US11167306B2
An application system includes an application unit including a nozzle configured to discharge a seal agent to a work, and a moving device configured to move the application unit. The moving device includes a movable unit, an elevating unit, and a posture changing unit configured to be raised and lowered by the elevating unit and support the application unit. The nozzle includes a proximal end and a distal end portion configured to discharge the seal agent. The posture changing unit includes a pivot mechanism configured to make the application unit pivot about a vertical axis, and a pivot mechanism configured to make the application unit pivot about a horizontal axis. The vertical axis and the nozzle are located on the same axis, and the vertical axis and the horizontal axis cross on a center axis of the nozzle.
US11167304B2
A sprinkler includes a compartment that surrounds its riser portion in an offset or asymmetrical configuration. More specifically, the distance of the compartments walls from those of the riser vary (i.e., increase or decrease) at different locations surrounding the riser. Put another way, the riser is closer to one side of the compartment than other sides of the compartment. This non-concentric configuration allows larger components to fit inside the compartment than would otherwise fit if the riser was symmetrically surrounded by the compartment.
US11167298B2
A barrel for use with a liquid spray gun platform to provide a liquid spray gun comprises a main body and an inseparable nozzle. The main body comprises at least one center air delivery passage and at least one liquid-handling passage. The inseparable nozzle defines a liquid-emitting orifice that is in fluid communication with the at least on liquid-handling passage of the main body, and defines a center air orifice that is in fluid communication with the at least on center air delivery passage of the main body.
US11167297B2
The disclosure relates to a print head for applying a coating agent to a component, in particular for applying a paint to a motor vehicle body component, having a nozzle plate, a nozzle in the nozzle plate for dispensing the coating agent, and a valve element movable relative to the nozzle plate for controlling the release of coating agent through the nozzle, the movable valve element closing the nozzle in a closed position, whereas the movable valve element releases the nozzle in an opened position, and having a seal for sealing the nozzle with respect to the movable valve element in the closed position of the valve element. The disclosure provides that the seal is not designed as an elastomer insert on the valve element.
US11167295B2
An infeed chute for a material application machine includes a riser and a water spreading unit. The riser includes a sidewall and defines an infeed opening extending through the riser. The riser is configured to be coupled to an opening of a tank of a material application machine such that application material passed through the infeed opening of the riser enters the tank of the material application machine. The sidewall includes a water inlet formed therein. The water spreading unit is coupled to the water inlet and is configured to direct water laterally across the infeed chute.
US11167294B2
A multifunctional pull-out spray head includes a switching assembly, a water inlet assembly, and a water outlet assembly. The switching assembly controls three waterways of a switching assembly main body through a first button, a first switching unit and a second switching unit. The water inlet assembly realizes on-off control of the switching assembly. The spray head realizes the switching of three spray modes and meets the user's demand for multiple functions. The overall structure is compact, the size is small, and the operation is convenient.
US11167282B2
An auto-pipetting apparatus includes a dispensing head with at least one pipetting tip mandrel having an elongated stud body with an insertion end. The at least one pipetting tip mandrel mates with a pipetting tip. A first adjustable seal, disposed on the elongated stud body, and a second adjustable seal, disposed on the elongated stud body, seal the pipetting tip mated to the at least one pipetting tip mandrel. The first adjustable seal defines a snub surface. The snub surface effects a substantially continuous circumferential contact seal with radially impinging contact between the pipetting tip and the at least one pipetting tip mandrel. The second adjustable seal is adjustable between a disengaged position and an engaged position and effects a releasable grip and another substantially continuous circumferential contact seal between the pipetting tip and the at least one pipetting tip mandrel around the pipetting tip.
US11167276B2
The present disclosure is directed to methods of producing zincoaluminosilicate structures with AEI, CHA, and GME topologies using organic structure directing agents (OSDAs), and the compositions and structures resulting from these methods.
US11167275B2
The present disclosure is directed to producing zeolite structures with GME topologies using organic structure directing agents (OSDAs) comprising a piperidinium cation, and the compositions and structures resulting from these methods. In some embodiments, the crystalline products have a molar ratio of a molar ratio of Si:Al that is greater than 3.5.
US11167272B2
Methods and systems are provided for emissions control of a vehicle. In one example, a catalyst may include a cerium-based support material and a transition metal catalyst loaded on the support material, the transition metal catalyst including nickel and copper, wherein nickel in the transition metal catalyst is included in a monatomic layer loaded on the support material. In some examples, limiting nickel to the monatomic layer may mitigate extensive transition metal catalyst degradation ascribed to sintering of thicker nickel washcoat layers. Further, by utilizing the cerium-based support material, side reactions involving nickel in the transition metal catalyst with other support materials may be prevented.
US11167270B2
The present invention is related to a new metal powder catalytic system (catalyst), its production and its use in hydrogenation processes.
US11167268B2
A catalyst includes a carbon black support and active metal particles. A surface of the carbon black support has a relative atomic percentage of oxygen atoms ranged from 2 atom % to 12 atom %. The active metal particles are distributed on the carbon black support. Each of the active metal particles includes rhodium metal and rhodium oxide. A method for manufacturing the catalyst and a method for hydrogenating an aromatic epoxy compound are also provided herein.
US11167264B2
Provided is a packing material for liquid chromatography, including a gel obtained by polymerizing monomers including 40% by mass or more of a crosslinkable monomer having a (meth)acryloyloxy group.
US11167263B2
A polymeric polysulfide is disclosed. The polymeric polysulfide is formed by reacting a fatty acid composition comprising at least one unsaturated fatty acid or derivative thereof with sulfur, at a weight ratio between 9:1 and 1:9, under inverse vulcanisation conditions to produce a polymeric polysulfide wherein at least 50% of the fatty acids or derivatives thereof in the fatty acid composition are unsaturated.
US11167256B2
Various examples of systems and methods for making microspheres, microparticles, and emulsions are provided. In one example, a system and method for forming microspheres comprises: pumping a dispersed phase liquid and a continuous phase liquid into a levitating magnetic impeller pump to subject the dispersed phase liquid and continuous phase liquid to a high shear environment within the impeller pump's pump chamber. In another example, a system and method for forming an emulsion comprises: pumping a dispersed phase liquid and an inner aqueous phase liquid into a levitating magnetic impeller pump to subject the dispersed phase and the inner aqueous phase to a high shear environment within the impeller pump's pump chamber.
US11167248B2
An asymmetric hollow fiber (CMS) carbon molecular sieve is made by providing a dope solution comprised of a polvimide and a solvent, at a temperature greater than 250° C. that is less than the storage modulus at a temperature of 250° C., but no more than ten times less as measured using dynamic mechanical thermal analysis from 250° C. to a temperature where the polyimide carbonizes. The polvimide is shaped into a hollow polvimide fiber, the solvent removed and the polyimide hollow fiber is heated to pyroiyze the polvimide and form the asymmetric hollow carbon molecular sieve. The asymmetric hollow fiber carbon molecular sieve has a wall that is defined by an inner surface and outer surface of said fiber and the wall has an inner porous support region extending from the inner surface to an outer raicroporous separation region that extends from the inner porous support region to the outer surface. Surprisingly, when the polyimide has the particular storage modulus characteristics, the method allows for the hollow fiber CMS to be made without any pre-treatmenis or additives to inhibit stractural collapse of the inner microporous region.
US11167245B2
This exhaust gas purifying catalyst is provided with a substrate 10 and a catalyst layer 20 formed on a surface of the substrate 10. The catalyst layer 20 contains zeolite particles 22 that support a metal, and a rare earth element-containing compound 24 that contains a rare earth element. The rare earth element-containing compound 24 is added in such an amount that the molar ratio of the rare earth element relative to Si contained in the zeolite 22 is 0.001 to 0.014 in terms of oxides.
US11167242B1
A process for removing hydrogen sulfide from a sour gas stream is presented. The method oxidizes hydrogen sulfide to sulfuric acid by reducing aqueous bromine to hydrobromic acid in solution. The aqueous bromine solution does not react with hydrocarbon components common to natural gas including methane and ethane. This allows the process to both sweeten sour gas and convert its hydrogen sulfide content to sulfuric acid in a single step. In the present process, sulfuric acid is concentrated to eliminate its bromine content prior to being removed from the system, while the remaining hydrobromic acid solution is electrolyzed to regenerate aqueous bromine and produce hydrogen. Hydrobromic acid electrolysis requires less than half the energy required by water electrolysis and is an inherently flexible load that can shed or absorb excess power to balance supply and demand.
US11167236B2
A carbon dioxide capture system, fluid contactor and method are disclosed. In embodiments, a gas-liquid contactor unit is disposed along a process fluid flow axis and includes a contactor network of flow diversion barriers with flow voids for movement of process fluids therebetween. A plurality of heat exchange channels are provided in the flow diversion barriers to transport a heat exchange fluid through the contactor network. A heat exchange feed channel is provided to deliver feed of the heat exchange fluid to the heat exchange channels at multiple feed locations spaced along the flow axis. At least one heat exchange bypass channel may extend beyond the multiple feed locations to deliver a portion of the feed of the heat exchange fluid to additional heat exchange channels located downstream from the multiple feed locations for the heat exchange channels.
US11167225B2
Trichomes, lupulins and other plant parts can be efficiently separated from plant biomass by continuous filtration. In some embodiments plant biomass is collected and combined with water to form a plant biomass mixture. The plant biomass mixture is passed through a filtration device in which the plant biomass mixture is continuously flowed through a filter material. The device includes a cleaning apparatus that cleans the filter material during the process. In some embodiments greater than 90% of the plant parts are collected from the starting plant biomass. The plant parts can be subsequently processed to obtain desired compounds. For example, trichomes can be separated from other plant biomass and subsequently processed to extract one or more cannabinoids or terpenes, such as THC and/or CBD.
US11167224B2
A sedimentation device for material which is contained in fluid, in particular rainwater, includes a sedimentation insert (12) which in the position of use is inserted into a shaft element (12), wherein the sedimentation insert (12) includes a run-in chamber, said run-in chamber being delimited by a run-in chamber side wall (20) which provided with a lateral run-in opening (19) and on its lower side having an outlet opening (23), wherein a flow-breaking device (24) for breaking the flow of a fluid flow which is produced in a throughflow direction (26) between the run-in opening (19) and a run-out opening (25) is assigned to the outlet opening (23), and wherein the sedimentation insert includes a run-out chamber (32) which annularly surrounds the run-in chamber (18) and which is delimited by an inner run-out chamber side wall, a base (33) and an outer run-out chamber side wall (34), wherein the run-out opening (25) is formed on the delimitation of the run-out chamber (32) and wherein the outer run-out chamber side wall (34) is designed as a spillway (38).
US11167212B1
Techniques implemented by a game-hosting service to place a load balancer between client devices engaged in a game session and servers that maintain state data for the game session. Rather than having a single server maintain state data and host the game session, the load balancer will broadcast action data received from the client devices to the server that is hosting the game session, or “primary server,” and also to a redundant server that is maintaining state data for the game session, or “secondary server.” Thus, if the primary server is unable to continue hosting the session, the secondary server may begin hosting the game session using the state data maintained for the game session. Further, by offloading the network input/output (I/O) tasks of communicating with the client devices from the server to the load balancer, the server can allocate larger amounts of resources to hosting game sessions.
US11167207B2
A location-based parallel reality game may use regions to determine how to disperse virtual elements, locate virtual experiences, and/or define game objectives. To determine the regions of the geographic area, a server divides the geographic region into cells. The server assigns real-world data to each of the cells and constructs a graph of nodes and edges based on the cells. Each node corresponds to a cell, and each edge connects nodes that correspond to adjacent cells. The server partitions the graph into contiguous segments based on the real-world data. The server defines regions of the geographic area based on the contiguous segments and stores the defined regions in a data store. The server may hierarchically partition the regions into higher order regions until each region meets a set of criteria.
US11167203B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to simulation, generally, and in some embodiments, more specifically to simulating a flight path of a golf ball. In such embodiments, a computer may be adapted to determine a first trajectory of the golf ball based on one linear expression; determine variations based on a flight path of the golf ball according to a first plane and a second plane, the first plane and second plane having orthogonality; adjust the first trajectory based on the variations; and provide a virtual golf ball with a virtual flight path based on the adjusted trajectory.
US11167200B2
The disclosure relates generally to an electric skateboard. The electric skateboard may include a deck, at least a rechargeable battery pack, a control module, and a communications module, a pair of trucks mounted to the deck, a plurality of wheels mounted on axles of the trucks; and one or more motors installed in one or more of the plurality of wheels for propelling the electric skateboard. The deck may include a front end, a rear end, a top plate. The rechargeable battery pack, control module, and communications module may be enclosed in an enclosure attached to the deck.
US11167198B2
The invention relates to a multi-step method with a number of processes and sub-processes that interact to allow for the selection, design and/or manufacture of a protective sports helmet for a specific player, or a recreational sports helmet for a specific person wearing the helmet. Once the desired protective sports helmet or recreational sports helmet is selected, information is collected from the individual player or wearer regarding the shape of his/her head and information about the impacts he/she has received while participating in the sport or activity. The collected information is processed to develop a bespoke energy attenuation assembly for use in the protective helmet. The energy attenuation assembly includes at least one energy attenuation member with a unique structural makeup and/or chemical composition. The energy attenuation assembly is purposely engineered to improve comfort and fit, as well as how the helmet responds when an impact or series of impacts are received by the helmet.
US11167197B2
A method and apparatus for exchanging barbell weight plates using a hand held jack tool is disclosed. The invention being comprised of a rectangular-shaped, rigid metal plate device having a supported slot along the center and a cam-shaped foot base. Said supported slot having a width to receive a barbell. The device also having an end with a grip-contoured profile. The method being comprised of installing said slot of the invention on an under side of a barbell proximal to its center but near its weighted end, rocking said device back onto its foot (lifting said barbell and weights) until stationary and allowing a user to safely slide plates on and off said barbell without touching the floor. An object of the invention is to allow weight lifters to exchange weight plates while a barbell is resting on the floor.
US11167195B2
A golf putting training device for improving a putting stroke of a user includes a base that is positionable on a surface. A pair of posts is coupled by lower ends to the base. Each post is positioned proximate to a respective opposed side of the base so that the posts define a reference plane that is perpendicular to the base. A guide unit is engaged to and extends from the base in a guide plane that is parallel to the reference plane guides a shaft of a putter during a putting stroke. A constriction unit that is engaged to the posts and selectively positionable in abutment to outer faces of knees of a user prevents outward motion of the knees during the putting stroke. A stance governing unit that is engaged to upper ends of the posts templates a posture of the user during the putting stroke.
US11167192B2
A small golf swing training tool has the same weight balance as that of a golf club and can easily confirm the orientation of the club face during training. A golf swing training tool includes a grasping part made of a rod-shaped member, a weight part made of a plate-like (plate-shaped) member surrounding both ends of the grasping part, and an insertion hole required to allow to grasp the grasping part between the grasping part and the weight part. The grasping part is not arranged at the weight center of the weight part.
US11167187B2
Embodiments of golf club heads, golf clubs, and methods to manufacture golf club heads and golf clubs are generally described herein. In one example, a golf club head may include a body portion with an interior cavity and a port having an opening to the interior cavity. A polymer material is injected into the interior cavity from the port. The golf club head may further include a first mass portion and a second mass portion. The first mass portion may have a first end, a second end, and a first mass portion distance between the first end and the second end. The second mass portion may be coupled to the back wall portion below a horizontal midplane of the body portion. The second mass portion may include a first end, a second end, and a second mass portion distance between the first end and the second end. The total mass of the second mass portion may be greater than a total mass of the first mass portion, and the second mass portion distance may be greater than the first mass portion distance. Other examples and embodiments may be described and claimed.
US11167183B2
A golf club head includes a metal frame having a sole opening, a composite laminate crown joined to the frame, a composite laminate sole insert joined to the frame and overlying the sole opening, and a thermoplastic composite component overmolded on the sole insert. The composite component may include a weight track, ribs, supports or other features. A method of making the golf club includes the steps of forming a frame having a sole opening, forming a composite laminate sole insert, forming a composite laminate crown insert, injection molding a thermoplastic composite head component over the sole insert to create a sole insert unit, and joining the sole insert unit and crown insert to the frame.
US11167181B1
A connector forms a releasable connection of a golf club shaft and a golf club head. The connector includes a shaft-mount and a head-mount. The shaft-mount has a first threaded coupling member and a bore that is sized to securely receive the golf club shaft. The head-mount has a second threaded coupling member. The head-mount is sized to be securely received within the bore of the hosel of the golf club head. The first threaded coupling member of the shaft-mount mates with the second threaded coupling member of the head-mount to form a releasable connection of the golf club shaft and the golf club head. The first threaded coupling member of the shaft-mount has dual-handed-thread ability which allows the releasable connection to follow left-handed-thread convention and right-hand-thread convention.
US11167180B2
The present disclosure provides a wireless signal transmitting ball to be used in practice or gameplay of a sport and/or other entertainment activities. The ball of the disclosure comprises a microprocessor unit configured to record, process, and transmit data to a paired device. Further disclosed is a method of actuating the ball between different modes. The ball could be used by players during practice to record data about their performance. The ball could also be used by players or game officials or referees to keep score, adjudicate and decide the gameplay. For example, the information about location of the ball could be used to track balls that could potentially be lost. Additionally, data about spin, trajectory, speed, force applied and the like could be used by players or broadcasters for gaining insights to add to viewing pleasure.
US11167177B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a golf ball traveling a great flight distance and having a good shot feeling on long iron shots. The present invention provides a golf ball comprising a core, at least one intermediate layer covering the core and a cover covering the intermediate layer, wherein the core is formed from a core rubber composition containing (a) a base rubber containing a polybutadiene, (b) an α,β-unsaturated carboxylic acid having 3 to 8 carbon atoms and/or a metal salt thereof as a co-crosslinking agent, (c) a crosslinking initiator, and (d) a terpene-based resin, and a material hardness (Hm) of the intermediate layer is higher than a material hardness (Hc) of the cover, and the material hardness (Hc) of the cover is less than 50 in Shore D hardness.
US11167167B1
The present invention discloses a weight-adjustable dumbbell component with a locking mechanism, comprising a dumbbell component, a dumbbell seat and a plurality of dumbbell pieces placed at two sides of the dumbbell seat. The dumbbell seat comprises a handle component, tailstock components disposed at two sides of the handle component and two sliders movably connected to two ends of the handle component. Rotating the handle component can drive the sliders to move slidably in a rotation stopping groove. By disposing a guiding groove inside a handle tube, a guiding block at one end of one of the sliders is mounted inside the guiding groove and the guiding groove inside the handle tube can pull the one of the sliders to move leftward or rightward.
US11167164B2
Connecting straps, for use for example in sports activities, include (a) a sleeve of webbing having a first end and a second end and having a loop at each end, each loop having a base and a free end, (b) disposed within the sleeve of webbing, a band of elastic material extending in a continuous loop, and (c) an attachment strap, adjacent each loop, configured to secure a portion of the band to the webbing at the base of each loop. In some cases, the band has a solid, polygonal cross-sectional shape.
US11167152B2
A system for generating a dose distribution is provided. The system may obtain a first dose distribution in at least a portion of a subject. The system may also obtain a trained machine learning model. The system may further generate, based on the first dose distribution and the trained machine learning model, a second dose distribution in the at least a portion of the subject, wherein the second dose distribution has a higher accuracy than that of the first dose distribution.
US11167142B2
Systems and methods for customizable titration of an implantable neurostimulator are provided. A method of titrating a neurostimulation signal delivered to a patient from an implantable pulse generator includes delivering a first neurostimulation signal with a first set of parameters, increasing a first value of the first neurostimulation signal at a first rate for a first period of time while delivering the first neurostimulation signal, ceasing delivery of the first neurostimulation signal when the first value reaches a first target value, delivering a second neurostimulation signal with a second set of parameters, and increasing the second neurostimulation signal at a second rate for a second period of time while delivering the second neurostimulation signal.
US11167141B2
Described are a system and method that utilize bioelectric signaling to balance electrical potentials in a subject's body via neuro-hormonal circuit loops, to increase elasticity of the subject's arteries to promote protein release to dampen arterial blood pressure, and to change arterial electrical charges to reduce narrowing of the arteries. The described system is designed to localize and stimulate the fibers inside the vagus nerve without inadvertent stimulation of non-baroreceptive fibers causing side effects like bradycardia and bradypnea. The system also controls release of specific proteins known to lower blood pressures including tropoelastin (known to increase elasticity in the aorta and other peripheral blood vessels).
US11167140B2
Disclosed is a system for stimulation of a subject. The stimulation may be to provide therapy to treat the subject. Stimulation may be of selected muscle groups and/or portions.
US11167111B1
Medical devices and methods for delivering fluid. The medical devices include one or more needles for delivering fluid. The methods may include expanding an expandable member such as an inflatable member to expand an expandable scaffold outward toward a lumen wall.
US11167108B2
A medicine injection catheter includes: a catheter main body formed with a medicine supply lumen; a tubular body connected to the distal end of the catheter main body and having a lumen communicating with the medicine supply lumen; an injection needle connected to the tubular body; a tubular cover member that accommodates the tubular body and that is configured to be advanced and retracted in the axial direction of the catheter main body between a first position where a distal end of the injection needle is accommodated in the tubular cover and a second position where the distal end of the injection needle protrudes forward from the inside space; a closing member to close and open the lumen of the tubular body, a motion conversion mechanism which converts advancing/retracting motion of the cover member into movement of the closing member to close the lumen of the tubular body.
US11167105B2
A method and apparatus for stimulating neural activity in the brain of a user of an apparatus with a display screen by causing at least one portion of the display screen to flicker in a controlled manner and utilizing the apparatus to measure an effect on a user exposed to the flicker for a time.
US11167097B2
A flap (20) for an inhalation actuated mechanism (18) of a powder inhaler (1) comprises a base member (29), a skirt structure (24) projecting from a surface of the base member (29), and a coupling portion (21) to be coupled to a resilient member (40′) of the inhalation actuated mechanism (18).
US11167092B2
Drug delivery device adapted to expel a set dose, comprising an expelling mechanism with a drive spring, a dose setting mechanism with first and second dose setting ratchet parts, a bias spring as well as control means. The control means is adapted to rotate the second ratchet part in a first direction to thereby set a dose when rotating the dose setting member in the first direction, and move the ratchet parts axially out of engagement with each other when the dose setting member is rotated in the opposite direction. When the first and second ratchet parts have been axially disengaged, the drive spring will rotate the second ratchet part in the second direction to thereby reduce the set dose, the bias spring moving the ratchet parts axially into engagement with each other again, this resulting in the set dose being reduced corresponding to one tooth of the ratchet mechanism.
US11167083B2
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for controlling an MRI safe patient care/monitoring system. The system may include a an MRI safe infusion pump that contains a co-processor which acts as a central brain for all other patient care/monitoring devices in the MRI room. The co-processor is separated from the primary processor by a buffer in the infusion pump's memory, so that no actions by the co-processor can affect the primary processor. The co-processor controls the display software, alert software and alerts database. All other patient care/monitoring devices are connected to the MRI safe infusion pump in a daisy chain, so that they can share a single connection to outside the MRI room. Outside the MRI room the co-processor has access to the remote control & display, which contains the remote control GUI, and to the internet, through which it will access an external medical network, which contains an algorithm database. The algorithm database has data processing algorithms for a variety of patient care/monitoring devices. allowing simpler “dumb” devices to be connected and still have “smart” functionality.
US11167068B2
An extracorporeal blood treatment apparatus is provided comprising a filtration unit (2) connected to a blood circuit (17) and to a dialysate circuit (32), a preparation device (9) for preparing and regulating the composition of the dialysis fluid; a control unit (12) is configured for receiving a desired sodium mass transport at the end of the treatment session and for setting the sodium concentration value for the dialysis fluid in the dialysis supply line (8) at a set point to achieve the desired sodium mass transport at the end of the treatment session.
US11167066B2
Drug-eluting devices and methods for the treatment of tumors of the pancreas, biliary system, gallbladder, liver, small bowel, or colon, are provided. Methods include deploying a drug-eluting device having a film which includes a mixture of a degradable polymer and a chemotherapeutic drug, wherein the film has a thickness from about 2 μm to about 1000 μm, into a tissue site and releasing a therapeutically effective amount of the chemotherapeutic drug from the film to treat the tumor, wherein the release of the therapeutically effective amount of the drug from the film is controlled by in vivo degradation of the polymer at the tissue site.
US11167059B2
Wound dressings and wound inserts comprising substantially dry reactive agents, methods of forming wound inserts comprising dry reactive agents, and wound-treatment methods.
US11167043B2
The present invention provides, among other things, methods of treating ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency, including administering to a subject in need of treatment a composition comprising an mRNA encoding an ornithine transcarbamylase protein at a low dose and at an administration interval such that at least one symptom or feature of the OTC deficiency is reduced.
US11167040B2
In some aspects, the invention relates to an antibody-drug conjugate, comprising an antibody; a linker; and at least two active agents. In preferred embodiments, the linker comprises a peptide sequence of a plurality of amino acids, and at least two of the active agents are covalently coupled to side chains of the amino acids. The antibody-drug conjugate may comprise a self-immolative group, preferably two-self-immolative groups. The linker may comprise an O-substituted oxime, e.g., wherein the oxygen atom of the oxime is substituted with a group that covalently links the oxime to the active agent; and the carbon atom of the oxime is substituted with a group that covalently links the oxime to the antibody.
US11167035B2
The invention is related to insulin compositions with a high content of zinc atoms per six molecules of acylated insulin. The insulin is an acylated insulin and may be mixed with a further insulin analogue such as the rapid acting insulin Asp B28 human insulin.
US11167028B2
This invention generally relates to cationic oil-in-water emulsions that contain high concentrations of cationic lipids and have a defined oil:lipid ratio. The cationic lipid can interact with the negatively charged molecule thereby anchoring the molecule to the emulsion particles. The cationic emulsions described herein are useful for delivering negatively charged molecules, such as nucleic acid molecules to cells, and for formulating nucleic acid-based vaccines.
US11167025B2
The invention provides methods and compositions for eliciting broad immune responses. The methods employ nucleic acid vaccines that encodes highly conserved elements from a virus.
US11167020B2
Methods of immunizing older adult subjects against Streptococcus pneumoniae infection are provided. Provided methods comprise immunization of naïve adult subjects with a conjugated pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine. Optionally, initial immunization may be followed by additional immunization doses comprising conjugated pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine or unconjugated pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine composition.
US11167015B2
The present invention provides novel uses and methods for T cell based immunotherapies. Specifically, the invention relates to novel ligands, targets and nucleic acids and vectors encoding said targets that are useful for modulating T cell responses.
US11167008B2
Disclosed herein are compositions comprising immunomodulatory and oncolytic eubacterial minicells, and the use of the composition in immunomodulatory therapies for cancer. In some embodiments, the minicells are used in combination of immune checkpoint inhibitors in treating cancer.
US11167007B2
Disclosed herein, inter alia, are FOXM1 modulators and methods for modulating the activity of androgen receptors in neuronal cells to treat various diseases, such as spinal-bulbar muscular atrophy, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and Alzheimer's disease.
US11167003B2
The present invention provides methods for treating or ameliorating primary progressive multiple sclerosis (PPMS) or secondary progressive multiple sclerosis (SPMS) and related symptoms by administering or implanting a depot formulation comprising glatiramer salts, such as glatiramer acetate (GA).
US11167002B2
The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition. The pharmaceutical composition is the organic phase of raw garlic (Allium sativum, all species) or water extraction to provide novel cancer treatments of multiple malignant neoplasms, infectious diseases and Type 2 diabetes. The effective formulation of OPRGE is either liquid or dry powder of OPRGE; the effective routes of administration is intravenous (IV) for infectious diseases and diabetes; the effective routes of administration is intravenous (IV) or intraperitoneal (IP) or intratumoral infusions for malignant neoplasms. The patent application consistent of OPRGE extraction methods, mode of administration of OPRGE and clinical indications.
US11166997B2
The present invention relates to compositions comprising one or more compounds and/or extracts which induce, promote and/or improve production/release/delivery/excretion of hyaluronic acid from and/or in the cornea, and methods of using the compositions to treat the eye.
US11166986B2
The present invention is directed to polypeptides and compositions thereof useful for the prevention or treatment of an inflammatory bowel disease in particular Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis (UC), and of coeliac disease. More particularly, the invention relates to agents and compositions thereof that useful for the prevention and treatment of hypersensitivity and/or hyperirritability of the colon and/or small intestine.
US11166984B2
The present invention relates to a method for identifying δT-cell (or γT-cell) receptors chains or parts thereof that mediate an anti-tumor or anti-infection response by identifying amino acid sequences comprising δT-cells (or γT-cell) receptors chains or parts thereof that are shared between different donors.
US11166983B2
The present invention relates to novel methods for the isolation and the selective ex vivo expansion of Vδ2− TCRγδ+T cells and to their clinical application.
US11166968B2
The present invention relates to compositions, particularly compositions useful in maintaining and supporting healthy microflora in the female urogenital tract which could lead to inhibition of vaginal infections, as well as methods of treating and preventing vaginal infections. Compositions useful in supporting healthy microflora, disclosed herein, generally comprise a therapeutic amount of a first saccharide and a therapeutic amount of a second saccharide or an organic acid. The saccharides may be, for example, a pentose, a disaccharide, a cyclodextrin, a pectic substance or a non-digestible polysaccharide. The organic acid may be, for example, malic acid.
US11166966B2
Compounds including vitamins and aspirin are disclosed. The compounds are provided in dosage form and preferably include selected amounts of folic acid, vitamin D, calcium, vitamin C, thiamine, and riboflavin with the aspirin. A protective coating is preferably provided between the aspirin and the other vitamin and mineral constituents. The dosages are effective in the treatment and prevention of pre-natal conditions.
US11166964B2
The present invention is directed to the modulation of gut microbiota. Specifically, the invention relates to pharmaceutical compositions for use in restoring gastrointestinal homeostasis and in alleviating gastrointestinal disorders and other conditions associated with imbalance of gut flora. More specifically, the invention relates to the use of compositions comprising a therapeutically effective amount of a fatty acid bile acid conjugate (FABAC).
US11166961B2
The present invention is directed to orally administered compositions of topically acting corticosteroids for the treatment of inflammation of the gastrointestinal tracts such as eosinophilic esophagitis. The present invention also provides a method for treating conditions associated with inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract in an individual. The method comprises administering to an individual in need thereof a pharmaceutical composition of the present invention as orally disintegrating tablets comprising a topically active corticosteroid adsorbed onto a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier such as silicified microcrystalline cellulose.
US11166959B2
Disclosed are compounds of Formula (I) or a salt thereof, wherein: X is CH or N; Y is CR5 or N; and R1, R2, R3, R4, and R5 are defined herein. Also disclosed are methods of using such compounds to modulate or inhibit the enzymatic activity of hematopoietic progenitor kinase 1 (HPK1), and pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds. These compounds are useful in the treatment of viral infections and proliferative disorders, such as cancer.
US11166953B2
The invention includes methods of preventing or treating acute lung injury using a MAP3K2/MAP3K3 inhibitor. The invention further comprises compositions, and kits comprising compositions useful within the invention.
US11166951B2
Therapeutic combinations of a phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) inhibitor, including PI3K inhibitors selective for the γ- and δ-isoforms and selective for both γ- and δ-isoforms (PI3K-γ,δ, PI3K-γ, and PI3K-δ), a Janus kinase-2 (JAK-2) inhibitor, a Bruton's tyrosine kinase (BTK) inhibitor, and/or a B-cell lymphoma-2 (BCL-2) inhibitor are described. In some embodiments, the invention provides therapeutic combinations of a PI3K-δ inhibitor and a BTK inhibitor, a JAK-2 and a BTK inhibitor, and a BCL-2 and BTK inhibitor.
US11166948B2
The present invention addresses the problem of providing a therapeutic agent for abdominal aortic aneurysms, with which pharmacotherapy is possible. The present invention provides a therapeutic agent for an aortic aneurysm comprising, as an active component, (−)-6-[3-[3-cyclopropyl-3-[(1R,2R)-2-hydroxycyclohexyl]ureido]propoxy]-2(1H)-quinolinone or a salt thereof, or a solvate of these.
US11166942B2
The present disclosure relates generally to therapeutic agents that may be useful as inhibitors of Integrated Stress Response (ISR) pathway.
US11166940B2
Methods of inducing bradycardia (slowing a heart rate) in a subject in need thereof, treating a medical condition in which inducing bradycardia (slowing a heart rate) is desirable or beneficial in a subject in need thereof and/or treating a medical condition associated with cardiac arrhythmia, are provided. The methods are effected by blocking SK4 channel in SAN cell of the subject and/or by administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of a blocker of an SK4 channel. A method of identifying candidate compounds for treating an arrhythmic cardiac disorder, by identifying compounds that reduce a pacing rate of the SAN cells is also provided.
US11166938B2
Provided is an external composition excellent in stability and impression from use. An external composition containing (A) at least one member selected from the group consisting of ascorbic acid and salts of ascorbic acid, (B) at least one member selected from the group consisting of 3-O-ethylascorbic acid, salts of 3-O-ethylascorbic acid, and hydroxylated lecithin, and (C) polyethylene glycol is prepared.
US11166937B2
Provided are compositions comprising compounds or precursors to compounds which may be used for a variety of therapeutic applications including, for example, treating and/or preventing a disease or disorder related to reduced or inadequate mitochondrial activity, including aging or stress, diabetes, obesity, and neurodegenerative diseases. The compounds relate generally to urolithins and precursors thereof, including but not limited to ellagitannins and urolithin A. In certain embodiments the compositions are presented in or as food products or nutritional supplements. These same compounds and compositions can also be used advantageously in generally healthy individuals to increase or maintain metabolic rate, decrease percent body fat, increase or maintain muscle mass, manage body weight, improve or maintain mental performance (including memory), improve or maintain muscle performance, improve or maintain mood, and manage stress.
US11166935B2
A pouch designed for administration of an active ingredient in the oral cavity is disclosed, the pouch containing an amount of one or more cannabinoids. Also, pouches for use as a medicament, for use in alleviation of pain, and for use in mitigation of appetite deficiency are disclosed. Further, a method of alleviation of pain and a method of mitigation of appetite deficiency using the pouch are disclosed.
US11166934B2
The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition for preventing or treating allergic diseases such as asthma or atopy including baicalein as an active ingredient. Baicalein is capable of regulating thymic stromal lymphopoietin-mediated signal transduction. The pharmaceutical composition of the present invention can effectively suppress inflammatory responses of allergic or asthmatic diseases due to the presence of baicalein extracted from Scutellariae Radix that regulates TSLP-mediated intracellular signal transduction to inhibit intracellular phosphorylation of STATS and inhibit the binding of TSLP to TSLPR. In addition, the pharmaceutical composition of the present invention may further include one or more compounds having synergistic effects with baicalein. In this case, the pharmaceutical composition can more effectively suppress inflammatory responses of allergic diseases such as asthma or atopy.
US11166927B2
The present specification provides RXR agonist compounds, compositions comprising such RXR agonists, and methods using such compounds and compositions to treat an autoimmune disorder, inflammation associated with an autoimmune disorder and/or a transplant rejection as well as use of such RXR agonists to manufacture a medicament and use of such compounds and compositions to treat an autoimmune disorder, inflammation associated with an autoimmune disorder and/or a transplant rejection.
US11166924B2
This invention relates to therapeutic compounds and compositions, and methods for their use in the prevention or treatment of neurological disorders. In particular, the invention relates to N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) allosteric modulators and methods for their use in the prevention or treatment of disorders or conditions caused by or related to NMDAR dysfunctions. The invention also relates to a method for identifying NMDAR allosteric modulators.
US11166921B2
The present invention provides a patch comprising a backing layer and an adhesive agent layer, wherein the adhesive agent layer is non-aqueous, the adhesive agent layer contains nonylic acid vanillylamide, terpene-based resin, rosin-based resin, styrene-isoprene-styrene block copolymer, and liquid paraffin, a mass ratio of a content of the terpene-based resin to a content of the rosin-based resin ((content of the terpene-based resin)/(content of the rosin-based resin)) in the adhesive agent layer is 0.45 to 1.3, and a mass ratio of a content of the styrene-isoprene-styrene block copolymer to a content of the liquid paraffin ((content of the styrene-isoprene-styrene block copolymer)/(content of the liquid paraffin)) in the adhesive agent layer is 0.45 to 1.2.
US11166918B2
There is provided low-substituted hydroxypropyl cellulose (L-HPC) having good bindability, anti-capping performance and disintegratability. More specifically, there are provided L-HPC having a hydroxypropoxy group content of 5 to 16% by mass and a volume fraction of long fibrous particles of more than 50.0% relative to all of L-HPC particles which are classified, on a basis of dynamic image analysis, into fine particles, spherical particles, the long fibrous particles and short fibrous particles; and a solid preparation containing the L-HPC.
US11166913B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a tumor therapeutic agent and a kit which have superior antitumor effects as compared with gemcitabine, a taxane antitumor agent, and a combination therapy thereof which have been put on the market. According to the present invention, there is provided a tumor therapeutic agent obtained by combining a taxane antitumor agent with a liposome composition in which gemcitabine or a salt thereof is contained in a liposome.
US11166910B2
The present invention relates to a chewing gum for mucosal delivery of cannabinoids, the chewing gum including water-soluble chewing gum ingredients and water-insoluble gum base, wherein the gum base has one or more natural resins in an amount of 10-40% by weight of the gum base, one or more elastomers in an amount of 3-30% by weight of the gum base, and one or more elastomer plasticizers in an amount of 8-50% by weight of the gum base, and wherein the water-soluble chewing gum ingredients include one or more sugar alcohols in an amount of 35-80% by weight of the chewing gum, and wherein the chewing gum has one or more cannabinoids.
US11166907B2
The present invention provides a conductive hydrogel comprising a polystyrene sulfonate compound selected from poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) polystyrene sulfonate (PEDOT:PSS), reduced graphene oxide polystyrene sulfonate (rGO:PSS) and rGO:PEDOT:PSS; and a conjugate of polyethylene glycol (PEG) and a linker-(BX)n oligopeptide of formula (I) PEG-linker-(BX)n (I) wherein B is lysine or arginine, X is selected from alanine, glycine, serine, threonine, tyrosine, glutamic acid or aspartic acid and n is an integer selected from 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 20. The invention further relates to processes for assembling the conductive hydrogel. The conductive hydrogel can be used in various biomedical applications, such as neuroprostheses, biosensors, nerve grafts, cell culture and encapsulation of cells and microorganisms as well as for drug delivery.
US11166905B2
A skin cleansing composition has from about 0.05% to about 15%, by weight of the composition, of a plurality of color stable abrasive particles comprising a non-oxide colorant; and an antioxidant selected from the group consisting of tocopherol acetate (Vitamin E Acetate), butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA), butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT), sodium benzotriazolyl butylphenol sulfate, Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) and combinations thereof. The abrasive particles are sustainable. The skin cleansing composition has a pH of <6 or from about 4 to about 6.
US11166904B2
Disclosed are compositions, systems and methods for treating keratinous fibers such as hair. The compositions and systems comprise an oxazoline functionalized polymer and a carboxyl group-containing polymer. The compositions and methods are employed to improve the quality of the keratinous fibers.
US11166903B2
A composition for providing a film on keratin fibres, the composition comprising: a film-forming aminosilicone polymer; a silicone resin; an ether of a water-soluble polyhydric alcohol; a thickening system comprising a deposition enhancer and a thickening polymer; one or more coloured materials or one or more pigments; water; 2-phenoxyethanol and/or phenylmethanol; wherein the composition is substantially free of esters of parahydroxybenzoic acid; and wherein the composition is substantially free of isothiazolinone compounds. Also, associated methods, kits and uses.
US11166901B2
A photopolymerizable composition for forming a photopolymerized nail top coating of a substantially uniform mixture of ethyl cellulose and crosslinked (meth)acrylate polymer is disclosed.
US11166900B2
A powdery cosmetic composition in the form of a compacted powder including, in a physiologically acceptable medium, (i) a pulverulent phase including nanocrystalline cellulose, and (ii) a binder phase. Also, the use of the pulverulent phase for the preparation of a cosmetic composition in the form of compacted powder with satisfactory cohesive properties.
US11166892B2
The invention relates to a composition for reducing fatty tissue including at least one non-ionic surfactant as an active substance for reducing fatty tissue, wherein said non-ionic surfactant is polidocanol and the solvent is water, and a method for reducing unwanted fatty tissue by administering the composition.
US11166869B2
A cooling compression sleeve device generally including three layers, a flexible bottom layer, a flexible middle layer, and a flexible top layer, and two voids, the first void substantially filled with a cooling agent and the second void including a selectively inflatable air bladder, which in its preferred form is portable, cleanable, reusable, and useful to provide cooling therapy to the limbs of humans or animals and particularly to the knee, shoulder, and elbow joints.
US11166868B2
Compression garments and methods may include a head garment configured to be positioned around both sides of a head of a body from a posterior of the head to an anterior of the head (e.g., wherein the head garment may include a plurality of controllable head pressure applying regions positionable proximate at least cheeks and a posterior of the head) and a neck garment (e.g., coupled to the head garment). The compression garments and methods may also include a torso garment. Such garment portions may include one or more controllable pressure applying regions to move lymph from the head downward.
US11166855B2
The invention comprises a diaper sensor device comprising at least two sensor units each comprising at least a temperature sensor and a humidity sensor; optionally a positional sensor; a microcontroller communicating with the sensors and comprising a transmitter for transmitting data from the sensors; a power unit supplying power to the sensors, the microcontroller and the transmitter; a flexible watertight casing; housing the sensors, the transmitter; and the power unit, and fastening means for fastening the diaper sensor device on the outside of the diaper. Furthermore the invention comprises a method and a system for determining the existence and class of human excreta in a diaper.
US11166853B2
Described herein are nonwoven materials including a plurality of fibers. At least some of the plurality of fibers include a filler. The plurality of fibers have a Thermal Conductivity from about 0.25 W/m/K to about 70 W/m/K.
US11166850B2
A system and apparatus for increasing the amplitude of accommodation and/or changing the refractive power and/or enabling the removal of the clear or cataractous lens material of a natural crystalline lens is provided. Generally, the system comprises a laser, optics for delivering the laser beam and a control system for delivering the laser beam to the lens in a particular pattern. There is further provided a range determining system for determining the shape and position of the lens with respect to the laser. There is yet further provided a method and system for delivering a laser beam in the lens of the eye in a predetermined shot pattern.
US11166845B2
An ultrasonic cutting tip has a hollow shaft with a proximal and distal end. The proximal end is configured to be attached to an ultrasonic hand piece, and the distal end has a smooth continuous surface. An opening is located near the distal end of the hollow shaft. The opening is configured to cut vitreous when the cutting tip is vibrated ultrasonically in a torsional manner.
US11166842B2
In accordance with one embodiment, a uniform total body cryotherapy method and apparatus operative to allow an individual in a cryotherapy chamber to be subjected to the same cold temperatures on their entire body at the same time. In use, the apparatus allows active dissemination of cold air in a confined space without the undesired consequence of wind shear commonly caused by forced movement of cold air.
US11166841B1
A mouth appliance for maintaining effective airflow in a user's airway comprises a frame formed to engage the user's upper and lower teeth to retain the frame in a selected position in the user's mouth in accord with the user's natural bite. A tongue depressor is mounted to the frame and formed to extend to a rear portion of the user's throat and to exert pressure directly on the tongue in the area of the user's soft palate, thereby facilitating comfort and ease in occasional swallowing, while providing airflow effectiveness to prevent the user from snoring and experiencing sleep apnea.
US11166840B2
A mandibular protrusion device which comprises a maxillary dental tray, a mandibular dental tray and at least two lateral links. Each one of the lateral links has a first end removably engageable with the maxillary dental tray and a second end removably engageable with the mandibular dental tray. The maxillary dental tray, mandibular dental tray and the lateral links have complementary male and female members configured to be engageable and disengageable from one another in at least one engagement/disengagement configuration that is not reached when the device is worn or in normal use.
US11166839B2
An oral appliance that includes tongue positioning structures which are useful in treating snoring, OSA and related disorders. The invention provides a passive tongue location device which includes cavities located on the internal surface adjacent the tongue, the cavities operatively providing a retentive effect on the tongue when it is in its relaxed state. Further, the present invention provides an oral device adapted to operatively enhance the operation of a sleeping user's airway, including a carrier adapted to be positioned over at least some of the lower teeth of the user and having an interior projection over at least part of the gums of a user, the projection defining a pair of opposed cavities, the cavities being shaped and operatively adapted so that the tongue of the sleeping user will passively engage the cavities.
US11166838B2
A stoma adapter is described that is especially suited to a recessed stoma or a flush stoma. The stoma adapter effectively extends the discharge passage from the stoma, protects peristomal skin, and forms a bridge at the interface between the stoma and an ostomy appliance. The stoma adapter contains a substantially unobstructed discharge passage, at least for effluent flowing in a discharge direction. The stoma adapter includes a seal for sealing against the bowel wall. The stoma adapter has collapsing, expanding, flexible and reinforced designs.
US11166827B2
A device for introducing an implant (1) into blood vessels or hollow organs of the human or animal body. The device includes an implant (1), an insertion wire (14) and a release tube (13), wherein the implant (1) is deformable so that it fits into a microcatheter (8) and expands once the external constraint of the microcatheter (8) disappears, adapting to the diameter of the blood vessel or hollow organ, wherein a holding element (2) is arranged on the insertion wire (14) and the holding element (2) has at its periphery at least one groove (3) set into the holding element (2), running along the circumference of the holding element (2) and forming tracks in the form of curved lines, wherein the implant (1) has holding wired (5) extending proximally, which are fitted into the grooves (3).
US11166825B1
An interbody spinal implant for implantation in a disc space between adjacent vertebral bodies, and an insertion instrument facilitating such implantation is provided. The spinal implant includes a body portion and an extended end portion, where at least the body portion can include a biconvex upper and lower surfaces. And the insertion instrument is engageable to a proximal end portion of the interbody spinal implant to facilitate insertion of the interbody spinal implant into the disc space.
US11166820B2
A bone implant includes a body having a porous structure and having a size and shape configured for fitting to a bone, preferably in a bone defect. The porous structure is comprised of regularly arranged elementary cells whose interior spaces form interconnected pores, the elementary cells are formed by basic elements arranged in layers, wherein the basic elements are shaped like tetrapods, the tetrapods in each layer being arranged in parallel orientation and being positioned in-layer rotated with respect to tetrapods of an adjacent layer. The layers with rotated and non-rotated tetrapods are alternatingly arranged. Thereby a porous structure can be achieved which features improved mechanical characteristics, leading to improved biocompatibility.
US11166806B2
This document provides implantable intraluminal stent graft medical devices. In some embodiments, the stent graft devices provided herein are implantable in bodily conduits that have side branches, and the stent graft devices are operable to allow the flow of fluids between the conduit and the side branches. In some embodiments, the walls of the stent graft devices provided herein include compliant channels which allow for fluid communication between the interior and the exterior of the stent graft devices. In some embodiments, the compliant channels are configured to inhibit or reduce tissue ingrowth, tissue bridging, and/or endothelialization.
US11166798B2
An injector for injecting pellets includes a main body, a delivery opening which is formed on the main body and to which a hollow-bore needle can be connected and a magazine guide formed in the main body for a magazine which, for accommodating the pellets, comprises several barrels. Each barrel includes a hollow cylindrical compartment with an open front end and an open rear end. The magazine guide brings the magazine, barrel by barrel, into an injection position, in which a plunger of the injector can be introduced into the barrel via the rear end of the barrel positioned in the injection position and moved in the direction of the delivery opening in order to deliver the pellet provided in the barrel via the delivery opening. A drawer is formed in the main body for accommodating a replacement hollow-bore needle.
US11166797B2
Bird carriers and methods of restraining birds are disclosed. Each bird carrier may include a torso support, one or more leg clamps, and a head support. The head support may further include a beak receiving passage such that at least a portion of the birds' beaks are exposed. The bird carriers may restrain one or both legs and heads of the birds while supporting their torsos. Restraining the legs and the heads of the birds while supporting their torsos may produce a calming effect such that the birds exhibit significantly reduced struggling in an attempt to free themselves from the carrier.
US11166796B2
An electric toothbrush having a head part with a rotating working element is described in detail. The electric toothbrush is equipped with elements configured and arranged to cooperate in driving the working element and to change the direction of its rotating movement.
US11166794B2
The invention relates to a support body for a blank, whereby the support body possesses a receiving opening for the blank that is surrounded by an inner circumferential surface, which terminates in an upper and a lower edge, and whereby a blank fixed in position within the support body is bonded to the latter by means of an adhesive agent. In order to be able to easily introduce the adhesive agent into a gap between the blank and the support body it is intended that the inner circumferential surface possesses at least one depression and/or elevation extending to accommodate the adhesive agent.
US11166792B2
A dental implant system including an implant and an abutment is disclosed. The implant includes a generally cylindrical body, a central axis, a distal end for anchoring in a patient's bone and a proximal end opposing the distal end. The proximal end includes a roughened lateralized surface that surrounds an abutment-engaging region. The lateralized surface is disposed at a negative slope relative to the central axis. The abutment includes an upper portion for supporting a tooth-like prosthesis and a lower portion for engaging the abutment-engaging region of the dental implant. The diameter of the lower portion of the abutment is smaller than the diameter of the implant at its proximal end. The lower portion includes a first surface with a soft-tissue enhancing material. The first surface and the lateralized surface defining a circumferentially extending recess having a V-shaped cross-section for receiving and attachment to the soft tissue.
US11166773B2
An end effector that can have an upper jaw and a lower jaw. A wrist can connect the end effector to an elongated shaft. A beam member can be arranged to translate within the upper and lower jaw. An actuation assembly can have a pushing assembly configured to transfer compressive force to the beam member and a pulling assembly configured to transfer tensile force to the beam member.
US11166768B2
A system for holding and controlling medical instruments during procedures includes an end effector configured to hold a medical instrument and a rotational and translational (RT) mechanism configured to rotate and translate the medical instrument along an insertion axis. The system further includes a platform coupled to the RT mechanism and a pair of parallel five-bar planar linkages configured to translate, pitch, and yaw the platform with respect to a principal axis that is parallel to the insertion axis.
US11166761B2
An injectate delivery device for expanding tissue is provided. The injectate delivery device comprises: at least one fluid delivery tube comprising a proximal end, a distal end and a lumen therebetween; at least one fluid delivery element in fluid communication with the at least one fluid delivery tube lumen; a radially expanding element comprising the at least one fluid delivery element; a supply of vacuum constructed and arranged to cause tissue to tend toward the at least one fluid delivery element; and at least one control constructed and arranged to perform a function. The at least one control can be constructed and arranged to expand the radially expandable element and activate the supply of vacuum. Systems and method of injectate delivery are also provided.
US11166759B2
A surgical forceps including an end effector assembly has first and second jaw members. At least one of the first or second jaw members has a jaw frame defining a channel therein, an insulative member disposed within the channel of the jaw frame, and an electrically-conductive plate having a tissue contacting surface and at least one folded side portion. The insulative member includes a top portion having a tissue facing surface. The tissue contacting surface of the electrically-conductive plate is disposed on the tissue facing surface of the insulative member. The at least one folded side portion of the electrically-conductive plate is folded over the top portion of the insulative member such that the electrically-conductive plate conforms to a shape of the top portion of the insulative member.
US11166745B2
A needle having a first end, a second end, and a lumen extending within an interior of the needle, between the first end and the second end. A sleeve is engageable within an interior diameter or interior surface of the lumen. The sleeve includes a first end and a second end that are sized to reside within the first end of the lumen and the second end of the lumen, respectively. Ports extend between the first end and the second end of the sleeve. The ports have an inlet and an outlet sized to receive and route stimulator wires to areas within the epidural space of a spine.
US11166744B2
A reducer device for insertion into a surgical cannula includes a tubular member having a proximal opening and a distal opening and an electrically conductive component configured and positioned to provide an electrically conductive path from an interior of the tubular member to an exterior of the tubular member. The electrically conductive path is localized along an axial length of the tubular member. A method of configuring a surgical device includes positioning a surgical cannula within an incision of a patient's body wall, positioning a reducer device within the surgical cannula, and positioning a surgical instrument within the reducer device. Positioning the surgical instrument within the reducer device includes forming an electrically conductive pathway between the surgical cannula and the surgical instrument.
US11166736B2
An endoscopic stone-extraction device is provided comprising a support filament comprising an end portion having a plurality of stacked loops, a sheath comprising a lumen, wherein the support filament is disposed in the lumen such that the sheath is slideable with respect to the support filament, and a handle comprising an actuator. Movement of the actuator in a first direction retracts the sheath and causes the plurality of stacked loops to expand outside the lumen in an arc-like shape. Movement of the actuator in a second direction advances the sheath and causes the plurality of stacked loops to at least partially collapse inside the lumen. Other embodiments are provides, and any of these embodiments can be used alone or in combination.
US11166732B2
A guide for drilling a tunnel in a knee joint having intercondylar roof and tibial eminence. The guide can comprise a guide assembly having a positioning member including an inferior end, and a guide arm extending from the positioning member including a trochlear tip; and a drill sleeve having a body attached to the inferior end, an aperture extending along a drilling axis, and a distal end having a patient-specific surface configured to engage an anterior surface of the tibia. A method of producing a tibial tunnel can comprise inserting a trochlear tip of a guide arm between the tibial eminence and the intercondylar roof, adjusting a position of a positioning member connected to the guide arm, engaging a patient-specific tip of a drill sleeve connected to the positioning member with a surface of a tibia, and inserting a drill bit through the drill sleeve to drill a tibial tunnel.
US11166731B2
An apparatus for treating an aneurysm includes an occlusion element configured to be releasably coupled to an elongate delivery shaft and including an inverted mesh tube having an outer layer and an inner layer, the outer layer transitioning to the inner layer at an inversion fold, the occlusion element configured to be delivered in a collapsed configuration through an inner lumen of a delivery catheter and further configured to expand to an expanded configuration when advanced out of the delivery catheter, wherein in the expanded configuration, at least the outer layer of the inverted mesh tube is formed into an expanded shape including a proximal section having a first transverse dimension, a distal section having a second transverse dimension, and a waist portion having a third transverse dimension, wherein the third transverse dimension is less than the first transverse dimension, and the third transverse dimension is less than the second transverse dimension, and wherein in the expanded configuration, the waist portion is configured to be deformed by an externally applied force such that a distance between the distal section and the proximal section is decreased.
US11166726B2
The present invention relates to a negative pressure wound closure system and methods for using such a system. Preferred embodiments of the invention facilitate closure of the wound by preferentially contracting to provide for movement of the tissue. Preferred embodiments can utilize tissue grasping elements to apply a wound closing force to the tissue.
US11166719B2
An endoscopic surgery system includes a plurality of staples and an endoscopic applicator having a staple cartridge for loading transversely arranged staples. The staples have a central region and two side limbs and the applicator has a mobile body for holding a staple to be applied, the staple being arranged in a transverse plane, and for ensuring the deformation of same by bending in relation to the axis of symmetry of the staple.
US11166716B2
A surgical system is disclosed that comprises a stapling instrument including a staple firing lockout and a staple cartridge configured to defeat the staple firing lockout when the staple cartridge is seated in the stapling instrument.
US11166711B2
A device comprising: a flexible tube comprising a first collapsible end portion; a first actuating element segment secured to the first collapsible end portion and extending along the first collapsible end portion, wherein, when the first collapsible end portion is threaded through a first aperture and the first actuating element segment is pulled proximally, the first collapsible end portion collapses proximally and forms a bulge larger than the first aperture, thereby anchoring the flexible tube against a rim of the first aperture.
US11166708B2
In one embodiment, an illumination system includes a speculum having two arms coupled to blades at distal ends thereof and a biasing member at proximal ends thereof. One or more optical fibers are disposed through at least one of the arms and have one or more termination points located within at least one of the blades. The optical fibers are configured to deliver light to an interior space of an eye when the eye is coupled to the speculum. In some embodiments, the illumination system further includes a temple support pad.
US11166707B2
A retractor assembly includes a base, a first side assembly, a second side assembly, and a medial arm assembly. The first side assembly is coupled to a first side of the base and translates relative to the base along a first direction. The second side assembly is coupled to a second side of the base and configured to translate relative to the base along the first direction. The medial arm assembly is coupled to the base and can extend in an extension direction and retract in a retraction direction. The extension direction is opposite the retraction direction. The extension direction and the retraction direction are perpendicular to the first direction. The medial arm assembly includes a body, and a blade assembly. The blade assembly includes a receiving portion and a medial blade. The receiving portion and the medial blade are rotatably interfaced via a ball and a socket.
US11166704B2
A fistula treatment system comprises a guide such as a guide coil 1101 which is adapted to extend partially around a tissue tract and an implant element 1102. The implant element 1102 is activated to draw tissue surrounding the tract inwardly.
US11166687B2
In an X-ray imaging apparatus an image processor is configured to generate a phase contrast image based on a plurality of first images acquired by a first detection region (R1) at a plurality of relative positions of the first detection region with respect to a subject (T) to be imaged, and to generate an absorption image based on a plurality of second images acquired by a second detection region (R2) at a plurality of relative positions of the second detection region with respect to the subject.
US11166682B2
A system for medical imaging is provided. The system includes a scanning device configured with a scanning cavity, a control device, and an output device configured within the scanning cavity. The control device is configured to obtain one or more scan protocols and acquire at least one guide instruction corresponding to the one or more scan protocols. The output device is configured to obtain guide information corresponding to the at least one guide instruction and present the guide information. The scanning device is configured to scan a subject with the presentation of the guide information according to the one or more scan protocols.
US11166680B2
An X-ray CT system according to one embodiment includes a top plate on which a subject is laid, a driver configured to drive the top plate in a lateral direction of the top plate, a frame provided on both sides of the top plate in the lateral direction, and a cover provided between the frame and the top plate, respectively. The top plate and the cover are arranged so that the top plate does not come in contact with the cover in a drive range of the top plate by the driver in the lateral direction.
US11166669B2
An electric toothbrush includes a brush head at an end of a handle, an acceleration sensor and/or a rotation sensor that detect(s) movement parameters of the electric toothbrush, a wireless communication interface that wirelessly transmits recorded data comprising the detected movements parameters of the electric toothbrush in a processed state and receives treatment mode data for operating the electric toothbrush, a pressure sensor that detects a contact pressure applied by the brush head to teeth and/or gums, at least one first outputting device that visually outputs signals or commands in accordance with the detected contact pressure or in accordance with the detected movement parameters, and at least one second outputting device that haptically outputs signals or commands, in the form of vibrations, in accordance with the detected contact pressure or in accordance with the detected movement parameters.
US11166665B2
An index output device for appropriately evaluating the conditions of the patient under anesthesia. An index output device 100 includes an electric stimulation section 170, an acquisition section 180, a calculation section, and an output section. The electric stimulation section 170 is configured to apply an electric stimulus to a living body. The acquisition section 180 is configured to acquire a plurality of physiological responses from the living body in response to the common electric stimulus applied to the living body by the electric stimulation section 170. The calculation section is configured to calculate, from the plurality of responses of the living body acquired by the acquisition section, an index related to a level of muscular relaxation (TOF) and an index related to a level of analgesia (PIR). The output section is configured to output the indexes calculated by the calculation section.
US11166662B2
A mobile device for measuring at least one electrical biosignal. The device comprises a first input and a second input, a measuring circuit part for providing an output signal indicating the electrical biosignal to be measured, the measuring circuit part comprising a first input and a second input, and a charging circuit part for charging a rechargeable battery inserted in the device, the charging circuit part comprising a first input and a second input. The first input of the measuring circuit part and the first input of the charging circuit part are connected to the first input of the mobile device and the second input of the measuring circuit part and the second input of the charging circuit part are connected to the second input of the mobile device.
US11166654B2
Method and device for outputting one or more signals associated with a monitored analyte level of an individual, the one or more signals including a substantially real time monitored analyte level and a rate of change information associated with the monitored analyte level, outputting a carbohydrate intake event indication, determining one or more data associated with one or more therapy information related to the monitored analyte level and the meal event indication, and outputting the determined one or more data over the outputted one or more signals associated with the monitored analyte level and the carbohydrate intake event indication are provided.
US11166650B2
A medical device and method for determining a dose of insulin to be administered for glycemic control is provided, wherein the dose is stepwise adapted. The method includes determining a blood glucose value, receiving glycemic event information in respect to a predetermined glycemic event, wherein the predetermined glycemic event occurred within a predetermined time interval, receiving a previously adapted dose value stored in a storage unit, and setting an alert based on at least the blood glucose value, the glycemic event information and the previously adapted dose, wherein the alert indicates that the blood glucose value and the predetermined glycemic event are not in a specified relation to the previously adapted dose value.
US11166645B2
A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) visualization method includes identifying a location of a thermally induced lesion in an MRI image by deriving a spatial pattern of MRI pixel values, which represents the lesion as it is expected to appear in the MRI image, as a function of thermal energy applied in creating the lesion. The MRI image is matched with the spatial pattern of pixel values. A local maximum value is found in the matched MRI image, and a location of the local maximum value is presented in the matched MRI image as the location of the lesion.
US11166642B2
A measurement sensor package and a measurement sensor reduce susceptibility to noise and enable highly accurate measurement. A measurement sensor package (1) includes a substrate (2), a lid (3), and a ground conductor layer (4). The substrate (2) contains a light emitter and a light receiver, and includes a substrate body (20), a plurality of ground via conductors (21), an frame-shaped ground conductor layer (22), signal wiring conductors (23), and an external connection terminal (24). The ground via conductors (21) are connectable to a ground potential, and are located outward from a first recess (20a) and a second recess (20b) included in the substrate body (20) in a plan view.
US11166640B2
This disclosure relates to methods for measuring one or more physiological signals while the user is engaged in a predetermined activity. Exemplary predetermined activities can include activities such as walking, climbing stairs, biking, and the like. The physiological measurements can include, but are not limited to, heart rate signals. The physiological measurements may be affected by the predetermined activity, so the system may be configured to employ one or more criteria prior to measuring physiological information to minimize the effects. The one or more criteria can include, but are not limited to, an inter-sampling waiting time, continuous motion criteria, predetermined activity criteria, a post-physiological measurement amount of time, and a confidence value. The continuous motion criteria can be based on the type of predetermined activity. For example, walking may have walking state criteria and a step count criteria.
US11166639B2
A flow control valve includes a bobbin around which a solenoid coil is wound, a plunger inserted into the bobbin so as to be capable of sliding, a core in which is provided an outflow port from which a fluid flows, a spring that biases the plunger in a direction away from the core, and a valve body incorporated into the plunger so as to be disposed facing the outflow port. During a non-operating state, the valve body is disposed at a first position distanced from the outflow port. During an operating state, the plunger is pulled toward the core against a biasing force of the spring, and is not in contact with the core when the valve body is at a second position in which the valve body blocks the outflow port.
US11166637B2
A method and apparatus to non-invasively measure instantaneous blood pressure using pulse wave velocity are disclosed. A measurement component is affixed to a patient proximate to a blood vessel. One or more sensors, such as an ultrasound sensor, is included in the measurement component. The measurement component substantially simultaneously measures the pulse wave velocity of the vessel and the instantaneous blood velocity within the vessel. The measurement component computes the instantaneous blood pressure of the vessel using, for example, the water hammer equation. The one or more sensors may be contained in a disposable patch or collocated with another sensor, such as a patient-monitor sensor, or the like.
US11166636B2
Embodiments herein include a breath sampling mask, systems, and related methods. In an embodiment, a breath sensing system is included. The breath sensing system can include a breath sampling mask. The breath sampling mask can include a mask housing configured to cover a portion of the face of a patient. The mask housing can define a breath receiving chamber. The breath sampling mask can include a chemical sensor element in fluid communication with the breath sampling mask, where the chemical sensor element can include a plurality of discrete binding detectors. The chemical sensor element can interface with a breath sample collected through the breath sampling mask. Other embodiments are also included herein.
US11166631B2
The object of the present invention is to develop an ophthalmologic microscope of a new method that increases the degree of freedom in the optical design in the Galilean ophthalmologic microscope provided with an OCT optical system. The present invention provides an ophthalmologic microscope, wherein an observation optical system, an objective lens, and an OCT optical system are placed in such a way that the optical axis of the OCT optical system does not penetrate through objective lens, and the optical axis of the observation optical system and the optical axis of the OCT optical system are non-coaxial, and wherein the ophthalmologic microscope further comprises a SLO optical system that scans a light ray which is a visible ray, a near infrared ray, or an infrared ray and guides the light to the subject's eye so as to become substantially coaxial with the optical axis of the OCT optical system.
US11166627B2
An endoscope made by a method for fixation of portions of a steering wire of the endoscope, the steering wire having a first portion, a second portion, and a third portion, the first portion connected to a steerable tip and the second portion connected to a control element, the method including pulling the third portion so as to tension the steering wire and inserting a pin with a wire guide into a pin spacing so that so that the second portion is positioned in the wire guide and is clamped between the pin and at least one wall of the control element, whereby the pin and the second portion are fixated to the control element to thereby maintain a wire tension between the first and second portions.
US11166623B2
An endoscope for imaging a fluorescent agent in a patient, the endoscope having a first optical channel communicating light from a first light source and a second light source, the first light source having an excitation wavelength and the second light source having a wavelength different than the wavelength of the first light source; a field stop having a fluorescent indicator; and a second optical channel in optical communication with the first light source and in optical communication with the fluorescent indicator on the field stop. When light from the first light source illuminates the fluorescent indicator on the field stop, the fluorescent indicator is detectable. Image processing components used with the endoscope can identify the fluorescent indicator, or lack thereof, and transmit information to a user.
US11166619B2
A roller is capable of smoothly rotating without any burr on a rolling surface. A dish washer including the roller includes: a case; a basket configured to accommodate dishes; a rail configured to guide the basket to be put into or taken out of the case; and a basket roller coupled with the basket and configured to move along the rail, the basket roller comprising a rolling portion configured to roll in contact with the rail, a first flare portion extending in a first direction from the rolling portion, and a second flare portion extending in a second direction from the rolling portion, the second direction being opposite to the first direction, wherein a diameter of the first flare portion is greater than a diameter of the second flare portion.
US11166617B2
The present disclosure relates to a dishwasher having a heat pump, including a dishwasher body provided with a tub configured with a washing space therein and a sump provided at a bottom of the tub to temporarily accommodate washing water; a spray arm provided inside the washing space to spray washing water; a circulation pump that pumps the washing water of the sump; a washing water guide that guides the washing water pumped by the circulation pump to the spray arm; a heat pump provided with a compressor, an evaporator, an expansion apparatus, and a condenser provided to exchange heat in contact with the washing water of the washing water guide; and a controller that controls the heat pump to increase the temperature of the washing water of the washing water guide. As a result, it may be possible to suppress heat loss from being generated while heating washing water.
US11166612B1
The invention relates to an apparatus for cleaning. The apparatus comprises a cleaning member adapted to engage a surface to be cleaned; a support member for supporting the cleaning member, with the cleaning member being resiliently movable between an extended position and a retracted position relative to the support member in response to an external force applied to the cleaning member; one or more engaging members provided at the support member; wherein the engaging members are adapted to engage the surface when the cleaning member is arranged at the retracted position such that further retraction of the cleaning member is substantially prevented.
US11166611B2
The present disclosure discloses a cleaning robot and a roller cleaning device thereof. The cleaning robot comprises a shell and a roller cleaning device. The roller cleaning device comprises a flexible roller, a roller motor for driving the flexible roller to rotate, a water sink close to and in communication with a surface of the flexible roller, a water tank, and a sewage pressing member. The water tank comprises a filter member. One end of the water sink is in communication with the water tank through a sewage pipe at a position above the filter member, and the other end of the water sink is in communication with a clean water pipe at a position below the filter member. The water tank is connected to a vacuum pump, and the sewage pressing member squeezes the sewage in the flexible roller into the water tank when the flexible roller rotates.
US11166606B1
An odor eliminating toilet seat has a lumen in pneumatic communication with the interior environment of a toilet bowl via a plurality of apertures disposed about the interior edge of the toilet seat. A fan draws air in through the plurality of apertures and over a replaceable carbon filter before permitting the cleaned air to exit the back of the toilet seat.
US11166600B2
A portable restroom system provides multiple restroom units and an arrangement which allows the size of the system to be reduced for easy storage and transportation. The system includes a first restroom array, a second restroom array, a water-supply manifold, and a waste-removal manifold. The first restroom array and the second restroom array each preferably provide at least four restroom units. The first restroom array and the second restroom array are structurally arranged to allow retractability of the walls, the ceilings, and the floors of the restroom units in order to allow the system to be easily stored and transported when not in use. The water-supply manifold provides clean water to the associated restroom units of the first restroom array and the second restroom array. The waste-removal manifold removes any waste produced after use of the associated restroom units of the first restroom array and the second restroom array.
US11166598B2
A cooking system includes a kitchen utensil and a cooking hob, wherein the kitchen utensil is provided with one or more sensors arranged on the kitchen utensil. The sensors include acceleration sensors, gyroscopic sensors, and inclination sensors. The cooking appliance is provided with a control unit configured to receive data from the sensors and to elaborate information on how the kitchen utensil is being used, and to control the cooking appliance accordingly.
US11166597B1
An interdependent pair of kitchen tools designed for cutting, shearing, gouge cutting, or shredding specific meat and fibrous vegetables such as squash and slow cooked meats, along with leafy greens, deli meats, and hardboiled eggs. The tools exist as two forklike subassemblies, each comprised of respective distal handles, distal tine arrays, and pivotally enabled geometries. The subassemblies exist in two functional states allowing for two food conversion user modalities. The first functional state exists as a disconnected state amongst the subassemblies wherein the first user modality features opposing linear forces levied from respective subassemblies onto foods residing on a horizontal surface. The second functional state exists as a pivotally interconnected state amongst the subassemblies, whereby the second user modality features opposing pivotal mechanical forces levied from interconnected subassemblies onto foods residing on a horizontal surface or alternately contained within a custom food containment assembly existing as part of this disclosure.
US11166596B2
A blender system includes a container having a rotatable blade assembly therein, a lid covering an open end of the container, and a base with a motorized unit. When the container is coupled with the base, the motorized unit is adapted to drive rotation of the rotatable blade assembly. The lid includes a hinged actuator lever adapted to actuate the motorized unit. A detent extends from the hinged actuator lever and passes through a series of apertures and presses against a slidable actuator shaft disposed in the container and maintained in its position by a spring force, thereby depressing a switch for the motorized unit. A rotatable blade system includes cutting blade(s) and crushing blade(s). The crushing blade extends longitudinally outwardly from a hub. When the hub rotates in a first direction or second direction opposite the first direction, a face of the crushing blade is leading or trailing, respectively.
US11166594B2
A stirrer for inserting into a bottom opening of a vessel bottom of a stirring vessel of an electric motor operated kitchen appliance has a plurality of positioning protrusions embodied on its circumferential surface one behind the other in the circumferential direction. A plurality of first positioning protrusions of the circumferential surface protrude with a first radial length difference beyond a smallest radius of the circumferential surface. At least one second positioning protrusion protrudes with a second radial length difference beyond the smallest radius of the circumferential surface, which second radial length difference is smaller than the first radial length difference.
US11166592B2
A food processor for processing food stuffs having a base assembly, a jar assembly, and a blade assembly that can be rotated from a use position to a stored position is disclosed. The food processor includes a lid that is connected to the jar assembly by a hinge and closed by use of a latch. The jar assembly is connected to the base assembly by the use of push pins on the base assembly which engage corresponding holes on the jar assembly.
US11166568B2
A bleach compatible mattress cover made of a non-woven polyolefin material and defining an interior cavity. The interior cavity configured to receive a mattress structure which may include a first and second support structure disposed in the interior cavity. In certain embodiments, the mattress cover has a Moisture Vapor Transfer Rate of greater than or equal 400 to less than 10,000, 7500 or more particularly less than 5000 grams per square meter per day and a hydrostatic head of 100 cm or greater and passes ASTM 1670 and ASTM 1671.
US11166564B2
An office chair that is ergonomically configured to allow for the coordination of stretches to the pectoralis minor muscle, trapezius muscle, and scalene muscles to open up the thoracic outlet, release muscle tension, and reinforce proper structure is provided. The stretches may be performed by an average human user while sitting in the office chair throughout the workday. The ergonomically configured chair assembly may have a brace supported by the seatback and extending downwardly therefrom over a left and right shoulder of the seated average human in a cantilevered fashion and an arm restraining device positioned rearward with respect to the rear face of the upstanding seat back.
US11166557B1
A folding chair includes a left supporting frame member, a left leg, a left armrest, a left seat receiver, a left front support, a left rear support, a left front connecting member, a left rear connecting member, a left backrest support, a left front support pivot, a left rear support pivot, a left front pivot, a left rear pivot, a left backrest support pivot, a right supporting frame member, a right leg, a right armrest, a right seat receiver, a right front support, a right rear support, a right front connecting member, a right rear connecting member, a right backrest support, a right front support pivot, a right rear support pivot, a right front pivot, a right rear pivot, a right backrest support pivot, a front pivoting limiter, a rear pivoting limiter, a front pivotal connector, a rear pivotal connector, a seat and a backrest.
US11166554B1
A chair having a separately configured seating assembly and backrest that move together upon reclining movement of a user. The seat assembly can be pivoted between a lowered, seating position and a raised, nesting position. The backrest can be pivoted between an upright position and a reclined position. The seat assembly includes a seat that is movable along seat frame sub-assembly that includes a pair of glide tracks upon the reclining movement of the backrest. A bias member of the seat assembly urges the seat into a retracted position and the backrest into an upright position. The seat assembly is pivotally mounted to the support frame of the chair such that the entire seat assembly can be pivoted to a raised, nesting position. The seat assembly can also be pivoted to a lowered, seating position to allow multiple chairs to be stacked.
US11166552B1
Display apparatuses are disclosed that store object(s) and operate to become a display stand for the object(s) without requiring contact with the object(s). A top is coupled to a bottom via a top hinge. The top includes a top rear side coupled to a front cover via a front cover hinge. The bottom includes a back cover coupled to bottom sides. An easel is disposed within the bottom sides and coupled to a bottom front side via an easel hinge. A strut is coupled to the bottom via a strut hinge. A strut tether is coupled to the strut and an interior surface of the front cover. The strut is configured to rotate about the strut hinge, to cause the easel to raise by rotating about the easel hinge, when the top is rotated about the top hinge and the front cover is rotated about the front cover hinge.
US11166550B1
A pressure mounting kit for a shelf or storage drawer that can be installed by pressure fit installation that does not requiring drilling or welding, that can be adjustable to any height and can accommodate one or more drawers. The kit can be adapted to be fitted within a recessed space such as an alcove, The kit is particularly useful in the trucking industry for a quick and easy means of installing drawers in cargo boxes to store rigging and the like at a reasonable cost.
US11166547B2
A shelving assembly includes a first and second support rail each including a plurality of slots. The assembly may further include a shelf configured to connect to the first and second support rails and a bracket connected thereto. The bracket includes a plurality of teeth arranged at a distal end of the bracket and facing away from the shelf. A leave spring may be connected to the shelf and extend from a connection point along a rear edge of the shelf to a side of the shelf. A locking tooth positioned at an end of the leave spring is configured to be inserted into a slot in the first or second support rail to lock the shelf in place. The shelving assembly may further include telescoping support rails. The support rails may be include front faces having slots therein. The front faces of the inner telescoping sections may be offset from the front faces of the outer telescoping sections. The assembly may include an extension bracket configured to connect to a front face of the inner telescoping sections and align with the front face of the outer telescoping sections.
US11166545B1
A foldable table includes a table board mechanism, and at least one supporting mechanism. The at least one supporting mechanism includes a leg unit pivotally connected with the table board mechanism, and a positioning unit mounted between and connected with the table board mechanism and the leg unit. The positioning unit includes a support link pivotally mounted on the table board mechanism, a slide module movably mounted on the support link, and a drive module mounted between and pivotally connected with the slide module and the leg unit. The slide module includes a sliding sleeve slidably mounted on the support link and pivotally connected with the drive module. When the leg unit is pivoted, the sliding sleeve is driven by the leg unit, and the support link is driven and pivoted upward to approach the table board mechanism.
US11166544B2
A folding table has two table top portions. A pair of spaced apart arms extends from each table top portion. Each arm is connected to a respective one of four legs. Two sets of two legs are pivotably connected so that each connected pair of legs can be completely aligned with one another or in a crisscrossed position. A handle connected to and between the upper ends of two of the legs has at least one slot which is positioned and configured to receive a hook that extends from the bottom surface of the first table top portion. When the hook is in the slot the hook prevents the first table top portion from moving away from the legs when that table top portion is lifted upward and can also prevent the first table top portion from moving in a direction parallel to the second table top portion.
US11166535B2
A razor blade cleaning device (10), for cleaning the or each blade of a safety razor or cartridge, comprises an open cleaning chamber, suitably dimensioned for receiving a razor head or cartridge, wherein the device is configured such that a fluid is feedable through the cleaning chamber to contact the blades of a razor head or cartridge disposed therein.
US11166530B1
A conversion kit for converting a pair of standard trekking poles into a camp chair consists of two corner brackets, two cross brackets, two compression brackets, and a fabric sling for a seat. Standard trekking poles have 3 segments that combine together, a handle segment, a middle segment and a tip segment. The corner brackets connect the two tip segments, and one of the middle segments. The cross brackets connect the two handle segments to the two tip segments. The compression bracket connects the two handle segments to the other middle segment. The fabric sling is attached to the two middle segments, and the two tip segments.
US11166526B2
An article of footwear with an arrangement of cleats is disclosed. The arrangement of cleats may enhance traction during the first step of sprinting, quick directional changes, and backward movement. The arrangement of cleats may be disposed on a base plate and may include a first angled cleat aligned with the hallux of a user and a second angled cleat disposed proximate a rearward edge of the base plate. The first angled cleat and two flat cleats may be aligned with the perimeter of a circle on the forefoot region of the base plate.
US11166522B2
An article of footwear is provided having a pressurized fluid-filled chamber in the sole structure having a continuous perimeter weld and lacking an inflation channel. The chamber may be formed from opposing polymer sheets, a continuous perimeter weld lacking a weld channel bonding the sheets and forming an interior void between the sheets, and a fluid disposed within the interior void exerting outward pressure on the sheets. A method for making the chamber can include placing a pair of polymer sheets in an opposing arrangement, pressing opposing perimeter weld portions of the sheets against each other to form an airtight seal along a perimeter region of an interior void, supplying a flow of pressurized air between the opposing sheets into the interior void, and, while maintaining a desired fluid pressure, welding the perimeter weld portions of the sheets to each other. A high-frequency welder for forming chamber is also provided.
US11166515B1
A helmet/hood assembly includes a housing, a headband support assembly configured to hold the assembly on a human head, a face shield, and a flexible hood attached to the housing and to the face shield, with the assembly being received, stored, used, and disposed as a single unit. The headband support assembly pivots on the housing between a configuration suitable for shipping and storing the assembly and a configuration in which the assembly is worn. An accessory light powered by a battery may be held in place on the housing by magnetic attraction through the hood.
US11166508B2
A headwrap provides fastening mechanisms for covering, protecting, and retaining the hair of a wearer. A fabric panel forming the headwrap may be defined by a head covering, a crown circumscribing the head covering, and a tail extending rearwardly from the crown and having an internal volume able to contain and cover the hair of the wearer. Left and right straps affixed to a base of the tail enable a wearer to tension the straps about the crown to tighten the head covering over the head, tying the straps off at the front of the crown. A loop affixed to a terminus of the tail enables a user to draw the tail forward and hang the loop off a button affixed about the crown on the forehead.
US11166503B2
A wearable may be provided with or configured to provide interactive skin. The interactive skin may be configured for accepting touch input from a user. The interactive skin may include one or more flexible layers and may include or be mounted under a transparent display cover layer such as a layer of clear glass or plastic. Interactive skin may include a touch-sensitive layer that allows a user to provide touch input to the wearable. Display pixels on interactive skin may be used to display visual information to the user. The interactive skin may be configured for detecting a condition of at least one wearable and generating an output function in response to the detected condition.
US11166501B2
Disclosed herein is a reversible neckline shapewear garment that can be worn forwards or backwards, depending on the wearer's preference. The reversible shapewear garment described herein includes two necklines, wherein the first neckline may extend under the wearer's breasts and the second neckline may extend across or above the wearer's breasts. Advantageously, this reversible garment may be worn backwards or forwards by the wearer while contouring to the natural body without creating visible lines or bulges of fabric or losing shape. Also disclosed herein are methods of assembling and wearing the reversible neckline shapewear garment.
US11166494B2
There is provided an electrically operated smoking device configured to receive a smoking article, the device including a housing defining a cavity configured to at least partially receive the smoking article; and a sensing system configured to detect indicia on the smoking article, the sensing system being disposed on a periphery of the cavity and including a light source, an image detector, and a plurality of microlenses disposed on the image detector.
US11166488B2
The apparatus for shaping substantially flat continuous material comprises a shaping device for gathering substantially flat continuous material transverse to a longitudinal direction of the continuous material to form a gathered continuous material. The apparatus further comprises a cooling device for cooling the gathered continuous material. The shaping device and the cooling device are combined such as to immediately cool the gathered continuous material.
US11166484B2
A food processing apparatus including a tank having an inlet end for receiving food product and an outlet end for discharging food product, the tank having an inner wall defining a compartment and including a solid, imperforate wall portion, fluid being contained in the compartment, and a rotatable auger mounted in the compartment, the auger for advancing food product within the compartment from the inlet end toward the outlet end, the auger including flights having a flight wall with a radial edge, a clearance space being defined between the radial edge of the flights and the solid, imperforate wall portion of the inner wall. Flow of fluid through the clearance space may be inhibited. One of the inner wall and the flight wall may include a perforated wall portion. Flow of fluid between the first auger section and the second auger section may be provided through the perforated wall portion.
US11166481B2
Systems and methods disclosed herein provide an improved high voltage plasma-based product treatment by integrating the plasma reactor into the processing container. This unique device can deliver a high throughput rate of raw food, without adverse effects on quality. The system is operationally efficient, and is capable of being scaled up or down to provide lower or higher throughput rates, depending on the product manufacturer or processor's needs. In particular, the system obviates the need for further containerization or packaging of product during pasteurization processing.
US11166471B2
The present disclosure refers to a filling machine and to a method for filling a foodstuff which comprises at least two components to be mixed, particularly for sausage production. The foodstuff may be filled into a filling hopper of the filling machine and thoroughly mixed with a mixing cam. The mixing cam may be driven via its own drive at different speeds according to a specific speed profile while the foodstuff is conveyed out of the lower portion of the filling hopper via a conveying mechanism and is filled via a filling unit.
US11166466B2
The invention describes a natural fungicide which comprises gallnut and myrobalan extracts which exhibit a synergistic effect against Alternaria brassicicola, and can be used to control crop fungal diseases.
US11166463B2
Methods and compositions for controlling undesired vegetation in animal grazelands.
US11166462B2
The present invention relates to the field of agricultural fungicides, and discloses a compound with fungicidal activity, a fungicide composition and a preparation using the compound as an active ingredient, and a use thereof. The structure of the fungicidal compound is represented by formula (I) or formula (II). The fungicidal compound and the preparation containing the fungicidal compound in the present invention can achieve a remarkable prevention and control effect against cucumber downy mildew and rice sheath blight.
US11166455B2
Embodiments of the present invention may provide effective processing of materials through phase transitions with a mobile phase transition device which may have a frozen storage area and a thawing area and which can be used to thaw biological materials near a recipient of the materials. A mobile phase transition device may be automated so that the thawing of materials can precisely follow thawing protocols.
US11166453B2
Provided herein is technology relating to cryopreservation and particularly, but not exclusively, to devices, systems, and methods for cryopreservation of biological materials such as oocytes, zygotes, and embryos. In particular, provided herein are methods of using microfluidic devices to exposing biological material to a vitrification solution having a time dependent concentration of a cryoprotectant agent.
US11166452B2
Systems and methods of the invention generally relate to prolonging viability of bodily tissue, especially lung tissue, through the use of an expandable accumulator to maintain a constant pressure within the lumen of the organ even during external pressure fluctuations due to, for example, flight. Systems and methods may include prolonging donor organ viability in storage through the use of an organ container that mimics the geometry and orientation of the organ in vivo.
US11166450B2
A device for deterring avian pests includes first and second spikes, each having a terminal retention feature held within an injection molded base. The spikes are preferably arranged in a radial fashion, extending outward from the molded base.
US11166438B2
The invention relates to broiler containers having a floor and side walls defining an inner volume which is designed and configured to receive and accommodate at least five live broilers, wherein the broiler container is designed and configured to be stackable with broiler containers of the same construction and has at least one ventilation opening and at least one air outflow opening, which broiler container is characterised in that the broiler container comprises at least one segment of a ventilation or air outflow column which extends through the inner volume and has at least one ventilation or air outflow opening at a distance from the side walls, wherein each segment of the ventilation or air outflow column is designed and configured for connection to corresponding segments of broiler containers of the same construction and also for connection to an active ventilation system. The invention relates also to a unit comprising at least two containers, to an arrangement comprising a unit and a ventilation system, to a transport trailer, to a poultry slaughterhouse, and to a method for ventilating the broilers.
US11166437B2
A livestock development gauging system is provided. The livestock development gauging system includes a pen, an imaging device and a processing system. The pen defines a livestock containment area. The imaging device is suspended proximate to the livestock containment area and configured to generate images of livestock in the livestock containment area. The processing system is configured to determine a livestock health measurement of the livestock based on an analysis of the images of the livestock.
US11166428B2
The invention relates to the wheat cultivar designated 01077040. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the wheat cultivar 01077040. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the wheat cultivar 01077040 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing wheat plants by crossing the wheat cultivar 01077040 with itself or another wheat cultivar and plants produced by such methods.
US11166425B2
The present invention includes cauliflowers with enhanced whiteness and methods for obtaining such cauliflowers. The present invention also provides reagents that can be used in methods for obtaining such cauliflowers.
US11166421B2
This invention describes a new method to increase grain yields in any crop plant by modifying pollination to effect an increase in grain yield, a change in grain content or characteristics, a decrease in contamination, or a combination of these attributes. The process involves the intentional delivery of pollen of the male plant at will via automatic or semi-automatic means, as available either in a preserved pollen bank, or real-time collection from male plants as they become available, in a growth chamber for example. Desired pollen is delivered to fertile females. The delivered pollenM is in such amounts and fortuitously timed that it preferentially pollinates the females and avoids self-pollination or pollination from neighboring plants. The intentional delivery of genetically different pollen will result in increased heterosis and accompanying grain yield increases resulting from increased grain size and the potential to influence grain content and constituents. The invention also permits real-time agronomic decision making in order to maximize grain yield by overcoming biotic and abiotic challenges in the growing season which may or may not have been anticipated.
US11166416B2
A system (100) for producing a plant (35), the system having an indoor environment, a plurality of plant holders (1) for growing and transporting a plant therein, a controller (105) for at least controlling temperature and humidity in the indoor environment. The plant holder has a semi-permeable foil (20) defining a non-planar boundary of an interior space and an exterior space, a reservoir (2), having an amount of liquid for feeding the plant. The reservoir (2) and the semi-permeable foil (20) are arranged to allow the plant to grow in the interior space. The semi-permeable foil (20) has permeation of water vapor.
US11166411B2
A lawn mower in which an operating part that performs lawn mowing is equipped in a traveling machine body that travels in a field. The operating part comprises a rotary-driven bladed disk in a state of facing the field, and a cutting blade piece rockably mounted on an outer peripheral part of the bladed disk. A mounting part in which the cutting blade piece is mounted on the bladed disk comprises an axial member mounted to cross a field opposed surface of the bladed disk, and a cylindrical member which is hollow and into which the axial member is inserted with a space therebetween. The axial member is mounted on the bladed disk in a state in which the cutting blade piece is fixed to an outer periphery of the cylindrical member and the axial member is inserted into the cylindrical member.
US11166409B2
A lawn mower robot includes an outer cover, an inner body positioned in the outer cover and having a plurality of wheels for traveling provided on both side surfaces thereof, a plurality of blades rotatably mounted on a bottom surface of the inner body to cut grass, electric devices mounted inside the inner body and including a battery, wheel driving motors, a blade driving motor, a plurality of ultrasonic sensor modules, rain sensors, a user interface (UI) module, and a universal serial bus (USB) port, and a waterproof unit to prevent penetration of water into the inner body or the electric devices, thereby improving waterproof performance.
US11166408B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure include an agitating system of an agricultural system having a drive system configured to operate an agitator and a controller comprising a memory and a processor. The controller is configured to alternatingly instruct the drive system to operate the agitator in an active operation for an active time and instruct the drive system to suspend operation of the agitator for a dwell time after the active time.
US11166406B2
A soil resistivity detection system for an agricultural implement includes a row unit having row unit components. The row unit components include a residue management system configured to condition soil at a leading edge of the row unit, an opening system configured to form a furrow in the soil, a closing assembly configured to close the furrow, and a press wheel assembly configured to compact the soil. The soil resistivity detection system also includes a control assembly configured to output an electrical current to a first pair of the row unit components, receive voltages from a second pair of the row unit components, determine a voltage differential based on the voltages, and determine a soil resistivity based on the voltage differential.
US11166403B2
Steered caster wheel systems that include a disengagement system to enable a caster wheel steering mode and non-caster wheel steering mode are disclosed. In some embodiments, the caster wheels are mounted to a subframe that may be independently suspended from the chassis of a vehicle such as a self-propelled vehicle.
US11172595B2
A tuner includes a housing including an upper housing part and a lower housing part, a printed circuit board arranged in the housing, and an electronics component arranged on the printed circuit board. A region of at least one of the upper housing part and the lower housing part is a heat-conductive material and the electronics component is connected to the region in a heat-transmitting manner.
US11172586B2
A modular multipurpose telecommunications enclosure has a plurality of walls, to which are removably affixed a plurality of mounting bulkheads. Each mounting bulkhead has a plurality of mounting holes arranged into a specified hole pattern that is configured to receive and mount cameras or other electronics units from various different equipment manufacturers which employ different hole patterns in their mounting kits. The enclosure is made of a high thermal conductivity material such as aluminum to promote convection cooling and employs one or more airflow vents to keep any internal electronics from reaching undesirably high temperatures during operation. The enclosure also features antenna mounting holes to accommodate various wireless communication antennas, as well as a mounting bracket to allow easy installation of the enclosure in a desired location. The enclosure is rugged and durable against the elements to facilitate purposes such as video monitoring of an outdoor area.
US11172583B2
A display system includes a first display coupled to a roller and a second display coupled to the roller such that the first and second displays can be rolled about the roller for storage and transportation and unrolled from the roller to form a large area display. The second rollable display can be rolled about the roller with a rear surface of the second rollable display in direct contact with an outer surface of the roller and the first rollable display can be rolled about the roller with a front surface of the first rollable display in direct contact with a front surface of the second rollable display. First and second flexible films, first and second source printed circuit boards, first and second flexible cables, and first and second control printed circuit boards can be located inside the roller.
US11172581B2
Disclosed herein is a multi-planar circuit board, as well as related structures and methods. In an embodiment, a circuit board may include a first surface, a first section having the first surface in a first plane, a second section having the first surface in a second plane, and a third section connecting the first and second sections, where the third section defines a gradient between the first and second planes, and where all sections are sections within a contiguous board. In another embodiment, circuit board may further include a first component having a first thickness coupled on the first face of the first section, and a second component having a second thickness, greater than the first component, coupled on the first face of the second section, where the second section is in a lower plane, and where the overall thickness is the circuit board thickness plus the second thickness.
US11172577B2
A display device includes a display panel having a display area and a non-display area at least partially surrounding the display area. A panel support sheet is disposed behind the display panel and has a first hole exposing the display area of the display panel. An optical sensor is disposed within the first hole. A first light-blocking portion is disposed in a void area that is between the panel support sheet and the optical sensor, within the first hole.
US11172570B2
The present disclosure provides a stretchable circuit substrate comprising: a base material being stretchable; a wiring which is on a first surface side of the base material, and which includes a bellows-like member including a plurality of ridges and recesses arranged in a first direction which is one of in-plane directions in the first surface of the base material; and an adjustment layer which includes the bellows-like member and is on the first surface side of the base material so as to at least overlap, in a plan view, a wiring region in which the wiring is positioned; wherein the adjustment layer has a Young's modulus smaller than a Young's modulus of the wiring.
US11172566B2
A droplet generator includes a steering system, a reservoir, a nozzle, a first heater, a second heater and a third heater. The steering system is used for controlling a position of droplet release of the droplet generator. The reservoir is held on the steering system for storing tin. The nozzle is connected with the reservoir for generating tin droplets, wherein the nozzle comprises at least a first zone, a second zone and a third zone connected in sequence. The first heater surrounds a peripheral surface of the nozzle in the first zone. The second heater surrounds a peripheral surface of the nozzle in the second zone. The third heater surrounds a peripheral surface of the nozzle in the third zone, wherein the heating of the first heater, the second heater and the third heater are separately controlled.
US11172560B2
An ophthalmic illumination system includes a broadband light source configured to emit a white laser beam, a first monochromatic light source configured to emit a first monochromatic laser beam having a first central wavelength, optics configured to receive a combined light beam comprising the white laser beam and the monochromatic laser, and a controller comprising a processor and a memory configured to control a chromaticity of the combined light beam by changing an output power of the first monochromatic light source.
US11172559B2
A parallel circuit for light emitting diodes includes a first power wire, a second power wire, a first light emitting diode, a second light emitting diode, and a second impedance element. The first LED includes a first turn-on voltage, and two ends of the first LED are respectively connected to the first power wire and the second power wire. The second LED includes a second turn-on voltage, and the first turn-on voltage is different from the second turn-on voltage. The second impedance element and the second LED are connected to form a second series circuit. One end of the second series circuit is electrically connected to the first power wire, while the other end of the second series circuit is electrically connected to the second power wire. In the parallel circuit, different LEDs are respectively driven by different voltages to emit light with pre-determined brightness.
US11172552B2
Provided is an alternating current direct lighting device capable of a dimming control, the lighting device including: a circuit board having a light emitting diode array; a first connector disposed on the circuit board; a second connector disposed on the circuit board so as to be spaced apart from the first connector; and a driving unit for controlling light emission of the light emitting diode array on the basis of a driving signal input through the first connector and a dimming signal input through the second connector.
US11172549B2
In certain embodiments, inductive heating is added to a metal working process, such as a welding process, by an induction heating head. The induction heating head may be adapted specifically for this purpose, and may include one or more coils to direct and place the inductive energy, protective structures, and so forth. Productivity of a welding process may be improved by the application of heat from the induction heating head. The heating is in addition to heat from a welding arc, and may facilitate application of welding wire electrode materials into narrow grooves and gaps, as well as make the processes more amenable to the use of certain compositions of welding wire, shielding gasses, flux materials, and so forth. In addition, distortion and stresses are reduced by the application of the induction heating energy in addition to the welding arc source.
US11172547B2
An atomizer and an electronic cigarette are provided. The atomizer comprises an atomizing chamber and a heating assembly, the heating assembly includes heater, the heater is in the form of a sheet, the two opposite sides of the heater form air flow passages, the two opposite side walls of the heater respectively form the side walls of the air flow passages, the air flow passages are in communicate with the atomizing chamber, the number of the heater is at least one. Since the heating assembly located in the air flow passages is configured to heat the air entrance into the air flow passages, so that the air has a higher temperature when it reaches the atomizing chamber. The hot air heats the tobacco, and the contact area between the hot air and the tobacco is more uniform, and the heating can be completed quickly without waiting, generating more smoke and improving the taste.
US11172542B1
A communication system includes a central cloud server that generates a connectivity enhanced database based on a correlation among sensing information obtained from a plurality of vehicles, processing chain parameters obtained from donor side of each edge device of the plurality of vehicles, and position information of one or more network nodes. One or more RSU devices of the communication system are caused to direct one or more specific beams of RF signals to service donor side of a first edge device of a new vehicle when the new vehicle arrives and moves along a first travel path and when the new vehicle is designated as a known user. The one or more specific beams are selected based on the connectivity enhanced database bypassing an initial access-search on the first edge device of the new vehicle as well as the one or more RSU devices.
US11172535B2
Systems and methods for managing an incident event by a public safety and security organization. The methods comprise: performing Near Field Communication (“NFC”) or Radio Frequency Identification (“RFID”) operations by a Land Mobile Radio (“LMR”) and a field computing device to check-in a field personnel member into an incident event; communicating check-in information to a remote computing device from the field computing device via a packet switched LMR infrastructure or a public network; and using the check-in information by the remote computing device to facilitate management of the incident event by the by public safety and security organization.
US11172532B2
In a wireless communication network that implements the RRC Resume procedure, an eNB sends to a radio network device, previously connected, given a Resume ID, a paging message or Random Access Response message including an RRC Resume directive. The RRC Resume directive comprises at least an indication whether or not the radio network device should perform an RRC Resume procedure. If RRC Resume directive indicates the radio network device should not perform an RRC Resume procedure, the radio network device performs an RRC Connection procedure. If the RRC Resume directive indicates the radio network device should perform an RRC Resume procedure, it may include additional information to optimize or otherwise assist the RRC Resume procedure. In this manner, RRC Resume signaling is avoided when the eNB knows that it will not be successful, such as if a prior RRC connection context is not available or readily retrievable, or is invalid.
US11172530B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a communication establishment method. The method includes: receiving, by a first terminal, a first broadcast message of a first wireless communications mode sent by a second terminal, where the first broadcast message carries a second wireless communications mode supported by the second terminal and a status and/or supported protocol information of the second wireless communications mode; and determining, by the first terminal based on the second wireless communications mode supported by the second terminal and the status and/or the supported protocol information of the second wireless communications mode, whether to connect to the second terminal.
US11172519B2
A method by which a terminal transmits an RRC connection request in a wireless communication system can comprise the steps of: receiving, from a base station, information of the base station beam index; receiving information on a mapping relationship between the base station beam index and an uplink reference signal port; selecting a preferred base station beam index on the basis of the information of the base station beam index; and transmitting an RRC connection request message on the basis of the information on a mapping relationship by using the uplink reference signal port corresponding to the selected base station beam index.
US11172518B2
Provided is slot use control apparatus and method, including an access point (AP) to control a slotted channel access of a station (STA) in a wireless local area network (WLAN) includes generating a synchronization (synch) frame including an identification value indicating an STA allocated to a slot, and broadcasting the generated synch frame when a channel is in an idle state at a start point of the slot.
US11172514B2
The present disclosure relates to random access in mobility in wireless communications. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method performed by a wireless device comprises: receiving, from a network, skip information for a random access channel (RACH) and information for a revert timer; performing a RACH-less handover to a target cell based on the skip information and starting the revert timer; determining that the RACH-less handover stops while the revert timer is running; and upon an expiry of the revert timer, transmitting a random access preamble with a ramped transmission power, wherein the ramped transmission power is higher than an initial transmission power of the random access preamble.
US11172512B2
A communication device receives a trigger frame that is configured to: trigger a contention-based uplink orthogonal frequency multiple access (OFDMA) transmission by multiple communication devices, and indicate a predetermined length of the contention-based uplink OFDMA transmission, wherein the predetermined length corresponds to contention-based uplink OFDMA transmissions. Responsive to receiving the trigger frame, the communication device generates a data unit having the predetermined length, and responsive to receiving the trigger frame, transmits the data unit as part of a contention-based uplink OFDMA transmission.
US11172509B2
A predetermined STA includes a station information collection unit collecting from the STA itself and other STAs station information used for selection of STAs performing simultaneous transmission and for control of the simultaneous transmission, and a simultaneous-transmission request unit knowing occurrence of a QoS data frame based on the station information and transmitting a request frame requesting the simultaneous transmission to an AP. The AP includes a station information collection unit; a simultaneous-transmission determination unit selecting a combination of the STAs performing the simultaneous transmission based on the station information by reception of the request frame; and a trigger transmission unit transmitting to each of the STAs performing the simultaneous transmission a trigger frame instructing to performs the simultaneous transmission and including information necessary for controlling the simultaneous transmission. Each of the STAs designated by the trigger frame is configured to simultaneously transmit the wireless frames to the AP.
US11172508B2
To improve the performance of a user equipment (UE) with V2X capability using two radio access technologies (RATs), such as NR V2X and LTE V2X capabilities, a method is disclosed for the UE having a first and a second RAT component to allocate or adjust resources for V2X transmission using the first RAT and/or V2X transmission using the second RAT to avoid or reduce potential collisions. The second RAT component may receive from the first RAT component information on first resources for V2X transmission using the first RAT. The second RAT component may determine if there is a potential collision between the first resources for V2X transmission using the first RAT and second resources for V2X transmission using the second RAT. The second RAT component may change the second resources if there is a potential collision. The first and second RAT components may transmit their respective V2X transmissions to UEs.
US11172507B2
A wireless communication device including: a transmitter unit configured to transmit an RTS (Request To Send) packet to a plurality of wireless communication devices; a receiver unit configured to receive a CTS (Clear To Send) packet responding to the RTS packet; and a data processing unit configured to transmit data packets from the transmitter unit to the plurality of wireless communication devices when the CTS packet is received by the receiver unit from at least some of the plurality of wireless communication devices.
US11172503B2
The apparatus identifies a first periodicity for packet generation or packet transmission. A base station provides a UE with a configuration for a Semi-Persistent Scheduling (SPS), a Configured Scheduling (CS), or a Configured Grant (CG) based on a non-integer relationship between the first periodicity and a duration of a scheduling unit in which the SPS, the CS, or the CG is scheduled. Then, the apparatus transmits or receives communication based on the received configuration.
US11172490B2
Disclosed is a technical idea of constructing energy-efficient communication and computation resource allocation framework for Enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB) and Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communication (URLLC) in 5G or higher networks. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to a technology of constructing social block coordinate descent (BCD)-based energy-efficient communication and computation resource allocation framework to address optimization problems related to restriction of eMBB users, reliability of URLLC traffic, and resource block allocation for eMBB user restriction.
US11172485B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A transmission reception point (TRP) may determine a configuration for downlink transmission of group-common control information associated with a plurality of TRPs. The TRP may identify a set of downlink resources allocated for transmission of the group-common control information. A user equipment (UE) may receive the configuration from at least one TRP of the plurality of TRPs. The UE may monitor downlink resources for reception of the group-common information based on the configuration. The TRP may transmit, and the UE may receive, the group-common control information over the downlink resources. The group-common control information may indicate communication parameters for communications between the UE and at least one TRP.
US11172483B2
Aspects of the present disclosure describe determining an uplink channel raster for determining frequency location of an uplink channel over which to transmit uplink communications to a base station. Uplink communications can be transmitted to the base station over the uplink channel. The uplink channel raster can be shifted, in frequency, with respect to a legacy uplink channel raster of a legacy communication technology to facilitate coexistence, in an uplink carrier, of the uplink channel and one or more uplink channels of the legacy communication technology.
US11172473B2
Embodiments herein include a method in a user equipment (UE) for transmitting uplink control information in time slots of a subframe over a radio channel to a radio base station. The uplink control information is comprised in a block of bits. The UE maps the block of bits to a sequence of complex valued modulation symbols. The UE block spreads the sequence across Discrete Fourier Transform Spread-Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (DFTS-OFDM) symbols. This is performed by applying a spreading sequence to the sequence of complex valued modulation symbols, to achieve a block spread sequence of complex valued modulation symbols. The UE further transforms the block-spread sequence, per DFTS-OFDM symbol. This is performed by applying a matrix that depends on a DFTS-OFDM symbol index and/or slot index to the block-spread sequence. The UE also transmits the block spread sequence, as transformed, over the radio channel to the radio base station.
US11172468B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may determine a set of channel quality metrics associated with a set of physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH) messages; and determine, based at least in part on the set of channel quality metrics, a subset of physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) messages, of a set of PSSCH messages, to attempt to receive. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11172461B2
A method is disclosed performed by an initiating communication node (110), for facilitating positioning determination in a Wi-Fi communication network (100). The method comprises sending, to a responding communication node (120), a request to start a position-related determination procedure and information of a first plurality of frequency bands over which the initiating communication node (110) is able to communicate. The method further comprises receiving, from the responding communication node (120), second information related to a second number of frequency bands over which the responding communication node (120) is able to communicate, and triggering start of the position-related determination procedure based on the received second information so that the position-related determination procedure is performed over at least one of a third number of frequency bands that occurs in both the first plurality of frequency bands and the second number of frequency bands.
US11172457B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. Generally, the described techniques provide for efficient identification of spatial parameters for receiving control information in an initial coreset. In one example, a user equipment (UE) may receive a transmission configuration indication (TCI) state indicating reference signals quasi co-located with a control information transmission in a coreset. The TCI state may be identified from a set of TCI states, where the set of TCI states includes at least one TCI state corresponding to each synchronization signal block (SSB) (e.g., each quasi co-location (QCL) source) associated with the initial coreset. The UE may identify spatial parameters for monitoring the coreset for the control information transmission in accordance with the TCI state.
US11172452B2
A method for controlling power of a sidelink signal by a relay UE in a wireless communication system according to various embodiments and an apparatus therefor are provided. Disclosed are a method for controlling power of a sidelink signal by a relay UE and an apparatus therefor, the method comprising the steps of: receiving, from a remote UE transmitting or receiving a side link signal, first measurement information which is measurement information obtained by measuring reception power of the sidelink signal; comparing the first measurement information with second measurement information which is information on the reception power of the sidelink signal having been measured by the relay UE, so as to determine measurement information to be reported to a base station, among the first measurement information and the second measurement information; and receiving, from the base station, power control information configured on the basis of the determined measurement information.
US11172450B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure relate to an electronic device including an environment sensor and a method for controlling an operation thereof. The electronic device may comprise: at least one environment sensor; and at least one processor functionally coupled to the at least one environment sensor and configured to control the at least one environment sensor to collect environment information at designated intervals, to recognize presence or absence of a user based on the collected environment information, and to control an operation of the electronic device according to the presence or absence of the user. Other various embodiments are possible.
US11172446B2
HVAC components having improved efficiency are described. In one embodiment, excessive sleep current draw in a battery-powered device having a microcontroller is detected by measuring a voltage drop across a MOSFET device coupled in a forward-conducting orientation in series between the battery and the microcontroller, causing a transistor to conduct when the voltage drop exceeds a predetermined threshold to generate a first trigger signal, integrating the first trigger signal to generate a second trigger signal, and generating an interrupt to the microcontroller. In another embodiment, a battery-saving method of operating an HVAC component includes maintaining the HVAC device in the sleep mode, receiving a user input to wake the device, transmitting a data request and returning the HVAC component to the sleep mode, waking up the HVAC device to poll an adjacent network node storing a cached response, displaying the response, and returning the HVAC device to sleep.
US11172440B2
In one aspect, a method for enabling wired sensors to be coupled to a Low Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN) is provided. A first wired device that is coupled to the LPWAN gateway device via a first wired medium may be identified at a LPWAN gateway device. A first virtual node may be instantiated at the LPWAN gateway device, the first virtual node assigned to provide protocol conversion between the LPWAN and the first wired device. A request to join the LPWAN as a node that does not require Radio Frequency (RF) management may be transmitted from the first virtual node at the LPWAN gateway.
US11172439B2
An method for a wireless station to select an access point among a plurality of access point possibilities using a combination of characteristics about each access point such as signal strength, access point load, protocol, maximum throughput, multi-user MIMO capability, and channel load.
US11172435B2
A network entity is proposed for controlling the use, by a user equipment, of network slices of a communication network comprising a plurality of slice support areas. Each slice support area comprises at least one cell, and all cells of a given slice support area support the same network slices. A registration area for the registration of the user equipment with the communication network comprises at least one slice support area. The network entity is adapted to transmit, to the user equipment, slice support information for at least one slice support area of the communication network. The slice support information for a given slice support area indicates at least one network slice supported by the given slice support area and/or at least one network slice not supported by the given slice support area.
US11172430B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may determine a resource allocation, from a resource set, for a response message using a resource allocation selection procedure. In some aspects, the user equipment may transmit the response message using the resource allocation and based at least in part on determining the resource allocation. In some aspects, the user equipment may determine, using an implicit resource mapping procedure and before a radio resource control connection establishment, a resource allocation for a redundancy scheme response message based at least in part on a remaining minimum system information (RMSI) value. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11172427B2
A wireless device receives configuration parameters of cells grouped in a secondary physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) group comprising: a PUCCH secondary cell with a secondary PUCCH; and a secondary cell. A command indicating activation of the secondary cell is received during a first subframe. transmission of channel state information for the secondary cell is started from a second subframe that is a positive number plus eight subframes after the first subframe. In response to activation of the PUCCH secondary cell being completed in or after eight subframes after the first subframe, the positive number is based on when activation of the PUCCH secondary cell is completed.
US11172426B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus for updating a routing ID associated with a user equipment in a wireless network. An exemplary method generally includes receiving a downlink control plane message including updated configuration information for a Unified Data Management (UDM) entity in the network; determining whether a universal subscriber identification module (USIM) of the UE supports one or more parameters stored in the USIM to be updated; based on the determination, storing the received configuration information in at least one of: the USIM if the USIM supports the one or more parameters to be updated; or memory of the UE if the USIM does not support the one or more parameters to be updated; generating an identifier for the UE based on the stored updated configuration information; and transmitting at least one message using the generated identifier.
US11172416B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for accessing a network by a user equipment (UE), and an access device. The method includes: sending, by a source side access device, an access indication message to a UE, where the access indication message is used to instruct the UE to access a target side access device; or sending, by a source side access device, a first notification message to a target side access device, where the first notification message is used to instruct the target side access device to send, to a UE, access information used to instruct the UE to access the target side access device; and in a process in which the UE accesses the target side access device, maintains a connection between the UE and the source side access device.
US11172413B2
Systems and methods of providing 5G access for a UE are generally described. The UE is simultaneously connected via dual radio operation to a legacy and 5G access system. The UE mobility management states for the access systems are independent of each other. The EPC and 5G CN share an HSS and may share a IP anchor. When handover occurs between access systems, the IP address is retained and the IP anchor used when the UE transmits an Attach Request having a Handover Attach Request Type and otherwise a new IP address is provided and the HSS but not the IP anchor is common between the access systems. The 5G eNB to which the UE is connected is standalone and connected to the 5G CN or dual mode and connected with an EPC via an LTE anchor in addition to the 5G CN.
US11172410B2
An apparatus, method and system for receiving an input indicating a mode into which to set a user equipment (UE) and at least one further UE associated with the UE, determining whether a connection circuit switched (CS) connectivity or packet switched (PS) connectivity and when the connection is the CS connectivity, generating a short messaging service (SMS) message that indicates the mode corresponding to the input. Also, receiving connectivity information for a plurality of UEs from a cloud network component, the UEs being associated with one another, the connectivity being CS connectivity or PS connectivity, receiving a response indication corresponding to a response performed on an incoming call by a first one of the UEs, the first UE having a PS connectivity, matching the response indication to a corresponding cause code and transmitting the corresponding cause code to a second one of the UEs having a CS connectivity.
US11172409B2
A wireless communication network (12) includes one or more nodes (10, 40) that individually or cooperatively prevent affiliated communication modules (14) from being handed over at the same time. Affiliated communication modules (14) provide a machine, device, or other entity (16) with redundant access to the network (12) and preventing the simultaneous handover of affiliated communication modules (14) within the network (12) reduces the chance that the involved entity (16) will lose radio connectivity or experience an interruption in its communications. Although not limited to Critical Machine Type Communication, C-MTC, applications, such operations improve connection redundancy and reliability for C-MTC entities that use two or more communication modules (14) for redundant access to a wireless communication network (12).
US11172407B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described that provide for partitioning of time-frequency resources for types of traffic separately. A centralized scheduler in a centralized system or a set of access nodes (ANs) in a distributed system may allocate a portion of a set of resources for a first traffic type (e.g., control or data traffic). In some cases, multiple ANs may exchange reports or measurements to determine the resources to allocate to a given traffic type. The allocated resources may be repurposed for use by a different traffic type (e.g., data traffic resources may be repurposed an used for control traffic resources) in order to account for varying traffic conditions (e.g., unscheduled control traffic).
US11172404B2
A radio access network (RAN) node (11) is configured to send, to another RAN node (12), first control information regarding at least one of one or more bandwidth parts (BWPs) configured in a system bandwidth. It is thus, for example, possible to contribute to inter-radio access network (RAN) node (e.g., inter-gNB) signaling enhanced to handle bandwidth parts.
US11172399B2
A default quality of service (QoS) control method and device for solving the problem in the prior art that there is no solution for generating a default QoS rule for a NextGen network. In embodiments of the present disclosure, an SMF entity determines a target PCC rule from at least one PCC rule sent by a PCF entity; the SMF entity generates, according to the target PCC rule, a default QoS rule corresponding to a PDU session, and sends the default QoS rule to a UE. According to the embodiments of the present disclosure, because the connectivity and QoS control of the PDU session are ensured, and the target PCC rule used by the SMF to generate the default QoS rule is determined by the PCF entity for a PDU session of the UE, the precise control for a specific UE and a specific PDU session is implemented, and the system performance is further improved.
US11172390B2
Provided is a terminal apparatus including: a reception unit configured to: receive first information including at least one first setting, receive second information including at least one second setting, receive third information including at least one third setting, and receive fourth information; a channel state measurement unit configured to measure channel state information; and a transmission unit configured to report the channel state information based on interference that is measured. In the terminal apparatus, the at least one first setting comprises a plurality of first settings for at least one report of the channel state information. Each of the plurality of first settings includes one first index. The at least one second setting comprises a plurality of second settings concerning at least one reference signal for measuring the interference. Each of the plurality of second settings includes one second index. The at least one third setting includes one of the first indices, one of the second indices, and one third index. The fourth information includes information for indicating at least one of the third indices.
US11172380B2
Systems, methods, and devices are provided for dynamically determining appropriate antenna tuning states for communication across one or more frequency bands. An electronic device may include a radio frequency system that facilitates wireless transmission and reception of data across multiple frequency bands. The electronic device may include a processor coupled to the radio frequency system. The processor may instruct the radio frequency system to obtain measurements for a candidate tuner state and a tuner state. Further, the processor may instruct the radio frequency system to determine whether the candidate tuner state provides better radio frequency system performance than the tuner state. Additionally, the processor may update the tuning table to reflect that results of which tuner state provides better radio frequency system performance.
US11172379B2
Methods and apparatus for configuring a front end to process multiple sectors with multiple radio frequency frames. In an exemplary embodiment, a method includes decoding instructions included in a job description list, and configuring one or more processing functions of a transceiver to process a radio signal associated with a selected sector based on the decoded instructions. The configuration of the processing functions is synchronized according to time control instructions included in the job description list.
US11172377B2
Systems and methods for radio beam management for a wireless network are described. An illustrative system includes a memory configured to store instructions and a processor configured to execute the instructions to determine that a user equipment (UE) device is located at a geographic location, determine a prioritization of beams associated with the geographic location, and direct the UE device to apply the prioritization of beams associated with the geographic location for beam scanning at the geographic location. The prioritization of beams may be generated based on historical beam signal strengths at the geographic location. In certain examples, an analytics engine applies a machine learning algorithm to generate the prioritization of beams based on inputs that include historical beam signal strengths reported by UE devices at the geographic location.
US11172376B2
Disclosed are methods and devices for selecting and accessing a network. In an example, a method includes broadcasting, by a base station, access parameter information, where the access parameter information comprises an offset of a coverage enhancement (CE) level reference signal received power (RSRP) threshold of a cell relative to a minimum reception level threshold for decision of cell residence, and is used for enabling a user equipment (UE) without authorization of CE to determine whether the UE is able to use a network resource of a target cell.
US11172371B2
Machines or networked devices such as internet of things (IoT) devices operate to generate an unlicensed narrowband (U-NB) IoT communication based on time domain multiple carrier aggregation operations with component carriers. These component carriers can comprise a component carrier that is anchored to a long term evolution (LTE) licensed band, or entirely comprise unlicensed carrier components that are unanchored to the LTE component carrier in a standalone configuration. Communication circuitry such as a radio frequency interface can transmit the U-NB IoT communication in standalone communications over a low power IoT network in an unlicensed band.
US11172369B2
The invention provides a method and system for enhancing signal qualities within a Wi-Fi network using an adaptive-software defined network (A-SDN) and a cloud platform. The Wi-Fi network includes client devices connected to a Wi-Fi access point and a plurality of nearby Wi-Fi access points to the one or more client devices. The method and system collects radio frequency (RF) measurements pertaining to each client device, the connected Wi-Fi access point, and the plurality of nearby Wi-Fi access points, and an Artificial Intelligence (AI) model is utilized to derive interference measurements based on the RF measurements. The AI model then derives configurations related to Wi-Fi network parameters associated with the connected Wi-Fi access point based on the RF measurements and the interference measurements by solving a complex optimization problem. The Wi-Fi network parameters are then updated based on the derived configurations.
US11172360B2
Protected configuration data may be sent to user equipment subscribed to a first wireless communication network by a second wireless communication network with which the user equipment is registered. The first wireless communication network may protect the configuration data based on at least one first key when sending the data to the second wireless communication network. The second wireless communication network may send the configuration data to user equipment in messages protected by at least one second key. User equipment receives the message from the second wireless communication network, extracts the configuration data using the at least one second key, determines whether the configuration data has been altered at least in part based on the at least one first key, and applies the configuration data if the configuration data has not been altered. The protected configuration data may be sent in an information element of a control plane message.
US11172354B2
A method and a system are provided for updating settings of a wireless device. An inductive coupling link is established between a first wireless device and a second wireless device upon detection that the first wireless device is within a threshold proximity to the second wireless device. The second wireless device receives a token from the first wireless device via the inductive coupling link. The second wireless device forwards the token to a remote device that stores a user profile associated with the user of the first wireless device. The second wireless device receives at least a portion of the user profile from the remote device in response to the token being forwarded. The second wireless device performs an update procedure to update one or more settings of the second wireless device in accordance with the received at least the portion of the user profile.
US11172346B2
An alert message may be sent to a limited radius of electronic device users by an authorized user. The authorized user may use a smartphone application or may simply use a standard SMS messaging capability of the ‘electronic device to enter a request that includes at least a radius and message text. A base station or other processing entity may evaluate the authenticity of the request based on known caller ID information, receipt of a user identifier and/or authorization code. When the message is qualified as genuine, a requested radius for broadcasting the message may be used to determine what cell sites need to be included in the message broadcast to reach electronic devices in the requested radius.
US11172343B2
A system and method for vehicle communication, including a computing device communicatively coupled with a roadside computing device disposed along a road, wherein the computing device is disposed remote from the road. The roadside computing device to communicate with a vehicle computing system of a vehicle on the road.
US11172339B1
The embodiments disclose a method including using a monitor system for monitoring and detecting chemical compositions and biological pathogens, providing the monitor system configured to communicate with a cell phone, using at least one monitor/detector component, providing a plurality of biological sensors for detecting certain biological pathogens, and providing a plurality of chemical sensors for detecting certain chemical compositions.
US11172336B2
An apparatus, method and computer program, are configured to serve a first logical radio network and a second logical radio network. Information on the first logical radio network is received, and at least one group of terminal devices associated with the first logical radio network is identified. An instruction is sent to a network function to establish a connection to the second logical radio network for the at least one group of terminal devices.
US11172335B2
Embodiments of this application provide a positioning operation method, apparatus, and system. A location management function entity receives a first message sent by a network exposure function entity, where the first message carries first positioning operation information, the first message is sent by a network exposure function entity based on a request of a third-party device, and the first positioning operation information is used to request the location management function entity to perform a first positioning operation on a terminal. The location management function entity may determine positioning configuration information of the terminal; further determine, based on the positioning configuration information of the terminal, whether the first positioning operation is allowed on the terminal; and send a third message to the network exposure function entity based on a determining result.
US11172329B2
Systems and methods for training prediction models are illustrated. One embodiment includes a method for training a prediction model in a network. The method includes steps for receiving context data for a portable device in a system, wherein the context data includes localization data that describes a location of the portable device, identifying a predicted stationary device from several stationary devices that is predicted based on the context data using a prediction model, receiving input identifying a target stationary device from the several stationary devices, generating training data based on the predicted stationary device and the received input, updating the prediction model based on the generated training data.
US11172326B2
A user-to-entity communication channel is established for providing increased information regarding entities to the general population. Ambassadors for a entity are identified and selected based on location history of devices for which location reporting is authorized. The ambassadors may provide information regarding the entity to the public through the communication channel. Communications between the users and ambassadors may be reported to the entity owner for analysis by the entity owner.
US11172321B2
A method, applied to a mobile terminal having at least two loudspeakers, includes: setting direction information of a target sound field; and determining filtering parameters of at least two filters according to the direction information. The filters have a one-to-one correspondence with the loudspeakers, and are configured to filter audio signals to be output. The audio signals are filtered using the filtering parameters, to at least adjust phases of the audio signals. The adjusted audio signals are output by the loudspeakers. After the audio signals output by the different loudspeakers are superimposed, the superimposed signal is consistent with a direction indicated by the direction information.
US11172318B2
An apparatus and method of rendering audio. The method includes deriving filters by defining a binaural error, defining an activation penalty, and minimizing a cost function that is a combination of the binaural error and the activation penalty. In this manner, the listening experience is improved by reducing the signal level output by loudspeakers further from an audio object's desired position.
US11172316B2
A portable electronic device (PED) divides an area around a user into a three-dimensional (3D) zone. A wearable electronic device worn on a head of the user displays the 3D zone in response to the wearable electronic device detecting that the user is leaving the zone. The wearable electronic device plays binaural sound that emanates to the user from sound localization points (SLPs) inside the zone.
US11172314B2
The application describes a package substrate for a MEMS transducer package having a recessed region formed in an upper surface of the package substrate. The recessed region extends only partially through the package substrate from an opening in the upper surface of the package substrate in a first direction towards the lower surface of the substrate. The recessed region extends only partially through the package substrate from an opening in a side surface of the package substrate in a second direction towards an opposite side surface.
US11172307B2
One or more holes are formed in a first diaphragm. A second diaphragm is arranged on a sound emitting side of the first diaphragm. A driver includes a magnetic circuit and a voice coil, and vibrates the first and second diaphragms. The second diaphragm includes a rigidity-reinforcing portion in which a rigidity of the second diaphragm is reinforced at a position facing at least one hole of the one or more holes.
US11172287B2
A structure of micro-electro-mechanical-system microphone includes a substrate of semiconductor, having a first opening in the substrate. A dielectric layer is disposed on the substrate, the dielectric layer has a second opening, corresponding to the first opening. A diaphragm is located within the second opening, having an embedded part held by the dielectric layer and an exposed part exposed by the second opening. The exposed part has a junction peripheral region, a buffer peripheral region and a central region. The junction region has an elastic structure with slits, the buffer peripheral region includes a plurality of holes and is disposed between the junction peripheral region and the central region. A backplate is disposed on the dielectric layer above the second opening, wherein the backplate includes venting holes distributed at a region corresponding to the central part of the diaphragm.
US11172275B2
Methods and apparatus are provided for switching an optical signal. In one aspect, an optical switching apparatus comprises a first beam splitting apparatus configured to split a first optical input signal into first and second optical signals, wherein the first optical signal has substantially the same polarization state as the second optical signal. The apparatus also comprises a switching matrix comprising a plurality of first outputs of the switching matrix and a plurality of second outputs of the switching matrix, each first output of the switching matrix associated with a respective one of the second outputs of the switching matrix, the switching matrix configured to selectively direct the first optical signal to a selected one of the first outputs of the switching matrix and to selectively direct the second optical signal to the second output of the switching matrix associated with the selected first output of the switching matrix. The apparatus further comprises a plurality of beam combining apparatus, each beam combining apparatus configured to combine optical signals from a respective one of the first outputs of the switching matrix and its associated second output of the switching matrix.
US11172273B2
A transformer monitor, communication and data collection device features a signal processor configured to receive signaling containing information about collected data, including some combination of electrical signaling data related to electrical signaling being processed by a transformer located and arranged in a grid network and to which the apparatus is mounted, metered data related to associated electrical signaling being provided from the transformer to a building or structure in the grid network, and other wireless network data related to other wireless network communication devices/nodes/end points deployed in the grid network; and determine corresponding signaling containing information about collected data for transmitting back to a central location or other connection device for further processing, based upon the signaling received.
US11172271B1
Example systems and methods for automated generation of banner images are disclosed. A program identifier associated with a particular media program may be received by a system, and used for accessing a set of iconic digital images and corresponding metadata associated with the particular media program. The system may select a particular iconic digital image for placing a banner of text associated with the particular media program, by applying an analytical model of banner-placement criteria to the iconic digital images. The system may apply another analytical model for banner generation to the particular iconic image to determine (i) dimensions and placement of a bounding box for containing the text, (ii) segmentation of the text for display within the bounding box, and (iii) selection of font, text size, and font color for display of the text. The system may store the particular iconic digital image and banner metadata specifying the banner.
US11172269B2
Systems, devices and processes are provided to facilitate the streaming of commercial content in a video streaming system. Various embodiments facilitate the improved delivery of commercial content in a video streaming system by providing the ability to shift content to allow multiple relatively short commercials to be replaced with one or more longer commercials. As an example, a program channel is monitored to detect commercial content that has a first timespan. This commercial content is replaced with replacement commercial content that has a different timespan. The timing of the video stream is then adjusted to compensate for the difference in the timespan. For example, by monitoring the program channel to detect later commercial content that also has a timespan less than a threshold amount and then skipping this later detected commercial content.
US11172262B2
The disclosure provides a method for interactive control of live television broadcast streams. The method includes receiving a streaming live media feed (103) from a television broadcaster (102) and displaying an overlay (212) on media content (M) of the streaming live media feed (103). The overlay (212) includes a play control option unassociated with an intermediary feed source of the live media feed between the television broadcaster and the media device (115). The method further includes receiving a first selection input of the play control option and determining that the selection input corresponds to a play mode at a first location within the media content (M) of the streaming live media feed by determining that a first fingerprint (128, 208, 306) fails to match a second fingerprint (128, 208, 306). Furthermore, the method includes overlaying targeted overlay content on the streaming live media feed.
US11172256B2
Methods and systems for capturing, transmitting and processing data for generating ratings relating to multimedia programming based on passively obtained user cues are disclosed herein.
US11172255B2
A geolocationing system and method for providing awareness in a multi-space environment, such as a hospitality environment or educational environment, are presented. In one embodiment of the geolocationing system, an array of gateway devices is provided. Each gateway device includes a gateway device identification providing an accurately-known fixed location within the multi-space environment. Each gateway device includes a wireless transceiver that receives a beacon signal from a proximate wireless-enabled personal locator device. The gateway devices, in turn, send gateway signals to a server, which determines estimated location of the wireless-enabled personal locator device with transmitted signal strength modeling.
US11172233B2
Apparatus, systems and methods for adaptively reducing blocking artifacts in block-coded video are disclosed. In one implementation, a system includes processing logic at least capable of deblock filtering at least a portion of a line of video data based, at least in part, on edge information and texture information to generate at least a portion of a line of deblocked video data, and an image data output device responsive to the processing logic.
US11172222B2
Methods and systems for light field image encoding and decoding are disclosed. According to some embodiments, the method receives scene metadata and input light field images associated with a scene. The method further performs a first encoding operation on the scene metadata and the input light field images to generate reference views and reference disparity information. The method further performs a second encoding operation based on the reference views, the reference disparity information, and synthesized residuals to output encoded light field data, where the encoded light field data comprises encoded reference views, encoded reference disparity information, and encoded synthesized residuals. The method further randomly accesses and selects a group of reference views and corresponding disparity information from the encoded light field data based on one or more selected regions of interest. And the method transmits the selected group of reference views, the selected corresponding disparity information, and the encoded synthesized residuals.
US11172219B2
Frames from an image stream or streams are processed by independently operating digital signal processors (DSPs), with only frame checking microprocessors operating in a lockstep mode. In one example, two DSP are operating on alternate frames. Each DSP processes the frames and produces prediction values for the next frame. The lockstep microprocessors develop their own next frame prediction. The lockstep processors compare issued frames and previously developed predicted frames for consistency. If the predictions are close enough, the issued frame passes the test. The lockstep processors then compare the issued frame to the preceding two frames for a similar consistency check. If the prior frames are also close enough, the issued frame is acceptable. In another example, hardware checkers are provided to compare the present frame with a larger number of prior frames. The hardware checkers provide comparison results to the lockstep processors to compare against allowable variation limits.
US11172218B2
A motion estimation method includes calculating a global camera motion vector for a region of an image frame, calculating a global estimated motion vector for the region of the image frame, and determining a global motion vector for the region based on the global camera motion vector and the global estimated motion vector.
US11172215B2
An apparatus for decoding video data includes memory and one or more processors implemented in circuitry. The one or more processors are configured to receive a bitstream including encoded video data, decode, from the bitstream, values for one or more syntax elements to generate a residual block for a current block, prediction information for the current block, and transform domain filtering information. The one or more processors are further configured to reconstruct the current block using the prediction information and the residual block to generate a reconstructed block. In response to determining that the transform domain filtering information indicates that transform domain filtering is enabled for the current block, the one or more processors are configured to perform transform domain filtering on the reconstructed block to generate a filtered block.
US11172204B2
A method of decoding motion information according to an embodiment includes: determining a base motion vector of a current block; determining a primary differential motion vector for the current block based on information obtained from a bitstream from among one or more primary differential motion vector candidates classified according to a disparity distance and a disparity direction; and determining a motion vector of the current block by applying the primary differential motion vector to the base motion vector.
US11172193B1
A method for calibration of vision sensors includes, by a processor: selecting a calibration sequence that has a base calibration pattern and calibration angles, generating a calibrating target that may include the calibration pattern at a selected calibration angle of the angles, and causing a display screen to display a digital image representative of the target at the selected angle relative to an originating border of the selected angle. Each of the calibration angles is associated with a different originating border of the screen. The method includes by a vision sensor capturing at least one image of the calibrating target displayed on the screen. The calibration is repeated for each calibration angle of the sequence. The method includes performing calibration of the vision sensor in response to image signal processing of extracted calibration features in the at least one image of the calibrating targets.
US11172191B2
An imaging device includes a first memory configured to perform writing to multiple addresses thereof by designating the multiple addresses on address-by-address basis, a second memory configured to perform writing simultaneously to multiple address thereof, and a control circuit that controls readout of signals from the first memory and the second memory. The control circuit is configured to perform a first operation mode to sequentially designate the multiple addresses of the first memory and sequentially perform readout of signals from the multiple addresses of the first memory, and a second operation mode to sequentially designate the multiple addresses of the second memory and sequentially perform readout of signals from the multiple addresses of the second memory so that an output value from the second memory becomes the same as a value expected as an output value from the first memory in the first operation mode.
US11172190B2
Systems and methods are described for determining a tracked position associated with viewing an emitting interface of a display device, generating, using the tracked position, a first mask representing a first set of values associated with the emitting interface of the display device, generating, using the tracked position, a second mask representing a second set of values associated with the emitting interface of the display device, and generating an output image using the first mask and the second mask.
US11172189B1
In one embodiment, a method includes sending, to an interaction device including a projector and a camera, a media content item and instructions causing the projector to project the media content item on a projectable surface and receiving, from the interaction device, one or more media objects captured by the camera, where one or more of the media objects include images of a user in proximity to the projectable surface. The method includes determining one or more movements of the user based on the one or more of the media objects and updating the media content item based on the determined movements. The method also includes sending, to the interaction device, the updated media content item and instructions causing the projector to project the updated media content item on the projectable surface.
US11172186B2
The invention relates to a TOF camera system comprising several cameras, at least one of the cameras being a TOF camera, wherein the cameras are assembled on a common substrate and are imaging the same scene simultaneously and wherein at least two cameras are driven by different driving parameters.
US11172163B1
A video call queue method includes receiving a request for an interaction. The method includes determining an agent category. The agent category is determined based on the request. The method includes determining whether an agent is available. Determining whether the agent is available is based on the agent category. If the agent is not available, the method includes establishing a private web session. The method includes determining an estimated wait time. The method includes displaying content to the web session based on the estimated wait time. If the agent is available, the method includes initiating the interaction.
US11172162B1
Methods and systems described in this disclosure describe an integration of video sessions across platforms, transforming the user experience. In some embodiments, a user can participate in an interaction via a channel. Next, the system can determine whether the interaction is eligible for a video session with a representative. When the interaction is eligible for the video session, an option for the video session can be displayed on a user interface of the device. After receiving a request for the video session, the video session can be routed to a uniquely skilled representative, where the uniquely skilled representative is determined based, at least in part, on the interaction.
US11172160B2
In a method of operating a display device supporting a variable frame mode, frame data are received during a constant active period of a frame period including the active period and a variable blank period, the received frame data are written to a frame memory in the active period, the received frame data are outputted to a data driver in the active period to display an image based on the received frame data, a time of the variable blank period is counted, and, when the time of the variable blank period reaches a predetermined threshold blank time, the frame data stored in the frame memory are outputted to the data driver in the variable blank period to display an image based on the frame data stored in the frame memory.
US11172158B2
A system and method that recognizes and highlights objects in a video frame for augmented video production workflow. Ae video production camera is provided to capture a video frame and generate frame data and object data relating to objects within the video frame that are in focus. Moreover, a display device is included that is wearable by the camera operator and includes a camera that captures field of view data that corresponds to a field of view of the camera operator. Furthermore, the display device can compare the video frame data with the field of view data captured by the camera to generate visual indicators for the video frame and the in focus objects. As a result, the display device can provide the camera operator with a field of view having visual indicators of the video frame and the objects that appears as overlays over the operator's field of view.
US11172157B2
Techniques are described for digital conversion of pixel signals in a CMOS image sensor (CIS). The CIS includes column-parallel analog-to-digital converters (ADCs), each having a programmable gain amplifier (PGA) supporting N gain settings. Each ADC can execute, for each gain setting (Gn) of the N gain settings, a respective reset phase conversion to obtain a respective baseline offset (BOn) associated with the Gn. A pre-decision value can be determined as a function of a pixel signal, the pre-decision value corresponding to a selected one of the gain settings (Gs). The pixel signal can be converted by using the pre-decision value to set a gain of the PGA to the Gs and obtaining a signal offset (SO). A digital pixel output can be computed for the pixel signal as a function of the SO and the BOs, wherein the BOs is the BOn corresponding to the Gs.
US11172155B2
An imaging device includes: a first pixel including a first photoelectric converter that converts incident light into first signal charges, and a first charge storage node that accumulates the first signal charges; and a second pixel including a second photoelectric converter that converts incident light into second signal charges, and a second charge storage node that accumulates the second signal charges. An area of the second photoelectric converter is greater than an area of the first photoelectric converter in a plan view. Capacitance of the first charge storage node is greater than capacitance of the second charge storage node.
US11172151B2
An image capture apparatus comprising a plurality of pixels, each pixel having a light-receiving circuit that outputs a pulse signal in response to incidence of a photon and a counting circuit configured to count the pulse signal, is disclosed. The image capture apparatus further comprises a detection circuit that detects whether or not a flickering light source is present in a field of view, based on an output frequency of the pulse signal.
US11172150B1
An image sensor includes a plurality of pixel columns and a plurality of readout circuits. Each readout circuit is coupled to one of the plurality of pixel columns and includes an ADC for receiving a first analog signal of a pixel in a reset conversion phase and a second analog signal of the pixel in a signal measurement phase, a dual-ramp generator for generating a first ramp having a first ramp rate and a second ramp having a second ramp rate greater than the first ramp rate and providing the first ramp to the readout circuits in the reset conversion phase and the second ramp to the plurality of readout circuits in the signal measurement phase, and a controller configured to provide control signals to the readout circuits and the dual-ramp generator.
US11172144B2
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for controlling luminance during video production and broadcast. An exemplary system includes a camera to capture video content in a first imaging range, a histogram calculator to evaluate luminance in each pixel in the captured video content, and to generate a luminance histogram for the captured video content, a user interface generator that generates a user interface displaying the video content overlaid with the luminance histogram and generates a user interface displaying a light intensity curve and adjustable parameters for converting the first range into a second range, a luminance controller to convert luminance of the video content into the second imaging range based on the light intensity curve, and a broadcast controller to encode the video content with the second imaging range into broadcast range for transmitting to one or more endpoint devices.
US11172138B2
An image capture apparatus capable of increasing the width by which the dynamic range is expanded by HDR combination, according to whether a moving object exists or not, while preventing occurrence of ghost artifacts or the like, caused by improper combination. An image capture section performs image capture operations with a plurality of different exposure amounts for each frame to thereby generate a plurality of captured images so as to perform HDR combination. An exposure controller sets the plurality of different exposure amounts for the image capture section. A moving object detection section detects a moving object existing in at least one of the plurality of captured images. The exposure controller adjusts the plurality of different exposure amounts according to whether or not a moving object is detected by the moving object detection section.
US11172135B2
An apparatus according to various embodiments can include: a plurality of cameras including at least one camera having a field of view (FOV) different from the designated FOV; a communication interface; and at least one processor, wherein the at least one processor can be configured to acquire a plurality of images, including at least one image including a scene from the FOV different from the designated FOV, through the plurality of cameras, and transmit information about the plurality of images and information for changing the scene from the FOV included in the at least one image to a scene for the designated FOV to another device through the communication interface so that the other device generates another image on the basis of the plurality of images.
US11172131B1
Aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to optical devices and related methods that facilitate tilt in camera systems, such as tilt of a lens. In one example, an optical device includes a lens, an image sensor disposed below the lens, a plurality of magnets disposed about the lens, and a plurality of: (1) vertical coil structures coiled in one or more vertical planes and (2) horizontal coil structures coiled in one or more horizontal planes. When power is applied, the coil structures can generate magnetic fields that, in the presence of the magnets, cause relative movement of the coil structures and associated structures. The plurality of vertical coil structures are configured to horizontally move the lens. The plurality of horizontal coil structures are configured to tilt the lens when differing electrical power is applied to at least two of the plurality of horizontal coil structures.
US11172121B2
An image forming apparatus includes a main assembly and a cartridge attached to the main assembly in an attaching direction. The main assembly includes a movable member movable between first and second positions and having first and second engaging portions to engage with first and second protrusions on the cartridge, and an urging member urging the movable member from the second position to the first position. The first engaging portion has a surface-to-be-abutted, a first surface-to-be-supported, and a recessed surface, and the second engaging portion has a regulating surface and a second surface-to-be-supported.
US11172118B2
A control apparatus (100) includes a divider (7) that divides an image into a plurality of areas, a calculator (8) that calculates an evaluation value of each of the plurality of areas, and a focus adjuster (10) that performs focusing based on the evaluation value of each of the plurality of areas.
US11172112B2
An imaging system positioned relative to a three-dimensional area for capturing an image includes an image sensor having an X-Y plane and an aspect ratio defined by the quantity of pixels in the X-Y plane; and a non-linear light focusing element constructed with a profile to form an altered view of a three-dimensional desired zone of the area with a desired pixel distribution. The non-linear light focusing element redirects the pixels of the image sensor from an undesired zone of the area to within a frame that encompasses the three-dimensional desired zone of the area to form the altered view of the desired zone. The image sensor captures the altered view of the desired zone to match the aspect ratio of the image sensor.
US11172106B2
A removably attachable optical device includes a clamp comprising an upper clamp member and a lower clamp member. When the clamp is mounted on a mobile device, the upper member extends over a device side to enable an orifice formed by the upper clamp member to be positioned over an aperture of the mobile device. An optical element housing has a portion configured to engage the an upper clamp member. A non-uniform optical element is rotatably mounted to the optical element housing. Rotation of the non-uniform optical element causes light passing through the non-uniform optical element as the non-uniform optical element is rotated to be correspondingly altered to create optical effects.
US11172105B2
One embodiment of a camera module may comprise: a lens barrel having a hollow formed therein, comprising at least one lens aligned in the optical axis of the hollow; a holder having formed therein an internal space in which a part of the lens barrel is accommodated; a casing coupled to the holder and having formed therein an internal space in which a printed circuit board is accommodated; and a first heater which is electrically connected to the printed circuit board to heat the lens.
US11172104B2
A camera mount consists of at least two layers which are laminated in an optical axis direction of an image-capturing lens. The camera mount is engaged with the image-capturing lens and detachably locks the image-capturing lens to a camera body. The camera mount includes a first mount layer; and a second mount layer, laminated on the first mount layer, made of a metal material and having a plurality of lens attachment claw portions configured to attach the image-capturing lens.
US11172088B2
A recording apparatus includes an apparatus body including a recording section configured to record onto a medium and a discharge section configured to discharge the medium recorded by the recording section, and a post-processing unit attached to the apparatus body, the post-processing unit being configured to receive the medium discharged from the discharge section and perform post-processing. The post-processing unit is configured to be moved between a receiving position at which the medium discharged from the discharge section is to be received and a discharge position to which the post-processing unit is moved from the receiving position and at which the medium discharged from the discharge section is discharged to the outside of the post-processing unit without being received into the post-processing unit.
US11172067B1
A method and system enables communications with a call center via SMS/MMS and provides an additional communications channel to communicate with the call center in addition to voice, Internet email/IM chat and fax. The call center obtains location information and images from a customer using SMS messages and web pages via a messaging hub.
US11172060B1
A communication device, method and computer program product enable improved communication performance by switching or tuning antennas based on detecting touches on edge display(s) of the communication device that has at least one antenna positioned along edges of a housing assembly. A controller monitors edge display(s) of the communication device to determine portions of the edge display(s) that are touched and associates the at least one antenna that is proximate to the portions of the edge display(s) that are touched The controller configures a radio frequency front end of the communication device to switch or tune the at least one antenna in order to provide at least one of: mitigating detrimental effects to antenna performance by the at least one antenna or remaining within regulatory limits for RF transmission exposure.
US11172056B2
A broker system dynamically adjusts data processing techniques used by a network gateway for forwarding data over a network from a client system to an exchange system based on a switch mode parameter. The broker system dynamically adjusts the network gateway from using an error-propagating data processing technique (e.g. cut-through switching) to a non-error-propagating data processing technique (e.g. store and forward switching) based on the switch mode parameter. In particular, the broker system may adjust the network gateway when a count of unsuccessfully validated protocol data units meets a threshold specified by the switch mode parameter. While using the error-propagating technique, the broker system may modify a portion of the data protocol unit corresponding to a transport layer of a network protocol used by the network when a protocol data unit is unsuccessfully validated.
US11172055B2
In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method of conserving storage space in a network recorder includes receiving a computer packet including a header and payload data; estimating entropy of the payload data in the computer packet; determining if storage of the computer packet is of value or not based on the header of the computer packet; and storing all or a portion of the computer packet into a storage device based on the estimated entropy and the value determination.
US11172052B2
Methods that can merge storage network protocols and/or system protocols are provided. One method includes assigning a unique identifier to each of a plurality of nodes in a storage network in which at least two nodes of the plurality of nodes implement a different storage protocol. The method further includes utilizing the unique identifier of the at least two nodes of the plurality of nodes to enable the at least two nodes to communicate with each other. Systems and apparatus that can include, perform, and/or implement the methods are also provided.
US11172048B2
Method and apparatus for predicting experience degradation events in microservice-based applications
Techniques are disclosed to predict experience degradation in a microservice-based application comprising a plurality of microservices. Quality of service metrics are derived for each node from the historical event log data of nodes forming a plurality of directed acyclic graph (DAG) paths in the multiple-layer nodes. A clustering model clusters the plurality of quality of service metrics according to multiple levels of quality of experience and determines respective value ranges of each quality of service metric for the multiple levels of quality of experience. Each quality of service metric is labeled with one of the multiple levels of quality of service according to the respective value ranges. A support vector machine model predicts various experience degradation events which are expected to occur during the operation of the microservice-based application.
US11172034B2
A content management system that is configured to receive, over a network, a request from a first application associated with a user to access a container in a content navigation structure, mark a location in the content navigation structure for the user based on activity by the user in the first application, associate a second application with the user and provide the marked location over the network to the second application to enable the second application to access the marked location.
US11172027B2
A system for monitoring remote usage of test and measuring instruments is provided. The system comprises a monitoring unit and a plurality of measurement instruments. In this context, each measurement instrument of the plurality of measurement instruments is adapted to record a plurality of events, wherein each event of the plurality of events creates an event identifier and wherein the event identifier is logged in an event log. Additionally, the event identifier triggers a scheduled task which triggers a batch file script on the measurement instrument.
US11172025B2
A terminal apparatus 20 includes a sensor data collection unit 21 that collects sensor data from an odor sensor 40 that outputs the sensor data in reaction to a plurality of types of odors, an analyzer acquisition unit 22 that, in the case where an analyzer capable of analyzing a designated odor analysis target is transmitted thereto from a server apparatus 10 that holds a plurality of analyzers for analyzing odor analysis targets by analyzing the sensor data, acquires the analyzer transmitted thereto, an analysis execution unit 23 that executes analysis processing of the designated odor analysis target, by applying the acquired analyzer to the collected sensor data, and an analysis result holding unit 24 that holds information indicating a result of the analysis processing.
US11172024B2
A system and method for co-locating a containerized application and an associated cloud storage bucket are provided. In embodiments, a method includes determining, by a computing device, a location of a containerized application in a data storage network; determining, by the computing device, that a cloud storage bucket does not yet exist in a geographic zone associated with the location of the containerized application; selecting, by the computing device, a data storage location for the cloud storage bucket from a plurality of data storage locations in the data storage network based on the geographic zone; and sending, by the computing device, a request to create the cloud storage bucket to the data storage location and causing creation and co-location of the cloud storage bucket within a predetermined distance of the containerized application.
US11172023B2
A method for data synchronization, includes: acquiring, by a target terminal, a locally pre-stored service domain name of a target server room, and transmitting, by the target terminal, a service request to the target server room through the service domain name; executing, by the target server room, a service operation corresponding to the service request, updating, by the target server room, a first database, and generating, by the target server room, a data change message; sending, by the target server room, the data change message to an associated server room of the target server room; and performing, by the associated server room, data synchronization based on the received data change message.
US11172016B2
A computing device, a method, and a system to enforce concurrency limits within a network fabric. The computing device includes a memory device; and a network interface controller coupled to the memory device. The network interface controller includes circuitry to communicate with a plurality of target computing devices in a network fabric. The circuitry is configured to generate packets for transmission to respective ones of a plurality of target nodes. For each packet addressed to its corresponding target node, the circuitry is to determine whether transmitting the packet would violate the target node's concurrency limit. If transmitting the packet would not violate the target node's concurrency limit, the circuitry is to transmit the packet to the target node. However, if transmitting the packet would violate the target node's concurrency limit, the circuitry would store the packet in a retransmit buffer of the computing device, where the retransmit buffer is to further store already transmitted packets flagged for retransmission. The circuitry would then transmit the packet from the retransmit buffer when transmitting the packet from the retransmit buffer would not violate the target node's concurrency limit.
US11172009B2
A method, computer program product, and computing system device for receiving a data stream encoded with metadata. Client data may also be received. At least a portion of the data stream may be filtered based upon, at least in part, a comparison of the metadata encoded into the video stream and the client data.
US11172007B2
Technologies for seamless data streaming include a control server and one or more client computing devices. A client computing device receives user presence data indicative of whether a user is nearby from one or more sensors. The client computing device may receive user interest data indicative of the user's interest level in the current data stream from one or more sensors. The control server identifies available client computing devices based on the user presence data, selects a target client computing device, and causes the data stream to transition from the current client computing device to the target client computing device. The target client computing device may be selected based on proximity of the user or the user's interest level in the data stream. The volume or balance of the data stream may be adjusted to provide a smooth transition between client computing devices. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US11172006B1
Systems and methods for providing a remote interactive experience via a digital platform are provided. Methods may include receiving instructions from a host device to configure a canvas. A canvas may include a graphical representation with customizable content and layout. The instructions may include content instructions and layout instructions. Content instructions may include a selection of one or more interaction apps, from a set of interaction apps, for inclusion in the canvas. Methods may include displaying the canvas on a display screen of one or more participant devices.
US11172005B2
A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided to provide the rendering of audiovisual content, such as 360-degree virtual reality content, in a manner that allows for control over whether, and to what degree, the content presented to a viewer should take into account the relative positioning of the content with respect to the viewer. In particular, implementations are presented that allow for situational control over the rendering of content based on an initial observation setup associated with a segment or subsegment of content, the orientation of the viewing device, and/or the manner in which the segment or subsegment is accessed by a playback device.
US11172002B2
Systems and methods for preventing a robocall from leaving a voicemail are described. When an incoming call without a history information header (HIH) destined for a subscriber is detected, the incoming call is prevented from leaving a voicemail if the subscriber does not answer the incoming call. If the incoming call has the HIH, additional determination process based on a visited network address of the subscriber is performed to determine whether the incoming call is to be prevented from leaving a voicemail.
US11171999B2
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for session initiation in a conference. In one aspect, a method for communicating between multiple parties is disclosed. The method comprises generating, at a first device, a first message for transmission to a second device. The method further comprises receiving, at the first device, a second message for establishing a conference. The second message includes a list of one or more concurrent codec capabilities supported by the second device. The list of one or more concurrent codec capabilities supported by the second device comprises an indication of whether one or more resources usable for one or more concurrent instances of a first listed codec may instead be used for one or more concurrent instances of a second listed codec.
US11171990B1
A security system within a digital network receives a request to access a feature of the digital network from a remote computing device. The security system obtains obtains characteristic data corresponding to the remote computing device and generates a security score corresponding to the remote computing device based at least in part on the characteristic data. The security system compares the security score to an access threshold, allowing the remote computing device to access to the feature of the digital network if the security score exceeds the access threshold.
US11171988B2
In a secure communication system and method, a message is transmitted between a first user device and a second user device through a first routing device, a first connection server, the first routing device, a second routing device, a second connection server, and the second routing device. At the first user device, the message is encrypted at three levels. At the first routing device and the second routing device, the message is decrypted at the third and second levels, and encrypted at new second and third levels. At the first connection server and the second connection server, the message is decrypted at the third, second and first levels, and encrypted at new first, second and third levels. At the second user device, the message is decrypted at the third, second and first levels to retrieve the original message.
US11171981B2
A method comprising inviting a distributed plurality of researchers to participate in one or more computer vulnerability research projects directed to identifying computer vulnerabilities of one or more networks and/or computers that are owned or operated by a third party; assessing reputation and skills of one or more of the researchers, and accepting a subset of the researchers who have a positive reputation to perform the investigations of the computer vulnerabilities; assigning a particular computer vulnerability research project, relating to a particular network under test, to a particular researcher from among the subset of the researchers; using a computer that is logically interposed between the particular researcher and the particular network under test, monitoring communications between the particular researcher and the particular network under test, wherein the communications relate to attempting to identify a candidate security vulnerability of the particular network under test.
US11171973B2
A threat protection system provides for detecting links in a document and analyzing whether one of the detected links is a malicious link that may direct a user of the document to a malicious universal resource locator (URL). In one implementation of the described technology, when a user selects a link in a document, a link activation module calls a threat protection client module that performs a reputation check for the link. If the selected link is malicious, the threat protection client module sends a URL of a warning page to the link activation module.
US11171960B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, monitoring network messages at a network edge of a service provider network, wherein the network edge is coupled via a network edge device to a local area network comprising a plurality of network-addressable (IoT) devices, wherein the network edge device is in communication with a service provider network via a transmission medium in which electromagnetic waves comprising the network messages propagate along the transmission medium without requiring an electrical return path. A network-addressable device of the plurality of network-addressable devices is detected to obtain a detected network-addressable device according to the monitoring of the network messages. Information obtained from the detected network-addressable device is evaluated to obtain an evaluation result and a listing of the plurality of network-addressable devices is updated based on the evaluation results. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11171955B2
A system on a chip (SoC) includes memory, a processor coupled to the memory, and link protection circuitry coupled to the memory and the processor. The link protection circuitry includes an SoC encryption engine to receive first data from the memory and a first key, generate, by an SoC encryption counter of the SoC encryption engine, an SoC encryption counter value, encrypt the first data using the SoC encryption counter value and the first key to generate first encrypted data, and cause the first encrypted data to be transmitted to a device including a device decryption counter synchronized with the SoC encryption counter.
US11171948B2
Session lifetime can be adapted based on session reputation. Session reputation can be computed based on sign-in risk and device risk, among other things. Session lifetime corresponds to a length of time a session is valid and can be determined automatically based on the session reputation. Subsequently, a token can be generated and returned in response to successful authentication that identifies a session and is valid for the determined lifetime.
US11171947B2
The present invention relates to a method and a system for authentication of a user for granting access to a service, the method comprising: receiving, by a vehicle control unit comprised in a vehicle, an authentication token based on a request for authentication for access to the service, the vehicle being in communicative connection with a remote server. A token sequence is sent by flashing with a light-emitting device comprised in the vehicle, the token sequence is based on the authentication token. The token sequence is received by a light detecting device. The token is compared by the server with the authentication token. When the token sequence is determined to match the authentication token, access is granted to the service. The invention also relates to a vehicle implementing the method.
US11171943B1
Methods, non-transitory computer readable media, and network traffic manager apparatus that assists with adding an online certificate status protocol (OCSP) in conjunction with generated certificates includes receiving a client request to access a website via a TLS connection. A server certificate is generated for the requested website. Next, a proof of validity is generated for the generated server certificate. The generated server certificate and the generated proof of validity of the generated server certificate are provided to a client during a TLS handshake period.
US11171939B1
A third-party server, delegated by organizations to manage application environment, may maintain a plurality of guided workflow plans. At least one of the guided workflow plans may include one or more steps associated with setting up an interaction control policy. The third-party server may receive an interaction report associated with the organization. The interaction report may include metadata of one or more devices that interacted with other devices. The third-party server may identify a particular device to which existing interaction control policies of the organization are inapplicable. The third-party server may search for additional out-of-band information of the particular device using the metadata in the interaction report. The third-party server may select an applicable guided workflow plan for setting up an applicable interaction control policy for the particular device. A guided workflow may be presented via a graphical user interface according to the applicable guided workflow plan.
US11171936B2
The processing load on a host processor is substantially reduced by offloading the transport layer security protocol, such as the TLS/SSL protocol, the transport layer protocol stack, such as the TCP/IP protocol stack, and the network control required to access a network, such as the Internet, onto an expansion device.
US11171935B2
The present invention pertains to a method and system for preventing unauthorized access via signal interception and hacking to a user's secure mobile device. One embodiment of the system further comprises an encryption server in communication with the secure mobile device, a clear server in communication with a clear mobile device, and a termination gateway in connection with secure and clear POTS phones on the PSTN. The termination gateway communicates with the clear and encryption servers by IP tunneling. The system enables universal access between secure and non-secure packet-switched phone lines, operating via the Internet, and clear and secure circuit-switched phone lines operating on the PSTN.
US11171930B2
Computer implemented systems and methods are provided for securing data. In some embodiments, a system for securing data may comprise one or more processors configured to receive a request for data over a network. The one or more processors may be configured to identify one or more confidential portions of data within the requested data. The one or more processors may be further configured to transmit the confidential portions of data to a hardware device configured to secure the confidential portions of data, and receive the secured data from the hardware device.
US11171915B2
Disclosed herein are a server apparatus, a client apparatus, and a method for communication based on network address mutation. The method for communication based on network address mutation, performed by the server apparatus and the client apparatus, includes setting the external address of a network interface for receiving a packet from the client apparatus; setting the internal address of a hidden interface in order to forward the packet received through the network interface to the hidden interface; modifying the external address based on a preset network address mutation rule; and communicating with the client apparatus by forwarding the packet, received from the client apparatus based on the modified external address, to the hidden interface.
US11171905B1
An example operation may include one or more of monitoring communication between at least one originator device and one recipient device; transmitting a request to the at least one originator device querying if additional data related to the monitored communication is desired; receiving a positive response to the query from the at least one originator device; determining related data pertaining to the monitored communication; and transmitting the related data to the originator user device.
US11171902B2
Method of generating customized graphics having reactions to electronic message content starts with application server causing a communication interface for a communication session to be displayed at a first client device and at a second client device, respectively. The communication session is between a plurality of client devices. The communication interface includes a chat presence bar that includes a plurality of presence indicators associated with the client devices, respectively. Application server receives content for an electronic message from first client device or second client device and generates a customized graphic based on the content for the electronic message and a user identifier for first client device. Application server causes the customized graphic to be displayed on the chat presence bar of the communication interface displayed on the second client device. The customized graphic included in a first presence indicator associated with the first client device. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11171899B2
A system for delivering notification messages across different notification media comprises a processor. A processor is configured to provide an indication of a new platform notification channel to one or more platform notification services. The indication is provided to one of the one or more platform notification services through a communication module specific to the one of the one or more platform notification services. The processor is configured to create a mapping from a new universal notification channel to a set of one or more platform notification channel identifiers. Each platform notification channel identifier of the set of platform notification channel identifiers is received from a platform notification service. The processor is configured to provide the set of one or more platform notification channel identifiers to a content provider of the new universal notification channel. The processor is coupled to the memory and is configured to store instructions.
US11171898B2
A workflow manager can be configured to present a graphical interface to an entity and display a current status of a user population within an active workflow. The workflow manager can identify and monitor individual user actions associated with user paths of the active workflow. The workflow manager can generate user path and workflow analytics that identify the progress of individual users and summarize the overall progress of the user population within the active workflow. The workflow analytics can be generated from event notifications that are emitted by the communications and filters of the active workflow. The graphical interface can be actively updated, in response to the emission of the event notifications, to present the workflow analytics and user population progress to the entity.
US11171895B2
Particular embodiments described herein provide for a system that can be configured to communicate chat session data during a chat session to a first display of a first electronic device, communicate the chat session data during the chat session to a second display of a second electronic device, receive sensitive data during the chat session from the first electronic device, and protect the sensitive data from being displayed on the second display during the chat session without breaking continuity of the chat session.
US11171892B2
An assistance integrator provides a front-end interface to an enterprise's backend services available to customers. The assistance integrator translates between automated chat conversations with the customers that engage the enterprise over messaging platforms for initiating actions with the backend services during those conversations.
US11171889B2
A technique for buffering packets in a Software Defined Networking (SDN) infrastructure is disclosed. A method implementation of the technique is performed by an SDN network device and comprises receiving (S304) a configuration message from an SDN controller, the configuration message defining at least one characteristic characterizing packets to be buffered, receiving (S306) a packet, triggering (S308) inserting the packet into a buffer if the packet matches the at least one characteristic, and triggering (S310) sending a notification message to the SDN controller notifying the SDN controller that the packet is inserted into the buffer.
US11171888B2
A packet processing device includes a memory, and circuitry coupled the memory and configured to perform: sampling received packets at a predetermined interval, detecting a plurality of bursts in which received packets are continuously detected by the sampling, calculating, for each of the plurality of bursts detected, a front edge period based on the received packet detected first among the bursts, calculating, for each of the plurality of bursts detected, a rear edge period based on the received packet detected last among the bursts, deciding the longer period between the front edge period and the rear edge period as a burst period, and controlling transfer of the received packets based on the decided burst period.
US11171886B2
A N×M non-blocking switch matrix, where N and M are integers, includes an input stage having a plurality of m/2-way multiport switches, where quotient m/2 is a positive integer less than M, and an output stage having a plurality of n/2-way multiport switches, where quotient n/2 is a positive integer less than N. The switch matrix further includes a transfer stage having a plurality of transfer switches operatively connected between the input stage and output stage, and selectively applying outputs of the m/2-way multiport switches to inputs of the n/2-way multiport switches such that any given input to the m/2-way multiport switches is connectable to any given output of the n/2-way multiport switches.
US11171882B2
In one embodiment, a computer network system, includes at least one lower tier of lower switches, at least one upper tier of upper switches, and a middle tier of middle switches connected down-tier to ones of the lower switches and up-tier to ones of the upper switches, one of the middle switches including a clos topology arrangement of leaf and spine switches, the leaf switches being connected via K internal network connections to the spine switches, each leaf switch being connected to each spine switch, the leaf switches being connected via N down-tier network connections to ones of the lower switches and via M up-tier network connections to ones of the upper switches, there being more of the N down-tier network connections than there are of the M up-tier network connections, and there being less of the K internal network connections than there are of the N and M connections.
US11171875B2
Systems and methods for communications network failure detection and remediation utilizing link probes are disclosed. Exemplary methods include: receiving first communications from a first client; authenticating the first user of the first client; creating a registration for the first client in a registration database; establishing a connection to the first client; detecting the connection to the first client has failed, the detecting comprising using a link probe to test connectivity of the first client and utilizing a voting scheme, based on the plurality of connectivity test results, to determine that the connection to the first client has failed; receiving second communications from the second client; authenticating the first user of the second client using the telephone number and the security credential; removing the registration for the first client from the registration database; creating a registration for the second client; and establishing a connection to the second client.
US11171874B2
Disclosed are methods lossless traffic forwarding using distributed delay offset matching. The lossless traffic forwarding method includes calculating a delay offset between a first forwarding path between a transmitting node and a receiving node and a second forwarding path between the transmitting node and the receiving node, and controlling a buffer resource by an extent of the delay offset to delay packets to be forwarded on the first forwarding path.
US11171869B2
Systems, methods, and apparatuses provide a scalable framework for analyzing queuing and transient congestion in network switches. The system reports which flows contributed to the queue buildup and enables direct per-packet action in the data plane to prevent transient congestion. The system may be configured to analyze queuing in legacy network switches.
US11171863B2
One embodiment can provide for forwarding a packet. During operation, the system can identify a plurality of physical links for forwarding the packet received at a first physical port. In response to determining that one or more physical links within the identified plurality of physical links are coupled to a same line card where the first physical port resides, the system chooses one of the determined physical links coupled to the same line card for forwarding the packet. In response to determining that no physical link within the plurality of physical links is coupled to the same line card, the system chooses one physical link within the plurality of physical links for forwarding the packet.
US11171861B2
Systems and methods for generating a route advertisement including a sequence number associated with a network layer address. An illustrative method includes receiving a first route advertisement advertising a path to a primary device, the first route advertisement including a network layer address, a first link layer address, and a first sequence number associated with the network layer address; receiving a gratuitous address resolution message from a standby device, the gratuitous address resolution message including the network layer address and a second link layer address; generating a second route advertisement advertising a path to the standby device, the second route advertisement including the network layer address, the second link layer address, and a second sequence number associated with the network layer address, wherein the second sequence number is incremented by a predetermined increment value over the first sequence number; and transmitting the second route advertisement.
US11171859B2
A system for node configuration management for a MaaS platform is provided. The system includes a central node device and a group of node devices associated with a publish-subscribe pattern. The group of node devices includes a first node device that updates routing information associated with the first node device locally. The routing information includes routing rules for propagation of transaction requests to or from the first node device. The central node device receives the updated routing information from the first node device and records the updated routing information in a central routing configuration repository of the central node device. Based on the record, the central node device transmits the updated routing information to the set of second node devices, each of which receives the updated routing information, validates the updated routing information, and records the updated routing information locally based on the validation.
US11171847B2
A highly scalable distributed connection interface for data capture from multiple network service sources, comprising a connector module wherein, the connector module retrieves a plurality of data from a plurality of network data sources; employs a plurality of application programming interface routines to communicate with the plurality of data sources; accepts a plurality of analysis parameters and control commands directly from human interface devices or from one or more command and control storage devices; and specifies the action or actions to be taken on the retrieved data.
US11171845B2
A microservices-management system intercepts a request for a cloud-based microservice sent by a microservices-architecture application. The system selects an optimal cloud-service provider from a group of candidate providers capable of delivering the microservice and then forwards the request to the optimal provider. The optimal provider is selected by drawing cognitive inferences from stored blockchain records that each describe a characteristic of a previous delivery of the requested service. Each record is generated by one of the candidate providers when delivering an instance of the microservice, regardless of whether the provider is in a trusted relationship with the application owner. The providers are barred by blockchain's intrinsic security features from altering or deleting previously stored blockchain records. Upon delivery of the service, the system compares the actual quality or cost of the delivery with predicted values in order to learn how to more effectively select optimal providers.
US11171844B2
Techniques for deploying data services in a centrally managed network in a scalable, hierarchical manner are described. An example method generally includes generating a topological description of the centrally managed network, the topological description identifying network entities in the centrally managed network and connections between network entities in the network. A data management hierarchy for the centrally managed network may be generated from the topological description of the centrally managed network, and the data management hierarchy may identify network entities at which data services may be deployed in the centrally managed network. Data services and data rules may be deployed to the identified network entities based on the data management hierarchy, and data may be processed in the centrally managed network through the deployed data services.
US11171843B2
Techniques for dynamic resource movement in heterogeneous computing environments including provider substrate extensions are described. A dynamic resource movement service of a provider network monitor conditions of heterogeneous computing environments, including provider substrate extensions of the cloud provider network, to evaluate customer-provided movement policy conditions governing when to move customer application resources from these environments, where to move the resource to, and/or how to move the customer application resources. The customer-provided movement policy conditions may be based on a variety of factors, such as a latency between end-users of the customer application and the application itself.
US11171833B1
For uninterrupted network communications, a method detects a protected reset at a network device. In response to the protected reset, the method maintains communication functions of a communication module. The communication module communicates with other network devices using the communication functions. In response to the protected reset, the method resets the network device without resetting the communication module.
US11171825B2
Various embodiments provision resources of a large-scale enterprise network for a first user. The large-scale enterprise network has a multiplicity of resources and users. The actions of users of the network are monitored to determine resource usage history and current resource usage of all resources for each user. A resource usage frequency is determined for all resources used by the first user. A set of related users is created by identifying users grouped with the first user in a common user group. At least one resource usage configuration for the first user is predicted based on the resource usage history, current resource usage, and resource usage frequency of the first user and resource usage history and current usage of each of the related users. A computing device of the first user is provisioned according to the predicted resource usage configuration.
US11171824B2
Configuration of computing devices via containers is disclosed. A container image is accessed from a container image storage. A first container is initiated, into a container environment, from the container image with a first runtime variable. The first runtime variable identifies a first operational script of a first plurality of operational scripts, the first operational script identifying configuration actions to be performed on a plurality of managed computing devices. The container image comprises an execution layer that causes execution of a configurator. The configurator is configured to receive the first runtime variable, access the first operational script of the first plurality of operational scripts identified by the first runtime variable, perform the configuration actions identified in the first operational script on at least some of the plurality of managed computing devices, and communicate, outside of the first container, output results that identify an outcome of the configuration actions.
US11171815B2
In one illustrative embodiment, an equalizer includes: a shift register, an array of multipliers, an array of multiplexers, and a summer. The shift register provides receive signal samples at each tap. Each multiplier in the array multiplies one of said receive signal samples by a respective coefficient to produce a product, with at least one of said multipliers coupled to a fixed tap. Each multiplexer in the array supplies an associated one of said multipliers with a receive signal sample from a selectable tap. The summer sums the products to produce a filtered output signal. To reduce hardware requirements, coefficient multipliers may be multiplexed to a reduced set of taps, and the dynamic range of the coefficients may be increased by overlapping the sets for different multipliers. Methods of tap selection and coefficient adaptation are disclosed.
US11171812B2
A communication method includes: determining, by a first device, a phase tracking reference signal (PTRS) pattern, where the PTRS pattern includes one or more PTRS chunks, and each PTRS chunk includes one or more PTRS samples; and mapping, by the first device, a PTRS to one or more symbols, and sending the one or more symbols to a second device.
US11171798B2
A network device configured to perform scalable, in-network computations is described. The network device is configured to process pull requests and/or push requests from a plurality of endpoints connected to the network. A collective communication primitive from a particular endpoint can be received at a network device. The collective communication primitive is associated with a multicast region of a shared global address space and is mapped to a plurality of participating endpoints. The network device is configured to perform an in-network computation based on information received from the participating endpoints before forwarding a response to the collective communication primitive back to one or more of the participating endpoints. The endpoints can inject pull requests (e.g., load commands) and/or push requests (e.g., store commands) into the network. A multicast capability enables tasks, such as a reduction operation, to be offloaded to hardware in the network device.
US11171796B2
Some examples relate to managing multicast scaling. In an example, a network device may receive a message to join an IP multicast group. The network device may determine whether a hardware filter is available on the network device to process the received message. In response to the determination that the hardware filter is not available on the network device to process the received message, a current state of an IP multicast protocol associated with the message may be changed to an error state on the network device, wherein in the error state, further messages to join the IP multicast group that are received by the network device are discarded by the network device.
US11171789B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for implementing a resolver service. One of the methods includes: obtaining, from a blockchain, event data for a plurality of blockchain transactions associated with a plurality of decentralized identifiers (DIDs); storing the event data in a database; receiving a request for information associated with the event data, wherein the request comprises one or more account identifiers; identifying one or more DIDs respectively corresponding to the one or more account identifiers based on pre-stored mapping relationships between the one or more DIDs and the one or more account identifiers; and providing, from the database, event data for one or more blockchain transactions associated with the identified one or more DIDs.
US11171786B1
A secure bus for pre-placement of device capabilities across a set of cryptoprocessors may be provided. A first cryptoprocessor may receive a key corresponding to a second cryptoprocessor and it may receive an object in response to the object being instantiated on the second cryptoprocessor. Next, the first cryptoprocessor may use the key to determine that the second cryptoprocessor signed the object. The first cryptoprocessor may then store the object in the first cryptoprocessor in response to determining that the second cryptoprocessor signed the object. Then the first cryptoprocessor may receive a request for the object and provide a response to the request.
US11171785B2
An authentication method includes an enrolment stage comprising: receiving fuzzy data from a noisy authentication factor and fixed authentication data; generating a secret string independently from the received fuzzy data and the received fixed authentication data; deriving metadata from the fuzzy data and the secret string and helper data from the secret string and metadata; encrypting the helper data using the fixed authentication data as encryption key; outputting the encrypted helper data as public data, and an authentication stage including receiving the public data output during the enrolment stage, decrypting the received public data using the fixed authentication data as decryption key, recovering the helper data and the metadata from the decrypted public data, reproducing the secret string using the further fuzzy data and the recovered metadata, validating the reproduced secret string using the recovered helper data, and releasing the reproduced secret string if the validating yields a positive outcome.
US11171784B2
Systems and methods for providing a secured password and authentication mechanism for programming and updating software and firmware are provided. Some methods can include a control panel device or a server device generating a onetime password or security token, the control panel device or the server device identifying an authorized user and a phone number of a mobile device associated with the authorized user, the control panel device or the server device using the phone number to transmit the onetime password or security token to the mobile device, the control panel device receiving user input including the onetime password or security token and instructions to program or update the software or firmware of the control panel device or to power off or restart the control panel device, and the control panel device executing the instructions when the onetime password or security token is valid.
US11171782B2
Disclosed are a system and techniques for identity and electronic signature verification that utilizes blockchain technology. An enterprise system enables computing devices to engage the enterprise and prospective users for the purposes of executing a document or a smart contract. Users may obtain a computer application from an enterprise system and may utilize the computer application to retrieve a document or select a smart contract. The identity of all users who execute the document may be verified based on an authentication by a trusted independent system. Information related to the respective signers, the document or smart contract, and the authentication may be stored as transactions in a blockchain. The transactions may be stored in the blockchain under a user's address, a document or smart contract address, or a digital wallet, if available.
US11171781B2
This invention relates to personal identity management and verifiable and authenticable methods and systems for mobile personal credentials. A critical problem is knowing the true identity of counterparties while using electronic messaging or conducting online transactions. Existing security measures can be bypassed when identity is presented in electronic form. The inventors address these issues by providing digital ID document in conjunction with data that permits the other party to verify ID. Further, the inventors either link the electronic ID to its physical counterpart or to the actual physical individual presenting the ID. Immutable digital ledger technology, such as blockchain, is used to provide trustworthy authentication of digital identity along with assurance that the identity presented belongs to the individual presenting it.
US11171780B2
Various embodiments of the invention implement countermeasures designed to withstand attacks by potential intruders who seek partial or full retrieval of elliptic curve secrets by using Various embodiments of the invention implement countermeasures designed to withstand attacks by potential intruders who seek partial or full retrieval of elliptic curve secrets by using known methods that exploit system vulnerabilities, including elliptic operation differentiation, dummy operation detection, lattice attacks, and first real operation detection. Various embodiments of the invention provide resistance against side-channel attacks, such as simple power analysis, caused by the detectability of scalar values from information leaked during regular operation flow that would otherwise compromise system security. In certain embodiments, system immunity is maintained by performing elliptic scalar operations that use secret-independent operation flow in a secure Elliptic Curve Cryptosystem.
US11171772B2
This disclosure describes systems on a chip (SOCs) that prevent side channel attacks (SCAs). An example SoC includes an encryption engine, a key store, and a security processor. The key store is configured to store a plurality of encryption keys. The encryption engine is configured to encrypt transmit (Tx) channel data using any encryption key of the plurality of encryption keys stored to the key store. The security processor is configured to activate SCA mitigation logic of the SoC based on a determination that the encryption engine encrypts the Tx channel data using a strong key selected from the plurality of encryption keys stored to the key store, and to operate the SCA mitigation logic in a deactivated state based on a determination that the encryption engine encrypts the Tx channel data using a weak key selected from the plurality of encryption keys stored to the key store.
US11171765B2
In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. In certain configurations, the apparatus may include an eMBB UE. The apparatus may monitor a single preconfigured mini-slot in each of a plurality of slots for a PI. The apparatus may receive the PI in the single preconfigured mini-slot of a first slot of the plurality of slots. In certain aspects, the PI may include a resource index associated with a reduced transmission power by the UE. In certain other aspects, the resource index may include one or more resources in a second slot. The apparatus may transmit at least one packet with the reduced transmission power on the one or more resources in the second slot or refraining from transmitting the at least one packet on the one or more resources in the second slot.
US11171757B2
The present document relates to a method and device for an Access Point (AP) to transmit ACK/NACK signals for MU (Multi-User) transmission data of a plurality of stations (STA) in a wireless LAN (WLAN) system. To this end, the method and device are characterized in that a STA responds to a trigger frame received from an AP, transmits data to the AP through an MU access technique, and sets an ACK policy value for data transmitted on the basis of the trigger frame to another value other than a first ACK policy value requesting an ACK signal transmission on the basis of a block ACK request.
US11171755B2
The present disclosure relates to communication methods and devices. One example method includes determining that a downlink bandwidth belongs to one of N downlink bandwidth sets, where each downlink bandwidth set of the N downlink bandwidth sets corresponds to one first value and one second value, at least two first values corresponding to at least two downlink bandwidth sets of the N downlink bandwidth sets are different, each downlink bandwidth set of the N downlink bandwidth sets corresponds to a same second value, the second value is a common divisor of N first values corresponding to the N downlink bandwidth sets, determining that a quantity of resource blocks included in a first resource block group is a first value corresponding to the downlink bandwidth set to which the downlink bandwidth belongs, and determining that a quantity of resource blocks included in a precoding resource block group is the second value.
US11171742B2
A method for generating a code, a method for encoding and decoding data, and an encoder and a decoder performing the encoding and decoding are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method for lifting a child code from a base code for encoding and decoding data includes determining a single combination of a circulant size, a lifting function, and a labelled base matrix PCM according to an information length and a code rate using data stored in a lifting table. The lifting table was defined at a code generation stage. The method also includes calculating a plurality of shifts for the child code. Each shift is calculated by applying the lifting function to the labelled base matrix PCM with a defined index using the circulant size and using the derived child PCM to encode or decode data.
US11171741B2
Example polar code-based transmission methods and apparatus are provided, to apply polar encoding to a physical broadcast channel (PBCH). One example method includes performing polar encoding on a to-be-encoded first bit sequence by a transmit end to generate an encoded sequence. The transmit end performs a transformation operation on the encoded sequence to obtain a second bit sequence, where the transformation operation includes at least one of scrambling, interleaving, or reordering. The transmit end sends the second bit sequence in M inconsecutive time units, where at least two time intervals between the time units in the M inconsecutive time units are unequal.
US11171740B2
The present invention provides a transceiver. The transistor is coupled to a transmission line. The transceiver includes a variable resistor set, a transmitter module, a receiver module, and a digital signal processor. The transmitter module has an output terminal coupled to the variable resistor set and the transmission line. The transmitter module includes a first digital-to-analog converter configured to output an emission current. The receiver module has an input terminal coupled to the transmitter module and the transmission line. When the emission current is fed into the transmission line, a far-end echo is fed into the receiver module. An amplitude of the far-end echo is associated with a resistance value of the transmission line. The digital signal processor adjusts a current value of the emission current from a first default current value to a second default current value based on the amplitude of the far-end echo.
US11171735B2
Estimating noise power on a frequency channel based on at least one unused orthogonal spreading code
A receiving device in a communication system is provided. The communication system includes at least one processor configured to estimate noise power on a frequency channel by despreading a reception on the frequency channel using at least one non-assigned despreading code. The at least one non-assigned despreading code corresponds to at least one spreading code that is unused by transmitting devices in the communication system on the frequency channel.
US11171733B2
The present invention provides a method for a terminal operating by means of utilizing a defined synchronization signal in a wireless communication system supporting narrow band-Internet of Things (NB-IoT), and a device for supporting same.
US11171730B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication technique for converging IoT technology with a 5G communication system for supporting a higher data transfer rate beyond a 4G system, and a system therefor. The present disclosure can be applied to intelligent services (e.g., smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart or connected cars, health care, digital education, retail business, and services associated with security and safety) on the basis of 5G communication technology and IoT-related technology. A method for determining signal reception quality in a mobile communication system according to another embodiment of the present specification comprises the steps of: acquiring measurement information related to a received signal; acquiring map information corresponding to a region where the signal is received; and determining signal reception quality at a predicted reception point on the basis of the measurement information and the map information.
US11171729B2
Disclosed is a tag apparatus for attaching things based on human body communication, including: a tag main body for human body communication configured to be attached to a thing to transmit identification information on a thing to a human body communication receiving device through human body communication during the contact of the human body with the thing; a case configured to protect the tag main body for human body communication; and a thing attachment portion configured to be exposed to an outside of the case to be attached to a particular part of the thing, detect when the human body contacts or approaches the thing, and forms a human body communication channel to output identification information on the thing.
US11171728B2
Designs, methods, and applications for fault localization and fiber security in optical transponders is described. In one embodiment a two-way time transfer protocol or other suitable method for synchronizing clocks between distant transponders is used. The clock synchronized transponders have digital signal processing to continually detect high precision time-histories of physical layer attributes in the transmission between the two transponders. Physical layer attributes can include: state-of-polarization changes, changes in polarization-mode-dispersion, change in propagation delay, changes or loss-of-light, changes in OSNR, changes in BER between the two nodes. By recording these physical layer changes and time-stamping them information on the magnitude and estimated location of the changes can be inferred by from the time records. In one aspect the method may be used in a distributed optical sensor for monitoring trespassing events that are a risk to fiber security of an optical transmission link.
US11171727B2
A package for an optical receiver module is disclosed. The package includes a housing having electrically conductive walls including a rear wall and a pair of side walls, and a feed-through provided in the rear wall. The feed-through includes an internal portion having an upper rear face and a lower rear face, and an external portion protruding from the upper rear face and the lower rear face outwardly and having a top face and/or a back face continuous to the upper rear face and/or the lower rear face of the internal portion, a first top face, a second back face, and a pair of side faces, the rear face and the side faces connecting the first top face with the second back face, the first top face including DC lines, the second back face including transmission lines, and the transmission lines.
US11171720B1
Techniques for using a satellite as a part of a content delivery network are described. For example, in some instances a satellite is to receive a request for a resource hosted by the content delivery network, determine that the request for the resource cannot be served by the satellite, determine a first entity to ask for the resource, send a secondary request for the resource to the determined first entity, receive the resource from the determined first entity, respond, to a user of the content delivery network, to the request using the received resource for the resource, and respond to a subsequent request using the cached received resource.
US11171717B2
A method performed on-board by a satellite for processing a signal received from a terminal during a current time interval, includes receiving, during the current time interval, a main signal containing a message from a terminal, each message having a priority level; sampling the main signal to obtain samples; storing the obtained samples into the satellite memory; first demodulating the messages corresponding to the current time interval contained in the samples stored in memory; when the satellite is in the range of a ground station, transmitting to the ground station the content of the memory. The first demodulating includes, for each message of the messages contained in the samples and by priority order: demodulating and decoding the message; forwarding, using direct link or inter-satellite-link, the demodulated message to a ground station; estimating the number of remaining non-demodulated messages in the samples stored in the memory.
US11171714B2
A relay communication station is remotely controlled without increasing communication traffic of a feeder link of communication to be relayed between a communication relay apparatus such as a HAPS located in an upper airspace and a communication network on the ground side or on the sea side. The communication relay apparatuses 10 and 20 comprise relay communication stations 110 and 210 that are respectively mounted on flying objects and relay communications between a terminal apparatus and a communication network via a feeder link for mobile communication, radio communication section 120 and 121 that transmit and receive control information to and from a remote control apparatus via a radio communication line for flight control different from the feeder link for mobile communication, and control sections (cell-optimization processing sections 122 and 123) that respectively control the relay communication stations based on the control information received from the remote control apparatus by the radio communication section.
US11171705B2
Disclosed is a fifth generation (5G) or pre-5G communication system for supporting a data transmission rate higher than that of a fourth generation (4G) communication system such as long term evolution (LTE). The purpose of the disclosure is to detect beam misalignment in a wireless communication system, and a terminal operation method comprises the steps of: receiving multiple reference signals for a first period; receiving multiple reference signals for a second period; and determining whether a beam is misaligned, on the basis of a first measurement value set for the multiple reference signals received for the first period and a second measurement value set for the multiple reference signals received for the second period. The study has been performed under the support of the “Government-wide Giga KOREA Business” of the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning.
US11171704B2
Provided are a method for managing a wave beam, a terminal device and a network device. The method comprises: a terminal device sending, to a first network device, characteristic information about each wave beam in a first wave beam set, wherein the first wave beam set comprises at least one wave beam, and the characteristic information is used for the first network device to determine a target wave beam; the terminal device receiving indication information sent by the first network device, wherein the indication information is used for indicating the target wave beam determined by the first network device; and the terminal device performing wave beam management according to the target wave beam. In the embodiments of the present application, by means of sending characteristic information about a wave beam, a terminal device determines an optimal target wave beam for the terminal device, and then performs wave beam management according to the target wave beam, thereby improving the quality of signal transmission.
US11171697B2
A method of updating spatial filters in a radio network comprising at least two transmit nodes each in radio communication with at least one receive node on a Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) radio channel, comprises transmitting, from the respective transmit node, first reference signals precoded by a first spatial filter of the respective transmit node; and receiving, from the receive nodes, second reference signals that are precoded using a second spatial filter of the respective receive node and an error matrix of the respective receive node. The second spatial filter depends on a channel estimate based on the transmitted first reference signals. The error matrix is indicative of an error of the first and second spatial filters in equalizing the MIMO radio channel. The method further comprises recomputing, for each of the at least one receive node in radio communication with the respective transmit node, the error matrix of the respective receive node; and updating the first spatial filter of the respective transmit node using the recomputed error matrix.
US11171693B2
Spatial spreading is performed in a multi-antenna system to randomize an “effective” channel observed by a receiving entity for each transmitted data symbol block. For a MIMO system, at a transmitting entity, data is processed (e.g., encoded, interleaved, and modulated) to obtain ND data symbol blocks to be transmitted in NM transmission spans, where ND≥1 and NM>1. The ND blocks are partitioned into NM data symbol subblocks, one subblock for each transmission span. A steering matrix is selected (e.g., in a deterministic or pseudo-random manner from among a set of L steering matrices, where L>1) for each subblock. Each data symbol subblock is spatially processed with the steering matrix selected for that subblock to obtain transmit symbols, which are further processed and transmitted via NT transmit antennas in one transmission span. The ND data symbol blocks are thus spatially processed with NM steering matrices and observe an ensemble of channels.
US11171692B2
Provided are a method and apparatus for transmitting a feedback frame by performing multi input multi output (MIMO) beamforming procedure in a wireless local area network (WLAN) system. Specifically, a first station (STA) generates the feedback frame based on the MIMO beamforming procedure. The first STA transmits the feedback frame to a second STA. The feedback frame includes a feedback subcarrier for a predetermined frequency band. A first subcarrier transmitted first in the feedback subcarrier and a second subcarrier having subcarrier indices −2 and 2 are statically transmitted. The first subcarrier is configured as a left edge subcarrier or right edge subcarrier of the predetermined frequency band. A subcarrier index of a third subcarrier included in the feedback subcarrier is determined based on a grouping value which is a subcarrier interval. The third subcarrier is a subcarrier excluding the first subcarrier and the second subcarrier from the feedback subcarrier. The grouping value is dynamically changed based on channel state information.
US11171688B2
Systems and methods can include a transponder configured to communicate wirelessly with a receiver and sensor module (RSM), wireless communicate with a high-speed network, and radio-frequency (RF) powering of RSM. The high-speed network can include a wired network such as USB or Ethernet, or wireless network such as a WiFi or cellular network. Additionally or alternatively, an antenna module can be configured to transmit radio-frequency (RF) power to a receiver configured to monitor a condition of a machine.
US11171687B2
Embodiments of methods and systems for operating a communications device that communicates via inductive coupling are described. In an embodiment, a method for operating a communications device that communicates via inductive coupling involves detecting a falling signal edge corresponding to a received signal at the communications device based on a falling signal edge threshold, detecting a rising signal edge corresponding to the received signal based on a rising signal edge threshold, where the rising signal edge threshold is independent from the falling signal edge threshold, and decoding the received signal based on the detected falling signal edge and the detected rising signal edge. Other embodiments are also described.
US11171681B2
A digital up-converter (DUC) includes conjugate-mixer-combiner. The conjugate-mixer-combiner includes a pre-combiner configured to generate combinations of a first in-phase (I) value to be transmitted at a first frequency of a first frequency band, a first quadrature (Q) value to be transmitted at the first frequency of a first frequency band, a second I value for to be transmitted at a second frequency of a second frequency band, and a second Q value to be transmitted at the second frequency of a second frequency band. The conjugate-mixer-combiner further includes a plurality of multipliers collectively configured to shift the combinations based on an average difference between the first frequency and the second frequency.
US11171680B2
The radio equipment automatic redundant architecture comprises a plurality of Point of Interface units provided with: a Slave port able to receive a link; at least a Master port able to forward the link incoming in the Slave port; at least a Redundant port with same Slave port capabilities; wherein a first Point of Interface unit has the Slave port connected to a corresponding first Master port of a radio base station or similar device and the Master port connected to a Slave port of one of the others Point of Interface units, a second Point of Interface unit has the Redundant port connected to a corresponding second Master port of the radio base station or similar device and the Master port connected to a Redundant port of one of the others Point of Interface units.
US11171673B2
A decoding method and apparatus are provided, to improve a degree of parallelism in decoded bit decisions and reduce a decoding delay. The method includes: performing a hard decision on each LLR in an inputted LLR vector having a length of M to obtain a first vector, where M≤N and N is a length of to-be-decoded information; sequentially performing negation of some elements of the first vector to obtain L vectors; and then determining decoding results of the LLR vector based on the L vectors.
US11171666B2
An improvement in erasure coded group management shared nothing storage clusters establishing an invariant which declares read-modify-writes will not be done by the system and implements a metadata distribution operation to provide fault tolerance.
US11171659B1
Techniques for reliable clock speed change and associated circuits and methods are disclosed. Internal voltage supplies of semiconductor devices may include oscillators and charge pump circuits. The oscillator may include at least two clock paths for generating clock signals having different clock frequencies, which can be provided to the charge pump circuit. Further, the oscillator may generate a reset signal configured to activate one clock path over the other (e.g., changing clock speeds). In some embodiments, the oscillator includes a flip-flop to align the reset signal with respect to an edge of an input clock signal supplied to the oscillator such that unintentional (undesired, unexpected) features in the output signal of the oscillator can be avoided when the oscillator changes clock speeds.
US11171657B2
A phase and amplitude controlled oscillation device is configured in such a manner that a first controller and a second controller control a phase of a combined output wave obtained by a combiner by performing control to shift phases of respective oscillation frequencies of a first oscillator and a second oscillator in the same direction, and control an amplitude of the combined output wave obtained by the combiner by performing control to shift the phases of the respective oscillation frequencies of the first oscillator and the second oscillator in opposite directions.
US11171655B2
An EC platform including a controller to control multiple integrated circuits (ICs) to synchronize an operational internal clock signal of an IC with a master clock signal. The controller generates commands for the IC to measure a phase difference or latency difference between an initial internal clock signal of the IC and an input clock signal to the IC from a parent IC. The controller further receives a difference signal from the IC to indicate the phase or latency difference. The IC includes a measurement circuit to measure the phase or latency difference, and to generate a difference signal to indicate the phase or latency difference. The IC further includes a synchronization clock generator to generate, based on the initial internal clock signal and the difference signal, an operational internal clock signal synchronized with the master clock signal. Other embodiments may also be described and claimed.
US11171648B2
According to one aspect of embodiments, a drive circuit of a normally-ON transistor includes: a normally-OFF transistor that includes a main current path connected in serial to a main current path of the normally-ON transistor; and a buffer circuit that supplies, to a gate of the normally-ON transistor, a control signal for controlling turning ON and OFF of the normally-ON transistor, whose high-voltage side and low-voltage side are biased by a bias voltage supplied from a power source unit.
US11171643B1
A switching circuit can help reduce electrical feedback ringing at a gate terminal of a transistor. The switching circuit can include a transistor circuit to switch an electrical signal and a control circuit to provide an actuation signal to the gate terminal of the transistor device. The switching circuit can also include a booster circuit that is disposed between the control circuit and the gate terminal of the transistor device. The booster circuit can be configured to detect a signal from the control circuit to turn off the transistor device and, responsive to the detected signal, drive a current into the gate terminal of the transistor device for a specified span of time before the transistor device turns off.
US11171639B2
A drive device adapted to drive a semiconductor power device, wherein the drive device comprises a drive circuit comprising a first terminal adapted for connection to a first terminal of the power device, a gate terminal adapted to provide a driving signal for a gate terminal of the power device, a sensor for detecting overvoltage conditions at the first terminal of the power device, and wherein the drive circuit is adapted to modify the driving signal when the sensor detects an indication of an overvoltage condition, and wherein the drive circuit including the sensor is integrated onto a single substrate.
US11171632B2
A PWM signal generator circuit includes a multiphase clock generator that generates a number n of phase-shifted clock phases having the same clock period and being phase shifted by a time corresponding to a fraction 1/n of the clock period. The PWM signal generator circuit determines for each switch-on duration first and second integer numbers, and for each switch-off duration third and fourth integer numbers. The first integer number is indicative of the integer number of clock periods of the switch-on duration and the second integer number is indicative of the integer number of the additional fractions 1/n of the clock period of the switch-on duration. The third integer number is indicative of the integer number of clock periods of the switch-off duration, and the fourth integer number is indicative of the integer number of the additional fractions 1/n of the clock period of the switch-off duration.
US11171627B2
An acoustic resonator includes a piezoelectric layer on a substrate and an interdigital electrode structure on the piezoelectric layer. The interdigital electrode structure includes a first bus bar, a second bus bar, a first set of electrode fingers, and a second set of electrode fingers. The first bus bar and the second bus bar extend parallel to one another along a length of the interdigital electrode structure. The first set of electrode fingers are coupled to the first bus bar and extend to a first apodization edge. The second set of electrode fingers are coupled to the second bus bar and extend to a second apodization edge. The first set of electrode fingers and the second set of electrode fingers are interleaved. At least one of the first apodization edge and the second apodization edge provides a wave pattern along the length of the interdigital electrode structure.
US11171621B2
An audio playback device detects via an acoustic sensor of an audio playback device, ambient noise surrounding the audio playback device. The audio playback device updates an equalization filter based on the detected ambient noise, wherein the equalization filter adjusts one or more acoustic parameters of content presented by the audio playback device. The audio playback device adjusts a leakage control parameter based on the detected ambient noise, wherein the leakage control parameter adjusts an amount of leakage of content presented by the audio playback device. The audio playback device applies the equalization filter and the adjusted leakage control parameter to audio content. The audio playback device provides, via one or more acoustic speakers, the audio content to a user.
US11171599B2
Methods, apparatus and systems for tunable photonic harvesting for solar energy conversion and dynamic shading tolerance are provided herein. An apparatus includes a solar photovoltaic module; a sensor device operative to determine portions of the solar photovoltaic module that are underperforming in relation to separate portions; reflective surfaces of a first type, each physically connected to the solar photovoltaic module at a given angle in relation to the surface of the solar photovoltaic module; and reflective surfaces of a second type, each physically connected to a respective one of the reflective surfaces of the first type; wherein the reflective surfaces of the first type and second type are configurable based on a determination of the underperforming portions of the solar photovoltaic module to collect and distributed direct solar radiation and diffuse solar radiation across the solar photovoltaic module to offset the underperforming portions by a given amount.
US11171597B2
Unique systems, methods, techniques and apparatuses of hybrid power plants are disclosed. One exemplary embodiment is a hybrid power plant system including a plurality of hybrid generation units each including an AC collection bus, an AC power source, an AC-AC power converter coupled to the AC power source and AC collection bus, a DC power source, a DC-AC converter coupled to the DC power source and the AC collection bus, an energy storage device, and a power transformer coupled to the AC collection bus and structured to receive AC power from the AC collection bus, step up a voltage of the received AC power, and output medium voltage AC (MVAC) power.
US11171596B2
A short detection apparatus configured to detect a layer short in a motor in which a plurality of sets of multi-phase windings are independently disposed in a stator includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire electricity information corresponding to windings of individual phases in the sets of the multi-phase windings; and a determination unit configured to determine, based on the electricity information which the acquisition unit acquires with respect to windings of a mutually identical phase in the sets of the multi-phase windings, whether a layer short occurs in any one of the windings of the mutually identical phase.
US11171593B2
A brushless DC motor identification method capable of identifying information on a brushless DC motor, particularly without performing any handshaking, includes supplying an input voltage from an identifier to a brushless DC motor including at least one resistor connected between a power supply line and a GND line, reading a resistance value of at least one resistor in a state where the inverter of the brushless DC motor is off, and identifying information on the brushless DC motor based on the read resistance value.
US11171591B2
A control apparatus sets a value of the field current command and a value of the armature related command in accordance with drive information and the setting information stored in the storage unit; the value of the field current command and the value of the armature related command correspond to the obtained drive information. The control apparatus controls a field current flowing through the field winding to the set value of the field current command, and controls a current flowing through the armature winding or a voltage applied to the armature winding to the set value of the armature related command.
US11171590B2
An electronic device, in particular an alternator regulator, comprising a power stage to be connected to an inductive load, in particular to an alternator inductor, comprising at least one first pair of power transistors connected to a terminal of a DC bus, and a control circuit for said transistors, the transistors being disposed in parallel between said terminal of the DC bus and a first output to be connected to the load, at least one flyback diode connecting the opposite terminal of the DC bus to the first output, the control circuit being designed to generate a pulsed control signal for regulating the current in the load and for detecting a failure of one of the transistors, the control circuit being designed, during normal operation, to send the control signal to one of the transistors of the first pair, while maintaining the other transistor of said pair in an off-state.
US11171576B2
Provided are a power conversion device and a system using the same, which can reduce loss of each semiconductor element in a power conversion circuit and enable high efficiency of a device controlled by the power conversion device. The power conversion device includes a direct current (DC) power source; and a full-bridge circuit having first upper and lower arms having an upper element and a lower element and second upper and lower arms having an upper element and a lower element, in which the first upper and lower arms and the second upper and lower arms are electrically connectable to a device, and ON resistances of the upper element of the first upper and lower arms and the lower element of the second upper and lower arms are smaller than ON resistances of the lower element of the first upper and lower arms and the upper element of the second upper and lower arms.
US11171575B2
A Modular Multilevel Converter (MMC) circuit for converting DC power to AC and vice versa. At each respective connection to the AC power-source/load, the MMC circuit uses one Pulse Width Modulation Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor (PWM IGBT) to control the switching between upper and lower arms of sub-modules. The circuit eliminates the inter-phase inductors often used in MMCs, and replaces the inductors by two complementary-gated PWM IGBTs, thereby eliminating circulating current. Moreover, the multilevel converter topology disclosed herein requires less number of components including PWM IGBTs and capacitors. In fact, at least two submodules per-phase are eliminated: one submodule in the upper arm and one submodule in the lower arm. In other words, the MMC topology not only mitigates the circulating current but also eliminates at least one submodule in the upper arm and at least one submodule in the lower arm per-phase.
US11171564B2
A power provider includes: a first power source configured to receive an input voltage and to provide a first power voltage to a first output terminal; a low voltage detection circuit configured to provide a low voltage detection signal of an enable level in response to the input voltage being less than a reference low voltage, and to provide the low voltage detection signal of a disable level in response to the input voltage being greater than the reference low voltage; a first soft start circuit configured to connect the first input terminal to the first output terminal in response to a first control signal for the first power source being changed from a disable level to an enable level; and a first boost converter configured to convert the input voltage to provide the first power voltage greater than the input voltage to the first output terminal.
US11171559B2
An electronic circuit comprises a power switch and a fault detection circuit. The power switch circuit includes a power switch transistor. The fault detection circuit includes a comparator circuit configured to monitor a voltage across the power switch transistor and compare the voltage to a varying threshold voltage that decreases with time, and produce an indication of a circuit fault when the voltage of the power switch transistor is greater than the time varying threshold voltage.
US11171557B2
A power converter includes a full-bridge conversion circuit. The full-bridge conversion circuit includes a first leg and a second leg. The first leg includes at least two switches coupled to each other at a first node, and the second leg includes at least two switches coupled to each other at a second node. The power converter further includes an AC filter. The AC filter includes a first inductor, a second inductor and a capacitor. The first inductor includes a first end coupled to the first node and a second end could be couple to a grid. The second inductor includes a first end coupled to the second node and a second end could be couple to the grid. The capacitor includes a first end coupled to the second end of the first inductor and a second end coupled to the second leg. The first end of the capacitor is electrically coupled to the second end of the first inductor during a cycle of an AC voltage of the grid.
US11171552B2
A short-circuit ring for a squirrel cage of a dynamoelectric rotary machine includes at least one indentation and is connectable by means of the indentation to at least one cage bar which projects from a rotor lamination of the dynamoelectric rotary machine.
US11171545B2
A stator assembly for an electric motor includes a laminate steel core arranged on an axis. The stator assembly also includes a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet. The stator assembly additionally includes a stator housing arranged on the axis concentrically with respect to the laminate steel core. The stator housing has a conduit fluidly connected to each of the fluid inlet and the fluid outlet and configured to circulate fluid around the laminate steel core. The stator assembly also includes a structural skeleton embedded in the stator housing. The structural skeleton is thereby configured to reinforce the stator housing. An electric motor employing the above-described stator assembly is also contemplated.
US11171543B2
A device for utilizing groundwater, characterized by an upper well shaft and an upper well water reservoir having a first water level; a lower well shaft and a lower well water reservoir having a second water level; wherein the second water level is lower than the first water level; a water line between the upper well water reservoir and the lower well water reservoir including a first line extending downwardly inside the well shaft of the upper well and into the upper well water reservoir, a second line extending downwardly inside the well shaft of the lower well and into the lower well water reservoir, and a connecting line connecting the first branch line and the second branch line; at least one turbine coupled to the water line; and an electrical generator coupled to the at least one turbine for delivering electric power to the power grid.
US11171542B2
A power tool comprising a housing, a motor, and a circuit board residing in the housing is provided. A rectifier that receives an alternating current and converts the alternating current to a direct current, a switching arrangement having a plurality of motor switches connected electrically between the rectifier and the motor, and a capacitor connected electrically between the rectifier and the switching arrangement, are mounted on a rear portion of a planar surface of the circuit board. A switching arrangement and at least one heat sink in thermal communication therewith are mounted on a front portion of the planar surface of the circuit board.
US11171540B2
A driving device includes a motor unit including a motor, and a speed reducer attached to the motor unit. The speed reducer includes a plurality of gears combined to decelerate an output of the motor, and a gear case configured to support the plurality of gears and attached to the motor unit. The gear case is selected from a plurality of types of gear cases. The plurality of types of gear cases are different from one another in an arrangement of the plurality of gears and a position of an output shaft relative to an input shaft.
US11171530B2
An interconnection device for a stator winding having connection conductors constructed as annular disks, coaxially stacked, and electrically insulated with respect to one another. Each connection conductor has fastening openings distributed in circumferential direction for fixing the interconnection device to a stator. The connection conductors are stacked such that the fastening openings are positioned to form a fastening passage The connection conductors are axially spaced apart from one another and are overmolded with a plastic to form a metal/plastic composite part. At least two kinds of fastening openings are provided, which form larger fastening openings and smaller fastening openings. A larger fastening opening and a smaller fastening opening are formed at a fastening passage, and an annular space, which extends from a boundary of the larger fastening opening to a boundary of the smaller fastening opening, is filled by the plastic.
US11171526B2
Various implementations include an electric motor including an annular radial stator, an annular axial stator, and a rotor. The annular radial stator has an opening with an inner surface and distributed windings disposed along at least the inner surface of the opening. The annular axial stator has concentrated windings disposed along at least a first side of the axial stator. The rotor includes two or more magnets. Flux from the two or more magnets interacts with one or both of a magnetic field created by the radial stator windings or axial rotor windings. The rotor is disposed within the radial stator opening and the axes of the axial stator and radial stator are coincident with the rotor axis. The flux interacting with one or both of the radial stator magnetic field or the axial stator magnetic field turns the rotor about the rotor axis.
US11171524B2
An electromechanical system comprising: a rotor comprising a plurality of teeth spaced about a circumference of the rotor, wherein the teeth of the rotor are equally spaced about the rotor according to a tooth spacing angle, and are skewed in an axial direction such that the circumferential positions of the teeth of the rotor vary along the axial length of the rotor, and first and second stator segments, each extending partway about the rotor and comprising a field winding and poles arranged to magnetically interact with the teeth of the rotor such that an alternating current (AC) back-emf is induced in the field winding upon rotation of the rotor. The poles of the first stator segment are angularly displaced about the rotor from the poles of the second stator segment such that the back-emf induced in the field winding of the first stator segment is phase shifted with respect to the back-emf induced in the field winding of the second stator segment.
US11171522B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-storage media, for improving wireless charging. In some implementations, an electronic device determines a power demand of the electronic device. The electronic device includes a wireless power receiver including a wireless power receiving coil configured to receive power through inductive coupling with a wireless charge. The electronic device determines an operating voltage or operating frequency for the wireless charger based on the power demand of the electronic device. The electronic device sends, to the wireless charger, data indicating the operating voltage or operating frequency for the wireless charger.
US11171514B2
A wireless power transmission system includes a power-supplying device including an electronic oscillator that generates electric power having a frequency of 1 MHz or more and 5 MHz or less, and a power-supplying coil member in which the electric power flows; and a power-receiving device including a power-receiving coil member that is capable of generating electric power based on the magnetic field generating from the power-supplying coil member, wherein the power-receiving coil member is a sheet coil including an insulating layer and a first coil pattern disposed at one side of the insulating layer, the first coil pattern is composed of wires, and the wires are disposed in spaced apart relation from each other with a predetermined space provided therebetween in the radial direction of the first coil pattern.
US11171512B2
A method and electronic device for performing wireless charging are provided. The electronic device includes a housing, a conductive coil, a power transmission circuit electrically connected to the conductive coil, and configured to wirelessly transmit power to an outside of the housing through the conductive coil, a voltage source electrically connected to the power transmission circuit, and a control circuit electrically connected between the power transmission circuit and the voltage source. The control circuit is configured to change power radiated through the conductive coil, monitor a frequency of a signal and/or electromagnetic waves radiated through the conductive coil, and adjust a level of a voltage from the voltage source based on at least a part of a monitored result of the frequency.
US11171510B2
Provided is a power wiring device that can suppress reduction of electricity generation efficiency due to the external environment. The power wiring device includes: a plurality of circuit modules each including a first connector and a second connector; and a wiring member including a third connector that is mechanically and electrically attachable to and detachable from the first connector and a fourth connector that is mechanically and electrically attachable to and detachable from the second connector, and in which the third connector and the fourth connector are electrically connected to one another. The plurality of circuit modules includes: an energy harvesting module as a circuit module that can output, from the first connector and the second connector, electric power obtained through energy harvesting; and a load module as a circuit module that can consume electric power input from the first connector and electric power input from the second connector.
US11171508B2
The present disclosure relates to a shared hybrid transfer switch for transferring power received by a Load from a preferred AC power source to an alternate AC power source, or transferring power being received by the Load from the alternate AC power source to the preferred AC power source. The transfer switch makes use of a solid-state switch configured in communication with first and second pluralities of relay contacts, and also being coupled to the Load, and which receives control signals from a controller. The solid-state switch is controlled such that it is turned on to be in communication with select ones of the first and second pluralities of relay contacts, to provide a path for current flow to the Load from one of the preferred or alternate AC power sources being transitioned to, to carry out a switching transition from one of the preferred or alternate AC power sources to the other.
US11171497B2
An automatic working system includes a robotic mower automatically moving and mowing in a working area, and a charging station for docking and charging of the robotic mower; the charging station includes: a charging support and a charging contact mounted on the charging support; and the robotic mower includes a housing, and a charging connector disposed on a lateral side of the housing and connected to the charging contact to receive electric energy when the robotic mower is in a docking position where the robotic mower is docked with the charging station. When the robotic mower is in the docking position, the charging support is located on a lateral side of the robotic mower, and the charging station is open in a front and back direction of the robotic mower to form a passage for the robotic mower to enter and exit the charging station approximately along a same direction.
US11171486B2
An energy blending device has a first input for alternating current, a second input for connection to a solar array, and an output, the energy blending device receiving energy from the first input, both inputs coupled to power an energy blending node. The device is in a configuration either with the solar array matching a voltage of the energy blending node, the blending node providing power through a DC-DC converter to a load interface device, and the solar array coupled through a DC-DC converter to the energy blending node, the energy blending node providing power to a load interface device. A microcontroller controls the DC-DC converter and a load interface device. The energy blending device has an energy storage system having a battery coupled either directly to the energy blending node or through a bidirectional energy storage interface to the energy blending node.
US11171482B2
The invention relates to an overvoltage protection device with monitoring and communication functions, in particular for the information and process industries, having at least one surge arrester with a self-diagnostics unit and a wireless and/or wired standard interface for data transmission. According to the invention, an additional module is provided to detect the behaviour and/or the properties of a connected electrical energy source, wherein a bidirectional exchange of data and commands to and between a higher-level control system and among multiple overvoltage protection devices takes place and parametrisation of lower-level terminals to be protected can be realised via the standard interface.
US11171478B2
A power stage in an electronic fuse circuit is driven by controller. The controller includes a first comparator set for output voltage control and a second comparator set for output current control. Each comparator set includes at least one comparator having a reference input, a feedback input, and one or more outputs. A driver circuit includes output terminals for driving the power stage. The driver circuit includes a switch that is selectively activated in response to outputs from the first and second comparator sets to clamp the voltage across the output terminals of the driver circuit. The clamp operation is made in response to feedback input to either of the first and second comparator sets having exceeded a certain reference.
US11171477B2
A switch circuit includes: a power transistor having a source coupled to a supply terminal, a drain coupled to an output terminal, and a gate; a bipolar transistor having a collector coupled to the supply terminal, an emitter coupled to the gate of the power transistor, and a base; a bias circuit to control an emitter current of the bipolar transistor; and a resistor coupled between the supply terminal and the base. A control circuit receives a current at a current input to turn the bipolar transistor on responsive to a control input being in a first state, and ceases receiving the current at the current input to reduce a gate-source voltage of the power transistor responsive to the control input being in a different second state.
US11171471B2
An electric connection box includes a housing configured to accommodate at least one electronic component and an attachment portion provided on the housing, the attachment portion including a through hole through which a fastening member is to be inserted and an attachment surface configured, when the housing is attached to an object, to face the object, the housing being to be attached to the object at the attachment portion by the fastening member. A plurality of recessed portions are provided around an edge portion defining the through hole, the plurality of recessed portions being provided on the attachment surface. At least one of the plurality of recessed portions is provided with an entry prevention portion configured to prevent the fastening member from entering the recessed portion.
US11171463B2
A narrow-linewidth tunable external cavity laser includes, sequentially arranged along an optical path, a laser gain chip, a collimating lens, a bandpass filter, a tunable filter, and an output cavity surface. The laser gain chip includes a first end surface and a second end surface positioned along the optical path. The first end surface is further away from the collimating lens and is coated with a highly reflective film to form an external cavity with the output cavity surface.
US11171460B1
A tool for coupling and decoupling a connector of a cable. The tool includes a body, a bracket, and a first hook. The body has a first end portion, a second end portion opposite the first end portion, and an intermediate portion between the first end portion and the second end portion. The body has a longitudinal axis running between the first end portion and second end portion. The body also has a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface. The bracket is disposed at the first end portion. The bracket defines a cavity configured to receive a portion of the connector, and the bracket is configured to push the connector as the tool moves in a first direction. The first hook is disposed at the intermediate portion. The first hook is configured to engage an opening defined by the connector and pull the connector as the tool moves in a second direction different than the first direction.
US11171453B2
An electrical connector grounding structure includes an electrically insulative terminal holder block having a rectangular base, a mating structure and a fixing structure, conducting terminals positioned in the rectangular base with contact tips thereof extended to the mating structure and connection tips thereof bonded to a predetermined circuit board, a grounding member having a first contact structure, a positioning structure positioned in the fixing structure and a bonding structure bonded to the circuit board, and a shielding shell covering the electrically insulative terminal holder block and having a second contact structure set in contact with the first contact structure to form a ground loop that guides out electromagnetic waves and crosstalk interference generated during signal transmission.
US11171451B2
There is provided an electronic device (5) having an interface. The electronic device (5) has an interface connector (50, 55, 60), configured according to the interface, for engaging with a corresponding detachable connector (95, 100, 105). The electronic device (5) also has a locking mechanism (110, 65, 80, 115, 70, 85, 120, 75, 90) controllable to secure an engagement of such a detachable connector (95, 100, 105) with the interface connector (50, 55, 60). The electronic device (5) is configured to detect a use or an intended use of the interface. If detected, the electronic device (5) activates the locking mechanism (110, 65, 80, 115, 70, 85, 120, 75, 90) to secure an engagement of such a detachable connector (95, 100, 105) with the interface connector (50, 55, 60).
US11171450B2
An apparatus according to one embodiment includes a landing pad having a mating portion configured to mate with a mating feature of a removable element as the removable element approaches the landing pad in a first direction. The apparatus also includes a mount along which the landing pad is movable in a second direction. A lever is positionable between a disengaged position and an engaged position, the lever being coupled to the landing pad for translating the landing pad along the mount in the second direction during movement thereof from the disengaged position toward the engaged position. The first direction is different than the second direction.
US11171436B1
A battery connector is disclosed. An insulating body has a first accommodating space and a limiting portion, and a second accommodating space, which is in communication with the first accommodating space, is provided above the first accommodating space and the limiting portion. In assembly, the battery is guided downward into the second accommodating space, and the battery is pressed downward such that the battery passes the limiting portion to enter the first accommodating space and abut a positive pole terminal and a negative pole terminal, thus achieving assembly of the battery conveniently, and effectively preventing the battery from falling out of the insulating body.
US11171421B2
An antenna module includes a first power feed element and a second power feed element each having a flat plate shape, and a ground electrode (GND) arranged so as to face the first power feed element and the second power feed element. The first power feed element is configured to radiate a radio wave having a first direction as a polarization direction. The second power feed element is arranged between the first power feed element and the ground electrode (GND), and is configured to radiate a radio wave having a second direction as a polarization direction. A frequency of the radio wave radiated from the first power feed element is higher than a frequency of the radio wave radiated from the second power feed element. An angle formed by the first direction and the second direction is greater than 0° and less than 90°.
US11171413B2
A movable device includes a fuselage and a navigation antenna arranged at an edge portion of the fuselage. The navigation antenna is tilted relative to the fuselage. One side of the navigation antenna proximal to a center portion of the fuselage is at a higher level than another side of the navigation antenna distal from the center portion of the fuselage.
US11171410B1
Embodiments of wireless audio systems and methods for wirelessly communicating audio information are disclosed herein. In one example, wireless transceiver includes a first antenna, a second antenna, and a radio frequency (RF) module. The first antenna and second antenna are configured to establish communication links with an audio source and another wireless transceiver. The RF module is configured to receive audio information from the audio source based on a first communication link using the first antenna and the second antenna and receive audio play information from the another wireless transceiver based on a second communication link using the first antenna and the second antenna. A data transmission proportion of the first communication link allocated between the first antenna and the second antenna is dynamically adjusted based on qualities of data communicated by the first antenna and the second antenna through the first transmission link. A data transmission proportion of the second communication link allocated between the first antenna and the second antenna is dynamically adjusted based on qualities of data communicated by the first antenna and the second antenna through the second transmission link.
US11171406B2
An electronic device is provided that includes, an antenna structure including a printed circuit board including first and second surfaces, at least one conductive patch interposed between the first second surfaces or is disposed on the first surface, the conductive patch including first to fourth areas placed in a clockwise direction with respect to a first imaginary axis extended in a first direction on the conductive patch and a second imaginary axis intersecting the first imaginary axis and perpendicular to the first imaginary axis, and at least one wireless communication circuit that transmits and/or receives a first signal having a frequency between 3 and 100 GHz. The wireless communication circuit includes a first port electrically connected to a first position of the first area, and a second port electrically connected to a second position placed on an opposite side to the first position with respect to the first imaginary axis.
US11171404B2
An antenna includes a flat conductor, and the flat conductor includes a first slot extending in a first direction, a second slot connected to the first slot and extending in a second direction, a third slot connected to the first slot and including another end that is open through an outer edge of the conductor, the third slot extending to one side of the first slot opposite from the second slot, and a fourth slot connected to the second slot, the fourth slot extending to one side of the second slot opposite from the first slot, wherein the third slot has a wide portion, and the fourth slot has a wide portion, and the outer edge includes an inclined portion inclined with respect to a virtual line that passes through the another end of the third slot and that is perpendicular to a direction in which the third slot extends.
US11171403B1
An auto orientating antenna device includes a base, a body and a processing chip. The base includes a motor comprising a rotating shaft. The body is connected to the rotating shaft and comprises at least one 5G antenna. The processing chip generates an auto orientating instruction according to at least one signal receiving status of the antenna unit. The motor drives the rotating shaft according to the auto orientating instruction, so as to let the antenna unit face a receiving direction.
US11171397B2
This application provides a dielectric resonator, including a dielectric body disposed in a hollow conductive housing, where the dielectric body includes a first end face and a second end face that are disposed opposite to each other and a circumferential surface connected between the first end face and the second end face. The first end face is provided with a first groove, the second end face is provided with a second groove, the first end face and the second end face are in contact with an inner wall of the conductive housing, and extension directions of the first groove and the second groove are different. This application further provides a filter. This application can implement single-sided installation of the dielectric resonator, so that an objective of miniaturization is achieved and assembly becomes easy. In addition, coupling between resonance modes can be enhanced because the extension directions of the first groove and the second groove are different.
US11171383B1
A battery module includes a housing that defines an inner volume and includes an airflow path from an aperture formed in a first end member of the housing, through the inner volume, to an aperture formed in a second end member of the housing; power cells mounted in the inner volume of the housing, where each of the power cells includes a vent member; and a barrier that at least partially interrupts a fluid pathway that extends between the vent members and at least one of the aperture formed in the first end member or the aperture formed in the second end member of the housing. The power cells are directionally mounted in the volume such that the vent members face an offset direction relative to at least one of the aperture formed in the first end member or the aperture formed in the second end member of the housing.
US11171379B2
A vehicle battery that includes a partially hollow battery shell, shock-absorbing material, and a mounting base. The battery shell has an upper section and a stepped-in lower section, the lower section having a sidewall and a floor. The shock-absorbing material is attached to the sidewall of the lower section of the battery shell and has a lower edge that extends below the floor of the lower section. The mounting base is attached to the lower edge of the shock-absorbing material and is spaced from the floor of the lower section of the battery shell to isolate the battery shell from a vehicle surface on which it is supported.
US11171373B2
A battery module having at least one battery cell is disclosed, in particular a lithium-ion battery cell, comprising a housing, in which the at least one battery cell is accommodated, and a temperature-regulating element, wherein a Peltier element is furthermore arranged between the at least one battery cell and the temperature-regulating element, which Peltier element is thermally conductively connected in each case to the at least one battery cell and the temperature-regulating element, and which Peltier element is furthermore connected to a voltage source in such a way that heat transfer between the at least one battery cell and the temperature-regulating element is able to be formed by means of the Peltier element, wherein a compensation element for homogenizing the temperature, said compensation element being formed from a metallic material, is furthermore arranged between the at least one battery cell and the Peltier element, wherein preferably the at least one battery cell is directly or cohesively connected to the compensation element.
US11171371B2
A cylindrical secondary battery including a cylindrical battery case configured to receive an electrode assembly and an electrolytic solution, a cap assembly located on the open upper end of the cylindrical battery case, and a jelly-roll type electrode assembly configured to have a structure in which a positive electrode sheet and a negative electrode sheet are wound in the state in which a separator is interposed therebetween, wherein a protective layer, made of a material that exhibits high thermal conductivity, is formed on at least a portion of the inner surface of the cylindrical battery case, including a crimping part is provided.
US11171363B2
There is provided a method for producing an electrode body including a current collection foil, an electrode mixture layer, a heat resistant layer, and a separator layer are laminated in this order. The method includes applying a liquid heat resistant material forming the heat resistant layer to the electrode mixture layer on an electrode plate that is obtained by forming an electrode mixture layer on the current collection foil and disposing the porous separator layer on the liquid heat resistant material before the liquid heat resistant material according to the application is dried after applying the liquid heat resistant material.
US11171362B2
In an embodiment, a metal-ion battery cell comprises an anode electrode, a cathode electrode, a separator, and electrolyte ionically coupling the anode electrode and the cathode electrode. The anode electrode is a high-capacity electrode (e.g., in the range of about 2 mAh/cm2 to about 10 mAh/cm2). The electrolyte includes a solvent composition, the solvent composition including low-melting point (LMP) solvent(s) in the range from about 10 vol. % to about 80 vol. % of the solvent composition as well as regular-melting point (RMP) solvent(s) in the range from about 20 vol. % to about 90 vol. % of the solvent composition.
US11171358B2
Set forth herein are garnet material compositions, e.g., lithium-stuffed garnets and lithium-stuffed garnets doped with alumina, which are suitable for use as electrolytes and catholytes in solid state battery applications. Also set forth herein are lithium-stuffed garnet thin films having fine grains therein. Disclosed herein are novel and inventive methods of making and using lithium-stuffed garnets as catholytes, electrolytes and/or anolytes for all solid state lithium rechargeable batteries. Also disclosed herein are novel electrochemical devices which incorporate these garnet catholytes, electrolytes and/or anolytes. Also set forth herein are methods for preparing novel structures, including dense thin (<50 um) free standing membranes of an ionically conducting material for use as a catholyte, electrolyte, and, or, anolyte, in an electrochemical device, a battery component (positive or negative electrode materials), or a complete solid state electrochemical energy storage device. Also, the methods set forth herein disclose novel sintering techniques, e.g., for heating and/or field assisted (FAST) sintering, for solid state energy storage devices and the components thereof.
US11171352B2
An assembly device for a battery component proposed herein includes at least one of members that are a positioning pin and a chuck, and a suction machine. There is at least one exhaust passage inside the at least one of the members that are the positioning pin and the chuck. An outer peripheral surface of the at least one of the members that are the positioning pin and the chuck has at least one dust-collecting port to which the at least one exhaust passage opens. The at least one exhaust passage is connected to the suction machine.
US11171351B2
An electrolyte of a solid oxide cell is required to be capable of suppressing both gas cross-leak and electron leak. In addition, it is important from the viewpoint of a reduction in material costs and in the electric resistance of the electrolyte that the electrolyte is made into a thin film and that no expensive noble metal is used. The present invention provides a thin-film-shaped proton conducting electrolyte capable of suppressing both gas cross-leak and electron leak, a solid oxide cell using the proton conducting electrolyte, and a manufacturing method for the proton conducting electrolyte and the solid oxide cell. A proton conducting electrolyte using an oxide material having proton conductivity is provided. The proton conducting electrolyte includes a first portion containing Me (Me=at least any one of Ti, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, and Cu), and a second portion different in Me content from the first portion.
US11171347B2
A fuel cell system includes an anode gas flow passage in which an injector is disposed, a plurality of pressure sensors that measures a pressure value in the anode gas flow passage closer to the fuel cell stack than to the injector, and a control unit configured to control an output of the fuel cell stack by adjusting an amount of supplied anode gas using the measured pressure values. The control unit limits the output of the fuel cell stack when a first condition that a state in which a deviation, of a plurality of pressure values measured by the plurality of pressure sensors is equal to or greater than a predetermined first threshold value is maintained for a predetermined time or more has been satisfied compared with when the first condition has not been satisfied.
US11171340B2
A unit cell for a fuel cell is provided. The unit cell includes an insert including a Membrane-Electrode Assembly having a first pair of electrode layers formed on a first surface of a polymer electrolyte membrane and a second pair of electrode layers formed on a second surface of the polymer electrolyte membrane, an elastomer frame bonded at a rim of the insert in an outer area of the insert, the elastomer frame having a reaction surface through-hole in which the insert is disposed formed therein and having a plurality of frame manifold through-holes, through which a reactant gas can flow or be discharged, formed at both sides of and spaced apart from the reaction surface through-hole, and a pair of separators, each separator disposed on a respective side of the insert and the elastomer frame.
US11171333B2
There is provided a production method of a lithium-containing composite oxide capable of improving performances of cycle characteristics, rate characteristics, and the like of a lithium ion secondary battery. A production method of a lithium-containing composite oxide is characterized in that when producing a lithium-containing composite oxide by mixing a transition metal hydroxide containing Ni and Mn essentially and a lithium source and heating the mixture, a transition metal hydroxide having a crystallite diameter of the (100) plane being 35 nm or less in a crystal structure model in the space group P-3m1 of an X-ray diffraction pattern is used.
US11171331B2
A method of manufacturing a positive electrode material for lithium ion secondary battery includes the following (α) and (β): (α) a positive electrode active material is prepared; and (β) the positive electrode material for lithium ion secondary battery is manufactured by forming a coat on at least a portion of a surface of the positive electrode active material. The coat is formed to satisfy the following (1) to (3): (1) the coat includes a lithium ion conductor and a ferroelectric substance; (2) the ferroelectric substance is dispersed in the lithium ion conductor; and (3) the lithium ion conductor is interposed at least partially between the positive electrode active material and the ferroelectric substance.
US11171329B2
A battery includes a first mono cell formed from a first electrode foil having a first body and a first tab, and a first coating. The first body has long edges and short edges, and a length-to-width ratio of the first body is at least five. The first tab extends from one of the long edges of the first body entirely between one of the short edges a midpoint of the long edge. A second electrode foil has similar structure to the first electrode foil and coating, but a second tab is aligned opposite the first tab along the short edges. A second mono cell has similar structure. A third tab and a fourth tab of the second mono cell are on an opposing side of the midpoint of the long edges from the first tab and the second tab.
US11171320B2
A method for renovation of a consumed anode in a metal-air cell without dismantling the cell according to embodiments of the present invention comprising circulating electrolyte through the cell to evacuate used slurry from the cell, circulating electrolyte with fresh slurry into the cell and allowing sedimentation of the fresh slurry inside the cell to form an anode and compacting the slurry to reduce the gaps between its particles. A meta-air cell enabling renovation of a consumed anode without dismantling the cell defining first outer face of the cell, air cathode layer adjacent the porous wall, separator wall disposed on the inner face of the air cathode layer, cell space volume to contain electrolyte and metal granules slurry, current collector layer to form an anode, made of current conductive material disposed in the space and flexible wall defining a second outer face of the cell wherein the flexible wall is adapted to be pushed towards inside of the cell subject to pressure applied to its outer face, thereby to reduce the volume of the space.
US11171318B2
A method of manufacturing an electroluminescent device includes providing a substrate including a first pixel and a second pixel configured to emit different colors; forming a first light-emitting layer and a first protecting layer over the substrate through a first opening of a first sacrificial layer; forming a second light-emitting layer and a second protecting layer over the substrate through a second opening of a second sacrificial layer; removing the first sacrificial layer together with the second sacrificial layer; and removing the first protecting layer from the first light-emitting layer, and the second protecting layer from the second light-emitting layer.
US11171311B2
A display device capable of reducing a non-display area includes a substrate hole surrounded by light emitting elements, and a moisture penetration preventing layer disposed between an inner dam surrounded by the light emitting elements and the substrate hole. Accordingly, it is possible to prevent damage to light emitting stacks caused by external moisture or oxygen. Since the substrate hole is disposed within an active area, a reduction in non-display area is achieved.
US11171310B2
A package unit, display panel, and display device are provided. The package unit includes a first organic layer and a package unit disposed over the first organic layer. The first organic layer is disposed over and adjacent to a side of the package structure illuminated by light, and the first organic layer is evenly distributed with liquid crystal molecules of an oriented arrangement to converge light passing through the first organic layer and emit light within a fixed angle range.
US11171307B2
The present disclosure discloses a display screen, which includes an array layer, a planarization layer, a pixel defining layer, a support layer, and a buffer layer. The planarization layer is located on a surface of the array layer. The pixel defining layer is located on a surface of the planarization layer away from the array layer, and the support layer is located on a surface of the pixel defining layer away from the planarization layer. The buffer layer is located on at least one of an end surface of the support layer away from the pixel defining layer and an end surface of the support layer adjacent to the pixel defining layer.
US11171299B2
A quantum dot device including an anode; a cathode disposed substantially opposite to the anode; a hole injection layer disposed on the anode between the anode and the cathode; a hole transport layer disposed on the hole injection layer between the hole injection layer and the cathode; and a quantum dot layer disposed on the hole transport layer between the hole transport layer and the cathode, wherein the quantum dot layer includes a plurality of quantum dots, wherein the hole transport layer includes a hole transport material and an electron transport material, and wherein a lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) energy level of the electron transport material and a lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) energy level of the quantum dot layer is about 0.5 electron volts or less.
US11171297B2
Photoactive materials comprising organic-inorganic hybrid halide perovskite compounds are provided. Photovoltaic cells and light-emitting devices incorporating the photoactive materials into their light-absorbing and light-emitting layers, respectively, are also provided. The halide perovskites have an amAMX3 perovskite crystal structure, wherein am is an alkyl diamine cation, an aromatic diamine cation, an aromatic azole cation, a cyclic alkyl diamine cation or a hydrazinediium cation; A is a monovalent alkylammonium cation or an alkali metal cation; X is a halide ion or a combination of halide ions; and M is an octahedrally coordinated bivalent metal atom.
US11171293B2
This application relates, in part, to an organic electroluminescent element including a substrate, a pair of electrodes including an anode and a cathode, disposed on the substrate, and at least one organic layer including a light emitting layer, disposed between the electrodes, in which at least one layer of the organic layer(s) contains a compound represented by the following formula (1). The organic electroluminescent element has low driving voltage and excellent durability. wherein X1 to X11 represent CR0 or N, and R0 represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent. Adjacent two of X1 to X11 each independently represent at least CR0, R0s of the adjacent two CR0s are bonded to each other to form a ring, and only one R0 of the adjacent two CR0s represents an aryl group or a heteroaryl group.
US11171292B2
An anthracene derivative represented by a general formula (1) and an organic compound represented by a general formula (8) are provided. Further, by use of the anthracene derivative represented by the general formula (1), a light-emitting element with high emission efficiency can be obtained. Furthermore, by use of the anthracene derivative represented by the general formula (1), a light-emitting element that emits blue light with high color purity can be obtained.
US11171291B2
An electroluminescent device and including a first electrode and a second electrode facing each other; an emission layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein the emission layer includes a quantum dot and a first electron transporting material represented by Chemical Formula 1; a hole transport layer disposed between the emission layer and the first electrode; and an electron transport layer disposed between the emission layer and the second electrode: wherein, the definitions of groups and variables in Chemical Formula 1 are the same as described in the specification.
US11171258B2
A method for manufacturing a radiation-emitting semiconductor device and radiation-emitting semiconductor device are disclosed. In an embodiment a method includes providing a radiation-emitting semiconductor chip having a first main surface including a radiation exit surface of the semiconductor chip, applying a metallic seed layer to a second main surface of the semiconductor chip opposite to the first main surface, galvanically depositing a first metallic layer on the seed layer for forming a first electrical contact point and a second electrical contact point, galvanically depositing a second metallic layer on the first metallic layer for forming the first electrical contact point and the second electrical contact point, wherein a material of the first metallic layer and a material of the second metallic layer are different, and applying a casting compound between the contact points.
US11171255B2
A device for detecting a chemical species including a Geiger mode avalanche photodiode, which comprises a body of semiconductor material delimited by a front surface. The semiconductor body includes: a cathode region having a first type of conductivity, which forms the front surface; and an anode region having a second type of conductivity, which extends within the cathode region starting from the front surface. The detection device further includes: a dielectric region, which extends on the front surface; and a sensitive region, which is arranged on top of the dielectric region and electrically coupled to the anode region and has a resistance that depends upon the concentration of the chemical species.
US11171240B2
A thin-film transistor includes a gate electrode, a gate dielectric on the gate electrode, a first layer including a source region, a drain region, and a semiconductor region above and in direct contact with the gate dielectric and physically connecting the source and drain regions, and a second layer including an insulator material on the semiconductor region. The semiconductor region has less vertical thickness than the source and drain regions. In an embodiment, the thickness of the semiconductor region is no more than half that of the source and drain regions. In another embodiment, the second layer physically connects and electrically separates the source and drain regions. In yet another embodiment, a memory cell includes this transistor and a capacitor electrically connected to the drain region, the gate electrode being electrically connected to a wordline and the source region being electrically connected to a bitline.
US11171239B2
Transistor structures with a channel semiconductor material that is passivated with two-dimensional (2D) crystalline material. The 2D material may comprise a semiconductor having a bandgap offset from a band of the channel semiconductor. The 2D material may be a thin as a few monolayers and have good temperature stability. The 2D material may be a conversion product of a sacrificial precursor material, or of a portion of the channel semiconductor material. The 2D material may comprise one or more metal and a chalcogen. The channel material may be a metal oxide semiconductor suitable for low temperature processing (e.g., IGZO), and the 2D material may also be compatible with low temperature processing (e.g., <450° C.). The 2D material may be a chalcogenide of a metal present in the channel material (e.g., ZnSx or ZnSex) or of a metal absent from the channel material when formed from a sacrificial precursor.
US11171236B2
A method includes forming a first semiconductor fin and a second semiconductor fin parallel to each other and protruding higher than top surfaces of isolation regions. The isolation regions include a portion between the first and the second semiconductor fins. The method further includes forming a gate stack crossing over the first and the second semiconductor fins, etching a portion of the gate stack to form an opening, wherein the portion of the isolation regions, the first semiconductor fin, and the second semiconductor fin are exposed to the opening, etching the first semiconductor fin, the second semiconductor fin, and the portion of the isolation regions to extend the opening into a bulk portion of a semiconductor substrate below the isolation regions, and filling the opening with a dielectric material to form a cut-fin isolation region.
US11171226B2
IGBT semiconductor structure having a p+ substrate, an n− layer, at least one p region adjacent to the n− layer, and at least one n+ region adjacent to the p region, a dielectric layer and three terminal contacts. The p region forms a first p-n junction together with the n− layer, and the n+ region forms a second p-n junction together with the at least one p region. The dielectric layer covers the first p-n junction and the second p-n junction. The second terminal contact is implemented as a field plate on the dielectric layer and a doped intermediate layer with a layer thickness of 1 μm-50 μm and a dopant concentration of 1012-1017 cm−3 is arranged between the p+ substrate and the n− layer, wherein the intermediate layer is integrally joined to at least the p+ substrate.
US11171221B2
Techniques for forming VFET bottom source and drain epitaxy with anchors are provided. In one aspect, a method of forming a VFET device includes: patterning at least one fin in a substrate; forming anchors on opposite ends of the at least one fin; laterally etching a base of the at least one fin, wherein the anchors prevent the lateral etching from being performed on the ends of the at least one fin; forming bottom source and drains at the base of the at least one fin between the anchors; removing the anchors; forming bottom spacers on the bottom source and drains; forming gates above the bottom spacers alongside the at least one fin; forming top spacers above the gates; and forming top source and drains above the top spacers at a top of the at least one fin. VFET devices are also provided.
US11171220B2
A method of forming a gate dielectric material includes forming a high-K dielectric material in a first region over a substrate, where forming the high-K dielectric material includes forming a first dielectric layer comprising hafnium over the substrate, and forming a second dielectric layer comprising lanthanum over the first dielectric layer.
US11171214B2
Variations in device characteristics in a plane parallel to the principal surface of a semiconductor wafer are suppressed. A semiconductor epitaxial wafer includes a semiconductor wafer and a first conductivity type semiconductor epitaxial layer that is disposed on a principal surface of the semiconductor wafer and contains a first conductivity type impurity, and the thickness distribution of the semiconductor epitaxial layer and the concentration distribution of the impurity in the semiconductor epitaxial layer have a positive correlation in a plane parallel to the principal surface of the semiconductor wafer.
US11171211B1
A method of manufacturing a p-type MOSFET includes depositing a channel material to form a channel region, forming a source region and a drain region on each side of the channel region along a first direction, depositing a gate oxide layer on the channel region along a second direction crossing the first direction, and depositing a gate electrode on the gate oxide. The channel material includes a group IV element or III-V semiconductor compound and have a diamond or zincblende cubic crystal structure. A <001> direction of the crystal structure is parallel to the second direction. Two adjacent atoms on an out-most atomic layer of the channel region along the first direction are connected to each other via a single intervening atom, and an interface between the gate oxide layer and the channel region has a surface roughness of 1 angstrom or lower.
US11171206B2
An example apparatus includes a first source/drain region and a second source/drain region formed in a substrate to form an active area of the apparatus. The first source/drain region and the second source/drain region are separated by a channel. The apparatus includes a gate opposing the channel. A sense line is coupled to the first source/drain region and a storage node is coupled to the second source/drain region. An isolation trench is adjacent to the active area. The trench includes a dielectric material with a conductive bias opposing the conductive bias of the channel in the active area.
US11171199B2
The present disclosure relates to an apparatus that includes a bottom electrode and a dielectric structure. The dielectric structure includes a first dielectric layer on the bottom electrode and the first dielectric layer has a first thickness. The apparatus also includes a blocking layer on the first dielectric layer and a second dielectric layer on the blocking layer. The second dielectric layer has a second thickness that is less than the first thickness. The apparatus further includes a top electrode over the dielectric structure.
US11171197B2
A display device includes a substrate including a first area, a second area, and a bending area. A plurality of first wires are positioned in the first area. A plurality of second wires are positioned in the second area. An insulating layer is positioned in the bending area. A plurality of connecting wires are disposed on the insulating layer. Each of the connecting wires is connected with at least one of the first wires and at least one of the second wires. Each of the connecting wires includes a first portion and a second portion alternatingly arranged along an extending direction of the connecting wires. A width of the first portion is wider than a width of the second portion in a direction perpendicular to the extending direction each of the connecting wires.
US11171192B2
A display device may include a substrate, an organic light emitting layer overlapping the substrate and including an opening, and a holed insulating layer positioned between the substrate and the organic light emitting layer. The holed insulating layer may include a first through hole, a first groove, and a first undercut. A position of the opening may overlap a position of the first groove. The first groove may surround the first through hole in a plan view of the display device. The first undercut may surround the first groove in the plan view of the display device.
US11171189B2
A display device includes: a substrate; a plurality of pixels on the substrate, the plurality of pixels being around a first area and at least partially surrounding the first area; a light-transmissive wire on the substrate and overlapping the first area; and an encapsulation member covering the plurality of pixels.
US11171173B2
Image sensors are provided. Image sensors may include unit pixels arranged in a first direction and a second direction crossing the first direction. Each of the unit pixels may include first and second floating diffusion regions and first and second photo gate electrodes between the first and second floating diffusion regions. The unit pixels may include a first unit pixel, a second unit pixel, and a third unit pixel sequentially arranged. The first floating diffusion region of the second unit pixel may be between the first photo gate electrode of the first unit pixel and the first photo gate electrode of the second unit pixel, and the second floating diffusion region of the second unit pixel may be between the second photo gate electrode of the second unit pixel and the second photo gate electrode of the third unit pixel.
US11171170B2
The present technology relates to a semiconductor device including: a solid-state image sensor having a pixel array unit in which a plurality of pixels each having a photoelectric conversion element is two-dimensionally arranged in a matrix; and a flexible printed circuit having wiring adapted to connect a pad portion provided on an upper surface side to be located on a light receiving surface side of the solid-state image sensor to an external terminal provided on a lower surface side opposite to the upper surface side, in which the flexible printed circuit is arranged along respective surfaces of the solid-state image sensor such that a position of an end portion located on the upper surface side becomes a position different from a position in a space above the light receiving surface.
US11171169B2
An image sensor, comprising pixels that have paired first pixel sections and second pixel sections, and a pixel signal generation circuit that repeatedly outputs an pixel signal, wherein the pixel signal generation circuit in a first frame among image frames, adds pixel signals of the first pixel sections corresponding to a first column to generate a first pixel addition signal, adds pixel signals of the second pixel sections corresponding to a second column to generate a second pixel addition signal, and respectively outputs the first and second pixel addition signals, and in a second frame that is continuous to the first frame, adds outputs of the second pixel section corresponding to the first column to generate a third pixel addition signal, adds outputs of the first pixel section corresponding to the second column to generate a fourth pixel addition signal, and respectively outputs the third and fourth pixel addition signals.
US11171166B2
The present disclosure provides a camera assembly and a packaging method thereof, a lens module, and an electronic device. The packaging method of the camera assembly includes: providing a carrier substrate and forming a redistribution layer (RDL) structure on the carrier substrate; providing functional components having solder pads; forming a photosensitive unit, including a photosensitive chip and an optical filter mounted on the photosensitive chip, that the photosensitive chip has solder pads facing the optical filter; temporarily bonding the optical filter of the photosensitive unit with the carrier substrate, and placing the functional components on the RDL structure, that each of the solder pads of the photosensitive chip and the solder pads of the functional components faces the RDL structure and electrically connects with the RDL structure; forming an encapsulation layer covering the carrier substrate, that the encapsulation layer is coplanar with a highest top of the photosensitive chip and the functional components; and removing the carrier substrate.
US11171164B2
The present disclosure relates to an image sensor, an image processing method, and an electronic device capable of executing image processing with fewer resources. The image sensor is provided with a pixel region in which pixels each including a photoelectric conversion unit which converts light to a charge and an in-pixel memory unit which holds the charge generated in the photoelectric conversion unit are arranged in a matrix manner, a driving unit which drives to read out a pixel signal from the pixel, and an image processing unit which performs image processing based on a plurality of images read out by a plurality of times of readout from the pixel region according to driving of the driving unit. The present technology may be applied to, for example, an image sensor including a logic circuit.
US11171158B2
A semiconductor on insulator type substrate, comprising at least: a support layer; a semiconductor surface layer; a buried dielectric layer located between the support layer and the semiconductor surface layer; a trap rich layer located between the buried dielectric layer and the support layer, and comprising at least one polycrystalline semiconductor material and/or a phase change material; in which the trap rich layer comprises at least one first region and at least one second region adjacent to each other in the plane of the trap rich layer, the material of the at least one first region being in an at least partially recrystallized state and having an electrical resistivity less than that of the material in the at least one second region.
US11171152B2
A three-dimensional flash memory device is described that may include a substrate, a plurality of cell gate patterns and a plurality of mold insulating layers alternately stacked on the substrate, and a vertical channel structure in contact with side surfaces of the plurality of cell gate patterns and side surfaces of the plurality of mold insulating layers. Each of the plurality of cell gate patterns may include a cell gate electrode and a blocking barrier pattern adjacently disposed on one side surface of the cell gate electrode. An inner side surface of the blocking barrier pattern may include an upper inner side surface, a middle inner side surface, and a lower inner side surface. The middle inner side surface of the blocking barrier pattern may face the one side surface of the cell gate electrode. The blocking barrier pattern may have a portion protruding toward the cell gate electrode at a connection point between the upper inner side surface of the blocking barrier pattern and the middle inner side surface of the blocking barrier pattern.
US11171151B2
A vertical memory device includes first gate electrodes stacked on a cell region of a substrate and spaced apart from each other in a vertical direction substantially perpendicular to an upper surface of the substrate, a channel extending through the first gate electrodes and extending in the vertical direction, a first contact plug structure contacting a corresponding one of the first gate electrodes, extending in the vertical direction, and including a first metal pattern, a first barrier pattern covering a lower surface and a sidewall of the first metal pattern and a first metal silicide pattern covering a lower surface and a sidewall of the first barrier pattern, and a second contact plug structure extending in the vertical direction on a peripheral circuit region of the substrate and including a second metal pattern and a second barrier pattern covering a lower surface and a sidewall of the second metal pattern.
US11171148B2
Integrated circuits, and integrated circuit devices, might include a semiconductor, a first active area in the semiconductor, a second active area in the semiconductor, and an isolation structure in the semiconductor between the first active area and the second active area. The isolation structure might include a first edge portion extending below a surface of the semiconductor to a first depth, a second edge portion extending below the surface of the semiconductor to the first depth, and an interior portion between the first edge portion and the second edge portion, and extending below the surface of the semiconductor to a second depth, less than the first depth.
US11171146B2
Some embodiments include an integrated assembly having bottom electrodes coupled with electrical nodes. Each of the bottom electrodes has a first leg electrically coupled with an associated one of the electrical nodes, and has a second leg joining to the first leg. First gaps are between some of the bottom electrodes, and second gaps are between others of the bottom electrodes. The first gaps alternate with the second gaps. Insulative material and conductive-plate-material are within the first gaps. Scaffold structures are within the second gaps and not within the first gaps. Capacitors include the bottom electrodes, regions of the insulative material and regions of the conductive-plate-material. The capacitors may be ferroelectric capacitors or non-ferroelectric capacitors. Some embodiments include methods of forming integrated assemblies.
US11171143B2
A semiconductor structure is provided. The semiconductor structure includes a first dielectric fin, a first semiconductor fin and a second dielectric fin over a substrate. The first semiconductor fin is between the first dielectric fin and the second dielectric fin. The semiconductor structure also includes a first gate electrode wrapping the first dielectric fin, a channel region of the first semiconductor fin and the second dielectric fin and a first source/drain structure over a source/drain portion of the first semiconductor fin, being in contact with and interposing the first dielectric fin and the second dielectric fin.
US11171142B2
An embodiment may include an integrated circuit. The integrated circuit may include a plurality of vertical transistor structures arranged in a two-dimensional grid pattern including a longitudinal set of grid-lines, a transversal set of grid-lines, and nodes at each intersection of the longitudinal set of grid-lines and the transversal set of grid-lines. Each vertical transistor structure is arranged substantially perpendicular to the plurality of layers of the integrated circuit and aligned with each node of the two-dimensional grid pattern.
US11171137B2
A method for fabricating semiconductor device includes the steps of: forming a first fin-shaped structure on a substrate; forming a first single diffusion break (SDB) structure in the first fin-shaped structure; forming a first gate structure on the first SDB structure and a second gate structure on the first fin-shaped structure; forming an interlayer dielectric (ILD) layer around the first gate structure and the second gate structure; forming a patterned mask on the first gate structure; and performing a replacement metal gate (RMG) process to transform the second gate structure into a metal gate.
US11171133B2
A semiconductor device includes an active pattern extending on a substrate in a first direction, divided into a plurality of regions by a separation region, and having a first edge portion exposed toward the separation region; first, second and third channel layers vertically separated and sequentially disposed on the active pattern; a first gate electrode extending in a second direction, intersecting the active pattern, and surrounding the first, second and third channel layers; source/drain regions disposed on the active pattern, on at least one side of the first gate electrode, and contacting the first, second and third channel layers; a semiconductor structure including first semiconductor layers and second semiconductor layers alternately stacked on the active pattern, and having a second edge portion exposed toward the separation region; and a blocking layer covering at least one of an upper surface, side surfaces, or the second edge portion, of the semiconductor structure.
US11171119B2
A semiconductor module includes a module substrate, a semiconductor package mounted on the module substrate, a first bonding wire connecting the module substrate to the semiconductor package, and a first molding member covering the first bonding wire. The semiconductor package includes a package substrate, a semiconductor chip mounted on the package substrate, a second bonding wire connecting the package substrate to the semiconductor chip, and a second molding member covering the semiconductor chip and the second bonding wire. The first and second bonding wires are each connected to one connection pad of the package substrate.
