly using one or more threaded fasteners through the mounting holes and shim holes. The cleat assembly includes a spring housing, and a bottom plate configured to be secured to the shim and further configured to conformably receive the bicycle pedal.
US11147332B2
A protective helmet includes an inner cap, an outer cap and a decoupling layer capable of allowing the outer cap to rotate relative to the inner cap about any axis of rotation in the event of an impact. At least one spherical surface is completely contained in the decoupling layer. The helmet includes a fastening strap attached at two opposing points of the inner cap without any mechanical connection with the outer cap. The strap is intended to fasten the helmet to the head of the wearer. The helmet includes a fastening frame attached to the inner cap, and the strap is attached to the inner cap by the fastening frame.
US11147330B2
A headgear includes a main portion and at least one storage compartment attached to an interior surface of the main portion. The at least one storage compartment includes an anchor edge. The anchor edge is attached to the interior surface of the headgear. The at least one storage compartment may include at least one pocket and each pocket may include at least one opening.
US11147320B2
A variety of body supports are disclosed for supporting a body portion, for example, for supporting a chest in a donned configuration. In some examples, the body support includes a first support panel having one or more first tongues projecting outwardly therefrom, a second support panel having one or more second tongues projecting outwardly therefrom, a connecting section, joining the first support panel to said second support panel in longitudinal spaced relationship along an imaginary longitudinal mid-line of the body support, the first tongue and the second tongue being on opposite transverse sides of a mid-line of the body support, a first fastener and a second fastener. The body support may further include a doffed configuration in which the first support panel and the second support panel are non-contiguous with respect to one another.
US11147316B2
An aerosol generating device is provided, including a vaporiser configured to vaporise an aerosol-forming substrate; a battery connected to the vaporiser a control circuit configured to control a supply of power from the battery to the vaporiser; a memory storing a usage record of the device; and a replacement indicator configured to provide a signal to a user. The control circuit is configured to compare a measured voltage across the battery to a threshold voltage, and to generate an error signal to update the usage record if the measured voltage is less than the threshold voltage during an operation cycle. The control circuit is also configured to access the usage record and to activate the replacement indicator depending on the status of the usage record.
US11147313B2
A personal vaporizer has a hollow tube that extends from an atomizer through a tank for holding vaporization media. The hollow tube has a vapor tube portion and a filling path portion. A mouthpiece can be advanced over the hollow tube to a first position, at which the mouthpiece lumen communicates with the tank via the filling path portion. During manufacture, vaporization media can be injected into the mouthpiece lumen and will flow into the tank. After the tank is filled with vaporization media, the mouthpiece can be moved to a second position in which the tank is sealed relative to the mouthpiece lumen, but the vapor tube is unblocked so that the vapor tube communicates vapor to the mouthpiece lumen.
US11147308B2
An atomizing assembly structure is disclosed that is easy to disassemble. The atomizing assembly structure includes an atomizing sleeve, a threaded sleeve and an atomizing core. The atomizing sleeve has a lower end fixed to the threaded sleeve. The atomizing assembly structure further includes a tobacco liquid valve and a top cap. The atomizing core is arranged inside the tobacco liquid valve. The atomizing core and the tobacco liquid valve are in pluggable connection. The tobacco liquid valve has an upper end connected to the top cap through thread. The top cap covers and seals the atomizing sleeve. The atomizing assembly structure is simple in structure, easy to disassemble and regulate, convenient to clean and is leakage-proof, and thus greatly improves user experience.
US11147307B2
A smoking article includes a smokable material and a filter downstream of the smokable material. The filter comprises a capsule having a core and a breakable shell. The core has a mixture including one or more lipid compounds and one or more humectants. The lipid compounds account for 50% or more of the weight of the mixture. At least one of the one or more humectants is capable of interacting with one or more smoke constituents to reduce the concentration of the one or more smoke constituents in mainstream smoke.
US11147303B2
A juice extraction module for a juicer is provided, which includes a container formed with a juice discharge port, a sieve positioned inside of the container, a screw positioned inside of the sieve to extract juice from a material, and a lid coupled to a top end of the container and formed with a input port through which the material is input. The juice extraction module includes a crushing portion formed on a top end of the screw to be narrowed upward, the crushing portion having a crushing blade formed thereon; and a crushing processing portion connected to the input port and formed in a bottom of the lid to be concave for accommodating the crushing portion.
US11147297B2
A heating medium injector includes an injector structure defining a heating medium flow path and a product flow path. The heating medium flow path extends to a contact location, while the product flow path also extends to the contact location. The contact location comprises a location at which the heating medium flow path and product flow path merge within the injector. In a region along the product flow path, the product flow path is defined between a first flow surface and a second flow surface. The first flow surface comprises a surface of a boundary wall separating the heating medium flow path from the product flow path and the second flow surface comprises a surface of an opposing second boundary wall. The second flow surface is in substantial thermal communication with a second flow surface cooling structure.
US11147287B2
A compartmentalized water soluble beverage pod for facile beverage preparation includes a plurality of secondary shells that is coupled to a primary shell. The primary shell defines an interior space and each secondary shell defines an associated internal space. The primary shell and the plurality of secondary shells are water soluble. An associated substance, which comprises at least one of a beverage concentrate, a sweetening agent, a creamer concentrate, and a flavoring agent, is positioned in each of the interior space and the internal spaces. The primary shell and the plurality of secondary shells are configured to dissolve when positioned in water so that the associated substances are released to dissolve in the water to form a beverage.
US11147283B2
A butter is suggested, comprising or consisting of (a) a first butter phase having a fat content of less than 90% by weight, and (b) a second butter phase having a fat content of at least 90% by weight. The butter of the invention gives the baked goods unusual sensory properties.
US11147281B2
A system to illuminate fruit and/or vegetables in the food storage facility, comprising a lamp (8) and a controller (12). The lamp is operable to provide the illumination with a first light output and a second light output, the first light output having a higher intensity and at least a red-bias spectrum relative to the second light output. Further, the system comprises a controller for controlling the illumination of the fruit and/or vegetables in the food storage facility by controlling the lamp. The controller is configured to apply the illumination in a sequence comprising a period of darkness, followed by the first light output for a first period, then followed by the second light output for a second period.
US11147276B2
The present invention provides both compositions comprising Methylobacterium and compositions comprising Methylobacterium that are depleted of substances that promote growth of resident microorganisms on a tomato plant or seed. Also provided are methods for improving tomato production, methods of making the compositions, and methods of treating a tomato plant, plant part, or seed with the compositions comprising Methylobacterium.
US11147275B2
The present invention relates to trifluoromethyloxadiazoles of the formula (I), or the N-oxides, or the agriculturally useful salts thereof; to a process for preparing compounds of the formula (I); to intermediates which are useful in the preparation of compounds of the formula (I); to the use of compounds of the formula (I) for controlling phytopathogenic fungi; to a method for combating phytopathogenic harmful fungi, which process comprises treating the fungi, the plants, the soil or seeds to be protected against fungal attack, with an effective amount of at least one compound of the formula (I), or an N-oxide, or an agriculturally acceptable salt thereof; and to agrochemical compositions comprising at least one compound of the formula (I), or an N-oxide, or an agriculturally acceptable salt thereof; and to agrochemical compositions further comprising seeds.
US11147273B2
The present invention encompasses a stabilized parasiticidal granule composition comprising a macrocyclic lactone compound and an insect growth regulator. The invention also encompasses methods of making and methods of using the granule for treating, controlling or preventing parasitic infestation or parasitic infection in an animal.
US11147272B2
Pyridone compounds of formula (1) and salts thereof: wherein R1, R2, R3, X, Y1, Y2, Y3 and n are defined. The pyridone compounds can control plant diseases.
US11147251B1
Presented is a system and method via nature-inspired design and engineering to autonomously fish, sort and deliver the catch. It implements rope-less fishing via a novel variable buoyancy device and an autonomous aerial and underwater vehicle as a fishing gear carrier. Its versatile capabilities are comprised of the AI sorting capability to comply with regulations, the capability to capture renewable energy to reduce operating costs, the capability to both passively fish with bait and proactively hunt for fish and the capability to gather intelligence to find optimal fishing grounds.
US11147247B2
A system for the elimination of parasites adhered to fish. The system includes an entry and drainage area configured for the fish with parasites to enter the system, the entry and drainage area joined to an application area through which the fish with parasites pass and come into contact with curtain electrodes and/or grill electrodes. The system includes spray nozzles at least partially housed in the application area and a return chute at least partially situated below the application area to receive and channel the sprayed water. The system also includes a pump that pumps the water to the spray nozzles and an outlet through which the fish without parasites exit the system.
US11147244B2
A premixed underground ventilated henhouse includes a gable, a sidewall, a roof and a floor. An inner chamber is further provided in the middle of the henhouse. A partition is hermetically provided between the sidewall and an inner wall. An air inlet plate is provided between the two inner walls. A plurality of fans and a plurality of air inlet windows are uniformly provided on an inner roof. A plurality of wet curtains and an air vent are provided on the sidewall. Air outlet slots are uniformly provided on the inner wall. An underground exhaust bunker is provided under the floor. A vent pipe and a fan are provided on one side of the underground exhaust bunker. An air outlet is provided at an upper end of the vent pipe.
US11147242B2
An animal leash including a strap having a first end and a second end and a quick-release connector coupled to the strap. A first portion of the strap extends from the quick-release connector to the first end and a second portion of the strap extends from the quick-release connector to the second end. A locking member is coupled to the first and second portions of the strap to form a collar loop. The locking member may be alterable between: (1) a locked state in which a size of the collar loop is fixed; and (2) an unlocked state in which the size of the collar loop is adjustable.
US11147228B2
The present invention is in the field of soybean variety EC1661152, EC1661470, EC1661291, AND/OR EC1661249 breeding and development. The present invention particularly relates to the soybean variety EC1661152, EC1661470, EC1661291, AND/OR EC1661249 and its seed, cells, germplasm, plant parts, and progeny, and methods of using EC1661152, EC1661470, EC1661291, AND/OR EC1661249 in a breeding program.
US11147227B2
A novel maize variety designated X80R614 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are produced by crossing inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant by crossing hybrid maize variety X80R614 with another maize plant are disclosed. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X80R614 through backcrossing or genetic transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are described. Maize variety X80R614, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X80R614 are provided. Methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X80R614 and methods of using maize variety X80R614 are disclosed.
US11147226B2
An inbred corn line designated BSQ033 is disclosed. The invention relates to the plants and seeds of inbred corn line BSQ033 and methods for producing a corn plant by crossing inbred corn line BSQ033 with itself or with another corn plant. The invention also relates to methods for producing a corn plant containing in its genetic material one or more additional traits and to the corn plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to corn plants and plant parts derived from inbred corn line BSQ033 and to methods for producing other corn plants or plant parts derived from inbred corn line BSQ033, and to the corn plants and parts derived from those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid corn seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing inbred corn line BSQ033 or a locus conversion of BSQ033 with another corn line.
US11147222B2
The invention provides seed and plants of tomato hybrid DRTC2890 and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of tomato hybrid DRTC2890 and the parent lines thereof, and to methods for producing a tomato plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another tomato plant, such as a plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of such plants, including the fruit and gametes of such plants.
US11147212B2
Belting with longitudinal cogs that includes belting and at least two longitudinal cogs. The belting has an upper surface, a lower surface and a first edge. The at least two longitudinal cogs are attached to the upper surface of the belting proximate the first edge. Each of the longitudinal cogs is substantially parallel to the first edge. A channel is defined between the at least two longitudinal cogs.
US11147209B1
A riding lawn mower includes front and rear wheels and a frame extending therebetween. The riding lawn mower has a first portion coupled to the front wheels and a second portion coupled to the rear wheels, the first portion coupled to the second portion at a pivot point. The mower comprises a motor and battery supported by the frame and a drive mechanism configured to rotate the second portion of the base at the pivot point toward the first portion of the base, whereby a force required to lift the mower at the front wheel is reduced.
US11147207B2
A product distribution control system for an agricultural system includes a controller including a memory and a processor. The controller is configured to receive a signal indicative of an amount of product in a tank of an air cart and to automatically adjust the metering rate of the product from the tank or the tank pressurization based on the amount of product in the tank.
US11147204B2
In one aspect, a method for adjusting the down force applied to a row unit of an implement during the performance of a planting operation within a field may include receiving, by a computing device, soil composition data associated with a soil composition of soil within the field and determining a moisture content of the soil within the field. The method may also include calculating a soil plasticity factor associated with the soil within the field based on the soil composition data and the moisture content of the soil and adjusting a down force applied to at least one row unit of the implement based on the soil plasticity factor.
US11147202B2
A wheeled hand truck incorporating a footplate; a segmented retainer flange; a left pin pivotally mounting a left segment of the retainer flange and allowing sliding flange motion to a clearance elevation; a right pin pivotally mounting a right segment of the retainer flange and allowing sliding flange motion to the clearance elevation; left and right stops extending downwardly from the left and right flange segments; and left and right pairs of sockets positioned for, upon alternative motions of the left and right flange segments toward and away from the clearance elevation, and upon forward and rearward pivoting of the left and right flange segments, alternately holding the left and right flange segments at laterally and forwardly extending positions.
US11153988B1
Systems and methods for managing airflow for cooling computing devices (e.g. in a data center) in normal and cold environments are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises positioning the computing devices on a plurality of racks with air barriers to create hot and cold aisles. The computing devices may be configured in a first mode to draw in cool air the cold aisles and exhaust heated air into the hot aisles. Temperatures in the cold aisles may be periodically measured. In response to temperatures below a predetermined threshold, one or more of the cold aisles may be converted into a temporary hot aisle by adjusting ventilation openings and configuring a subset of the computing devices to temporarily draw in warm air from the temporary hot aisle.
US11153986B2
Provided is an enclosure for use in a modular storage system, the enclosure comprising a plurality of drive bays, a controller canister, an expansion canister, and a midplane connecting the drive bays to the canisters, wherein the controller canister occupies a greater volume of the enclosure than the expansion canister.
US11153982B2
A rollable structure includes an outer and an inner sliding rail. The outer sliding rail includes outer sliding blocks and outer shafts. Each of the outer shafts is fixed between any two adjacent outer sliding blocks. The inner sliding rail is movably clamped in the outer sliding rail and includes inner sliding blocks and inner shafts. Each of the inner shafts is fixed between any two adjacent inner sliding blocks. When axes of the outer shafts are aligned with axes of the inner shafts, the outer sliding blocks can rotate with the outer shafts as axes, and the inner sliding blocks can rotate with the inner shafts as axes. After the inner and the outer sliding rail move relative to each other, the axes of the inner and the outer shafts are misaligned, so that the outer and the inner sliding rail are in a plane.
US11153948B2
This disclosure describes techniques to control LED lighting systems using a circuit that includes communication, control and LED driver circuitry specific to a limited number of particular lighting functions. The circuit may communicate via a standard communication bus protocol and include feedback, protection and sensing circuitry to monitor the lighting functions and LED performance. The circuit may be small enough to be included as part of a lighting assembly, such as a vehicle headlight assembly. The included feedback and monitoring circuitry that may be physically close the driven LEDs may simplify the wiring when compared to other techniques. A configuration process for the circuit may further simplify the wiring connections, as well as reduce the development and manufacturing costs for lighting systems that may use the circuit. Limiting the lighting functions of each circuit may improve thermal management by distributing the thermal load.
US11153940B2
A household appliance device includes an integer number N of row switching elements at a row position i, wherein i is an integer number 1≤i≤N, an integer number M of column switching elements at a column position j, wherein j is an integer number 1≤j≤M, a heating matrix including at least N×M heating matrix elements having positions (i,j), with N+M>2, wherein a heating matrix element at the position (i,j) includes at least one inductor at the position (i,j) and is connected to both the i-th row switching element and the j-th column switching element. At least one switching diode connects at least one of the row switching elements or at least one of the column switching elements to at least one reference potential.
US11153939B2
The invention relates to a method for operating an induction hob (1), the induction hob (1) comprising a power circuit portion (2) with at least one switching element adapted to provide pulsed electric power to an induction coil (3) and a control entity (4) for controlling operating parameters of the switching element, the method comprising the steps of: performing a control loop with control cycles in order to detect coupling changes between the induction coil (3) and a piece of cookware, said control cycles comprising the steps of: o receiving frequency information (fcurr) and power information (Pcurr) at said control entity (4); o calculating at least one relation coefficient (Ds′, Ds″) based on said frequency information (fcurr) and said power information (Pcurr); and o comparing said relation coefficient (Ds′, Ds″) with a relation coefficient boundary, thereby de-riving a comparison result; deciding, based on the comparison result, whether to: o perform a new control cycle of said control loop or whether to o stop said control loop and said provision of pulsed electric power to the induction coil (3) and re-start said control loop after updating an operating parameter of the switching element.
US11153938B2
A cooking vessel sensor and an induction heating device including a cooking vessel sensor is provided. The cooking vessel sensor may include a cylindrical hollow body having a first receiving space defined therein; a hollow cylindrical magnetic core received in the first space and having a second receiving space defined therein; and a sensing coil wound on an outer face of the side wall by a predetermined number of winding counts. The cylindrical hollow body may have a side wall having a coil outlet defined therein, and the sensing coil may pass through the coil outlet out of the body. The cooking vessel sensor may further include a controller that applies a current to the sensing coil and determines, based on a sensing result of the cooking vessel sensor, whether the cooking vessel is inductive or has an inductive heating property.
US11153931B2
This application describes a data transmission method, a terminal device, and a network device. The method may include determining, by a medium access control (MAC) layer of a terminal device, a first MAC control element and a second MAC control element. The method may also include simultaneously transmitting, by the terminal device, the first MAC control element and the second MAC control element on different uplink transmission resources. The data transmission method, the terminal device, and the network device in embodiments of this application help to improve data transmission reliability.
US11153928B2
A terminal apparatus that communicates with a base station apparatus, the terminal apparatus including a receiver configured to receive an RRC reconfiguration message from the base station apparatus, a transmitter configured to transmit an RRC reconfiguration completion message in response to the RRC reconfiguration message to the base station apparatus, and a controller configured to generate the RRC reconfiguration completion message, wherein the RRC reconfiguration completion message is generated that includes information for identifying whether a measurement gap is necessary to measure a serving cell quality of a serving cell, based on first downlink bandwidth part (BWP) information and no second downlink BWP information or one or more pieces of second downlink BWP information of the serving cell.
US11153924B2
A method in a network node includes obtaining a first identifier associated with resuming an inactive connection between a wireless device and a network. The method further includes receiving a second identifier from the wireless device. The second identifier is either the same as the first identifier or is associated with the first identifier. The method further including determining a location indicator based on the second identifier. The location indicator indicates a location within the network from which to obtain information associated with the connection. The method further including obtaining the information associated with the connection from the location indicated by the location indicator. The method further including using the information associated with the connection to facilitate resuming the connection between the wireless device and the network.
US11153909B2
Aspects of the present disclosure provide a two-stage uplink transmission scheme. As described herein, a UE may transmit a first portion of an uplink signal to an AN, receive a first acknowledgment responsive to the first portion, and after receiving the first acknowledgement, transmit the first portion and a second portion of the uplink signal to the AN. The AN may receive a first portion of an uplink signal from UE, transmit a first acknowledgment responsive to the first portion, and after transmitting the acknowledgement, receive the first portion and a second portion of the uplink signal from the UE.
US11153902B2
A terminal is disclosed including a transceiver that transmits or receives a transport block (TB) based on a downlink control information and a processor that applies a same symbol allocation across a plurality of slots when transmission or reception of the TB is carried out over the plurality of slots. In other aspects, a radio communication method for a terminal is also disclosed.
US11153899B2
In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. The apparatus may be a UE. The UE determines that a first uplink control channel is scheduled to be transmitted in a first slot set including multiple consecutive slots and that a second uplink control channel is scheduled to be transmitted in a second slot set including one or more consecutive slots. The UE determines that the first uplink control channel and the second uplink control channel overlap in a first slot that is included in both the first slot set and the second slot set. The UE determines that a particular uplink control channel of the first uplink control channel and the second uplink control channel is to be transmitted in the first slot based on a predetermined rule. The UE transmits the particular uplink control channel in the first slot.
US11153897B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a data transmission method. The method includes: sending, by a network device, first indication information, where the first indication information includes N bits, the N bits are corresponding to M time units, the M time units are corresponding to at least one time length, a value of each bit is used to indicate whether a corresponding time unit is used to transmit data of a terminal device, M is an integer greater than or equal to 1, and N is an integer greater than or equal to 1; and sending, by the network device, downlink data in a time unit that is used to transmit the data of the terminal device, where the time unit is indicated by the N bits. Therefore, a unified time domain resource indication manner can be used in different scenarios to reduce complexity of a signaling design.
US11153892B2
In an embodiment, an AP executes a CCA protocol to determine whether to begin transmission within a DMTC window of a radio frame having first and second blocks of subframes. The AP transmits a multi-subframe DRS within the DRS subframes that is scrambled in accordance with a CSI-RS scrambling rule that determines how the second DRS subframe is to be scrambled based on whether the first DRS subframe is included among the first block of subframes or the second block of subframes. At least one UE monitors the DMTC window, and descrambles the CSI-RSs in the multi-DRS subframe based on a CSI-RS descrambling rule that determines how the second DRS subframe is to be descrambled based on whether the first DRS subframe is included among the first block of subframes or the second block of subframes.
US11153884B2
A method for transmitting system information is disclosed. A first terminal device obtains first indication information. The first terminal device, based on the first indication information, determines system information (SI) required by a second terminal device. The second terminal device communicates with a base station via the first terminal device. The first terminal device sends a message comprising target SI to the second terminal device. The target SI is some or all of the SI required by the second terminal device.
US11153873B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may determining that a first physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) candidate and a second PDCCH candidate in a control resource set (CORESET) are aligned with each other, wherein the first PDCCH candidate is a common search space (CSS) candidate and the second PDCCH candidate is a UE-specific search space (UESS) candidate; and decode downlink control information in accordance with a selected candidate, of the CSS candidate or the UESS candidate, based at least in part on a rule indicating whether the time-domain resource allocation is to be determined in accordance with the CSS candidate or the UESS candidate. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11153869B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to techniques for configuring an adaptive frame structure for wireless communications systems using unlicensed radio frequency spectrum. A base station (BS) may determine whether another device is transmitting on a channel in the unlicensed radio frequency spectrum or one or more other network conditions pertaining to the channel, determine a frame structure from a plurality of frame structures used for data communications based at least in part on the one or more network conditions, wherein each of the plurality of frame structures has a different frame duration, and communicate with a user equipment (UE) using the determined frame structure. A UE may determine a frame structure from a plurality of frame structures used for data communications, wherein each of the plurality of frame structures has a different frame duration, and communicate with a BS using the determined frame structure.
US11153863B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure describe methods and apparatuses for physical downlink control channel (PD-CCH) demodulation reference signal (DMRS) transmission and reception.
US11153857B2
Disclosed are a method for physical uplink control channel transmission/reception between a terminal and a base station in a wireless communication system, and an apparatus supporting the same. More particularly, a method for physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) transmission/reception between a terminal and a base station, disclosed herein, can reduce a peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR).
US11153854B2
A method, apparatus, and computer program for controlling allocation of control message fields in uplink transmission in a cellular telecommunication system are presented. Uplink control message fields are allocated to the resources of a physical uplink shared traffic channel according to an uplink transmission scheme selected for a user terminal. The control message fields are allocated so that transmission performance of the control messages is optimized for the selected uplink transmission scheme.
US11153853B2
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for sidelink control information indication. One apparatus includes a receiver that receives a second control information message from a remote unit over sidelink communication. Here, the second control information message is in response to the remote unit receiving one or more data processes scheduled by a first control information message from a relay unit. The apparatus also includes a processor that determines a transmission-reception pattern for the sidelink communication and generates an indicator of the determined transmission-reception pattern. The apparatus further includes a transmitter that transmits the indicator of the determined transmission-reception pattern to the remote unit in a third control information message.
US11153849B2
Disclosed herein are a method and apparatus of broadcast gateway signaling for channel bonding. The apparatus for broadcast gateway signaling includes an input formatting unit configured to generate baseband packets corresponding to channel bonding; and a stream partitioner configured to allocate the baseband packets to two or more RF channels of the channel bonding for generating an outer tunnel data stream, the outer tunnel data stream generated in different ways according to a plurality of operation modes for the channel bonding.
US11153847B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus for paging transmission and reception, SI window determination and UL carrier selection.
US11153835B2
Provided are a method for a terminal transmitting a sidelink in a wireless communication system, and a terminal using same. The method comprises: determining at least one sidelink subframe for sidelink transmission from subframes, in a set of all subframes, other than subframes having a sidelink synchronization signal (SLSS) resource configured, and reserved subframes; and transmitting the sidelink using the at least one sidelink subframe.
US11153824B1
Maintenance and monitoring of target wait time (TWT) sessions is described. An example includes establishing at least a first target wake time (TWT) session for a first station, the first TWT session having a first set of parameters defining a wake time, wake duration, and wake interval for service periods of the first TWT session; selecting the first TWT session for health status determination; selecting a check window for the health status determination and monitoring transmissions from the first station within the check window; based at least in part on the monitoring of the transmissions from the first station, calculating a first TWT session health status value for the first TWT session; and determining whether corrective action is required for the first TWT session based at least in part on the first TWT session health status value.
US11153816B2
An information transmission method and apparatus, such that a terminal device can correctly access a network. The method includes: obtaining, by a core network device, updated first network selection information of a terminal device; obtaining, by the core network device, identifier information of at least one public land mobile network (PLMN) and a correspondence between network slice selection assistance information and network selection information in the at least one PLMN; determining based on the updated first network selection information and the correspondence, target network slice selection assistance information corresponding to the at least one PLMN; and sending to the terminal device, the identifier information of the at least one PLMN and the target network slice selection assistance information corresponding to the at least one PLMN.
US11153815B2
in the context of “operator-controlled Wi-Fi” as in 3GPP TR 37,834 v12,0,0 “Study on Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN)”, both in solution2 and solution3, WLAN identifiers need to be communicated between the radio access network, RAN, and the UE. However, WLAN identifiers (e. g., SSIDs, BSSIDs, ESSIDs, HESSIDs, Realm identifiers, NAIs, PLMN identifiers, Domain Name lists, . . . ) are large (e. g., SSID may be up to 32 bytes) and cause a large overhead in the wireless interface. This problem is solved by providing an indexed listing of WLAN Identifiers and by only exchanging the indices across the wireless interface; Preferably, some WLANs may have several indices, and each index may also be used to convey the action to take by the UE.
US11153813B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for wireless communications. Network slicing may be used to provide services for a wireless device. A network slice may be used for a wireless device based on a network entity located in a home public land mobile network (PLMN) or in a visited PLMN.
US11153812B1
Provisioning site specific policies in wireless Local Area Networks (LANs) deployments may be provided. First, a master computing device may receive a discovery request and data associated with neighbor access devices learned by a first access device. Then a Radio Frequency (RF) continuity space may be determined based on the received data associated with the neighbor access devices learned by the first access device. Next, a site tag associated with the determined RF continuity space may be determined. Then the site tag associated with the determined RF continuity space may be assigned to the first access device. For the first access device, a worker computing device having the site tag may be selected.
US11153807B2
An access node (111, 112) of a cellular network transmits an identifier (502, 505) enabling selection of access information from an access information table. The access information is applicable by a radio device (10) for accessing the cellular network. Further, the access node transmits (501, 504) timing information indicating a time of a next transmission of the access information table. Depending on the timing information, the radio device (10) may decide whether to switch to another carrier frequency or to wait on a currently used carrier frequency to receive the access information table.
US11153805B2
The present disclosure relates to an access control execution method, a device, and a system, belonging to the field of wireless communication. The method includes: upon detection of a random access trigger event, acquiring an access reference value received from a base station; generating a random numerical value within a preset numerical value range, comparing the random numerical value with the access reference value; if the comparison result between the random numerical value and the access reference value satisfies a preset access control condition, executing random access process. The present disclosure can be used for improving the quality of data transmissions in a cellular network.
US11153803B2
A method of updating a number of retransmissions for a mesh node in a mesh network comprising a plurality of mesh nodes, wherein said number of retransmissions define how often said mesh node retransmits received messages within said mesh network, said method comprising the steps of receiving, by said mesh node, a number of data messages, wherein each of said data messages originates from a same source mesh node and is intended for a same destination mesh node in said mesh network, transmitting, by said mesh node, each of said number of data messages based on said number of retransmissions receiving, by said mesh node, a number of acknowledgement messages, wherein each acknowledgement message originates from said RD mesh node and acknowledges receipt of a particular data message of said first number of data messages, and updating, by said mesh node, said number of retransmissions based on said number of data messages and based on said number of acknowledgement messages. Complementary devices for performing a method according to the invention are also presented herein.
US11153793B2
Wireless communication methods, devices, and systems to reduce latency when network access (e.g., cellular network access) is barred are described. A method includes receiving, by a user equipment (UE) from an application, a request for at least one of establishment of a packet data unit (PDU) session or uplink (UL) data transfer via a previously established PDU session. The method additionally includes evaluating that access to a first network (e.g., a 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) network) is barred. The method also includes determining that the access barring time exceeds a threshold, and checking, in response to the determining, that configured policies permit the PDU session to be on a second network (e.g., a non-3GPP network). The method further includes transferring data of the PDU session in accordance with the configured policies. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.
US11153791B2
This document describes methods, devices, systems, and means for determining configurations for the exchange of configuration information during network role transitions, such as a secondary node change or a handover. A secondary base station (123) node includes a central unit (CU) (410) and one or more distributed units (DU) (420). The secondary base station node is configured to receive an addition request message including configuration information and, based on the received configuration information, determine, at the CU (410) of the secondary base station (123), whether to apply a full configuration or a delta configuration. The CU (410) generates secondary cell group information, based on cell group configuration information received from the one or more DUs (420), and send an addition response message, including the generated secondary cell group information, to a master base station (122).
US11153790B2
An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) calculates an estimated uplink interference caused by the UAV at a neighboring cell based on a downlink signal received from the neighboring cell. Based on the estimated uplink interference, the UAV monitors downlink messages transmitted from the neighboring cell. If the uplink interference experienced by the neighboring cell exceeds an interference threshold, the neighboring cell transmits a downlink message, which includes an uplink interference indicator, to the UAV. Upon receipt of the uplink interference indicator, the UAV transmits a measurement report, including the uplink interference indicator, to the serving cell. In some cases, the serving cell transmits an interface availability message and a handover command to the UAV based at least partially on the measurement report. The serving cell may maintain a mobility history for the neighboring cell, which indicates a history of uplink interference problems and/or UAV handover availability for the neighboring cell.
US11153789B2
A method is disclosed performed by a first network node (110) of a wireless communication system (100) for handling of a UE (150) connected to the first network node (110), wherein a second network node (120) of the communication system (100) has a first transmission resource (130) for wireless transmission using a first access technology and a second transmission resource (140) for wireless transmission using a second access technology. The first and the second transmission resources (130, 140) are collocated. The method comprises receiving, from the UE (150), an indication of fulfilled transmission condition for transmission from the second transmission resource (140) to the UE (150), the indication being based on a transmission quality measurement performed by the UE (150) on a wireless signal transmitted by the first transmission resource (130), and determining whether the UE (150) is to be served by the second access technology transmission resource (140) of the second network node (120). The method further comprises, sending, based on the result of the determining, an instruction to the UE (150) to prepare for receiving data in a carrier bandwidth of the second access technology, and sending an instruction to the second network node (120) to prepare for transmitting data from the second access technology transmission resource (140) at the carrier bandwidth of the second access technology.
US11153781B2
Wireless communications systems and methods related to applying variable cyclic prefix (CP) lengths to symbols within a transmission period in a wireless network are provided. A first wireless communication device identifies a first cyclic prefix (CP) configuration for a transmission period. The first wireless communication device communicates, with a second wireless communication device during the transmission period, a first communication signal including a first plurality of symbols, wherein each of the first plurality of symbols include an individually configurable CP length configured based on the first CP configuration. A first symbol of the first plurality of symbols includes a first CP length. A second symbol of the first plurality of symbols includes a second CP length that is longer than the first CP length.
US11153744B2
A core network includes a home network and a visiting network. The home network includes a first slice selector module configured to select a first slice and a first network function selection module configured to select a network function within the first slice. The visiting network includes a second slice selector module configured to communicate with the first slice selector and select a second slice, a second network function selection module configured to select a network function within the second slice, and a common core network function (CCNF) module. The CCNF module communicates with the second slice selector module to receive an identity of the first slice and an identity of the second slice, assign a temporary identifier, and transmit the temporary identifier to a user equipment.
US11153735B2
A data transmission method includes receiving, by a first terminal, a first notification message, where the first notification message notifies the first terminal that a target bicycle is in an available state. The method further includes sending, by the first terminal, a mode setting instruction to a second terminal after receiving the first notification message, where the mode setting instruction instructs the second terminal to enter a riding model. The method further includes receiving, by the second terminal, the mode setting instruction from the first terminal, and entering the riding mode.
US11153733B2
An information providing system includes a detection information acquisition unit configured to acquire a detection result of a vehicle sensor, an occupant information database configured to hold occupant information generated based on a previous detection result of the vehicle sensor, and an output controller configured to, when information relating to an occupant acquired from the detection result of the vehicle sensor conforms to the occupant information held in the occupant information database, output provided information according to the occupant information to the occupant.
US11153732B2
The present disclosure makes it possible to properly arrange mobile shop vehicles. An apparatus for determining arrangement of mobile shop vehicles comprises a controller configured to set a user of a shop group formed by the plurality of mobile shop vehicles; and determine the arrangement of the plurality of mobile shop vehicles on the basis of information that represents at least one of an attribute, a taste, and a purchase history of the user.
US11153728B2
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving current session information associated with a first user from a beacon associated with a third-party content provider, wherein the current session information indicates that a first client system of the first user is in an active wireless communication session with the beacon, accessing session information associated with one or more second users, wherein each second user is within a threshold geographical distance of the beacon, selecting one or more of the one or more second users based on the accessed session information, wherein the accessed session information associated with each of the selected second users indicates that a second client system associated with the selected second user is not in a wireless communication session with the beacon, and sending a notification referencing the selected one or more second users to the first client system.
US11153726B2
Techniques for enhancing group communication on a device are described. A method may include presenting a message in a message portion of a user interface (UI) for a group communication application executing on a first device, where the group communication application communicates messages among multiple devices. The method may further include monitoring an input component for the first device and detecting a first control directive from the input component. The first control directive may select a message displayed in the message portion of the user interface. The method may further include performing a pin operation on the selected message; and presenting the pinned message in a banner portion of the UI. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US11153725B2
A bulk notification sending method includes, in response to sending a notification for providing content through a plurality of channels, retrieving subscribers of the channels connected to the content from a sending target database including information about subscribers for each channel; in response to a retrieved subscriber being a subscriber of a first channel among the channels, storing an identification value of the retrieved subscriber in each of a first storage for storing a sending target and a second storage for a redundancy removal and processing sending of a notification to the retrieved subscriber; and in response to the retrieved subscriber not being the subscriber of the first channel, retrieving the identification value of the retrieved subscriber from the second storage and determining whether to send the notification to the retrieved subscriber depending on whether the identification value of the retrieved subscriber is stored in the second storage.
US11153719B2
A system described herein may determine location information (e.g., two-dimensional location information) associated with an asset, generate or receive a first code based on the received location information, determine height information associated with the asset; generate a second code based on the first code and the height information; and store association information associating the first asset with the second code. The system may further receive a first request for location information associated with the asset; and output, in response to the first request, the second code, thus providing three-dimensional location information for the asset in response to the request.
US11153718B2
A method and apparatus for use in a mobile device telemetry system is disclosed. The method and apparatus relate to a telematics furtherance visualization system. The system can sense mobile device remote observation misalignment risk and reconcile mobile device remote observation alignment by communicating a subsequent log of mobile device vector data for rendering a sequence of next positions in the furtherance of a mobile device. The system can also provide an adaptive rendering based upon a phase shift, a log of mobile device vector data, or predictive rendering until receipt of the next subsequent log of mobile device vector data.
US11153716B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for geolocation polling. The methods, systems, and apparatus include actions of receiving a location update from a user device of a user, determining an earliest time of arrival of the user to a home, determining, based on the earliest time of arrival, a time interval for a next location update, and providing instructions to the user device of the time interval for a next location update.
US11153704B2
An apparatus for generating an enhanced sound field description has: a sound field generator for generating at least two sound field layer descriptions indicating sound fields with respect to at least one reference location; and a meta data generator for generating meta data relating to spatial information of the sound fields, wherein the sound field descriptions and the meta data constitute the enhanced sound field description. The meta data can be a geometrical information for each layer such as a representative distance to the reference location.
US11153703B2
A specific sound source automatic adjusting method and an electronic device using the same are provided. The electronic device includes a first audio recognition unit, a first multi-sound source determination unit, a directivity analysis unit, a directional separation unit, a second audio recognition unit, a second multi-sound source determination unit and an audio adjustment unit. If the number of sound sources of the original sound signal is larger than or equal to 2, the directivity analysis unit performs a directionality analysis procedure on the original sound signal. The directional separation unit separates out at least one specific directional sub-signal from the original sound signal according to the result of directional analysis procedure. If the number of sound sources of the specific directional sub-signal is equal to 1, the audio adjustment unit performs a sound source adjustment procedure.
US11153700B2
A signal delay adjustment device for individually setting delay times of audio signals supplied to a plurality of speakers and individually delaying the audio signals supplied to the plurality of speakers with set delay times to adjust output timings of sounds among the plurality of speakers is configured to include a setting part to set a delay time applied to the audio signal for each speaker, and a delay part for individually delaying the audio signal to be supplied to the plurality of speakers based on the delay time set by the setting part. The delay part gradually changes the delay time to be applied to the audio signal over a predetermined time so that the delay time to be applied to the audio signal reaches the delay time set by the setting part over the predetermined time.
US11153698B2
An exemplary authorization system is located remotely from a hearing device that is configured to facilitate hearing by a recipient. The authorization system comprises a memory storing instructions and a processor communicatively coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to execute the instructions to: receive, from a client in communication with the hearing device, a request for the hearing device to perform an operation; determine, based on device characteristic data that is representative of one or more characteristics specific to the hearing device, that the operation is valid for the hearing device; and transmit, in response to determining that the operation is valid for the hearing device, an authorization message to the hearing device, the authorization message authorizing the hearing device to perform the operation requested by the client.
US11153685B2
The present technology relates to an audio output controller, an audio output control method, and a program that can improve sound quality. An audio output controller includes multiple speaker units installed so as to face different directions, outputs measurement sound from at least one speaker unit of the multiple speaker units, and controls a gain of the speaker unit on the basis of a reverberation characteristic when the measurement sound is measured by a microphone in a predetermined position. Measurement sound output from a speaker unit installed in another audio output controller is measured by the microphone. Alternatively, measurement sound output from an installed speaker unit is measured by the microphone. The present technology can be applied to a wireless speakers, for example.
US11153681B2
Sound direction detection devices include cylinders or other longitudinally extended structures having rotational symmetry about their longitudinal axes and multiple, rotationally equivalent resonators contained therein. Each resonator contains a microphone or other transducer that is activated when the resonator resonates.
US11153675B1
A wireless high-fidelity mesh network audio transmission system that establishes a mesh network of members devices for the transmission of an audio signal to a scalable quantity of listeners simultaneously with low latency, high definition, and individualized volume control.
US11153668B2
A quantum key distribution system is deployed in an optical fiber network transporting classical data traffic. A source of entangled photon pairs is used to generate quantum keys. Classical data traffic is typically transported over channels in the C-band. If a pair of channels for transport of quantum data is available within the C-band, then the source of entangled photon pairs is tuned to emit in a pair of channels in the C-band. If a pair of channels for transport of quantum data is not available within the C-band, then the source of entangled photon pairs is tuned to emit in a pair of channels in a combined S-band and L-band. When a periodically-poled lithium niobate waveguide pumped with a laser is used for the source of entangled photon pairs, the output spectral properties are tuned by varying the temperature of the waveguide.
US11153667B2
A wavelength selective switch (WSS) apparatus. The WSS apparatus includes: a plurality of input/output port groups; a plurality of switching lens parts; a plurality of wedge prism parts; a beam expansion part; a wavelength dispersion part; a path combining part configured to combine the groups of the plurality of light beams transmitted from the switching lens parts on the dispersion axis; an imaging optic part; and a switching unit including a plurality of surface areas corresponding to the plurality of input/output port groups, the switching unit being configured to angular displace an angle of a selected wavelength on the switching axis such that the wavelength selected from multiple wavelength channels of an input port selected independently for each of the plurality of input/output port groups is transmitted to an output port of the plurality of input/output port groups selected independently.
US11153664B2
The invention relates according to one of its embodiments to a method for encapsulating a partitioned timed media data, the partitioned timed media data comprising timed samples, at least one timed sample comprising at least one subsample. The method comprising: obtaining at least one subsample from at least one of the timed samples; creating a first track comprising the at least one obtained subsample; obtaining at least another subsample from the same one of the timed samples; creating a second track comprising said at least another obtained subsample; and generating descriptive metadata, the descriptive metadata comprising a unified descriptor comprising: a first parameter which indicates, when set to 1, that the at least one obtained subsample is a complete frame; and at least a second parameter which specifies coding dependencies between the at least one obtained subsample and the at least another obtained subsample.
US11153650B1
A method and test instrument for validating MPEG content in a CATV network, particularly one having a Remote PHY architecture.
US11153648B2
In one aspect, a method includes receiving query fingerprint data representing content received by a content-presentation device. The method also includes determining a content-transmission delay between a content-distribution system and the content-presentation device. The method also includes using at least the determined content-transmission delay as a basis to select, from among a plurality of reference fingerprint data sets, a reference fingerprint data set that corresponds with the determined content-transmission delay. The method also includes detecting a match between the query fingerprint data and at least a portion of reference fingerprint data in the selected reference fingerprint data set. The method also includes responsive to detecting the match, performing an action.
US11153642B2
The system generates a display providing condensing content for display under time constraints. In response to a selection of a program that has already started, the system retrieves information about the program. Based on this information, and information about the user, the system selects a subset of segments of the program, forming a shorter version of the content that fits within a reduced time interval, from the time of selection to a scheduled end time. Accordingly, the user is presented with the condensed version of the currently selected program by, including the important or relevant segments of the program. The system generates the condensed content by selecting segments of the program that are determined to be important to the user and that cumulatively fit with the available viewing time. The system may sort, score, or otherwise rank segment identifiers based on user profile information.
US11153637B2
Systems and methods for sharing of video footage from audio/video (A/V) recording and communication devices to smart television (TV) devices in accordance with various embodiments of the present disclosure are provided. In one embodiment, a method for playing back video footage captured by A/V recording and communication devices located in a plurality of neighborhoods, using a smart TV, is provided, the method comprising: connecting the smart TV to a neighborhood subscriber channel; subscribing to a first channel of the neighborhood subscriber channel, wherein the first channel is associated with a first neighborhood of the plurality of neighborhoods; receiving a list of available content shared with the first neighborhood, wherein the available content shared with the first neighborhood includes first image data captured using a camera of a first A/V recording and communication device; and selecting and playing back, on the smart TV, the first image data.
US11153629B2
A remote control apparatus for setting a mode according to a state of a broadcast receiving apparatus is provided. The remote control apparatus sets operation modes based on information regarding a state of a broadcast receiving apparatus received from the broadcast receiving apparatus. The operation mode of the remote control apparatus is automatically set based on information regarding a state of a broadcast receiving apparatus, so less power is consumed in the remote control apparatus.
US11153617B2
A playback device may be communicatively connected to a network device at a demonstration location. After connecting to the network device, the playback device may receive from the network device, a message indicating media content for playback by the playback device. In response to receiving the message, the playback device may play the media content, where playing the media content comprises modifying a default configuration of a demonstration mode. After receiving the message, the playback device may be disconnected from the network device. After disconnecting from the network device, the playback device may return to the default configuration of the demonstration mode.
US11153608B2
A television with an interactive portal and system and method for use of the same are disclosed. In one embodiment of the television, the television is deployed to provide an interactive portal in a hospitality establishment having multiple rooms, such as a hotel. The television is associated with a room and includes a processor, memory, tuner, panel, and audio drive disposed in an interconnected busing architecture. The television generates a default interactive portal as well as a guest-specific interactive portal, which is generated from a guest configuration profile having information including guest identification, a guest channel preference presentation, and a guest service preference presentation with guest account information. The guest configuration profile may also enable the creation of a local area wireless network with substantially the same behavior as the guest's home wireless network.
US11153599B2
Method and apparatus of using Bi-directional optical flow (BIO) for a true bi-direction predicted block are disclosed. According to one method of the present invention, the gradients are limited to a predefined bit-depth in order to reduce the computational complexity. According to another method, the data range of gradient sum and/or the difference between L0 and L1 interpolated pixels are shifted by a predefined bit-depth. The pre-defined bit-depth can be implicitly determined or signalled in a bit stream at a sequence level, picture level or slice level. The pre-defined bit-depth can also be determined dependent on input bit-depth.
US11153598B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and an apparatus for video coding. The apparatus includes processing circuitry that decodes coding information of a current block (CB) from a coded video bitstream. The coding information indicates that the CB is coded with a subblock-based affine motion model including affine parameters that are based on multiple control point motion vectors (MVs) for the CB. The processing circuitry determines, based on the coding information, whether to select a subblock characteristic for generating a prediction for a sample in an affine subblock of the CB based on a corresponding subblock MV. In response to selecting the subblock characteristic, the processing circuitry determines the subblock characteristic based on at least one of the affine parameters. The subblock characteristic indicates one of: (i) a subblock size used for generating the prediction for the sample and (ii) an interpolation filter type for the affine subblock.
US11153595B2
The present disclosure relates to motion vector determination using template matching. In particular, an initial motion vector and a template are obtained for a prediction block. Then a refinement of the initial motion vector is determined by template matching with said template in a search space. The search space is located on a position given by the initial motion vector. The template matching accesses integer sample positions within a predetermined window, the predetermined window including said search space and further integer sample positions accessible for the template matching, replaces at least one integer sample position located out of the window by at least one replacement value, each replacement value is based on at least one sample within said window, and uses the accessed integer sample position values as well as the at least one replacement value to perform the template matching.
US11153589B2
A method of decoding a bitstream comprising decoding the bitstream into color values and metadata items indicating information about adaptive post-processing operations performed by a decoder, performing high dynamic range (HDR) adaptation operations on the color values based on the metadata items, and performing fixed post-processing operations to reconstruct an HDR video from the color values, wherein the HDR adaptation operations convert color values into a format expected by the fixed post-processing operations.
US11153583B2
A video encoder or video decoder can be configured to obtain multi-layer video data that includes at least a first layer and a second layer; determine a layer identification value for the first layer and a layer identification value for the second layer, wherein the layer identification value for the second layer is higher than the layer identification value for the first layer; store decoded pictures of the first layer and decoded pictures of the second layer in a decoded picture buffer; and in response to determining that a picture of a layer is an instantaneous decoding refresh (IDR) picture, remove from the decoded picture buffer, all decoded pictures of a layer the IDR picture belongs to, while leaving in the decoded picture buffer all decoded pictures with layer identifications lower than a layer identification of the layer the IDR picture belongs to.
US11153582B2
Techniques are disclosed for the creation of multi-codec encoding profiles (or encoding ladders), which define quality and bitrate for each of the streams made available to clients for streaming a video. In particular, optimization techniques may take into account a quality rate function of each of the codecs when determining the encoding ladder. Additional considerations may include a network bandwidth distribution and/or a distribution of client types.
US11153578B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for performing computation-efficient encoding of video or image frames are disclosed. An encoder partitions a video or image frame into a plurality of sub-frame blocks. For each sub-frame block, the encoder selects a subset of the original pixel values based on one or more criteria. In a first mode, the encoder selects the corners of the sub-frame block. Then, the encoder generates encoding vectors to represent the pixels in between pairs of the selected subset of pixel values. The encoder includes the original pixel values of the selected subset in the encoded block that represents the original sub-frame block. The encoder also includes the encoding vectors in the encoded block, wherein the encoding vectors are calculated based on the color parameter differences between each pair of the selected subset of pixel values. The encoder also includes metadata specifying the encoding mode in the encoded block.
US11153574B2
The present invention provides an image encoding method and an image decoding method. The image decoding method of the present invention may comprise: obtaining intra-frame prediction information of a current block from a bitstream; inducing an intra-frame prediction mode of the current block on the basis of the intra-frame prediction information; determining a reference region for intra-frame prediction of the current block; and performing intra-frame prediction of the current block on the basis of the intra-frame prediction mode and the reference region.
US11153573B2
A method of decoding JVET video that includes receiving a bitstream indicating how a coding tree unit was partitioned into coding units, and parsing said bitstream to generate at least one predictor based on an intra prediction mode signaled in the bitstream, the intra prediction mode selected from a plurality of intra prediction modes for calculating a prediction pixel P[x,y] at coordinate x,y for the coding unit. A number of intra prediction modes available for coding the coding unit are reduced by replacing two or more non-weighted intra prediction modes by a weighted intra prediction mode.
US11153569B2
An image encoder or decoder includes circuitry and a memory coupled to the circuitry. The circuitry, in operation, predicts a first set of samples for a first partition of a current picture with one or more motion vectors including a first motion vector and predicts a second set of samples for a first portion of the first partition with one or more motion vectors from a second partition different from the first partition. The samples of the first set of samples of the first portion of the first partition and of the second set of samples of the first portion of the first partition are weighted. A motion vector for the first portion of the first partition is stored which is based on one or both of the first motion vector and the second motion vector. The first partition is encoded or decoded using at least the weighted samples of the first portion of the first partition.
US11153562B2
A method and apparatus for adaptive de-blocking filter are disclosed. One or more parameters associated with a de-blocking filter are determined. De-blocking filter using the derived parameters are then applied to reconstructed blocks. Each set of parameters is used for each picture, slice, coding tree unit (CTU) or CU (coding unit). The parameters can be signalled in VPS (video parameter set), SPS (sequence parameter set), PPS (picture parameter set), slice header, CTU (coding tree unit) or CU (coding unit) of the video bitstream. The parameters correspond to one or more values used as thresholds, clipping boundaries, or both the thresholds and clipping boundaries for the de-blocking filter. In one embodiment, the parameters for the current picture are determined using a training process using a current coded picture a previous coded picture as training data.
US11153559B2
Devices, systems and methods for encoding and decoding digital video using historical information containing coding candidates are described. In a representative aspect, a method for video processing includes maintaining one or more tables of motion candidates during a conversion between a current video block and a bitstream representation of a video including the current video block, determining that the current video block is coded using a merge mode or an Advanced Motion Vector Prediction (AMVP) mode, and performing, based on the determining, the conversion between the current video block of and the bitstream representation of the video using one or more tables of motion candidates.
US11153558B2
Devices, systems and methods for encoding and decoding digital video using historical information containing coding candidates are described. In a representative aspect, a method for video processing includes performing a conversion between a first block of video data of a video and a bitstream representation of the video. The method also includes and updating, based on a coding characteristic of the first block of video data, a table of motion candidates using motion information associated with the first block.
US11153549B2
Embodiments disclose a real-time surgery method and apparatus for displaying a stereoscopic augmented view of a patient from a static or dynamic viewpoint of the surgeon, which employs real-time three-dimensional surface reconstruction for preoperative and intraoperative image registration. Stereoscopic cameras provide real-time images of the scene including the patient. A stereoscopic video display is used by the surgeon, who sees a graphical representation of the preoperative or intraoperative images blended with the video images in a stereoscopic manner through a see-through display.
US11153548B2
There is provided a reproduction apparatus, a reproduction method, a program, and a recording medium that can prevent an unnatural change in luminance in a case where other information is displayed by being superimposed on a video. A reproduction apparatus according to an aspect of the present technology receives a video stream to which dynamic metadata including luminance information of a picture has been added, and in a case where predetermined information is superimposed and displayed on the picture, adds metadata indicated by a flag indicating the metadata used for luminance adjustment while the predetermined information is superimposed and displayed to the picture constituting the received video stream, and outputs the picture to which the metadata has been added to a display apparatus. The present technology can be applied to a Blu-ray (registered trademark) Disc player.
US11153541B2
An illuminator according to the present disclosure includes a light source section and an optical phase modulator. The light source section emits light including first and second polarization components. The optical phase modulator generates and emits first illumination light (SDR illumination light) and second illumination light (HDR illumination light) The first illumination light is used in a light intensity modulator to generate an image in a first luminance region. The second illumination light is used in the light intensity modulator to generate an image in a second luminance region The optical phase modulator emits, as the first illumination light, light of the first polarization component without performing phase modulation. The optical phase modulator performs phase modulation on light of the second polarization component on the basis of the image in the second luminance region, and emits the phase-modulated light as the second illumination light.
US11153530B2
Multi-link transportation of media, video and other data of the type having multiple layers, streams and/or encodings is contemplated. The multi-link transportation may be facilitated with a scheduler configured to schedule the various layers, streams, encodings, etc. for transportation over selectable communication links, such as based on reliability, capacity and/or other operating characteristics.
US11153529B2
A conversion method for converting luminance of a video, including a luminance value in a first luminance range, to be displayed on a display apparatus includes: acquiring a first luminance signal indicating a code value obtained by quantization of the luminance value of the video; and converting the code value indicated by the acquired first luminance signal into a second luminance value determined based on a luminance range of the display apparatus, the second luminance value being compatible with a second luminance range with a maximum value smaller than a maximum value of the first luminance range and larger than 100 nit. This provides the conversion method capable of achieving further improvement.
US11153526B2
Techniques for detecting epileptic triggers in video content by storing a first sequence of frames of a video stream in a first buffer. The technique can further comprise generating a second sequence of subframes and storing the second sequence of subframes in a second buffer. The technique can further comprise generating average intensity values for the second sequence of subframes in the second buffer and calculating intensity changes between consecutive subframes in the second sequence of subframes based on the average intensity values. The technique can further comprise determining that a number of intensity changes between consecutive subframes in the second sequence of subframes exceeds an oscillation threshold and tagging the frames in the first buffer corresponding to the subframes in the second buffer as hazardous.
US11153519B2
A defective pixel is easily identified in a solid-state imaging element that detects an address event. An address event detecting unit detects, as an address event, a fact that an absolute value of a change amount of luminance exceeds a predetermined threshold value with regard to each of a plurality of pixels, and outputs a detection signal indicating a result of the detection. A detection frequency acquisition unit acquires a detection frequency of the address event with regard to each of the plurality of pixels. A defective pixel identification unit identifies, on the basis of a statistic of the detection frequency, a defective pixel where an abnormality has occurred among the plurality of pixels.
US11153517B2
A dynamic vision sensor device includes a photo detector that outputs a detection signal based on light incident from outside, a log amplifier that receives the detection signal from the photo detector through a first node, amplifies the received detection signal, and outputs the amplified detection signal to a second node, a differencing amplifier that outputs a difference signal based on a change in an intensity of the amplified detection signal, and an event determination circuit that determines an event based on the difference signal. The log amplifier includes a first buffer connected between the first node and a third node, an amplifier connected between the third node and the second node, and a feedback circuit connected between the second node and the first node.
US11153516B2
An image capture apparatus comprises an image sensor and a control circuit that controls operations of the image sensor. The control circuit, in a case where a still image shooting instruction is input during moving image shooting that uses the image sensor, performs a first shot of still image shooting using the image sensor upon a time determined in advance elapsing from input of the shooting instruction, and, in a case where the shooting instruction is continuously input, controls the image sensor to perform still image shooting of a second shot onward during a blanking time period of the moving image shooting.
US11153513B2
A device comprises a first camera, wherein the first camera includes one or more photosensors configured to detect visible light passing, in a first direction, through a first surface. The device further includes a light source configured to emit infrared (IR) light, in a second direction opposite the first direction, through the first surface. The device also includes a second camera configured to detect reflections of the IR light.
US11153509B2
A distribution assistance apparatus and a distribution assistance method are provided. An input and output IF mixes a sound input from an HS microphone or a built-in microphone with a sound signal of distribution data received from a portable terminal and outputs the sound. Even when an addition process or an effect is applied to distribution data in the portable terminal, a sound input from the HS microphone or the built-in microphone can be output through a monitor at that point in time without causing a latency.
US11153506B2
An image processing device including a first lens, a second lens disposed on one side of the first lens, a third lens disposed on the other side of the first lens, a first image sensor which receives an input of a first image obtained from the first lens to generate a first image signal, a second image sensor which receives an input of a second image obtained from the second lens to generate a second image signal, a third image sensor which receives an input of a third image obtained from the third lens to generate a third image signal, a selector which receives the input of the second image signal and the third image signal, outputs the second image signal under a first condition, and outputs the third image signal, under a second condition different from the first condition and an image processor which performs image processing, using the first image signal and an output signal of the selector.
US11153504B2
Example systems and methods for controlling an illumination source are described. An example apparatus for controlling an illumination source may include a memory and a processor implemented in circuitry and coupled to the memory. The processor may be configured to process a first frame captured by a video capture device when an illumination source is active, process a second frame captured by the video capture device when the illumination source is inactive, and compare the first frame and the second frame. The processor may also be configured to instruct the illumination source to be active or inactive, based on the comparison, for capture of a third frame by the video capture device.
US11153494B2
In the method, a first pair of coordinates of a maximum temperature point in an image sensed by an infrared camera is acquired, where the image is an image captured by the infrared camera. A rotation angle of a gimbal equipped with the infrared camera is then determined according to the first pair of coordinates of the maximum temperature point and a pair of coordinates of a target position in the image. The gimbal is then controlled to rotate according to the determined rotation angle, so as to adjust the maximum temperature point in the image captured by the infrared camera to be located at the target position.
US11153491B2
The electronic device according to an embodiment includes: a camera; a display; a memory storing one or more instructions; and a processor configured to execute the one or more instructions stored in the memory to: determine a size of a wall surface to be photographed to be output to an image display apparatus; control the display to display, on a preview image, a guideline indicating a region corresponding to the size of the wall surface to be photographed, based on a distance between the electronic device and the wall surface; control the camera to capture an image indicating the wall surface, based on the output guideline; and transmit the captured image to the image display apparatus such that the captured image is output to the image display apparatus.
US11153489B2
Visual content may be captured by an image capture device during a capture duration. The rotational positions of the image capture device may change during the capture duration. The rotational positions of the image capture device may be smoothed based on a look ahead of a rotation constraint. A punchout of the visual content may be determined based on the smoothed rotational positions. The punchout of the visual content may be used to generate stabilized visual content.
US11153483B2
A method for monitoring a shelf includes the steps of moving a camera with multiple focus capability alongside a shelf. A series of shelf images are captured by the camera, with images of at least two different focal lengths being captured. Images having the same focal length can be merged to form at least two panoramic images suitable for further evaluation or review.
US11153482B2
Methods and systems of compression mapping for digital omnidirectional images are disclosed. A digital omnidirectional image may be captured and computationally resampled image in accordance with a reducing map. Such resampling may reduce the pixel density in image regions of non-interest and/or increase the pixel density in image regions of interest. Such resampled image may subsequently be compressed for transmission and other processing, which may further be based on the reducing map.
US11153481B2
Systems and methods for capturing and transforming wide-angle video information are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: guide light to an image sensor by a fisheye lens; capture wide-angled video information having a horizontal angle-of-view of 200 degrees or more and a vertical angle-of-view of 180 degrees or more; select a portion of the captured wide-angled video information; transform the selected portion into a rectilinear projection that represents the video sequence; and transform the rectilinear projection into a viewable video sequence that has a format suitable for playback in a virtual reality headset.
US11153479B2
There is provided an image processing apparatus. A determination unit determines a movement direction of an object. A setting unit sets, within a shooting range, a plurality of processing areas that are arranged in a different direction from the movement direction. A selection unit selects a tracking point in each processing area of a predetermined shot image. A tracking unit tracks, inside each processing area, the tracking point across one or more shot images that are shot after the predetermined shot image.
US11153478B2
An image processing device includes: an image sensor; a data buffer; an imaging interface part configured to read image data from the image sensor, generate an imaging signal, and write the generated imaging signal to the data buffer; an imaging processor configured to read out the imaging signal written in the data buffer and perform image processing; a synchronization signal generator configured to generate a synchronization signal synchronized with the image sensor; and a clock frequency controller configured to control a clock frequency of a clock input to the imaging processor on the basis of the synchronization signal, wherein the clock frequency controller is configured to change the clock frequency after a start of a valid period of the synchronization signal.
US11153474B2
Provided is a method and system including at least one imaging device disposed within an area to be monitored, and configured to capture one or more images and video segments of the area; a computing device in communication with the imaging device, that transmits and receive data to and from the at least one imaging device, performs video analytics to detect objects, compares between different video segments (i.e., frames) and still images within a plurality of time lapse periods of the area to be monitored, and selects different video segments and still images to be captured of the area, by the at least one imaging device, and parameters to determine the video analytics to be performed, based on the results of the comparison.
US11153472B2
A system and method is disclosed for enabling user friendly interaction with a camera system. Specifically, the inventive system and method has several aspects to improve the interaction with a camera system, including voice recognition, gaze tracking, touch sensitive inputs and others. The voice recognition unit is operable for, among other things, receiving multiple different voice commands, recognizing the vocal commands, associating the different voice commands to one camera command and controlling at least some aspect of the digital camera operation in response to these voice commands. The gaze tracking unit is operable for, among other things, determining the location on the viewfinder image that the user is gazing upon. One aspect of the touch sensitive inputs provides that the touch sensitive pad is mouse-like and is operable for, among other things, receiving user touch inputs to control at least some aspect of the camera operation. Another aspect of the disclosed invention provides for gesture recognition to be used to interface with and control the camera system.
US11153449B2
A display processor of a controller extracts data such as images and characters from display data stored in a storage based on setting information stored in the storage, and displays a document orientation instructing pane and a 90-degree rotation operation icon in a document image operating pane on a display device. The display processor also displays a print preview image based on the document image data. When a rotation operation is performed through the 90-degree rotation operation icon, the document image data is also subjected to the same rotation process.
US11153431B2
A mobile terminal and a method of operating the mobile terminal are provided. The mobile terminal includes a sensor configured to sense a motion of the mobile terminal, and a communication interface configured to receive, from a wearable device corresponding to the mobile terminal, information of a motion of the wearable device, the motion of the wearable device being sensed during a time period from a start time requested by the mobile terminal. The mobile terminal further includes a controller configured to determine whether the motion of the mobile terminal and the motion of the wearable device have a correlation of a level or greater, and unlock the mobile terminal, in response to the controller determining that the motion of the mobile terminal and the motion of the wearable device have the correlation of the level or greater.
US11153425B2
A system and method embodying the invention utilizes voice applications that are performed by voice applications agents resident on user local devices to deliver messages to the users. The voice applications can also be used to collect information from the users. Also, voice applications can be used to allow users to purchase goods and services. Voice applications for these purposes could be customized to take into account the individual characteristics of the users.
US11153422B2
A fixing structure for a plate-shaped member is configured such that before the plate-shaped member and a case are fastened together with the screw in a fastening region composed at least of a first extremity and a screw mount, the plate-shaped member and the screw mount form an interval. The interval includes a first interval adjacent to the middle of the case, and a second interval adjacent to the outside of the case. The first interval is larger than the second interval.
US11153420B2
Techniques for implementing neighbor equivalence groups on a network device are provided, where a neighbor equivalence group is a group of peers of the network device that communicate identical control plane state information for a given network protocol to the network device. In the context of Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), these techniques can include (1) creating, by the network device, a neighbor equivalence group for a set of BGP peers that advertise the same BGP paths to the device, (2) maintaining, by the network device, a single path database for the neighbor equivalence group (rather than one path database for each BGP peer in the group), and (3) immediately processing by the network device, BGP path update/withdrawal messages received from any of the BGP peers in the group against the single path database, without waiting for the same message to be received from every peer.
US11153408B1
Techniques are disclosed relating to managing dependencies between shared data objects in a database system. In various embodiments, a data storage system may maintain a function cache that is operable to store functions that are accessible to one or more applications hosted by a server system. In response to a request to invalidate a first data type utilized by one or more of these functions, various embodiments may include accessing an inverted index that specifies a mapping between data types and corresponding functions, stored in the function cache, which depend on those data types. Using the inverted index, various embodiments include identifying a set of functions that depend on the first data type and invalidating the set of functions in the function cache such that the set of functions are no longer accessible by the applications.
US11153396B2
Methods, systems, and storage media for identifying a sequence of events and participants for record objects are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: access record objects of a system of record; identify a subset of record objects associated with a group entity and having a first record object status; identify one or more electronic activities linked to the record objects; determine an event-participant pattern based on the electronic activities linked to the record object; identify electronic activities linked with a second record object; determine that a first event is performed by the a participant type and a second event is not yet performed by a second participant type; generate a content item identifying an action to trigger a performance of the second event; and transmit the content item to a device of a participant of at least one electronic activity linked with the second record object.
US11153395B2
A network system managing an on-demand service within a geographic region can receive, over a network, multi-user request data corresponding to a request for service for a plurality of users. The request data can indicate one or more start locations, a plurality of users, and one or more service locations. In response to receiving the request data, the network system can select a set of service providers from a plurality of candidate service providers in the geographic region to provide the requested service. The service providers can be selected based on optimizations of one or more service parameters including estimated fares for the plurality of users, ETAs to the start location, ETAs to the service locations, etc. The network system can further determine routes for the set of service providers from their respective locations to the start or service location(s) and from the start or service location(s) to the respective start or service location(s).
US11153385B2
A technique for transferring data over a network leverages a standard NAS (Network Attached Storage) protocol to augment its inherent file-copying ability with fingerprint matching, enabling the NAS protocol to limit its data copying over the network to unique data segments while avoiding copying of redundant data segments.
US11153382B2
A multi-system dispersed storage network (DSN) comprises a first DSN system that includes a first plurality of storage units, a first plurality of dispersed storage (DS) processing units and a first set of management units and a second DSN system that includes a second plurality of storage units, a second plurality of DS processing units and a second set of management units. The first set of management units manages a first set of configuration data of the first DSN system. A first management unit of the second set of management units, when, in a first mode, manages at least a first configuration data of the first set of configuration data, in a second mode, manages at least a first configuration data of the second set of configuration data, and in a third mode, manages at least the first configuration data of the first and second sets of configuration data.
US11153378B2
Method, device and scheduling server for network resource acquisition are provided. The method includes acquiring an initial delivery strategy, the initial delivery strategy including an IP address of at least one CDN node and a quantity of links established with each of the CDN node; according to the initial delivery strategy, determining a size of fragment content corresponding to each of the links that are established with each of the CDN node and an order of use of each of the links; acquiring the fragment content of a corresponding size by sequentially using each of the links according to the order of use; and when a link has completed acquiring the fragment content, sending a fragment request for acquiring the next fragment content to-be-acquired by using the link.
US11153374B1
A cloud computing system receives a plurality of requests originating from a plurality of tenants. Thereafter, a load balancer forming part of the cloud computing system dispatches each request to one of a plurality of groups of servers based on a group mapping table configured to optimize a cache hit ratio. Each group of servers includes a plurality of servers dispatching each request to one of the plurality of servers within each group of servers. The cloud computing system provides responses to the requests to the respective tenants as generated by the respective servers within the respective groups of servers. The group mapping table can be generated by monitoring historical request statistics for each of the tenants, monitoring current resource consumption by the plurality of groups of servers when handling requests from the tenants, and associating each tenant with one of the groups of servers based on such monitoring.
US11153373B2
A method and system for performance-driven load shifting. Specifically, the method and system disclosed herein entail transferring user program workloads, for processing, between local computing resources available on a client device and cloud computing resources available on an offload domain based on the assessed performance score of the client device at any given point in time. Seamless load shifting is further guaranteed due substantively to the employment of a mobile network facilitating communications between the client device and the offload domain.
US11153364B1
Systems and methods for embedding remote applications into HyperText Markup Language (HTML) pages. An example method comprises: identifying, within a HTML page rendered by a browser, a frame referencing a remote application; determining at least one of: a size of a window for rendering output of the remote application on a virtual desktop produced by a virtual execution environment running the remote application or a position of the window on the virtual desktop; causing a remote access session to be established with the virtual execution environment; transmitting a first message specifying at least one of: the size of the window on the virtual desktop or the position of the window on the virtual desktop; and causing the frame to be displayed within the HTML page by the browser for rendering output of the remote application.
US11153361B2
Embodiments include method, systems and computer program products for addressing packet loss over a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) network using phonemic restoration. The method includes receiving, by a processor, a plurality of data packets associated with a VoIP call. The processor further determines that one or more of the plurality of data packets have been lost or discarded. The processor further inserts, a sound into the VoIP call in response to the one or more of the plurality of data packets being lost or discarded. The processor further sends the sound to an output device in order to trigger a phonemic restoration response by a listener.
US11153355B2
In accordance with one embodiment of the invention, a method coordinates experiences of a realm for a group of users, including at least an administrative user and at least one participating user. The method includes transmitting, from the server to an administrative user, a session identifier associated with the realm. The method also includes receiving, by the server, a user acceptance to join a session using the session identifier so that the at least one participating user can experience the realm. In response to receiving the acceptance, the method also includes transmitting to a computing device of the participating user, by the server, executable code including data describing a series of locations in the realm. The series of locations comprises at least a first location and a second location, and the first location is associated with a first panoramic image and the second location is associated with a second panoramic image. The executable code is configured to receive instructions from at least one computing device of at least one user within the group to display the realm at at least one selected location, and display, on the computing device, data corresponding to the realm at at least one of the locations selected by at least one of the users within the group.
US11153350B2
Systems and methods are described for determining an on-net/off-set status of a client device. An endpoint security program running on the client device maintains an enterprise public Internet Protocol (IP) list containing one or more ranges of public IP addresses associated with an enterprise network. Further, the endpoint security program sends a request to a cloud-based service for information regarding a public IP address of the client device. In response to the request, the endpoint security program receives from the cloud-based service a response containing the public IP address and determines a connection status of the client device with respect to the enterprise network by comparing the public IP address to the enterprise public IP list.
US11153344B2
To establish a first protected communication channel between a device D and a first server S, a symmetric key KS is derived at the device D, based on a device identifying key KD and public key information dependent on a first server public key Spublic of the first server S. The symmetric key KS is derived in a corresponding way at a second server T. The symmetric key KS is transmitted from the second server T to the first server S on a second protected communication channel. Communication on the first protected communication channel between the device D and the first server S is protected using a communication key KC which is dependent on the symmetric key KS. This can enable a device D lacking support for asymmetric key cryptography to securely enter into communication with the first server S.
US11153341B1
Malicious network content is identified based on the behavior of one or more virtual environment components which process network content in a virtual environment. Network content can be monitored and analyzed using a set of heuristics. The heuristics identify suspicious network content communicated over a network. The suspicious network content can further be analyzed in a virtual environment that includes one or more virtual environment components. Each virtual environment component is configured to mimic live environment components, for example a browser application component or an operating system component. The suspicious network content is replayed in the virtual environment using one or more of the virtual environment components. The virtual environment component behavior is analyzed in view of an expected behavior to identify malicious network content. The malicious network content is then identified and processed.
US11153340B1
Security of a protected computer that is accessible via a public network is enhanced by eliminating or reducing open network ports on the protected computer. To reduce open network ports, the protected computer initiates a control connection to an enterprise controller. A request for service from a client device is made to the enterprise controller. If appropriate, the request is then forwarded by the enterprise controller to the protected computer over the control connection. If the request is accepted by the protected computer, the protected computer opens an additional connection to the enterprise controller to provide for streaming of input and output between the task performed on the protected computer and the enterprise controller. This input and output is forwarded by the enterprise controller to the client device and/or protected computer.
US11153338B2
Embodiments are disclosed for preventing network attacks. The techniques include generating a usage profile for a computing device that accesses a network. The techniques also include determining a plurality of actual use real-time indicators for a network connection on the network. The techniques further include determining a plurality of expected use real-time indicators for the network connection. Additionally, the techniques include calculating a risk assessment value for the network connection based on the actual use real-time indicators and the expected use real-time indicators. Further, the techniques include performing a security action for the network connection based on the calculated risk assessment value.
US11153336B2
A method and system for detecting malicious behavior from smart appliances within a network. Smart appliances have a certain level of intelligence that allows them to perform a specific role more effectively and conveniently. Network traffic data and identification data is collected about smart appliances within a network. The data is sent to a behavior analysis engine, which computes confidence levels for anomalies within the network traffic that may be caused by malicious behavior. If the behavior analysis engine determines that malicious behavior is present in the network, it sends an instruction to a network traffic hub to block network traffic relating to the anomaly. In some embodiments, network traffic is blocked based on source-destination pairs. In some embodiments, network traffic is blocked from a device outside the network that is determined to be malicious.
US11153332B2
In some embodiments, a behavioral computer security system protects clients and networks against threats such as malicious software and intrusion. A set of client profiles is constructed according to a training corpus of events occurring on clients, wherein each client profile represents a subset of protected machines, and each client profile is indicative of a normal or baseline pattern of using the machines assigned to the client respective profile. A client profile may group together machines having a similar event statistic. Following training, events detected on a client are selectively analyzed against a client profile associated with the respective client, to detect anomalous behavior. In some embodiments, individual events are analyzed in the context of other events, using a multi-dimensional event embedding space.
US11153331B2
The disclosed teachings include a computer-implemented method a computer-implemented method for identifying a data breach. The method includes monitoring movement of data over a computer network in real-time or near real-time relative to at least one of a user, a device, or a software application, comparing the monitored movement of the data to a baseline movement of the data over the computer network in real-time or near real-time relative to at least one of the user, the device, or the software application, and identifying an ongoing data breach in real-time or near real-time based on the comparison. The identified ongoing data breach indicates a relationship between the data and at least one of the user, the device, and the software application.
US11153330B1
In one embodiment, a method includes collecting DNS (Domain Name System) communications, analyzing the DNS communications, and identifying DNS tunneling or exfiltration based analysis of the DNS communications. Analyzing the DNS communications includes identifying a distinct query count for each of a plurality of clients over a specified time period and a data transfer direction between the clients and one or more servers, and categorizing the DNS communications based on session features associated with at least one of query type, transfer capability, and server response. An apparatus and logic are also disclosed herein.
US11153318B2
A limited purpose account can be provided to a legitimate user to avoid some types of anti-abuse mechanisms from being triggered when the user connects to an identity verifier using a username known to belong to a limited purpose account. A limited purpose account is an account in which certain privileges of ordinary use are disabled or curtailed. A limited purpose account may be an account that can only be used with a limited number of applications or for a limited amount of time, thus reducing the ability of the limited purpose user to gain unauthorized access to resources. The operating system can reset itself to a previous state when the account is disconnected or when the device is turned off.
US11153313B2
Apparatus and methods for enabling protected premises networking capabilities. In one embodiment, a white list of devices authorized to access a premises network and a black list of device not authorized to access a premises network are utilized. The black and white lists may be stored at a database in communication with an authorization manager or may be stored at the manager itself. When a client device is connected to a premise, the manager determines, based on the premises and/or device identity, whether the device is entitled to access. The authorization manager makes this determination based on whether the device is on the white or black list. If the device is on neither list, the manager may add the device to the white list upon appropriate verification. The manager may also facilitate removal of a device from the white list to the black list upon request or automatically.
US11153312B2
In an evaluation device, a receiver part receives, from an authentication device, a hash value of a user identifier for identifying a user, which is generated in a terminal unit used for the login by the user, and information indicating a login environment of the terminal unit, which is encrypted in the terminal unit. A decoding part decodes the encrypted information indicating the login environment of the terminal unit. A risk calculation part calculates an evaluation value that indicates a risk of the login being an unauthorized access based on a statistic related to a degree of similarity between the login environment of the terminal unit and a previous login environment by the user corresponding to the hash value. A transmitter part 120b transmits a comparison result between the calculated evaluation value and a predetermined threshold.
US11153308B2
A method is disclosed. The method includes obtaining a biometric match score from a device that is used to conduct an interaction at a location and then receiving additional data associated with the device or the location. The method also includes determining, by the computer, an expected match score function based upon at least the additional data, and comparing the biometric match score to the expected match score function. The method also includes determining if the interaction is to proceed based on at least the comparing.
US11153307B1
Techniques are described for performing multi-factor authentication of a user during a service session, based at least partly on a code conveyed using an audio file. A code is generated that corresponds to the user and/or their user device. A playback device that is registered to the user can be used to output a playback of an audio file that encodes the code. The playback of the audio file is conveyed through the service session by the user device and received by a backend server, which analyzes the playback of the audio file to extract the code. The user can be authenticated based at least partly on verifying the code that is extracted from the playback of the audio file, by comparing the extracted code to the code that was generated and sent to the playback device.
US11153302B2
Some embodiments are directed to a method for peering between first and second modules each installed in a different device, the device of the first module includes a human-machine interface, and the two devices can be linked by an unsecure communication channel. The method can include: receiving via the human-machine interface a command setting the device of the first module in operating mode so the first module takes control of a part of the communication means of the first device in order to set them in a secure operating mode and takes control of the human-machine interface; establishing a temporarily secure communication between first and second modules; displaying on the human-machine interface a status signaling the set-up of the secure communication; receiving via the human-machine interface a peering acceptance command; and exchanging of keys/secrets between the modules through the temporarily secure communication channel to perform the peering.
US11153286B1
An example method performed by one or more processing devices includes: generating encrypted content at a sender device using one or more first keys that are available from a key provider; and outputting the encrypted content to a recipient device over one or more channels; where the key provider enables access, following authorization, by the recipient device to one or more second keys for decrypting the encrypted content; and where an entity that enables the channel is unaffiliated with the key provider.
US11153275B2
A method of transferring process data from a secure network protected by a first firewall to an unsecure network protected by a second firewall using an existing interface is provided. The existing interface is configured to transfer the process data having a first format from the secure network to the unsecure network through the first and second firewalls. The process data further includes new data having a second format. The method includes: receiving the new data from a first application in the secure network; converting the new data from the second format to a binary format; writing the binary data to the existing interface as further process data having the first format; receiving the binary data from the existing interface; converting the binary data from the binary format to the new data having the second format; and making the new data available to a second application in the unsecure network.
US11153259B2
Systems, methods, and graphic user interfaces are provided for facilitating electronic sending and/or receiving of messages and/or gifts. In particular, systems, methods, and user interfaces are provided for facilitating electronic sending and/or receiving of messages and/or gifts scheduled for future delivery, creating, storing, scheduling, and sending time-locked messages and/or gifts, receiving time-locked messages and/or gifts, and sending and/or receiving messages and/or gifts posthumously.
US11153257B1
A method for displaying messages receiving from a social network system, a plurality of messages, and filtering the plurality of messages into at least two filtered sets of messages based on at least one feature of the plurality of messages where each of the at least two filtered sets of messages includes a different subset of the plurality of messages. The method can include assigning a first of two filtered sets of messages to a first column, analyzing an interaction of the user with the first of the two filtered set of messages, and triggering display of a second of the two filtered sets of messages in a second column in response to the interaction.
US11153254B2
An approach is provided in which a system receives a first meme sent from a first user that is targeted to a second user. The system transforms the first meme into a second meme based on analyzing the first meme against a first user profile data corresponding to the first user and a second user profile data corresponding to the second user. The transforming includes replacing at least one element of the first meme with a second element in the second meme. The system, in turn, sends the transformed second meme to the second user.
US11153252B1
A method for notifying a sender of a communication message that a communication mailbox of a recipient is available includes determining a status of the communication mailbox of the recipient, wherein the status includes an available status or an unavailable status. The method also includes receiving an indication that the communication message from the sender was undeliverable to the communication mailbox of the recipient when the status of the communication mailbox of the recipient is in the unavailable status. Moreover, the method includes sending a notification to the sender when the status of the communication mailbox of the recipient changes from the unavailable status to the available status.
US11153243B1
A rich communication services (RCS) system may receive a message associated with content. The message may be transmitted by a first user device and destined for a second user device and associated with content. The RCS system may receive subscription data associated with a user of the first user device and including information indicating whether content filtering is enabled for the user. The RCS system may determine whether content filtering is enabled for the user based on the subscription data, and may process the content, when the content filtering is enabled for the user and with a machine learning model, to determine whether to filter the content. The RCS system may perform one or more actions based on whether the content is to be filtered.
US11153239B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate generally to systems for enhancing a first media item through the addition of a supplemental second media item. A user may provide a request to enhance a selected media item, and in response, an enhancement system retrieves and presents a curated collection of supplemental content to be added to the media, to the user. The user may review the curated collection of supplemental content, for example by providing a tactile input to scroll through the curated collection of content.
US11153238B2
Methods and systems for providing multiple versions of an application in a social network are described. In some aspects, a first version of the application provides a first set of features while a second version of the application provides the first set of features and also a second set of features. Both the first version of the application and the second version of the application access the same application state data, which may be maintained by a back-end system, such as a social network. When the state data is updated by one or the other versions of the application, a notification may be provided to the other version of the application informing it of the update. The application state data may represent, for example, a shared gaming environment accessed by both the first and second versions of the application.
US11153237B2
While displaying the conversation interface of an instant messaging conversation between a first user and a second user, a first client device receives a user request for generating a virtual-item-package. The first client device replaces display of the conversation interface with a virtual-item-package generation interface, including: if the request is for generating a media enhanced virtual-item-package, presenting an affordance for recording an audio and/or video message concurrently with one or more input fields for entering one or more virtual-item-package parameters in the virtual-item-package generation interface; and if the request is for generating a textual virtual-item-package, presenting a text input field for entering a textual message concurrently with the one or more input fields for entering the one or more virtual-item-package parameters, without concurrently presenting the affordance for recording an audio and/or video message in the virtual-item-package generation interface.
US11153236B2
This disclosure describes techniques that facilitate selectively automating a response to a client request for vendor services based on an intended meaning of the client request, a category of vendor services associated with the client request, and one or more factors such as an urgency index and a health index. The vendor services system may parse audio, text, and image data of a client request to determine an intended meaning. In some examples, the vendor services system may automate a response that resolves the client request, or automate a response that requests additional information from the client device. Alternatively, or additionally, the vendor services system may direct the client request to a vendor representative for further processing. In doing so, the vendor services system may monitor dialogue between the client and vendor representative, and selectively provide the vendor representative with support data that may help resolve the client request.
US11153235B1
In some embodiments, an electronic device presents representations of messaging conversations. In some embodiments, an electronic device indicates which messages are replies to other messages in a messaging conversation. In some embodiments, an electronic device creates and presents links (e.g., rich links) to contacts in a messaging conversation (e.g., “mentions”). In some embodiments, an electronic device presents indications of messages that are replies to other messages. In some embodiments, an electronic device presents options to create a link (e.g., a rich link) to contacts in a messaging conversation (e.g., “mentions”) using a suggested entry user interface element.
US11153226B2
A proxy server automatically includes web applications in web pages at the network level. The proxy server receives, from a client device, a request for a network resource at a domain and is hosted at an origin server. The proxy server retrieves the requested network resource. The retrieved network resource does not include the web applications. The proxy server determines that the web applications are to be installed within the network resource. The proxy server automatically modifies the retrieved network resource to include the web applications. The proxy server transmits a response to the client device that includes the modified network resource. The network resource may remain unchanged at the origin server.
US11153210B2
Embodiments disclosed herein relate to methods and apparatus for connecting to a communications network using one of a plurality of connection settings. The method comprises obtaining an operator identification and applying one or more first hash functions, associated with a first Bloom filter, to the operator identification to provide one or more first hash values respectively. The method further comprises responsive to the one or more first hash values matching the first Bloom filter, attempting a connection with the communications network using a first one of the plurality of connection settings which is associated with the first Bloom filter.
US11153205B2
Aspects and examples are disclosed for apparatuses and processes for establishing a communication link between a network using a routing protocol for low power and lossy networks (RPL) and a non-RPL-enabled device. For instance, a communication link establishment method includes establishing, by a routing protocol for low power and lossy networks (RPL) enabled device, a communication link with a non-RPL-enabled device. The method also includes establishing, by the RPL-enabled device, a network connection with an RPL-enabled network. Further, the method includes providing, by the RPL-enabled device, a proxy communication link between the non-RPL-enabled device and the RPL-enabled network. Providing the proxy communication link includes assigning a globally unique address (GUA) to the non-RPL-enabled device, and transmitting, by the RPL-enabled device, a proxy destination advertisement object to the RPL-enabled network where the proxy destination advertisement object comprises the GUA.
US11153198B2
According to one embodiment, a system for hybrid communication between electronic circuits is disclosed. The system includes a plurality of sensor nodes configured to read data from one or more sensors. The system also includes a master node configured to receive periodic data transmissions from each of the plurality of sensor nodes via a primary transmission medium and a secondary transmission medium, which is different from the primary transmission medium.
US11153195B1
Respective destination groups are provided to routing intermediaries associated with a packet processing application. The destination group comprises a set of fast-path packet processing nodes of a packet processing service to which the routing intermediaries are to transmit packets to be processed. After a determination is made that the set of fast-path nodes to be included in the destination groups has changed, the destination groups are modified gradually during an update propagation interval.
US11153192B2
Techniques and architectures for measuring available bandwidth. A train of probe packets is received from a remote electronic device. A per-packet one-way delay (OWD) is calculated for at least two packets from the train of probe packets. An OWD threshold value is calculated based on the calculated OWD for the at least two packets from the train of probe packets. A packet pair is selected from the train of probe packets based on the per-packet OWD for each packet in the packet pair exceeding the OWD threshold value. An estimated available bandwidth is computed based on one or more transmission characteristics of the selected packet pair.
US11153189B2
A computer-implemented method of grouping network traffic metadata includes, based on a selected dimension of the network traffic metadata received from a network router, obtaining a statistic about a flow of network traffic metadata received over an interval for each instance of multiple instances of the dimension. The method further includes distributing the network traffic metadata into a plurality of groups for network traffic metadata from the smallest possible number of instances of the selected dimension to be distributed to each group, with the flow of network traffic metadata distributed optimally for a criteria regarding the statistic amongst the plurality of groups for minimizing cardinality of each group of the plurality of groups with respect to unselected dimensions of the network traffic metadata and providing each group to a columnar database for storage of the network traffic metadata distributed into each group in a different partition of the columnar database.
US11153184B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for annotating process and user information for network flows. In some embodiments, a capturing agent, executing on a first device in a network, can monitor a network flow associated with the first device. The first device can be, for example, a virtual machine, a hypervisor, a server, or a network device. Next, the capturing agent can generate a control flow based on the network flow. The control flow may include metadata that describes the network flow. The capturing agent can then determine which process executing on the first device is associated with the network flow and label the control flow with this information. Finally, the capturing agent can transmit the labeled control flow to a second device, such as a collector, in the network.
US11153176B2
Techniques for an exponential moving maximum (EMM) filter for predictive analytics in network reporting are disclosed. In some embodiments, a process for predictive analytics in network reporting using an EMM filter includes pre-processing network-related data by performing exponential moving maximum (EMM) filtering on the network-related data; and determining predictive analytics based on the EMM filtered network-related data.
US11153170B1
Some embodiments provide a method for configuring a DCN migrated from a first host computer at a first site of multiple sites spanned by a logical network to a second host computer at a second site. At the second host, the method receives, from the first host, data for configuring the DCN and implementing the logical network on the second site. The data includes (i) data particular to the first site and (ii) a global identifier for a logical port to which the DCN attaches. The method provides the global identifier to a local logical network manager, which uses the global identifier to retrieve data regarding the logical port from a global network manager that manages the logical network across the sites. Based on data retrieved from the global network manager, the method modifies the data particular to the first site into data particular to the second site.
US11153168B1
A link validation system includes a first device and a second device. The first device identifies that a first link to the second device has become available via a first port on the first device, and determines that the first link to the second device is not a valid link. In response to determining that the first link to the second device is not a valid link, the first device configures the first port in an auto-negotiation error state. Subsequent to configuring the first port in the auto-negotiation error state, the first device detects a port connection cycling operation associated with the first port and, in response, clears the auto-negotiation error state for the first port.
US11153167B2
Disclosed are systems, methods, and computer-readable media for assuring tenant forwarding in a network environment. Network assurance can be determined in layer 1, layer 2 and layer 3 of the networked environment including, internal-internal (e.g., inter-fabric) forwarding and internal-external (e.g., outside the fabric) forwarding in the networked environment. The network assurance can be performed using logical configurations, software configurations and/or hardware configurations.
US11153164B2
Various embodiments for performing hardware upgrades in a disaggregated computing environment. A workload is run on a disaggregated computing system while providing a new component to at least one of a plurality of component pools used by the disaggregated computing system. Point-to-point circuit wire level switching is used to switch the disaggregated system from an assigned component residing in a first of the plurality of component pools to the new component residing in a second of the plurality of component pools without interrupting the running workload.
US11153161B2
An Internet of Things, IoT, structure including application layers with a 3D Adaption Matrix, a server for an IoT structure, a device for an IoT application and a method for manipulating dependencies between the application layers is provided. The 3D Adaption Matrix includes adaption rules, which adaption rules are specified once and which adaption rules enable specifying dependencies between the application layers. A module of the IoT structure is configured to employ the adaption rules for an IoT application.
US11153151B2
Techniques are described for centrally directed self-healing of networked devices. Large numbers of networked devices can be configured according to configuration data. A central management system (CMS) can group the devices into device swarms having identical nominal device configurations. The CMS can determine a swarm-agreed configuration state for each device swarm that corresponds to a determined “correct” configuration for devices in the device swarm. Over time, the devices send configuration fingerprints to the CMS to indicate their current configuration states, and the CMS can analyze the current configuration states against the swarm-agreed configurations to detect potential configuration issues. In response, the CMS can automatically direct remedying of the detected configuration issues in accordance with the swarm-agreed configurations.
US11153149B2
A method, system, and apparatus are provided for diagnosing network faults by distributing network test policies to remote devices that issue network tests and report network test results from a first remote device which attempts to access a first network resource over a first specified network path, where a central portal responds to a first network test result by issuing a command to one or more additional remote devices to issue one or more additional network tests for evaluating at least part of the first specified network path and report network verification test results having data which is aggregated with data from the first network test result report for use in proactively diagnosing the network fault in the first specified network path.
US11153148B2
The application provides a method for monitoring resource state in a communication network that includes a plurality of nodes. A node in the communication network determines whether a label switching path connection, which connects the node with an adjacent node, is established successfully. Based on a determination that the label switching path connection is not established successfully, the node determines whether a data plane resource state of the node and a control plane resource state of the node are consistent. Based on a determination that the data plane resource state of the node and the control plane resource state of the node are inconsistent, the node reports the inconsistency to a management plane of the node.
US11153144B2
Automated fault correction in a network environment comprises identifying a pattern in a set of network events and generating a set of substantiating data for the identified patterns. The method can also identify an occurrence probability value for each network event and generate root cause data based on a ranking for the network events using a set of parameters including the occurrence probability. The method can also be directed to performing a regression of the root cause data against a set of historic data and selecting the root cause with a predefined accuracy as an acceptable candidate. The acceptable candidate is then provided for assisted learning for automated fault correction.
US11153139B1
The disclosed systems and methods are directed to transmitting and receiving symbols. In particular, splitting, a symbol dataset into symbol subsets, modulating, the symbol subsets using different sub-carriers, roll off factors and time acceleration factors, performing frequency shifting and combining the frequency shifted and modulated symbol subsets to generate a digital multiband (DMB) signal, transmitting and receiving the DMB signal, down converting the received DMB signal into a plurality of baseband signals, segregating the plurality of baseband signals in accordance with a manner by which the symbol subsets have been processed before transmission, forwarding a first portion of the plurality of baseband signals to a minimum mean square error (MMSE) based receiver, forwarding a second portion of the plurality of baseband signals to a matched filter-based receiver, and combining the output of the MMSE based receiver and matched filter-based receiver to generate an equivalent symbol dataset.
US11153136B2
An electrical system may include a processing circuit and one or more electrical components that emit thermal heat energy. The processing circuit may be configured to identify signal degradation or failure of an in-band communication channel between the electrical system and a second electrical system, identify a data message to transmit to the additional electrical system via an out-of-band communication channel, and direct the one or more electrical components to adjust an electrical workload to modulate and transmit the data message on the out-of-band communication channel as a recoverable sequence of thermal pulses.
US11153128B2
A method and user equipment for receiving channel status information-reference signals (CSI-RSs) from a base station (BS) in a wireless communication system, are discussed. The method includes receiving, through a higher layer, configuration about two or more CSI-RS; and receiving, from the BS, the CSI-RSs based on the configuration, wherein, when the configuration includes an indicator related to antenna ports of the two or more CSI-RS, the CSI-RSs are received on the assumption that the antenna ports for two or more CSI-RS resources are same.
US11153124B2
A channel estimation method of a steel penetration system is configured to reduce computational complexity and required memory. The method includes: reconstructing, at a receiving end, a channel estimation with a compressed-sensing sparse reconstruction algorithm according to a received pilot signal to obtain estimation values of a channel state response of the steel penetration system; and equalizing a received signal of the receiving end according to the estimation values of the channel state response to obtain an equalized signal.
US11153120B2
The present disclosure provides a gateway controlling chip and a network packet processing method thereof. The gateway controlling chip is configured to: retrieve a network packet; determine that the network packet is an upstream IP tunneling network packet; determine a packet type of the upstream IP tunneling network packet; retrieve a packet operation list corresponding to the packet type, wherein the packet operation list records a plurality of packet operations; and perform the packet operations for processing the network packet.
US11153115B2
Systems, device, and methods related to estimating a Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) of a signal are disclosed. A method of estimating an SNR includes setting a threshold of a comparator of a physical layer device to a first value, applying a signal to the comparator, and determining a first bit error number of an output of the comparator with the threshold set at the first value. The method also includes setting the threshold of the comparator to a second value that is different from the first value, applying the signal to the comparator, and determining a second bit error number of the output of the comparator with the threshold set at the second value. The method further includes determining an SNR of the signal based on the first bit error number and the second bit error number.
US11153107B2
A communication apparatus includes: a monitor configured to monitor a first communication amount in first communication between a first communication apparatus and a terminal apparatus and/or a second communication amount in second communication between a second communication apparatus and the terminal apparatus, the second communication apparatus performs communication with the terminal apparatus; and a transmitter configured to transmit information relating to monitoring result by the monitor to a communication control apparatus that is able to perform policy control and charging control.
US11153105B2
Technologies for densely packaging network components for large scale indirect topologies include group of switches. The group of switches includes a stack of node switches that includes a first set of ports and a stack of global switches that includes a second set of ports. The stack of node switches are oriented orthogonally to the stack of global switches. Additionally, the first set of ports are oriented towards the second set of ports and the node switches are connected to the global switches through the first and second sets of ports. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
US11153100B2
Achieving certificate pinning security in reduced trust networks. A client establishes a first communications channel with a server only upon verifying that a first certificate offered by the server is certified by a pinned certificate. The client receives a second certificate from the server over the first communications channel. The server and the client establish second communications channels with an untrusted computer system. The client sends a request towards the server via the second communications channels, and the request is received by the server. The server generates a response comprising a payload, a timestamp, a URI portion, and a signature that is generated using the second certificate, and sends the response via the second communications channels. The client receives the response and uses the second certificate to verify that the response is authentic and that the timestamp and URI portion are valid. The client then processes the payload.
US11153094B2
Techniques for providing secure deduplication in a data storage system using smaller hash values. The techniques employ a keyed hash function to generate keyed hash values for data blocks received at the data storage system. The keyed hash function can generate keyed hash values having an acceptable probability of accidental collision, in which each keyed hash value requires a reduced number of bits to represent them. By representing each keyed hash value with a number of bits less than the number required for a cryptographic hash value, the impact that an index table in main memory has on the amount of free memory space available can be reduced, while still providing an acceptable probability of accidental collision. The keyed hash function can be implemented as a keyed universal hash function, which can reduce the number of processor cycles required to generate a keyed hash value for each received data block.
US11153090B2
An electronic device and method are disclosed. The electronic device includes a communication circuit, a memory storing identifiers for one or more external electronic devices defined as a group, and a processor. The processor implements the method, including receiving biometric information detected by an external biometric detection device via transmission from at least one external electronic device of the group, selecting from within the group a particular external electronic device based on the received biometric information and the information related to the particular external electronic device, and transmitting the received biometric information to the selected particular external electronic device.
US11153088B2
A system and method for implementing a two-side token for OAUTH are described. A first request for access by a partner app server to user account information owned by a host server is received at a host auth server. Upon receiving authorization to share the user account information, a response is returned to the partner app sever. The response includes an access token. In response to returning the response to the partner app server, an event is written to an event queue. The event provides an indication that the request for access was received and that the corresponding response with the access token was returned. The event, when read by a host app server, instructs the host app server to submit a second request to a partner auth server for a reciprocal access token.
US11153070B2
A solution is proposed for controlling access to data that are broadcast over a telecommunication medium. A corresponding method comprises validating by a plurality of validator devices an access request that is submitted by an access device for accessing the data. The validator devices update a blockchain by adding a new block comprising an indication of the access request in response to a positive result of its validation. A provider system transmits cryptographic information for decrypting the data to the access device in response to the new block. A corresponding method for broadcasting data by a provider system and a corresponding method for accessing broadcast data by an access device are proposed. Corresponding computer programs and computer program products for performing the methods are also proposed. Moreover, corresponding structure, provider system and access device are proposed.
US11153065B2
The disclosure provides methods, apparatus and computer-readable media for synchronization over an optical network. A method comprises: receiving, from a client, a request to initiate a synchronization service for a client node coupled to the optical communication network; and, in response to the request, establishing a synchronization service to the client node via a virtual synchronization network utilizing the optical communication network. The synchronization service utilizes a bidirectional optical channel established via the optical communication network for the transmission of synchronization data for the client.
US11153037B2
Disclosed is a method and apparatus for encoding an erasure code for storing data. The disclosed method for encoding an erasure code comprises the steps of: (a) generating a first local parity group including two or more local parity nodes for data nodes; (b) generating at least one global parity node for the data nodes; (c) generating at least one second local parity group including two or more local parity nodes for the data nodes; and (d) storing the data nodes, the first local parity group, the second local parity group, and the global parity node. According to the disclosed method, it is possible to store and recover data safely and efficiently.
US11153024B2
To reduce deterioration of signal quality, an optical transmission apparatus comprises a transmission means for outputting an optical signal, and a multiplexing device for outputting a wavelength multiplexed optical signal including the optical signal inputted from the transmission means, wherein the multiplexing device includes an input port that is set to transmit a first wavelength band of the optical signal inputted from the transmission means, an intensity adjustment unit that can adjust an amount of optical attenuation for each predetermined wavelength band, and adjusts the amount of optical attenuation of an edge band of the first wavelength band of the optical signal transmitted through the input port to be smaller than the amount of optical attenuation of a central band of the first wavelength band, and an output port that outputs a wavelength multiplexed optical signal including the optical signal with the adjusted amount of optical attenuation.
US11153023B2
The technologies described herein are generally directed toward facilitating indicating frequency and time domain resources in communication systems with multiple transmission points. According to an embodiment, a system can comprise a processor, a base transceiver station, and a memory that can store executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, can facilitate performance of operations. The operations can include receiving a first signal. The operations can further include combining the first signal with a second signal resulting in a combined signal, wherein the first signal can be combined using a different weight than is applied to the second signal. The operations can further include broadcasting by an antenna of the base transceiver station, the combined signal.
US11153021B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Techniques may include transmitting, from an access point (AP) to a first set of stations (STAs) a first message soliciting an uplink transmission by the first set of STAs over a wireless channel, transmitting to a second set STAs a second message including an instruction to monitor the wireless channel for interference during the uplink transmission by the first set of STAs; transmitting to the second set of STAs a third message triggering an interference report; and receiving an interference report based on the second and third messages. Techniques include identifying a plurality of sectors of a geographic coverage area corresponding to the AP; transmitting a set of directional training signals; receiving a signal to noise ratio (SNR) report from multiple STAs; comparing the received SNR reports on a per sector basis; and adjusting communication based on the comparing.
US11153012B1
Optical transmitters, receivers, and methods are described in an optical network. An optical transmitter comprises an encoder configured to receive an input data stream and to encode the input data stream into a signal. The signal is defined as a sequence of regular units, and a rotator is configured to receive each unit of the signal and to output, for each given input unit with an input state of polarization (SOP), a respective given output unit associated with an output SOP. The output SOP of the given output unit is different from a corresponding output SOP of each other output unit that is immediately adjacent to the given output unit. The output SOPs of the units in a transmitted signal may form an alternating pattern (or other repeating pattern), which may help to lower the average BER, in particular, due to forward error correction (FEC).
US11153006B2
Techniques are disclosed relating to handling preemptive data services in cellular wireless transmissions. In some embodiments, a device wirelessly transmits uplink data for a first data service during a time dimension duplex (TDD) scheduled transmission interval using a first frequency band. While transmitting, in these embodiments, the device also monitors a downlink control channel that uses a second frequency band that does not overlap with the first frequency band. The downlink control channel may be dedicated for preemption indicators that indicate another service is preempting scheduled resources. In response to detecting an indicator in the downlink control channel of communications for a second data service in the first frequency band during the scheduled transmission interval, the device may reduce the transmission of the uplink data on resources used for the communications for the second data service (e.g., by blanking or transmitting at a lower power).
US11153005B2
A system, method, and device to enable communication between a first and second satellite station and a controller of a mobile platform. The controller includes a processor, a first modem facilitating communication with the first satellite station via a first frequency over a first communication link, and a map of the one or more networks of satellite stations including the second satellite station. The controller utilizes the map of the one or more networks of satellite stations to determine the second satellite station for communicating with the controller. A second modem is coupled to the controller and facilitates communication with the second satellite station via a second frequency over a second communication link, wherein the controller is configured to calculate a time to handoff communication with the mobile communicator from the first communication link to the second communication link.
US11153004B2
The method for data transfer in a conveyance system including: moving a conveyance apparatus and a mobile wireless access point attached to the conveyance apparatus to a location where the mobile wireless access point is within wireless range of a communication node; receiving data from the communication node when the mobile wireless access point is within wireless range of the communication node; and conveying the data to a local gateway device or a second mobile wireless access point attached to a second conveyance apparatus.
US11152995B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A UE may configure a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) using shortened transmission time intervals (sTTIs), which may be referred to as a shortened PUSCH (sPUSCH), to transmit uplink control information (UCI) to a base station or other wireless device. The UE may use mapping rules, which may be based at least in part on a number of data symbols included in the sPUSCH, to map different types of UCI to different resource elements (REs) within the sPUSCH. A base station or other wireless device may use mapping rules, which may be based at least in part on a number of data symbols included in an sPUSCH, to determine one or more REs within the sPUSCH to monitor for different types of UCI.
US11152987B1
A passive receiver system includes a first cross-dipole antenna on a platform, a second cross-dipole antenna on the platform, a passive receiver, and beam steering logic for the first and second cross-dipole antennas. The beam steering logic steers a radiation beam of the passive receiver in a first direction and steers the radiation beam of the passive receiver in a second direction. The first direction is aligned with a direct signal path and the second direction aligned with a reflect signal path. The platform is of a first satellite and the direct signal path is aligned with a second satellite.
US11152986B2
Systems and methods for rapidly finding detectable signals within the field-of-view of a phased array antenna. The transmit beam pattern is modified over time to increase signal spatial search performance over typical time-delay steering by producing a coarse-to-fine angular beam pattern with a tree-based approach to signal detection. A tree-based beam search is employed to select a beam having a narrower beamwidth for transmission at an angle from boresight that lies in an angular space where a signal has been previously detected.
US11152984B2
A method for enabling hybrid beamforming in a communication system including a transmitter being able to serve a plurality of receivers, wherein a frequency band comprises at least one subcarrier, wherein each receiver is associated to a set Cprec,k of analog precoding codewords, said method comprising: —for each receiver, computing (202) an analog precoding matrix FRF k associated to said receiver; said computation (202) comprising: /a/ for each subcarrier, performing (202a) a Singular Value Decomposition, SVD, on a channel matrix associated to said receiver and to said each subcarrier; /b/ for each subcarrier, determining a first decomposition matrix Vk(1) based on the relative SVD; /c/ determining (303) an analog precoding codeword which optimizes a first function g1(Vk(1), . . . , Vk(L), F) of Vk(1), . . . , Vk(L) and F, for a plurality of F E Cprec,k, wherein L denotes a number of subcarriers.
US11152981B2
The present application relates to methods for operating a terminal device (31) and a base station (20) of a cellular wireless multiple-input and multiple-output, MIMO, system (10). An uplink precoding for transmitting uplink signals from a plurality of antenna elements (312) of the terminal device (31) to the base station (20) is determined. An uplink pilot signal using the uplink precoding and a radio resource of a transmission frame of the MIMO system is transmitted from the plurality of antenna elements (311). At the base station (20), a downlink precoding and uplink receive parameters are adjusted based on a receive property of the precoded uplink pilot signal from the terminal device (31).
US11152976B2
A mobile terminal includes a first power amplifier configured to amplify and output a first signal of a 5G communication system; a first antenna connected to the first power amplifier and configured to transmit the first signal amplified and output from the first power amplifier as a first transmission signal; a second power amplifier configured to amplify and output a second signal of the 5G communication system; a second antenna connected to the second power amplifier and configured to transmit the second signal amplified and output from the second power amplifier as a second transmission signal; and a power controller connected to the first power amplifier and the second power amplifier and including a common voltage booster configured to provide a supply voltage to both of the first power amplifier and the second power amplifier at a same timing.
US11152973B2
In a communication apparatus, an analog circuit executes an analog process to a differential signal in a condition that a potential of a first conductor is a reference. A communication circuit receives, via a connection circuit, a differential signal obtained by the execution of the analog process of the analog process is executed and generates, based on the received differential signal, a signal with a reference corresponding to a potential of a second conductor. An inductor (a connection element) is connected between the first conductor and the second conductor. The connection circuit includes a circuit element other than a capacitor.
US11152960B2
A multiplexing system can include a first diplexer and a second diplexer. The first diplexer can have a first transmit terminal, a first receive terminal, and a first common terminal. The first diplexer can be configured to filter a first transmit signal to a first cellular frequency band and output the filtered first transmit signal. The first diplexer can be further configured to filter a first receive signal to a second cellular frequency band and output the filtered first receive signal. The second diplexer can have a second transmit terminal, a second receive terminal, and a second common terminal. The second diplexer can be configured to filter a second transmit signal to the second cellular frequency band and output the filtered second transmit signal. The second diplexer can be further configured to filter a second receive signal to the first cellular frequency band and output the filtered second receive signal.
US11152959B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for performing polar encoding of a number of information bits for transmission in a wireless communication system in a manner that is optimized for a specific code length. In some embodiments, a method of operation of a transmit node in a wireless communication system comprises performing polar encoding of a set of K information bits to thereby generate a set of polar-encoded information bits where the K information bits are mapped to the first K information bit locations specified in an information sequence SN which is a ranked sequence of N information bit locations among a plurality of input bits for the polar encoding where N is equivalent to a code length, a size of the information sequence SN is greater than or equal to K, and the information sequence SN is optimized for a specific value of the code length N.
US11152958B2
A data storage device has a controller that is configured to generate SECDED codes based on a plurality (at least 2) of codes, where each of the constituent codes is a cyclic code over a finite field of size 2m for some integer m. Any 2 constituent codes are associated with 2m1 and 2m2, where m1 and m2 are coprime (i.e., gcd(m1,m2)=1) where gcd is the greatest common divisor. In such a case, it is possible to generate a cyclic code of length (2m1−1)*(2m2−1), which will be a long code, but enjoy the complexity, in encoding and decoding, of the small fields of the constituent codes.
US11152957B2
Methods, systems and devices for forward error correction in orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) communication systems using non-binary low-density parity-check (NB-LDPC) codes are described. One exemplary method for forward error correction includes receiving data, encoding the data via a non-binary low density parity check (NB-LDPC) code, wherein the NB-LDPC code is characterized by a matrix with binary and non-binary entries, modulating the encoded data to generate a signal, and transmitting the signal. Another exemplary method for forward error correction includes receiving a signal, demodulating the received signal to produce data, decoding the data via a NB-LDPC code, wherein the NB-LDPC code is characterized by a matrix with binary and non-binary entries, and providing the decoded data to a data sink.
US11152956B1
A method for iteratively decoding read bits in a solid state storage device, wherein the read bits are encoded with a Q-ary LDPC code defined over a binary-extension Galois field GF(2r) and having length N. The method comprises: determining a binary Tanner graph of the Q-ary LDPC code based on a binary coset representation of the Galois field GF(2r) the binary Tanner graph comprising (2r−1) binary variable nodes, (2r−1−r) binary parity-check nodes each one connected to one or more binary variable nodes according to the binary coset representation and (2r−1) binary check nodes each one connected to a respective binary variable node mapping the read bits into N symbols providing each symbol of the N symbols to a respective Q-ary variable node; providing each bit of the symbol to a respective binary variable node of the respective Q-ary variable node and iteratively decoding each symbol.
US11152954B2
A decoding method is provided, and the method includes performing a decoding operation on a plurality of data bit value sets of a codeword. The decoding operation includes following steps: (1) obtaining a syndrome of the data bit value sets; (2) determining whether the codeword is correct or incorrect according to the latest obtained syndrome, wherein if the codeword is correct, the decoding operation is ended, wherein if the codeword is wrong, continuing to step (3) to start an iterative operation; (3) obtaining a plurality of error value sets respectively corresponding to the data bit value sets, wherein in response to obtaining a first error value set, steps (4) and (5) are performed simultaneously; (4) performing an extreme value search operation; (5) performing a bit-flipping operation; and (6) performing a syndrome calculation operation after the step (5) is completed, and performing step (2).
US11152946B2
A phase interpolator to receive a first and a second input clock with a first and a second input clock edge comprises an interpolating circuit unit comprising: resistors in parallel; for each resistor, a connecting switch to connect and disconnect, as operated in accordance with one of the first and the second input clocks, the resistor to and from a first supply line; and a capacitor in series with the resistors. The phase interpolator allow controlling a partial group of the connecting switches to be operated in accordance with the first input clock, and controlling the rest of the connecting switches to be operated in accordance with the second input clock; and determine the output clock of the phase interpolator on the basis of an output signal of the interpolating circuit unit, defined by the voltage over the capacitor after the second input clock edge.
US11152939B2
A semiconductor apparatus includes a calibration circuit and a main driver. The calibration circuit is configured to generate a first calibration code when set to have a positive offset and generate a second calibration code when set to have a negative offset complementary to the positive offset. The main driver is configured to set a resistance value of the main driver based on the first and second calibration codes.
US11152935B2
The present disclosure describes a system and method for resetting firmware in an electronic accessory, such as a wearable electronic device, without a physical reset button on the accessory. A secondary device, such as a case for the accessory, can serve as a power source that initiates the reset. The reset may be manually initiated, for example by a user pressing a button, or automatically initiated, such as by the secondary device detecting that the accessory is unresponsive. The secondary device sends a reset command to the electronic accessory through a power line connection. The power line connection may be made, for example, upon contact of the accessory with the secondary device. In some examples, the reset command may be an elevated power level. Upon receiving the reset command through the power line, the accessory completes the reset.
US11152930B2
The present invention introduces an arrangement for enhancing the performance of an electronic circuit comprising a phototransistor (Q). Either a common-collector or a common-emitter connected phototransistor (Q) has a main resistor (RL), and at least one external bias resistors (RL2, RL3, RL4), each in parallel to one another. The microcontroller may directly control the voltage outputs or act via respective switches (S1, S2) regarding each respective resistor. When the electronic circuit with the phototransistor (Q) is switched on, at least one of the external bias resistors (RL2, RL3, RL4) are switched on. The voltage output rise time is short, and when the bias has been set, the external bias resistor(s) are disconnected functionally. This means that during the actual measurement with the electric circuit, only the main resistor (RL) is used in the connection.
US11152922B2
A semiconductor device includes a scan input circuit, a master latch, a slave latch, a first inverter, and a scan output circuit. The scan input circuit is configured to receive a scan input signal, a first data signal, and a scan enable signal and select any one of the first data signal and the scan input signal in response to the scan enable signal to output a first select signal. The master latch is configured to latch the first select signal and output a first output signal. The slave latch is configured to latch the first output signal and output a second output signal. The first inverter is configured to invert the second output signal. The scan output circuit is configured to receive a signal output from the slave latch and an external signal and output a first scan output signal.
US11152918B1
A solid-state transformer (SST) comprises a transformer core, a primary winding, a secondary winding, a primary-side switch bank, and a secondary-side switch bank. Each of the switch banks includes six 4-quadrant switches. The twelve 4-quadrant switches are toggled on and off over six clock cycles in a repetitive sequence with a period that is a function of a desired operating frequency of the transformer. The sequence is configured such that at any given time, 2 of 3 input and output phases are connected to the primary and secondary windings. The SST further includes L-C filter circuits that are configured to filter high-frequency components of current and voltage waveforms such that these components are not back-fed to the electrical mains or delivered to a load. The SST includes a primary-side filter circuit and a secondary-side filter circuit that can each include respective L-C filters for three input or output phases.
US11152916B2
A system, method, and computer program product are provided for representation of high-frequency signal data. In use, input data is received including high-frequency signals, wherein the input data is of a first width. Next, the input data is processed to manage display of the input data, where specifically the input data is divided into one or more segments based on first criteria including the first width, and from each segment of the one or more segments, a maximum value is identified and a minimum value is identified. The maximum and minimum may be trend maximum and minimum values. The input data is transformed to a visualizable representation of the high-frequency signals, the visualizable representation of the high-frequency signals including a plot of the maximum value and the minimum value for each segment of the one or more segments. Additionally, the plot is displayed.
US11152902B2
According to one embodiment, there is provided a semiconductor device comprising a first differential amplifier circuit. The first differential amplifier circuit includes a first transistor, a second transistor, a third transistor, a fourth transistor, a fifth transistor, and a sixth transistor. The second transistor's gate and drain are connected to the first transistor. The third transistor is diode-connected through the first transistor or diode-connected without passing through the first transistor. Thea fourth transistor is diode-connected through the second transistor or diode-connected without passing through the second transistor. The fifth transistor forms a first current mirror circuit with the third transistor. The sixth transistor is connected to a drain of the first transistor in parallel with the third transistor and forms a second current mirror circuit with the fifth transistor.
US11152897B2
A power amplifier includes an amplifying circuit, including an amplifying transistor configured to amplify an input signal and configured to output an output signal, a bias circuit, including a bias transistor comprising an emitter configured to provide a bias current into a base of the amplifying transistor, and a base into which a control current is input, and an overcurrent protecting circuit configured to bypass the control current into a ground, according to a current level of the output signal.
US11152885B2
An inverter control signal in each phase is input into a UVW-phase inverter circuit and an XYW-phase inverter circuit for controlling a motor including a plurality of winding groups in a UVW-phase and an XYZ-phase. The inverter control signal is generated as a pulse signal having a period depending on a rotation speed of the motor based on a current in each phase of the motor. An abnormality detection circuit has a function of detecting a pulse period of the inverter control signal in each phase and is configured to detect whether an abnormality occurs or not in motor control, depending on whether a predetermined large-small relation according to an arrangement order of the UVW-phase and the XYZ-phase is established or not in the pulse period of the inverter control signal in each phase during at least one of an acceleration state or a deceleration state of the motor.
US11152883B2
A control device for a pole-number switching electric motor applied to a system including an electric motor capable of switching a number of poles, and an inverter electrically connected to stator windings of the electric motor; includes: a basic operation unit configured to operate the inverter to control a current amplitude which is magnitude of a current vector flowing in the stator winding, and a switching operation unit configured to operate the inverter to reduce the current amplitude before switching and increase the current amplitude after switching. The switching operation unit, the pole number switching period, operates the inverter so that a total value of the current amplitude before switching and the current amplitude after switching does not exceed a limiting current value.
US11152881B2
A control device includes: a first power converter applying a voltage to a first winding; a second power converter applying a voltage to a second winding; a first power supply circuit supplying power to the first power converter; a second power supply circuit supplying power to the second power converter; a current command calculator; a first current controller; and a second current controller. The second power supply circuit supplies power at a voltage higher than a voltage of the first power supply circuit. The current command calculator calculates a first voltage usage state, which is an indicator value correlated with a magnitude of the output voltage of the first power converter with respect to a power supply voltage output at a time of supply of power by the first power supply circuit, and calculates the second current command based on the first voltage usage state.
US11152880B2
A control apparatus includes a controller that controls, by vector control, voltages and currents to be supplied to plural phases of a brushless motor. The vector control is performed through rotation control using a q-axis current predominantly to control rotation of a rotor, and field fixing control using a d-axis current predominantly in response to reception of a stop command signal. The controller controls the brushless motor with reduced influence of a dead time, in which a high-side switching element and a low-side switching element of each of plural half-bridge circuits are simultaneously set to OFF. The plural half-bridge circuits are provided in association with the plural phases of the brushless motor and are configured to supply the voltages and the currents to the respective phases. The influence of the dead time is reduced through the field fixing control.
US11152869B2
A system may include a power converter and a control system communicatively coupled to the power converter. The control system may determine a first DC voltage associated with the DC bus based on one or more DC external capacitance values that correspond to one or more loads coupled to the power converter. The control system may also determine a second DC voltage associated with the DC bus based on a capacitance of a system in which the power converter operates. The control system may also determine a third DC voltage associated with the DC bus based on the first DC voltage and the second DC voltage and adjust an operation of the power converter based on the third DC voltage.
US11152864B2
An active clamp circuit for a power converter having a transformer includes a switch having a drain node, a gate node, and a source node, the drain node configured to be connected to a first terminal of a primary winding of the transformer, a capacitor having a first terminal connected to the source node, and a second terminal to be connected to a second terminal of the primary winding, a gate driver coupled to the gate node to control the switch and having a high-side input node and a low-side input node, the low-side input node being coupled to the first terminal of the capacitor, and a voltage regulator to: i) receive an input voltage from the second terminal of the capacitor, and ii) provide a regulated voltage to the high-side input node using the input voltage and being of a sufficient voltage level to control the switch.
US11152860B2
A multi-phase switching regulator and a switching regulating method using the multi-phase switching regulator employ an interleaving circuit. The multi-phase switching regulator includes: a first regulating circuit configured to receive an input voltage and generate a first sub-output voltage with a first phase by transforming the input voltage in response to a first set signal; a second regulating circuit configured to receive the input voltage and generate a second sub-output voltage with a second phase by transforming the input voltage in response to a second set signal; and the interleaving circuit configured to repeatedly and sequentially generate the first set signal and the second set signal by comparing a reference voltage with an output voltage generated based on the first sub-output voltage and the second sub-output voltage.
US11152856B2
A device for limiting a power loss during the sampling of a digital signal is illustrated. The device comprises a circuit disposed in the signal path of the digital signal, the circuit being configured to reduce a current flow along the signal path in response to a control signal which indicates a sampling pause.
US11152848B2
A drive circuit with a zero-crossing detection function, and a zero-crossing detection method. The drive circuit comprises: a power switch transistor, a pull-up drive transistor, a first pull-down drive transistor and a second pull-down drive transistor. When an inductor starts to discharge, the first pull-down current and the second pull-down current jointly pull down a gate terminal of the power switch transistor, such that the power switch transistor is in a cut-off state; after a set time, the first pull-down current is turned off; and when the inductor ends discharging, a parasitic capacitance of the power switch transistor couples with the drop signal, and when the drop signal is detected, the pull-up current pulls up the gate terminal of the power switch transistor, such that the power switch transistor is in a turn-on state.
US11152846B2
A DC-DC converter providing adaptive peak current control is disclosed. A DC-DC converter includes an inductor having first and second terminals coupled to a voltage source and a transistor, respectively. The DC-DC circuit further includes a control circuit configured to control activation of the transistor. A first control block of the control circuit controls the transistor (and thus the inductor peak current) using pulse frequency modulation (PFM). A second control block controls the transistor using pulse width modulation (PWM) and PFM. In a first mode of operation, the control circuit activates the transistor, using PFM, such that the peak-to-peak current through the inductor has a fixed value. In a second mode of operation, the control circuit activates the transistor such that the peak-to-peak current through the inductor is modulated, using both PWM and PFM.
US11152842B2
A motor includes a coil and a rotor plate positioned proximate to the coil. Magnets are affixed on the side of the rotor plate and arranged in a circle such that, upon rotation of the rotor plate, the magnets pass, successively, adjacent the coil. Each of the magnets is oriented in a plane that extends through each of the magnets from the north pole to the south pole thereof. The magnets include at least a first magnet, a second magnet, and a third magnet. The second magnet is adjacent the first magnet, and the third magnet is adjacent the first magnet. The north pole of the first magnet is spaced a predetermined distance from the south pole of the third magnet, and the south pole of the first magnet is spaced the predetermined distance from the north pole of the second magnet.
US11152839B2
Methods and systems of operating hydraulically powered electric generators are disclosed. The hydraulically powered electric generators comprise opposing stators spaced apart by an armature. The armature is positioned against a first stator. A conduction path is established through a coil of the first stator. The armature is magnetically held against the first stator for a specific time period. The armature is hydraulically moved away from the first stator to capture electrical energy resulting from a collapse in magnetic field in the first stator and the armature.
US11152837B2
A generator arrangement includes a housing with a mounting feature, a main generator with an outboard shaft arranged within the housing and axially offset from the mounting feature along a rotation axis, and a permanent magnet generator. The permanent magnet generator has an inboard shaft arranged within the housing between the main generator and the mounting feature. The outboard shaft is coupled to the inboard shaft to provide rotation to the main generator through the permanent magnet generator. Accessory gearboxes and methods of generating electrical power are also described.
US11152836B2
A rotating electric machine includes a stator having a winding head at each axial end and including a rotor, which is rotatably mounted in an opening in the stator and which has a rotor shaft and a laminated rotor core. The electric machine includes a bearing unit for the rotatable mounting of the rotor shaft with respect to the laminated rotor core, a transmission unit, a coupling unit, which is designed to provide at least two coupling states for coupling the rotation of the rotor shaft to the laminated rotor core and, in at least one of the coupling states, to couple the rotor shaft to the laminated rotor core by means of the transmission unit.
US11152827B2
An end plate for a rotor assembly of an electrical machine includes a central through-opening for a shaft, a collar formed on an end face of the end plate on the radial outside in the circumferential direction and a plurality of elevations on the end face. The elevations and collar axially delimit a cooling channel, wherein the cooling channel forms a plurality of cooling channel sections on both sides by a respective elevation. Two elevations delimiting a cooling channel section are spaced apart from one another by a first arc length at a first radial position between the through-opening and the collar and are spaced apart from one another by a second arc length greater than the first arc length at a second radial position delimited by the collar. Each cooling channel section includes at least one fluid guide element between the first radial position and the second radial position.
US11152814B2
Presented are mobile charging stations for recharging electrified vehicles, methods for making/using such mobile charging stations, and parking facilities equipped with such mobile charging stations. A mobile charging station includes a frame with multiple drive wheels and a prime mover operable to drive the wheels to propel the charging station. A hydrogen storage container and fuel cell are mounted to the frame. The fuel cell oxidizes hydrogen received from the storage container to generate electrical current. An electrical coupling mechanism connects the fuel cell to a traction battery pack of an electric-drive vehicle. A resident or remote controller is programmed to receive charge requests to recharge vehicles, and responsively determines path plan data for the mobile charging station. The controller commands the prime mover to propel the mobile charging station from the charger's origin to a charger destination, and enables the fuel cell to transmit electrical current to the vehicle.
US11152811B2
In one or more embodiments, a wireless communications device of an information handling system may receive wireless power from a wireless charging unit, coupled to a wireless docking device; in response to receiving the wireless power from the wireless charging unit, the wireless communications device of the information handling system may establish wireless communications with a wireless communications device of the wireless charging unit; the wireless communications device of the information handling system may wirelessly receive information from the wireless communications device of the wireless charging unit; the wireless communications device of the information handling system may provide the information to an embedded controller of the information handling system; and the embedded controller may perform an action associated with the information handling system. In one or more embodiments, the information may include a state transition command configured to transition the information handling system to an information processing state.
US11152807B2
A method selects one or a plurality of sets of values characterizing an electric power of a power source capable of powering a device coupled to the power source via a connection interface. The selection is carried out according to values, characterizing the power supplied by the power source, measured at the connection interface.
US11152805B2
A system, an electrical combination and a method for powering a load device. The combination may include a burst circuit configured to provide power to the load device to perform a burst operation, the burst circuit including a supercapacitor, a first switch between a power source and the supercapacitor and operable to control whether power is provided from the power source to charge the supercapacitor, and a second switch between the supercapacitor and the load device and operable to control whether power is provided from the supercapacitor to the load device, and an electronic processor configured to control the first switch and the second switch based at least in part on a voltage of the supercapacitor.
US11152804B2
A status monitor circuit for detecting the status of a DC power supply for charging a battery is provided. The status monitor circuit includes a DC bus and a failure indicator circuit. The DC bus is coupled between the DC power supply and the battery. The failure indicator circuit is configured to detect a DC voltage generated by the DC power supply on the DC bus. The failure indicator circuit includes a failure indicator and a relay configured to activate the failure indicator when the DC voltage is below a failure threshold voltage.
US11152802B1
A portable battery charger having a battery assembly, a security assembly, and a communication assembly is disclosed. The battery assembly includes a rechargeable battery that is stored within a rectangular housing. The security assembly includes various security features that are stored within the housing such as a pepper spray dispenser and a high definition camera. Furthermore, the security assembly includes a voice recorder that clearly records audio from a surrounding area. Additionally, the video and audio that is captured is stored within an SD memory card that is inserted into the housing. The communication assembly includes a wireless communication module within the housing that connects to a mobile device through a Bluetooth connection.
US11152801B2
Provided is an energy level conversion circuit for a portable energy storage apparatus, and includes a motherboard circuit to connect a plurality of sub-board circuits in series through female connectors, wherein the sub-board circuits receive input of direct current (DC) power, convert it to a preset energy level and output it, and the sub-board circuits connected or inserted into the motherboard circuit through the female connectors, and including a switching unit which is switched by a pair of switching pulses (P1, P2) applied from the motherboard circuit, so that when each switching transistor (Q1, Q2) is on/off, power transformed through a transformer is outputted through secondary side transformer tap connection terminals (T1, T2), wherein the sub-board circuits are connected in series through a female connector unit of the motherboard circuit, so that DC power whose energy level is converted as much as the number of the sub-board circuits is outputted through the motherboard circuit.
US11152793B2
A resonant transformer connected between a ground terminal and elevated terminal draws current from the earth's electric field through a primary winding of the transformer. An impulse generator applies a high voltage impulse to the primary winding of the resonant transformer to cause current to flow from the ground terminal through the primary winding. The flow of current through the primary winding of the resonant transformer induces a current in the secondary winding, which may be converted and filtered to a usable form, e.g. 60 Hz AC or DC.
US11152788B2
A power system includes: a storage battery; a water electrolyzer; a fuel cell that generates electricity using hydrogen supplied from a hydrogen reservoir that stores hydrogen generated by the water electrolyzer; a detector that detects whether there is a person in a building; and a controller that performs at least one of first control and second control. The first control determines a priority between the storage battery and the water electrolyzer, to which electric power is supplied from a power generation device using renewable energy, based on information detected by the detector. The second control determines a priority between the storage battery and the fuel cell, from which electric power is supplied to a power load provided in the building, based on the information detected by the detector.
US11152782B2
A drive device (9) drivably controls linear solenoid valves (SL1 to SL5) by inputting respective drive signals to one-side ends (5a) of the linear solenoid valves (SL1 to SL5) via a connector (Co) and wires (Ha). Other-side ends (5b) of the linear solenoid valves (SL1 to SL5) are connected to respective wires (56). The wires (56) are connected to the connector (Co) while being integrally commonalized by the common wire (57). This allows reducing the number of ground terminals gt of the connector (Co), whereby the connector (Co) can be downsized.
US11152768B2
Systems and methods according to present principles provide, at room temperature, a bound state in the continuum laser that harnesses optical modes residing in the radiation continuum but nonetheless may possess arbitrarily high quality factors. These counterintuitive cavities are based on resonantly trapped symmetry-compatible modes that destructively interfere. Such systems and methods may be applied towards coherent sources with intriguing topological properties for optical trapping, biological imaging, and quantum communication.
US11152767B1
A monolithic edge emitting semiconductor laser comprising multiple laser diodes using aluminum indium gallium arsenide phosphide AlInGaAs/InGaAsP/InP material system, emitting in long wavelengths (1250 nm to 1720 nm). Each laser diode contains an active region comprising aluminium indium gallium arsenide quantum wells (AlInGaAs QW) and aluminium indium gallium arsenide (AlInGaAs) barriers and connected to the subsequent monolithic laser diode by highly doped, low bandgap and low resistive indium gallium arsenide junction called tunnel junction.
US11152757B2
A fiber laser producing a beam of ultrashort laser pulses at a repetition rate greater than 200 MHz includes a linear fiber resonator and a fiber branch. Ultrashort laser pulses are generated by passive mode-locking and circulate within the linear fiber resonator. Each circulating laser pulse is split into a portion that continues propagating in the linear fiber resonator and a complementary portion that propagates through the fiber branch and is then returned to the linear fiber resonator. The optical length of the linear fiber resonator is an integer multiple of the optical length of the fiber branch. The repetition rate of the ultrashort laser pulses is the reciprocal of the propagation time of the laser pulses through the fiber branch.
US11152755B2
A connector device having a multiple of connector connection terminals of differing connector frontage forms is such that when there is a change in a disposition of a connector frontage, or when using a different connector connection terminal, there is a need to newly prepare a molding die for the whole device. Because of this, the invention includes a first step of fabricating an integrally molded article including a connector connection terminal, forming a connector housing by integrating a multiple of integrally molded articles fabricated in the first step, and forming a connector frontage corresponding to each integrally molded article.
US11152752B2
Audio jacks and device enclosures that provide proper grounding, are readily reworkable, provide improved ventilation, and have an aesthetically pleasing appearance. An example can include a device enclosure including an enclosure wall and a sleeve for an audio jack. The sleeve can connect to ground through various paths. The audio jack housing can be inserted in the sleeve and kept in place using a fastener. This arrangement can allow the audio jack to be readily reworkable. The sleeve can be narrow at the enclosure wall for improved ventilation and an aesthetically pleasing appearance.
US11152751B1
A first hold-down includes a reinforcing plate part that covers a CPU board opposed surface. A suction cover includes a flat-plate suction plate part covering an electrical contact spring piece of each contact and thereby able to be sucked by a suction nozzle, a plurality of attachment spring pieces configured to catch on a connector so that the suction plate part is detachable from a connector, and a first main deformation restraining part projecting from the suction plate part toward the CPU board opposed surface in order to inhibit the suction plate part from being deformed toward the CPU board opposed surface in the state where the suction cover is attached to the connector. The first main deformation restraining part is disposed to come into contact with the reinforcing plate part when the suction plate part is deformed toward the CPU board opposed surface.
US11152749B2
The present application discloses an electrical connector including a first lower insulating housing, a second upper insulating housing, a number of first conductive terminals held on the first lower insulating housing, and a number of second conductive terminals held on the second upper insulating housing. Each first conductive terminal includes a first tail portion for connecting with a printed circuit board. Each second conductive terminal includes a second tail portion for connecting with the printed circuit board. The first tail portions are arranged in a first and front row and the second tail portions are arranged in a second and rear row spaced away from the first and front row. A waterproof plate is formed between the first tail portions and the second tail portions by glue injection.
US11152746B2
An electrical connector includes a first member, a second member, and a sleeve connected to the first member. The sleeve may connect with a first component. The second member may connect with a second component. The first member may include a flange. The first portion of the sleeve may be disposed substantially at a first axial side of the flange. A second portion of the sleeve may be disposed substantially at a second axial side. The first and second members may include corresponding latching portions configured to selectively connect the first member with the second member and restrict relative axial movement between the first member and the second member. The latching portion of the second member may include a latching spring, and the latching portion of the first member may include a latching spring groove. When latched, the latching spring may be at least partially in the latching spring groove.
US11152744B2
Disclosed is a plug-type connector having a housing having at least one electrical contact element held therein, a locking ring and a union sleeve. The union sleeve and the locking ring are each arranged on the plug side of the plug-type connector, wherein the union sleeve can be moved axially and interacts with the locking ring. The union sleeve has a circumferential undercut and a circumferential groove adjoining the undercut, wherein the undercut is arranged on the union sleeve in the direction of the connection side and the groove is arranged on the union sleeve in tire direction of the plug side. The plug-type connector also has a seal, which serves simultaneously as a vibration damping system, a locking system and a protective system.
US11152741B2
This connector is provided with: an apparatus-side connector (70) attached to an apparatus having a case (90); and a wire-side connector (20) to which a protective pipe (11) that protects a wire (10) is attached. A through hole (27) is formed inside the wire-side connector (20). A through hole (78) is formed inside the apparatus-side connector (70). When the wire-side connector (20) and the apparatus-side connector (70) are normally fitted, an air passage (60) communicating the inner space (S2) of the case (90) of the apparatus and the inner space (S1) of the protective pipe (11) through the through hole (27) and the through hole (78) is formed inside the wire-side connector (20) and the apparatus-side connector (70).
US11152735B2
An electrical connector comprising an insulative housing and a retainer assembled into the insulative housing. The insulative housing has a mating face and a mounting face opposite to each other, and comprises a plurality of passageways passing through thereof along a front-and-back direction for receiving corresponding contacts and a receiving cavity recessed backwards from the mating face. The retainer is provided with a plurality of first latching portions and a plurality of second latching portions, and the first latching portions and the second latching portions are staggered along the front-and-back direction, the retainer is assembled and locked in the insulative housing without dropping out of the insulative housing via the first latching portions; after the contacts assembled into the insulative housing, the retainer is pushed towards the mounting face by an external force, until the second latching portions locked in receiving cavity.
US11152732B2
An electrical connector includes at least one conductive terminal mounted to a housing. The conductive terminal has a body, two elastic arms formed by extending upward from the body, a conducting portion connected below the body and having a strip connecting portion to be connected to a first strip, and a connecting portion provided at an upper end of the body to be connected to a second strip to assist mounting and located between the two elastic arms. A method for manufacturing the electrical connector includes: forming at least one conductive terminal and a first strip connected thereto; connecting a second strip to the connecting portion of the conductive terminal; disconnecting the conducting portion of the conductive terminal and the first strip; operating the second strip to control the conductive terminal to be mounted to a housing; and releasing a control force of the second strip onto the conductive terminal.
US11152730B2
A female terminal includes a tubular body (10) with a bottom wall (11), first and second side walls (12, 13) and a ceiling (14). The first side wall (12) has a supporting hole (12A) and the second side wall (13) has an engaging hole (13A). An engaging projection (14A) projects from the ceiling (14) and into the engaging hole (13A). A leaf spring (20) is cantilevered in the tubular body (10) and includes a base (22), a flexible portion (26) extending rearward from the base (22), a coupling (23) coupling the base (22) to the second side wall (13), and a support (24) projecting from a side of the base (22) opposite the coupling (23) and into the supporting hole (12A). The free end (25) of the flexible portion (26) can contact the ceiling while avoiding the engaging projection (14A) when the flexible portion (26) is deformed toward the ceiling.
US11152726B2
The present technology relates to a connector device and a connector system capable of achieving reduction in manufacturing cost. Provided is a connector device including a first contact used in actual use, and a second contact used only in manufacturing, in which the first contact and the second contact have different core lengths in a case of being viewed from a connection target side. The present technology can be applied to a camera device electrically connected to a vehicle connector, for example.
US11152718B2
An electric cable including a terminal includes an electric wire and a female terminal. The female terminal includes a first holding portion and a second holding portion that hold the electric wire. The female terminal includes a first pressing portion and the second pressing portion pressing the first holding portion and the second holding portion toward the electric wire. The first holding portion and the second holding portion include a first protrusion and a second protrusion, respectively. The first protrusion and the second protrusion protrude toward the electric wire. A core wire of the electric wire includes a recess in which the first protrusion and the second protrusion are fitted.
US11152706B2
An antenna device includes a first antenna conductor, a ground conductor, an artificial magnetic conductor sandwiched between the first antenna conductor and the ground conductor, and disposed separately from the first antenna conductor and the ground conductor, and a second antenna conductor disposed on a side opposite to the artificial magnetic conductor across the first antenna conductor and disposed furthest away from the ground conductor.
US11152705B2
An apparatus includes two or more groups of antennas, each including two or more patches of optically tunable material providing two or more antennas. The tunable geometric metasurface also includes a control circuit including a plurality of switches providing current sources and a ground voltage. The plurality of switches are coupled to respective ones of the patches of optically tunable material in each of the groups of antennas via first electrodes. The ground voltage is coupled to respective ones of the patches of optically tunable material in each of the groups of antennas via second electrodes. The control circuit is configured to modify states of the antennas in each of the groups of antennas utilizing the first electrodes and the second electrodes to adjust reflectivity of the patches of optically tunable material to provide a tunable geometric metasurface.
US11152684B2
A radiofrequency communication module or semi-finished product able to be integrated into the structure of a tire comprises a radiofrequency transponder embedded in an elastomer blend and comprising an electronic chip and a radiating antenna that is able to communicate with a radiofrequency reader. The radiofrequency transponder in addition comprises a primary antenna that is electrically connected to the electronic chip, the primary antenna is electromagnetically coupled to the radiating antenna, the radiating antenna consists of a single-strand helical spring, and the radiating antenna has a core made of steel coated with a conduction layer.
US11152683B2
A dual band antenna (AN) configured for being position on a surface of a pit lid and capable of wireless signal transmission at two frequency bands in response to an electrical signal applied via a feed wire. A convex conductive surface, e.g. 5 dome-shaped, is placed above a conductive ground plane element, wherein at least a part of an edge, e.g. 20-40% of the edge, of the dome-shaped radiator element is in electrical contact with the conductive ground plane element. Further, the convex conductive surface is connected via the feed wire. This antenna design allows first and second resonance frequencies within a factor of such as 1.8-2.2, 10 which allows the antenna to be designed e.g. for both of the frequency bands 450-470 MHz and 902-928 MHz which are relevant for meter reading data and with smaller dimension than what could be expected from conventional antennas. A housing with a convex top surface forms an enclosure around the antenna parts conductive ground plane element and the dome-shaped radiator element, the 15 housing has a bottom surface arranged to face the surface of the pit lid, and where the feed wire exits the housing.
US11152682B2
The present invention meets the needs described above through low-PIM universal antenna equipment mounts and associated assemblies for use at cell sites. The universal mounts are typically deployed in antenna equipment assemblies located in the nearfield reactive region behind the base station antennas. The mounts suppress PIM generation as compared to conventional equipment mounts even though the universal mounts are located well outside the main beam of the base station antenna. An illustrative universal mount includes a pressure bushing with a cap that includes a pair of parallel rails to stabilize the bushing on a metal mast. The rails allow the pressure bushing to transfer the load of the supported equipment to the curved surface of round cylindrical masts irrespective of the pipe diameter within the typical range of mast diameters, such as 2 inches to 6 inches in diameter.
US11152679B2
A directional coupler includes an input connector, an output connector, and at least one tap connector. The directional coupler also includes a primary line connecting the input connector to the output connector and configured to carry an RF signal and an AC signal, and a secondary line connecting the primary line to the at least one tap connector and configured to carry a split off portion of the RF signal. The directional coupler also includes a tapped line circuit which is inhibited from carrying the AC signal. The mainline transformer includes a ferrite element surrounding the primary line and which is split in at least one location to include a gap of non-magnetic material that inhibits saturation of the ferrite element.
US11152673B2
A positive electrode collector has a part connected to a positive electrode terminal and a part connected to a positive electrode tab. In the positive electrode collector, a fuse portion is provided between the part connected to the positive electrode terminal and the part connected to the positive electrode tab. In the positive electrode collector, a region closer to the part connected to the positive electrode terminal than the fuse portion is referred to as a first region, and a region closer to the part connected to the positive electrode tab than the fuse portion is referred to as a second region. An insulating plate as an insulating member disposed between the positive electrode collector and an electrode body is connected to the second region, and the second region is prevented from moving toward the first region after the fuse portion blows.
US11152670B2
A battery system includes a pair of current collectors that are configured to provide a parallel electrical connection between electrochemical cells of a cell array. The pair of current collectors includes a first current collector plate that provides an electrical connection between the ends of the respective cells, and a second current collector plate that includes openings that receive the cells therein, and provide an electrical connection between the sidewalls of the respective cells. The current collectors are each on the same end of the cells and the opposed end of the cell can be protected or electrically isolated for a multitude of functions, such as cell cooling.
US11152667B2
A particulate polymer for a binder of a lithium ion secondary battery, wherein ion conductivity of a film formed by the particulate polymer after being immersed in an electrolytic solution at 60° C. for 72 hours is 1×10−5 S/cm to 1×103 S/cm, and tensile strength of the film is 500 N/cm2 to 4000 N/cm2.
US11152666B2
The present invention relates to a battery separator containing a composite that in turn contains the following components: (A) 5 to 95 wt.-% of at least one carrier material that consists of glass fibers, the carrier material being selected from the group comprising nonwovens, laid scrims, knitted fabrics, woven fabrics and/or mixtures thereof; (B) 5 to 95 wt.-% of at least one glass platelet having an average thickness of 0.05 μm to 30 μm; and (C) 0 to 95 wt.-% of at least one binder; the components (A), (B) and (C) adding up to 100 wt.-% and the battery separator having a porosity in the range of 10 to 70% and a total thickness of 0.01 mm to 0.5 mm. The present invention further relates to methods for producing the battery separator and to the use thereof in a battery.
US11152661B2
Provided by the present disclosure is a batten pack in which both battery performance and durability of an all solid state battery are improved. Provided is a battery pack provided with a plurality of single batteries and a constraining mechanism. The constraining mechanism constrains the arranged single batteries in such a way that stress exists in the direction of compression along the arrangement direction. In addition, in a direction which intersects the arrangement direction, when a direction in which the external connection terminals extend is deemed to be a first direction and the direction opposite the first direction is deemed to a second direction, the constraining mechanism is configured in such a way that the stress increases from the first direction towards the second direction.
US11152660B2
A device is provided for accommodating at least one energy module for a motor vehicle, in particular for accommodating at least one high-voltage energy module for a hybrid or electric vehicle. The device includes a housing having a first and a second accommodating portion for accommodating at least one energy module, and a connecting portion arranged between the first and the second accommodating portions. The connecting portion is designed such that, when the housing is subjected to a predetermined force, deformation being the result, the connecting portion allows the first and the second accommodating portions to move relative to one another in a predetermined manner as a result of the deformation.
US11152658B2
A mobile terminal protection frame (100), comprising a frame body (120), a first snap-in part (140), a second snap-in part, and a connecting part; the frame body (120) surrounds the edge of a mobile terminal (20); an opening (122) used for insertion of a plug (240) of a battery case (200) is formed on the frame body (120) and corresponds to a charging port of the mobile terminal (20). The first snap-in part (140) is fixedly connected on one side of the frame body (120) and is used for snapping the front surface of the mobile terminal (20). The second snap-in part is fixedly connected on the other side of the frame body (120) and is used for snapping the back surface of the mobile terminal (20). The connecting part is fixedly connected with the second snap-in part and can be detachably connected with the battery case (200).
US11152656B1
The present application relates to a method and an apparatus for controlling a temperature of a battery pack, a battery management system, and a storage medium. The method for controlling a temperature of a battery pack includes: detecting a SOC of the battery pack; determining a SOC interval in which the SOC is located from a plurality of preset SOC intervals; determining a target temperature threshold corresponding to the SOC interval under a condition that a preset battery pack life requirement is met, based on a mapping relationship between preset SOC intervals, target temperature thresholds and battery pack life; and performing thermal management on the battery pack based on the target temperature threshold; where the performing thermal management on the battery pack based on the target temperature threshold comprises cooling the battery pack based on the target temperature threshold.
US11152654B2
The present application discloses a battery pack including a first battery and a second battery arranged in a stack, the second battery being closer to a center of the battery pack than the first battery in a stacking direction of the first battery and the second battery, wherein the first battery includes a first thermally conductive component and a first electrode assembly, the second battery includes a second thermally conductive component and a second electrode assembly, and a thermal conductivity of the second thermally conductive component is not lower than that of the first thermally conductive component. The battery pack provided by the present application may achieve temperature uniformity while keeping the overall temperature of the battery pack low.
US11152652B2
Techniques to diagnose internal short circuits (ISCs) of a lithium-ion battery (LIB) are disclosed. The short circuit resistance data can help to detect the ISCs of a LIB as fast as possible. For the proposed detection techniques, a resistor-based circuit and an inductor-based circuit are disclosed for single-cell LIBs as well as for LIBs having multiple cells. Two topologies of the resistor-based circuits are disclosed to detect the ISCs of multi-cell LIBs.
US11152635B2
According to the invention, a method for parallel condensation and evaporation is provided for a fuel cell system with a condensation/evaporation device. In this case, the condensation-evaporation device (KVV) has a condensation chamber and an evaporation chamber, which are thermally coupled to one another via a heat exchanger so that water vapor contained in the condensation chamber in exhaust gas of a fuel cell stack is condensed into water and in the evaporation chamber a liquid fuel of a two-phase mixture comprising the liquid fuel and a gas phase, are at least partially vaporized to fuel vapor. In this case, the energy required for evaporation is at least partially provided by waste heat from an exhaust gas of a fuel cell stack of a fuel cell and the associated energy withdrawal from the exhaust gas of a fuel cell stack is used for condensation. The present invention is characterized in that the gas phase comprises a carrier gas which is CO2.
US11152630B2
A control unit of a fuel cell (i) performs, when an estimated value of a storage amount in a storage portion of a gas-liquid separator is larger than a threshold storage amount, a first calculation process of calculating an estimated value of a discharge amount after a drain valve is opened, based on a drain speed which is determined with respect to a differential pressure in a first relationship; and (ii) performs, when the estimated value of the storage amount is equal to or smaller than the threshold storage amount, a second calculation process of calculating the estimated value of the discharge amount, based on a current drain speed determined with respect to an estimated value of a current storage amount in a second relationship that is prepared in advance and in which the drain speed decreases as the estimated value of the storage amount decreases.
US11152625B2
An intermediate temperature solid oxide fuel cell (IT-SOFC) includes an anode layer, an electrolyte adjacent to the anode layer, and a cathode layer adjacent to the electrolyte and including a material of formula (I) or (II): Sr2OsO4 (I) or Ba2MO4 (II), where M is a transition metal or post-transition metal.
US11152621B2
Since a surface of the artificial graphite of the negative electrode active material according to the present invention is modified with nitrogen, dispersibility in an aqueous system may be improved and accordingly, affinity between a binder and the negative electrode active material is increased to increase the adhesive strength of an electrode. Also, since the surface of the artificial graphite is modified with nitrogen, there is an effect of maintaining a high battery capacity. Furthermore, in the method of preparing a negative electrode active material according to the present invention, since an oxygen-containing functional group is connected to the artificial graphite by a mild oxidation process, the nitrogen may be easily attached to the artificial graphite so that the negative electrode active material becomes an electrical conductor by maintaining original crystallinity while having a hydrophilic property. Thus, excellent battery efficiency may be achieved.
US11152617B2
The present invention relates to a positive electrode active material for a lithium secondary battery which includes a lithium composite transition metal oxide including nickel (Ni), cobalt (Co), and manganese (Mn), wherein a portion of nickel (Ni) sites of the lithium composite transition metal oxide is substituted with tungsten (W), and an amount of a lithium tungsten oxide remaining on surfaces of lithium composite transition metal oxide particles is 1,000 ppm or less.
US11152608B2
A silicon and tin based micro-structured material and methods are shown. In one example, the silicon and tin based micro-structured material is used as an electrode in a battery, such as a lithium ion battery.
US11152606B2
An electrode assembly including a separator between a positive electrode and a negative electrode. Each of the positive electrode and the negative electrode includes a base member and an active material layer at at least one side of the base member. The active material layer of the negative electrode includes an alternating arrangement of orientation portions and non-orientation portions. Each of the orientation portions is oriented to have a constant angle with respect to one side of the negative electrode.
US11152603B2
The present invention relates to a saggar for firing an active material of a secondary battery, a method for manufacturing the saggar, and a method for firing the active material. The saggar for firing an active material of a secondary battery according to the present invention has a coating layer formed on a bottom surface or a wall surface thereof so as to collect carbon dioxide. By means of the coating layer, the concentration of the carbon dioxide in the saggar can be lowered by collecting the carbon dioxide that is a by-product resulting from a firing reaction, thereby enabling a reduction in the amount of remaining lithium in the active material. The saggar of the present invention provides the saggar for firing an active material of a secondary battery, wherein the saggar has at least one through hole in the bottom surface, or the bottom surface and wall surfaces thereof so as to communicate a gas.
US11152600B2
An organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display panel and a manufacture method thereof are provided, which can enable the organic material encapsulated inside to have the function of removing water and oxygen, thereby further ensuring a reliable lifespan of the OLED display panel.
US11152585B2
An optical device (30) includes a light-emitting device (10) and a sensor device (20) (light-receiving element (220)). The light-emitting device (10) includes a substrate (100), a plurality of light-emitting portions (140), and light-transmitting portions (106). The light-emitting portions (140) are located at a first surface (100a) side of the substrate (100). The light-emitting portion (140) has a light-shielding portion (102: first light-shielding portion). The light-shielding portion (102) is located at a position to cover light emitted from the adjacent light-emitting portion (140: first light-emitting portion) and emitted to the first surface (100a) side at at least any angle between 70° to 90° from the light-emitting device (10).
US11152582B2
The present application relates to a laminate and a method for preparing the same. The present application provides a laminate, including: a substrate; a first layer provided on the substrate; a second layer which is provided on the first layer and has an overhang structure with a width which is larger than that of the first layer; a conductive layer which is provided on the substrate and the second layer, in which the conductive layer provided on the substrate is electrically shorted from the conductive layer provided on the second layer.
US11152579B2
A compound having a formula useful as a phosphorescent emitter in organic light emitting devices is disclosed.
US11152558B2
Transducer driving methods and transducer driving systems are described. According to one aspect, a transducer driving method includes providing a plurality of initial driving signals to a transducer, wherein each of the initial driving signals has a respective one of a plurality of different frequencies, identifying one of the frequencies where the transducer has a reduced impedance as a result of the provision of one of the initial driving signals having the one frequency to the transducer compared with impedances of the transducer resulting from the provision of others of the initial driving signals having others of the frequencies to the transducer, determining that the identified one of the frequencies is not acceptable for driving the transducer, as a result of the determining, identifying another of the frequencies, and driving the transducer using another driving signal having the another frequency.
US11152547B2
A metallic structure for an optical semiconductor device including a conductive base body having disposed thereon metallic layers in the following order: a nickel or nickel alloy plated layer, a gold or gold alloy plated layer, and an indium or indium alloy plated layer, wherein the indium or indium alloy plated layer has a thickness in a range of 0.002 μm or more and 0.3 μm or less.
US11152539B2
Embodiments of the invention include a III-nitride light emitting layer disposed between an n-type region and a p-type region, a III-nitride layer including a nanopipe defect, and a nanopipe terminating layer disposed between the III-nitride light emitting layer and the III-nitride layer comprising a nanopipe defect. The nanopipe terminates in the nanopipe terminating layer.
US11152528B2
An apparatus includes at least one detector configured to receive return light from an object within a detector field of view the light generated by a light source. The detector includes first and second photosensitive regions configured to receive the return light from the light source. At least one non-photosensitive region is included, and the first and second photosensitive regions are separated by the at least one non-photosensitive region. The at least one non-photosensitive region is associated with one of the first or second photosensitive regions.
US11152526B2
The invention relates to a solar energy collection system that uses linear parabolic concentrators designed on a small scale and with a modular configuration that allows optimum usage of solar collection surface area in places such as the roofs or flat roofs of factories or shops where space is generally small or irregular. The solar collector is coupled in rows actuated by a fully autonomous system for electronically controlling solar tracking, the operation of which is based on an algorithm programmed in a microcontroller. An autonomous solar tracking system can efficiently control two parallel rows with a pre-defined number of solar concentrators, as well as automatically detecting the presence of impurities on a reflecting radiation surface for the maintenance thereof. The thermal energy produced is harnessed by a heat exchanger, the operation of which is based on conduction, convection and radiation for dehydration uses.
US11152524B2
An apparatus for attaching an interconnector of a solar cell panel, includes an interconnector supply unit for unwinding the interconnector wound around a winding roll and moving the interconnector in a processing direction; and an attachment unit for attaching the interconnector to a solar cell, wherein the interconnector supply unit includes the winding roll, around which the interconnector is wound; and an unwinding control member for unwinding the interconnector from the winding roll, and wherein the unwinding control member allows the interconnector to be unwound so as to pass through one end of the winding roll in a longitudinal direction.
US11152523B2
A solar cell that includes: a semiconductor substrate that has a length in a first direction and a width in a second direction, the second direction being different from the first direction; a first conductive region that is coupled to the semiconductor substrate; and a first electrode that is electrically connected to the first conductive region, wherein the first electrode comprises: a plurality of finger electrodes that extend in the first direction; and a connection electrode that extends in the second direction, that electrically connects two or more of the plurality of finger electrodes to each other, and that is separated from the first conductive region, and a solar cell panel including the solar cell are disclosed.
US11152521B2
A semiconductor laminate includes a substrate composed of InP, a first buffer layer composed of InP containing less than 1×1021 cm−3 Sb and disposed on the substrate, and a second buffer layer composed of InGaAs and disposed on the first buffer layer. The first buffer layer includes a first layer that has a higher concentration of Sb than the substrate and that is arranged to include a first main surface which is a main surface of the first buffer layer on the substrate side. The second buffer layer includes a second layer that has a lower concentration of Sb than the first layer and that is arranged to include a second main surface which is a main surface of the second buffer layer on the first buffer layer side.
US11152518B2
The formation of solar cell contacts using a laser is described. A method of fabricating a back-contact solar cell includes forming a poly-crystalline material layer above a single-crystalline substrate. The method also includes forming a dielectric material stack above the poly-crystalline material layer. The method also includes forming, by laser ablation, a plurality of contacts holes in the dielectric material stack, each of the contact holes exposing a portion of the poly-crystalline material layer; and forming conductive contacts in the plurality of contact holes.
US11152515B2
A manufacturing method of a semiconductor device includes the following steps. An opening is formed penetrating a dielectric layer on a semiconductor substrate. A stacked structure is formed on the dielectric layer. The stacked structure includes a first semiconductor layer partly formed in the opening and partly formed on the dielectric layer, a sacrificial layer formed on the first semiconductor layer, and a second semiconductor layer formed on the sacrificial layer. A patterning process is performed for forming a fin-shaped structure including the first semiconductor layer, the sacrificial layer, and the second semiconductor layer. An etching process is performed to remove the sacrificial layer in the fin-shaped structure. The first semiconductor layer in the fin-shaped structure is etched to become a first semiconductor wire by the etching process. The second semiconductor layer in the fin-shaped structure is etched to become a second semiconductor wire by the etching process.
US11152509B2
A device comprises an array comprising rows and columns of elevationally-extending transistors. An access line interconnects multiple of the elevationally-extending transistors along individual of the rows. The transistors individually comprise an upper source/drain region, a lower source/drain region, and a channel region extending elevationally there-between. The channel region comprises an oxide semiconductor. A transistor gate is operatively laterally-proximate the channel region and comprises a portion of an individual of the access lines. Intra-row-insulating material is longitudinally between immediately-intra-row-adjacent of the elevationally-extending transistors. Inter-row-insulating material is laterally between immediately-adjacent of the rows of the elevationally-extending transistors. At least one of the intra-row-insulating material and the inter-row-insulating material comprises void space. Other embodiments, including method embodiments, are disclosed.
US11152503B1
A silicon carbide MOSFET includes a plurality of first and second trenches each of which extends a predetermined vertical distance from the top of a source down through a body region and into a current spreading layer (CSL). An insulated gate member is disposed in each first trench. The first trenches are each arranged in a wave-shaped pattern that extends in first and second lateral directions. Each of the second trenches is disposed between a pair of adjacent first trenches in the first lateral direction. A shielding region extends vertically from the bottom of each of the second trenches down into a drift region. A top metal layer fill each of the second trenches and electrically contacts the source region, the body region, the CSL, and the shielding region. A bottom metal layer electrically contacts the drain region.
US11152485B2
A semiconductor structure including a substrate, a complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) device, a bipolar junction transistor (BJT), and a first protection layer is provided. The CMOS device includes an N-type metal oxide semiconductor (NMOS) transistor and a P-type metal oxide semiconductor (PMOS) transistor disposed on the substrate. The BJT includes a collector, a base and an emitter. The collector is disposed in the substrate. The base is disposed on the substrate. The emitter is disposed on the base. A top surface of a channel of the NMOS transistor, a top surface of a channel of the PMOS transistor and a top surface of the collector of the BJT have the same height. The first protection layer is disposed on the substrate and exposes the substrate. The base is disposed on the substrate exposed by the first protection layer. The semiconductor structure can have better overall performance.
US11152469B2
A silicon carbide semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type, a first semiconductor layer of the first conductivity type, a second semiconductor layer of a second conductivity type, first semiconductor regions of the first conductivity type, first base regions of the second conductivity type, second base regions of the second conductivity type, gate insulating films, gate electrodes, a first electrode, a second electrode, and trenches. Between the trenches, the first base regions are in contact with the second semiconductor layer. The second base regions are provided at positions facing the trenches in a depth direction, respectively, and have a first surface facing the second electrode and a second surface facing the first electrode, where a curvature of the first surface is smaller than a curvature of the second surface.
US11152464B1
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to methods and resulting structures for nanosheet devices having self-aligned isolations. In a non-limiting embodiment of the invention, a first gate stack is formed over channel regions of a first nanosheet stack. A second gate stack is formed over channel regions of a second nanosheet stack adjacent to the first nanosheet stack. An isolation pillar is positioned between the first gate stack and the second gate stack. The isolation pillar includes a top portion having a first width and a bottom portion having a second width less than the first width.
US11152448B2
The present disclosure provides an array substrate which comprises a plurality of sub-pixels distributed in an array arrangement, wherein data lines and power supply signal lines are disposed between two adjacent columns of the sub-pixels; wherein the data lines and the power supply signal lines are prepared respectively on different film layer surfaces, and the data lines and the power supply signal lines at least partially overlap. The present disclosure further provides an OLED display device which comprises the array substrate. The array substrate of the present disclosure has a higher aperture ratio.
US11152445B2
The present disclosure provides a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes pixel circuits arranged in a matrix, and a blocking unit. Each pixel circuit includes: a driving transistor; a first switch transistor; a second switch transistor; and a third switch transistor. The blocking unit is configured to receive a fixed potential signal, and at least a partial area of the blocking unit is located between a first semiconductor connection portion and a second semiconductor connection portion, the first semiconductor connection portion is connected between a second electrode of the first switch transistor and a gate electrode of the driving transistor, and the second semiconductor connection portion is electrically connected between a first electrode of the second switch transistor and a data line.
US11152444B2
A display panel and a display device includes a high-permittivity material disposed between electrodes of capacitor disposed in a subpixel. This increases the capacitance per area of the capacitor, such that a high-resolution display device is provided. A high-permittivity material is disposed in the insulating layer, and the surface of the insulating layer is planarized by polishing. The high-permittivity material is prevented from residing in any area, except for the area in which the capacitor is disposed. An unnecessary increase in load in the subpixel is prevented, and the capacitance of the capacitor is increased.
US11152437B2
A display apparatus includes a base substrate, a thin film transistor layer on the base substrate, an insulation layer on the thin film transistor layer, a first electrode on the insulation layer and in a light emitting area, a pixel defining layer having an opening that has a size and a shape substantially same as that of the first electrode, and on the insulation layer, a light emitting layer on the first electrode, and a second electrode on the light emitting layer.
US11152433B2
A display screen and a display apparatus. The display screen includes a first region and a second region. The first region has a physical pixel density smaller than that of the second region. By providing a first region and a second region and having a greater physical pixel density in the second region than that in the first region, light can transmit through the gap between the pixels in the first region configured to house the under-screen photosensitive module such as a camera and the like, so as to achieve a high light transmittance and therefore to achieve an entire screen or full screen display. A non-display region above the active display region can be omitted and the screen-to-body ratio is increased, user experience is optimized and thus the technical problem of unfavorable user experience due to the presence of the non-display region is addressed.
US11152423B2
An optical assembly and a display device are disclosed. In an embodiment an optical assembly includes a common carrier, a plurality of first chip groups, each first chip group comprising at least two similar luminescence diode chips, a plurality of second chip groups, each second chip group comprising at least two similar luminescence diode chips, wherein the first and second chip groups are arranged planar along a regular grid of first unit cells on a main surface of the common carrier and an optical element arranged downstream of the first and second chip groups with respect to a main radiation direction, wherein the luminescence diode chips of the different chip groups are configured to emit electromagnetic radiation of different wavelength characteristics.
US11152416B2
A semiconductor package includes a first semiconductor chip. A second semiconductor chip is below the first semiconductor chip. A third semiconductor chip is below the second semiconductor chip. The second semiconductor chip includes a first surface in direct contact with the first semiconductor chip, and a second surface facing the third semiconductor chip. A first redistribution pattern is on the second surface of the second semiconductor chip and is electrically connected to the third semiconductor chip. The third semiconductor chip includes a third surface facing the second semiconductor chip. A conductive pad is on the third surface.
US11152406B2
A photodetection device including a pixel matrix, each of the pixels including a photodiode, the absorption region of which extends entirely or almost entirely inside a volume surrounding a central region of the pixel; and a focusing element. An assembly of focusing elements is composed of refractive structures, each formed by a first truncated pyramid with a recess in the shape of a second inverted pyramid. The angles φi at the base of the pyramids satisfy the following relation: 2 * φ i - sin - 1 ( n 0 n 1 sin ( φ i ) ) < π 2 wherein n0 is the optical index of a medium surrounding the refractive structures on the side opposite the photodiodes, and n1 is an optical index of the refractive structures.
US11152400B2
A thin film transistor array substrate includes: a first conductive layer including first lines for transmitting data signals to the thin film transistors; a second conductive layer disposed on the first conductive layer and including second lines for supplying a driving voltage to the thin film transistors; a first insulating layer disposed between a semiconductor layer and the first conductive layer and including a first material layer; a second insulating layer disposed between the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer and including a second material layer having a dielectric constant greater than that of the first material layer; and a contact plug penetrating the second insulating layer and the first insulating layer, and connecting the second conductive layer to the semiconductor layer. A taper angle of the contact plug in the second material layer is greater than that of the contact plug in the first material layer.
US11152398B2
A display panel includes a substrate, a thin film transistor (TFT) layer on the substrate, and multiple connection lines disposed between the substrate and the TFT layer. The TFT layer includes TFTs and signal lines connected to the TFTs for providing signals to the TFTs. Each connection line is electrically connected to a signal line. The present invention also teaches a display panel manufacturing method. The present invention has the connection lines formed in the display area, instead of in the non-display area, thereby reducing the width of the non-display area.
US11152396B2
An apparatus includes a first layer, a second layer under the first layer along an axis, and a metal layer between the first layer and the second layer along the axis. The first layer includes a first plurality of transistors, where a given transistor of the first plurality of transistors includes a gate region; and the second layer includes a second plurality of transistors. The metal layer includes a metal below the gate region, and the metal is within thirty nanometers (nm) of the gate region.
US11152395B1
A monolithic multi-FET transistor comprises an epitaxial layer disposed on a dielectric layer. The epitaxial layer comprises a crystalline semiconductor material and a multi-FET area. An isolation structure surrounds the multi-FET area and divides the multi-FET area into separate FET portions. A gate disposed on a gate dielectric extends over each FET portion. A source and a drain are each disposed on opposite sides of the gate on the epitaxial layer within each FET portion. Each gate, source, and drain comprise a separate electrical conductor and the gate, source, drain, and epitaxial layer within each FET portion form a field-effect transistor. Gate, source, and drain contacts electrically connect the gates, sources, and drains of the separate FET portions, respectively. At least the sources or drains of two neighboring FET portions are disposed in common over at least a portion of the isolation structure dividing the two neighboring FET portions.
US11152390B2
In a method of manufacturing a vertical semiconductor device, an insulation layer and a sacrificial layer are alternatively and repeatedly formed on a substrate to define a structure. The structure is etched to form a hole therethrough that exposes the substrate. A first semiconductor pattern is formed in a lower portion of the hole, and a blocking pattern, a charge storage pattern, a tunnel insulation pattern and a first channel pattern are formed on a sidewall of the hole. A second channel pattern is formed on the first channel pattern and the semiconductor pattern, and a second semiconductor pattern is formed on a portion of the second channel pattern on the semiconductor pattern to define an upper channel pattern including the second channel pattern and the second semiconductor pattern. The sacrificial layers are replaced with a plurality of gates, respectively, including a conductive material.
US11152386B2
A 3D memory device, the device including: a first vertical pillar; a second vertical pillar, where the first vertical pillar and the second vertical pillar function as a source or a drain for a plurality of overlaying horizontally-oriented memory transistors, where the plurality of overlaying horizontally-oriented memory transistors are self-aligned being formed following the same lithography step; and memory control circuits, where the memory control circuits are disposed at least partially directly underneath the plurality of overlaying horizontally-oriented memory transistors, or are disposed at least partially directly above the plurality of overlaying horizontally-oriented memory transistors.
US11152383B2
A memory cell may include first and second storage transistors. A first capacitor includes a first capacitor active region disposed within a substrate and a capacitor plate comprised of a first floating gate portion of a floating gate. A second capacitor includes a second capacitor active region disposed within the substrate and a capacitor plate comprised of a second floating gate portion of the floating gate. The first storage transistor includes source/drain regions disposed within a bit line write region and a first gate electrode comprised of a third floating gate portion of the floating gate. The second storage transistor includes source/drain regions disposed within a bit line read region and a second gate electrode comprised of a fourth floating gate portion of the floating gate. The bit line read and write regions are offset from one another by a non-zero distance.
US11152373B1
Disclosed are DRAM devices and methods of forming DRAM devices. One non-limiting method may include providing a device, the device including a plurality of angled structures formed from a substrate, a bitline and a dielectric between each of the plurality of angled structures, and a drain disposed along each of the plurality of angled structures. The method may further include providing a plurality of mask structures of a patterned masking layer over the plurality of angled structures, the plurality of mask structures being oriented perpendicular to the plurality of angled structures. The method may further include etching the device at a non-zero angle to form a plurality of pillar structures.
US11152364B1
A semiconductor structure includes a substrate having a first region and a second region, an epitaxial layer above the substrate, a first device on the first region, a second device on the second region and an isolation structure on the substrate. The first device includes a first gate electrode, a first source electrode and a first drain electrode disposed at two opposite sides of the first gate electrode. A dielectric layer disposed on the epitaxial layer covers the first gate electrode. The second device includes a second gate electrode disposed on the dielectric layer, second source and drain electrodes disposed at two opposite sides of the second gate electrode. The second source electrode is electrically connected to the first drain electrode. Also, the portions of the epitaxial layer respectively disposed in the first and second regions are isolated from each other by the isolation structure.
US11152357B2
A rectifier diode encapsulation structure with common electrodes, comprises an encapsulation assembly with common electrodes, the encapsulation assembly with common electrodes comprises an encapsulation with a common anode and an encapsulation with a common cathode; the encapsulation with the common anode and the encapsulation with the common cathode both comprise two rectifier diodes and a encapsulation body covering outside of the rectifier diodes, and the encapsulation body is provided with three pins, in the encapsulation with a common anode one of the pins is electrically connected to the anode of the two rectifier diodes, the other two pins are electrically connected to the cathodes of the two rectifier diodes one-to-one respectively. The disclosure reduces the volume of the encapsulation by separating the traditional rectifier components, saves materials, reduces costs and makes the application more flexible.
US11152349B2
Provided is an integrated circuit (IC) device including a logic cell having an area defined by a cell boundary. The logic cell includes a first device region, a device isolation region, and a second device region. The first device region and the second device region are arranged apart from each other in a first direction that is perpendicular to a second direction. The device isolation region is between the first device region and the second device region. A first maximum length of the first device region in the second direction is less than a width of the cell boundary in the second direction, and a second maximum length of the second device region is substantially equal to the width of the cell boundary in the second direction.
US11152322B2
In one instance, a method of forming a semiconductor package with a leadframe includes cutting, such as with a laser, a first side of a metal strip to a depth D1 according to a cutting pattern to form a first plurality of openings, which may be curvilinear. The method further includes etching the second side of the metal strip to a depth D2 according to a photoresist pattern to form a second plurality of openings. At least some of the first plurality of openings are in fluid communication with at least some of the second plurality of openings to form a plurality of leadframe leads. The depth D1 is shallower than a height H of the metal strip, and the depth D2 is also shallower than the height H. Other embodiments are presented.
US11152312B2
A package structure includes an interposer, a die over and bonded to the interposer, and a Printed Circuit Board (PCB) underlying and bonded to the interposer. The interposer is free from transistors therein (add transistor), and includes a semiconductor substrate, an interconnect structure over the semiconductor substrate, through-vias in the silicon substrate, and redistribution lines on a backside of the silicon substrate. The interconnect structure and the redistribution lines are electrically coupled through the through-vias.
US11152302B2
Method of manufacturing electronic devices using a maskless lithographic exposure system using a maskless pattern writer. The method comprises generating beamlet control data for controlling the maskless pattern writer to expose a wafer for creation of the electronic devices, wherein the beamlet control data is generated based on a feature data set defining features selectable for individualizing the electronic devices, wherein exposure of the wafer according to the beamlet control data results in exposing a pattern having a different selection of the features from the feature data set for different subsets of the electronic devices.
US11152297B2
A semiconductor device including an interlayer insulating layer on a substrate; a conductive line on the interlayer insulating layer; and a contact plug penetrating the interlayer insulating layer, the contact plug being connected to the conductive line, wherein the contact plug includes an upper pattern penetrating an upper region of the interlayer insulating layer, the upper pattern protruding upwardly from a top surface of the interlayer insulating layer, the upper pattern includes a first portion penetrating the upper region of the interlayer insulating layer; and a second portion protruding upwardly from the top surface of the interlayer insulating layer, and a width of a lower region of the second portion in a direction parallel to a top surface of the substrate is greater than a width of an upper region of the second portion in the direction parallel to the top surface of the substrate.
US11152284B1
An alternating stack of insulating layers and sacrificial material layers is formed over a substrate. Memory stack structures extending through the alternating stack are formed. A backside trench is formed through the alternating stack. The sacrificial material layers are replaced with electrically conductive layers. An insulating spacer and the backside contact via structure are formed within the backside trench. A dielectric isolation trench is formed by removing a peripheral portion of an upper region of the backside contact via structure and an upper portion of the insulating spacer. A dielectric isolation spacer is formed in the dielectric isolation trench to prevent an electrical short between an upper portion of the backside contact via structure and the electrically conductive layers.
US11152282B1
An IC device package includes an IC device that is connected to a lid by a thermal interface material (TIM). A catalyst material is formed upon one or more regions upon an upper surface of the IC device and/or an under surface of the lid. The catalyst material increases the rate of crosslinking of polymer chains of the TIM during TIM curing and/or increases the strength of crosslinks that link polymer chains of the TIM during TIM curing. The catalytically enhanced regions have a higher coefficient of heat transfer relative to non-catalytically enhanced regions. Therefore, the catalytically enhanced regions efficiently transfer heat from the IC device to the lid.
US11152271B2
According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a semiconductor module includes a semiconductor chip having a first electrode, a second electrode, and a control electrode to receive a control signal that controls a current flowing between the first electrode and the second electrode, a package having an upper surface, a back surface that is an opposite surface of the upper surface, and a plurality of side surfaces provided between the upper surface and the back surface, the package containing the semiconductor chip, a first terminal provided to the package and being electrically connected to the first electrode, a second terminal provided to the package and being electrically connected to the second electrode and a control terminal electrically connected to the control electrode and being provided on all of the plurality of side surfaces of the package so as to surround the package.
US11152270B2
A monitoring structure for a critical dimension of a lithography process including a dummy pattern layer and a patterned photoresist layer is provided. The dummy pattern layer includes a dummy pattern. The patterned photoresist layer includes at least one monitoring mark located above the dummy pattern. The monitoring mark includes a first portion and a second portion that intersect each other. The first portion extends in a first direction, the second portion extends in a second direction, and the first direction intersects the second direction.
US11152262B2
A method includes etching a gate structure to form a trench extending into the gate structure, wherein sidewalls of the trench comprise a metal oxide material, applying a sidewall treatment process to the sidewalls of the trench, wherein the metal oxide material has been removed as a result of applying the sidewall treatment process and filling the trench with a first dielectric material to form a dielectric region, wherein the dielectric region is in contact with the sidewall of the gate structure.
US11152257B2
A method for fabricating a semiconductor device includes forming one or more layers including at least one of a liner and a barrier along surfaces of a first interlevel dielectric (ILD) layer within a trench, after forming the one or more liners, performing a via etch to form a via opening exposing a first conductive line corresponding to a first metallization level, and forming, within the via opening and on the first conductive line, a barrier-less prefilled via including first conductive material.
US11152248B2
Embodiments disclosed herein relate to cluster tools for forming and filling trenches in a substrate with a flowable dielectric material. In one or more embodiments, a cluster tool for processing a substrate contains a load lock chamber, a first vacuum transfer chamber coupled to the load lock chamber, a second vacuum transfer chamber, a cooling station disposed between the first vacuum transfer chamber and the second vacuum transfer chamber, a factory interface coupled to the load lock chamber, a plurality of first processing chambers coupled to the first vacuum transfer chamber, wherein each of the first processing chambers is a deposition chamber capable of performing a flowable layer deposition, and a plurality of second processing chambers coupled to the second vacuum transfer chamber, wherein each of the second processing chambers is a plasma chamber capable of performing a plasma curing process.
US11152242B2
A second substrate transportation mechanism is generally set to transport a substrate from a substrate buffer unit to a FOUP placed on an opener. However, if a predetermined condition is satisfied, the second substrate transportation mechanism transports a substrate from the FOUP to the substrate buffer unit. That is, the second substrate transportation mechanism performs an operation different from an ordinary substrate transportation operation. Accordingly, a FOUP transportation mechanism can leave a specific FOUP at a placement position (opener) of the specific FOUP from when all the substrates are taken from the specific FOUP to when all the treated substrates are accommodated in the specific FOUP. Thus, the FOUP transportation mechanism can transport FOUPs except for the specific FOUP so that FOUP transportation efficiency can be enhanced.
US11152241B2
A substrate processing apparatus disclosed herein is capable of communicating with an external control apparatus. The substrate processing apparatus includes: a container placing portion configured to place thereon a transport container accommodating a product substrate therein; a dummy substrate accommodating unit configured to accommodate dummy substrates therein; a transport chamber provided with a transport mechanism configured to transport the product substrate and the dummy substrates; a processing chamber configured to process the product substrate and the dummy substrates transported thereto by the transport mechanism; and a controller configured to determine whether or not a number of unusable dummy substrates among the dummy substrates accommodated in the dummy substrate accommodating unit is equal to or greater than a set value, and notify the external control device of a warning when it is determined that the number of dummy substrates is equal to or greater than the set value.
US11152235B2
A method for predicting characteristics of semiconductor devices includes collecting first data for a plurality of first characteristics from first semiconductor devices already in mass production, and collecting second data for the first characteristics and third data for a plurality of second characteristics from at least one second semiconductor device manufactured as an experimental sample before beginning the mass production. A covariance matrix is then obtained based on the first, second, and third data, and a mean vector for third semiconductor devices to be in the mass production is determined. Prediction data for third semiconductor devices is then generated based on the covariance matrix and the mean vector.
US11152232B2
Localized heating can use a fixed-frequency planar transmission line resonators arranged along a main-line, selected by tuning an electromagnetic input signal frequency applied to the main line for depositing heat in an adjacent active substrate. More generally, adjusting input signal frequency can be used to selectively address and energize an electromagnetic-to-heat, an electromagnetic-to-vibration, or other transducer to controllably direct energy toward a desired transducer load. Resonators or other electromagnetically energized transducers can be arranged to electromagnetically interfere, such that specifying or adjusting a relative phase of applied electrical signals can be used to specify or adjust the energy directed toward a desired transducer load. Temperature sensing can characterize a material in a target region near the transducer. A cold-hot-cold temperature profile can better manage temperature and avoid overheating a dielectric material such as the active substrate material.
US11152225B1
The present disclosure provides a method for producing a semiconductor element that can lower the potential risk of malfunction. The production method of the disclosure is a method for producing a semiconductor element which includes providing a semiconductor element precursor, the precursor having a metal electrode layer formed on the surface of a gallium oxide-based single crystal semiconductor layer and a dopant doped in at least part of an exposed portion on the surface of the gallium oxide-based single crystal semiconductor layer where the metal electrode layer is not layered, and annealing treatment of the semiconductor element precursor whereby the dopant is diffused to a portion of the gallium oxide-based single crystal semiconductor layer that are overlapping with the metal electrode layer in the layering direction, to form a Schottky junction between the gallium oxide-based single crystal semiconductor layer and the metal electrode layer.
US11152214B2
A method of forming a semiconductor device that includes forming a metal oxide material on a III-V semiconductor channel region or a germanium containing channel region; and treating the metal oxide material with an oxidation process. The method may further include depositing of a hafnium containing oxide on the metal oxide material after the oxidation process, and forming a gate conductor atop the hafnium containing oxide. The source and drain regions are on present on opposing sides of the gate structure including the metal oxide material, the hafnium containing oxide and the gate conductor.
US11152212B2
A method for fabricating a semiconductor device may include: forming a gate dielectric material over a substrate; sequentially forming a carbon-undoped polysilicon layer and a carbon-doped polysilicon layer over the gate dielectric material; doping the carbon-doped polysilicon layer with a dopant; forming a columnar crystalline polysilicon layer over the carbon-doped polysilicon layer doped with the dopant; and performing annealing to activate the dopant.
US11152201B2
For an automatic adjustment of a detector voltage, a measurement of a standard sample is performed, in which a reflection voltage generator under the control of an autotuning controller applies, to a reflector, voltages which are different from those applied in a normal measurement and do not cause temporal conversion of ions. Ions having the same m/z simultaneously ejected from an ejector are dispersed in the temporal direction and reach a detector. Therefore, a plurality of low peaks corresponding to individual ions are observed on a profile spectrum. A peak-value data acquirer determines a wave-height value of each peak. A wave-height-value list creator creates a list of wave-height values. A detector voltage determiner searches for a detector voltage at which the median of the wave-height values in the wave-height-value list falls within a reference range.
US11152200B2
An interface device, for providing a fluidic interface between a sample separation device and a mass spectrometer, includes an emitter capillary and a plurality of sample capillaries. The sample capillaries are movably arranged within the emitter capillary for transferring fluidic sample from the sample separation device to the mass spectrometer.
US11152195B2
A MgO-based ceramic film according to the present invention contains crystalline phases of MgO and MgAl2O4, and Al is dissolved in the MgO to form a solid-solution. The ceramic film exhibits a diffraction peak representing the (200) plane of MgO at an angle 2θ of more than 42.92° in CuKα XRD measurement. A shoulder preferably appears on the higher angle side of the peak representing the (200) plane of MgO. The mass ratio MgO/Al2O3 of MgO to Al2O3 converted from Mg and Al in terms of oxides is preferably higher than 2.33.
US11152189B2
Various methods and systems are provided for imaging a sample under low vacuum with a charged particle beam. A magnetic field is provided in a detection area of the detector. Gas and plasma are provided in the detection area while detecting charged particles emitted from the sample. Sample image is formed based on the detected charged particles.
US11152188B2
A semiconductor device includes a tube-like structure comprising a plurality of dielectric layers and conductor layers that are disposed on top of one another; a conductor tip integrally formed with a cap conductor layer that is disposed on a top surface of the tube-like structure, wherein the conductor tip extends to a central hole of the tube-like structure; and at least one photodetector formed within a bottom portion of the tube-like structure.
US11152184B2
X-ray transparent insulation can be sandwiched between an x-ray window and a ground plate. The x-ray transparent insulation can include aluminum nitride, boron nitride, or polyetherimide. The x-ray transparent insulation can include a curved side. The x-ray transparent insulation can be transparent to x-rays and resistant to x-ray damage, and can have high thermal conductivity. An x-ray window can have high thermal conductivity, high electrical conductivity, high melting point, low cost, and matched coefficient of thermal conductivity with the anode. The x-ray window can be made of tungsten. For consistent x-ray spot size and location, a focusing plate and a filament can be attached to a cathode with an open channel of the focusing plate aligned with a longitudinal dimension of the filament. Tabs of the focusing plate bordering the open channel can be bent to align with a location of the filament.
US11152180B2
The invention concerns a fuse box, comprising a busbar (6) and at least one fuse (8) connected to the busbar, each fuse including two opposite end portions (8A, 8B) and a central portion (82), at least the central portion of each fuse and a section of the busbar being encapsulated in a plastic coating layer. The central portion (82) includes a part (84) of reduced cross-section. The two end portions (8A, 8B) include two respective electrical connectors (81A, 81B), and at least the two electrical connectors (81A, 81B) of each fuse (8) are not encapsulated in the plastic coating layer, so that a new fuse (12) can be connected between the two electrical connectors (81A, 81B) in replacement of a blown fuse (8).
US11152179B2
A low voltage circuit breaker is provided. The low voltage circuit breaker includes a contact system with a first contact and a second contact that are electrically connectable and disconnectable relative to one another. The first contact includes a body having a first layer and a second layer, wherein the first layer is arranged on the second layer and is configured to come in contact with the second contact for providing the electrical connection with the second contact. The first layer has a first material composition having an Ag content that is higher than an Ag content of a second material composition of the second layer. Further, the first material composition has a WC content that is lower than a WC content of the second material composition.
US11152177B2
A safety device for emergency shut-down of an electric instantaneous water heater. The safety device includes a contact and a counter contact, which are set up to conduct the current for supplying the instantaneous water heater in a contacted state and to interrupt the power supply of the instantaneous water heater in an open state. Further, the safety device includes a mounting device for mounting the counter contact on a tie rod, wherein the tie rod is set up to release the mounting device and the counter contact 4 from the contact to interrupt a power supply of the instantaneous water heater. The contact of the safety device is implemented as a contact rivet which is integrated directly into a circuit board.
US11152174B2
A vacuum interrupter including a first movable contact and electrode contained within a vacuum chamber, a second movable contact and electrode contained within the vacuum chamber, a first actuator operably coupled to the first movable contact, and a second actuator operably coupled to the second movable contact. The vacuum interrupter also includes a first bellows and first bellows plate operably coupled to the first movable electrode, as well as a second bellows and second bellows plate operably coupled to the second movable electrode. Additionally, the vacuum interrupter includes a first pressure chamber located between the first actuator and the vacuum chamber, and a second pressure chamber located between the second actuator and the vacuum chamber.
US11152170B2
An input device includes: an operation part being slidable in a first direction along a reference plane and in a second direction along the reference plane; and a slide detector detecting that the operation part slides. The slide detector includes a rocking body and a rocking motion detector, the rocking body is inclined with respect to the reference plane in accordance with a sliding movement of the operation part, and the rocking motion detector detects that the rocking body is inclined.
US11152160B1
The high-rate hybrid supercapacitor (HSC) has a positive electrode made from copper oxide (CuO)-cobalt oxide (CoO) core-shell nanocactus-like heterostructures produced on a nickel foam substrate, a negative electrode made by coating nickel foam with graphene ink, and a separator of cellulose paper. The heterostructures each have a core of CuO nanoflakes and a shell of CoO nanoneedles extending from the nanoflakes. The HSC achieves a specific capacity of 173.9 mA h g−1 at 1 A g−1 and long cycle life with 94% retention over 5000 cycles at 4 A g−1, and also exhibits a stable operating voltage window of 1.6 V, energy density of 56.5 W h kg−1, and cycling stability of 98.8% retention with coulombic efficiency of 98.7% over 4000 cycles.
US11152155B2
A capacitor component includes a body including a dielectric layer and an internal electrode and an external electrode disposed on the body. The external electrode includes an electrode layer connected to the internal electrode, a plating layer disposed on the electrode layer, and a sulfate-based secondary phase material disposed at a boundary between the plating layer and the electrode layer.
US11152151B2
Various embodiments of inductor coils, antennas, and transmission bases configured for wireless electrical energy transmission are provided. These embodiments are configured to wirelessly transmit or receive electrical energy or data via near field magnetic coupling. The embodiments of inductor coils comprise a figure eight configuration that improve efficiency of wireless transmission efficiency. The embodiments of the transmission base are configured with at least one transmitting antenna and a transmitting electrical circuit positioned within the transmission base. The transmission base is configured so that at least one electronic device can be wirelessly electrically charged or powered by positioning the at least one device in contact with or adjacent to the transmission base.
US11152147B2
A coil component includes: a body having a first surface and a second surface opposing each other in a thickness direction of the body and a wall surface connecting the first and second surfaces; a coil part including coil patterns and including at least one turn centered on the thickness direction; external electrodes disposed on the first surface of the body and electrically connected to the coil part; a shielding layer including a cap portion disposed on the second surface of the body and side wall portions disposed on the wall surface of the body and each having a first end connected to the cap portion; an insulating layer disposed between the body and the shielding layer; and a gap portion bounded by a second end of the shielding layer opposing the first end and the first surface of the body to expose portions of the wall surface.
US11152136B2
A composite cable which makes it possible to improve disconnection resistance of a signal line. The composite cable includes a signal line part, a pair of power supply lines, and a sheath. The signal line part is composed of a first signal line and a second signal line twisted together. Each of the first signal line and the second signal line is composed of a pair of wires twisted together. The sheath covers an outer circumference of a wire bundle composed of the signal line part and a pair of power supply lines, the signal line part and the pair of power supply lines being twisted together. The signal line part is covered with a shield conductor formed of a conductive element wire spirally wound around the outer circumference of the signal line part.
US11152126B2
This abnormality diagnosis system for diagnosing abnormalities in a plant is provided with: an abnormality diagnosis control unit which, with respect to an instrument parameter measured in a plant determined to have an indication of abnormality, predicts the development of the instrument parameter by extrapolation, and which generates an abnormality manifestation pattern that is a pattern of behavior of the instrument parameter after prediction; and a data storage unit which stores a plurality of abnormality model patterns PA, PB that are patterns of behavior of the instrument parameters corresponding to causes CA1, CA2, CB1, CB2 of plant abnormality. The abnormality diagnosis control unit makes a matching determination between the abnormality manifestation pattern that has been generated and the plurality of abnormality model patterns PA, PB stored in the data storage unit, and identifies, as the cause of the abnormality in the abnormality manifestation pattern.
US11152102B2
A display apparatus for a user interface of a medical instrument avoids erroneous input of numerical values when a user inputs information. A display apparatus includes a numerical value information input section, a selectable target information display section, and a target selection section. A plurality of the setting information selection sections are displayed to be associated with corresponding selectable target information, and a plurality of pieces of selectable target information are arranged so as to be adjacent to each other based on a same standard. The numerical value information input section corresponding to the selected target selection section is displayed simultaneously on a same screen. A range of the selectable target information is changed visually and displayed in response to the numerical value information which is input to the numerical value information input section.
US11152096B2
The present disclosure provides a detection system and a detection method for intravenous injection leakage. The detection system for intravenous injection leakage, includes a detection module, configured to detect a status parameter of a skin at an acupuncture point; and an analysis module, configured to acquire the status parameter, and to determine whether the intravenous injection leakage happens or not depending on the status parameter.
US11152093B1
Ingestible product and medical device containers validate self-administration of the product and/or corresponding use of the device over a schedule. A machine-readable optical code label such as a QR Code is affixed to an interior surface of a container containing the product or device. The container must be open to electronically read the optical code label. The label contains data associated with the product or device is read by a software application installed on a smartphone. The software receives the label-embedded data and a timestamp to validate the patient is self-administering the medication or device consistent with a schedule.
US11152089B2
A medical scan hierarchical labeling system stores labeling application data that includes application operational instructions and a plurality of prompt decision trees. A medical scan and the labeling application data are sent to a client device for storage. The client device executes the application operational instructions of the labeling application data, causing the client device to display, via an interactive interface, the medical scan and a plurality of prompts of each prompt decision tree in succession, beginning with automatically determined starting prompts of each prompt decision tree, in accordance with corresponding nodes of each prompt decision tree until a leaf node of each prompt decision tree is ultimately selected. The client device transmits labeling data indicating the ultimately selected leaf node of each prompt decision tree. A medical scan entry of the medical scan in a medical scan database is populated based on the set of labels.
US11152087B2
A method, system and computer program product for ensuring quality in electronic health data. Data processing pipelines among different tenants are monitored for data artifacts generated from electronic health data, where a “data artifact” refers to the tangible by-products produced during the processing of the electronic health record datasets generated by the electronic health record systems as well as the datasets themselves. Out of the generated data artifacts, those data artifacts that are produced from the same stage of the data processing pipelines among the different tenants are aggregated. A set of metrics at various levels of a dataset hierarchy are produced from the aggregated data artifacts. Such metrics provide information about a quality of the electronic health data. A quality report, which may include flagged issues with the datasets, is then generated and presented to a user based on an analysis of the produced set of metrics.
US11152082B2
A protein memory cell and a protein memory system are provided. The protein memory cell includes: first and second electrodes disposed to be spaced apart from each other on a micro channel; a gap region defined between the first and second electrodes on the micro channel; an outer region defined as an opposite side to the gap region based on the first or second electrode on the micro channel; and a photosensitive protein changing conductivity between the first and second electrodes while moving between the gap region and the outer region depending on structural conversion of a chromophore.
US11152081B2
The invention provides methods and systems of determining biopolymer profiles and correlations between structural units (residues) of a biopolymer based on sampling of the conformational space available to the molecule. The correlations between these structural units can further be used to find networks within a biopolymer such as the coupled residue networks in a protein. The invention also provides for designing and engineering biopolymers including polypeptides, nucleic acids and carbohydrates using the information derived from the conformation clustering and subsequent methods described herein.
US11152079B2
An apparatus includes nonvolatile memory cells arranged in columns including a plurality of redundant columns with control circuits coupled to the nonvolatile memory cells. The control circuits are configured to maintain an ordered list of bad columns replaced by redundant columns. The control circuits are configured to detect an out-of-order entry in the ordered list of bad columns replaced by redundant columns.
US11152077B2
A processing device of a memory device test resource detects that a memory sub-system has engaged with a first memory sub-system interface port and a second memory sub-system interface port of the memory device test resource. The processing device causes a power supply signal to be transmitted from the memory device test resource to the memory sub-system via the first memory sub-system interface port. The processing device identifies a test to be performed for a memory device of the memory sub-system, where the test includes one or more test instructions to be executed in performance of the test. The processing device causes the one or more test instructions to be transmitted from the memory device test resource to the memory sub-system via the second memory sub-system interface port, where the test is performed by the one or more test instructions executing at the memory sub-system.
US11152068B2
In some examples, an integrated circuit comprises a first plate, a second plate, and a dielectric layer disposed between the first and second plates, the first and second plates and the dielectric layer forming a vertical capacitor, wherein the first and second plates and the dielectric layer of the vertical capacitor are disposed on an isolation region of the integrated circuit.
US11152065B2
Methods, systems, and devices related to techniques to access a self-selecting memory device are described. A self-selecting memory cell may store one or more bits of data represented by different threshold voltages of the self-selecting memory cell. A programming pulse may be varied to establish the different threshold voltages by modifying one or more time durations during which a fixed level of voltage or current is maintained across the self-selecting memory cell. The self-selecting memory cell may include a chalcogenide alloy. A non-uniform distribution of an element in the chalcogenide alloy may determine a particular threshold voltage of the self-selecting memory cell. The shape of the programming pulse may be configured to modify a distribution of the element in the chalcogenide alloy based on a desired logic state of the self-selecting memory cell.
US11152054B2
Apparatuses and methods can be related to performing operations in memory. Operations can be performed in the background while the memory is performing different operations. For example, comparison operations can be performed by the memory device while the memory device is reading data. The results of the comparison operations can be stored in registers of the memory device. The registers can be made accessible externally to the memory device.
US11152047B2
A magnetic memory device contains a synthetic antiferromagnetic (SAF) structure that includes an antiferromagnetically coupled stack and a reference layer. The antiferromagnetically coupled stack contains plural multilayer stacks. Each multilayer stack contains at least one ferromagnetic material layer, a non-magnetic layer and a non-magnetic SAF spacer layer having a different composition than the non-magnetic layer.
US11152045B2
An output driver includes a main output driver configured to receive data of an internal supply voltage to generate output data of an output supply voltage, and to receive the data of a ground voltage to generate the output data of the ground voltage, a pre-emphasis controller configured to detect a transition of the data from the ground voltage to the internal supply voltage to generate a first pulse signal, and to receive a pre-emphasis enable signal and the first pulse signal and generate a level-up pre-emphasis enable signal and a first level-up pulse signal of the ground voltage, a pre-emphasis pre-driver configured to generate one or more pre-emphasis pull-up control signals, and a pre-emphasis driver configured to pre-emphasize the output data based on the output data transitioning from the ground voltage to the output supply voltage.
US11152041B2
Data reading method, device, and storage medium of a non-volatile memory are provided. The method includes obtaining address information and decoding the address information to determine an address of a corresponding memory cell; when the address of the memory cell is in a selected region, adjusting a first determination reference value to obtain a second determination reference value; applying a readout current to the memory cell, and obtaining a determination current outputted by the memory cell; and comparing a value range of the determination current outputted by the memory cell with the second determination reference value and reading out data content stored in the memory cell.
US11152024B1
An approach to a piezoelectric (PZT) device, such as a hard disk drive microactuator, includes one or more layers of poled PZT material, with top and bottom surfaces coupled with respective electrode layers coupled with a power source to drive the active PZT layer(s). The electrode layers have different thicknesses, where the particular thicknesses may be configured to mitigate the variation of out-of-plane motion or bending associated with operational variations in the z-height between a corresponding actuator arm and recording medium and, likewise, the phase variation of flexure vibration.
US11152019B2
An apparatus, according to one embodiment, includes a write transducer having: a bottom yoke, a top yoke, a nonmagnetic write gap positioned between the top and bottom yokes, a bottom pole extending from the bottom yoke toward the write gap, and a top pole extending from the top yoke toward the write gap. A width of a media facing side of the bottom pole is about the same as a width of a media facing side of the top pole. The media facing side of the bottom pole is aligned with the media facing side of the top pole along a thickness direction. A method, according to one embodiment, includes performing bidirectional writing to a magnetic recording tape using a write transducer as described above.
US11152012B2
Method of performing acoustic zooming starts with microphones capturing acoustic signals associated with video content. Beamformers generate beamformer signals using the acoustic signals. Beamformer signals correspond respectively to tiles of video content. Each of the beamformers is respectively directed to a center of each of the tiles. Target enhanced signal is generated using beamformer signals. Target enhanced signal is associated with a zoom area of video content. Target enhanced signal is generated by identifying the tiles respectively having at least portions that are included in the zoom area, selecting beamformer signals corresponding to identified tiles, and combining selected beamformer signals to generate target enhanced signal. Combining selected beamformer signals may include determining proportions for each of the identified tiles in relation to the zoom area and combining selected beamformer signals based on the proportions to generate the target enhanced signal. Other embodiments are described herein.
US11152005B2
A method of converting speech to text comprises receiving an audio recording from an input device comprising speech of a plurality of speakers. Extracting from the audio recording, a speaker audio recording comprising recorded audio of an individual speaker. Selecting, based on a characteristic of the speaker audio recording, a speech to text engine and a dictionary. Configuring the speech to text engine with the dictionary and executing a first conversion process to convert a first portion of the speaker audio recording to produce a first transcript. Evaluating a performance metric of the conversion process against a quality metric to reconfigure the speech to text engine and execute a second conversion process to convert a second portion of the speaker audio recording to produce a second transcript. Combining the first transcript and the second transcript to produce a transcript of the speaker audio recording.
US11152002B2
Systems and processes for application integration with a digital assistant are provided. In accordance with one example, a method includes, at an electronic device having one or more processors and memory, receiving a natural-language user input; identifying, with the one or more processors, an intent object of a set of intent objects and a parameter associated with the intent, where the intent object and the parameter are derived from the natural-language user input. The method further includes identifying a software application associated with the intent object of the set of intent objects; and providing the intent object and the parameter to the software application.
US11151999B2
An approach is provided in which a cognitive system engages in a conversation that includes multiple participants. The cognitive system detects a diversion indicator during the conversation that is a trigger to the cognitive system perform a diversion action. The cognitive system identifies the diversion action that corresponds to the diversion indicator and performs the diversion action during the conversation accordingly.
US11151995B2
A system includes a first electronic device configured to receive a first user input through the touchscreen display and/or the microphone, to receive a sequence of touch and/or voice-based user inputs through the touchscreen display and/or the microphone, to store the sequence of the touch and/or voice-based user inputs in the at least one memory, to receive a second user input including at least one invoke word associated with the sequence through the touchscreen display and/or the microphone, and to store the at least one invoke word in the at least one memory such that the sequence and the at least one invoke word are mapped to each other.
US11151992B2
A plurality of images captured using a camera included in a robotic system are analyzed. A spatial map is generated using a sensor included in the robotic system. A semantic location map is generated using at least the analyzed plurality of captured images and the generated spatial map. A natural language input referencing a desired product item is received from a user. A speech recognition result is recognized from the natural language input and sent to a reasoning engine. In response to sending the recognized speech recognition result, one or more commands for the robotic system are received from the reasoning engine. The received one or more commands are performed and feedback to the user based on at least one of the one or more commands is provided.
US11151990B2
Methods, systems and computer program products for operating a voice response system in a multiuser environment are provided. Aspects include receiving a voice command from a first user and determining a characteristic of how the voice command was received by the voice response system. Aspects also include obtaining a response preference of the first user and determining a response to the voice command. Aspects further include providing the response to the first user, wherein a manner in which the response is provided is determined based at least in part on the response preference of the first user and the characteristic of how the voice command was received.
US11151986B1
Techniques for decreasing (or eliminating) the possibility of a skill performing an action that is not responsive to a corresponding user input are described. A system may train one or more machine learning models with respect to user inputs, which resulted in incorrect actions being performed by skills, and corresponding user inputs, which resulted in the correct action being performed. The system may use the trained machine learning model(s) to rewrite user inputs that, if not rewritten, may result in incorrect actions being performed. The system may implement the trained machine learning model(s) with respect to ASR output text data to determine if the ASR output text data corresponds (or substantially corresponds) to previous ASR output text data that resulted in an incorrect action being performed. If the trained machine learning model(s) indicates the present ASR output text data corresponds (or substantially corresponds) to such previous ASR output text data, the system may rewrite the present ASR output text data to correspond to text data representing a rephrase of the user input that will (or is more likely to) result in a correct action being performed.
US11151967B2
A method and system for generating attention pointers, including: displaying, in a display of a mobile device, an object within and outside a field of view (FOV) of an user wherein the object outside the FOV are real objects; monitoring, by a processor of the mobile device, for a change in the object within and outside the FOV; in response to a change, generating by the processor one or more attention pointers within the FOV of the user for directing user attention to the change in the object which is either inside or outside the FOV; and displaying, by the processor, on a virtual screen within the FOV to the user, the one or more attention pointers wherein the one or more attention pointers are dynamically configured to interact with the user in response to detections based on a movement of the user or the object within or outside the FOV of the user.
US11151962B2
To allow pragmatic insertion of secondary images by an apparatus connected to the final display we invented an image processing apparatus (301, 501) with an output image connection (506) for connection to a display (550), and an input (510) for receiving an input image (IM) and metadata specifying at least one luminance mapping function (F_Lt), which luminance mapping function specifies the relationship between luminances in the input image and a second image with an at least 6 times higher or lower maximum luminance, and comprising a graphics generation unit (502) arranged to determine a secondary image (IMG), and an image composition unit (504) arranged to compose an output image (IMC) on the basis of the pixel colors of the input image and of the secondary image, characterized in that the image processing apparatus comprises a luminance function selection unit (505), which is arranged to output to a metadata output (507) a copy of the at least one luminance mapping function (F_Lt) in case no secondary image colors arc mixed with the input image, and which is arranged to output a predetermined mapping function (F3) in case the output image is not identical to the input image because some pixel colors of the secondary image have been used to change the input image colors.
US11151951B2
An electro-phoretic display including a display panel and a driving circuit. The display panel is configured to display image frames. The driving circuit is coupled to the display panel. The driving circuit is configured to drive the display panel to display the image frames according to a driving signal. The driving signal includes a first pulse and a second pulse. A driving period of the driving signal includes a first stage, a second stage and a driving stage in sequence. The first pulse is located before the driving stage, and the second pulse is located in the second stage. The pulse width of the first pulse is larger than that of the second pulse. In addition, a driving method of an electro-phoretic display is also provided.
US11151942B2
An electro-optical device includes scan line, data line, pixel circuit located at a position corresponding to an intersection of the scan line and the data line, a first high potential line supplies a first potential, a low potential line supplies a second potential, and a second high potential line supplies a third potential. The pixel circuit includes a light emitting element, a memory circuit disposed between the first high potential line and the low potential line, a first transistor including a gate electrically connected to the memory circuit, and a second transistor including a gate electrically connected to the scan line. The second transistor is disposed between the memory circuit and f the data line. A potential difference between the first potential and the second potential is smaller than a potential difference between the third potential and the second potential.
US11151932B2
A driving system is operatively associated with a light emitting array that includes a plurality of scan lines, a plurality of channel lines and a plurality of light emitting elements. The driving system includes a voltage converter circuit and a driver circuit. The voltage converter circuit converts, based on a control signal, an input voltage into an output voltage that has a magnitude related to the control signal. The driver circuit drives the light emitting elements via the scan lines and the channel lines, is operable, based on voltages at the channel lines, to pull or not to pull a voltage at a common node to a logic level, and generates the control signal based on the voltage at the common node.
US11151931B2
A scan driver includes scan stages, an n-th scan stage of the scan stages includes a first driving circuit, a second driving circuit, and an output circuit. The first driving circuit controls a voltage of a first driving node, based on an input signal and a voltage of a second driving node. The second driving circuit controls the voltage of the second driving node, based on a second clock signal and a first voltage. The output circuit outputs a first clock signal as a scan signal and a carry signal, and outputs a second voltage as the scan signal and the carry signal. The first driving circuit includes a first transistor including a gate electrode electrically connected to the second driving node, one electrode electrically connected to an input line that provides the input signal, and another electrode electrically connected to the first driving node.
US11151930B2
Disclosed is an electroluminescent display panel and a display device, and relates to the field of display technologies. The display region comprises a photosensitive device arranging region, a camera or fingerprint recognition device is arranged in the photosensitive device arranging region, rather than in the frame, and thus a relatively larger area occupying in the frame is avoided, to allow the frame be made narrower, and the screen-to-body ratio be increased. Also for the photosensitive device arranging region, the first signal lines and the second signal lines are arranged more intensively by arranging a plurality of overlap areas in the orthographic projection of one first pixel on the base substrate, to allow the display panel have more concentrated space as the light-transmission region, so that the light transmittance of the photosensitive device arranging region can be increased to provide more lights to the camera or fingerprint recognition device.
US11151925B2
Disclosed are a light emitting display device and a driving method thereof, wherein a sensing mode of the display device includes a first sensing step in which an electrical characteristic of a first sub-pixel is sensed, a first initialization step set in advance of the first sensing step, a second sensing step in which an electrical characteristic of the second sub-pixel is sensed, and a second initialization step set in advance of the second sensing step.
US11151916B2
Techniques are described for operating a display comprising an array of emitters arranged in at least one column. A data shifting circuit stores digital data or an analog representation thereof in a first storage element. The data shifting circuit outputs the digital data or analog representation multiple times to a display driver circuit, using a multiplexer. The first storage element can be a shift register or a capacitor. Digital data can be internally shifted within the data shifting circuit, through multiple shift registers, prior to output to the display driver circuit. An analog representation can be stored and read from the same capacitor without internal shifting. The display driver circuit drives a different emitter of the column each time. A scanning assembly including a reflective surface that receives light from the emitter array forms an output image by rotating the reflective surface in synchronization with driving of the emitters.
US11151914B1
In various examples, defective cells from a first layer of a multi-layer liquid crystal display (LCD) may be compensated for by using one or more cells from a second layer of the multi-layer LCD. Color values corresponding to additional cells of the first layer that may be affected by the compensation of the second layer may also be adjusted to counter the compensation in order to generate a final pixel or sub-pixel value that closely mirrors the desired value from the image data. In addition, backlighting of the LCD may be adjusted such that one or more cells of the backlights—e.g., individual light-emitting diodes (LEDs)—may be adjusted to further aid in compensating for or mitigating the appearance of the defective cell.
US11151906B2
An inlay or identifier element system for identifying and/or matching corresponding parts of an apparatus includes a color coding or other indicia on a visible surface of an inlay and a pocket formed in a surface of the apparatus. The inlay is inserted in the pocket, which is positioned to identify a first part of the apparatus. A matching color coding or indicia is on a second part of the apparatus to be coupled to the first part. The visible surface of the inlay is flush with or sub flush with a portion of the surface of the apparatus that surrounds the pocket.
US11151893B1
The present invention relates to designing a performance-learning solution and related methods for managing the learning and training needs of an organization in a manner that is responsive to dynamic business needs. In particular, the present invention relates to solutions that are performance-based and provide a learning environment that is targeted towards the improvement of worker productivity and the accomplishment of specific goals.
US11151891B2
A method of automatically providing personalized learning activities to users of an online learning platform is described. A quest is built based on an input of at least a first user's educational objective. The quest includes a primary quest that starts with a start node, ends with the end node, and includes a set of intermediate nodes, wherein each node of the primary quest must be traversed by the first user in order to complete the quest. The quest includes at least one secondary quest that starts with a node of the primary quest as its start node and includes a second set of intermediate nodes. As the user selects a node of the quest, educational activities related to its respective concept are presented to the user. The user's progress in the quest is tracked.
US11151886B2
A collision avoidance system includes an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), a UAV controller, and a safety data aggregator. The UAV includes a positional sensor, and is coupled to communicate positional data to the UAV controller, and receive commands from the UAV controller. The safety data aggregator is coupled to communicate with the UAV controller, wherein the safety data aggregator collects positional data from one or more UAV controllers, stores collected positional data in a safety data buffer, and extracts spatially relevant positional data in response to a request from the UAV controller.
US11151882B2
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for providing a model of a vehicle to a rider. In an embodiment, the systems and methods determine that a driver has accepted a task to operate a vehicle from a first location to a rider location. The systems and methods then access a model corresponding to the vehicle, determine a direction of movement of the vehicle, and determine a relative orientation of the vehicle with respect to the rider based on the first location, the direction of movement of the vehicle, and the rider location. The systems and methods generate for display, on a client device of the rider, the model at an angle determined based on the relative orientation.
US11151878B2
An instant traffic condition warning method comprises the following steps. A controller receives a vehicle distance value and a vehicle velocity value, and the controller determines whether the vehicle distance value is less than a distance threshold. When the vehicle distance value is less than the distance threshold, the controller determines whether the vehicle velocity value is larger than a velocity threshold. When the vehicle velocity value is larger than the velocity threshold, a warning element generates a warning signal.
US11151866B2
System and techniques for enhanced electronic navigation maps for a vehicle are described herein. A set of map tiles may be received at a vehicle component from a remote entity. Sensor derived data that has a locality corresponding to a map tile in the set of map tiles may be obtained. A field-programmable gate array of the vehicle may then be invoked to combine the sensor derived data and the map tile to create a modified map tile. The modified map tile may be communicated to a control system of the vehicle.
US11151864B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a storage device, for monitoring a property using drone beacons. In one aspect, a monitoring system is disclosed that includes a drone, a drone beacon, a component, a processor, and a computer storage media storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations. The operations may include obtaining drone beacon data generated by the drone beacon, determining a location of the drone beacon based on the drone beacon data, after determining the location of the drone beacon, transmitting, to the drone, a first instruction to navigate towards the location of the drone beacon, after deploying the drone, obtaining component data generated by the component, and after obtaining the component data, transmitting, to the drone, a second instruction to navigate towards a different location than the location of the drone beacon based on the component data.
US11151863B2
An information processing apparatus includes a communication interface and a controller. The communication interface receives first alarm information indicating an alarm of a plant from a control apparatus and receives second alarm information, obtained by processing the first alarm information, from an alarm management apparatus that receives the first alarm information. The controller makes a judgment of whether the alarm management apparatus is usable, selects, in accordance with the result of the judgment, one of the first alarm information and the second alarm information received by the communication interface, and outputs third alarm information, obtained by the controller processing the selected alarm information, to a user.
US11151848B2
“Smart” functionality is provided to “dumb” containers. A closure such as tape is provided with structural nonuniformity, such as holes punched to weaken the material or polymer printing to strengthen the material. Data is encoded in structural nonuniformity, so when the closure is torn, cut, or otherwise yields the data is encoded in the acoustic emission. The structural nonuniformity also may be readable optically or otherwise. Encoded data may include event detection (logging containers opening), package/product information (e.g., lot numbers, contents), validation (e.g., validation codes to distinguish authentic from counterfeit products), and user recognition (e.g., brand jingles, warning sounds). Closures may be made/dispensed with structural nonuniformity in place, and/or structural nonuniformity may be added to closures already securing a portal. Hand-held systems may dispense and/or modify closures with structural nonuniformity.
US11151847B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a computer system, a computer program product, and a method that comprises identifying at least a first physical sensor and a second physical sensor within a computing device, wherein each physical sensor is associated with a respective count; performing a predetermined operation within the computing device; authenticating the received command of at least the first physical sensor and the second physical sensor identified within the computing device; and automatically halting the operation of the computing device.
US11151832B2
A plurality of gaming machines to perform an integrated operation in cooperation with one another is provided. A gaming machine constituting a group of gaming machines includes a display that displays a game screen including predetermined computer graphics cooperated with the other gaming machines included in the group of gaming machines, a storage device that stores a gaming machine identifier, common graphic data, and a plurality of virtual camera coordinates associated with identifiers, and a controller, and the controller constructs a three-dimensional model in common with the other gaming machines on the basis of a timer value synchronized by communicating with the other gaming machines and the common graphic data, and configures the predetermined computer graphics by performing perspective transformation on the three-dimensional model using the virtual camera coordinates associated with the identifier as a point of view, and causes the predetermined computer graphics to be displayed on the display.
US11151829B2
The invention refers to a computer-implemented method of analyzing security documents having visible information and at least one of infrared and ultraviolet detectable information, the method comprising the steps of: receiving visible-color data of a first set of pixels of a first region of the security document in a first image of the security document and feeding the visible-color data to a convolutional neural network, CNN; receiving infrared, IR, and/or ultraviolet, UV, data of a second and/or third set of pixels of a respective second and/or third region in a respective second and/or third image of the security document and feeding the IR and/or UV data to the CNN; analyzing the visible-color data of the first set of pixels using the CNN to extract characteristics of the security document from the visible information; and analyzing the IR and/or UV data of the second and/or third set of pixels using the CNN to extract characteristics of the security document from the IR and/or UV information. Further, a corresponding system is provided.
US11151825B1
An artificial intelligence entry management device for an entry management system includes a camera, a microphone, a motion detector, a speaker, and a housing. The housing has an oval shape with a substantially open middle. The substantially open middle has a housing protrusion portion configured to house the camera, the microphone, the motion detector, and the speaker.
US11151824B2
Embodiments of a system and method for using a mobile device to assist with the efficient and secure delivery of item. The mobile device can assist an item deliver to lock or unlock secure item delivery receptacles. The mobile device can also notify an item deliverer about particular delivery conditions associated with particular delivery endpoints. The mobile device can further help the item deliverer to determine whether or not he or she is delivering the item to the correct location.
