US11179876B2
A transfer apparatus includes a rolled web mold installation part for installing a rolled web mold around which the mold is wound, a transfer roller for winding the mold fed out from the rolled web mold, a winding roll for winding up the mold, a winding roll installation part for installing the winding roll therein, and a mold installation assisting part for guiding the mold fed out from the rolled web mold up to the winding roll while suppressing an occurrence of wrinkles in the mold fed out from the rolled web mold.
US11179873B2
Extractor systems for extracting a flexible article of manufacture from a mold include an extraction roller, at least one track configured to support the extraction roller, and a trolley configured to carry the extraction roller from a first side of the mold toward a second, opposite side of the mold. Molding systems include a mold and an extractor system. Methods of extracting a flexible article of manufacture from a mold include separating a first platen and a second platen, positioning an extraction roller between the separated first and second platens, engaging the article of manufacture with a row of teeth positioned along the extraction roller, and rotating the extraction roller to wrap the article of manufacture about the extraction roller.
US11179868B2
Systems for manufacturing bulked continuous carpet filament from polymer, where the systems are configured for: (1) melting polymer (e.g., derived from post-consumer PET bottles) to create a first single stream of polymer melt; (2) separating the first single stream of polymer melt into multiple streams of polymer melt; (3) exposing the multiple streams of polymer melt to a pressure of between about 0 millibars and about 5 millibars; (4) allowing the multiple streams of polymer melt to fall into a receiving section of a melt processing unit; (5) recombining the multiple streams of polymer melt into a second single stream of polymer melt; and (6) providing the second single stream of polymer melt to one or more spinning machines that are configured to form the second single stream of polymer melt into bulked continuous carpet filament.
US11179867B2
A device for preparation of a composite for on-site pipeline reinforcement includes: a temperature control stirring unit, an infiltration unit, and a vacuum unit, which are communicated in sequence, the infiltration unit includes a spindle, reinforced fiber cloth, a flow-guiding net, and a vacuum bag film sleeved outside the spindle, the reinforced fiber cloth and the flow-guiding net, the spindle is stopped by two baffles, an adhesive feeding joint and an adhesive discharging joint are disposed at two ends of the spindle, respectively, each of the adhesive feeding joint and the adhesive discharging joint includes an inner joint and an outer joint, an outer wall of the inner joint and an outer side of the baffle are covered by a flow-leading net, and the flow-guiding net covered on the outer side of the baffle extends from an edge of the baffle into the adhesive storing compartment of the baffle.
US11179846B2
Methods and systems for enhancing robot's ability to collaborate with human operators by constructing models of objects and processes which are manipulatable by a robot (situation models) and sharing such models with operators. Sharing situation models allows robot to explain its actions to operators in the format they can readily understand. Reciprocally, operators can formulate their instructions to the robot in the format that is both easy to produce for the human and straightforward to interpret in the machine. In this way, the disclosed method and system for constructing situation models in the robot facilitate both adaptation of human operators to robots and adaptation of robots to human operators, thus enhancing collaboration between them.
US11179833B2
A tightening device includes: a sensor for detecting an elongation of a bolt; a socket for rotating the bolt; and a biasing member for biasing the sensor against a head of the bolt. The sensor and the socket are provided separately and independently of each other.
US11179830B2
An adapter assembly configured to install a roof rack accessory to a vehicle is provided. The roof rack accessory may include a vehicle attachment assembly having a fastener and a locking mechanism. In particular, the adapter assembly may comprise a wrench, an adapter, and a driving sleeve. The adapter engaging with the wrench includes an adapter body that includes first and second engagement portions and a driving post that engages the fastener of the vehicle attachment assembly. The driving sleeve may be engageable with the adapter, wherein the locking mechanism of the vehicle attachment assembly is engaged with the driving sleeve while the fastener of the vehicle attachment assembly is engaged with the adapter.
US11179824B2
An electric working machine according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a terminal block electrically connected to a battery pack. The terminal block includes a positive electrode connecting terminal and a negative electrode connecting terminal. The positive electrode connecting terminal includes a plate-shaped positive electrode side connection plate portion that comes in contact with a positive electrode terminal of the battery pack, and the negative electrode connecting terminal includes a plate-shaped negative electrode side connection plate portion that comes in contact with a negative electrode terminal of the battery pack. At least one of the positive electrode side connection plate portion and the negative electrode side connection plate portion is provided with a heat radiation plate portion in a thermal conductive manner.
US11179810B2
The disclosure relates to systems and methods for machine-cutting workpieces in plate form or bar form and also to a machine tool, with a laser machining device, and a workpiece support, by which a workpiece to be machined in the laser machining device is received, and with a workpiece moving device, by which the workpiece to be machined is held and moved in relation to the laser machining device, wherein with a machining head a laser beam is directed onto the workpiece to be machined and a clearance or recess is introduced into the workpiece and the clearance is machined with a flow drill and widened to a final size of a borehole.
US11179809B2
A manufacturing method of a glass substrate having holes includes irradiating a plurality of hole formation target positions of a dummy glass substrate with a laser under a first condition, to form a plurality of holes in the dummy glass substrate; heating the dummy glass substrate under a second condition; measuring, for each of the hole formation target positions, a deviation between the hole formation target position and a position of the hole after the heating formed by irradiating the hole formation target position of the dummy glass substrate; irradiating irradiation target positions of a glass substrate, having substantially same shape, dimension and composition as the dummy glass substrate, with a laser under the first condition, to form a plurality of holes, the irradiation target positions of the glass substrate with the laser being determined taking into account the deviation; and heating the glass substrate under the second condition.
US11179808B1
A method is disclosed for additive manufacturing a three-dimensional object layer-by-layer including depositing a layer of material on a bed surface or a previously deposited layer of the object to form the object layer-by-layer; providing energy to the material after each layer is deposited with the energy being provided by an energy source that forms an energized beam directed at the material; altering a property of a gas surrounding the material and through which the energized beam extends to alter a property of the object constructed from the material; melting the material with the energized beam to form a melted pool of liquefied material; and allowing the material to solidify to bond the material to a previous layer of material of the object.
US11179804B2
A laser machining nozzle includes: a nozzle body coupled to a machining head; and a flow path formed through the nozzle body in a longitudinal axis of the nozzle body to allow a machining-assist gas to be injected toward a workpiece therethrough while a laser beam is emitted toward the workpiece, wherein the flow path comprises a first flow path formed in a flow direction of the machining-assist gas and generating a supersonic flow of the machining-assist gas; a second flow path connected to the first flow path in the flow direction of the machining-assist gas and expanding a volume of the machining-assist gas having passed through the first flow path; and a flow path boundary defining a boundary between the first flow path and the second flow path.
US11179802B2
A laser machining apparatus includes: a laser oscillator that emits laser light having a plurality of wavelengths; a transmission diffractive optical element that allows the laser light to pass therethrough; a machining lens that concentrates the laser light that has passed through the transmission diffractive optical element; a distance adjustment mechanism that changes a distance between the transmission diffractive optical element and the machining lens; and an angle adjustment mechanism that changes an angle of the transmission diffractive optical element to switch between a state in which the laser light is dispersed by the transmission diffractive optical element and then enters the machining lens and a state in which the laser light enters the machining lens without being dispersed by the transmission diffractive optical element.
US11179799B2
A clamp member, for a double-acting friction stir spot welding device, is provided for the double-acting friction stir spot welding device to perform friction stir spot welding of a workpiece by using a rotary tool, and presses a surface of the workpiece while the workpiece is supported. The rotary tool has a pin member and a shoulder member. The clamp member includes an end face that comes into surface contact with the surface of the workpiece to press the surface and a protruding portion protruding from the end face in an axial direction and extending around an axis. The protruding portion is configured to press the workpiece, the clamp member surrounding an outer periphery of the shoulder member.
US11179792B2
A torch for connection to an electric arc welding system having a wire feeder, a power source and a weld process controller for the power source. The torch being connected to the front end of a welding gun, which gun has a rear end with a first unique component of a connector. The welding system has a second component of the connector matching the first component. The gun has a communication channel extending from the torch to the first component for transmitting data to the welding system through the connector. The torch has a memory with an identification code outputted on the communication channel to the first component and the system has a decoder circuit connected to the second component and responsive to a selected identification code.
US11179790B2
Provided is an electrode capable of increasing a degree of freedom in machining shape with a simple structure, an electrochemical machining apparatus using the electrode, an electrochemical machining method, and a product machined by the method. An electrode 4 has a core tube 41 formed of a material by which a second hole 101b having a direction or a curvature different from that of a first hole 101a having a predetermined curvature can be formed continuously from the first hole 101a and a coating 42 fixed to an outer periphery of the core tube 41.
US11179789B2
A dirty fluid tank of a machining fluid supply tank has a capacity smaller than a machining tank and is arranged lower than the machining tank. An intermediate tank has a capacity smaller than the dirty fluid tank, selectively communicates with the dirty fluid tank. A clear fluid tank has a capacity smaller than the intermediate tank, is arranged above the dirty fluid tank and the intermediate tank. The sum of capacities of the dirty fluid tank and the intermediate tank is larger than the capacity of the machining tank. A pipe includes a drain pipeline of the machining tank, a first pipeline for purifying the electric discharge machining fluid and sending the electric discharge machining fluid to the clear fluid tank, and a second pipeline for sending the electric discharge machining fluid from the clear fluid tank to the machining tank.
US11179779B2
A flexible porous metal foil sheet made of a metal porous material which use a solid solution alloy, a metal element of a face-centered cubic structure or a metal element of a body-centered cubic structure as the matrix phase, wherein the thickness of the sheet is greater than 200 μm and less than or equal to 1500 μm, the average aperture is 0.05˜100 μm, and the porosity is 15%˜70%. The method for making the flexible porous metal foil comprises: (1) making viscous suspension or muddy paste of raw material powder that will form the metal porous material using a dispersing agent and a binding agent; (2) injecting the suspension or paste into a mold for making membrane, and drying the suspension or paste to form a homogeneous membrane; (3) pressing the membrane to improve the stacking density of the powder particles; and (4) sintering the pressed membrane to obtain the flexible porous metal foil. The flexible porous metal foil has more uniform aperture distribution, and better flatness of the foil.
US11179767B2
“Lost” cores for use high pressure die casting, the cores preferably having a water-soluble synthetic ceramic aggregate having an appropriate strength and tolerance for various casting pressures and temperatures, an inorganic binder having sodium silicate, an additive having particulate amorphous silicon dioxide, and a refractory coating, wherein the cores have the capacity to be removed from a casting by dissolution with water.
US11179766B2
The present invention provides a pull riveting system including two or more pull-rivets and a riveting device, the pull-rivet including a rivet mandrel; the riveting device including two or more rivet gun heads, each provided with a rivet gun hole; wherein each of the pull-rivets is provided with a first label; each rivet gun head is provided with a second label; when one pull-rivet is matched with one rivet gun head, the rivet mandrel of this pull-rivet is applicable to the rivet gun hole of the rivet gun head, and the first label of the pull-rivet is the same as or corresponds to the second label of the rivet gun head. The present invention has the advantageous effects that labels easily identified with naked eyes are arranged on the rivet gun head and the pull-rivet, such that the pull-rivet and the rivet gun head which are matched with each other form a simple correspondence, so that the user may rapidly identify the pull-rivet specification and the rivet gun head matched with the pull-rivet, effectively reducing the waste of the pull-rivets, lowering the damage risk to the rivet gun, and effectively improving the work efficiency.
US11179755B2
A ventilation system is disclosed comprising a main duct (101) connected to at least one motorized fan (105), and further connected to at least one workplace (Wa; Wb; Wc) via a local duct arrangement (102a; 102b; 102c). The local duct arrangement comprises an asymmetrical bend duct section (106). A first and a second pressure sensor (120,122) are arranged on different positions on the outside of the bend duct section and in communication with the interior thereof. The pressure sensors are configured to communicate with a control computer (200) configured to determine a pressure difference between the positions of the sensors and to control the speed of the fan. Further, a method of operating a ventilation system is disclosed and also an asymmetric bend duct section and the use thereof.
US11179752B2
The present invention discloses a roller-type wheel flange surface powder removing device, that includes a corresponding roller brush that is replaced according to the size of a wheel to be processed. A manipulator places the wheel at corresponding positions of limit discs, output ends of cylinders extend to drive pressure blocks to press the wheel, and a sliding seat and a mechanism thereon reciprocate along with a rack within the travel range of guide pillars. While a second motor starts working, a first motor drives a second gear to rotate, and a first gear transmits the rotation speed to the roller brush through a support shaft according to a certain transmission ratio. The roller brush is driven by a third gear 23 and a rack 24 while rotating with the support shaft. The roller brush reciprocates to clean the surface of the wheel.
US11179750B2
For tamping a track, tamping tines are squeezed towards one another in pairs by a squeezing cylinder. A vibration is superimposed on a linear lift motion of a squeezing piston movable in the squeezing cylinder. The vibration is generated by a vibration piston which is arranged in the squeezing cylinder and which is movable independently of the squeezing piston.
US11179744B2
An inner plate assembly for arrangement between top and bottom plates of an applicator for applying fluid-based chemicals to traveling sheets of textile substrates includes a plurality of interlocking plate segments. Each interlocking plate segment includes an outer frame segment and one or more baffle member segments supported by the outer frame segment. Each interlocking plate segment further includes a first interlocking structure disposed at a first end thereof and a second interlocking structure at a second, opposite end thereof to facilitate end-to-end interlocking arrangement of the plurality of interlocking plate segments.
US11179742B2
A method and system for powder coating non electrically conductive elements, preferably brake pads. A pre-treatment station is upstream of an electrostatic powder coating deposition station and a baking station for melting and polymerizing the powder coating in order to form a coating layer on a surface to be coated. The pre-treatment station causes the elements to be coated to conduct electrically by uniformly wetting said elements by means of creating poorly mineralized water covalent bonds on at least one surface to be coated, in an amount aimed at producing a measurable weight increase in the non electrically conductive elements, which then causes them to conduct electrically. The water adsorbed and/or deposited is subsequently eliminated within the baking station.
US11179738B2
A viscous damped deflector in accordance with an embodiment of the present disclosure includes at least one sloped spiral rim extending from a lower surface of a top of the viscous damping chamber that rotates with the rotating distributor of the damped deflector, such that viscous fluid in the chamber is pumped to the center of the chamber as the distributor rotates.
US11179734B2
The present disclosure is directed to a shower assembly in which a handheld shower is removably coupled to a showerhead, where the showerhead has a holder configured to retain the handheld shower. The handheld shower can be inserted into the holder in different ways, while the handheld shower can be removed by first pivoting the handheld shower within the recess followed by extraction from the recess.
US11179728B2
An adjustable toggle assembly adapted for use on an item of crushing equipment having a frame and a jaw, said adjustable toggle assembly. The assembly includes a wedge having a generally tapered configuration, a first wear bar configured to contact the wedge, and a second wear bar configured to contact the wedge. The assembly also has a first cover plate and a second cover plate. The assembly further includes a means for moving the wedge relative to the first wear bar and the second wear bar. The assembly still further includes a first toggle seat that is connected to the frame and a second toggle seat that is connected to the jaw. The means for moving the wedge relative to the first wear bar and the second wear bar is adapted to move the wedge between a contracted position and an expanded position.
US11179708B2
Compositions comprising metal organic frameworks and related methods and uses are generally provided, including use in selective carbonylation of heterocyclic compounds.
US11179707B2
A composite material comprises a macroporous silicate-based material at least partially substituted with at least one microporous zeolite, wherein the microporous zeolite is functionalised with either copper, iron or both copper and iron, and wherein the composite material is in the form of particles. The composite material can be obtained using a method comprising the steps of: (i) providing a mixture comprising a silicate-containing scaffold having a macroporous structure, an aluminium source and an organic template; (ii) hydrothermally treating the mixture to form a microporous zeolite-containing structure substantially retaining the macroporous structure of the silicate-containing scaffold; (iii) incorporating copper, iron or both copper and iron into the zeolite. The silicate-containing scaffold can be a diatomaceous earth.
US11179706B2
A lean NOx trap catalyst and its use in an emission treatment system for internal combustion engines is disclosed. The lean NOx trap catalyst comprises a first layer for storing nitrogen oxides (NOx) under lean exhaust gas conditions and releasing and/or reducing stored NOx during rich exhaust gas conditions, and a second layer, said second layer comprising a first zone for oxidizing carbon monoxide (CO) and/or hydrocarbons (HC), and a second zone for oxidizing nitric oxide (NO), and a substrate having an inlet end and an outlet end.
US11179704B2
The present disclosure provides perovskite catalytic materials and catalysts comprising platinum-group metals and perovskites. These catalysts may be used as oxygen storage materials with automotive applications, such as three-way catalysts. They are also useful for water or CO2 reduction, or thermochemical energy storage.
US11179702B2
An oxidation catalyst for the oxidation of styrene to benzaldehyde and acetophenone, the oxidation catalyst comprising: a porous support; and an active phase comprising an oxygen activation metal comprising cobalt (Co), manganese (Mn), iron (Fe), molybdenum (Mo), or a combination thereof. A method of forming the oxidation catalyst, a method of forming an oxidation product comprising benzaldehyde and acetophenone by contacting the oxidation catalyst with styrene and air in an oxidation reactor, and a system and method for reducing the fouling in a process for the production of styrene by introducing an additive stream comprising at least a portion of the oxidation product into a stream comprising styrene and byproduct divinyl benzene (DVB) are also disclosed.
US11179689B1
A calcium reaction control method and device, which can adjust the input amount of carbon dioxide gas inputted into the calcium reactor according to the measurement of the concentration of carbonate ions in the solution to be tested, and input the calcium reaction water from the calcium reactor into the water tank to provide the required carbonate ion concentration in the water tank. By means of the present invention, the amount of carbon dioxide input and the amount of calcium reaction water can be controlled, which can improve the control accuracy and ease of use.
US11179683B2
The present disclosure provides a microbubble generation device and equipment, wherein the microbubble generation device comprises: a microbubble generation mechanism having a housing and a core tube provided to pass therethrough, wherein at least one filter plate is provided on a peripheral sidewall of the housing, and an annular space is formed between the housing and the core tube; a flow rate control mechanism provided in the annular space, and connected to the core tube that is communicated with the annular space through the flow rate control mechanism, wherein a blocking ball is provided in the flow rate control mechanism and capable of blocking the flow rate control mechanism in a state that a pressure of gas injected into the flow rate control mechanism decreases; and a pressure balancing mechanism provided outside the housing and having a pressure balancing tube and a fluid check valve connected thereto. The present disclosure can withstand a huge pressure difference during a movement within a wellbore from a ground surface to an oil reservoir and take preventive measures for the failure. The gas injection process of the present disclosure not only meets the microbubble volume requirement, but also provides safe control measures.
US11179680B2
A centrifugal filtration device is provided. The centrifugal filtration device has filtration membrane that filtrates liquid; cartridge that supports filtration membrane and that forms liquid chamber together with filtration membrane, wherein liquid chamber holds the liquid therein; and rotating member that rotates around rotation center and that supports cartridge such that filtration membrane is positioned outward of liquid chamber with respect to rotation center. Rotating member has a path that is connected to liquid chamber, and at least a part of a liquid contact part of the path that is in contact with the liquid is formed of titanium or a titanium alloy.
US11179670B2
An environmental control system includes an air conditioning subsystem; a mix manifold downstream of the air conditioning subsystem and upstream of an environment to be conditioned; and a contaminant removal subsystem downstream of the environment to be conditioned. The contaminant removal subsystem includes a first gas-liquid contactor-separator. The first gas-liquid contactor-separator includes a first rotating porous bed that provides a heat/mass transfer surface for contact between a contaminated air from the environment and a liquid absorbent.
US11179658B2
A filter device comprises a filter housing having a filter housing cup and a filter housing cover. An insert insertable into the filter housing comprises an eccentrically arranged and axially projecting first positioning element configured to engage a positioning contour on a side of the filter housing cup. A guide ramp is provided on the filter housing cup and interacts with a guide device arranged on the insert. The guide ramp is formed of at least one ring segment and extends continuously over at most 270°, and the guide device has a second positioning element. At least one web is arranged on the insert and forms the second positioning element, and the at least one web comprises at least two webs with different axial longitudinal extents arranged one of on the lower end plate of the insert and directly on the insert.
US11179656B2
A system is provided for covering a launder channel of a clarifier tank, the launder channel having a tank wall and launder channel wall. The system comprises a mounting section connected to the launder channel wall, a hinge, and an openable cover panel, movable between a closed and open position. The mounting section includes an angled resting structure for supporting the cover panel, when in the open position, away from the mounting section.
US11179655B2
Method for the simulated moving bed (SMB) separation of a feedstock (F), in which: at least one zone (1, 2, 3, 4) contains fewer than three beds, if the stream (D, E, F, R) delimiting said zone and situated upstream of said zone is injected or withdrawn at the plate Pi via the bypass line Li/i+1, then the stream delimiting said zone and situated downstream of said zone is injected/withdrawn at the plate Pj via the bypass line Lj/j+1, and if the stream delimiting said zone and situated downstream of said zone is injected or withdrawn at the plate Pi via the bypass line Li−1/i, then the stream delimiting said zone and situated upstream of said zone is injected/withdrawn at the plate Pj via the bypass line Lj−1/j.
US11179651B2
A model toy includes: a tray support configured to support a supported portion of a tray including first and second opposite placement portions; a housing supporting the tray support rotatably around a first axis and having an opening; a door supported rotatably around a second axis and provided at the opening. The door includes a main body and a regulated portion which are provided at symmetrical positions with respect to the second axis. When the tray support is in an intermediate angle range between a first angle posture and a second angle posture reversed from the first angle posture, at least part of the tray support is located closer to the regulated portion than that in the first and second angle postures such that the tray support regulates an opening operation of the door and supports the door in a closed state.
US11179645B2
A portable interactive game unit including a housing at least partially enclosing a power supply, a feedback generator for providing at least one of an auditory feedback signal, a tactile feedback signal and a visual feedback signal, a controller including at least a processor and a memory for storing at least a representation of a game scenario, and a wireless inter-device communication module for communicating with another game unit, wherein in operation the processor calculates at least one game parameter based on a signal of the wireless inter-device communication module using the representation of the game scenario and a performance dependent parameter.
US11179644B2
Disclosed are issue tracking systems, troubleshooting techniques, and user interfaces for troubleshooting, which are associated with a user of a software application triggering the recording of a session. During the session, the user may narrate suggestions or problems for the application while they interact with the application in real-time, and a recording engine of the application may record various types of session data, such as the user's interaction, the user's narration, telemetry data, call stack data, and so forth. The session data is automatically submitted to an issue tracking system to process and associate with a support ticket. The issue tracking system may provide a user interface enabling a developer to review a support ticket and any associated session data to quickly determine the relevant portion of the application data (e.g., underlying program code) that needs to be modified. The issue tracking system may also process session data to identify related tickets or recurring issues.
US11179630B2
A computer system that includes at least two game devices is provided. A first game device is used by a user to play a game and a second game device is used to receive state data regarding playing the game on the first game device. The state data is continuously applied to a game that is executed on the second game device to allow for the user to seamlessly transition to playing the game on the second game device.
US11179627B2
A gaming method includes the steps of: providing a gaming application to a player, the application enabling the player to engage in a game in which a winner is determined based on the winner's location; defining the physical coordinates of a game-winning space; determining the position of the player by determining the position of a telecommunication device in the physical possession of the player; and providing an award to the player when the position of the player is determined to be within the game-winning space.
US11179616B2
Training accessories and methods for improving athletic techniques, such as, for example, tackling form for football. A display can be coupled to a piece of athletic equipment, such as a tackling dummy, and the display depicts a symbol at a time at which a player is or is about to interact with the equipment or perform a movement or action. An input is provided of the player's identification of the depicted symbol and compared to the symbol that was actually depicted. The player's correct identification of the depicted symbol can indicate that the player performed the movement or action, or the interaction with the equipment, with appropriate form. A player's failure to correctly identify the depicted symbol can indicate to a coach that the player may need further instruction on proper technique or form with which the movement or action, or the interaction with the equipment, should be performed.
US11179615B1
An exercise machine rail system for improved exerciser mounting and dismounting, improved functional ergonomics, and reduced risk of exerciser injury when using an exercise machine. The exercise machine rail system generally includes either two rails in close relationship which are linked together via connectors or a singular rail. Bias members are disclosed as either extending along either outer side of the rails, internally to the rail, or underneath the rail. Due to the narrow nature of the rails used by the present invention, an exerciser is able to mount and dismount the exercise machine easily and efficiently.
US11179604B2
A golf ball with a core comprising polybutadiene and graphene is disclosed herein. The golf ball has a single core comprising polybutadiene and graphene. Alternatively, the golf ball has a dual core with an inner core comprising polybutadiene and graphene. Alternatively, the golf ball has a dual core with an outer core comprising polybutadiene and graphene.
US11179601B2
An exercise feedback system monitors the performance of athletes wearing a garment with sensors while exercising. The sensors generate physiological data such as muscle activation data, heart rate data, or data describing the athlete's movement. The system extracts features from the physiological data and compares the features with reference exercise data to determine metrics of performance and biofeedback. Based on the physiological data, the system may also modify exercise training programs for the athlete. The exercise feedback system can display the biofeedback using visuals or audio, as well as modified exercise training programs, via the athlete's client device in real time while the athlete is exercising. By reviewing the biofeedback, the athlete may correct the athlete's exercise form to properly use the target muscles for the exercise, or change the certain workouts to personalize the training program.
US11179600B2
A method for calculating the position of an athlete, referred to as target, on a sports field, including estimating an approximate position of the target using a radio-based positioning system, the system including tracking sensors attached to several athletes on the sports field and antennas installed around the sports field, defining a search space around the approximate position, detecting an athlete in the search space using an optical-based positioning system, the system including cameras installed above and/or around the sports field and image recognition device, determining an accurate position of the detected athlete, attributing the accurate position to the target.
US11179594B2
An adjustable dumbbell device includes a handle bar, a housing attached to one end of the handle bar, one or more weight elements engageable into the housing, and a catch is slidably received and engaged in the housing and extendible out of the housing to engage with either the weight elements and to anchor either of the weight elements to the housing and the handle bar and for micro adjusting the weight of the dumbbell assembly. The housing includes a guide channel for slidably receiving the catch. The housing includes a chamber communicating with the guide channel of the housing for receiving and engaging with the weight elements.
US11179591B1
A weight sled that allows both linear and non-linear movements such that resistance training can be performed in the frontal, sagittal, and combined frontal/sagittal planes, and which allows easy movement for transportation, storage, and retrieval from storage. The weight sled uses one or more swiveling, pivoting, or omni-directional wheels that allow all or a portion of the sled to be moved laterally. The addition of wheel configurations allowing of lateral movement of all of, or a portion of, the weight sled greatly expands the utility of weight sleds because movement in any direction can be trained, whether in the sagittal body plane (forward/backward movements), the frontal body plane (lateral movements), or a combination of the two. Additionally, the plurality of wheel configurations allows for a variety of storage arrangements.
US11179586B2
A concertina smoke or fire barrier comprising a curtain having a plurality of concertina-fold curtain webs and a plurality of concertina flanges. The flanges extend from a stitching joint between each adjacent pair of curtain webs. Normally closed door opening in the curtain, the door opening being provided by a slit extending through several of curtain webs and their flanges. Cuts in the flanges adjacent to the slit allow flange portions between the slit and the cuts to be stitched against their webs. A strip of curtain web material is stitched to the curtain webs on one side of the slit for covering it when the door opening is closed. Hook and loop fastening tape is located on both sides of the slit, one piece of the tape being stitched to the strip and another complementary piece being stitched to the curtain webs to the other side of the slit.
US11179581B2
Stimulating cell activity within a tissue is performed by an ultrasound array transducer having a plurality of transducer elements and a controller that actuates a plurality of transducer elements to emit focused acoustic energy to a plurality of focal zone locations in a scan direction at a focal zone scan rate. The actuation of the plurality of transducer elements to emit focused acoustic energy to the plurality of focal zone locations in the scan direction at the focal zone scan rate is repeated for a plurality of sweep cycles at a sweep rate which stimulates cells for optimal tissue growth.
US11179580B2
Systems and methods for non-invasive fat reduction can include targeting a region of interest below a surface of skin, which contains fat and delivering ultrasound energy to the region of interest. The ultrasound energy generates a thermal lesion with said ultrasound energy on a fat cell. The lesion can create an opening in the surface of the fat cell, which allows the draining of a fluid out of the fat cell and through the opening. In addition, by applying ultrasound energy to fat cells to increase the temperature to between 43 degrees and 49 degrees, cell apoptosis can be realized, thereby resulting in reduction of fat.
US11179579B2
An image-guided radiation therapy apparatus comprises: a high-energy ray source configured for radiation therapy of an object; and a KV ray source, a first and second PET detectors, and a CT detector for KV CT and PET imaging for guiding the radiation therapy. The KV ray source is placed on, or at an inner or outer side of the first PET detector; the second PET detector and the CT detector are configured to receive the KV ray to perform KV CT imaging; the PET detectors are further configured to receive gamma ray emitted by the object to perform PET imaging.
US11179577B2
Systems and methods are provided for designing and/or modifying a radiation therapy bolus for the reduction of hot spots. A digital bolus model may be modified based on the identification of a peak in the outer surface of the digital bolus model, where the peak satisfies search criteria associated with the generation of a hot spot through scattering from the peak. The digital bolus model is modified within a region surrounding the peak to smooth the peak and thereby reduce the intensity of the hot spot. The modified digital bolus model may be employed to fabricate a bolus for use in radiation therapy. The search criteria may be evaluated according to a proximity between a location measure associated with the peak and a location measure associated with the hot spot, optionally when the location measures are projected in a reference plane that resides perpendicular to the beam axis.
US11179570B2
In at least one example, a medical device is provided. The medical device includes at least one therapy electrode, at least one acoustic sensor, and at least one processor coupled with the at least one therapy electrode and the at least one acoustic sensor. The at least one processor is configured to deliver at least one pacing pulse via the at least one therapy electrode and to analyze processed acoustic data to determine whether the at least one pacing pulse resulted in capture.
US11179569B2
An example of a system and method for protecting a patient diagnosed of cancer from cardiac injury resulting from a chemotherapy treating the cancer. A sequence of cardioprotective pacing sessions may be initiated based on timing of the chemotherapy. Cardiac pacing pulses may be delivered to the patient during each session of the cardioprotective pacing sessions according to a cardioprotective pacing mode for controlling delivery of the cardiac pacing pulses to effect cardioprotection against potential myocardial injury resulting from the chemotherapy. The cardioprotective pacing mode may specifying alternating non-pacing and pacing periods.
US11179566B2
A method, comprising, fitting an electrical stimulating device to the recipient, the electrical stimulating device including electrodes implanted in the recipient, the electrical stimulating device being a multipolar electrical stimulating device, wherein the fitting includes simultaneously applying multipolar stimulation to the recipient via the electrodes based on at least two different stimulation channels of the electrical stimulating device.
US11179565B2
The invention provides a non-invasive skin treatment device (100) comprising an r.f. treatment electrode (10); a return electrode (40); an r.f. generator (20) configured and arranged such that, during treatment, an r.f. treatment signal is applied between the r.f. treatment electrode (10) and the return electrode (40) for heating an inner region (15) of skin; an impedance measurement circuit (35) configured and arranged to measure, before treatment of the inner region, an initial skin impedance (Zo) between the r.f. treatment electrode (10) and the return electrode (40); and a treatment settings determiner (30) configured and arranged to determine, before treatment of the inner region (15), treatment settings associated with the r.f. treatment signal depending on the initial skin impedance (Zo) and on a dimension of the r.f. treatment electrode (10) in the contact plane, the treatment settings comprising at least one of a treatment duration (TD) associated with a desired treatment result, and an r.f. electrical parameter associated with the r.f. treatment signal. The skin treatment device (100) further comprises a controller (25) configured and arranged to consecutively activate the impedance measurement circuit (35) and the treatment settings determiner (30) before treatment of the inner region (15), configure the r.f. generator (20) to provide the r.f. treatment signal according to the treatment settings, and activate the r.f. generator (20) to apply the r.f. treatment signal to the inner region (15) for the treatment duration (TD). The invention is based on the insight obtained from multiple measurements made during the creation of microscopic thermal lesions in an inner region of skin by applying r.f. measurement and treatment signals. By analyzing the histological and heating results, a relationship was obtained between the initial impedance (Zo), the dimension of the r.f. treatment electrode (10), and the treatment settings required to obtain a particular skin treatment result. This relationship has been found to be relatively constant for different subjects, different treatment locations on the body and different skin moisture contents. The invention makes it possible to preset or predetermine, i.e. in advance, the treatment duration (TD) and/or the r.f. electrical parameters associated with the r.f. treatment signal accurately enough to avoid undesired skin damage during the treatment. The device can be simpler, as it is no longer essential to continuously monitor the impedance during treatment to determine the onset of undesired skin damage, such as ablation, which is the safety feature known from conventional devices.
US11179563B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a system and method of determining muscle efficiency and inefficiency in a patient or subject and being able to quantitatively determine measurements that communicate between practitioners the condition, the health, and the efficiency state of any muscle. The efficiency of a muscle is defined by the ability of the brain to bridge a proper communication to the muscle by sending normal action potentials; the bridge is often compromised during injury, improper training, or from poor habits of bodily movement. The standardization of these efficiencies allows for the isolation of particular areas of the muscles that are inefficient and efficient. Further, with varied application of electrical pulses, a bridge that mimics the natural action potential is provided and can enhance muscle efficiency in a way that achieves higher levels of success in bodily healing and physical training than in any prior art. The current invention uses multiple, select sets of electrical currents at sound wave frequencies with specific forms of movements. The application of electrical currents can also be synchronized with extensions and contractions of muscles to stimulate the expedited bridging of brain to muscle and increase the efficiency of muscles. The current invention discloses a system to deliver these electrical currents and offers the capabilities to standardize these techniques to reconnect the brain to these muscles to an efficient level.
US11179560B2
Energy is transmitted noninvasively to a patient using electrode-based stimulation devices or magnetic stimulation devices that are designed to non-invasively stimulate nerves selectively. The devices produce impulses that are used to treat atrial fibrillation, by stimulating a vagus nerve of a patient. The devices are also used to forecast the imminent onset of atrial fibrillation and then avert it by stimulating a vagus nerve.
US11179556B2
A system for providing vascular access in a patient's body may comprise at least one hemostatic valve (610) and at least one clamp (210) to be used with a vascular graft (110). The vascular graft (110) comprises a tubular body having a proximal end (110A) and a distal end (110B), the proximal end (110A) being configured to be attached to a vessel in a patient's body. The at least one valve (610) is configured to be attached to the distal end (110B) of the graft's tubular body and comprises a housing (616) including a flexible membrane (611) that allows a medical device (810) to be inserted through the membrane (611) into said vascular graft (110). The valve (610) further comprises an introducer sheath (615) configured to be inserted into the distal end (110B) of the graft's tubular body. The at least one clamp (210) is configured to be disposed around the graft's tubular body and has a first configuration that allows insertion of the valve's introducer sheath (615) into the distal end (110B) of the graft's tubular body and a second configuration that allows clamping of the graft (110) against the valve's introducer sheath (615), when inserted in the graft's tubular body.
US11179544B2
Embodiments of the invention include a single lumen catheter for delivering high pressure contrast injection for TAVR procedures. The catheter comprises a main lumen for delivering contrast media extending from the proximal end to the distal pigtail end, a distal end hole for delivering contrast media, one or more side holes proximate of the end hole along the catheter shaft on the distal angled portion, a distal angled section that is angled from the main catheter lumen axis, a distal pigtail configuration that is angled from the axis of the distal section, and a distal pigtail loop. Other embodiments are also included herein.
US11179543B2
Systems and methods of implanting a vascular access technologies and declotting vascular access technologies, such as vascular access assemblies that facilitate hemodialysis, are provided. The methods can include disposing a first tubular conduit within a patient to access a vascular access assembly within the heart of the patient. The first tubular conduit can be coupled to the vascular access assembly such that the first tubular conduit can be decoupled from the vascular access assembly to evacuate a clot within the vascular access assembly, and then recouple the first tubular conduit to the vascular access assembly.
US11179542B2
An implantable prosthesis is provided for repairing a fistula, such as an anal fistula. The prosthesis or fistula repair device may include a body with a shape configured for placement in the fistula. The prosthesis may also include an anchor or base that is located at one or both ends of the body to facilitate anchoring the prosthesis in position. The prosthesis may include one or more channels to create one or more pathways for drainage and/or irrigation of the fistula. The channel may have a relatively uniform dimension along its length or a tapered shape that increases along its length. The prosthesis may have an adjustable length for accommodating fistula tracts of varying lengths. The prosthesis may include elongated body segments that provide a wicking or capillary function to facilitate drainage of the fistula tract.
US11179541B2
The invention discloses methods and systems for modulation of the central nervous system and more particularly for modulation of brain oscillatory activity and the brain networks that give rise to it. The methods involve using one or more non-invasive stimuli, either alone or in combination, to increase, decrease, or otherwise modulate neural oscillations, the rhythmic and/or repetitive electrical activity generated spontaneously and in response to stimuli by neural tissue in the central nervous system. Various embodiments concern methods and devices for detecting sub-optimal or pathological neural oscillatory patterns, developing treatment protocols to modify the neural oscillations in a desired manner, introducing a non-invasive stimulus or stimuli through one or more sensory pathways to treat the conditions, and for adjusting the treatment protocol to optimize the therapeutic effect of the stimulus or stimuli.
US11179534B2
A patient interface for delivery of a supply of pressurised air or breathable gas to an entrance of a patient's airways comprising: a cushion member that includes a retaining structure and a seal-forming structure permanently connected to the retaining structure; a frame member attachable to the retaining structure; and a positioning and stabilising structure attachable to the frame member.
US11179531B2
Systems for use in assisted respiration can permit insertion of one or more elongated medical instruments into the proximal and/or distal airway of a patient during administration of assisted respiration, which may, in some instances, proceed with a patient awake or only minimally sedated. In some systems, a bite block is coupled with a mask and is movable relative to the mask such that the system is capable of accommodating differing patient anatomies.
US11179521B2
The invention provides a syringe for use in an ophthalmic injection. The syringe comprises a body, a stopper and a plunger. The body comprises an outlet at an outlet end and the stopper is arranged within the body such that a front surface of the stopper and the body define a variable volume chamber from which a fluid can be expelled though the outlet. The plunger comprises a plunger contact surface at a first end and a rod extends between the plunger contact surface and a rear portion. The plunger contact surface is arranged to contact the stopper but not couple thereto, such that the plunger can be used to force the stopper towards the outlet end of the body, reducing the volume of the variable volume chamber, but not to move the stopper away from the outlet end.
US11179516B2
A medical fluid delivery machine includes a pump interface having an actuation area for delivering positive or negative pressure to a medical fluid handling device; a pressure sensor positioned to measure pressure within the actuation area; a valve positioned to selectively vent the actuation area to atmosphere; and a control unit in signal communication with the pressure sensor and control communication with the valve, the control unit performing a sequence during pumping, wherein (i) application of positive pressure or negative pressure to the actuation area is stopped, the valve is switched to vent the actuation area to atmosphere, then switched to close the actuation area to atmosphere, and at least one pressure signal reading is taken via the pressure sensor, and (ii) a determination is made whether positive pressure or negative pressure to the chamber should be resumed based on the at least one pressure signal reading.
US11179502B2
Provided herein are methods of making a biomimetic hydrogel scaffold comprising a polycation and a polyanion. Also provided are anisotropic biomimetic hydrogel scaffold compositions suitable for use in tissue growth, including bone, muscle, and nerve growth an optionally comprising a carbon allotrope such as graphene. Also provided are methods of producing tissue comprising growing tissue on the biomimetic hydrogel scaffold comprising a polycation and a polyanion.
US11179501B2
The disclosure relates to compounds and compositions for bone formation, fracture treatment, bone grafting, bone fusion, cartilage maintenance and repair and methods related thereto. In certain embodiments, the disclosure relates to compositions comprising one or more compound(s) disclosed herein, such as clotrimazole, honokiol, magnolol, tacrolimus, pimecrolimus, sirolimus, everolimus, temsirolimus, spironolactone, fluticasone, fluticasone propionate, fluticasone furoate, linezolid, telmisartan, chlorambucil, retinol, isotretinoin, acitretin, etretinate, retinoic acid (tretinoin), teniposide, mitomycin C, cytarabine, decitabine, vinblastine, vincristine, vindesine, vinorelbine, valrubicin, doxorubicin, daunorubicin, epirubicin, idarubicin, mitoxantrone, pixantrone, plicamycin, pazopanib, topotecan, camptothecin, irinotecan, sunitinib, derivatives, or salt thereof, for use in bone growth processes. In a typical embodiment, a bone graft composition is implanted in a subject at a site of desired bone growth or enhancement.
US11179498B2
Medical devices having engineered mechanically functional cartilage from adult human mesenchymal stem cells and method for making same.
US11179497B2
Disclosed herein are improved surgical techniques for repairing bone defects in a sternum during a sternotomy procedure and implants adapted for such techniques. In an exemplary embodiment, provided is a fusion strip made of an osteoconductive material and of a dimension that is especially adapted for improved repair of sternal bone defects.
US11179487B2
An ice maker includes an ice making unit comprising an evaporator connected to a refrigeration system, an ice holding bin, a sump, a pump, a drain valve, an ozonated water source, and a controller. The controller activates the ozonated water source supplying a first volume of ozonated water to the sump, thereafter activates the pump to circulate the first volume of ozonated water from the sump to the ice making unit, once a predetermined sterilization time has been reached, the controller turns off the pump and drains the first volume of ozonated water from the sump. The controller initiates an ice making mode, and activates the ozonated water source to supply a second volume of ozonated water to the sump, thereafter activates the pump to circulate the second volume of ozonated water from the sump to the ice making unit forming ozonated ice on the evaporator, and initiates an ice harvest mode to remove the ozonated ice from the evaporator and delivers it to the ice holding bin.
US11179478B2
The present invention relates to the use of at least one tetra functional non-ionic amphiphilic block copolymer as a vehicle for capped or uncapped mRNA for intracellular delivery for gene therapy.
US11179472B2
Disclosed herein are molecules and pharmaceutical compositions that induce an insertion, deletion, duplication, or alteration in an incorrectly spliced mRNA transcript to induce exon skipping or exon inclusion. Also described herein include methods for treating a disease or disorder that comprises a molecule or a pharmaceutical composition that induces an insertion, deletion, duplication, or alteration in an incorrectly spliced mRNA transcript to induce exon skipping or exon inclusion.
US11179471B2
Provided is a peptide represented by the following formula (I): R1-IWLTALX5FLGX6X1AAX7X2X3AX8QX4LSX9L-R2 (I) wherein X1, X2, X3, X4, X5, X6, X7, X8, X9, R1, and R2 are as defined in the specification.
US11179467B2
Disclosed are an exenatide modifier for connecting the exenatide to a fatty chain with a carboxy in the terminus thereof by means of a hydrophilic connecting arm, and a use thereof in preparing drugs serving as a GLP-1 receptor agonist; a use in preparing drugs for preventing and/or treating diseases and/or symptoms associated with a low GLP-1 receptor activity; a use in preparing drugs for diseases and/or symptoms associated with glycometabolism; a use in preparing drugs for diabetes; a use in preparing drugs for fatty liver disease, and a use in preparing drugs for losing weight.
US11179463B2
The present invention relates to pharmaceutical formulations of a pharmaceutically active antigen binding protein, for example a monoclonal antibody. Such formulations comprise, in addition to the antigen binding protein, a buffering agent and a tonicity agent.
US11179462B2
The invention relates to the fields of vaccines and vaccine adjuvants, and generally relates to polynucleotide adjuvants, polynucleotide vaccines and vaccine compositions. More specifically, the invention relates to said polynucleotides and vaccine compositions for use in inducing or enhancing a prophylactic or therapeutic immune response in a mammalian subject. Furthermore, it relates to said polynucleotides and vaccine compositions for use in the prophylactic or therapeutic treatment of an infectious disease, such as in the prophylactic or therapeutic treatment of leishmaniasis.
US11179457B2
The present invention relates to killed/inactivated and/or recombinant Senecavirus A immunogenic compositions and vaccines, and methods of preventing or treating animals in need of with such an immunogenic compositions and vaccines.
US11179456B2
The invention relates to a nucleic acid encoding a polypeptide comprising a plurality of conserved peptide sequences, or variants thereof, wherein the conserved sequences are conserved across one or more HPV genotypes 16, 18, 31, 52, 53, and 58; and wherein the polypeptide comprises a conserved peptide sequence of each of the HPV proteins E1, E2, E4, E5, E6, and E7; and associated vaccines, viral vectors, treatment and prophylaxis.
US11179450B2
A long-chain peptide antigen includes a plurality of epitopes. An interepitope sequence located between two of the plurality of epitopes contains four to ten consecutive tyrosines. The long-chain peptide antigen may be administered to a patient together with a hydrophobized polysaccharide, such as cholesterol-modified pullulan, and/or an adjuvant, such as CpG oligo DNA.
US11179447B2
The present invention relates to microbial lysozyme, compositions comprising such and uses thereof.
US11179437B2
A method of treating a condition associated with aberrant protein degradation is disclosed. The method comprises administering to a subject in need thereof a therapeutically effective amount of an agent, which reduces the amount of CSN Acidic Protein (CSNAP) which is incorporated into the COP9 signalosome complex (CSN) of the cell.
US11179436B2
In an aspect, the invention relates to compositions and methods for permeabilizing membranes of cells. In an aspect, the invention relates to compositions and methods for killing cells. In an aspect, the invention relates to compositions and methods of permeabilizing the membranes of cancer cells or microbial cells.
US11179424B2
An agent of the present invention comprising poultry feet or a processed product thereof, preferably a hydrolysate of an extract of poultry feet, promotes hyaluronic acid production, thereby exhibiting excellent effects of preventing or treating a joint disorder, improving skin dryness, wrinkles or skin tension, moisturizing the skin, etc. The agent is thus useful as a medicament, a quasi-drug, a cosmetic product, a food product or an animal feed.
US11179423B2
Methods of enhancing fertility of a female subject by increasing the number of oogonia present in the ovary of the female subject are provided. Aspects of the methods include methods of in vivo expansion of oogonia as well as methods of ex vivo expansion of oogonia.
US11179419B2
The present disclosure provides methods for re-stimulating TIL populations that lead to improved phenotype and increased metabolic health of the TILs and provides methods of assaying for TIL populations to determine suitability for more efficacious infusion after re-stimulation.
US11179418B2
The present invention relates to peptides, proteins, nucleic acids and cells for use in immunotherapeutic methods. In particular, the present invention relates to the immunotherapy of cancer. The present invention furthermore relates to tumor-associated T-cell peptide epitopes, alone or in combination with other tumor-associated peptides that can for example serve as active pharmaceutical ingredients of vaccine compositions that stimulate anti-tumor immune responses, or to stimulate T cells ex vivo and transfer into patients. Peptides bound to molecules of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), or peptides as such, can also be targets of antibodies, soluble T-cell receptors, and other binding molecules.
US11179416B2
The present disclosure relates to manganese dioxide nanoparticles and their use in treatment of oxidative stress and conditions related to or characterized by oxidative stress, including osteoarthritis.
US11179412B2
A method of treating a patient having an elevated inflammatory response, such as an elevated Type I interferon response, is provided. The method can be used to treat sepsis. The method comprises administering to a patient having an elevated inflammatory response, an inhibitor of anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK inhibitors) or expression of ALK, in an amount effective to treat the elevated inflammatory response.
US11179411B2
An object of the present invention is to provide ASO that can effectively suppress a formation of RNA foci spontaneously occurring in neurons having SCA36 mutation, without inducing the cleavage of NOP56 pre-mRNA. The present invention provides an oligonucleotide comprising a nucleotide sequence in which one or more nucleotide sequences represented by SEQ ID NO: 2 are consecutively connected and is complementary to pre-mRNA of NOP56 gene, wherein a structure formed by the hybridization of the oligonucleotide to the pre-mRNA is resistant to RNaseH.
US11179406B2
Disclosed are methods of reducing the incidence of necrotizing enterocolitis in an infant, toddler, or child using nutritional compositions including human milk oligosaccharides. The nutritional compositions including the human milk oligosaccharides are effective in reducing inflammation and the incidence of inflammatory diseases.
US11179401B2
The present invention relates to a method for maintaining normoglycemia in a mammal in need thereof, preferably a critically ill patient suffering from acute stress, and to a method for preventing or limiting renal ischemia-reperfusion (I/R) in a mammal, preferably in a critically ill patient suffering from acute stress.
US11179395B2
Provided herein are methods for treating melanoma in a subject.
US11179392B2
The present invention provides a solid pharmaceutical formulation of PARP inhibitors and its use thereof, and more specifically a solid dispersion powder including 5-fluoro-1-(4-fluoro-3-(4-(pyrimidin-2-yl)piperazine-1-carbonyl)benzyl)quinazoline-2,4(1H,3H)-dione and polymers, wherein the content of polymers is from about 50 wt % to about 80 wt %, and wherein less than 10 wt % of 5-fluoro-1-(4-fluoro-3-(4-(pyrimidin-2-yl)piperazine-1-carbonyl)benzyl)quinazoline-2,4(1H,3H)-dione is in crystalline form. The present invention also provides a method for preparing the solid dispersion powder, a pharmaceutical composition including the solid dispersion powder and the use of the pharmaceutical composition for treating diseases caused by PARP activity abnormalities.
US11179387B2
There is provided a therapeutic agent for Alzheimer's disease and Lewy body dementia for combined use of (S)-7-(2-methoxy-3,5-dimethylpyridin-4-yl)-1-(tetrahydrofuran-3-yl)-1H-pyrazolo[4,3-c]quinoline-4(5H)-one represented by formula (1): or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and donepezil represented by formula (II): or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
US11179383B2
The present disclosure provides a compound of Formula (I): or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof as described herein. The present disclosure also provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising a compound of Formula (I), processes for preparing compounds of Formula (I), and therapeutic methods for treating inflammatory disease.
US11179375B2
Provided herein are drug products with low dose pioglitazone for use in the treatment (e.g., delay of onset) of cognitive impairment of the Alzheimer's type. Methods of manufacture thereof are also provided. Further provided are methods of treatment for Alzheimer's disease including administering a drug product with low dose pioglitazone. The methods may include determining whether the subject is at risk of developing Alzheimer's disease based upon the subject's age and TOMM40 523 genotype.
US11179361B2
Methods of quantifying a N2-(1-carboxyethyl)-2′-deoxyguanosine (CEdG) levels in biological samples and comparing those levels to known normal levels can diagnose a number of metabolic disorders or complications associated therewith, including diabetes, its associated complications, and cancer. Methods can also determine whether therapies for disorders are effective by measuring CEdG levels before and after treatment. Measurement of CEdG levels is achieved by using liquid chromatography electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry.
US11179356B2
Methods of weight management for a subject are provided. Generally the methods comprise: administering an effective amount to the small intestine and/or large intestine of the subject of at least one agent that increases oxygen tension and/or redox potential and/or pH in the colon of the subject to thereby manage the weight of the subject. Also provided are compositions comprising at least one agent that increases oxygen tension and/or redox potential and/or pH, wherein the composition is formulated for delivery of an effective amount of the at least one agent to the small intestine and/or large intestine of a subject following oral administration of the composition to the subject.
US11179354B2
In certain embodiments, this disclosure relates to methods of treating or preventing nephrogenic diabetes insipidus comprising administering an effective amount of a compound of Formula (I) or derivatives thereof, as described herein, to a subject in need thereof. In certain embodiments, the subject has been diagnosed with nephrogenic diabetes insipidus.
US11179330B2
The present invention provides an oral transmucosal film or patch for delivering doxepin through the buccal mucosa or sublingual mucosa. The film or patch is a bilayer structure containing a mucoadhesive layer with amorphous doxepin and soluble backing layer without doxepin. The film or patch has satisfactory bioavailability and improved palatability. The mucoadhesive layer comprises 0.5-25% (w/w) of doxepin, 50-96% of one or more film-forming agents, 1-30% (w/w) of one or more adhesives, and 0.05-5% (w/v) of one or more stabilizers. The backing layer comprises 80-100% (w/w) of one or more film-forming agents. Preferred adhesives include povidone, carbomer, and polycarbophil. Preferred stabilizers include butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA), butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT), citric acid, and ascorbic acid.
US11179325B2
The present invention provides combination therapies for treating a metabolic disorder, such as type 2 diabetes, obesity, and related comorbidities (e.g., NASH or NAFLD)) in an individual undergoing treatment with a gastrointestinal implant. The combination therapies described herein include methods for treating an individual with a gastrointestinal implant with a metabolic agent, a bariatric procedure, and/or a microbiota modulator.
US11179319B2
The present specification relates to a method for extracting a plant by using a skin serum that can be used for skin care. This method can further increase the process efficiency and extract active ingredients more effectively than conventional extraction methods using a solvent. Thus, the method can increase customer satisfaction and promote the development of relevant industries.
US11179312B2
The invention relates to aqueous compositions for hair treatment, comprising polyorganosiloxanes A) or organic compounds B) having certain functional groups, in particular aldehyde and unsaturated dicarboxylic acid moieties, hair treatment or hair care compositions comprising the aqueous compositions, a process for the treatment of hair which comprises the steps of providing the aqueous compositions and applying said aqueous compositions to the hair, and the use of the aqueous compositions for the treatment of hair.
US11179305B2
A method of reducing oxidative damage of skin is described. The method can include applying to oxidant damaged skin a topical composition that includes encapsulated resveratrol, oligopeptide-1, and niacinamide, wherein the combination of encapsulated resveratrol, oligopeptide-1, and niacinamide reduces oxidative damage in the skin, and wherein the oligopeptide-1 comprises the sequence of caprooyl-Gly-His-Lys-Lys.
US11179301B2
A skin cleansing composition includes surfactant, glycerin, perfume, and water, where at least a portion of the composition is in a lamellar phase.
US11179299B2
A system for providing an oral care agent includes a first layer containing the oral care agent and a second layer. The first layer can be applied directly to teeth. The second layer can subsequently be applied onto the first layer to inhibit leakage of the oral care agent outwards into the mouth.
US11179294B2
A particulate plug for removing a preservative from a solution, suspension, or emulsion comprising a drug is presented. The plug comprises microparticles of a hydrophobic polymer/fatty acid blend. The microparticles of hydrophobic polymer/fatty acid blend selectively absorb preservative allowing the drug to remain in solution for delivery.
US11179293B2
A patient support system with chest compression system and harness assembly with sensor system. The harness assembly secures shoulders and hips of the patient on a patient support surface during transport. A chest compression system is integrated into the harness assembly in a manner that provides chest compressions to the patient while the patient is secured on the patient support surface. The tension of the harness assembly is selectively adjusted and/or a fluid bladder may be selectively expanded. A controller is in communication with the chest compression system and controls operation of the chest compression system. The sensor system is integrated into the harness assembly and in communication with the controller. The chest compression system may be removable from the harness assembly via an adapter. The chest compression system may be integrated into the patient support apparatus to secure the patient to the patient support surface while providing chest compressions.
US11179287B1
Methods, apparatus, and systems for reducing transmission of aerosol droplets in a medical or dental procedure are described. One protective shield system includes a base plate, a shield having at least one transparent section, and a pipe or conduit comprising a plurality of holes thereon. The shield is configured to be removably attached to the base plate to allow attachment of the shield to the base plate prior to the medical or dental procedure and removal of the shield from the base plate after the medical or dental procedure. The pipe or conduit is positioned adjacent to an inner surface of the shield and on at least part of a perimeter of the shield. The pipe includes an end that is configured to connect to a suction system to enable removal of the aerosolized particles from below the shield during the medical or dental procedure.
US11179283B2
A patient support apparatus includes a frame supported relative to a floor, the frame configured to support a deck for supporting a patient thereon, and a lift assembly for raising or lowering the frame relative to the floor. The lift assembly includes lifting legs coupled to the frame and an actuator with a body and an extendible member. The body and the extendible member define a stroke length extending along a stroke axis, with the actuator mounted in the lifting assembly between two levers.
US11179282B2
An auxiliary loading device of a stretcher including a winch having a support frame rotatably supporting a spool, a tow strap wound on the spool and having a tow hook attachable to the stretcher, and a motor connected and configured to rotate the spool in a first direction for winding the tow strap on the spool and in a second direction for unwinding the tow strap from the spool. A sensor is connected to the winch to detect a value of a parameter indicative of a tension of a unwound section of the tow strap including the tow hook, and an electronic control unit operatively connected to the sensor unit and the motor of the winch to stop rotation of the spool when operated to rotate in the second direction if the value of the parameter indicative of the tension is less than or equal to a reference value.
US11179278B2
An absorbent article includes a chassis comprising a topsheet, a backsheet, and an absorbent core disposed between the topsheet and the backsheet, and at least one elastically elongatable panel joined to the chassis. The elastically elongatable panel includes an ultrasonically bonded stretch laminate. The stretch laminate has at least one cover layer; and an elastomeric film having two surfaces and a skin on at least one of the surfaces. The stretch laminate has a first zone that is not elastically extensible along a stretch direction and a second zone that is elastically extensible along the stretch direction; and at least a portion of the skin of the elastomeric film is located in the first zone and wherein said portion of the skin has a plurality of wrinkles and the wrinkles have furrows.
US11179273B2
A sound attenuation system can include a first end that can include a shaft and a flange, the flange can be coupled to the shaft, and a second end that can include a filter stem and a cap. The filter stem can have a hole. The cap can have a first position in which the cap occludes the hole and can have a second position in which the cap is clear of the hole.
US11179266B2
Devices to secure the hand of a patient to a limb positioning device while evenly distributing the applied traction load across the patient's hand and wrist are disclosed. The hand is placed in the open position into a soft mitten, while an anatomically-shaped plate is attached to the mitten for supporting the palm of the hand in the open position. Straps are then secured around the patient's wrist and hand. Finally, the entire device is overwrapped an elastic bandage and secured to the limb positioning device. When traction is applied, the shape of the plate, the construction of the mitten, and the straps combine to allow low-contact pressure across the patient's hand and wrist.
US11179265B2
A therapeutic orthopedic device is described. The orthopedic device serves to restrain and limit movement of a human arm and shoulder. The device comprises a torso pillow, a padded forearm support attached to the pillow and a shoulder strap that traverses the clavicle region of the opposite shoulder. The pillow is positioned to rest against the torso of a user and the strap is positioned over the opposite shoulder. The forearm support acts as a shelf upon which the user's forearm may rest in a natural position. Flexible straps extend from the forearm support, over the user's forearm, and engage with the pillow to secure the forearm.
US11179259B2
An orthotic support comprises a shoulder section for encapsulating a first shoulder of a wearer, a glove section for conforming to at least a portion of the wearer's hand, and a sleeve section for conforming to the wearer's arm, the sleeve section connecting the shoulder section to the glove section. A resilient reinforcement extends from the glove section to the shoulder section, and at least a portion of the reinforcement extends in a spiral around the sleeve section, so that the reinforcement is configured to apply a rotational force to the wearer's arm, when worn, to urge a portion of the wearer's arm to rotate in a predetermined direction. The orthotic support may be usable to treat or prevent shoulder dislocation or subluxation, arm over-pronation or over-supination, wrist flexion or elbow flexion. An orthotic support may comprise a reinforcement with a first branch extending over an anterior portion of the sleeve section, and a second branch extending over a posterior portion of the sleeve section, so that the reinforcement is configured to urge the wearer's upper arm towards a rest position.
US11179244B2
An interbody device may include a main body and an arm movably connected thereto. The device may have a first end, a second end opposite the first end in a direction of a longitudinal axis of the device, a first side, a second side opposite the first side in a direction of a first transverse axis of the device, a third side, and a fourth side opposite the third side in a direction of a second transverse axis of the device. An overall distance between the first side and the second side may increase along at least a majority of a length of the device in a direction from the first end toward the second end, and an overall distance between the third side and the fourth side may increase along at least a majority of the length in a direction from the second end toward the first end.
US11179237B2
A valvular sleeve for valvular prostheses including a tubular body extending between an inflow end and an outflow end, the tubular body including a sheet member folded at the outflow end, whereby the tubular body includes an inner tubular portion and an outer tubular portion surrounding the inner tubular portion.
US11179235B2
Graft materials and devices for surgical breast procedures, as well as methods of making graft devices, are described.
US11179231B2
An oral irrigator handle for receiving an oral hygiene agent is described. The handle may be connected to a countertop oral irrigator or may be a portion of a handheld oral irrigator. The handle includes a chamber for receiving the oral hygiene agent, where the chamber body positioned within the fluid path of the handle. Fluid flowing into the handle, flows into the chamber, allowing the fluid to intermix with the agent, and then flows from the chamber to a tip connected to the handle.
US11179229B2
A dental floss type tooth cleaning device that is configured to clean tooth gap in oral cavity is disclosed. The invention is mainly configured to allow the user, who is preparing to use dental floss to clean tooth gap, to quickly wind the dental floss which follows a floss groove and is tightened and fixed. The dental floss can be dismantled quickly and disposed after use, so as to achieve a recyclable effect.
US11179226B2
An orthodontic bracket is described and which includes an archwire slot for receiving and cooperating with an archwire having a given shape, and wherein the bracket body has multiple forms each having an immovable anterior facing surface which lies in a given plane, and wherein the various forms of the bracket body can be rendered operable to express first, second or third order movement to a patient's tooth undergoing a clinician directed orthodontic treatment.
US11179222B2
A repositionable, lockable support arm assembly for surgical and other tools includes a base arm having a lower end and an upper end, a distal arm having a proximal end and a distal end, and a central joint, typically a rotational joint, directly or indirectly linking the upper end of the base arm to the proximal end of the distal arm. A lower joint, typically a spherical joint, is positioned at the lower end of the base arm, and an upper joint, also typically a spherical joint, is located at the distal end of the distal arm. A locking mechanism is coupled to the base arm at a location above the lower joint and is configured to simultaneously deliver locking forces to the lower joint, to the rotational joint, and to the upper joint. The kicking mechanism usually includes a powered, bilateral force generator for actuating the locking mechanism.
US11179215B2
Some embodiments described herein relate to an arm cart operable to transport a robotic arm to and/or from a surgical table. The robotic arm can be coupled to the arm cart via a connector. The connector can be slideably mounted to the arm cart such that the connector and the robotic arm, collectively, can move relative to the arm cart. For example, when the arm cart is adjacent to the surgical table, the connector and the robotic arm can be movable to provide final, fine adjustments to align the robotic arm with a coupling portion of the surgical table.
US11179214B2
A powered user interface for a robotic surgical system includes a handle on a linkage having a plurality of joints, a base, and actuators. The interface operates in accordance with a first mode of operation in which a plurality of its actuators are operated to constrain predetermined ones of the joints to permit motion of the handle in only 4DOF with respect to the base, and a second mode of operation in which the actuators permit motion of the handle in at least 6DOF with respect to the base.
US11179202B2
A method is described for planning intracorporeal positioning of a puncture needle to be introduced percutaneously into a patient on the basis of a puncture plan, said method comprising the following steps: a) arranging a needle guide means in a spatially fixed manner on the patient; b) generating and storing a series of cross-sectional images, each containing spatially resolved image information of the patient and of the needle guide means attached in a spatially fixed manner to the patient in a first coordinate system, using an imaging diagnostic method; c) selecting and visually displaying at least one cross-sectional image or a numerically generated cross-sectional image from the series of stored cross-sectional images; d) superimposing a virtual, positionally variable linear trajectory on the basis of the selected cross-sectional image; e) positioning the virtual linear trajectory on the basis of the puncture plan to obtain a target linear trajectory, in which the virtual linear trajectory traverses the needle guide means; f) numerically determining spatial coordinates of two separate spatial points, or traverse points, within the first coordinate system, at which traverse points the target linear trajectory traverses the needle guide means; g) transforming the spatial coordinates relating to the needle guide means and to the traverse points to a second coordinate system; and h) visually displaying the needle guide means within the second coordinate system in such a manner that the traverse points are shown visibly marked on the needle guide means.
US11179195B2
Methods for treating polycystic kidney disease with therapeutic renal neuromodulation and associated systems and methods are disclosed herein. One aspect of the present technology is directed to methods that at least partially inhibit sympathetic neural activity in nerves proximate a renal artery of a kidney of a patient. One or more measurable physiological parameter corresponding to the polycystic kidney disease can thereby be reduced. Moreover, central sympathetic drive in the patient can be reduced in a manner that treats the patient for the polycystic kidney disease. Renal sympathetic nerve activity can be modulated along the afferent and/or efferent pathway. The modulation can be achieved, for example, using an intravascularly positioned catheter carrying a neuromodulation assembly, e.g., a neuromodulation assembly configured to cryotherapeutically cool the renal nerve or to deliver an energy field to the renal nerve.
US11179191B2
An electrosurgical instrument includes a housing, an elongated shaft, and an end-effector assembly. The proximal end of the shaft is operably associated with the housing. The end-effector assembly is operably coupled to the distal end of the shaft and includes first and second jaw members. Each of the first and second jaw members includes a sealing plate and a bipolar electrode. Either one or both of the first and second jaw members is movable from a position in spaced relation relative to the other jaw member to at least one subsequent position wherein the sealing plates cooperate to grasp tissue therebetween. The electrosurgical instrument includes a semiconductor switch operably coupled to at least one of the sealing plates and at least one of the bipolar electrodes. The semiconductor switch is configured to enable user selection between energizing the at least one sealing plate or the at least one bipolar electrode.
US11179190B2
An electrosurgical device comprising: (a) a stylet including: (i) a first jaw; (ii) a second jaw that is movable relative to the first jaw from a first position where the first jaw and the second jaw are open to a second position where the first jaw and the second jaw move towards each other to grasp tissue therebetween; and (iii) one or more jaw support rods connected to the first jaw, the second jaw, or both; and (b) a housing connected to the stylet and the stylet extending from the housing, the housing including: (i) an operable mechanism including: (1) a fourth link; (2) a second link; (3) a first link being connected to the fourth link via a first pivot and being rotatable relative to the first pivot, and connected to the second link at a second pivot so that movement of the first link moves the second link relative to the fourth link; and (4) a third link being connected to the second link at a third pivot so that movement of the second link moves the third link, and the fourth link being connected to the third link at a fourth pivot, the third link moving about the fourth pivot to move the one or more jaw supports so that the first jaw and the second jaw are moved between the first position and the second position; and wherein the fourth link is the housing and the first link is a clamp lever that extends outside of the housing and is actuated by a user.
US11179189B2
A monopolar electrosurgical instrument and electrosurgical system for treating biological tissue by a plasma. The instrument includes a tubular line for conducting a gas to the treatment location, wherein the line consists of electrically insulating material and has a distal opening for the exit of the gas in the direction of the tissue to be treated, and an electrode arranged in the region of the distal opening in the line, wherein the electrode is connectable to an electrosurgical generator to ignite a plasma discharge in the gas. Improving the ignition behavior, the inner surface of the line has an enhanced electrical conductivity in the distal opening. Furthermore, a method for producing an electrosurgical instrument for providing a line made of nonconductive material, an electrode, and enhancing the conductivity of an inner surface of the line in the region of the opening, for enhancing the conductivity in the line.
US11179180B2
A bone fixation system includes a plate body that defines an interior surface that defines at least one hole defining a central axis. The internal surface defines plate threads within the hole. The system includes a bone screw having a shaft extending from head along a central axis, wherein the head has an exterior surface that defines threads that are configured to threadedly engage the plate threads. The plate threads and head threads each have a cross-sectional profile in a respective reference plane extending along the respective central axis. The cross-sectional profiles each comprise roots, crests, and flanks extending therebetween. The roots, crests, and flanks collectively deviate from a reference cross-sectional profile that is V-shaped in the respective reference plane and defines crest reference points at apices at a first side thereof and root reference points at apices at a second side thereof opposite the first side. Such deviation causes a thread height measured from the crests to the roots to be less than a reference height measured from the crest reference points to the root reference points, such that a ratio of the thread height of the head threads to the reference height of the head threads is from 0.50:1 to 0.80:1, and a ratio of the thread height of the plate threads to the reference height of the plate threads is from 0.50:1 to 1.00:1.
US11179173B2
In one embodiment, a surgical instrument comprises an articulable waveguide. The articulable waveguide may be configured to transmit ultrasonic energy therealong. The articulable waveguide comprises a proximal drive section, an end effector and a first flexible. The proximal drive section is configured to couple to an ultrasonic transducer. The end effector is located at a distal portion of the articulable waveguide. The first flexible section comprises a flex bias and be positioned between the proximal drive section and the end effector. The surgical instrument further comprises a first tine extending longitudinally relative to the articulable waveguide.
US11179156B2
In some implementations, a radially self-expanding endograft prosthesis is provided that includes (i) distal flange that is self-expanding and configured to flip generally perpendicularly with respect to a body of the prosthesis to help seat the prosthesis against a tissue wall, (ii) a distal segment extending proximally from the distal flange that has sufficient stiffness to maintain a puncture open that is formed through a vessel wall (iii) a compliant middle segment extending proximally from the distal segment, the middle segment being more compliant than the distal segment, and having independently movable undulating strut rings attached to a tubular fabric, the combined structure providing flexibility and compliance to allow for full patency while flexed, the segment being configured to accommodate up to a 90 degree bend, (iv) a proximal segment having a plurality of adjacent undulating strut rings that are connected to each other.
US11179155B2
An anvil for a surgical stapler. In at least one form, the anvil includes an elongate anvil body portion that has an upper portion and a staple forming undersurface. An anvil mounting portion is adjacent to the elongate anvil body and is configured to movably support the anvil on a portion of the surgical stapler. An anvil cap is configured to be mechanically interlocked to the upper portion of the elongate anvil body. At least one weld is provided between the anvil cap and the upper portion of the elongate anvil body portion.
US11179138B2
Exemplary embodiments provide systems and methods for portable medical ultrasound imaging. Preferred embodiments utilize a tablet touchscreen display operative to control imaging and display operations without the need for using traditional keyboards or controls. Certain embodiments provide ultrasound imaging system in which the scan head includes a beamformer circuit that performs far field sub array beamfonning or includes a sparse array selecting circuit that actuates selected elements. Exemplary embodiments also provide an ultrasound engine circuit board including one or more multi-chip modules, and a portable medical ultrasound imaging system including an ultrasound engine circuit board with one or more multi-chip modules. Exemplary embodiments also provide methods for using a hierarchical two-stage or three-stage beamforming system, three dimensional ultrasound images which can be generated in real-time.
US11179132B2
An x-ray imaging apparatus and associated methods are provided to process projection data from an offset detector during a helical scan, including view completion. The detector may be offset in the channel and/or axial direction. Projection data measured from a current view is combined with projection data measured from at least one conjugate view to reconstruct a target image. A two-dimensional aperture weighting scheme is used to address data redundancy.
US11179129B2
An apparatus for creating a radiation treatment plan for execution by a radiation treatment machine, includes: a waypoint module configured to obtain imaging waypoint data representing imaging waypoints, the imaging waypoints at least partially defining one or more positions for obtaining images of a patient during a treatment session; a treatment trajectory module configured to obtain treatment data at least partially defining a beam-on direction; a treatment plan generator configured to create the radiation treatment plan based at least in part on the imaging waypoint data and the treatment data.
US11179126B2
A radiation source of a mammography apparatus includes plural first radiation tubes and one second radiation tube. The first radiation tubes are used for tomosynthesis imaging. In contrast, the second radiation tube is used for pre-imaging which is performed before the tomosynthesis imaging in order to set the irradiation conditions of radiation in the tomosynthesis imaging. The first radiation tubes are provided at plural positions where the focuses of the radiation are set so as to be arranged in a linear shape or an arc shape at equal intervals. The second radiation tube is provided at a position that is offset from the plural positions where the first radiation tubes are provided to a rear side which is a side opposite to the irradiation side of the radiation.
US11179121B2
When a wire rope (55) is broken, the wire rope (55) will sag from the state in which the wire rope is tensioned with a predetermined tension. At this time, a pin (71) is pressed toward a movable support (42) by a biasing force of a spring (73), and the tip of the pin (71) is brought into contact with the surface of the movable support (42). When the support arm (43) is ascended or descended with respect to the movable support (42) and the pin (71) is arranged at a position facing the hole (65) formed in the movable support (42), the tip of the pin (71) is entered into the hole (65), so that the pin (71) and the hole (65) are engaged with each other. Thereby, the support arm (43) is fixed with respect to the movable support (42).
US11179119B2
This X-ray fluoroscopic imaging apparatus includes a first arm, a second arm, and a controller. The controller is configured to move a second base to move the second arm to a position where the second arm does not interfere with the first arm when the first arm and the second arm interfere with each other and change the angle of the second arm so that the angle of the second arm becomes a predetermined imaging angle to arrange the first arm and the second arm at positions where the first arm and the second arm do not interfere with each other to perform imaging.
US11179116B2
Methods, devices, systems, and apparatus for controlling pulse pileup are provided. In one aspect, a method of controlling pulse pileup includes: obtaining scan protocol parameters of a computed tomography (CT) device, the scan protocol parameters including an exposure voltage, an exposure duration for each revolution of a scanning of an object, and a number of views for each revolution, determining an angle of a radioactive source for an i-th view based on the number of views and an initial position of the radioactive source, obtaining an optimal exposure current for the i-th view under the exposure voltage by minimizing an output value of an objective function for the i-th view, and determining a current view based on the exposure duration for each revolution and a current exposure moment to perform the scanning on the object with the optimal exposure current for the current view.
US11179113B2
A presentation method for presenting a time period to measure a blood glucose level, the presentation method includes: acquiring first information, the first information including a measurement result in which a glucose level of a user is measured with a time interval using a first measurement device and a measurement time at which the measurement result was acquired; determining, based on a comparison result obtained by comparing the first information with a predetermined threshold of the glucose level and a preset period, the time period for the user to measure the blood glucose level by using a second measurement device; and presenting the time period at a display.
US11179112B2
The local conduction velocity of a cardiac activation wavefront can be computed by collecting a plurality of electrophysiology (“EP”) data points using a multi-electrode catheter, with each EP data point including both position data and local activation time (“LAT”) data. For any EP data point, a neighborhood of EP data points, including the selected EP data point and at least two additional EP data points, can be defined. Planes of position and LATs can then be defined using the positions and LATs, respectively, of the EP data points within the neighborhood. A conduction velocity can be computed from an intersection of the planes of positions and LATs. The resultant plurality of conduction velocities can be output as a graphical representation (e.g., an electrophysiology map), for example by displaying vector icons arranged in a uniform grid over a three-dimensional cardiac model.
US11179103B2
Disclosed is a wearable step counter system comprising a garment for a wearer's legs, a capacitive electrode and a microcontroller, said garment comprising a textile fabric portion, said capacitive electrode comprising an electrically conductive yarn woven into said textile fabric portion, said textile fabric portion being arranged on said garment for providing a parasitic capacitive coupling between said capacitive electrode and a wearer's leg, said microcontroller being electrically connected to said capacitive electrode for evaluating said parasitic capacitive coupling so that the relative movement between the wearer's legs is detected by the microcontroller.
US11179097B2
Tactile sensing devices, systems, and methods to image a target tissue location are disclosed. When force is applied to the tactile sensing device, voltage data is detected and visualized on a screen, indicating the target tissue location.
US11179091B2
A neural stimulus comprises at least three stimulus components, each comprising at least one of a temporal stimulus phase and a spatial stimulus pole. A first stimulus component delivers a first charge which is unequal to a third charge delivered by a third stimulus component, and the first charge and third charge are selected so as to give rise to reduced artefact at recording electrodes. In turn this may be exploited to independently control a correlation delay of a vector detector and an artefact vector to be non-parallel or orthogonal.
US11179090B2
Provided in the embodiments of the present disclosure are a control method and device based on brain signal, and a human-machine interaction device, which periodically acquire EEG signals and cerebral oxygen signals within a target period, generate an electroencephalogram (EEG) wave curve representing changes of the EEG signals and a cerebral oxygen wave curve representing changes of the cerebral oxygen signals respectively within the target period, determine whether the EEG wave curve and the cerebral oxygen wave curve satisfy a condition for controlling a controlled device to perform a target operation, and control the controlled device to perform the target operation when the EEG wave curve and the cerebral oxygen wave curve satisfy the condition.
US11179085B2
A technical solution is described for implementing a computer-executed signal processing algorithm to search for time domain segments of a recorded electroencephalogram (EEG) that are highly correlated, either positively or negatively, to one or more, individual, synthetically generated, single-period single-frequency (SPSF) sinusoids. The SPSFs are motivated by the combined concepts of individual Striatal Beat Frequencies (SBF) used to model cortical neuron activity, Frequency Domain Reflectometry used to study Voltage Standing Wave Ratios (VSWR), Geophysics Seismograms, and ghosting effects of multipath passing through periodic sinusoids. This computationally intense approach is only recently realizable through the advent of high performance computing. The SPSF approach, since it is not constrained to the error-laden one-window-fits-all approach of the Time-Frequency Spectrogram, offer's a more detailed basis to assess, and truer visualization of, the health of brain's electrical activities. This approach is a push-back against the Uncertainty Principal.
US11179082B2
A driving assistance device (1) includes: a somatic nervous system activity detector (11) detecting a somatic nervous system activity, which is a physical activity, of a driver in association with steering of a vehicle; an autonomic nervous system activity detector (12) detecting an autonomic nervous system activity, which is a mental activity, of the driver in association with the steering of the vehicle; a somatic nervous system activity controller (perception amount controller (2)) which is operable to control the somatic nervous system activity; an autonomic nervous system activity controller (sound effect generator (3)) which is operable to control the autonomic nervous system activity; and a psychosomatic state controller (balance controller (14)). The psychosomatic state controller causes the somatic nervous system activity controller and the autonomic nervous system activity controller to operate such that the two activities shift to the same side with respect to increase and decrease.
US11179078B2
Embodiments of the invention provide compositions useful in analyte sensors as well as methods for making and using such compositions and sensors. In typical embodiments of the invention, the sensor is a glucose sensor comprising an analyte modulating membrane formed from a polymer composition having carbonate and aromatic isocyanate chains, a composition observed to provide such membranes with improved material properties such as enhanced thermal and hydrolytic stability.
US11179068B2
Devices associated with on-body analyte sensor units are disclosed. These devices include any of packaging and/or loading systems, applicators and elements of the on-body sensor units themselves. Also, various approaches to connecting electrochemical analyte sensors to and/or within associated on-body analyte sensor units are disclosed. The connector approaches variously involve the use of unique sensor and ancillary element arrangements to facilitate assembly of separate electronics assemblies and sensor elements that are kept apart until the end user brings them together.
US11179065B2
Systems, methods and software products determine an overall motion and/or flexibility envelope for an individual. Movement and position data of the individual is captured and processed to generate an overall motion and/or flexibility envelope for the individual defining overall motion and/or flexibility of the individual. The systems include a flexibility server with memory and a processor adapted to receive movement and position data of the individual, a motion and/or flexibility analyzer, implemented as machine readable instructions stored in the memory and executed by the digital processor, capable of processing the movement and position data to generate an overall motion and/or flexibility envelope for the individual defining overall motion and/or flexibility of the individual.
US11179062B2
Orthopedic systems and methods are provided for use in preparing joints for implants. Specifically, hip preparation systems and methods are disclosed which can include a surgical orientation device. The hip preparation systems and methods can be used, for example, to orient the hip during the procedure, determine the orientation of an anatomical plane or planes, and orient a prosthetic component or components.
US11179053B2
A graphical user interface (GUI) including: (a) a group definition module adapted to accept a user input defining groups; (b) a data receiver operable to receive a plurality of individual measurement input datum indicative of status of a substrate; (c) a grouping module configured to assign each of said individual measurement input datum to one of said groups to produce grouped data; and (d) an output module adapted to output the grouped data.
US11179052B2
Example embodiments associated with characterizing a sample using NMR fingerprinting are described. One example NMR apparatus includes an NMR logic that repetitively and variably samples a (k, t, E) space associated with an object to acquire a set of NMR signals that are associated with different points in the (k, t, E) space. Sampling is performed with t and/or E varying in a non-constant way. The NMR apparatus may also include a signal logic that produces an NMR signal evolution from the NMR signals and a characterization logic that characterizes a tissue in the object as a result of comparing acquired signals to reference signals. Example embodiments facilitate distinguishing diseased tissue from healthy tissue based on tissue component fractions identified using the NMR fingerprinting.
US11179050B2
Most automatic cuff blood pressure (BP) measurement devices are based on oscillometry. These devices estimate BP from the envelopes of the cuff pressure oscillations using fixed ratios. The values of the fixed ratios represent population averages, so the devices may be accurate only in subjects with normal BP levels. A patient-specific oscillometric BP measurement method was developed. The idea was to represent the cuff pressure oscillation envelopes with a physiologic model and then estimate the patient-specific parameters of the model, which includes BP levels, by optimally fitting it to the envelopes.
US11179047B2
A system and method is presented for cuff-less blood pressure measurement in a mobile device. A key aspect of this disclosure is the discovery of a new location for blood pressure measurement at the fingertip of a subject and that reflectance-mode photoplethysmography can be used to help make this measurement. Through experiments in human subjects, it was discovered that it is indeed possible to measure systemic blood pressure by having a subject press the fingertip against a reflectance-mode photo-plethysmography-force sensor unit under visual guidance and then compute blood pressure from the resulting variable-amplitude blood volume oscillations and applied pressure via an oscillometric algorithm.
US11179040B2
An attachable monitoring device includes a battery unit, a flexible printed circuit board and a physical condition sensor and an adhesive. The battery unit includes a top surface, a bottom surface and a plurality of side surfaces connecting the top surface and the bottom surface. The flexible printed circuit board is bent to cover the top surface, the bottom surface and one of the side surfaces and electrically connected to the battery unit. The flexible printed circuit board includes a printed antenna printed on a first outer surface of the flexible printed circuit board. The physical condition sensor is disposed on a second outer surface of the flexible printed circuit board opposite to the first outer surface. The physical condition sensor includes a sensing region for contacting a user to detecting a physical-condition signal of the user. The adhesive is disposed on the flexible printed circuit board for being attached to the user.
US11179034B2
An ophthalmic apparatus according to an embodiment includes a fixation system, a data acquisition device, analyzing circuitry, and controlling circuitry. The fixation system projects fixation light onto a subject's eye. The data acquisition device acquires data by applying optical coherence tomography scanning to the subject's eye onto which the fixation light is being projected. The analyzing circuitry analyzes the data to specify the position of a predetermined site of the subject's eye. The controlling circuitry controls at least one of the fixation system and the data acquisition device based on the positional relationship between the position of the predetermined site specified by the analyzing circuitry and a scan area by the data acquisition device.
US11179020B2
A domestic appliance, for example a washing machine, comprises a body having an access opening to a process chamber arranged inside the body, a door which is movably attached to the body and which closes the access opening in a closed position, a door-closing mechanism for holding the door closed in its closed position and a door-opening mechanism arranged on the body or on the door, having a push slider, which is movable between a retracted position and a deployed position, and a drive unit for driving the push slider. A transfer of the push slider out of the retracted position into the deployed position effects opening of the closed door, the push slider acts in a pressure-exerting manner on the door or on the body and thereby overcomes a holding-closed action of the door-closing mechanism and opens the closed door.
US11179013B2
The fluid damper device (10) has the rotor (30) which is inserted to the bottomed cylindrical case (20) and the cover (60) which is fixed to the opening portion (29) of the case (20). The welding protrusions (80) which are to be welded to the cover (60) are formed on the inside circumferential surface of the case (20) and spaced out in the circumferential direction. On the other side (L2) in the axial (L) direction of the welding range (X), within which the welding protrusions (80) and the cover are welded together, the first outflow prevention portion (91L, 91R) is formed. On the other side (L2) of the first outflow prevention portion (91L, 91R) in the axial (L) direction, the arc-shaped step surface (76) which functions as the outflow regulation portion (95) is provided to regulate the resin protruded and prevented it from reaching the position of the R-ring (49).
US11179007B2
Disclosed is a vacuum compartment structure for a cup lid and a manufacturing method thereof. The vacuum compartment structure for a cup lid includes a stainless steel cylinder body and a compartment upper cover. The compartment upper cover is covered on the cylinder body and has an inwardly recessed shape, and the compartment upper cover and the cylinder body are fixedly connected and sealed by laser welding. The compartment upper cover and the cylinder body form a vacuum chamber, which has a getter therein. The compartment upper cover is arranged with a plastic upper cover layer, an outer surface of the cylinder body is wrapped with a plastic lower cover layer, and the plastic upper cover layer is combined with the plastic lower cover layer to fasten and wrap the compartment upper cover and the cylinder body.
US11179005B2
A mechanism for raising and lowering a cooking surface within a recessed combustion chamber is provided.
US11179001B2
In order to heat a bag filled, for example, with a food product to a predeterminable temperature, the entire cassette (1) has been heated in the past. The invention relates to a cassette (1) made of plastic, wherein in each of the cassette shells (2, 3) a receiving recess (10) is formed, in each of which a respective heat-conducting plate (11) is arranged securely in position. A heating element (20) is applied to the heat-conducting plate (11) and the heat-conducting plate (11) is retained in an insulated manner on the respective cassette shell (2, 3) such that a thermal insulating air gap remains between the heat-conducting plate (11) or the heating element (20) and the cassette shell (2, 3).
US11179000B2
A cooking apparatus includes a cooking container, a heater, a driving unit, and a heat insulating member. The cooking container is configured to store food. The heater is configured to heat the cooking container. The driving unit includes a power generator configured to generate power for rotating the cooking container and a driving shaft extending in one direction and rotated by the power generator. The heat insulating member is provided between the cooking container and the power generator to prevent heat generated by the heater from being transferred to the power generator.
US11178998B2
A beverage discharge disposition comprising a discharge casing (1) configured so that can be provided in the front region of a beverage preparation machine (20), including the option of supplying milk and frothed milk, whereby said discharge casing (1) presents a milk circulation disposition (2) that is characterized in that presents a simple and compact construction adapted so that can be attached in removable manner to an attached part of said discharge casing (1) and to provide an ergonomic use of said beverage preparation machine (20). Also, a beverage preparation machine (20) presenting an optimized beverage discharge disposition according to the present invention.
US11178997B2
A machine (1) for dispensing an ice beverage in the form of a pourable homogenous mixture of ground ice, liquid and flavour ingredients such as fruit, vegetables, fruit juice, milk, yoghurt or the like. The machine (1) includes a blending unit (3) for blending the constituents of the ice beverage, and an ice dispensing unit (5) for supplying ice to the blending unit (3). The ice dispensing unit (5) includes a portion control device for measuring a predetermined quantity of ice required for blending. The blending unit (3) includes a bendable spout (41) for selectively releasing blended constituents from the blending unit (3). The ice dispensing unit (5) is advantageously able to dispense accurate portions of ice and does not require connection to an external water line or access to a floor drain. The blending unit (3) is advantageously able to produce and pour an ice beverage without requiring a blending container (43) of the unit (3) to be tilted, turned upside down and shaken.
US11178994B2
A capsule for preparing beverages, in particular coffee, is described, comprising a containing body having a first portion, the containing body defining an internal volume adapted to contain a substance to be infused, the first portion being composed of: a first perimeter edge; a first central portion onto which at least one external pressing force is applied; a first crown portion collapsible towards inside the containing body under the action of the pressing force exerted at least on the first central portion and/or on the first crown portion, the first crown portion being interposed between the first perimeter edge and the first central portion, the first crown portion being connected on its perimeter to the first perimeter edge by interposing a first bending line and being connected to the first central portion by interposing a second bending line.
US11178973B2
A furniture spring system, configured to provide a seating surface. The furniture spring system comprising a lid comprising a frame. The frame comprising two opposing frame members and a retention member associated with at least one of the two opposing frame members, a slat extending between the two opposing frame members, the slat comprising an elongate body having a first end and a second end and a catch disposed at the first end or second end, wherein the catch engages the retention member to retain the slat to the frame and the catch is configured to slide back-and-forth relative to the retention member as a portion of the elongate body between the first end and the second end elastically flexes downward and upward in response to forces intermittently pushing downward on the slat during use.
US11178968B2
A furniture assembly comprises two or more drawers and a plurality of pouches disposed at a rear lower portion of the furniture assembly. The plurality of pouches are filled with water, sand, or dirt. The water may contain a plurality drops of bleach. A minimum weight of the plurality of pouches is determined from torque balance of forces and weights. In one example, the plurality of pouches are disposed at a rear portion of a lower drawer. A rear wall of the plurality of pouches directly contacts a rear wall of the lower drawer. A top surface of each of the plurality of pouches and a top surface of a rear wall of the lower drawer are coplanar.
US11178967B2
An articulated storage apparatus has a mounting plate having openings for fasteners to mount to a stable stationary surface, a first arm extending from the mounting plate, a second arm coupled at a first end to the first arm at an end away from the carrier plate by a first vertically-oriented rotation mechanism driven by a first electric motor, a carrier plate having openings for fasteners to mount to a storage container, a third arm extending from the carrier plate coupled at an end away from the carrier plate to the second arm at a second end opposite the first end by a second vertically-oriented rotation mechanism driven by a second electric motor, and a control system having independent drivers for the first and the second electric motors, with inputs for independently rotating the electric motors in opposite directions.
US11178963B2
The present invention relates to a book holder capable of holding books having various thicknesses and, specifically, to a book holder capable of holding a thick book open, as is, without folding the pages thereof.
US11178961B2
A toothbrush device having a body defining a cavity and an input port disposed on the body in fluid communication with the cavity. The input port permits brushing by-products to pass through the input port and into the cavity while restricting passage of the brushing by-products outward from the cavity. In one form, the toothbrush device includes an elongated handle with a reservoir having at least a portion disposed within the handle. The reservoir is sized to hold a predetermined amount of oral care product, and a mouthpiece is in fluid communication with the reservoir to discharge the oral care product from the reservoir.
US11178959B1
A support pole system for supporting articles above the ground or earth includes a support pole formed from at least two elongated pole sections that are movably coupled together so that the pole sections can be moved relative to one another between collapsed and extended positions to shorten and lengthen the support pole. An article head piece is coupled to an upper end of the support pole for attaching articles to the support pole. A base assembly couples to the lower end of the support pole and has a stake configured for insertion into the ground or earth for supporting the support pole in an upright position. The stake has projecting members that engage the ground or earth when the stake is inserted therein to prevent rotation of the stake about the longitudinal axis of the stake. A cross member is positioned at an upper end of the stake to form a footrest to facilitate insertion of the stake into the ground or earth.
US11178950B2
A handbag, backpack or luggage with an incoming call reminding function, comprising: an incoming call reminding device equipped inside a handle of the handbag and used for sensing an incoming call signal of a mobile phone nearby and reminding by vibrating. The incoming call reminding device having a battery, mainboard, vibration motor and a cable, wherein the vibration motor receives the signal transmitted by the mainboard and vibrates to alert when the mobile phone has an incoming call. There may be at least one cavity (which may be in an inner padding material) and holds the incoming call reminding device inside of a handle or backpack strap. The vibration motor, mainboard and battery may be placed separately and substantially in a line, to keep in a narrow space inside of the handle or strap.
US11178947B2
The disclosure includes a wallet comprising an open-sided shell, a flexible member coupled to the open-sided shell, and an elastic band coupled to the flexible member. The flexible member may comprise an internal surface and an external surface located opposite the internal surface. In some embodiments, the open-sided shell is coupled to the internal surface. The wallet may be configured to move between open, closed, and clamshell positions. In the clamshell position, the elastic band may be configured to wrap around an external surface of the flexible member, thereby holding the wallet shut.
US11178943B2
A metallic watch strap, including a first metallic strap half and a second metallic strap half. The first metallic strap half extending along a longitudinal direction and having an upper side and a lower side. The second metallic strap half having a folding clasp with a first fastening structure equipped to be fastened to the first strap half and with a second fastening structure equipped to be fastened to the second strap half. The first fastening structure has a slide, which, in a first state, is displaceable relative to the first strap half in a guided manner, and including a fixation element, which, in a second state, abuts on the first strap half. The first strap half has fixation indentations and the fixation element has at least one fixation projection fitting into the fixation indentations. In the second state, the fixation projection engages into one of the fixation indentations.
US11178941B2
A fastener tape includes a mounting part for mounting a fastener element and a sewing part for sewing a fabric. The mutually adjoining sides of the mounting part and sewing part are integrally connected to each other. Another side of the mounting part which is spaced distantly from the sewing part provides a fastener element mounting side for mounting the fastener element. The sewing part is constituted of a plain weave texture.
US11178940B2
A slider for a slide fastener useable with a slider with an automatic stop function to secure a tab to enable automatic engagement and prevent swinging of the tab, regardless of the type of tab, when the tab is tilted to an engaged portion side. An engaging portion is formed in an attachment hole of the tab. An engaged portion is formed in the slider body or the tab attachment part. When the tab is tilted to be almost parallel to an upper blade on the engaged portion side of the tab attachment part, due to a biasing force of the spring member, the lock pin moves the shaft portion of the tab downward and to an opposite side of a tilted direction, and a tip portion of the engaging portion of the tab is pulled into to be engaged with the engaged portion side of the tab attachment part.
US11178938B2
A method of producing a customized shoe last for individual fitting and shaping of the inner surface of the shoe includes production of a shoe last based on a precise shape and size of the digital foot model. The actual physical shape of the foot is converted into a foot model using 3D scanning. The digital foot model is divided into parts required for insertion and functioning of a mechanism, and simulation of the bend in the metatarsophalangeal and ankle joints. The parts of the foot obtained by dividing the digital model are then manufactured. An extendable mechanism to move the parts of the shoe last against each other in three axes of coordinates is developed, based the produced parts, an individual shoe last is manufactured in the form of a physical foot model, configured for personal fitting and shaping of an inner surface of the shoe.
US11178932B2
Sports boot including a shell and a liner, the shell extending upward so as to at least partially surround the lower leg of a user and including at least one tightening device configured to tighten the lower leg of the user. The tightening device includes the following: a first strap portion attached to the shell using a first anchoring mechanism; a second strap portion; mechanism configured to pair the first strap portion with the second strap portion; adjusting mechanism configured to adjust the length of the first strap portion or the length of the second strap portion; and a second anchoring mechanism configured to optionally connect the second strap portion to the shell.
US11178931B2
A protective helmet including a visor attached to the external sides of the helmet shell. The shell includes substantially flat mount surfaces on each side which correspond with substantially flat portions on the respective ends of the visor. A fastener hole on the shell aligns with an access hole on the visor so that the two elements can be releasably fastened. The access hole provides space for a fastener to protrude out from the surface of the shell, allowing the visor to sit flush against the shell when fastened together. The helmet may include chin straps which are attached to the inner surface of the shell. The helmet may also include a catch strip on the front of the visor which protrudes from the visor such that it can prevent a cloth helmet cover (sometimes used in games such as Roller Derby) from easily sliding off the helmet.
US11178930B2
An improved design for a helmet to reduce injuries caused by helmet-to-helmet collisions. Certain embodiments include novel quick release features that permit the detachment of a facemask from a helmet in 30 seconds or less so as to attend to an injured player in a rapid fashion. Other aspects relate to impact energy absorbing constructions employing an inner layer, an outer layer spaced apart from the inner padding layer, at least one layer that includes an array of polygonal structures, and at least one layer having a shock-absorbing elastomer, a visco-elastic polymer, an impact dispersing gel, or shape memory material. Still other embodiments include a wireless device with a sensor module coupled to the football helmet generating sensor data in response to an impact to the football helmet.
US11178928B2
A bill cap or baseball cap has a crown and a bill as conventional. Additional, the bill cap has an elastic panel affixed at an edge thereof to front and left side edges of the bill. The elastic panel is capable of being flipped between an upward position in which the panel extends upwardly from the bill, and a downward position in which the panel extends downwardly from the bill. In the downward position the panel provides additional shading for the eyes of the wearer and/or privacy for the wearer when viewed from the side, thus providing additional anonymity for the wearer such as from paparazzi.
US11178927B2
A collapsible artificial tree is provided. The collapsible artificial tree includes one or more branch assemblies extending from an elongated trunk, wherein each branch assembly can transition between an extended configuration and a retracted configuration. Each branch assembly includes a scissor arm having a plurality of beam members pivotally linked to one another, wherein the scissor arm is connected to a first and second collar. The first collar and second collar are disposed in a stacked orientation along the trunk, wherein the second collar is slidably engaged with the trunk. As the second collar slides towards the first collar, the branch assembly extends outward from the trunk to the extended configuration. In the retracted configuration, the plurality of beam members is oriented generally vertical to the elongated trunk. These configurations provide for compact storage when not in use and mimicking of a tree structure when in the extended configuration.
US11178922B1
A wearable illumination device, including a main body to be disposed on a body of a user, a plurality of lights disposed on and within at least a portion of the main body to illuminate a surrounding area, the plurality of lights including a plurality of flashing portions disposed on and within at least a portion of the main body to illuminate the surrounding area, such that the plurality of flashing portions flash, and a power source disposed on at least a portion of the main body to provide power to the plurality of lights.
US11178916B2
A baby sleep sack that effectively secures an infant in a safe position on their bed is implemented to prevent the baby from sleeping on his side or stomach and encourage the baby to sleep on his back, thereby decreasing the chances of suffocation and SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome) while sleeping. The sleep sack, which may be comprised of cotton and/or other cloth material, has openings at the waist from which straps having respective connectors extend. The openings may be slits in the sleep sack's fabric through which the flat straps are able to extend. The sleep sack's straps may be attached to the sleep sack by stitching against the interior surface of the sleep sack. In typical implementations, the connectors may be positioned at the end of the respective straps and mate with corresponding connectors on an external strap to encourage safe-sleeping habits.
US11178915B2
A swaddle transition device is provided. The device may include a transition wrap that has one or more fabric layers. The device may also include one or more sleeves to cover the limbs of a baby wearing the transition wrap. Further, the device may include a fastener unit to open the transition wrap. The transition wrap has a design configuration to limit the startle reflex movement of the baby.
US11178911B2
A control device of an aerosol inhaler including a load heating an aerosol generation source, in which a temperature and an electric resistance value of the load are correlated. The control device includes: a voltage sensor configured to output a voltage value applied to the load; a known resistor which is connected in series to the load; and a control circuit configured to acquire the temperature of the load based on output of the voltage sensor. The control circuit is configured such that a resolution of the temperature of the load acquired based on the output of the voltage sensor is 10 [° C.] or less.
US11178907B2
There is provided a smoking article having an aerosol generating substrate and a mouthpiece. The mouthpiece includes a cavity at least partially filled with a particulate material, such as activated carbon,and contains at least one breakable capsule of a liquid flavourant at least partially surrounded by the particulate material, such that the force required to break the capsule within the mouthpiece to release the liquid flavourant is less than three times the inherent burst strength of the capsule.
US11178895B2
Provided is a use of a Macaranga tanarius preparation or extract for manufacturing a composition for enhancing immunity of an insect, particularly a bee. Also provided is a method for enhancing immunity of an insect, particularly a bee. The method comprises administering an effective amount of a composition of the present invention to the insect.
US11178893B1
A method of manufacturing and packaging frozen ice pops of cannabis juice purée involves collecting raw cannabis material. Next, raw cannabis material is blended with water, fruit juice, or vegetable juice and a sweetening or flavoring agent to form cannabis juice purée. Decarboxylated or non-decarboxylated high concentrate cannabis extract or decarboxylated cannabis infusion is optionally added to the purée. Next, the purée is poured into a tube shaped plastic container. Next, the container is frozen to obtain a packaged frozen ice pop of cannabis juice purée. The cannabis ice pop is provided singularly or in a package having additional cannabis ice pops. A dispensary can store the ice pops until distribution. The package includes labeling describing amounts and types of cannabinoids in the cannabis ice pops. In one example, the cannabis ice pop is non-psychoactive and includes no decarboxylated cannabinoids. In another example, the cannabis ice pop includes decarboxylated cannabinoids.
US11178892B2
The present invention, in an embodiment, is a product having an outer shell with at least one first legume and an inner portion with at least one second legume. In an embodiment, the at least one first legume is different from the at least one second legume and the outer shell includes at least a first layer and a second layer where the first layer is different from the second layer. In an embodiment, the product is a ready-to-eat food and the outer shell is crispy.
US11178888B2
A production system for improving yield of bayberry juice includes a steam generator, a main body, a feed hopper, an extraction device, a cooling liquid tank and a collection container. A method for improving yield of bayberry juice includes the following steps. Bayberries are selected, soaked, cleaned, squeezed, distilled and condensed. The bayberries are distilled and condensed after ordinary squeezing, which improves the yield of bayberry juice and avoiding the waste of nutrients in the bayberry.
US11178887B2
A laver snack includes laver on the lower side forming a bottom; the edible adhesive applied to the laver on the lower side; the additive including hemp seed powder adhered to the edible adhesive; the laver on the upper side covering the above additives, forming a top; and hemp oil applied to the laver on the upper side.
US11178886B2
The present invention provides a method for preparing a filled bakery product, the method comprising: providing a filling composition comprising at least one powdered food ingredient and a fat blend comprising from 15 to 67 wt. % of a temper hard fat and from 85 to 33 wt. % of a liquid oil, tempering the filling composition to form a tempered filling composition, depositing the tempered filling composition on to at least one surface of a bakery product to form a filled bakery product, wherein the surface of the bakery product has a temperature of less than 36° C., and actively cooling the deposited filling composition, wherein in the step of depositing the tempered filling composition, the tempered filling composition is deposited at a deposition temperature of from 20 to 33° C. and, in the step of actively cooling the deposited filling composition, the deposited filling composition is cooled to a temperature of at least 4° C. below the deposition temperature, wherein the temper hard fat has a solid fat content of at least 60 wt. % at 20° C., wherein the liquid oil has a solid fat content of less than 15 wt. % at 20° C., and wherein the fat blend has a saturated fatty acid residue content of from 16 to 42 wt. % and a polyunsaturated fatty acid residue content of less than 40 wt. %, based on the total weight of fatty acid residues of the fat blend.
US11178883B2
A system for dehydrating raw produce without introducing excess heat to the produce, including a first chamber for holding warm, moist air, a second chamber connected in fluidic communication with the first chamber for cooling and drying warm, moist air received from the first chamber, and a filter operationally connected between the first and second chambers for removing suspended particulates from warm, moist air flowing therethrough with a drain operationally connected to the second chamber for removing water therefrom. A third chamber is connected in fluidic communication with the second chamber for receiving cool, dry air therefrom and for receiving raw produce for drying, and a wind current generator operationally connected to the second chamber to urge cool, dry air therefrom and into the third chamber.
US11178879B2
A vehicle-based, automated pizza-making system including a two-piece pizza pan conveyed between pizza-making components on a series of pan drive rails. The two-piece pizza pan can include a base and a removable ring for containing the unfinished pizza and toppings. The rails can include timing belts for conveying the two-piece pizza pan through the system with improved positional control and accuracy.
US11178877B2
The present invention relates to a method of treating seed, comprising applying at least one plant treatment agent to said seed; and applying a dry formulation comprising/consisting of spores of P. bilaii and talc powder to said seed. The invention furthermore relates to a formulation for use in seed treatment comprising spores of P. bilaii and talc powder, seed treated with such formulation and methods of improving applicability and quality of P. bilaii spores and methods of improving plant growth, plant health or plant vigor.
US11178865B2
An animal dispersing system includes a laser diode light source to produce a resultant beam of light within a wavelength region of 400-700 nanometers, and a rotatable reflective member and lens configured in the housing. The rotatable reflective member is rotatingly coupled to an actuator, wherein the at least one laser diode light source is mounted coaxially to an axis of the rotatable reflective member. The animal dispersion system also includes a controller to cyclically turn the actuator on and off for adjusting a speed and direction of the beam of light, and cyclically turn on the at least one laser diode light source for adjusting a pattern generated by the beam of light, such that the speed, direction, and the pattern is generated to disperse animals from a physical area.
US11178859B2
The present disclosure provides compositions and methods for increasing resistance to PCV2 infection in pigs. The increased resistance may be the result of siRNA or genetic modification through CRISPR or a vectored virus targeting SNPs that are resistant to PCV2 infection.
US11178849B2
A pet bed is disclosed that includes a bolster and removable mattress portion. The bolster may be formed from a foam cushion, a fiber-filled cushion, a lower bolster cover, and an upper bolster cover. The upper bolster cover may comprise an upper and lower outer member such that the lower outer member connects to the lower bolster cover and separates the foam cushion from the fiber-filled cushion. The upper outer member of the upper bolster cover may cover the foam cushion.
US11178841B2
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01077386. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01077386. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01077386 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01077386 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US11178839B1
A soybean cultivar designated 97250443 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 97250443, to the plants of soybean cultivar 97250443, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 97250443, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 97250443. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 97250443. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 97250443, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 97250443 with another soybean cultivar.
US11178837B1
A soybean cultivar designated 92230102 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 92230102, to the plants of soybean cultivar 92230102, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 92230102, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 92230102. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 92230102. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 92230102, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 92230102 with another soybean cultivar.
US11178831B2
A system (10) may include sensor equipment (30) including one or more sensors (140, 142) disposed on a parcel of land, watering equipment (20) disposed on the parcel and configured to selectively apply water to the parcel, and a gateway (40) configured to provide for communication with the sensor equipment (30) and the watering equipment (20). The watering equipment (20) may include a watering pump (120), the watering pump (120) being operably coupled to a water source (100) and a water line (110) to alternately couple the water source (100) to and isolate the water source (100) from the water line (110), and processing circuitry (160). The processing circuitry (160) may be configured to determine an operational mode of the watering pump (120) and direct the watering pump (120) to operate in accordance with the operational mode.
US11178827B1
A synthetic growing media, such as for a hydroponic growing system, includes a plastic body having multiple legs pointing in different directions. One or more of the legs has a bulbous tip. A synthetic growing medium comprising an aggregate of synthetic growing media and hydroponic system for plant cultivation are also disclosed.
US11178822B2
An apparatus and a method for forming and wrapping a bale in a bale forming chamber into wrapping material includes a wrapping material conveying device that conveys a web of wrapping material towards a wrapping material inlet. A severing device severs the web at a severing location. The wrapping material conveying device moves the web towards the inlet, forms a leading segment of the web, and keeps the leading segment in an intermediate web providing position between the wrapping material inlet and the severing location without moving the leading segment. For starting the wrapping procedure, the web is conveyed towards the inlet.
US11178821B2
A reel for use in an agricultural header has an axis of rotation and comprises a bat and a finger. The bat is mounted to rotate around the axis of rotation to gather crop, and has a non-circular cross-sectional profile. The finger is mounted to the bat to rotate with the bat around the axis of rotation to gather crop. The finger comprises a tine and a clamshell mount to which the tine is coupled and that surrounds the bat to mount the finger to the bat against rotation about the bat.
US11178817B2
Weed seeds are destroyed in the chaff from a combine harvester by repeated high speed impacts caused by a rotor mounted in one of a pair of side by side housings which accelerate the discarded seeds in a direction centrifugally away from the rotor onto a stator including angularly adjustable stator surfaces around the axis. Thus the discarded seeds rebound back and forth between the rotor and the stator to provide a plurality of impacts. The seeds are carried axially of the rotor by a controlled airstream so that they move to an axial discharge location where a discharge fan is mounted. The angle of the discharge around the rotor axis can be changed to direct the seeds to the side of the combine away from a straw chopper, towards the guide fins of the tailboard of the chopper, or into the housing of the straw chopper.
US11184996B1
A cooling unit positioned between a first and a second gas stream, the first and the second gas stream having no direct fluid contact therebetween. The cooling unit includes a double-sided heat exchanger with a first side that is in thermal communication with the first gas stream and a second side that is in thermal communication with the second gas stream. The double-sided heat exchanger provides a direct path of thermal conduction between the first gas stream and the second gas stream. First fins are provided on the first side of the double-sided heat exchanger and second fins are provided on the second side of the double-sided heat exchanger. A first surface area of the first side of the double-sided heat exchanger is at least 5% greater than a second surface area of the second side of the double-sided heat exchanger. A housing surrounds a fan and the second fins.
US11184994B2
According to one aspect, an apparatus includes a first component, a plurality of line card slots, a fan array, and a sensor arrangement. The first component has a first opening defined therein and a second opening defined therein. The first component includes a first configurable line card flapper is arranged to at least partially cover the first opening and a second configurable line card flapper is arranged to at least partially cover the second opening. The plurality of line card slots includes a first line card slot associated with the first opening and a second line card slot associated with the second opening. The fan array includes a plurality of fans. The sensor arrangement includes at least one sensor arranged to monitor at least one condition. The first and second configurable line card flappers are arranged to be configured using information obtained from the sensor arrangement.
US11184988B2
A pedestal on which a beveled blank is mounted is provided with a recess portion and an edge portion. The recess portion is provided in a central part of a surface of a pedestal body of the pedestal. The edge portion is adjacent to the recess portion to which the blank is fixed. The recess portion has a length in the short side direction of the pedestal body longer than that of the short side of the blank.
US11184980B2
An electronic device includes first and second housings rotatably coupled with each other through a hinge, thereby being in a folded state or an unfolded state. The electronic device further includes first and second printed circuit boards (PCBs) disposed in the first and second housings, respectively, and at least one wiring member electrically connecting the first and second PCBs. The electronic device further includes a window disposed over the first and second housings and the hinge, and a display disposed under the window. The display includes a display panel extending in the first housing and having a first FPCB electrically connected to a ground of the first PCB. The display includes a polymer member, a first conductive member disposed in the first housing and electrically connected to the first FPCB, and a second conductive member disposed in the second housing. The electronic device further includes a supporting member disposed between the second conductive member and the second PCB in the second housing. The second conductive member is electrically connected to the second PCB through a conductive region of the supporting member and electrically connected to the ground of the first PCB through the wiring member.
US11184976B2
Disclosed are compositions, devices, systems and fabrication methods for stretchable composite materials and stretchable electronics devices. In some aspects, an elastic composite material for a stretchable electronics device includes a first material having a particular electrical, mechanical or optical property; and a multi-block copolymer configured to form a hyperelastic binder that creates contact between the first material and the multi-block copolymer, in which the elastic composite material is structured to stretch at least 500% in at least one direction of the material and to exhibit the particular electrical, mechanical or optical property imparted from the first material. In some aspects, the stretchable electronics device includes a stretchable battery, biofuel cell, sensor, supercapacitor or other device able to be mounted to skin, clothing or other surface of a user or object.
US11184975B2
According to one embodiment is a flexible circuit comprising a flexible base, a conductive polymer supported by the base, and an integrated circuit component having an elongated electrical contact, wherein the elongated electrical contact penetrates into the conductive polymer, thereby providing a robust electrical connection. According to methods of certain embodiments, the flexible circuit is manufactured using a molding process, where a conductive polymer is deposited into recesses in a mold, integrated circuit components are placed in contact with the conductive polymer, and a flexible polymer base is poured over the mold prior to curing. In an alternative embodiment, a multiple-layer flexible circuit is manufacturing using a plurality of molds.
US11184966B2
An arrangement including a light-emitting diode array made up of light-emitting diodes, each light-emitting diode being switchable on and off with the aid of a controllable switch, and including a current source for supplying the light-emitting diode array with current. The arrangement including an interface, to which an input signal having image information for an image, which is displayable with the aid of the light-emitting diode array, may be applied, and the interface converting the input signal into digital signals in which information is contained for switching the controllable switches on and off. The arrangement including a counter, with the aid of which it is possible to detect how many switches are closed or are to be closed within a clock pulse. The current supplied by the current source is controllable as a function of the counter reading.
US11184957B2
An electronic heating smoking paraphernalia capable of being rotated to extract a cigarette includes a heating unit, a heating unit protection cover, wherein the heating unit passes through a through hole to achieve a coaxial arrangement with the heating unit protection cover, an outer wall is provided with an annular protrusion and a side wall is provided with a limiting groove; a heating cavity shell, wherein the heating cavity shell is sleeved outside the heating unit protection cover, an inner wall is provided with an annular groove, the annular groove is matched with the annular protrusion, an inner wall is further provided with a sliding guide groove; and a cigarette holding cavity, wherein an outer wall is provided with protrusions, the protrusions penetrate through the limiting groove and an end of each protrusion is limited in the sliding guide groove.
US11184950B1
A system and method for incorporating co-site interference impact in dynamic spectrum access for heterogeneous hierarchical networks where preprocessing is used to create lookup tables for the different types of co-site interference. The lookup tables reflect the weight of the spectral leakage lobes for all signals internal and external to the system under different conditions. Lookup tables can be used at any hierarchical entity that offer dynamic spectrum access services in a cloud services construct. Co-site interference impact becomes its own set of dynamic spectrum access services that can be added to a dynamic spectrum access capable system without impacting the other dynamic spectrum access computations needs such as computation that produce spatial separation. Co-site interference becomes a second order spatial separation that is abstracted in lookup tables and adaptable based on measured metrics such that different lookup tables can be used under different conditions.
US11184949B1
Technologies directed to Dynamic Frequency Selection (DFS) channel assessment mechanisms are described. A processing device of a first wireless device identifies a channel identifier corresponding to a first operating channel being used by a first radio of the first wireless device to communicate with a first access point (AP) enabled on a radio of a second wireless device. The processing device identifies multiple devices in proximity to the first wireless device using a second radio. The processing device determines an airtime utilization percentage value for each operating channel of the second radio and determines a number of radar events for each DFS channel. The processing device determines a second channel identifier having a fewest number of radar events and selects a second operating channel for a second AP on the second radio, the second channel corresponding to the second operating channel.
US11184944B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive information identifying a set of wakeup configurations for discontinuous reception; detect one of: wakeup information, or a first part of the wakeup information and a second part of the wakeup information, wherein the wakeup information identifies a wakeup configuration of the set of wakeup configurations; and perform a transmission or reception based at least in part on the wakeup configuration. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11184936B2
The present invention is directed to a method and an apparatus for use in a wireless communication system. Specifically, the present invention is directed to a method comprising: receiving a bearer list of a relay User Equipment (UE) from a mobility management entity (MME) of the relay UE; receiving a bearer list of a remote UE from a MME of the remote UE; and if the bearer list of the relay UE has no bearer that matches to the bearer list of the remote UE in terms of delay budget of a specific service, transmitting a request for additional bearer setup including a cause value associated with the delay budget to the MME of the relay UE, and an apparatus therefore.
US11184935B2
The present invention defines signaling required for separating a network entity (NE) responsible for mobility management (MM) and session management (SM), which are main function of a control plane (CP) in a next generation (NextGen) mobile communication system, and presents a basic procedure for providing mobile communication services including the signaling. Therefore, complexity of core equipment responsible for the CP is reduced in order to implement a network slice function and provide various levels of mobility, and an effect of minimizing a signaling load therebetween can be obtain. In addition, it is possible to efficiently manage the resources of a base station (radio access network (RAN)) and a user plane network entity (UP NF).
US11184932B2
The disclosure relates to a pre-5th-generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates beyond 4th-generation (4G) communication system such as long term evolution (LTE). According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, when a base station performs a random access channel (RACH) procedure with a terminal, the base station can receive a random access (RA) preamble from the terminal, generate a random access response (RAR) message including an uplink grant allocated to the terminal, allocate a physical downlink control channel resource through which the generated RAR message is to be transmitted, transmit the RAR message to the terminal through the allocated physical downlink control channel resource, and receive a radio resource control (RRC) layer connection request message from the terminal through a resource allocated to the terminal by the uplink grant. The present research has been conducted with support from the “Cross-Departmental Giga-KOREA Project” funded by the government (Ministry of Science and ICT) in 2017 (No. GK17N0100, development of a millimeter wave 5G mobile communication system).
US11184931B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods and devices for timing advance adjustment. In example embodiments, a method implemented in a network device is provided. According to the method, in response to receiving a Physical Random Access Channel (PRACH) sequence from a terminal device served by the network device, a first value indicating an adjustment of timing advance is determined based on the PRACH sequence and at least one value of subcarrier spacing. An indication of the first value is transmitted to the terminal device to enable the terminal device to adjust timing of uplink transmission.
US11184929B2
A method of handling channel access in an unlicensed band comprises initiating a first channel access procedure according to a first channel access priority class for at least one first packet which is scheduled to be transmitted in a first duration on a carrier in an unlicensed band; setting a first counter in the first channel access procedure; initiating a second channel access procedure according to a second channel access priority class for at least one second packet which is scheduled to be transmitted on the carrier; setting a second counter in the second channel access procedure; transmitting the at least one second packet in a second duration on a first frequency resource on the carrier; and transmitting the at least one first packet in the first duration on a second frequency resource on the carrier.
US11184925B2
A wireless device receives one or more messages comprising a parameter indicating a first value of a listen before talk (LBT) counter. The LBT counter is incremented based on an LBT procedure indicating an LBT failure for an uplink transmission via a first bandwidth part. Based on the LBT counter reaching the first value, a switch is made from the first bandwidth part to a second bandwidth part as an active bandwidth part.
US11184924B2
Systems and method for multiple uplink starting positions are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method of operating a wireless communication device includes identifying candidate starting positions for an uplink (UL) transmission in an unlicensed spectrum and selecting at least one starting position from among the candidate start positions based on autonomous UL starting points according to an outcome of a listen-before-talk (LBT) procedure performed with respect to the unlicensed spectrum and/or one or more fixed UL starting points signaled in a UL grant. In this way, a wireless communication device may improve throughput by using resources that would not have been available otherwise.
US11184921B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication technique for converging a 5G communication system, which is provided to support a higher data transmission rate beyond a 4G system with an IoT technology, and a system therefor. The disclosure may be applied to intelligent services (e.g., smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car or connected car, health care, digital education, retail business, security and safety related service, or the like) based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT related technology. The disclosure relates to a method for recovering a beam into a correct beam according to a position of a terminal using a non-contention-based and contention-based beam failure recovery method in order to recover a beam failure in which communication is disconnected due to movement of a terminal or the like in a wireless communication system performing beam-based communication services.
US11184917B2
In an embodiment, a UE receives a first uplink grant for a first RAT (e.g., 5G NR) and a second uplink grant for a second RAT (e.g., LTE). In one embodiment, the UE schedules an uplink transmission on the first RAT (e.g., by selectively dropping the uplink transmission on particular resource blocks) so as to manage an amount of time that is based on concurrent uplink transmissions on both the first and second RATs are performed. In another embodiment, the UE establishes a first period of time where a BSR transmitted by the UE on the first RAT is adjusted based on scheduling of concurrent uplink multi-RAT transmissions, and a second period of time where no BSR is transmitted by the UE on the first RAT based where concurrent uplink transmissions on both the first and second RATs are not permitted to be scheduled.
US11184916B2
A method and apparatus are disclosed from the perspective of a communication device. In one embodiment, the method includes the device being configured with a plurality of resource pools by a base station for a cell. The method further includes the device receiving a grant from the base station, wherein the grant indicates a resource associated with a resource pool of the plurality of resource pools through a resource pool index in the grant. The method also includes the device using the resource to perform a transmission on a device-to-device interface.
US11184909B2
A method for uplink (UL) transmission performed by a UE is provided. The method includes: performing an UL transmission during a first PUSCH duration; receiving a PDCCH that schedules a second PUSCH duration; determining that the first PUSCH duration overlaps with the second PUSCH duration in a time domain; determining that the second PUSCH duration is prioritized over the first PUSCH duration; and cancelling the ongoing UL transmission during the first PUSCH duration starting from a preconfigured time period after an end of the PDCCH that schedules the second PUSCH duration.
US11184906B1
Systems, methods, and processing nodes are configured to perform scheduling in a wireless network utilizing a multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) operating mode, by determining that a throughput indicator of a sector meets a threshold, and adjusting a time window during which a first one or more wireless devices are removed from a MU-MIMO group and a second one or more wireless devices are added to the MU-MIMO group. The first one or more wireless devices comprise any wireless device that has a throughput below a threshold, and the second one or more wireless devices comprise any wireless device that has not been in the MU-MIMO group for a predefined time period.
US11184897B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication scheme for convergence of an IoT technology and a 5G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate beyond a 4G system, and a system therefor. The present disclosure may be applied to an intelligent service (for example, a smart home, a smart building, a smart city, a smart car or connected car, healthcare, digital education, retail business, a security and security related service, or the like) on the basis of a 5G communication technology and an IoT related technology. The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for efficiently transmitting or receiving system information by using a preamble in a next generation mobile communication system.
US11184893B2
The present specification provides a method for configuring a common search space (CSS) in a wireless communication system. Specifically, a method performed by a network may comprise the steps of: acquiring, from at least one terminal, information on a bandwidth of the at least one terminal; determining a particular subband indicating a bandwidth unit available for communication with the terminal; determining the number of particular subbands on the basis of the determined particular subband and the acquired information on the bandwidth of the terminal; and mapping, on the basis of the determined number of particular subbands and the aggregation level of the CSS, a part of the aggregation level to each particular subband. Therefore, it is possible to efficiently use radio resources through the CSS configuration method proposed in the present specification.
US11184890B2
An interface circuit in an electronic device may contend for access to a shared communication channel on behalf of the electronic device and a recipient electronic device, where the access has a duration. Then, the electronic device may provide a schedule frame intended for the recipient electronic device that includes information that specifies one or more time slots during the duration that are associated with the recipient electronic device and one or more communication functions of the recipient electronic device in the one or more time slots. Moreover, the electronic device may provide a data frame with data intended for the recipient electronic device. In response, the electronic device may receive a response frame associated with the recipient electronic device, where the response frame is received during at least one of the one or more time slots.
US11184876B2
A method for handling a service connection in a wireless communication system, including detecting, by a User Equipment (UE), a Mobility Management (MM) service state of the UE is set to ATTEMPTING TO UPDATE, receiving, by the UE, a valid Temporary Mobile Subscriber Identity (TMSI) in a TMSI reallocation procedure from a base station via a Radio Resource Control (RRC) connection, changing, by the UE, the MM service state to a NORMAL SERVICE state in response to the receiving a valid TMSI and the detecting a MM service state, and sending, by the UE, a paging response message to the base station in response to the changing the MM service state and a paging indication message received from the base station to establish the service connection, the paging indication message including the valid TMSI.
US11184873B2
A paging method, a base station and a UE are provided. The paging method includes: receiving, by a UE in an inactive state, a paging message for determining a paging type, the paging message being transmitted from a base station, the paging type including an access network paging initiated by an access network or a core network paging initiated by a core network; determining, by the UE, the paging type corresponding to the paging message; and when the paging type corresponding to the paging message is the core network paging, updating, by the UE, each of states of a NAS and a RRC layer for the UE into an idle state, and responding to, by the UE, the paging message.
US11184866B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to beam selection. An example method generally includes selecting, from a plurality of beams, a beam for uplink transmission during a particular time interval, the selecting being based on a transmission power and a radio frequency (RF) exposure for each of the plurality of beams and transmitting at least one uplink signal using the selected beam during the particular time interval.
US11184865B2
A method for operating a user equipment (UE) is provided. The method comprises transmitting, to a base station (BS), UE capability information including a full power transmission capability of the UE, wherein the full power transmission capability of the UE includes a parameter S to indicate a group of full power transmit precoding matrix indicators (TPMIs); receiving, from the BS, configuration information for a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission, wherein the configuration information includes a TPMI; determining the PUSCH transmission; determining a power level for the PUSCH transmission; and transmitting, to the BS, the PUSCH transmission with the determined power level, wherein the power level corresponds to full power based on the TPMI being included in the group of full power TPMIs, and wherein the TPMI indicates a precoding matrix and a number of layers for the PUSCH transmission.
US11184862B2
An embodiment of the present invention is a method for setting transmit power. The method for a terminal to set the transmit power for a plurality of component carriers (CCs) during carrier aggregation transmission in a wireless communication system includes: a step for acquiring a prose per-packet priority (PPPP) of a signal transmitted from an individual CC; a step for calculating the transmit power of the signal transmitted from the individual CC; and a step for setting a minimum guaranteed power for the individual CC if the sum of the transmit powers of the individual CCs exceeds a preset value, wherein the minimum guaranteed power indicates the minimum transmit power to be transmitted from the individual CCs, and the minimum guaranteed power is set for each PPPP. The UE is capable of communicating with at least one of another UE, a UE related to an autonomous driving vehicle, the BS or a network.
US11184857B2
A mobile device allows transmission of additional outgoing application data requests in response to occurrence of receipt of data transfer from a remote entity, user input in response to a prompt displayed to the user, and a change in a background status of an application executing on the mobile device. Additional outgoing application data requests are foreground application requests.
US11184846B2
A method for receiving a frame by a station (STA) in a wireless LAN (WLAN) according to the present embodiment: performing a wake-up radio (WUR) negotiation procedure for exchanging WUR operation parameters with an access point (AP) through a primary connectivity radio (PCR); entering a WUR mode; and waking up when a WUR frame is received through a WUR and monitoring a beacon frame through the PCR from the next beacon transmission timing, the WUR operation parameters exchanged through the WUR negotiation procedure include first time information indicating a time for which the STA that has woke up upon reception of the WUR frame needs to monitor the beacon frame from the next beacon transmission timing, and the STA can return to the WUR mode when the beacon frame is not received until the time indicated by the first time information has elapsed.
US11184843B2
The embodiments in this invention extend distributed unit (DU), central unit (CU) and control plane of F1 (F1-C) capabilities so that differentiated DRBs of F1-U are placed on differentiated transport network components of equivalent QoS. This is achieved by a transport-aware DU and CU that can map each F1-U DRB into appropriate OSI layer 2-4 headers and can, subsequently, store such mappings. The F1-C interface is extended to distribute the layer 2-4 headers acquired from the transport network controller to the DUs and CU. A new control interface TN-C is defined between transport network controller and CU/DU. Furthermore, a trivial mapping of those embodiments is applicable for the N3 interface as well, which solves the same problem on the backhaul transport network.
US11184832B2
A network construction method, a routing method and device of mobile ad-hoc networks are provided. The mobile ad-hoc network includes a plurality of nodes, each node communicating with its neighbors via communication links. The routing method comprises the following steps: each node identifying a link quality with each of its neighbors by providing marks based on a hysteresis-based link quality marking mechanism; each node identifying a link operationality with each of its neighbors by evaluating a score calculated from the marks; and each node reconstructing routes with its neighbors by filtering route construction messages related to the link operationality of the neighbors.
US11184827B2
Provided are a network switching method, a network device, and a terminal device. The method comprises: a network device acquiring channel quality state information, the channel quality state information being used to reflect the channel quality of a second network; and when the network device determines that a first service ends or a serving network of a terminal device does not support the first service, determining, according to the channel quality state information, whether to switch the serving network from a first network to the second network.
US11184824B2
Systems and methods are provided for upgrading wireless network devices, such as access points (APs). When a first AP needs an upgrade, a network controller of the first AP may identify and select a neighbor AP. The radio(s) of the neighbor AP can be split into multiple logical radios, at least one of which includes a backup virtual AP (VAP). The backup VAP can support client devices originally supported by the first AP, allowing those client devices to roam to the neighbor AP while the first AP is upgrading, and without needing to re-associate with the neighbor AP. From the client device perspective, it appears as though they are still being supported by the first AP. Upon upgrading the first AP, the client devices can roam back to the first AP (without needing to re-associate with the first AP). No downtime is experienced, and no RF holes are generated.
US11184820B2
This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus for wireless communications that support fast user equipment (UE) handover between base stations. A UE may receive, from a source base station, a configuration for reference signal transmission at a set of uplink transmit power levels. The UE may transmit multiple uplink reference signal repetitions based on the configuration. The source base station may transmit a request message to a target base station to measure the multiple uplink reference signal repetitions. The target base station may select an uplink reference signal and measure a transmit power correction. The target base station may transmit an indication to the source base station of the selection and transmit power correction. The source base station may evaluate the indications and select the target base station. The source base station may forward to the indicated contents, and the UE may switch and synchronize with the target base station.
US11184818B2
A mobile station for performing communication using component carriers belonging to different base stations includes a reconnection determination unit configured to determine a trigger to initiate a reconnection procedure; a reconnection request unit configured to generate a reconnection request using at least one of information about a primary cell and information about a secondary cell; and a transmission unit configured to transmit the reconnection request.
US11184806B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for preconfiguring transmission configuration indication (TCI)-states at a user-equipment (UE) to reduce handover latency. Certain aspects provide a method for wireless communication. The method generally includes receiving, at a UE, a message indicating a first TCI-state for a current serving base station (BS) and a second TCI-state for a target BS, performing handover to the target BS, and activating the second TCI-state for the target BS after the handover.
US11184804B2
This application provides a data transmission method and apparatus. The method includes: receiving, by a first network node, first indication information sent by a second network node, where the first indication information is used by the first network node to determine first duration, and the first duration is duration from receiving a first data packet by the first network node to sending the first data packet by the first network node; and sending, by the first network node, the first data packet based on the first indication information. The data transmission method and apparatus provided in embodiments of this application help ensure that a communications network transmits a data packet based on a duration requirement.
US11184800B2
A steering rule provision method for traffic distribution in a network and a network entity performing the same network. A session management function (SMF) may transmit a first message including a multi-access rule (MAR) to a user plane function (UPF), when establishing or modifying a packet data unit (PDU) session for ATSSS (Access Traffic Steering, Switching, and Splitting). The SMF may receive a second message that is a response message to the first message from the UPF.
US11184795B2
Disclosed are methods and systems for merging, with IoT technology, a 5G communication system for supporting a data transmission rate higher than that of a 4G system. The disclosed methods and systems can be applied to intelligent services on the basis of 5G communication technology and IoT-related technology. More specifically, a communication method of a terminal in a mobile communication system comprises: receiving, from a base station, system information including application specific congestion control for data communication (ACDC) configuration information for indicating whether to apply ACDC to a terminal belonging to a home public land mobile network (HPLMN); determining whether to permit access to the base station on the basis of parameters relating to the ACDC, when the application of the ACDC to the terminal belonging to the HPLMN is set according to the ACDC configuration information; and communicating with the base station according to the determination result.
US11184792B2
Disclosed are a communication scheme and a system thereof for converging an IoT technology and a 5G communication system for supporting a high data transmission rate beyond that of a 4G system. The disclosure can be applied to intelligent services (for example, services related to a smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care digital education, retail business, security, and safety) based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology. Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for supporting a multimedia telephony (MMTEL) system, a method and an apparatus for efficiently operating a new QoS layer (service data access protocol (SDAP)), and a method and an apparatus for efficiently supporting a bandwidth part in the SCell in carrier aggregation or in dual connectivity.
US11184790B2
This application discloses a communications method and apparatus, the method including sending a synchronization/broadcast signal block of a serving cell or a camping cell, sending at least one piece of cell measurement configuration information to a terminal device, where the at least one piece of cell measurement configuration information comprises N pieces of information indicating actual sending of a synchronization/broadcast signal block, and the N pieces of information indicating actual sending of a synchronization/broadcast signal block are used to indicate information about actually sent synchronization/broadcast signal blocks of M cells, where 1≤N≤M, where M is a quantity of measurement cells of the terminal device, and where both N and M are positive integers, and sending synchronization/broadcast signal blocks of the M measurement cells.
US11184783B1
A communications system provides for accurate fingerprinting of devices across a communications channel. A transmitter device modifies a physical layer signal prior to transmission as a function of signal modification parameters. A receiver device classifies a received physical layer signal and to outputs a classification indicator and a score. The receiver further analyzes the classification indicator and the score to produce an updated set of signal modification parameters provides the parameters to the transmitter device. The transmitter device, in turn, updates its signal modification parameters accordingly, thereby generating subsequent communications that more clearly indicate a fingerprint of the transmitter device.
US11184782B2
The described technology is generally directed towards generating and deploying radio access network parameters by a management platform. The management platform can use a defined data structure as a carrier for parameters within the management platform. Newly generated parameters can be placed in the defined data structure. The newly generated parameters can be approved at the management platform for deployment to radio access network devices. A software defined networking function of the management platform can convert a parameter into a specific format utilized at a radio access network, and the software defined networking function can deploy the converted parameter to the radio access network.
US11184780B2
A method for preparing and vetting a small cell for implementation is disclosed herein. The method includes assessing the small cell and a location for the small cell for one or more of compliance with leasing, zoning, and permitting prior to initiating construction planning; obtaining data from the location utilizing one or more data capture techniques and utilizing the data for generating a model based thereon; identifying construction obstacles and flaws utilizing the model; re-designing the small cell based on the construction obstacles and flaws; and developing a project plan for the small cell.
US11184779B2
An electronic device comprises a first communication circuit configured to transmit at least one radio frequency (RF) signal, at least one antenna structure, electrically coupled to the first communication circuit, and including a plurality of antenna elements, at least one processor operatively coupled to the first communication circuit, and memory operatively coupled to the at least one processor. The memory stores instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, causes the processor to perform a plurality of operation. The plurality of operations comprises identifying mobility information of the electronic device, identifying a beam width of a beam formed by at least a part of the plurality of antenna elements based on at least part of the mobility information of the electronic device, the beam being used to search for or communicate with an external electronic device, and forming the beam having the identified beam width.
US11184765B2
A method for authenticating a user includes connecting to a server from a user device, loading from the server to the user device data including executable data, detecting by the user device, while executing the executable data, whether an identifier relating to a short range communication device exists in a vicinity of the user device, sending from the user device to the server a user identifier accompanied with the detected short range communication device identifier, verifying by the server for the identified user whether a detected short range communication device identifier matches a predetermined part of a reference short range communication device identifier. Access is granted from the server only if the detected short range communication device identifier matches the predetermined part of the reference short range communication device identifier.
US11184763B2
A trusted component is suggested to be added to off the shelf computing systems such as PCs or smartphone providing secure functions for access management and credential protection—safe authentication, maintaining session integrity and validation of content modification. An additional advantage of the solution that it detects malware/hacking attempts on first try allowing of taking action while oblivious to the malware/hacker to avoid retaliation.
US11184762B1
A method of operation of a compute system includes: receiving a current location of a device; determining a recurrence of the current location within a recurrent region in real-time; generating an anonymization of the current location based on the recurrence and when the current location is within the recurrent region; and reporting the anonymization in the real-time for a privacy protection.
US11184760B2
Systems and methods for updating subscriber data are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method of operation of a serving node in a communication network for updating subscriber data includes receiving a modification of subscriber data for one or more subscribers and determining if updates to the subscriber data for the one or more subscribers are needed now. In response to determining that updates are needed now, the method includes communicating the modification for subscribers to one or more additional nodes and/or initiating other types of signaling towards other network nodes as a result. In response to determining that updates are not needed now, the method includes postponing the communication of the modification of the subscriber data for the one or more subscribers. In this way, signaling floods towards external network elements may be avoided when a modification is performed to subscription data that affects multiple subscribers (potentially even millions).
US11184756B2
Systems and methods of providing steering of roaming (SOR) information in a 5G VPLMN are described. A UE receives a REGISTRATION ACCEPT message from an AMF of the VPLMN during initial or mobility registration of the UE in the VPLMN and DL NAS TRANSPORT message thereafter. The message has a Payload container information element (IE) set to secured packet. The SOR information indicates a list of preferred PLMN/access technology combinations, which is uploaded to a memory after a successful security check to verify that the list of preferred PLMN/access technology combinations is provided by the UDM of the HPLMN and is not tampered with by the VPLMN. When the message also contains a request for acknowledgment of successful security check of the list of preferred PLMN/access technology combinations, the UE transmits to the AMF the acknowledgment in a REGISTRATION COMPLETE or a DL NAS TRANSPORT message.
US11184754B2
A data sharing method between a plurality of intelligent terminals, where a first terminal determines, based on a gesture operation instruction from a user for an application, a near-field wireless transmission mode for data transmission with a second terminal. The application is an application selected by the user and whose data is to be shared with the second terminal. The first terminal transmits the data of the application to the second terminal based on the near-field wireless transmission mode for the data transmission with the second terminal such that the second terminal displays the data of the application and starts the application.
US11184749B2
The present invention may provide a method of managing, by a vehicle, a sensor. Herein, a method of managing, by a vehicle, a sensor may include: monitoring state information of a first sensor of a first vehicle; when the first sensor is abnormal, determining whether or not a second sensor performs the function of the first sensor; when the second sensor performs the function of the first sensor, reporting information representing that second sensor performs the function of the first sensor; and receiving sensing data from the second sensor.
US11184740B2
Systems and methods are described for determining job classifications of anonymous users. Energy Infrastructure (EI) information associated with a known EI facility and anonymized location tracking data is obtained. The EI facility information includes a location of the known EI facility and an identification of the known EI facility, and the anonymized location tracking data includes visited locations associated with an anonymous user ID. A job classification is associated with the anonymous user ID based on a correlation between the visited locations, the location of the known EI facility, and the identification of the known EI facility. Location tracking data associated with a user of a known job classification can be used to identify a previously unknown EI facility.
US11184738B1
In an example, the present technique includes a method for capturing information from a spatial region to monitor human activities and create a spatial map of the spatial region. In an example, the technique allows a user of a cell phone to move from one location to another location and be tracked using rf backscattering, and each location being identified by the user by communicating a label via a cell phone or other mobile device.
US11184737B2
A wireless access device is provided that includes at least one processor, an antennae, and a localization engine. The localization engine is executable by the at least one processor to determine a location of the access device, receive a wireless signal from a particular device that includes presence information corresponding to the particular device that lacks self-localization functionality, and determine a location of the particular device based on the location of the access device and the presence information.
US11184734B1
Techniques are described herein for improving road safety use cases in a vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication environment. The techniques include assigning of a plurality of calculated/precalculated geofencing areas on a projected path of a responding emergency vehicle. With the assigned geofencing areas, a remote management network such as a V2X communications server may identify the V2X components (user equipment, traffic lights, vehicle embedded devices, etc.) and send notifications to the identified V2X components in each assigned geofencing area and at different timing periods. The identification of the V2X components and the sending of the notifications at different timing periods improve the traffic awareness between the V2X components in the V2X communication environment.
US11184732B2
Media content playback is based on an identified geographic location of a sound source. A geolocation of a target venue is determined. A first geolocation of a media playback device is determined. An indication that the media playback device is within a threshold distance of the target venue is received. Media content associated with the target venue is transferred to the media playback device, wherein one or more characteristics of the media content are dynamically modified to simulate audio originating from the target device. The one or more characteristics of the media content can include audio content characteristics associated with a timing filter, a loudness filter, and a timbre filter.
US11184731B2
In general, techniques are described for rendering metadata to control user movement based audio rendering. A device comprising a memory and one or more processors may be configured to perform the techniques. The memory may be configured to store audio data representative of a soundfield. The one or more processors may be coupled to the memory, and configured to obtain rendering metadata indicative of controls for enabling or disabling adaptations, based on an indication of a movement of a user of the device, of a renderer used to render audio data representative of a soundfield, specify, in a bitstream representative of the audio data, the rendering metadata, and output the bitstream.
US11184728B2
An audio decoder device for decoding a compressed input audio signal having at least one core decoder having one or more processors for generating a processor output signal based on a processor input signal, wherein a number of output channels of the processor output signal is higher than a number of input channels of the processor input signal, wherein each of the one or more processors has a decorrelator and a mixer, wherein a core decoder output signal having a plurality of channels has the processor output signal, and wherein the core decoder output signal is suitable for a reference loudspeaker setup; at least one format converter device configured to convert the core decoder output signal into an output audio signal, which is suitable for a target loudspeaker setup; and a control device configured to control at least one or more processors in such way that the decorrelator of the processor may be controlled independently from the mixer of the processor, wherein the control device is configured to control at least one of the decorrelators of the one or more processors depending on the target loudspeaker setup.
US11184725B2
A method includes detecting, by a speaker system including a microphone, one or more boundaries within a proximity to the speaker system. The speaker system adjusts an output of the speaker system based on the one or more detected boundaries. A sound quality of the speaker system is improved based on adjusting the output.
US11184723B2
An auditory attention tracking system may modify external sounds in a manner that enables the system to detect, from EEG readings taken while a user listens to the modified sounds, which sound the user is paying attention to. Multiple microphones may record external sounds, and the sounds may be separated. A computer may modify one or more of the sounds, then remix the sounds, and then cause speakers to audibly output the modified, remixed sound. EEG measurements may be taken while the user listens to this modified sound. A computer may detect patterns in the EEG readings and may, based on the patterns, predict which external sound the user is paying attention to. The system may further modify the external sounds, to make the sound of interest more perceptually prominent. Or, based on the detected sound of interest, the system may modify a human-computer interaction.
US11184718B2
The present invention relates to a miniature speaker comprising a plurality of sound generating elements, wherein each sound generating element comprises a sound cavity and a moveable element associated therewith, wherein the moveable element comprises one or more cantilever beams configured to move said moveable element and thus generate sound pressure waves in response to an applied drive signal. The present invention further relates to a receiver assembly comprising the miniature speaker, and a hearing device comprising the receiver assembly.
US11184715B1
An exemplary hearing device includes a memory storing instructions and a processor communicatively coupled to the memory. The processor may be configured to execute the instructions to receive an input audio signal having a range of input frequencies, adaptively adjust a cut-off frequency for the input audio signal such that a value of the cut-off frequency varies between a predefined minimum cut-off frequency value and a predefined maximum cut-off frequency value as a continuous function of the input audio signal, and generate an output audio signal by mapping the range of input frequencies to a range of output frequencies determined based on the adaptively adjusted cut-off frequency.
US11184714B2
A hearing device comprises an input transducer providing an input gain GI, a signal processor comprising a compressor for determining a frequency and level dependent desired compressor gain GP to compensate for a hearing impairment of the user, and to provide a resulting compressor gain G′P, and an output transducer for providing output stimuli perceivable as sound for the user based on a processed signal, the output transducer providing an output gain, GO. A resulting forward path gain G′ is defined in a logarithmic representation as GI+G′P+GO. The hearing device further comprises a loop gain estimator for continuously estimating a current loop gain ΔL(n), configured to provide a loop gain estimate within a predefined number of feedback loop delays after a feedback buildup has started, and a loop gain controller for dynamically controlling said resulting forward path gain G′ in dependence of said estimate of said current loop gain ΔL(n). A resulting loop gain, LG′, is determined as a sum of the resulting forward path gain G′ and a feedback gain H when given in a logarithmic representation. The loop gain controller is configured to provide that the resulting loop gain is limited to stay below a predefined value.
US11184711B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for a privacy blocking device configured to prevent receipt, by a listening device, of video and/or audio data until a trigger occurs. A blocker may be configured to prevent receipt of video and/or audio data by one or more microphones and/or one or more cameras of a listening device. The blocker may use the one or more microphones, the one or more cameras, and/or one or more second microphones and/or one or more second cameras to monitor for a trigger. The blocker may process the data. Upon detecting the trigger, the blocker may transmit data to the listening device. For example, the blocker may transmit all or a part of a spoken phrase to the listening device.
US11184710B2
A headband cover (100) for detachable attachment to a headband (20) of a headphone (10), said headband (20) comprising an inner surface (21) wherein; the headband cover (100) is configured to be folded around the headband (20), wherein; —the headband cover (100) comprises a first and a second elongated strip (140, 141) of bendable material, respectively extending along the first and the second elongated edge (110, 120) of the headband cover (100) and having respectively a contact surface (144, 144′) configured to abut against the inner surface (21) of the headband, wherein the first and the second strip (140, 141) respectively are configured such that the combined width (W1, W2) of the contact surfaces (144, 144′) of the first and the second elongated strip (140, 141) is equal to or less than the width (Wis) of the inner surface (21) of the headband (20).
US11184693B2
A dust screen assembly (100), an electroacoustic assembly (200), a housing assembly (300), and an electronic device (1000). The dust screen assembly (100) comprises: a magnet (1), having a first magnetic field; a coil (2), suitable for generating a second magnetic field; brush heads (3), disposed in the coil (2) and connected to the coil (2); and a dust screen (4), located on one side of the coil (2) distant from the magnet (1). When the direction of the second magnetic field and the direction of the first magnetic field are opposite, the coil (2) moves towards the dust screen (4), and the brush heads (3) are suitable for making contact with the dust screen (4). When the direction of the second magnetic field and the direction of the first magnetic field are same, the coil (2) moves towards the magnet (1).
US11184682B2
A system and method includes operations and steps for inferring a demographic of a user based on a selection of an advertisement by the user. A media device stream is received from a media device by data processing hardware. The data processing hardware may identify frames of the media device stream for insertion of an overlay. The overlay can include first and second interactive portions corresponding to respective first and second advertisements. The user can select one of the first interactive portion and the second interactive portion corresponding to one of the first advertisement and the second advertisement. The selection can be received by the data processing hardware, and the demographic of the user can be inferred based on the selection.
US11184680B2
A transmission apparatus that includes circuitry configured to generate transport protocol selection information used for selecting a transport protocol to be used in a specific service from a plurality of transport protocols conforming to a predetermined standard; and transmit, together with the transport protocol selection information, a content provided by the specific service according to the transport protocol set in the transport protocol selection information, and the plurality of transport protocols include at least ROUTE (Real-Time Object Delivery over Unidirectional Transport) and MMT (MPEG Media Transport).
US11184670B2
A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus according to an embodiment includes a display, a memory configured to store UI pattern information, a communication interface comprising communication circuitry, and a processor configured to control the display apparatus to obtain identification information indicating a type of changed multimedia content from the memory based on UI pattern information obtained from the changed multimedia content based on an event that changes a multimedia content output through the display occurring, control the communication interface to: transmit the identification information and fingerprint obtained from the changed multimedia content to a server, and receive content information corresponding to the fingerprint obtained based on the identification information from the server.
US11184667B2
According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes a memory that stores a first EDID including an identification bit set to respond to a separate electronic device when the separate electronic device supports a first version of the HDMI, a transmitter that transmits the first EDID, and a receiver. When the receiver receives first control information including response information set in response to the identification bit, a compliant version of the HDMI to be operated is determined according to the response information. When the receiver does not receive the first control information, the compliant version of the HDMI to be operated is determined according to an attribute of a video and audio signal transmitted from the separate electronic device.
US11184666B2
Example access control techniques described herein are intended to enable guest access for a media playback system while maintaining security of the media playback system. An example implementation involves a computing device receiving a request to control a media playback system comprising a playback device. After receiving the request, the computing device obtains access to the media playback system. Obtaining access may involve obtaining a first identifier associated with the media playback system, obtaining a second identifier using the first identifier over a wide area network (WAN) with a computing system, and obtaining a token using the second identifier over the WAN with the computing system. The example implementation further involves receiving a request for the media playback system to perform an operation and causing the media playback system to perform the operation using the token.
US11184660B1
Devices and methods are provided for dynamically switching states of remote control devices. A remote control device may receive voice data from a user, send the voice data to another device which may pass the voice signals to a server. The server may determine instructions associated with responding to the voice signals and send the instructions to the other device, which may convert the instructions to remote control commands. The other device may send the commands along with state information to the remote control device, allowing the remote control device to emit commands determined by the other device and to map other command signals to possible inputs which the remote control device may receive.
US11184656B2
Disclosed examples include: determining periods of loudness in an audio signal by: determining whether a difference between a first amplitude at a first time and a second amplitude at a second time satisfies a loudness threshold; in response to the difference satisfying the loudness threshold, setting a loudness flag to a loud state corresponding to the second time, the second time occurring after the first time; determining whether a third amplitude at a third time after the second time satisfies a quiet threshold; in response to the third amplitude satisfying the quiet threshold, setting the loudness flag to a quiet state corresponding to the third time; and determining periods of loudness for the audio signal based on the states of the loudness flag at the second and third times; and indicating the audio signal as spillover based on the periods of loudness.
US11184651B1
The present disclosure describes a monitoring device for determining one or more characteristics of one or more scheduled programs within one or more packetized elementary streams of one or more transport streams. The monitoring device receives the one or more transport streams from a service provider system and de-encapsulates the one or more packetized elementary streams from the one or more transport streams. The monitoring device determines the one or more characteristics of the one or more scheduled programs from the one or more packetized elementary streams. The one or more characteristics can be used by the monitoring device to adapt on a dynamic, real-time, or near real-time, basis to changes to the one or more transport streams.
US11184647B1
An illustrative interactive content delivery system includes an interactive content player device (player device) and an interactive content provider system (provider system). As the provider system transmits a live video stream to the player device, the player device detects a first event marker in the live video stream, accesses an executable data object including data representative of an interactive content instance, and executes, based on the executable data object, the interactive content instance in accordance with interactive input provided by a user of the player device. During the executing of the interactive content instance, the player device detects a second event marker in the live video stream and subsequently discontinues the executing of the interactive content instance. Corresponding methods and systems are disclosed for both the provider system and the player device of the interactive content delivery system.
US11184646B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a 360-degree panoramic video playing method, an apparatus, and a system. The method includes: receiving, by a video player, a search instruction, and displaying, according to the search instruction, locating information of a 360-degree panoramic video, where the locating information includes descriptive information of playing content in multiple angle ranges of the 360-degree panoramic video, and the descriptive information is used for determining the playing content in the multiple angle ranges; and receiving a switching instruction, and switching a playing angle range of the 360-degree panoramic video from an angle range of current playing content to a first angle range according to the switching instruction, where the first angle range is an angle range selected by a user from the multiple angle ranges.
US11184643B2
A system and method for processing a video stream are provided. When coding or decoding a video stream a de-blocking filtering may be applied for reducing discontinuities caused by use of a block-based video coding. The de-blocking filtering is performed using a filter grid. The size of the filter grid is chosen adaptively based on the processing parameters. The adaptive size of the filtering grid is determined based on the number of samples used and modified in de-blocking filtering of an edge of a coding block. The filtering grid may be used both for vertical and horizontal edge filtering.
US11184633B2
A method of coding video data, including constructing a history-based motion vector prediction (HMVP) candidate history table that includes motion vector information of previously coded blocks that extend beyond adjacent neighboring blocks of a current block, constructing a motion vector predictor list, and adding one or more HMVP candidates from the HMVP candidate history table to the motion vector predictor list. Adding the one or more HMVP candidates from the HMVP candidate history table comprises comparing a first HMVP candidate in the HMVP candidate history table to two entries in the motion vector predictor list and no other entries, and adding the first HMVP candidate to the motion vector predictor list when the first HMVP candidate is different than both of the two entries in the motion vector predictor list. The method also includes coding the current block of video data using the motion vector predictor list.
US11184630B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide a method and an apparatus for video decoding. Processing circuitry of the apparatus decodes prediction information of a current block from a coded video bitstream. The prediction information indicates an inter prediction mode. The processing circuitry calculates at least one hash value based on motion information of a previously decoded block and determines whether the motion information is different from one or more motion information candidates in a candidate list for the current block based on the at least one hash value of the previously decoded block and at least one hash value of each of the one or more motion information candidates. The processing circuitry adds the motion information to the candidate list when the motion information is different from the one or more motion information candidates and reconstructs at least one sample of the current block based on the candidate list.
US11184624B2
In general, the disclosure relates to techniques for regional random access within a picture of video data. For example, a video coding device receives a plurality of pictures in a coding order. Each respective picture of the plurality of pictures comprises a plurality of regions. For a first region in a first picture of the plurality of pictures, the video coding device determines that the first region is codable independent from each other region of the first picture and from a first region in a second picture preceding the first picture in the coding order and, responsive to making such a determination, determine that the first region in the first picture has random accessibility. The video coding device codes each video block in the first region independent from any video blocks outside of the first region.
US11184619B2
A method for video processing is provided to include: performing a conversion between a current video block of a video that is a chroma block and a coded representation of the video, wherein, during the conversion, the current video block is constructed based on a first domain and a second domain, and wherein the conversion further includes applying a forward reshaping process and/or an inverse reshaping process to one or more chroma components of the current video block.
US11184608B2
The present disclosure relates to an image processing apparatus and a method designed to maintain subjective image quality. An intra prediction unit and a motion compensation unit calculate the costs of the modes of the respective blocks constituting the current frame. An intra refresh determination unit selects modes of the respective blocks, on the basis of the calculated costs and refreshed blocks that are the blocks refreshed in the previous frame that is located before the current frame timewise. The present disclosure can be applied to an image processing apparatus, an image encoding device, an image decoding device, or the like, for example.
US11184601B2
An apparatus can be provided for display glasses with securely displayed data. The apparatus can include a receiver configured to receive a signal containing formatted encoded display data and to extract encoded display data from the signal. The apparatus can include a decoder configured to decode the encoded display data to provide display data. The apparatus can further include a display configured to display the display data. The display can include glasses and the decoder can be configured to decode the encoded display data when the glasses are authorized to receive display data from a remote device.
US11184596B2
An image processing device includes an acquisition section configured to acquire still image data obtained by imaging, a generator configured to generate, from the still image data acquired by the acquisition section, a logically single data unit including first still image data and second still image data different from each other in luminance dynamic range and reproducible independently from each other, and an output section configured to output the data unit generated by the generator.
US11184593B2
The disclosure provides an image capturing device and an image capturing method. The image capturing device includes a tone mapping circuit, a color correction circuit, and a color gamut mapping circuit. The tone mapping circuit obtains a first image including a first pixel and performs a tone mapping operation to obtain a brightness adjustment parameter, where the first pixel includes a plurality of first color channels. The color correction circuit converts the first color channels into a plurality of second color channels based on the brightness adjustment parameter and the brightness of the first pixel. The color gamut mapping circuit performs a color gamut mapping operation on the second color channels to convert the second color channels into a plurality of third color channels, and outputs a second image, where the second image includes the second pixel characterized by the third color channels.
US11184586B2
A server 2 comprises a communication device 21 able to communicate with terminals 31 of a plurality of vehicles 3, a storage device 22 storing identification information and positional information of the plurality of vehicles, and a control device 24. The control device is configured to receive capture request information input to the terminal by a party desiring image capture, select an image capturing vehicle for capturing an image of a vehicle to be captured designated by the party desiring image capture from among the plurality of vehicles based on the capture request information, the identification information and the positional information, generate image data based on a captured image of the vehicle to be captured acquired by a vehicle-mounted camera of the image capturing vehicle, and provide the image data to the party desiring image capture.
US11184570B2
A method of controlling parameters for image sensors includes; receiving a first image and a second image, calculating first feature values related to the first image and second feature values related to the second image; generating comparison results by comparing the first feature values of fixed regions and first variable regions of the first image with the second feature values of fixed regions and first variable regions of the second image, and controlling at least one parameter on the basis of the comparison results.
US11184569B2
An image sensor comprises: a plurality of pixels, each pixel including a light-receiving portion that outputs an electrical signal obtained by photoelectrically converting incident light and an A/D converter that AD-converts the electrical signal, the plurality of pixels configured to be capable of AD-converting a signal output from the light-receiving portion of a first pixel, among a predetermined plurality of pixels, using the A/D converter of another pixel, every predetermined plurality of pixels; and a selection circuit that selects a pixel to AD-convert the electrical signal output from the light-receiving portion of the first pixel, every predetermined plurality of pixels. The A/D converters of the predetermined plurality of pixels carry out the AD conversion in parallel.
US11184566B2
An image sensor includes a pixel array including a first shared pixel and a second shared pixel that are adjacent to each other in a row direction. The first shared pixel includes two or more photo diodes in a first row and two or more photo diodes in a second row, and the first shared pixel includes a first floating diffusion region shared by the photo diodes of the first shared pixel. The second shared pixel includes two or more photo diodes in the first row and two or more photo diodes in the second row, and the second shared pixel includes a second floating diffusion region shared by the photo diodes of the second shared pixel.
US11184563B2
An imaging device including pixels having a photoelectric converter including a first and second electrode, a photoelectric conversion layer; a charge accumulation region electrically connected to the first electrode; and a signal detection circuit. The photoelectric converter is applied with a voltage between the first electrode and the second electrode, and the photoelectric converter has a characteristic, responsive to the voltage within a range from a first voltage to a second voltage, showing that a density of current passing between the first electrode and the second electrode when light is incident on the photoelectric conversion layer becomes substantially equal to that when no light is incident on the photoelectric conversion layer. A difference between the first voltage and the second voltage is 0.5 V or more, and the voltage supply circuit supplies a voltage between the first voltage and the second voltage to the second electrode in a non-exposure period.
US11184561B2
A method for improved image acquisition for photogrammetry includes focusing a camera on one end of an object, capturing one or more images of the object, incrementally adjusting the focal length of the camera toward the opposite end of the object, and capturing images at each new focal length. Once the object has been photographed at varying focal lengths that run the entire length of the object, the multitude of images are then combined using focus stacking to create a singular image that is more in focus for the entire length of the object. A method for utilizing thermographic cameras to aid in the acquisition of images for photogrammetry includes applying thermal textures to the object and isolating an object from the background due to thermal differences.
US11184552B2
A method includes capturing a first image of a scene, detecting a face in a section of the scene from the first image, and activating an infrared (IR) light source to selectively illuminate the section of the scene with IR light. The IR light source includes an array of IR light emitting diodes (LEDs). The method includes capturing a second image of the scene under selective IR lighting from the IR light source, detecting the face in the second image, and identifying a person based on the face in the second image.
US11184551B2
An imaging apparatus according to the present invention includes: an image sensor configured to capture a moving image, and at least one memory and at least one processor which function as: a determining unit configured to determine a plurality of scenes of the moving image on a basis of a time variation of a parameter corresponding to a frame of the moving image; an acquiring unit configured to acquire a characteristic amount of each of the plurality of scenes; and a generating unit configured to generate information in which a characteristic amount acquired by the acquiring unit is associated with each of the plurality of scenes.
US11184542B2
A method for controlling a photographing apparatus with a display screen includes detecting a sliding operation on the display screen and switching a display interface in response to the sliding operation. If the sliding operation is a first operation mode, the display interface is switched to a photographing mode setting interface. If the sliding operation is a second operation mode, the display interface is switched to a photographing function setting interface. If the sliding operation is a third operation mode, the display interface is switched to a playback control interface.
US11184541B2
An imaging device is provided that can correct more accurately an image shake. The imaging device includes an imaging element taking an object image to generate image data, a gyro sensor unit including a gyro sensor, an image-shake correction unit holding the imaging element, moving the imaging element based on an output of the gyro sensor, and correcting a shake of an object image taken by the imaging element, and a mount base holding the gyro sensor unit and the image-shake correction unit.
US11184539B2
An intelligent dual-lens photographing device and a photographing method is provided. The photographing device includes a first photographing module, a second photographing module, a shutter, a first driving mechanism, a second driving mechanism, a third driving mechanism, and a controller. The shutter is connected to the second photographing module. The first photographing module and the second photographing module are driven by the first driving mechanism to horizontally rotate synchronously. The first photographing module and the second photographing module are driven by the second driving mechanism to rotate around horizontal axis synchronously. The second photographing module is driven by the third driving mechanism to horizontally move and/or pitching independently. The intelligent dual-lens photographing device uses a wide-angle photographing module to synchronize and track a moving photographing target, and then uses a zoom long-focus photographing module to perform waiting photographing on the photographing target, so as to improve the photographing quality.
US11184536B2
The present disclosure provides a method for controlling a dual camera unit and a device, the dual camera unit includes a first camera, a second camera and a driving component. The second camera is movable relative to the first camera. The method includes determining whether current ambient-light intensity reaches a preset threshold; controlling the driving component to deform, thereby to drive the second camera to move and change the distance between the first camera and the second camera to a first preset distance, when the current ambient-light intensity fails to reach the preset threshold; controlling the first camera and the second camera to be in a first imaging mode corresponding to the first preset distance; and controlling the first camera and the second camera to shoot in the first imaging mode, and outputting a first image in the first imaging mode.
US11184535B2
An imaging element includes a memory that stores captured image data obtained by imaging a subject at a first frame rate and is incorporated in the imaging element, a imaging processing circuit that performs processing on the captured image data, and an output circuit that outputs at least one of the captured image data or processed image data to an outside of the imaging element, and is incorporated in the imaging element, in which the imaging processing circuit generates, in accordance with a degree of difference between first captured image data obtained by imaging and second captured image data stored in the memory, compressed image data obtained by compressing the first captured image data by dividing the first captured image data into a plurality of bit ranges, and the output circuit outputs the compressed image data to the outside as the processed image data at a second frame rate.
US11184528B2
An electronic apparatus includes a display control unit configured to, in a case where a predetermined touch operation is made in a first area, perform control to display an indicator indicating a movable range of a selection position by a moving operation on a display unit regardless of a distance from a border between the first area and a second area to a touch position of the predetermined touch operation.
US11184522B2
The invention describes an imaging device (1) comprising an image sensor (2), an imaging lens (3), an infrared light source (5) to illuminate a scene (SC), and an infrared autofocus system (6) for providing an autofocus function, wherein the image sensor (2) comprises an array (21) of sensor pixels each arranged as dual pixel (22) comprising two separate pixel sensors (22a, 22b) per dual pixel (22) to record the image data (D1) as a sum signal from both pixel sensors (22a, 22b) and providing infrared data (D2) as individual signals from each of the two pixel sensors (22a, 22b) for phase contrast (PC) autofocusing, wherein an infrared filter (7) arranged between an aperture (4) of the imaging device (1) and an imaging sensor (2) and is adapted to locally transmit only a portion of the infrared light (IR) to the imaging sensor (2) by comprising at least one first area (71) arranged as infrared blocking area and at least one second area (72) arranged as infrared bandpass area. The invention further relates to a method (100) to automatically focusing this device (1).
US11184517B1
A system of cameras can be used to generate a complete field of view within an edge network. For example, one camera can have a field of view where part of the view is obstructed by an object and/or by the camera's orientation. Yet another camera that is a part of the edge network can supplement the view of the first camera by providing an alternate view. The two views can be stitched together by a coordinate system such that a complete field of view can be utilized by both cameras. Additionally, where a field of view is not available by any stationary camera, the system can dispatch a mobile camera to help supplement the views.
US11184508B2
The present principles relate to a method and device for gamut mapping from a first color gamut towards a second color gamut. The method comprises obtaining a preserved key color (prsv_colorK0) and a hue alignment angle (θK0) of the key color (colorK0) for each key color (colorK0) of at least 3 key colors to define a preserved gamut and a rotated gamut; and performing a hue mapping of a current color (color) from the first color gamut towards the second color gamut wherein in case the current color (color) is in a preserved gamut defined by the preserved key color (prsv_colorK0), the hue mapped current color is unchanged, and in case the current color is out of the preserved gamut, the hue mapped current color is calculated from the hue alignment angle (θK0) of two adjacent key colors of the current color (rotated gamut) and from the preserved area.
US11184504B2
A printing system is disclosed. The printing system includes a printer to print image data to a medium and a print controller including a halftone calibration module to dynamically generate calibrated halftones to compensate for optical density changes that occur at the printer.
US11184503B2
A communication apparatus may perform: communicating a wireless setting value with a printer via a first wireless communication interface, establishing the wireless connection with the printer via a second wireless communication interface using the wireless setting value; sending first image data representing a first image of a print target to the printer via the second wireless communication interface using the wireless connection; determining, after the first image data is sent to the printer, whether an apparatus-side disconnection condition is satisfied; disconnecting the wireless connection when it is determined that the apparatus-side disconnection condition is satisfied; and sending, when it is determined that the apparatus-side disconnection condition is not satisfied, second image data representing a second image of a print target to the printer via the second wireless communication interface using the wireless connection.
US11184502B2
A control circuit of a reception terminal in a communication system is configured to cause a first communicator to transmit a polling request to a first transmission terminal at a start timing of a cycle included in two or more consecutive cycles. The control circuit is configured to cause the first communicator to stop transmission of the polling request in a cycle following a transmission cycle and is configured to wait for reception of the response data in a case in which reception of the response data is not completed in the transmission cycle. The transmission cycle is a cycle in which the polling request is transmitted. The control circuit is configured to cause the first communicator to transmit the polling request to the first transmission terminal at a start timing of a cycle following another cycle in which reception of the response data is completed.
US11184501B2
The reading device of the present disclosure includes a housing, a first irradiation part, an imaging device, and a first diffusion part. The housing has an opening in an upper portion with a transparent reading window member. The first irradiation part emits an infrared light. The imaging device is disposed on a bottom portion such that an optical axis is directed to a reading window member. The first diffusion part is disposed on a left side wall connecting the upper and bottom portions. The first diffusion part diffuses the infrared light. The first diffusion part is made up of a light-transmitting first diffusion plate and a light-transmitting second diffusion plate. The first diffusion plate is disposed on the bottom surface side and inclined toward the upper portion. The second diffusion plate is disposed on the upper surface side and inclined toward the bottom portion.
US11184499B2
An original reading apparatus includes: a reading unit configured to read an original placed on a platen while moving in a predetermined direction in a housing; a sensor provided in the housing and configured to detect presence of the original in a predetermined position on the platen to identify a size of the original; a holding member movable in the housing and configured to hold the sensor and a cable extending from the sensor; and a cover configured to cover a predetermined space on a rear side of the platen mounted to the housing. A grip portion used by an operator to move the holding member is provided at one end of the holding member extending to the predetermined space through an opening portion in a wall on a rear side of the housing. When the cover is removed, the operator is allowed to grip the grip portion.
US11184498B2
An image forming apparatus extracts a pagination image from original document image data of each of a plurality of original documents, specifies a last-digit image corresponding to the ones place of a pagination, arrays a plurality of pagination images in a reading order of original documents beginning with an original document earliest read to form a matrix with n rows and ten columns, sets a row including ten different last-digit images as a reference row, sets a row after the reference row as a first check row, determines, in order from a first column, whether a pagination image of the first check row is a first subject pagination image differing in last-digit image from a pagination image in the identical column of the reference row, and, if determining that some pagination image or another is the first subject pagination image, determines that multi feed has occurred.
US11184492B2
An apparatus includes: an operation panel that displays an operation screen and accepts an operation from a user; a hardware processor that accepts an operation from a user by voice, turns off the operation panel in a case where an interval between operations received by the operation panel exceeds a first set time, and resets a setting content stored in the storage in a case where an interval between operations received by the operation panel or the hardware processor exceeds a second set time; a storage that stores a setting content corresponding to an operation received by the operation panel or the hardware processor; and a changer that changes a set time of a timer.
US11184490B2
An image forming apparatus includes a CPU and a gesture detection part. The gesture detection part outputs data for a gesture corresponding to a hand action of a user present in front or in the vicinity of an apparatus body, to the CPU. The CPU detects presence or absence of the gesture and the type of the gesture in accordance with output from the gesture detection part. The CPU, upon detecting the gesture, checks details of the gesture against details of the preregistered, registered gesture, and if the detected gesture is the registered gesture, the CPU executes processing allocated to the detected, registered gesture.
US11184486B2
An image forming apparatus includes: a document reading device that reads a plurality of original documents on a document support surface in a batch; an individual image cutouter that cuts individual images of the original documents out of image data obtained by batch reading; a character recognizer that recognizes, for each individual image, characters in the individual image; a document determiner that determines, for each individual image, whether the recognized characters contain a type name; an acquirer that acquires, from the characters determined to contain the type name, a plurality of informative character strings associated one-to-one with a plurality of item names; a data generator that generates, for each individual image, a piece of document data in which the type name is associated with the plurality of acquired informative character strings; and a document data storage that stores the pieces of document data generated one for each individual image.
US11184485B1
Systems and methods for communicating between components of a security and/or automation system include establishing a two-way call between a control panel and a central station of the security and/or automation system using a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) channel connection, and after establishing the two-way call, communicating data between the central station and the control panel via a central station of the security and/or automation system via a second connection different from the VoIP channel connection, the data being related to control of the control panel.
US11184483B1
Techniques are described for forecasting and dynamic routing of incoming routing service requests in a service environment that includes one or more call centers. Implementations apply a doubly stochastic modeling technique to modeling call volumes, call wait times, calling handling times, and/or other parameters in a service environment that includes one or more call centers that include multiple skill codes for the service representatives. By simultaneously modeling on different time scales, such as modeling both inter-day and intra-day correlations, implementations are able to provide an analysis that exploits more of the structure in the data compared to traditional techniques. Implementations can also integrate in other types of time series for other effects that may impact the call volume or other parameters in a service environment, such as exogenous and/or anomalous variables that are independent of other inter-day and/or intra-day trends exhibited in the data.
US11184482B2
A system uses intelligent logic to determine information from a communication and to infer relevant CRM objects that may be related the communication. The system further presents a user interface with the communication information and the related CRM objects to allow an agent to review, select, and relate the communication information to one or more CRM objects. Accordingly, the embodiments described herein improve the efficiency of communication management systems and CRM systems by providing an intelligent logic and unique user interface that greatly reduces the number of steps needed to relate communication information with a CRM object.
US11184481B1
One example method of operation may include collecting call metric data over a predefined period of time for identified calls, querying the call metric data to identify whether one or more call filtering criteria parameters require changes, determining one or more call filtering criteria parameters require changes based on a deviation from one or more expected call metric data values included in the call metric data, modifying one or more of the call filtering criteria parameters, and updating an active call scam model stored on a call processing server based on the one or more call filtering parameters.
US11184478B2
Exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards a system for monitoring telephony communications in real time, comprising: first user communication devices and second user communication devices are connected to a first provider communication device and a second provider communication device. A telephony communication establishment module is installed in the first user communication devices and the second user communication devices, the telephony communication establishment module is configured to perform telephony operations and data connectivity to communicate to a telephony communication monitoring system, and a telephony server is configured to transmit telephony communications to the first user communication devices via a network based on the connection originating to the telephony server, the telephony server is configured to forward the telephony communication status to the first provider communication device, the first provider communication device is configured to provide the telephony communication status from the telephony server to the first user communication devices and the telephony communication monitoring system.
US11184477B2
According to one embodiment, a method, computer system, and computer program product for detecting and repairing gaps within a call is provided. The present invention may include requesting a personal discourse gap recovery model (PDGRM) for participants in a call, where the PDGRM may be a machine learning model that models a user's speech patterns based on word collocation, dictionary, and speaking rate. The present invention may further comprise detecting one or more gaps in the call based on network connectivity, inserting an audio delay into the call, constructing repaired dialogue to fill at least one of the one or more gaps in the call based on the PDGRM, and inserting the repaired dialogue into the call.
US11184467B2
Systems and methods for multi-thread processing of messages. An example method comprises: receiving, by a first processing thread, a plurality of network packets from a server; processing the plurality of network packets to produce a message; writing the message to a message queue; retrieving, by a second processing thread, the message from the message queue; producing a memory data structure based on the message; placing the memory data structure into a result queue; and responsive to determining that a total size of messages in the message queue exceeds a certain threshold, causing the first processing thread to suspend receiving network packets.
US11184465B2
Techniques for network communication are described herein. The disclosed techniques include generating a request for accessing a target server by a computing device, the request comprising a URL; determining whether to select a QUIC transport protocol based on the URI; selecting the QUIC transport protocol in response to a determination that the URL comprises QUIC identification information; and establishing a QUIC connection with the target server via a QUIC stack of the computing device according to the QUIC transport protocol.
US11184458B1
Empirical data of exit nodes are continuously monitored and each exit node's overall performance and available capacity are calculated. The empirical data can include monitoring the number of concurrent requests currently being executed by each exit node and the disconnection chronology of each exit node. Further, each exit node is tested by benchmark requests and ping messages and each exit node's quality rate is calculated. Additionally, systems and methods are provided to select an exit node with the highest quality and available capacity value, from a particular pool to route the user request.
US11184457B2
Systems and techniques for information-centric network data cache management are described herein. A demand metric may be calculated for a content item requested from an information-centric network (ICN). A resistance metric may be calculated for each cache node of a set of cache nodes in the ICN based on the demand metric. A topology of the set of cache nodes may be evaluated to identify a transmission cost for each cache node of the set of cache nodes. An influencer node may be selected from the set of cache nodes based on the resistance metric for the influencer node and the transmission cost for the influencer node. The content item may be cached in a data cache of the influencer node.
US11184454B1
A computer-implemented system for eliminating perpetual application programming interface (API) calls to minimize resource drain. The system may comprise: at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium configured to store instructions; and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to perform operations. The operations may comprise: monitoring a dynamic list of one or more API calls, wherein the dynamic list is configured to vary in length; identifying a subset of the API calls that remain in the dynamic list through a number of the process cycles over a first threshold; querying one or more network databases to verify that the subset of the API calls have not been resolved; determining costs of dismissing the subset of the API calls; dismissing the API calls with costs less than a second threshold; and transmitting a notification API call to one or more user devices corresponding to the dismissed API calls.
US11184452B2
A proxy-selection system includes an expert rule module that stores a respective set of expert rules applicable to each target device, each expert rule having a respective selection-weight factor. The intelligence module includes logic to acquire, from the separator, the categorized device data for each target device; logic to search, from the expert rule module, a respective set of expert rules which are all applicable to each target device; logic to apply the respective set of expert rules searched for each target device; logic to calculate the respective selection-weight factors of all of the respective set of expert rules applied; and logic to select one or more proxy computers based on a result of the calculation of the selection-weight factors.
US11184448B2
According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method, a system, and an apparatus are presented for mediating ambiance outputs among a plurality of users located in a common area. In some implementations, said ambiance outputs can be adaptive or interactive shared digital works. In other implementations, said ambiance outputs can be shared mediated augmented reality. In other implementations, said ambiance outputs can be the result of hierarchical schemes and algorithms. In another embodiment a method, system, and apparatus is presented for extracting and/or storing previously tagged items from a digital work.
US11184447B2
In one embodiment, a method includes identifying a pre-determined number of items associated with one or more entities; transmitting item information associated with the pre-determined number of items to a client device; and determining that the client device is likely to enter a first entity of the one or more entities. The first entity is identified based on a physical proximity between the client device and the first entity. The method also includes accessing, based on the first entity, location-specific item information associated with one or more of the pre-determined number of items or one or more additional items; and transmitting the location-specific item information to the client device. The item information and the location-specific item information are configured to be used by the client device while the client device is within the first entity.
US11184433B2
The disclosure describes systems and methods for minimizing latency for users accessing services hosted on a cloud-computing system. A service of the cloud-computing system periodically queries edge sites of the cloud-computing system for information regarding containers stored on the edge sites. In response to the queries, the edge sites provide information identifying containers hosted on the edge sites, prefixes that the containers service, and connection locations where traffic from the prefixes enter the cloud-computing system. The service may determine whether the connection locations have changed. If a connection location for a prefix has changed, the service modifies a location of a container servicing the prefix. The service may migrate the container to a current connection location for the prefix. Modifying the location may reduce latency experienced by users behind the prefix.
US11184426B2
Example techniques relate to cloud queue tombstones. An example implementation may involve a computing system receiving instructions to remove a particular media item from a playback queue. Based on the instructions, the computing system removes the particular media item from the playback queue and adds, to the playback queue, a tombstone indicator indicating that the particular media item has been removed from the playback queue. The computing system receives, from the media playback system, a request for a window of one or more media items from the playback queue. Based on the request, the computing system sends, to the media playback system, data representing a particular window of media items from the playback queue, wherein the particular window includes the tombstone indicator. The computing system detects a given tombstone removal trigger from among multiple tombstone removal triggers and based on the detecting, removes the tombstone indicator from the playback queue.
US11184419B2
An example method involves (i) accessing a playlist defining a sequence of media content items including a first media content item and a second media content item; (ii) retrieving, from one or more server devices, first data representing the media content items of the received playlist, and using the retrieved first data to play out, via a client device, the media content items in accordance with the sequence defined by the playlist; (iii) accessing second data representing user activity related to the client device, and using the accessed second data as a basis to select a media content item from a plurality of media content items; and (iv) retrieving third data representing the selected media content item, and using the retrieved third data to play out, via the client device, the selected media content item in between playing out the first and second media content items.
US11184417B2
Methods, systems, and devices are provided for streaming service in a fifth generation (5G) system (5GS) network. Various embodiments may provide for selecting appropriate network slices for provisioning media content and streaming service over the network. Desired network slice features may be indicated that correspond to service information.
US11184415B2
Techniques presented herein provide an improved relay user experience and improved management of scarce computing and network resources as the number of relay endpoints increases. A sourcing endpoint device may generate a media feed, such as video and/or audio feed, representing contribution from a conference participant. The sourcing endpoint device may generate a priority value for the media feed, and the priority value may be transmitted to other members of the relay along with the input feed. Priority values of the different relay participants may be used by other devices, for example, intermediate servers or receiving endpoint devices, to manage aspects of the relay. For example, a relay server may prune streams from select endpoint devices based on relative priority values received from those devices. Alternatively, receiving endpoint devices may alter presentation of received feeds based on their associated priority values.
US11184414B2
Methods, systems, and apparatuses are provided for reservation management for client-initiated polling requests in a communication system.
US11184412B1
Described are systems, methods, and apparatus that enable constraint based communications between two or more devices. For example, a first user of a first device may submit a communication request to establish a communication session with a second user and provide a constraint for that communication session, such as a time-limit (e.g., limit the communication session to five minutes). In such an example, if the second user accepts the communication request with the constraint, a communication session is established and the system monitors the communication session to determine when a condition corresponding to the constraint has been satisfied. When the condition is satisfied, the communication session is terminated by the system.
US11184406B1
A user's session of a web application or a website in a web browser is recorded and replayed while protecting private and sensitive data from unauthorized access. All the captured data needed to re-create (replay) the user's session in the browser itself is recorded and exported on demand. The need to transmit potentially sensitive and private data continuously to external server(s) is eliminated while still guaranteeing availability of a record of user activity leading up to any point of interest during the user's session. By encrypting recording information and redacting all non-layout content (e.g. text nodes, images, inputs) from the browser DOM before capturing the DOM, the visual layout of the page is maintained and the probability of leaking the user's sensitive or private information is reduced. The replaying user is still able to derive meaningful information about the user's interaction with the web application or website without jeopardizing privacy.
US11184403B1
The technology disclosed describes a system. The system comprises an edge network of a plurality of points of presence of a network security system. Points of presence in the plurality of points of presence are configured to intermediate traffic between clients and cloud applications and to use metadata to apply policies on the intermediated traffic. There are redundancies in metadata synchronization between the points of presence due to metadata migration to a second point of presence from a first point of presence handing off intermediation to the second point of presence within an application session. Each of the points of presence is configured with inline metadata generation logic. The inline metadata generation logic is configured to issue synthetic requests to provide the metadata to the second point of presence without requiring the metadata migration to the second point of presence.
US11184394B1
In some embodiments, systems, methods, and devices disclosed herein enable trusted sharing of private data and/or transactions via a distributed ledger, while maintaining data consistency properties. Some embodiments provide and utilize one or more independent and/or dependent channels. In particular, in some embodiments, one or more independent and/or dependent channels can exist on a single distributed ledger, wherein participants or nodes that are members of a particular channel can view and access the information in a given network transaction. To other participants or nodes not on the particular channel, however, only an encrypted or redacted version of the information can be viewable, thereby not disclosing the transaction information to such participants or nodes. In some embodiments, consistency properties may be preserved even in the presence of selective sharing of transaction information with proofs of validity.
US11184392B2
Attempts at lateral movement are detected by monitoring failed login attempts across a number of endpoints in a network. By configuring endpoints across the network to report unsuccessful login attempts and monitoring these login attempts at a central location, patterns of attempts and failures may advantageously be detected and used to identify malicious attempts at lateral movement within the network before any unauthorized lateral movement is achieved.
US11184391B2
An endpoint in a network periodically generates a heartbeat encoding health state information and transmits this heartbeat to other network entities. Recipients of the heartbeat may use the health state information to independently make decisions about communications with the source endpoint, for example, by isolating the endpoint to prevent further communications with other devices sharing the network with the endpoint. Isolation may be coordinated by a firewall or gateway for the network, or independently by other endpoints that receive a notification of the compromised health state.
US11184380B2
Website data security is provided by conditionally accessing, assessing, and processing website content file attribute data and website content files used to host websites with a first set of servers configured with website content security breach analysis, detection, and repair functionality. The website content files are conditionally accessed based on a file modification date without heavily loading the servers hosting the website. The website content is analyzed by decoding PHP code and executing code in a hardened execution environment. Repair is accomplished through removing or replacing breached content.
US11184367B2
A method and a computer network of interconnected computer nodes, one assigned a role of a deployer node, the deployer node creating and executing a rule-based block, and assigning others of the computer nodes a role of sensor node or a role of display node. The deployer node maintains addresses of the sensor nodes and the display nodes, the sensor nodes add sensor track data to create linked blocks, and the display nodes read the sensor track data in the linked blocks. The rule-based block includes a sensor add rule which checks that only computer nodes assigned the role of the deployer node can assign a computer node the role of sensor node. The rule-based block includes a sensor track data add rule which checks that only the computer nodes assigned the role of sensor node can request to add new sensor track data to create the linked blocks.
US11184366B1
Systems, devices, and techniques for service authorization are described. A described device includes a transceiver to communicate with an authorization server, and a processor. The processor can set an authorization timer for a first time period based on obtaining an authorization from the authorization server, and activate device features for a duration of the first time period. The processor can receive from the authorization server an authorization message that includes an authorization key hash based on a shared secret key and a server timestamp, determine a local key hash based on the shared secret key and a local timestamp, set the authorization timer for a second time period based on the authorization key hash matching the local key hash, and maintain an activation of the features for a duration of the second time period.
US11184358B2
The technology described herein is directed towards content rights data that are associated with content (a data item) to make that content selectively available or unavailable in responses by a data service to client requests. A client includes client content rights data in association with each request, (e.g., via a token), and the data service uses that client content rights data as query parameters (constraint criteria) in making a request for a data item. Client content rights data also may be used for accessing cached data. Availability constraints may include client location, brand, channel, device class and time (commence and cease).
US11184354B2
Techniques for enhanced security for disconnected devices are provided. A request for one or more attributes of a security component is received by the security component, from a requesting device. The one or more attributes are provided to the requesting device, where the requesting device transmits the one or more attributes to a network service, where the security component is not able to communicate with the network service. A token is received from the requesting device, where the requesting device received the token in response to transmitting the one or more attributes to the network service. A level of access is determined for the requesting device, based on validating the token using a predefined configuration of the security component. Finally, the determined level of access is provided to the requesting device.
US11184349B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods for capturing information. In addition, embodiments of the present disclosure relate to solutions for capturing information using a web browser extension. Embodiments of the present disclosure further relate to securely transmitting captured information to a server for association with an application or form being completed by an individual.
US11184345B2
Disclosed are various approaches for workflow service back end integration. In some examples, a service request is identified. The service request is associated with a network service. A single sign-on (SSO) token is received. The SSO token represents a user account authenticated with an identity manager. Authentication data for the network service is identified based on the SSO token. A hosting location of a connector for the network service is identified based on the authentication data. An authentication header is appended to the service request. The service request with the authentication header is transmitted to the connector.
US11184333B2
A computer implemented method for securely extracting secure data from a human capital management (HCM) system, includes receiving setup data from a production tenant of the HCM system, wherein the setup data includes one or more field types describing what type of secure data is stored on the production tenant, creating a scrambling module based on the setup data that is configured to scramble the secure data based on scrambling settings, wherein the scrambling module is configured to upload and install onto the HCM system and to communicate with the production tenant to receive the secure data to scramble the secure data, and uploading the scrambling module to the HCM system.
US11184331B1
In some implementations, a system is capable of managing keys for encrypting media streams over UDP communications between a media source and an associated server. A key is initially generated for encrypting a media stream captured by a media source device associated with a monitoring system of a property. A first instruction is provided to the media source device and over a secure communication channel. The first instruction causes the media source device to encrypt the media stream using the key when received by the media source device. A second instruction is generated for decrypting the encrypted media stream. The second instruction is provided to a computing device associated with the property. The second instruction causes the computing device to decrypt the encrypted media stream when received by the computing device.
US11184329B2
Disclosed is a system for deploying a secure server that provides one or more network services. Generally stated, a secure server is deployed in a secure environment behind a privacy barrier. The secure server is configured to interact with a service host on a public network outside the privacy barrier. The service host facilitates routing information from the public network through the privacy barrier to the secure server.
US11184316B2
In a method for processing messages exchanged on a social network, a data processing apparatus gathers from the social network a reference set of messages pertaining to a user-selected reference context. The data processing apparatus then applies a multidimensional aggregation to the reference set of messages, whereby the messages of the reference set are grouped in an multidimensional array of groups having at least two dimensions. In each dimension, the array comprises a number of groups that correspond to a number of values of a certain message feature. Each group in a dimension corresponding to a certain message feature aggregates all the messages of the reference set whose message feature has a same value. Then, a user interface is displayed, which shows the reference set of messages as aggregated in at least two dimensions of the array.
US11184314B2
The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus for prompting a reading state of a message, and an electronic device. The method includes: displaying, when a message having a reading state to be identified is sent in a conversation window including a plurality of users, a reading state prompt pattern corresponding to the message in the conversation window; determining current reading states of respective ones of the plurality of users for the message; counting a current number of users who have read the message based on the reading states; and controlling the reading state prompt pattern to be displayed in a state that reflects the current number of users who have read the message.
US11184311B2
Aspects of the present application provide a communication system that includes a communication unit and a control unit. The communication unit is configured to receive, from a communication source, a scheduling request for scheduling transmission of a message to a specific communication destination. The control unit is configured to perform control such that the communication destination is notified of existence of the message at a predetermined timing in accordance with content of the message and a current or past psychological situation of a user corresponding to the specific communication destination received by the communication unit.
US11184306B1
Contextual routing and/or management of communications is described. Server(s) of service provider can receive a first communication via a first communication channel. The first communication can be associated with a first service offered by the service provider and with a merchant identifier of a merchant that is an intended recipient of the first communication. The server(s) can generate, based at least partly on context data associated with the first communication, a recommendation for the merchant to respond via (i) a second communication channel that is different than the first communication channel and/or (ii) a second service that is different than the first service. The server(s) can cause the first communication and the recommendation to be presented via a consolidated communication user interface of a computing device of the merchant that presents (i) the first communication and (ii) a second communication between the merchant and a second customer of the merchant.
US11184295B2
Example methods are provided for port mirroring based on remote direct memory access (RDMA) in a software-defined networking (SDN) environment. One example method may comprise obtaining configuration information associated with a port mirroring session between a source logical port supported by a source host and a destination logical port supported by a destination host, and establishing an RDMA-based connection between the source and destination hosts. The method may also comprise: in response to detecting a packet passing through the source logical port, generating a mirrored packet based on the detected packet, and storing, in source memory associated with the source host, the mirrored packet in association with destination information identifying the destination logical port or destination host. The method may further comprise transferring the mirrored packet from the source memory to destination memory associated with the destination host via the RDMA-based connection.
US11184286B2
Method and system for adaptive and context-aware service function chaining in communication networks
A technique is provided for adaptively performing service function chaining based on network context. The technique includes receiving a request comprising a flexible SFC template (FST) for provisioning an SFC of a plurality of service functions (SFs). A service function path (SFP) is determined responsive to receipt of data packets corresponding to a pre-defined flow to be transmitted over the network. Monitoring of a pre-defined plurality of parameters associated with the SFP and a network context is performed after implementing the SFP. Based on the monitoring of the pre-defined plurality of parameters and SFP modification criteria, a requirement for modifying the SFP is identified. Responsive to the identification, the SFP is modified and the performance of the modified SFP is monitored based on one or more of the plurality of parameters, a network context after modifying the SFP, and a pre-defined plurality of service performance thresholds.
US11184283B2
A computer-implemented method tracks congestion in a service function chain. The method includes receiving a packet at a service function forwarding node of the service function chain, the packet having an information packet, a transport header, and a network service header, forwarding the packet to a service function in accordance with the network service header, detecting congestion, and updating a congestion field in the network service header to indicate congestion was encountered in the service function chain.
US11184281B2
A packet processing method and apparatus relating to the field of communications technologies are provided, so as to reduce overheads and improve update efficiency. The method includes: receiving a first packet and a second packet; determining a first instruction block; obtaining a first identifier according to the first instruction block and the first packet, and obtaining a second identifier according to the first instruction block and the second packet, the first entry includes a third identifier, and the third identifier is a storage address of a second instruction block; obtaining the third identifier by accessing the first entry indicated by the first identifier, and obtaining the third identifier by accessing the first entry indicated by the second identifier; obtaining the second instruction block according to the third identifier; and processing the first packet and the second packet according to the second instruction block.
US11184280B2
In one illustrative example, a network node configured for packet flow verification may receive a packet from a host (e.g. a wireless mobile device operating in a wireless network) and obtain, from a header of the packet, data indicative of one or more traversed network node or service function identities. The identities may correspond to one or more traversed network nodes or service functions through which the packet has traversed in a non-steered communication having an unspecified path. Each received data indicative of a traversed network node or service function identity may be network node-added data, provided as part of in-situ Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (iOAM) data.
US11184279B2
A method and an apparatus for building a decision tree for packet classification are provided. According to an example of the present disclosure, a first type decision tree is generated by performing tree building for a classification rule set based on a non-template dimension of the classification rule set; a second type decision tree is generated by performing tree building for each leaf node in the first type decision tree based on a template dimension of the classification rule set; a plurality of leaf nodes that are mutually of the to each other in the first type decision tree are associated with a same second type decision tree. The plurality of leaf nodes that are SPSR to each other indicate that classification rule sets respectively included in the plurality of leaf nodes are SPSR to each other.
US11184278B2
The disclosed systems and methods provide hyperscalar packet processing. A method includes receiving a plurality of network packets from a plurality of data paths. The method also includes arbitrating, based at least in part on an arbitration policy, the plurality of network packets to a plurality of packet processing blocks comprising one or more full processing blocks and one or more limited processing blocks. The method also includes processing, in parallel, the plurality of network packets via the plurality of packet processing blocks, wherein each of the one or more full processing blocks processes a first quantity of network packets during a clock cycle, and wherein each of the one or more limited processing blocks processes a second quantity of network packets during the clock cycle that is greater than the first quantity of network packets. The method also includes sending the processed network packets through data buses.
US11184275B2
The present invention provides a system and method for ultra reliable low latency communication (URLLC) which can be achieved by redundant transmission with two or more links at one or more RAN nodes. In order to achieve URLLC communication, methods supporting the PDCP packet duplication and/or higher layer packet duplication are applied to various RAN architectures such as CA architecture, DC based architecture with one connection to the core network (CN), DC based architecture with two or more connections to the CN, CA and DC combined architecture, and CU/DU split architecture.
US11184271B2
A system for performing assurance of at least one network element in a network, the system comprising: at least one pacemaker, wherein the at least one pacemaker is a virtual machine in communication with a path to the at least one network element in the network, the at least one pacemaker configured to selectively provide an atomic workload to the path; a configuration analysis microservice in communication with the at least one pacemaker, the configuration analysis microservice is configured to provide a policy to the at least one pacemaker for application of the atomic workload and monitor a pulse from the atomic workload on the path.
US11184269B1
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for collecting route-based traffic metrics in a service-oriented system are disclosed. A first service in a service-oriented system receives an inbound request from a second service. From the inbound request, the first service extracts, a route identifier representing an upstream route including the second service. The first service stores the route identifier and a counter representing a number of inbound requests with the route identifier that have been received by the first service over a current window of time. The first service sends, to a traffic metric collection system, a metric message comprising the route identifier and the counter. Traffic metric data is determined by the traffic metric collection system using the metric message from the first service and one or more additional metric messages from one or more additional services. The traffic metric data indicates one or more flows of requests through the services.
US11184263B1
A plurality of serverless function invocations are received. A quantity of serverless function invocations of the plurality of serverless function invocations that corresponds to a particular type of serverless function invocation are determined. A number of serverless functions are scaled at a determined rate in view of the quantity of serverless function invocations corresponding to the particular type of serverless function invocation.
US11184262B2
A beam measurement processing method and a beam measurement processing device are provided. The beam measurement processing method for a network side device includes: when Beam Pair Link (BPL) quality is measured in a first mode, determining a first completion time at which a beam sweeping for all reception beams has been completed by a User Equipment (UE) corresponding to a current transmission beam, and transmitting a next transmission beam after the first completion time; and/or when the BPL quality is measured in a second mode, determining a second completion time at which a beam sweeping for all transmission beams has been completed by a network side device corresponding to a current reception beam, and performing a next beam sweeping for all the transmission beams after the second completion time.
US11184261B2
Embodiments are generally directed apparatuses, methods, techniques and so forth to select two or more processing units of the plurality of processing units to process a workload, and configure a circuit switch to link the two or more processing units to process the workload, the two or more processing units each linked to each other via paths of communication and the circuit switch.
US11184258B1
A monitoring system is disclosed that achieves the benefits of active monitoring by providing a holistic view of the network, while obtaining the granularity of a passive monitoring system by testing a large majority or all of the prefixes. In one embodiment, streaming updates of a forwarding plane are captured for devices in a network. Additionally, an initial state of the forwarding plane can be captured for each device. A time-series graph of the forwarding plane can be constructed. In the graph, each node can represent a device and each edge can represent a possible path for a prefix at a given point in time. Graph analysis techniques can be used to analyze the graph and detect errors. For example, cycle detection algorithms can be used on the forwarding plane data to detect microloops. Other techniques can be used to find black holes or capacity bottlenecks.
US11184247B2
Performance predictions in a computing cluster can be provided by sampling and storing historic workload request data of the computing cluster as time-stamped workload values, forecasting an expected total number of workload requests for a defined time interval in the future based on a time-series analysis of the time-stamped workload values, where the time-series analysis detects cyclic and repeating events in the time-stamped workload values. In response to a result of the time-series analysis, training a workload prediction model by using additional data about acyclic events in expected workload requests, where the training applies a statistical regression technique for predicting a future workload demand for the computing cluster, and in response to exceeding a predefined threshold value of the predicted future workload demand, reassigning resources of the computing cluster.
US11184245B2
A computer-implemented method is provided for use with a reconfigurable computational device having a collection of computing nodes arranged in a mesh of N×M×Z topology, the computing nodes including computational hardware, wherein Z
US11184243B2
A distribution of a content selection being distributed throughout a wireless mesh network may be tracked. A wireless device in the wireless mesh network enables the content selection to be exchanged. Wireless devices then exchange the content, and a network topology is recorded in response. Finally, the network topology is reported to a reporting agent.
US11184240B2
Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are disclosed to communicate with subscribers in an information-centric networking environment. A WTRU may store a first path from the WTRU to a first subscriber and a second path from the WTRU to a second subscriber. A message from a topology manager may be received. The message may indicate a change to a network topology. In response to a determination that the change to the network topology relates to the first path and does not relate to the second path, the WTRU may remove the first path from the memory and maintain the second path in the memory. The WTRU may send a request to the topology manager for a third path to replace the first path that was removed from memory. In response to the above determination, a portion of the first path may be removed and replaced according to the above mechanism.
US11184237B2
The disclosure provides an approach for service provisioning. Embodiments include receiving first configuration data related to a first network endpoint and second configuration data related to a second network endpoint. Embodiments include generating a service map based on the first configuration data and the second configuration data. Embodiments include receiving a request to provision a service between the first network endpoint and the second network endpoint. Embodiments include determining in response to the request and based on the service map, first service configuration data for the first network endpoint and second service configuration data for the second network endpoint. Embodiments include provisioning the service between the first network endpoint and the second network endpoint by pushing the first service configuration data to the first network endpoint and pushing the second service configuration data to the second network endpoint.
US11184229B2
In a development operation support system, a development management server includes a recording unit configured to record configuration information and application time of applying the configuration information to a target system in a history-included CMDB, and a generating unit configured to generate configuration information corresponding to the application time as configuration information used for design at a subsequent design time. An operation management server includes a setting unit configured to set, at the recorded application time, configuration information corresponding to the application time in the target system, a collecting unit configured to collect setting information of a current target system from the set target system; and a confirming unit configured to confirm a match or a mismatch between the collected setting information and the configuration information corresponding to the recorded application time.
US11184227B2
Some embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method and apparatus for updating a configuration object. An implementation of the method includes: acquiring an update configuration file; determining a to-be-updated configuration object based on the update configuration file and a pre-stored historical configuration file; determining whether the to-be-updated configuration object is processing information; and updating, in response to determining that the to-be-updated configuration object is processing information, the to-be-updated configuration object based on the update configuration file when any one of the following conditions is met: the information is processed, a preset duration has elapsed since acquiring the update configuration file. In some embodiments, buffer time can be provided before updating the configuration object, and the configuration object can be updated without the user's perception.
US11184223B2
Embodiments described herein are directed to implementing compliance settings by a computing device for bringing the computing device into compliance with a configuration scenario. For instance, a computing device may receive, from a server, configuration information describing compliance settings for implementing by the computing device to bring the computing device into compliance with a configuration scenario. Moreover, the computing device may identify a state machine indicated by the configuration information that describes a configuration process for implementing the compliance settings and execute the state machine to configure the computing device with the compliance settings.
US11184212B2
Disclosed are a dynamic configuration method, a terminal device, a network device and a computer storage medium. The method comprises: a terminal device receiving configuration information of at least two modulation and coding scheme (MCS) tables, wherein the configuration information is used for determining the at least two MCS tables; the terminal device receiving scheduling information sent by a network side; and the terminal device determining a target MCS table from the at least two MCS tables based on the scheduling information and the correlation between scheduling information and an MCS tables.
US11184201B2
Systems, devices, and methods of the present invention facilitate secure communication by altering the set of symbol waveforms that may be in use in particular symbol times defined herein as Symbol Waveform Hopping. SWH may be enabled by selecting two or more modulation formats that have sufficiently comparable communication performance (e.g., occupied bandwidth and signal power efficiency), but characterized by symbol waveform alphabet that include different symbol waveform, so that the overall transmission/communication performance of data stream in a signal transmission channel of the system is not significantly affected by switching between modulation formats. Some or all of the symbol waveforms in each alphabet may not be present in other alphabets.
US11184199B2
Disclosed is an electronic apparatus including: a substrate; and an integrated circuit (IC) and an inductor provided in the substrate, the IC including: a plurality of subcircuits; and an equalizer configured to receive a signal from an outside of the IC, compensate the received signal for distortion or interference, and output the compensated signal to the subcircuit, and the inductor of which: a first end is connected to a power and a second end is connected to a power supplying terminal of the equalizer, and an inductance corresponds to an operation frequency of the equalizer.
US11184198B2
A receiver includes a decision circuit, a circuit to adjust an input signal of the decision circuit, a correction circuit and a control circuit. The decision circuit makes a data decision based on an input signal of the decision circuit. The circuit to adjust the input signal of the decision circuit adjusts the input signal of the decision circuit based on an input correction signal. The correction circuit combines a plurality of signals corresponding to different input correction parameters into a preliminary input correction signal. An input of the correction circuit is coupled to an output of the decision circuit. The control circuit maps the preliminary input correction signal into the input correction signal using a nonlinear code mapping.
US11184197B2
A first sequence of data bits is shifted into storage elements of a signal receiver during a first sequence of bit-time intervals, and a memory access command indicates that a second sequence of data bits is to be received within the signal receiver during a second sequence of bit-time intervals. Contents of the shift-register storage elements are conditionally overwritten with a predetermined set of seed bits, depending on whether one or more bit-time intervals will transpire between the first and second sequences of bit-time intervals. Equalization signals generated based, at least in part, on contents of the shift-register storage elements are used to adjust respective signal levels representative of one or more bits of the second sequence of data bits.
US11184196B1
A digital differential line receiver includes a differential signal to single-ended conversion amplifier coupled to receive a data line and data-complement line of a differential signal; a first termination resistor coupled to the data line of the differential signal; a second termination resistor coupled to the data-complement line of the differential signal; a first impedance-adjusting transistor coupled between the first termination resistor and a common mode line; a second impedance-adjusting transistor coupled between the second termination resistor and the common mode line; a control-voltage generator coupled to sense the common mode line and provide a control voltage, the control voltage generator configured to adjust the control voltage to a voltage level such that a combined impedance of the first termination resistor, the first impedance-adjusting transistor, the second termination resistor, and the second impedance-adjusting transistor matches a specified impedance.
US11184193B2
An apparatus includes a program instructing hardware and a computer readable storage medium coupled to the hardware and storing programming instructions for execution by the hardware. The programming instructions instruct the hardware to: receive a network device selection message sent by a first network device, where the network device selection message contains a virtual local area network (VLAN) mapping capability identifier of the first network device and a device identifier of the first network device; when determining that both the apparatus and the first network device have VLAN mapping capability according to local VLAN mapping capability and the VLAN mapping capability identifier of the first network device, select a network device for executing VLAN mapping according to sizes or a sequence of a local device identifier and the device identifier of the first network device.
US11184191B1
A network security device has a local area network (LAN) interface and a wide area network (WAN) interface, with a capability to route packets of a network connection along a fast path that bypasses a network stack of an operating system of the network security device. A packet of a network connection that is received at the LAN interface is routed to a virtual network interface. A packet inspector reads the packet from the virtual network interface, inspects the packet, and writes the packet back to the virtual network interface after inspection. The packet is routed from the virtual network interface to the WAN interface, and exits the WAN interface towards the destination network address of the packet. After inspecting one or more packets of the network connection, subsequently received packets of the network connection are routed along the fast path.
US11184189B2
Provisioning of network element with a provisioning element having a number of provisioning servers. Each provisioning server being active to support its own provisioning and to actively backup the provisioning of the provisioning servers such that operations of the provisioning servers is maximized while providing redundancy in the event that one of the other provisioning servers is lost or disabled.
US11184183B2
In order to facilitate electronic meeting scheduling and coordination, systems and methods are disclosed including receiving, by a processor, a plurality of electronic meeting requests to schedule a meeting. The processor determines, for each electronic meeting request, meeting room needs. A meeting scheduling machine learning model is utilized to predict parameters of meeting room objects representing the candidate meeting rooms based at least in part on the meeting room needs, schedule information associated with a respective electronic meeting request and location information associated with the respective electronic meeting request. The processor causes an indication of the candidate meeting rooms to display in response to the electronic meeting request on a screen of computing devices associated with the respective attendees based at least in part on the predicted parameters. The processor receives a selection of the respective candidate meeting rooms from the respective attendees, and dynamically secures each candidate meeting room.
US11184171B2
Described in detail herein is an multi-variant tracking system. Independently operated domains can be associated with a cryptographically verifiable ledger represented by a sequence of blocks. The central computing system can receive an alert of a creation of a new block in a cryptographically verifiable ledger associated with a first independently operated domain. The central computing system can determine one or more independently operated domains affected by a change in a first data value of a first type. The central computing system can determine a type of a type of data value associated with other transaction records in each cryptographically verifiable ledger for each of the independently operated domains. The central computing system can convert the change in the first data value of the first type to a corresponding change in a data value of a different type of data value.
US11184170B2
Methods, systems, and devices for public key protection techniques are described. An embedded multimedia card (eMMC) may be formatted to include a permanent write protect group that is configured to prevent disabling of write protection for data stored in the permanent write protect group. The eMMC may store a public key associated with a first host device in the permanent write protect group of the eMMC. A data package may be received from the host device and authenticated by using the public key stored in the permanent write protect group. The embedded memory controller may be configured to prevent modifying or writing data to a permanent write protect group.
US11184165B2
A method for user equipment (UE) identification in a wireless network comprising selecting, at the UE, a sequence from a stored pool of possible sequences based on a stored secret value; and transmitting the selected sequence to the wireless network.
US11184157B1
Protection against the obsolescence of cryptographic algorithms is provided by generating a cryptographic key pair for future use and storing the public key on a device. The cryptographic key pair supports a signature scheme that is potentially resistant to quantum computing attacks. In an embodiment, a key management server generates a set of one-time use keys sufficient to sign the anticipated number of software updates to be applied to a device. The key management server provides a public key which is stored on the device for later use. In an embodiment, an update to the device us signed with the one-time-use private key, and can be authenticated by the device using the public key. In an embodiment, the key pair supports the use of a one-time signature technique such as a Merkle signature scheme, Winternitz signature, or Lampert signature.
US11184146B2
Differential input pins are coupled to a differential transmission path. A receiver circuit receives a differential input signal input via the differential input pins. A latch circuit latches an internal differential signal output from the receiver circuit. An evaluation circuit samples the internal differential signal, and generates evaluation data with respect to the waveform of the internal differential signal. A reception device is configured to be capable of providing evaluation data DEVAL to an external circuit.
US11184142B2
Methods and apparatuses for carrier aggregation with discontinuous reception is disclosed. At least two different time division duplexing configurations can be communicated from serving cells to a device, the subframes of the at least two different configurations being counted for purposes of operating at least one timer function according to a predefined rule of counting. Discontinuous communications by the serving cells with the device are controlled based on the predefined rule of counting such that at least one timer function associated with discontinuous reception from the serving cells is operated based on the counting.
US11184141B2
There is provided a communication device that communicates with another communication device, the communication device comprising: an arranging unit configured to arrange a demodulation reference signal and a group including a plurality of code blocks in a radio frame; and a transmitting unit configured to transmit the radio frame to the other communication device, wherein the plurality of code blocks are arranged in the radio frame based on a position of the demodulation reference signal in the radio frame.
US11184140B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for wireless communications. A base station may transmit, to a wireless device, a DCI format comprising a downlink BWP indicator, an uplink BWP indicator, a PDSCH resource allocation, and a PUCCH resource allocation for HARQ ACK transmission. The wireless device may select, from a plurality of uplink active BWPs of the cell, an uplink active BWP based on the uplink BWP indicator. The wireless device may transmit the HARQ ACK via the selected uplink active BWP.
US11184133B2
Disclosed herein is a method for receiving a user equipment-specific reference signal-based data signal by a user equipment in a wireless communication system. Particularly, the method comprises the steps of: receiving a control signal for the user equipment-specific reference signal-based data signal from an eNodeB; and receiving the user equipment-specific reference signal-based data signal on the basis of the control signal, wherein the control signal includes information on an antenna port for a channel status information-reference signal, the antenna port being assumed to be quasi-co-located (QCL) with an antenna port for the user equipment-specific reference signal, and the channel status information-reference signal excludes an aperiodic channel status information-reference signal.
US11184125B2
Aspects of the present disclosure provide various apparatuses and methods for extending a reference signal to facilitate carrier aggregation (CA). In some examples, a network includes a primary cell and one or more secondary cells that use a millimeter wave (mmW) carrier. When a UE is beyond the range of a reference signal from the secondary cell, the primary cell may trigger the secondary cell to increase the range of its reference signal using a higher gain beam and/or reference signal repetition.
US11184123B2
A terminal is disclosed that includes a receiver that receives a downlink (DL) signal transmitted from each of a plurality of component carriers (CC) in dual connectivity and a processor that makes measurement of the DL signal based on a measurement requirement. The terminal further includes a first measurement requirement of a first secondary CC to which listening before transmission is applied is different from a second measurement requirement of a second secondary CC to which the listening before transmission is not applied.
US11184122B2
Device, methods and systems for implementing aspects of orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) modulation in wireless systems are described. In an aspect, the device may include a surface of an object for receiving an electromagnetic signal. The surface may be structured to perform a non-electrical function for the object. The surface may generate an electrical signal from an electromagnetic signal. The electromagnetic signal may be received from a transmitter. The transmitter may map digital data to a digital amplitude modulation constellation in a time-frequency space. The digital amplitude modulation constellation may be mapped to a delay-Doppler domain and the transmitter may transmit to the surface according to an orthogonal time frequency space modulation signal scheme. The apparatus may further include a demodulator to demodulate the electrical signal to determine digital data.
US11184119B2
Aspects of this disclosure provide a technique for implementing polar encoding with incremental redundancy HARQ re-transmission. In particular, a transmitter encodes a message using different polar codes to obtain a first codeword and a second codeword that is twice the length of the first codeword, and transmit the first codeword as an original transmission, and the second half of the second codeword as a re-transmission without transmitting the first half of the second codeword. Information bits that are common to both the first codeword and the second half of the second codeword is mapped to more-reliable bit-locations in the second half of the second codeword. Decoded bit values for the common information in the original transmission and retransmission is compared by the receiver to perform a parity check.
US11184117B2
Encoding System for Incremental Redundancy for Hybrid ARQ for Wireless Networks A technique is provided for encoding, by an outer encoder, a set of information bits; performing, by each polar sub-encoder of a set of polar sub-encoders, polar encoding of bits received from the outer encoder for a corresponding incremental redundancy (IR) hybrid ARQ (HARQ) transmission; and performing, by an inner encoder, for each bit input to the inner encoder from one of the polar sub-encoders for the HARQ transmission, an Exclusive Or (XOR) operation with another bit, to generate a set of code bits for an IR-HARQ transmission over a channel.
US11184113B2
An example operation may include one or more of receiving a data packet from a network controller, where the data packet is marked as valid based on a checksum calculated by the network controller, determining that the checksum generated by the network controller is in error based on a recalculation of the checksum of the data packet via a network layer, and transmitting the data packet from the network layer to the network controller with a notification that the checksum is in error.
US11184110B2
Channel state information (CSI) scaling modules for use in a demodulator configured to demodulate a signal received over a transmission channel, the demodulator comprising a soft decision error corrector (e.g. LDPC decoder) configured to decode data carried on data symbols of the received signal based on CSI values. The CSI scaling module is configured to monitor the performance of the soft decision error corrector and in response to determining the performance of the soft decision error corrector is below a predetermined level, dynamically select a new CSI scaling factor based on the performance of the soft decision error corrector.
US11184108B2
A method of processing a transmission signal may comprise grouping a coded bit sequence including a plurality of coded bits into a plurality of groups; comparing indices of code bits belonging to a first group among the plurality of groups and indices of code bits belonging to a second group among the plurality of groups; configuring the coded bits belonging to the first group as higher bits among bits constituting each modulation symbol based on a result of comparing the indices of the coded bits; configuring the coded bits belonging to the second group as lower bits among the bits constituting each modulation symbol based on the result of comparing the indices of the code bits; and generating the each modulation symbol by using the higher bits and the lower bits.
US11184107B2
In some examples, a wireless device includes a network interface to communicate over a wireless network, at least one processor configured to send a capabilities information element comprising an indicator to indicate support by the first wireless device for semi-orthogonal multiple access (SOMA) communications over the wireless network.
US11184090B2
This application provides a method and device for determining antenna port quasi co-location QCL. The method includes: generating, by a network device, downlink control information DCI, where the DCI includes QCL indication information, the QCL indication information is used to indicate one of a plurality of pieces of combination information, and first combination information in the plurality of pieces of combination information is used to indicate a QCL relationship between a DMRS antenna port and a CSI-RS antenna port; and sending, by the network device, the DCI to a terminal device. Therefore, in embodiments of this application, the terminal device can determine the QCL relationship between the DMRS antenna port and the CSI-RS antenna port based on the DCI, thereby resolving a problem in the prior art and improving network performance.
US11184078B2
A data transmission method includes: receiving beam configuration information sent by a base station; according to the beam configuration information, obtaining a plurality of candidate beams from among a plurality of beams supported by the base station; performing data reception according to the plurality of candidate beams. A plurality of candidate beams can therefore be obtained from among a plurality of beams supported by a base station according to beam configuration information sent by the base station, and thus perform data reception according to the plurality of candidate beams, thereby implementing a multi-beam data reception solution, reducing the probability of packet loss during data reception, and increasing the reliability of data reception.
US11184066B2
A communications apparatus comprises a power amplifier configured to amplify a signal for transmission, a controllable switch coupled to an output of the power amplifier, an omnidirectional antenna coupled to a first output of the controllable switch, an antenna array coupled to a second output of the controllable switch, the antenna array comprising a plurality of antennas configured to form the signal into a beam of transmitted signals, the beam having a directional bias with respect to a location of the communications apparatus, and a controller. The controller is configured to control the controllable switch to switch a between a first mode of operation of the communications apparatus in which the signal for transmission from the output of the power amplifier is fed to the omnidirectional antenna, and a second mode of operation of the communications apparatus in which the signal from the output of the power amplifier is fed to the antenna array.
US11184057B2
The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). An apparatus of a terminal in a wireless communication system is provided. The apparatus includes at least one transceiver and at least one processor operatively coupled to the at least one transceiver. The at least one processor is configured to control the transceiver to communicate through a cell determined based on information regarding a strength of a received signal for a first cell and a path diversity (PD) for the first cell. The PD comprises information regarding paths associated with the first cell.
US11184055B2
Embodiments are presented herein of apparatuses, systems, and methods for a wireless device to perform multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) transmissions using a reduced number of antennas (e.g., a number of transmit antennas that is smaller than a number of layers of the MIMO transmission). The MIMO transmission may communicate multiple streams of data to a second wireless device. The MIMO transmission may further be used for sensing applications, e.g., based on reflection of the MIMO transmission.
US11184053B2
A communication device includes a dielectric substrate, a first coil antenna, a second coil antenna, and a switch circuit. The first coil antenna has a hollow region. The second coil antenna is disposed inside the hollow region of the first coil antenna. The dielectric substrate is configured to carry the first coil antenna and the second coil antenna. The switch circuit selectively enables at least one of the first coil antenna and the second coil antenna according to a power signal.
US11184045B1
A circuit for direct current (DC) offset estimation comprises a quantile value circuit and a signal processor. The quantile value circuit determines a plurality of quantile values of an input signal and includes a plurality of quantile filters. Each quantile filter includes a comparator, a level shifter, a monotonic transfer function component, and a latched integrator. The comparator compares the input signal and a quantile value. The level shifter shifts the output of the comparator. The monotonic transfer function component determines the magnitude of the shifted signal and provide a transfer function signal. The latched integrator suppresses transient characteristics of the transfer function signal and provide the quantile value. The signal processor is configured to calculate a weighted average of the quantile values to yield a DC offset estimate.
US11184039B1
According to certain aspects, a chip includes a first port, a first amplifier, and a first input path coupling the first port to an input of the first amplifier. The chip also includes a second port, a second amplifier, and a second input path coupling the second port to an input of the second amplifier. The chip further includes a switchable path coupled between the first input path and the second input path.
US11184036B2
Methods and devices for puncturing of a polar code in a wireless network, wherein nested puncturing sets are determined based on a puncturing order which is determined based on a reliability order of information bit channels, so that only one index sequence needs to be stored for both the determination of the information set and the determination of the punctured set and so that puncturing does not require to adjust the information set at error prone indexes corresponding to puncturing indexes. The puncturing order might start with indexes corresponding to high reliability bit channels or to low reliability bit channels.
US11184034B2
Provided is a method for decoding a staircase code. The method includes following steps: soft information updating is performed on S initial encoding blocks in a staircase code to obtain a first information block, and last S−T encoding blocks in the first information block and T newly-added encoding blocks are updated to obtain a second information block; decoding is performed on first T encoding blocks in the first information block and first S−T encoding blocks in the second information block to obtain a third information block; and following operations are repeatedly performed: S−T information blocks are selected, the soft information updating is performed to obtain S updated information blocks, and the S updated information blocks are used as a new second information block; and decoding is performed to obtain a new third information block, and information of first T blocks is outputted as the output of the decoder.
US11184022B2
The invention relates to the representation of digital signals. In order to improve the perception by a user of the quality of a digital signal, a first sample of first digital signal is approximated to a second sample of a second digital signal having a second number of significant bits lower than the first number of significant bits of the first sample. The second number of significant bits is also lower than a number of significant bits allowing the second digital signal, or a signal derived therefrom to match an expected bit depth of a processing unit said second digital signal, or a signal derived therefrom is to be sent to.
US11184019B1
An analog-to-digital converter (ADC) with split-gate laddered-inverter quantizer is presented herein. The ADC converts, via the split-gate laddered-inverter quantizer, an analog input voltage into a digital output value. The split-gate laddered-inverter quantizer separately couples, during respective phases of a clock signal via respective capacitances, a reference voltage and an input voltage corresponding to the analog input voltage to P-type metal-oxide-semiconductor (PMOS) gates of a PMOS branch of the split-gate laddered-inverter quantizer and N-type metal-oxide-semiconductor (NMOS) gates of an NMOS branch of the split-gate laddered-inverter quantizer to optimize current flow at respective frequencies. Further, the split-gate laddered-inverter quantizer separately biases, during the respective phases of the clock signal, the NMOS gates and the PMOS gates at respective bias voltages to optimize the current flow at the respective frequencies.
US11184017B2
An analog-to-digital (A/D) conversion system includes a track-and-hold circuit, a comparison circuit, a control circuit, a digital-to-analog (D/A) conversion circuit, a switched buffer and a loop filter. The track-and-hold circuit is configured to output a first signal based on an input signal or a first timing signal. The comparison circuit is configured to generate a comparison result based on the first signal and a filtered residue signal. The control circuit is coupled to the comparison circuit, and is configured to generate an N-bit logical signal according to N comparison results from the comparison circuit. The D/A circuit is configured to generate a feedback signal based on the N-bit logical signal. The switched buffer is configured to generate a first error signal based on a second timing signal and a second error signal. The loop filter is configured to generate the filtered residue signal based on the first error signal.
US11184015B2
In some examples, a device comprises a first driver coupled to a first node, the first node to couple to a first load external to the device. The device comprises a second driver coupled to a second node, the second node coupled to a second load internal to the device. The device comprises a comparison circuit having an inverting input coupled to the first node and a non-inverting input coupled to the second node. Sizes of the second driver and the second load are configured proportionately to sizes of the first driver and the first load, respectively.
US11184009B2
The disclosure provides a delay estimation device and a delay estimation method. The delay estimation device includes a pulse generator, a digitally controlled delay line (DCDL), a time-to-digital converter (TDC), and a control circuit. The pulse generator receives a reference clock signal, outputs a first clock signal in response to a first rising edge of the reference clock signal, and outputs a second clock signal in response to a second rising edge of the reference clock signal. The DCDL receives the first clock signal from the pulse generator and converts the first clock signal into phase signals based on a combination of delay line codes. The TDC samples the phase signals to generate a timing code based on the second clock signal. The control circuit estimates a specific delay between the first clock signal and the second clock signal based on the timing code.
US11184004B2
A semiconductor integrated circuit device includes digital output terminals and output circuits. Each output circuit includes a switch, and applies a potential, which corresponds to either one of binary logic levels, to corresponding one of the digital output terminals through the switch. An indefinite range is interposed between one of the binary logic levels and the other one of the binary logic levels. The output circuits respectively include potential fixers. Each potential fixer has an identical circuit arrangement, and the potential fixer fixes a potential applied to the digital output terminals through the switch to a potential corresponding to either one of the binary logic levels apart from the indefinite range, in response to that a short circuit occurs between the digital output terminals.
US11184002B2
A switch device for switching an analog electrical input signal includes: a switching transistor being a flipped-well-silicon-on-insulator-NMOS transistor; and a bootstrapping arrangement including a voltage providing arrangement for providing a floating voltage during the on-state, wherein the floating voltage is provided at a positive terminal and at a negative terminal of the voltage providing arrangement; wherein the bootstrapping arrangement is configured in such way that during the on-state the positive terminal is electrically connected to the front gate contact of the switching transistor and to the back gate contact of the switching transistor, and the negative terminal is electrically connected to the source contact of the switching transistor; wherein the bootstrapping arrangement is configured in such way that during the off-state the positive terminal and the negative terminal are not electrically connected to the switching transistor.
US11184000B2
Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture providing adaptive voltage clamps are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a voltage clamp to clamp a drain-to-source voltage of a transistor to a first voltage when the drain-to-source voltage exceeds the first voltage, and a controller to generate a control signal to direct the voltage clamp to clamp the drain-to-source voltage to a second voltage different from the first voltage based on a fault signal.
US11183977B2
A device includes a first amplifier and a second amplifier. The first amplifier includes an inverting input configured to be coupled to a feedback node of an output of a power converter, a first non-inverting input configured to couple to a first voltage node, a second non-inverting input, and an output. The second amplifier includes an inverting input coupled to the output of the first amplifier, a non-inverting input coupled to a second voltage node, and an output. The device also includes a first transistor coupled to the output of the first amplifier and having a control terminal coupled to the output of the second amplifier, a capacitor coupled to a ground node and to the second non-inverting input of the first amplifier, and a current node coupled to the capacitor.
US11183968B2
Circuits integrated or integrable with a photovoltaic panel to provide built-in functionality to the photovoltaic panel including safety features such as arc detection and elimination, ground fault detection and elimination, reverse current protection, monitoring of the performance of the photovoltaic panel, transmission of the monitored parameters and theft prevention of the photovoltaic panel. The circuits may avoid power conversion, for instance DC/DC power conversion, may avoid performing maximum power tracking to include a minimum number of components and thereby increase overall reliability.
US11183962B2
There is provided a driving system including a motor; an inverter configured to drive the motor; a power storage device connected with the inverter via a power line; a smoothing capacitor mounted to the power line; a voltage sensor configured to detect a voltage of the smoothing capacitor; a current sensor configured to detect an electric current of each phase of the motor; and a control device configured to control the inverter, based on a detected value of the current sensor. The control device performs Fourier series expansion of a detected value of the voltage sensor to calculate an electrical first variation component of the voltage of the smoothing capacitor. The control device controls the inverter, such that the electrical first variation component of the voltage of the smoothing capacitor becomes equal to a value 0.
US11183960B1
A motor control system includes a multi-phase motor, a multi-phase inverter circuit, a plurality of controllable switches, a plurality of sensors, and a monitor circuit. Each controllable switch is coupled in series between a second terminal of the motor and a common winding node and is responsive to switch commands to operate in either a first switch mode or a second switch mode. The monitor circuit is responsive to sensor signals to determine when one or more of the sensed motor state variables attains a predetermined threshold magnitude and when one or more of the sensed motor state variables attains the predetermined threshold magnitude, to supply a switch command to one or more of the controllable switches that causes the one or more controllable switches to operate in the second switch mode.
US11183945B2
Provided are a semiconductor device and a method of operating the same. A semiconductor device may include a comparator which compares a first voltage with a rectified voltage and provides a second voltage in accordance with the comparison. A timer circuit may operate a timer according to the second voltage and output a third voltage in correspondence with an operation time of the timer. A driver may drive a transistor with a fourth voltage generated by the driver according to the third voltage. A calibration circuit may generate a timer calibration signal based on the second voltage and the fourth voltage. The timer calibration signal may be provided to the timer circuit and used to calibrate the operation time of the timer. More efficient rectification, with reduced occurrence of reverse current, may thereby be realized.
US11183941B2
A method of controlling a variable speed constant frequency (VSCF) power converter is provided. The method includes receiving a determination that a sensed AC current output has exceeded a predetermined limit. The AC current output is converted from a DC voltage and has a constant frequency. The DC voltage is converted from a variable frequency AC voltage. The variable frequency AC voltage is generated in response to a mechanical energy input having a varying parameter. The method further includes decreasing the DC voltage in response to a determination that the sensed AC current output has exceeded the predetermined limit.
US11183925B2
A flying DC-to-DC converter has a capacitor protection function of preventing a flying capacitor from overheating. The flying DC-to-DC converter estimates the temperature of a capacitor on the basis of a switching duty and an inductor current determined according to a result of comparison between an output voltage and a voltage instruction value, and determines whether to perform de-rating.
US11183920B2
A switching power supply includes an input terminal and an output terminal, a voltage converter including a first switching circuit configured to serve as a trigger for inputting a voltage from the input terminal and a second switching circuit configured to serve as a trigger for outputting, after the input voltage is converted, the converted voltage from the output terminal O, a control circuit configured to output a control signal for selectively sequentially driving the first switching circuit and the second switching circuit, and a delay circuit configured to delay, based on the control signal for driving any one of the first switching circuit and the second switching circuit, a subsequent driving timing of the other switching circuit that is not driven to provide a dead time when both the first switching circuit and the second switching circuit are turned off.
US11183904B2
A motor includes a motor body, a speed reduction unit, a brush holder, and a circuit board. The motor body rotationally drives a rotation shaft. The speed reduction unit reduces speed of rotation of the rotation shaft. The brush holder is held by a motor case of the motor body and a gear housing of the speed reduction unit. The circuit board is arranged in a board receptacle that is open in a direction orthogonal to a motor flattened surface. The brush holder includes a terminal that is directly and electrically connected to the circuit board.
US11183901B2
A cooling system simultaneously cools both a power module and a vehicle motor. A vehicle motor housing is provided in thermal communication with a plurality of manifolds. Each manifold defines a cooling fluid inlet, a cooling fluid outlet, and a distribution recess providing fluid communication. The distribution recess may be defined by a wall having an exterior major surface in thermal communication with the vehicle motor. A manifold fluid insert may be disposed within the distribution recess, defining a plurality of inlet branch channels and outlet branch channels. A power module may be coupled to the manifold and a heat sink feature. A flow of coolant fluid is provided from each cooling fluid inlet, through the inlet branch channels of the manifold fluid insert for impingement with the heat sink feature, returning through the outlet branch channels and to the cooling fluid outlet of the respective manifold.
US11183895B2
An electric motor comprising: a frame; and a stator assembly; the stator assembly including a bobbin assembly and at least one c-shaped stator core. The frame comprises at least one lug, the bobbin assembly includes at least one recess, and the stator assembly is fixed to the frame by fixing the lug inside the recess of the bobbin assembly.
US11183894B2
The present invention provides a rotor plate including a rotating shaft hole and a skew check hole having a skew reference surface which is parallel to a reference line drawn from a center of the rotating shaft hole in a radius direction.
US11183891B2
A motor comprising a main shaft, a first rotating member mounted on the main shaft, the first rotating member comprising a first arm extending radially outward from the main shaft, the first arm having a length L, a second arm extending radially outward from the main shaft, a first magnet mounted on the first arm such that a first pole faces a recess between the first and second arms, and a second magnet mounted on the second arm such that the first pole faces the recess between the first and second arms. The motor further comprising a piston movable towards and away from the main shaft in a generally radial direction and positioned proximate the first rotating member, the piston comprising a first magnet.
US11183887B2
System and methods are described herein for providing wireless power to a target device, such as a laptop computer, a mobile phone, a vehicle, robot, or an unmanned aerial vehicle or system (UAV) or (UAS). A tunable multi-element transmitter may transmit electromagnetic radiation (EMR) to the target device using any of a wide variety of frequency bands. A location determination subsystem and/or range determination subsystem may determine a relative location, orientation, and/or rotation of the target device. For a target device within a distance range for which a smallest achievable waist of the Gaussian beam of the EMR at an operational frequency is smaller than the multi-element EMR receiver of the target device, a non-Gaussian beamform may be determined to increase efficiency, decrease overheating, reduce spillover, increase total power output of rectenna receivers on the target device, or achieve another target power delivery goal.
US11183885B2
Disclosed are a wireless power transmission device and a control method thereof. The wireless power transmission device includes a communication circuit that receives information transmitted by an electronic device that receives wireless power; an array antenna including multiple cells that radiate wireless power; and a controller that receives the information transmitted by the electronic device through the communication circuit, combines cells of the multiple cells included in the array antenna based on the information and creates a group of cells corresponding to the electronic device, and controls the cells included in the group to radiate the wireless power towards the electronic device.
US11183875B2
Methods and systems are provided for managing environmental conditions and energy usage associated with a site. One exemplary method of regulating an environment condition at a site involves a server receiving environmental measurement data from a monitoring system at the site via a network, determining an action for an electrical appliance at the site based at least in part on the environmental measurement data and one or more monitoring rules associated with the site, and providing an indication of the action to an actuator for the electrical appliance.
US11183874B1
Technologies are provided for the monitoring of a power grid using power measurements using cable network devices. An embodiment of the technologies includes a computing system that can cause the cable network devices to perform power measurements. The cable network devices include customer premises equipment. The computing system also can receive first data defining observed values corresponding to the power measurements. A first observed value of the observed values results from a first power measurement of the power measurements. The computing system also can obtain second data defining times corresponding to the power measurements, where the first power measurement occurs at a first time of the defined times. The computing system can then generate status data by analyzing the observed values, where the status data represent respective power utilization states of the cable network devices. The computing system can provide the status data to a remotely located computing device.
US11183870B2
An on-line uninterruptible power system and an operation method thereof are provided. The on-line uninterruptible power system comprises a first switch unit, a second switch unit, a charging circuit, a DC-AC conversion circuit, a power factor correction circuit and a control circuit. When the on-line uninterruptible power system is in a line mode, the control circuit controls the operation of the power factor correction circuit to limit the magnitude of its input current to not exceed a first predetermined value.
US11183868B2
A charge capacity variable control apparatus using an external energy source for a vehicle, may include an external energy source for generating an external charge power, a main battery for receiving the external charge power to be charged, and a controller for generating a change target charge capacity by changing an existing target charge capacity based on an external charge capacity of the external energy source and a battery charge capacity of the main battery depending upon the driving state of the vehicle, and performing a variable control using the change target charge capacity.
US11183859B2
An apparatus for preventing over-discharge of a battery includes: a first switch between a battery cell and an output terminal; a second switch having one end and another end respectively electrically connected to one end of the first switch and to the output terminal; a current limiting resistor located between a first node located between the first switch and the second switch and a second node located between the second switch and the output terminal; a third switch having one end and another end respectively electrically connected to another end of the current limiting resistor and to the second node; and a processor to set a reference voltage by using at least one of a minimum operating voltage of the battery cell, a first drop voltage by the current limiting resistor and a second drop voltage by an internal resistor of the battery cell.
US11183852B2
A control unit repeats the series of processing of comparing a first phase representing a phase of the first reference sine wave and being a phase included in the first synchronization signal, with a second phase that is the phase of the second reference sine wave when the first synchronization signal is received when the communication unit receives the first synchronization signal from the other inverter generator, changing a phase change amount per unit time of the second reference sine wave in accordance with the comparison result, continuing to update the phase of the second reference sine wave so that the phase of the second reference sine wave changes with a phase change amount per unit time after the change with reference to the first phase until the next first synchronizing signal is received from the other inverter generator.
US11183844B2
An apparatus is provided, which includes energy storage circuitry to store energy and to supply some of the energy to the apparatus. Discharge circuitry discharges the energy storage circuitry in response to the energy being supplied to the apparatus. Power supply circuitry recharges the energy storage circuitry. The discharge circuitry retains a non-zero residual energy in the energy storage circuitry when the energy storage circuitry is discharged by the discharge circuitry.
US11183839B2
Disclosed examples relate to a power conversion system configured to provide a power output from an arrangement of direct current (DC) power sources. One example power conversion system includes multiple power sources PV(n), n=1 to x, connected in a series. For each power source PV(n) for n=1 to x−1, the power conversion system includes an intermediate bidirectional voltage converter VC(n) connected to a first terminal of the power source PV(n), a first terminal of power source PV(x), and a second terminal of power source PV(1). Each intermediate bidirectional voltage converter VC(n) includes a first switch operable in a pulsed mode to boost a power output by power source PV(n) and a second switch operable in a pulsed mode to reduce a power output by power source PV(n). The power conversion system also includes a balancer VC(x) connected to the first terminal of PV(x) and to a load.
US11183837B2
Circuits, integrated circuits, apparatuses, and methods, such as those for protecting circuits against electrostatic discharge events are disclosed. An example apparatus comprises a thyristor coupled to a node and configured to limit the voltage and discharge the current associated with an over-voltage event at the node. The over-voltage event includes a negative voltage having a magnitude that exceeds a trigger voltage of the thyristor. The example apparatus further comprising a transistor coupled to the thyristor and configured to adjust the magnitude of the trigger voltage.
US11183836B2
An electronic circuit includes: a first series-connection of DC link capacitors (CA1, . . . , CAm) and a second series-connection of DC link capacitors (CB1, . . . , CBn) connected in parallel between DC bus bars (DC+, DC−), wherein the first series has a first node (A) between the DC link capacitors thereof and the second series has a second node (B) between the DC link capacitors thereof; and a short-circuit module (301; 401, 407) configured to receive a voltage difference (UM) between the first node and the second node and to cause the DC bus bars short circuited in response to the received voltage difference being greater than a predetermined threshold.
US11183835B2
A gate driver circuit is provided that includes a high-side power transistor; a low-side power transistor coupled to the high-side power transistor, where an output voltage is generated at a load node coupled between the low-side power transistor and the high-side power transistor; a gate driver configured to receive a high-side control signal and a low-side control signal, drive the high-side power transistor based on the high-side control signal, and drive the low-side power transistor based on the low-side control signal; and a short circuit detection circuit configured to monitor for short circuit events at the high-side power transistor and at the low-side power transistor based on the high-side control signal, the low-side control signal, and the output voltage, and, generate a fault signal in response to detecting a short circuit event at either of the high-side power transistor or the low-side power transistor.
US11183827B1
An apparatus for providing support to a first vertical busway extending between a floor surface and a ceiling surface, the first busway having first and second lateral faces, includes a frame having first and second vertical struts, wherein the first and second vertical struts are attached to the floor surface adjacent the first and second lateral faces; a lower pair of hangers each attached to the floor surface, wherein one of the lower pair of hangers is attached to the first lateral face, and wherein the other of the lower pair of hangers is attached to the second lateral face; and an upper pair of hangers vertically spaced apart from the lower pair of hangers, wherein the upper pair of hangers are attached to the first and second vertical struts and to the first and second lateral faces.
US11183826B2
A clamp for mounting cables to a supporting element includes a jumper having a “C”-shaped cross-section with two opposite wings interconnected by a core, the two wings and the core being provided with respective pass-through holes. At least one of those pass-through holes is provided in combination with an insert or an adapter having a threaded pass-through hole.
US11183814B2
A surface-emitting laser, which is a ridge waveguide structure, including: a substrate, a first cladding layer, an active layer, a conductive layer, a second cladding layer; the Bragg gratings is etched on the surface of the ridge waveguide; the two upper electrodes are disposed on both sides of the ridge waveguide; two grooves are formed between the ridge waveguide and each of the two upper electrodes; the first waveguide cladding layer includes one or more current confinement regions; or a buried tunnel junction is formed in the second cladding layer for limiting current. The Bragg gratings comprise two first-order gratings and one second-order grating placed between two first-order gratings.
US11183813B2
Surface-emitting laser devices and light-emitting devices including the same are provided. A surface-emitting laser device can include: a first reflective layer and a second reflective layer; and an active region disposed between the first reflective layer and the second reflective layer, wherein the first reflective layer includes a first group first reflective layer and a second group first reflective layer, and the second reflective layer includes a first group second reflective layer and a second group second reflective layer.
US11183812B2
A tunable source includes a short-cavity laser optimized for performance and reliability in SSOCT imaging systems, spectroscopic detection systems, and other types of detection and sensing systems. The short cavity laser has a large free spectral range cavity, fast tuning response and single transverse, longitudinal and polarization mode operation, and includes embodiments for fast and wide tuning, and optimized spectral shaping. Disclosed are both electrical and optical pumping in a MEMS-VCSEL geometry with mirror and gain regions optimized for wide tuning, high output power, and a variety of preferred wavelength ranges; and a semiconductor optical amplifier, combined with the short-cavity laser to produce high-power, spectrally shaped operation. Several preferred imaging and detection systems make use of this tunable source for optimized operation are also disclosed.
US11183788B2
An electronic device including a plurality of ports for electrically connecting the device to another device. The electronic device may include a housing including a front, a back and at least a first side and an opposing second side extending between the front and the back, a printed circuit board housed by the housing, and an electrical connector electrically connected to the printed circuit board. The electrical connector may include a first spring contact, a second spring contact, and an electrically conductive bridge mechanically and electrically connecting the first spring contact and the second spring contact. The electrically conductive bridge may be housed by the housing. The first and second spring contacts may extend outside of the housing and may be accessible from the first and second sides of the housing, respectively.
US11183783B2
A test socket (14) for a testing an integrated circuit (12) with controlled impedance while maintaining the structural integrity of the test pins (20). The pin (20) can have a sidewall with a thick portion 32 and a thinner portion (30) along the length of the pin. The pin can have projections (42) which provide a standoff from the slot (40). The sidewalls themselves can have projections or lands (60, 61) which extend into the slot and provide stability for the pin (20).
US11183782B2
An adjustable neutral bar and adjustable neutral bar assemblies are provided. The bars and bar assemblies are adjustable to a desired number of taps. The bars and bar assemblies can have mating bar ends or clips that allow for easy connection of multiple bars to one another. Additionally, the bars and bar assemblies can have shear regions that allow for easy separation of a bar at a desired location.
US11183781B2
A connector includes a base member having a projection, a contact made of a conductive material and having a projection accommodating portion of a recess shape into which the projection is inserted, and a housing holding the contact. The housing has a holding mechanism configured to hold a flexible conductor disposed to extend across an opening end portion of the projection accommodating portion of the contact. When the projection of the base member is inserted into the projection accommodating portion of the contact together with the flexible conductor held by the holding mechanism, the flexible conductor is sandwiched between a lateral surface of the projection and an inner surface of the projection accommodating portion to contact the inner surface of the projection accommodating portion. The contact is electrically connected to the flexible conductor.
US11183771B2
Included are: a first dielectric substrate provided with a first conductor ground plane on a front or back surface thereof; a plurality of patch antennas formed in the first conductor ground plane, a plurality of conductive members, ends of which connected to the first conductor ground plane to surround the patch antennas individually, and a second conductor ground plane connected to each of the other ends of the conductive members, and parts of the plurality of conductive members penetrate the first dielectric substrate, and the remaining parts of the conductive members function as spacers for providing an air layer between the first dielectric substrate and the second conductor ground plane, and the plurality of conductive members functions as spacers for providing an air layer between the first conductor ground plane and the second conductor ground plane.
US11183768B1
A method for deploying a trough structure. The methods comprise: causing a first telescoping segment to move in a first direction away from a proximal end of a telescoping boom; and transiting a flexible element from an untensioned state to a tensioned state as the first telescoping segment is moved in the first direction. The flexible element is coupled to a distal end of the first telescoping segment by a first bulkhead and is coupled to a distal end of a second telescoping segment by a second bulkhead. The first telescoping segment is coupled to the second telescoping segment of the boom when the first telescoping segment reaches an extended position. The flexible element has a parabolic trough shape when in the tensioned state.
US11183765B2
A chip radio frequency package includes a substrate including a first cavity, first and second connection members, a core member, a radio frequency integrated circuit (RFIC) disposed on an upper surface of the substrate, and a first front-end integrated circuit (FEIC) disposed in the first cavity. The core member includes a core insulating layer and a core via that penetrates the core insulating layer. The first connection member has a structure in which a first insulating layer and a first wiring layer are stacked. The second connection member has a second structure in which a second insulating layer and a second wiring layer are stacked. The RFIC inputs or outputs a base signal and a first radio frequency (RF) signal having a frequency higher than a frequency of the base signal, and the first FEIC inputs or outputs the first RF signal and a second RF signal.
US11183764B2
The present application provides a butterfly planar antenna element and an antenna. The butterfly planar antenna element includes a main radiator and secondary radiators arranged on both sides of the main radiator. A butterfly opening is formed in the main radiator with a symmetrical structure, and includes a first opening arranged in the middle part of the main radiator and four second openings formed by extending outwardly from four corners of the first opening respectively.
US11183756B1
A phased array system includes an antenna system includes multiple antennas configured to transmit or receive signals and a power supply circuit configured to generate a supply power and provide the supply power to a plurality of distributed power supply circuits. The phased array system includes distributed power supply circuits, each of the plurality of distributed power supply circuits configured to receive the supply power from the power supply circuit and generate radio frequency supply powers for one multiple radio frequency circuits. The phased array system includes radio frequency circuits, each of the radio frequency circuits configured to cause one of the antennas to transmit or receive the signals based on the plurality of radio frequency supply powers.
US11183755B2
Disclosed are an electromagnetic-wave transmitting cover that transmits electromagnetic waves transmitted/received by an LF antenna and an RF antenna and an electric field generated from a capacitance touch sensor while realizing a metallic texture, and a door outer handle including the same. The electromagnetic-wave transmitting cover includes: a substrate; a primer layer formed on a surface of the substrate; and a first metal layer formed by depositing and having a plurality of first microcracks penetrating in a thickness direction.
US11183748B2
A portable communication device is provided. The portable communication device includes a display defining a front surface of the portable communication device, a plate defining a rear surface of the portable communication device and including a nonconductive material, the plate including a first surface facing an outside of the portable communication device and a second surface facing an inside of the portable communication device, a first antenna module attached to a first area of the second surface or disposed adjacent to the first area, a second antenna module attached to a second area of the second surface or disposed adjacent to the second area, and a conductive member disposed in or attached to a third area between the first area and the second area, wherein the conductive member at least partially interrupts some electric waves, among electric waves radiated from the first antenna module, that travel towards the second antenna module through the plate.
US11183743B2
A battery pack including a protective circuit module including a circuit board extending in a first direction, an electrode tab coupling part on the circuit board, and a protection layer between the electrode tab coupling part and the circuit board; and a battery cell including an electrode tab protruding at one end and having a polarity, the electrode tab being coupled to a top surface of the electrode tab coupling part, wherein the electrode tab of the battery cell, the electrode tab coupling part, and the protection layer of the protective circuit module are stacked and coupled in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction.
US11183740B2
A wound battery includes an electrode assembly in which a first electrode and a second electrode are wound together via a separator, the electrode assembly being accommodated in a battery case including a bottomed tube-shaped metallic can. The first electrode has a first uncoated region defined by an exposed portion of a first current collector sheet at an end of the first current collector sheet in the axial direction of winding. The first electrode includes a first current collector lead connected to the first uncoated region. The first uncoated region is disposed on the same side as the open end of the metallic can. The second electrode includes a second current collector lead connected thereto. The first and the second current collector leads extend toward the open end of the metallic can. At least a portion of the first uncoated region is covered with an insulating layer, and the insulating layer extends beyond an end face of the first uncoated region.
US11183737B2
The present invention provides an electrode assembly, which includes a first electrode, an adhesive layer disposed on the first electrode and including a host layer comprising a host and a guest layer comprising a guest, a separator disposed on the adhesive layer, and a second electrode disposed on the separator, a method of manufacturing the same, and a secondary battery including the same.
US11183736B2
Provided are a composite separator and an electrochemical device using the same. More specifically, provided is a composite separator including a coating layer for improving an adhesive property between an electrode and a separator.
US11183731B2
A battery case unlocking apparatus, a battery case, and a quick battery case replacement system. The battery case unlocking apparatus comprises: a mount (1), an extensible/retractable mechanism (2), a transmission mechanism (3), and a locking mechanism (4). The locking mechanism (4) is used for locking and fixing a body (6) of a battery case to a battery holder (7) of an electric vehicle. The extensible/retractable mechanism (2) passes through the mount (1) and carries out extension/retraction movement in the mount (1) relative to the transmission mechanism (3) to drive the transmission mechanism (3) to move between the extensible/retractable mechanism (2) and the locking mechanism (4), thereby controlling the locking or unlocking of the locking mechanism (4). The battery case comprises the body (6) and the battery case unlocking apparatus. The quick battery case replacement system comprises: the battery holder (7), a replacement device (8), and the battery case.
US11183728B2
A battery case of an electric vehicle includes a drain hole for discharging water in the interior to the outside and a water detection device disposed in the vicinity of the drain hole. At least part of an upper face of a case bottom wall of the battery case is inclined downward toward the drain hole. Accordingly, not only is it possible to mold the downward inclination of the upper face of the case bottom wall of the battery case easily at the time of die casting without increasing the number of components, but it is also possible to guide water that has entered the interior of the battery case smoothly toward the drain hole, detect it reliably by the water detection device, and discharge it quickly via the drain hole.
US11183724B2
The present disclosure is directed to an electrochemical cell connector for electrically connecting a plurality of electrochemical cells, and to battery packs including the electrochemical cell connector. The electrochemical cell connectors of the present disclosure are fabricated from a flexible circuit. The flexible circuit includes conductors, such as nickel conductors, soldered or otherwise attached thereto via holes or openings in the flexible circuit. These conductors may be welded or otherwise attached to an electrochemical cell, and the electrochemical cell connections made on the flexible circuit. In many embodiments, the conductors may be attached to the flexible circuit using industry standard automated assembly equipment thus streamlining the manufacturing process and improving overall quality of the product.
US11183714B2
A hybrid separator for an electrochemical cell is provided, along with methods of making the hybrid separator. The hybrid separator includes a first metal-organic framework comprising copper and having a plurality of first pores and a second distinct metal-organic framework comprising indium or zinc and having a plurality of second pores. The hybrid separator is capable of adsorbing one or more lithium salts in at least one of the plurality of first pores or the plurality of second pores so as to be ionically conductive. The hybrid separator may have a conductivity greater than or equal to about 0.1 mS/cm to less than or equal to about 1 mS/cm and is substantially free of any polymeric binder.
US11183706B2
A controller for controlling a charging current to a lithium-ion secondary battery controls the charging current so that lithium expected to dissolve after a stop of charging is permitted to deposit on an anode of the lithium-ion secondary battery. For example, the controller controls the charging current so that the charging current does not exceed a predetermined upper limit value. If a predetermined permission condition is satisfied, the controller permits the lithium expected to dissolve after the stop of charging to deposit on the anode of the lithium-ion secondary battery by permitting the upper limit value to become larger than a Li deposition limit value in a predetermined permission period.
US11183699B2
A temperature sensor of a fuel cell system detects, as a start-up time temperature, the temperature of a fuel cell stack or the outside temperature at the time of starting operation. A memory stores a plurality of current limitation patterns. A current limiting unit selects a current limitation pattern based on the detected start-up time temperature, and limits electrical current collected from the fuel cell stack based on the selected current limitation pattern and the temperature during operation of the fuel cell stack detected by the temperature sensor. A threshold value for a period until the temperature of the fuel cell stack reaches a reference temperature is set to be smaller as the start-up time temperature at which the current limitation pattern is selected from the plurality of current limitation patterns becomes lower.
US11183698B2
A fuel cell device is provided, including a media system for supplying fluid media to electrochemical units of the fuel cell device and/or for discharging fluid media from the electrochemical units of the fuel cell device, wherein the media system includes at least one valve to which, in a standard operating state of the fuel cell device, an electrical standard input power is suppliable in order to maintain the valve in a desired valve state. The fuel cell device is able to be reliably started with as little effort as possible, even under frost conditions. The fuel cell device is switchable into a heating operating state in which an electrical heating input power that is greater than the electrical standard input power is suppliable to the at least one valve.
US11183689B2
Systems and methods for use of silicon with impurities in silicon-dominant anode cells may include a cathode, an electrolyte, and an anode including an active material, where the anode active material includes silicon, and where an impurity level of the silicon may be more than 400 ppm. The impurity level of the silicon is more than 600 ppm. The impurity level may be for elements with an atomic number between 2 and 42. The silicon may have a purity of 99.90% or less. A resistance of the silicon when pressed into a 4 mm thick and 15 mm diameter pellet may be 25 kΩ or less. The active material may include silicon, carbon, and a pyrolyzed polymer on a metal current collector. The metal current collector may include a copper or nickel foil in electrical contact with the active material. The active material may include more than 50% silicon.
US11183687B2
A method of producing an electrode plate includes forming a particle aggregate, forming an undried active material layer, and drying the undried active material layer. When the particle aggregate is formed, conductive particles include first conductive particles which have a three-dimensional structure in which primary particles with an average primary particle size of 30 nm to 80 nm are connected to each other and have an average structure length of 260 nm to 500 nm and second conductive particles which have a three-dimensional structure in which primary particles with an average primary particle size of 8 nm to 13 nm are connected to each other and have an average structure length of 80 nm to 250 nm.
US11183684B2
A cathode active material includes a lithium composite oxide and a covering material which covers a surface of the lithium composite oxide. The lithium composite oxide is a multi-phase mixture including a first phase having a crystal structure which belongs to a space group C2/m and a second phase having a crystal structure which belongs to a space group R-3m. The lithium composite oxide has an integral intensity ratio I(18°-20°)/I(43°-46°) of not less than 0.05 and not more than 1.15, where the integral intensity ratio I(18°-20°)/I(43°-46°) is a ratio of an integral intensity I(18°-20°) to an integral intensity I(43°-46°). The integral intensity I(α°-β°) is an integral intensity of a first peak which is a maximum peak present within a range of a diffraction angle 2θ of not less than α° and not more than β° in an X-ray diffraction pattern of the lithium composite oxide.
US11183678B2
An electrode for a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery that is less likely to cause loss of a mixture layer and that can ensure good cycle characteristics of the battery. An electrode for a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery of an exemplary embodiment includes a rectangular current collector and a mixture layer that contains an active material and a binder and that is formed on the current collector. The mixture layer covers at least one edge of four linear peripheral edges of the current collector, and the binder content in the mixture layer has a maximum value at a position 0.5 mm to 5.5 mm away from the one edge in a second direction that is perpendicular to a first direction along the one edge. The maximum value is more than 100% and 240% or less of the binder content at the center in the second direction of the mixture layer.
US11183665B2
There is provided a display substrate, a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device, relating to the field of display technology. The display substrate includes: a base substrate; a self-luminescent layer disposed on a side of the base substrate; and an encapsulation film layer disposed on a side of the self-luminescent layer away from the base substrate. The display substrate has a gap, which penetrates through the self-luminescent layer and the encapsulation film layer, and separates the self-luminescent layer and the encapsulation film layer into at least two parts with a part corresponding to a to-be-perforated area of the display substrate and another part corresponds to a non-perforated area of the display substrate other than the to-be-perforated area. The edge of the encapsulation film layer adjacent to the gap covers the side surface of the edge of the self-luminescent layer adjacent to the gap.
US11183664B2
A sealing structure, a sealing method, an electronic device and a sealing layer recycling method are provided. The sealing structure is configured for sealing a functional device and includes a sealing layer and a stripping adhesive layer. The sealing layer covers the functional device; the stripping adhesive layer is bonded between the sealing layer and the functional device, and the stripping adhesive layer has a changeable stickiness to assist stripping off of the sealing layer.
