US11195919B2
Techniques and methods related to strained NMOS and PMOS devices without relaxed substrates, systems incorporating such semiconductor devices, and methods therefor may include a semiconductor device that may have both n-type and p-type semiconductor bodies. Both types of semiconductor bodies may be formed from an initially strained semiconductor material such as silicon germanium. A silicon cladding layer may then be provided at least over or on the n-type semiconductor body. In one example, a lower portion of the semiconductor bodies is formed by a Si extension of the wafer or substrate. By one approach, an upper portion of the semiconductor bodies, formed of the strained SiGe, may be formed by blanket depositing the strained SiGe layer on the Si wafer, and then etching through the SiGe layer and into the Si wafer to form the semiconductor bodies or fins with the lower and upper portions.
US11195915B2
In some examples, a semiconductor device, comprises a semiconductor substrate; an epitaxial layer having a top side disposed on the semiconductor substrate, wherein the epitaxial layer has a source implant region, a drain implant region, a first doped region, and a second doped region, wherein the first doped region is adjacent to the source implant region and the second doped region is adjacent to the drain implant region, wherein the top side has a sloped surface over the second doped region; a gate electrode supported by the top side; a source electrode in contact with the source implant region; and a drain electrode in contact with the drain implant region.
US11195914B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a transistor and methods for forming a transistor. A transistor includes a gate electrode structure disposed over a channel region, a source/drain extension region disposed adjacent to the channel region, and a source/drain region disposed on the source/drain extension region. The source/drain region includes antimony (Sb). The method of forming a transistor includes forming the source/drain extension region and forming the source/drain region on the source/drain extension region. The antimony helps prevent unwanted migration of dopants from the source/drain region to the source/drain extension region.
US11195913B2
Semiconductor structures and methods for forming the same are provided. The method includes forming a fin structure over a substrate, and the fin structure includes alternately stacked semiconductor material layers and sacrificial layers. The method further includes forming a dummy gate structure, recessing the fin structure to form an opening, forming first source/drain spacers on sidewalls of the sacrificial layers by performing a first atomic layer deposition (ALD) process, and forming source/drain structure in the opening. The method further includes removing the dummy gate structure and the sacrificial layers to expose the semiconductor material layers and forming a gate structure wrapping around the semiconductor material layers.
US11195910B2
A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device comprising a first fin pattern and a second fin pattern which are separated by a first isolation trench and extend in a first direction, a third fin pattern which is spaced apart from the first fin pattern in a second direction intersecting the first direction and extends in the first direction, a fourth fin pattern which is separated from the third fin pattern by a second isolation trench, a first gate structure which intersects the first fin pattern and has a portion extending along an upper surface of the first fin pattern, a second gate structure which intersects the second fin pattern and has a portion extending along an upper surface of the second fin pattern and a first element isolation structure which fills the second isolation trench and faces a short side of the first gate structure.
US11195907B2
A semiconductor device includes: a drift layer of a first conductivity type which is made of silicon carbide; a junction region formed on one main surface of the drift layer; a junction termination extended region of the drift layer, the junction termination extended region being formed outside the junction region when the one main surface is viewed in plan view, and the junction termination extended region containing an impurity of a second conductivity type opposite to the first conductivity type; and a guard ring region of the drift layer, the guard ring region being formed at a position overlapping the junction termination extended region when the one main surface is viewed in plan view, and the guard ring region containing the impurity of the second conductivity type with a concentration that is higher than that of the junction termination extended region, wherein in the junction termination extended region, the concentration of the impurity of the second conductivity type in a depth direction from the one main surface increases from the one main surface down to a first depth, and the concentration of the impurity of the second conductivity type at the one main surface is one tenth or less the concentration of the impurity of the second conductivity type at the first depth and is higher than a concentration of an impurity of the first conductivity type of the drift layer.
US11195897B2
An organic light-emitting diode (OLED) array substrate and an OLED display device are provided. The OLED array substrate includes a plurality of driving circuits of a plurality of sub-pixels using a mirror symmetrical structure, and a plurality of reset signal lines and a plurality of power signal lines extending along a same direction. By sharing each of the reset signal lines and each of a plurality of first vias, and sharing each of the power signal lines and each of a plurality of second vias, about half of lines of power signal lines, reset signal lines, and vias are saved. Therefore, room for increasing pixels per inch (PPI) is provided, facilitating realizing high PPI panel designs.
US11195893B2
Provided is a display apparatus including: a substrate in which a display element is arranged; a first thin film transistor arranged in the display area and including a first semiconductor layer including silicon and a first control electrode insulated from the first semiconductor layer; a first interlayer insulating layer covering the first control electrode; a second thin film transistor arranged on the first interlayer insulating layer and including a second semiconductor layer including an oxide semiconductor and a second control electrode insulated from the second semiconductor layer; a second interlayer insulating layer covering the second control electrode; a node connection line arranged on the second interlayer insulating layer and connected to the first control electrode via a first contact hole; a first planarization layer covering the node connection line; and a shielding electrode arranged on the first planarization layer to overlap the node connection line.
US11195869B2
An imaging device includes a plurality of unit pixels disposed into pixel groups that are separated from one another by isolation structures. Unit pixels within each pixel group are separated from one another by isolation structures and share circuit elements. The isolation structures between pixel groups are full thickness isolation structures. At least a portion of the isolation structures between unit pixels within a pixel group are deep trench isolation structures.
US11195864B2
A flip-chip sample imaging device with self-aligning lid includes an image sensor chip, a fan-out substrate, and a lid. The image sensor chip includes (a) a pixel array sensitive to light incident on a first side of the image sensor chip and (b) first electrical contacts disposed on the first side and electrically connected to the pixel array. The fan-out substrate is disposed on the first side, is electrically connected to the first electrical contacts, forms an aperture over the pixel array to partly define a sample chamber over the pixel array, and forms a first surface facing away from the first side. The lid is disposed on the first surface of the fan-out substrate, facing away from the first side, to further define the chamber. The lid includes an inner portion protruding into the aperture to align the lid relative to the fan-out substrate.
US11195842B2
A method of forming a semiconductor structure includes forming a wordline stack for a non-volatile memory structure over a capping layer, the wordline stack including sets of alternating layers of insulating and gate materials each having a different width. The method also includes forming a first bitline contact layer between first and second portions of the wordline stack each including at least one of the sets. The method further includes forming a floating gate device structure vertically in a channel hole through the wordline stack, the first bitline contact layer and the capping layer. The method further includes forming wordline contacts to the gate layers and a first bitline contact to the first bitline contact layer in holes paced apart from vertical sidewalls of the floating gate device structure, and forming a second bitline contact over at least a portion of a top surface of the floating gate device structure.
US11195830B2
A semiconductor device comprises a stack structure comprising decks each comprising a memory level comprising memory elements, a control logic level vertically adjacent and in electrical communication with the memory level and comprising control logic devices configured to effectuate a portion of control operations for the memory level, and an additional control logic level vertically adjacent and in electrical communication with the memory level and comprising additional control logic devices configured to effectuate an additional portion of the control operations for the memory level. A memory device, a method of operating a semiconductor device, and an electronic system are also described.
US11195828B2
A display device includes a substrate; a plurality of pixels on the substrate; a drive circuit on the substrate; a first terminal and a second terminal connected to the pixels or the drive circuit and arranged on the substrate; a first wiring having a first end part connected with the first terminal, and a second end part located on an end part of the substrate; a second wiring having a third end part connected with the second terminal, and a fourth end part located on an end part of the substrate; a first current blocking unit blocking a current flowing in a direction from the second end part to the first end part of the first wiring; and a second current blocking unit blocking a current flowing in a direction from the fourth end part to the third end part of the second wiring.
US11195823B2
A semiconductor package and a manufacturing method are provided. The semiconductor package includes a semiconductor die, an encapsulant and a through encapsulant via. The semiconductor die includes a semiconductor substrate, an interconnection layer and a through semiconductor via. The semiconductor substrate has an active surface and a back surface opposite to the active surface. The interconnection layer is disposed over the active surface of the semiconductor substrate. The through semiconductor via penetrates through the semiconductor substrate from the back surface of the semiconductor substrate to the active surface of the semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor die is encapsulated by the encapsulant. The through encapsulant via penetrates through the encapsulant.
US11195822B2
A light-emitting package including a substrate having pixel regions; first to third light-emitting chips on each of the pixel regions; and a molding layer on a top surface of the substrate, the molding layer covering the first to third light-emitting chips, wherein one of the first to third light-emitting chips emits light whose color is different from others of the first to third light-emitting chips, on pixel regions, the first to third light-emitting chips are arranged along a first direction, the first direction being parallel to the top surface of the substrate, a minimum interval between the first light-emitting chip and a top or side surface of the molding layer is different from a minimum interval between the second light-emitting chip and the top or side surface of the molding layer, the side surface of the molding layer intersects a second direction parallel to the top surface of the substrate.
US11195819B2
This semiconductor device is formed by stacking a plurality of semiconductor chips that each have a plurality of bump electrodes, each of the plurality of semiconductor chips being provided with an identification section formed on a respective side face. Each semiconductor chip has a similar arrangement for its respective plurality of bump electrodes, and each identification section is formed so that the positional relationship with a respective reference bump electrode provided at a specific location among the respective plurality of bump electrodes is the same in each semiconductor chip. The plurality of semiconductor chips are stacked such that the bump electrodes provided thereon are electrically connected in the order of stacking of the semiconductor chips, while the side faces on which the identification sections are formed are oriented in the same direction.
US11195818B2
In some embodiments, the present disclosure relates to a three dimensional (3D) integrated circuit (IC) stack, including a first IC die having a first substrate and a first interconnect structure over a frontside of the first substrate; a second IC die having a second substrate and a second interconnect structure over the frontside of the second substrate; and a third IC die vertically between the first and second IC dies and having a third substrate, a third interconnect structure over the frontside of the third substrate, and a third bonding structure over a backside of the third substrate. A heat dissipation path extends from the third substrate to at least the first or second substrate, and includes a backside contact that extends from the third bonding structure to the backside of the third substrate and that is thermally coupled to at least the first or second interconnect structure.
US11195808B2
An electronic package is formed by disposing an electronic element and a lead frame having a plurality of conductive posts on a carrier structure having an antenna function, and encapsulating the electronic element and the lead frame with an encapsulant. The encapsulant is defined with a first encapsulating portion and a second encapsulating portion lower than the first encapsulating portion. The electronic element is positioned in the first encapsulating portion, and the plurality of conductive posts are positioned in the second encapsulating portion. End surfaces of the plurality of conductive posts are exposed from a surface of the second encapsulating portion so as to be electrically connected to a connector.
US11195804B2
A semiconductor structure includes a first interconnect structure, a second interconnect structure, a molding, a first seal ring and a second seal ring. The molding surrounds the die. The molding and the die are disposed between the first interconnect structure and the second inter connect structure. The first seal ring is disposed in the first interconnect structure. The second seal ring is disposed in the second interconnect structure.
US11195797B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, one or more transistors, a metal layer, one or more buried power rails, and at least one wall-via structure. The transistors and the metal layer are manufactured above a top surface of the substrate. The buried power rails are in one or more corresponding trenches in the substrate below the top surface of the substrate. At least one wall-via structure extends between the first buried power rail and the metal layer and electrically connects the first buried power rail to the metal layer. The wall-via structure includes a plurality of intermediate metal layers sandwiched between the first buried power rail and the metal layer. Alternatively, the wall-via structure includes a length that is greater than or equal to four times a basic length unit for components in layers between the first buried power rail and the metal layer for the semiconductor device.
US11195793B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide apparatus and techniques for fabricating a semiconductor device. A semiconductor device includes: an active device layer a local interconnect layer disposed above the active device layer; a dielectric layer disposed above the local interconnect layer; a metal layer disposed above the dielectric layer; and one or more metal sections disposed in the dielectric layer underneath one or more metal regions of the metal layer, wherein none of the one or more metal sections is electrically connected to a trace in the local interconnect layer.
US11195791B2
A method for forming a semiconductor contact structure is provided. The method includes depositing a dielectric layer over a substrate. The method also includes etching the dielectric layer to expose a sidewall of the dielectric layer and a top surface of the substrate. In addition, the method includes forming a silicide region in the substrate. The method also includes applying a plasma treatment to the sidewall of the dielectric layer and the top surface of the substrate to form a nitridation region adjacent to a periphery of the silicide region. The method further includes depositing an adhesion layer on the dielectric layer and the silicide region.
US11195788B2
A method includes forming a first redistribution line, forming a polymer layer including a first portion encircling the first redistribution line and a second portion overlapping the first redistribution line, forming a pair of differential transmission lines over and contacting the polymer layer, and molding the pair of differential transmission lines in a molding compound. The molding compound includes a first portion encircling the pair of differential transmission lines, and a second portion overlapping the pair of differential transmission lines. An electrical connector is formed over and electrically coupling to the pair of differential transmission lines.
US11195778B2
An electronic power module, including at least one semiconductor component, which is arranged on a support, as well as a cooling element, which is in thermal contact with the semiconductor component, wherein the support includes a semiconductor material and, at the same time, serves as a cooling element.
US11195760B2
A fin-type field-effect transistor device includes a substrate, insulators, gate stacks and dielectric strips. The substrate includes a first doped region, a second doped region, third doped blocks located above the first doped region and fourth doped blocks located above the second doped region, and fins located above the third doped blocks and the fourth doped blocks, wherein doping concentrations of the third doped blocks are lower than a doping concentration of the first doped region, and doping concentrations of the fourth doped blocks are lower than a doping concentration of the second doped region. The insulators are disposed on the third doped blocks and the fourth doped blocks of the substrate and covering the fins. The dielectric strips are disposed in between the fins, and in between the third doped blocks and the fourth doped blocks. The gate stacks are disposed over the fins and above the insulators.
US11195758B2
Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing semiconductor device having plurality of insulator
A semiconductor device which has favorable electrical characteristics and can be highly integrated is provided. The semiconductor device includes a first insulator; an oxide over the first insulator; a second insulator over the oxide; a first conductor over the second insulator; a third insulator in contact with a top surface of the first insulator, a side surface of the oxide, a top surface of the oxide, a side surface of the second insulator, and a side surface of the first conductor; and a fourth insulator over the third insulator. The third insulator includes an opening exposing the first insulator, and the fourth insulator is in contact with the first insulator through the opening.
US11195757B2
A wafer processing method for processing a wafer with devices formed in regions on a side of a front surface of the wafer, the regions being defined by first scheduled division lines and second scheduled division lines includes a first modified layer forming step and a second modified layer forming step. In the first modified layer forming step, a laser beam is irradiated with its focal point set at a height leveled with a height of a first region located inside the wafer on the side of the front surface of the wafer, whereby first modified layers are formed. In the second modified layer forming step, the laser beam is irradiated with its focal point set at a height leveled with a height of a second region located inside the wafer on a side of a back surface of the wafer, whereby second modified layers are formed.
US11195751B2
An interconnect or memory structure is provided that includes a first electrically conductive structure having a concave upper surface embedded in a first interconnect dielectric material layer. A first metal-containing cap contacts the concave upper surface of the first electrically conductive structure. The first metal-containing cap has a topmost surface that is coplanar with a topmost surface of the first interconnect dielectric material layer. A second metal-containing cap having a planar bottommost surface contacts the topmost surface of the first metal-containing cap. A metal-containing structure having a planar bottommost surface contacts a planar topmost surface of the second metal-containing cap. A second electrically conductive structure contacts a planar topmost surface of the metal-containing structure, and a second interconnect dielectric material layer is present on the first interconnect dielectric material layer and is located laterally adjacent to second metal-containing cap, the metal-containing structure, and the second electrically conductive structure.
US11195749B2
To provide a semiconductor device that has barrier metal and has a small variation in a threshold voltage. A semiconductor device is provided, including a semiconductor substrate, an interlayer dielectric film arranged on an upper surface of the semiconductor substrate, a titanium layer provided on the interlayer dielectric film, and a titanium nitride layer provided on the titanium layer, where the interlayer dielectric film is provided with an opening that exposes a part of the upper surface of the semiconductor substrate, the titanium layer and the titanium nitride layer are also provided within the opening, and the titanium layer arranged in contact with the semiconductor substrate and on a bottom portion of the opening is entirely titanium-silicided.
US11195739B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus for a substrate transfer method, including positioning a tray handler device in a first position with i) cutouts of an aperture of the first tray in superimposition with respective pedestals of a pedestal platform and ii) a distal end of the pedestals extending away from a top surface of the first tray; increasing a distance between the top surface of the first tray and a top surface of the pedestal platform to transfer a first substrate from the pedestals to the tabs defined by the aperture of the first tray, while concurrently engaging the second tray handler with the second tray; and increasing a distance between the top surface of the second tray and the bottom surface of a chuck to transfer a second substrate from the chuck to the tabs defined by the second tray.
US11195732B2
Methods and systems for providing a short-duration anneal are provided. In one example, the methods and systems can include placing a workpiece in a thermal processing chamber. The workpiece can include a device side surface and an opposing non-device side surface. The methods and systems can include delivering an energy pulse from at least one heat source to the non-device side surface of the workpiece. In another example, the methods and systems can include depositing a layer of semiconductor material onto the semiconductor workpiece at the device side of the semiconductor workpiece. The methods and systems can include doping the layer of semiconductor material with a doping species and annealing the layer for crystallization using solid phase epitaxy.
US11195727B2
Generally discussed herein are systems, devices, and methods that include an organic high density interconnect structure and techniques for making the same. According to an example a method can include forming one or more low density buildup layers on a core, conductive interconnect material of the one or more low density buildup layers electrically and mechanically connected to conductive interconnect material of the core, forming one or more high density buildup layers on an exposed low density buildup layer of the one or more low density buildup layers, conductive interconnect material of the high density buildup layers electrically and mechanically connected to the conductive interconnect material of the one or more low density buildup layers, and forming another low density buildup layer on and around an exposed high density buildup layer of the one or more high density buildup layers.
US11195722B2
Methods for wet-etching semiconductor samples and devices fabricated from the same are disclosed. The methods can be for selectively wet-etching a semiconductor sample comprising selecting a liquid-phase solution such that when the semiconductor sample is etched with the liquid-phase solution, at least a portion of one of a first doped region or a second doped region is etched at a greater rate than at least a portion of the other of the first doped region or the second doped region; and wet-etching, with the liquid-phase solution, the at least a portion of one of the first doped region or the second doped region at a first etch rate and the at least a portion of the other of the first doped region or the second doped region at a second etch rate; wherein the first etch rate can be greater than the second etch rate.
US11195720B2
The present disclosure describes a system and a method for a ion implantation (IMP) process. The system includes an ion implanter configured to scan an ion beam over a target for a range of angles, a tilting mechanism configured to support and tilt the target, an ion-collecting device configured to collect a distribution and a number of ejected ions from the ion beam scan over the target, and a control unit configured to adjust a tilt angle based on a correction angle determined based on the distribution and number of ejected ions.
US11195715B2
Methods of forming structures with electrical isolation. A dielectric layer is formed over a semiconductor substrate, openings are patterned in the dielectric layer that extend to the semiconductor substrate, and a semiconductor material is epitaxially grown from portions of the semiconductor substrate that are respectively exposed inside the openings. The semiconductor material, during growth, defines a semiconductor layer that includes first portions respectively coincident with the openings and second portions that laterally grow from the first portions to merge over a top surface of the dielectric layer. A modified layer containing a trap-rich semiconductor material is formed in the semiconductor substrate.
US11195705B2
Disclosed are a plasma generating unit and a substrate treating apparatus including the same. The substrate treating apparatus includes a process chamber having a treatment space in the interior thereof, a substrate support unit configured to support a substrate in the treatment space, a gas supply unit configured to supply a process gas into the treatment space, and a plasma generating unit disposed outside the process chamber and configured to generate plasma from the process gas in the process chamber, wherein the plasma generating unit includes an antenna unit including a plurality of antenna coils configured to generate plasma from the process gas, and a magnetic structure including magnetic walls disposed between the plurality of antenna coils, and wherein the antenna unit includes a first antenna coil having a ring shape, and a second antenna coil disposed outside the first antenna coil and having a ring shape.
US11195701B2
A showerhead provided in a chamber of a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus and facing a wafer holder includes: a plate-shaped ceramic substrate; a plurality of through holes penetrating the ceramic substrate in the direction of the thickness of the ceramic substrate; and a plurality of radio frequency conductors embedded in a plurality of zones, respectively, of the ceramic substrate, as seen on the side of a surface of the ceramic substrate facing the wafer holder.
US11195699B2
A rotating microwave is established for any resonant mode TEmnl or TMmnl of a cavity, where the user is free to choose the values of the mode indices m, n and l. The fast rotation, the rotation frequency of which is equal to an operational microwave frequency, is accomplished by setting the temporal phase difference ΔØ and the azimuthal angle Δθ between two microwave input ports P and Q as functions of m, n and l. The slow rotation of frequency Ωa (typically 1-1000 Hz), is established by transforming dual field inputs α cos Ωat and ±α sin Ωat in the orthogonal input system into an oblique system defined by the angle Δθ between two microwave ports P and Q.
US11195693B1
Dynamic band contrast image (DBCI) is constructed with scattering patterns acquired at multiple scanning locations of a sample using a charged particle beam. Each pixel of the DBCI is generated by integrating the corresponding scattering pattern along a diffraction band. The DBCI includes charged particle channeling condition and can be used for detecting sample defects.
US11195687B2
A shield around an x-ray tube, a voltage multiplier, or both can improve the manufacturing process by allowing testing earlier in the process and by providing a holder for liquid potting material. The shield can also improve voltage standoff. A shielded x-ray tube can be electrically coupled to a shielded power supply.
US11195686B2
A thermionic emission device comprises a first electrode, a second electrode, a single carbon nanotube, an insulating layer and a gate electrode. The gate electrode is located on a first surface of the insulating layer. The first electrode and the second electrode are located on a second surface of the insulating layer and spaced apart from each other. The carbon nanotube comprises a first end, a second end opposite to the first end, and a middle portion located between the first end and the second end. The first end of the carbon nanotube is electrically connected to the first electrode, and the second end of the carbon nanotube is electrically connected to the second electrode.
US11195685B2
The present invention addresses the problem of providing a device with which it is possible to adjust the focal point of an electron beam both toward a shorter focal point and toward a longer focal point after an electronic gun was fitted on a counterpart device. The aforementioned problem can be solved by an electron gun including a photocathode, and an anode, the electron gun furthermore comprising an intermediate electrode disposed between the photocathode and the anode, the intermediate electrode comprising an electron-beam passage hole through which an electron beam released from the photocathode passes, and the electron-beam passage hole having formed therein a drift space in which, when an electrical field is formed between the photocathode and the anode due to application of a voltage, the effect of the electrical field can be disregarded.
US11195683B1
A single bolt fuse assembly and method to connect a single bolt fuse to a circuit or device are disclosed. The single bolt fuse assembly enables the single bolt fuse to be used on any electrical device having a hole suitable for receiving a threaded shaft and connectable to a circuit or device that electrically connects to a female battery or power cable. The apparatus includes a separate high-conductive metal terminal that mates with the stud that mechanically attaches the fuse between the electrical devices. The stud is insulated to avoid becoming part of the electrical circuit and to ensure proper operation of the fuse. By mechanically attaching the stud to the metal terminal, the stud is unlikely to get separated from the fuse.
US11195678B1
A night vision goggle adapter including: a goggle mount assembly; a primary magnet generating a magnetic flux; a magnetic flux conducting unit having a first end and a second end; a first plurality of shunts; and a second plurality of shunts disposed about the goggle mount assembly; wherein the magnetic flux conducting unit may overlap the primary magnet and form a magnetic circuit for conducting the magnetic flux towards the second end of the magnetic flux conducting unit when none of the first plurality of shunts and none of the second plurality of shunts are overlapped by the magnetic flux conducting unit; and wherein the magnetic flux is shorted through one of the first plurality of shunts or the second plurality of shunts when the magnetic flux conducting unit is positioned to overlap one of the first plurality of shunts or one of the second plurality of shunts.
US11195677B2
A three-way switch associated with an entry point barrier may provide a security system with information regarding a position of the entry point barrier as it moves along a path of travel. As the entry point barrier moves, the three-way switch may come into proximity with an external object, and the three-way switch may indicate to the security system that a circuit associated with the three-way switch has been closed. The security system may determine that the entry point barrier is in a given position, and one or more security system policies associated with the given position may be activated.
US11195675B2
A low-voltage protective switching device includes: at least one outer conductor path from an outer conductor supply terminal of the low-voltage protective switching device to an outer conductor load terminal of the low-voltage protective switching device; a neutral conductor path from a neutral conductor terminal of the low-voltage protective switching device to a neutral conductor load terminal of the low-voltage protective switching device; a mechanical bypass switch disposed in the outer conductor path; a first semiconductor circuit arrangement of the low-voltage protective switching device connected parallel to the mechanical bypass switch; an electronic control unit; a current measuring arrangement disposed in the outer conductor path, the current measuring arrangement being connected with the electronic control unit; and a first mechanical disconnecting switch disposed in series to the first semiconductor circuit arrangement and in parallel to the mechanical bypass switch. The electronic control controls the mechanical bypass switch.
US11195667B2
In one aspect of the invention, a dye sensitized solar cell has a counter-electrode including carbon-titania nanocomposite thin films made by forming a carbon-based ink; forming a titania (TiO2) solution; blade-coating a mechanical mixture of the carbon-based ink and the titania solution onto a substrate; and annealing the blade-coated substrate at a first temperature for a first period of time to obtain the carbon-based titania nanocomposite thin films. In certain embodiments, the carbon-based titania nanocomposite thin films may include solvent-exfoliated graphene titania (SEG-TiO2) nanocomposite thin films, or single walled carbon nanotube titania (SWCNT-TiO2) nanocomposite thin films.
US11195665B2
A nickel termination-pad that has been clad-bonded to a titanium base layer electrically contacted to a casing to thereby serve as a surface for a device manufacturer to connect electronic circuit to the capacitor is described. The clad connection of the nickel termination-pad to the titanium base layer is both robust and provides good electrical conductivity between the dissimilar metals.
US11195646B2
Provided herein is a soft magnetic alloy powder that can exhibit a high saturation flux density and desirable soft magnetic characteristics. A dust core using the soft magnetic alloy powder is also provided. The soft magnetic alloy powder is an Fe-based nanocrystalline soft magnetic alloy powder of a crystallized Fe-based amorphous soft magnetic alloy powder, and has a DSC curve with a first peak that is 15% or less of a first peak of the Fe-based amorphous soft magnetic alloy in terms of a maximum value.
US11195645B2
The present invention relates to a Ce-containing sintered rare earth permanent magnet with high toughness and high coercivity and a method of preparing the magnet, belonging to the technical field of rare earth permanent magnetic materials. The magnet is prepared by steps of raw material batching, strip casting, hydrogen decrepitation and jet milling, powder orientating and forming, sintering and heat treatment. The materials of the permanent magnet comprise the main phase alloy powders and the Ce added phase alloy powders, wherein the Ce added phase alloy is a magnetic phase or a non-magnetic liquid-phase alloy; and the Ce added phase alloy accounts for 5% to 30% of the total weight of the permanent magnet, and the remainder is the main phase alloy. During the jet milling stage, a certain concentration of oxygen is added into the inert gas, so that the final magnet has an oxygen content of 1500 to 2500 ppm. The Ce-containing dual-alloy magnet prepared in accordance with the present invention has high coercivity, and the intrinsic coercivity (Hcj) is up to 17 to 28.73 kOe. The magnet of the present invention has good fracture toughness which is increased by 10% to 30% as compared with the conventional Nd—Fe—B sintered magnet. The magnet of the present invention can meet needs of high-end applications such as wind power generation, new energy vehicles, and the like, and greatly expands the application fields of Ce-containing magnets.
US11195642B2
A system for the automated production of a cable set, which has a branched structure of a plurality of individual line elements. In a modular set-up in the first part, a plurality of first processing stations, and in the second part, a plurality of second processing stations are arranged. In the first part, there is an automatic preparation of the individual line elements, which are then collected in a buffer station at the end of the first part. In the second part, the prepared individual line elements are assembled into the cable set. The line elements are plugged into connector casings in a connector station and transferred to second transporters, and via which the branched structure of the cable set is then formed by moving along second tracks. In this spread-out branched structure, a fixing of the line elements to one another takes place in a fixing station.
US11195640B2
Process for manufacturing a power cable includes: providing a power cable core having an electric conductor; providing a copper foil; providing a protective strip over the power cable core, the protective strip having a radially inner and outer surface and being made of copper with a coating; folding the copper foil around the power cable core so as to bring two longitudinal copper foil rims to contact one to the other; welding the two contacted longitudinal copper foil rims thus obtaining a copper sheath in form of a tube with a welding seam; reducing the diameter of the copper sheath to put it into direct contact with the power cable core and the protective strip; heating the protective strip and the copper sheath at a temperature higher than the melting temperature of the coating of the strip so that the coating fuses in the welding seam.
US11195633B2
Gallium-68 generators that are capable of producing gallium-68 from a germanium-68 source material are disclosed. The source material may be a matrix material (e.g., zeolite) in which germanium-68 is isomorphously substituted for central atoms in tetrahedra within the matrix material. Methods for forming gallium-68 generators are also disclosed.
US11195623B2
The present invention relates to a method of dental implant treatment planning, a device and a recording medium therefore. The device for dental implant treatment planning according to the present invention can move or rotate the grouped objects together in 2D or 3D model about teeth arrangement for implant treatment planning with grouping function of the implant objects. So, it decreases complexity of manipulation of the implant objects, provides users with convenience to easily modify position or size of the implant objects, and improves the accuracy of the modification.
US11195621B2
Computer program products, methods, systems, apparatus, and computing entities are described for identifying significant incidental findings from medical records. In one example embodiment, an example computing device receives a medical report and derives a textual component from the medical report. The computing device then identifies one or more medical findings from the textual component and determines a clinical context for each of the one or more medical findings. The computing device then identifies one or more clinical cues from the one or more medical findings and generates one or more condition signals from the one or more clinical cues. The computing device then generates a condition alert from the one or more condition signals. The condition alert is indicative of a significant incidental finding. Using various embodiments contemplated herein, significant incidental findings can be identified for follow-up by a user.
US11195618B2
Techniques for detecting a possible health issue in a user are described. Data related to social media activity for a user is received over a communications network from one or more computing devices. A user analysis profile is generated for the user using a first machine learning model. The user analysis profile includes a personality profile and a mood score. A weighted score associated with potential health issues for the user is determined by classifying the user analysis profile using a second machine learning model. The weighted score exceeds a pre-determined threshold, and electronic notification is provided to a pre-designated person regarding the potential health issue.
US11195613B2
A control circuit operably couples to a memory having a plurality of different radiation treatment applications stored therein, a data store having patient data stored therein, and at least a first user interface comprising a first display and a first user input interface. The control circuit can be configured to present simultaneously, via the first display and for a given patient, at least two workspaces that each correspond to a different one of the radiation treatment applications wherein the workspaces are using patient data from the data store for the given patient. The control circuit can also be configured to present, via the user input interface, a bookmark capture opportunity, such that a user of the apparatus can selectively create a bookmark that captures a present state for both of the at least two workspaces and hence for the radiation treatment applications that correspond to the at least two workspaces.
US11195611B2
Described herein are database systems including one or more remote analytical instruments operably connected to one or more servers. The instruments can transmit rich data to the servers, and the one or more servers can compile a database of the rich data. One or more processors associated with the servers can be configured to execute a data analytics program on the database to identify a stochastic phenomenon or to process the data and present in real-time at a location of the one or more instruments comparison information about the instruments.
US11195604B2
The present invention relates to a medicament delivery device comprising a housing (60), which housing is arranged to accommodate a medicament container (62); a drive unit (86) operably arranged to act on said medicament container (62) for expelling a dose of medicament; an activation unit (74) operably connected to said drive unit for activating said drive unit (86); said drive unit (86) comprising an actuation element (84) arranged movable inside the housing (60) from an initial position prior to activation, to a displaced position after activation; at least a first NFC-chip (170, 172) comprising specific information arranged on said actuation element; at least one shielding element (174) arranged to said housing, such as to shield said at least first NFC-chip (170, 172) from being read by an NFC-chip reader when said actuation element (84) is either in the initial position or in the displaced position. The present invention also comprises a communication system in which said medicament delivery device is a part.
US11195597B2
A calculation method of acid dissociation constant, including: calculating the acid dissociation constant using function that uses index value determined based on electron density between two atoms in calculation target molecule and coefficient value determined based on types of two elements of set of the two atoms, wherein when the calculation target molecule includes at least one amino group and dissociation of hydrogen atom from one amino group in the at least one amino group is calculated, the function further uses second electron density of nitrogen atom in the one amino group not related to bond between the nitrogen atom and another atom, bond distance between the nitrogen atom and the hydrogen atom, and molecular orbital energy of the calculation target molecule, wherein the calculation method is method for calculating acid dissociation constant in dissociation of the hydrogen atom from the calculation target molecule using computer.
US11195589B1
According to various aspects, a memory cell arrangement is provided, the memory cell arrangement including a control circuit configured to carry out a de-trapping writing scheme to write at least one memory cell of the memory cell arrangement into a memory state, the de-trapping writing scheme including providing one or more write voltage pulses and one or more de-trapping voltage pulses at the at least one memory cell, wherein the one or more de-trapping voltage pulses have opposite polarity with respect to the one or more write voltage pulses, and wherein one or more properties of the one or more write voltage pulses and of the one or more de-trapping voltage pulses are varied as long as the memory cell is not in the memory state.
US11195588B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a first memory cell, a second memory cell, and a first wiring and a second wiring electrically connected to the first memory cell and the second memory cell. In a write operation, a program operation starts at a first timing and a supply of a write pass voltage starts at a second timing. When a first command is received in a first period between the first timing and the second timing, the write operation is interrupted before the supply of the write pass voltage starts.
US11195557B2
Recorded video information is managed by annotation markers. The recorded video information is annotated with at least one marker and the annotated video information is saved in an electronically searchable file.
US11195550B2
[Object] To provide a technology of a servo write head and the like capable of improving the recording accuracy of a servo pattern. [Solving Means] A servo write head according to the present technology includes a recording surface. This recording surface has a first region and a second region, and records a servo pattern on a magnetic tape by a magnetic gap, the first region being formed in with a first width a width direction and corresponding to a position where the magnetic gap is provided in a longitudinal direction perpendicular to the width direction, the second region being formed with a second width narrower than the first width and corresponding to a position where no magnetic gap is provided in the longitudinal direction.
US11195549B1
According to one embodiment, a disk device includes a recording medium, electronic components including a magnetic head, a flexure, and an adhesive. The flexure includes a surface on which the electronic component is mounted, a first wiring and a second wiring each extending along the surface, and a groove provided on the surface between the first/second wirings. The adhesive is in contact with an inner surface of the groove and includes an adhesive portion attaching the electronic component to the surface. A first portion in the flexure is provided in a position apart from the electronic component. A second portion in the flexure is positioned closer to the adhesive portion than the first portion. A distance between the first wiring and the second wiring is larger than that in the first portion.
US11195548B2
A method for performing an operation of a memory arrangement, comprising receiving a command at a layer of a computer system, determining if the command received is one of a first command type or a second command type, determining a type of command that is able to be received and is capable of operation of the memory arrangement, comparing the type of command capable of operation of the memory arrangement and the received command at the layer, and converting the command received at the layer to a command type capable of operation of the memory arrangement when the type of command received at the layer is different than type of command that is able to be received and is capable of operation of the memory arrangement.
US11195545B2
A device to perform end-of-utterance detection includes a speaker vector extractor configured to receive a frame of an audio signal and to generate a speaker vector that corresponds to the frame. The device also includes an end-of-utterance detector configured to process the speaker vector and to generate an indicator that indicates whether the frame corresponds to an end of an utterance of a particular speaker.
US11195544B2
A computer based tool and method for automatically producing, from an existing presentation, a new presentation that fits within a specific presentation duration based on the priority associated with each element within the existing presentation and the presentation time for each individual element.
US11195542B2
System and method for analyzing audio data are provided. Audio data captured by one or more audio sensors included in a wearable apparatus from an environment of a wearer of the wearable apparatus may be obtained. The audio data may be analyzed to detect a repetition in the audio data, the repetition may comprise a first occurrence of a repeated element followed by one or more successive occurrences of the repeated element. The audio data may be analyzed to determine whether the repetition is meaningful. The audio data may be analyzed to determine which of the one or more successive occurrences of the repeated element were produced by the wearer. A feedback may be provided to a user when the repetition is meaningless and all of the one or more successive occurrences of the repeated element were produced by the wearer.
US11195541B2
A method and system for providing Gaussian weighted self-attention for speech enhancement are herein provided. According to one embodiment, the method includes receiving a input noise signal, generating a score matrix based on the received input noise signal, and applying a Gaussian weighted function to the generated score matrix.
US11195538B2
An audio signal transmission device for encoding an audio signal includes an audio encoding unit that encodes an audio signal and a side information encoding unit that calculates and encodes side information from a look-ahead signal. An audio signal receiving device for decoding an audio code and outputting an audio signal includes: an audio code buffer that detects packet loss based on a received state of an audio packet, an audio parameter decoding unit that decodes an audio code when an audio packet is correctly received, a side information decoding unit that decodes a side information code when an audio packet is correctly received, a side information accumulation unit that accumulates side information obtained by decoding a side information code, an audio parameter missing processing unit that outputs an audio parameter upon detection of audio packet loss, and an audio synthesis unit that synthesizes decoded audio from the audio parameter.
US11195533B2
A system for incremental natural language understanding includes a media module, a memory storing a software code, and a hardware processor communicatively coupled to the media module. The hardware processor is configured to execute the software code to receive an audio stream including a first utterance, and generate a first and second incremental speech recognition outputs based on first and second portions of the first utterance. In addition, the hardware processor is configured to execute the software code to determine, prior to generating the second incremental speech recognition output, a first intent of the first utterance based on the first incremental speech recognition output. The hardware processor is further configured to execute the software code to retrieve a first resource based on the determined first intent, and incorporate the first resource in the media content to be played by the media module.
US11195530B1
A voice analysis (VA) computer system for processing verbally inputted data into online applications is provided. The VA computer system is configured to receive a first set of digital sound data in connection with a request to process an online or virtual application for an applicant, and enable a voice-input tool on a user computing device for the applicant to input registration data, the registration data included in a second set of digital sound data. The VA computer system is configured to retrieve a text-based template based upon a portion of the registration data, the text-based template including descriptor phrases and blank data fields. The VA computer system may be configured to receive the registration data as the second set of digital sound data, translate the second set of digital sound data into text inputs, and store within a database, each descriptor phrase linked to the corresponding response associated therewith.
US11195519B2
Various arrangements for triggering transitions within a slide-based presentation are presented. An audio-based trigger system may receive a plurality of trigger words. A database may be created that maps trigger words to slide transitions. A voice-based request may be received to initiate audio control of the slide-based presentation being output by the presentation system. An audio stream may be monitored for trigger words. Based on accessing a database, a slide transition to be performed may be identified based on a recognized trigger word. A slide transition request may be transmitted to a presentation system that indicates a slide to which a transition should occur. The presentation system may then transition to the slide based on the received slide transition request.
US11195512B2
Systems and methods are described for processing and interpreting commands spoken in one or more languages. Speech recognition systems disclosed herein may be used as a stand-alone speech recognition system or comprise a portion of another content consumption system. The speech recognition system receives audio data associated with a multi-language command. The speech recognition system analyzes the audio data across a variety of linguistic models, and parses the audio data to determine a match phrase, of a plurality of phrases associated with a plurality of operational commands. The speech recognition system utilizes classifiers and/or other information to determine one or more phrases that appropriately match the desired intent and operational command associated with the user's spoken command.
US11195500B2
Provided is a guitar case that can include a body for placement of a guitar; a translucent or transparent window where a portion of the guitar is visible from outside of the case; and a speaker; wherein the guitar placed inside of the case is configured to play over the speaker with a wired or wireless connection. The guitar case can further include a panel or a screen. The screen can be a touch-screen. The panel can be configured to move to allow access to electronics inside of the case. The panel can pivot out. The guitar case can further include a door, the door having the window. The guitar case can further include a camera or a microphone. The case can be configured so that a guitar is placed at an angle of less than vertical.
US11195498B2
Compensating for latency in a streaming virtual reality environment is disclosed. A computing device receives from a head-mounted display device (HMDD) having a field of view (FOV), first pose data that identifies an orientation of the HMDD worn by a participant viewing a virtual world via the HMDD. The computing device renders, based at least in part on the first pose data and a first oversized FOV that is greater than the FOV, oversized imagery that depicts a portion of the virtual world within the FOV of the HMDD and a portion of the virtual world outside of the FOV of the HMDD. The computing device communicates the oversized imagery to the HMDD.
US11195489B2
A display device, comprising: a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix (row-column configuration) in a display area; a scanning line that is coupled to each of the pixels aligned in a row direction in the display area, and to which a scanning signal is supplied; a signal line that is coupled to each of the pixels aligned in a column direction in the display area, and to which a pixel signal is supplied; a gate driver that supplies the scanning signal to the scanning line; a signal selection circuit that separates the pixel signal that is time-division multiplexed to an image signal; a first control signal output circuit that outputs a first control signal supplied to the gate driver; and a second control signal output circuit that outputs a second control signal supplied to the signal selection circuit.
US11195487B2
The invention relates to a display driving circuit, which comprises a gate driving circuit and a source driving circuit. The gate driving circuit outputs a plurality of gate signals. The source driving circuit outputs a plurality of source signals and changes the levels of the source signals when the levels of the gate signals are a turn-off level.
US11195482B2
A display device and a driving method thereof are disclosed, the driving method includes: setting average values of a first component, a second component, and a third component of a first frame display image to be equal to a second average value, and setting the average values of both the first component and the third component of a second frame display image to be equal to a third average value, and setting the average value of the second component to be equal to zero; adjusting lightness of a backlight module according to the average values of the first component, the second component, and the third component corresponding to the original display image, the first frame display image, and the second frame display image.
US11195480B2
There are provided display controllers and driving methods related to those described in US Published Patent Application No. 2013/0194250. These include (a) a display controller having an update buffer, means for removing from the update buffer pixels not requiring updating, and means to ensure that pixels having certain special states are not removed from the update buffer; (b) a method of driving a bistable display wherein, in a pixel undergoing a white-to-white transition and lying adjacent another pixel undergoing a visible transition, there is applied to the pixel one or more balanced pulse pairs and at least one top-off pulse; (c) a method of driving a bistable display by overlaying a non-rectangular item over a pre-existing image content and then removing the item, where only pixels in the region of the item perform transitions (including self-transitions); and (d) a method of driving a bistable display in which a proportion of background pixels not undergoing an optical change are subjected to a refresh pulse to correct optical state drift.
US11195478B2
Disclosed is a display apparatus capable of preventing and/or reducing overheating of driving switches due to a malfunction during varying of a driving voltage. The display apparatus includes: a light emitting diode; a power supply configured to apply a driving voltage to the light emitting diode; a driving switch configured to control the driving current of the light emitting diode; a voltage sensor configured to detect the driving voltage; and a driving controller configured to control the driving switch so that the driving current of the light emitting diode follows a current reference. The driving controller may be configured, based on the driving voltage detected by the voltage sensor being greater than a predetermined voltage, to decrease the current reference to decrease the driving current of the light emitting diode.
US11195477B2
One embodiment provides a method, including: producing, using one or more optical engines of an augmented reality display, an augmented reality scene; identifying, based upon a location of a gaze of a user, at least one object the user is viewing; and adjusting, based upon the identification of the at least one object, a drive strength of one or more pixels associated with at least one virtual object on the augmented reality display. Other aspects are described and claimed.
US11195474B2
A display device and a driving method thereof are discussed. This display device receives first and second input reference voltages, generates gamma reference voltages having different voltage levels, receives each of the gamma reference voltages, and generates a data voltage of pixel data. The first and second input reference voltages and the reference voltage are changed according to a variation of the pixel driving voltage.
US11195473B2
Disclosed are a display device using an inverted signal and a driving method thereof. The display device includes a display panel driving circuit for writing data to pixels, a signal generation unit configured to generate a two-step signal for controlling the display panel driving circuit; a plurality of signal lines configured to connect the display panel driving circuit to the signal generation unit; and a signal inversion circuit configured to receive a two-step signal from the signal generation unit, invert the two-step signal, and supply three-step signals each including a positive polarity voltage, a reference level voltage, and a negative polarity voltage to the signal lines.
US11195470B2
A display device includes a substrate having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The display device also includes a first conductive layer disposed on the first surface and a second conductive layer disposed on the second surface. The first conductive layer and the second conductive layer are disposed on the opposite sides of the substrate. The display device further includes a connective portion at least partially disposed in the substrate and penetrating from the first surface to the second surface. The first conductive layer is electrically connected to the second conductive layer through the connective portion. The display device further includes a light-emitting element disposed on the first surface. The light-emitting element includes a first electrode and a second electrode. Along a direction perpendicular to the first surface, the first electrode and the second electrode are not overlapped with the connective portion.
US11195464B2
A display device and a driving method are disclosed. The display device includes a plurality of pixel areas disposed in a display panel. Each pixel area includes at least one row of pixel units. The display panel further includes a plurality of collecting modules, a comparing module, and a processing module. Each collecting module is connected to the pixel units in each pixel area and configured to obtain and transmit input power voltage signals of the pixel units in a corresponding pixel area to the comparing module. The comparing module receives and compares the input power voltage signals with a base voltage respectively and transmits comparison results to the processing module respectively. The processing module adjusts data voltages of the pixel units in the corresponding pixel area respectively based on the comparison results in order to compensate the pixel units in the corresponding pixel area for resistive voltage drop differences.
US11195457B2
The present invention is equipped with a substrate upon which a drive circuit containing a TFT, a planarization film, and an OLED are formed. The TFT is provided with a gate electrode, a drain electrode, a source electrode, and a semiconductor layer with regions serving as the channel and extends along a prescribed direction. The drain electrode and the source electrode are disposed such that respective portions of the drain electrode and the source electrode are arranged in an alternating manner along the prescribed direction. The connection between the drive circuit and the OLED is achieved via a conductor layer with a Ti layer and a Cu layer (Cu alloy layer) and is embedded in the interior of a contact hole formed in the planarization film, and the surface of the planarization film is formed with an arithmetic mean roughness Ra of no more than 50 nm.
US11195454B2
The present disclosure provides a pixel driving circuit and a driving method thereof, a display panel, and a display device. The pixel driving circuit, comprising: a driving current generating circuit having a control terminal, a first terminal, and a second terminal; a data circuit configured to provide a signal from a data signal terminal to the control terminal of the driving current generating circuit in response to a signal from a first scan signal terminal, and provide a signal from the data signal terminal to the second terminal of the driving current generating circuit in response to a signal from a second scan signal terminal; a voltage circuit configured to provide a signal from a first voltage signal terminal to a first node in response to a signal from a light-emitting control signal terminal; and a control circuit configured to electrically connect the first node and the control terminal of the driving current generating circuit in response to a signal from the second scan signal terminal, and electrically connect the first node and the first terminal of the driving current generating circuit in response to a signal from a third scan signal terminal.
US11195448B2
A display includes a display panel and at least one display driver chip. The display panel includes a display area and a non-display area surrounding the display area. The display area includes a planar area and a curved bending area located on at least one side of the planar area, where a longitudinal direction of each data signal line is perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the side of the planar area on which the curved bending area is arranged, and each data signal line extends to a non-display area on the side of the curved bending area of the display area. The display driver chip is connected to data signal lines by using a chip-on-film, and the display driver chip is located in concave space.
US11195444B2
A display device includes: a pixel unit including a plurality of pixels; a scan driver having a plurality of stages and configured to supply a scan signal to the pixel unit; and a light emission control driver having a plurality of stages and configured to supply a light emission control signal to the pixel unit, wherein a first transistor of a plurality of transistors included in at least one of the stages of the scan driver or the stages of the light emission control driver comprises: an active layer pattern on a base layer, and including a channel region forming a channel, and first and second regions on opposite sides of the channel region; and a gate electrode spaced apart from the active layer pattern with a first insulating film therebetween, and overlapping the channel region.
US11195440B2
A display device includes a defect inspection circuit, and a display panel having a display area and a peripheral area positioned outside the display area. The display panel includes a sensing wire positioned in the peripheral area and connected to the defect inspection circuit. The defect inspection circuit includes a resistance detection circuit that detects a resistance of the sensing wire based on an output signal corresponding to the sensing wire, a memory that stores first resistance information related to the resistance of the sensing wire detected in a first inspection operation, and a comparator circuit including a first comparator that compares the first resistance information with second resistance information. The second resistance information is related to the resistance of the sensing wire detected in a second inspection operation that is performed at a different time than the first inspection operation.
US11195436B2
An organ model for a catheter simulator is formed from elastic materials, and a heart model for a catheter simulator includes a main body of heart and coronary arteries laid along the surface of the main body of heart, in which a portion of the coronary arteries is attachable and detachable.
US11195424B2
A system including at least one image acquisition module to acquire images of the environment of the aircraft and of the runway, a module to recognize in the images at least one element representative of at least one contaminant likely to influence the state of the runway, a module to determine at least one property of the contaminant or contaminants and a module to transmit to a user device the property or properties of the contaminant or contaminants. The system allows contaminants to be identified and to be located on the runway or in the environment of the aircraft.
US11195422B2
This disclosure describes an unmanned aerial vehicle (“UAV”) configured to autonomously deliver items of inventory to various destinations. The UAV may receive inventory information and a destination location and autonomously retrieve the inventory from a location within a materials handling facility, compute a route from the materials handling facility to a destination and travel to the destination to deliver the inventory.
US11195417B2
A vehicle includes: a capturer configured to detect at least one stopped vehicle stopped in a first lane crossing at a right side of a second lane in which the vehicle is located; a detection sensor configured to detect the target vehicle located in a third lane next to the at least one stopped vehicle to obtain position information and speed information of the target vehicle; and a controller configured to determine a first position of the vehicle for sensing the target vehicle between stopped vehicles, determine an expected position to move the target vehicle for a time it takes for the vehicle to move from the first position to a second position, determine a reliability of a possibility of collision between the vehicle and the target vehicle by comparing an actual position and the expected position of the target vehicle.
US11195406B2
A vaporized aerosol detection system is presented herein. The system can include a motion sensor that is configured to detect movement in a predetermined or desired area. Further, the motion sensor can be configured to generate a detection signal in response to one or more detected objects in the area. The system can also include a particle sensor electronically coupled to the motion sensor. The particle sensor can be configured to detect a particle count of the area when the objects are detected by the motion sensor. Further, the system can include a housing configured to enclose at least a portion of the motion sensor and particle sensor.
US11195401B2
A building management system includes one or more computer-readable storage media having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to receive threat events from one or more data sources, each threat event including a description and for each threat event determine whether the description for the threat event corresponds to one of a multiple predefined threat categories, generate a standardized threat object for the threat event using the corresponding predefined threat category, and in response to determining the description does not correspond to one of the predefined threat categories, process the description using a natural language processing engine to identify one of the predefined threat categories to be assigned to the threat event and generate a standardized threat object for the threat event using the predefined threat category identified by the natural language processing engine.
US11195397B2
Theft increases the average product cost to consumers. A mentoring system is presented that can help to reduce or prevent the inventory from lost or theft. Theft is a serious concern in the consumer market place. Industry loses billions per year on theft of merchandise. According to a Reuters report, last year, thefts by employees of U.S. retail merchandise accounted for $15.9 billion, or 44 percent of theft losses at stores, more than shoplifting and vendor fraud combined. Thus, the total thief by the customers and store employees during the year 2008 amounted to $36 billion. Several embodiments of ways to control or reduce the thefts in the market place are presented.
US11195395B2
The invention relates to a security system comprising: a first monitoring subsystem, said first monitoring subsystem being arranged to detect events within a first field of view using a first detection mechanism; a second monitoring subsystem, said monitoring subsystem being arranged to detect events within a second field of view using a second detection mechanism; a mounting arrangement configured to carry the first and second monitoring subsystems and mount them to a substrate; wherein in use, an alignable component of the first monitoring subsystem is configured to be orientated with respect to the mounting arrangement so that the first field of view covers an area to be monitored; and wherein the orientation of the alignable component of the first monitoring subsystem determines the orientation of the second field of view of the second monitoring subsystem.
US11195393B1
Passing vehicle filters for audio/video (A/V) recording and communication devices in accordance with various embodiments of the present disclosure are provided. In one embodiment, an A/V recording and communication device is provided, the device comprising a camera configured to capture image data of an object within a field of view of the camera, wherein the field of view comprises at least one active motion zone; a communication module; and a processing module comprising: a processor; and a motion detection application that configures the processor to: detect motion of the object within the field of view; capture image data; assign an object ID; determine a speed and a direction of movement; determine an aspect ratio; create an object boundary and determine a distance between a center of the object boundary and the at least one active motion zone; and determine whether the object is a passing vehicle.
US11195390B2
A navigation aid light-signaling device includes a main body inserted in an upper extremity of a dolphin. The light-signaling device includes: fasteners for the attachment of said light-signaling device to the upper extremity of a small dolphin; at least one light source generating a directional and fixed light beam, said light beam being directed toward a second light-signaling device located at a given distance from the light-signaling device on a second dolphin, and a power supply supplying said light-signaling device.
US11195383B2
In the case where a combination instruction to combine a lower-ranked first game card in which a specific ability parameter is specified with a higher-ranked second game card is received, a sever executes determination processing of determining whether the first game card meets a given combination condition and, in the case where it is determined that the first game card meets the combination condition, the sever executes, as combination processing, specific ability addition processing of adding the specific ability parameter specified in the first game card to the second game card.
US11195382B2
A system and method for conducting a game between at least one live player and at least one computer-controlled player includes executing a training program between at least two agents to generate probability weights correlating actions or meta-actions representing a set or sequenced set of actions with a probability that the action or meta-action will produce a game outcome meeting a specified criterion or specified criteria. A game is conducted in which at least one live player plays against at least one computer-controlled player in which the computer-controlled player selects actions at one or more of the decision nodes in the game based, at least in part, on the probability weights.
US11195381B2
Embodiments of the present invention set forth systems, apparatuses and methods for providing a lock and improve feature in gaming devices. Accordingly, a gaming device can be configured to include a video poker game where items associated with cards in poker hand, or card positions where the cards in the poker hand are displayed, can be locked, held, stuck, or otherwise maintained and a secondary game event is played where additional items can be received. The items may provide credits, bonus opportunities, progressives, multipliers, or other types of awards, modifiers, or beneficial game enhancements.
US11195379B1
A method of encouraging a user to increase their wager on a play by play wagering platform by determining the likelihood the user will increase their wager based upon their wager history and proposing an increase amount based upon their likelihood of increasing their wager such that a higher likelihood of increase results in a higher proposed increase amount and a lower likelihood results in a lower proposed increase amount.
US11195375B2
An ecommerce platform, available via an interactive electronic resource, allows a user to purchase products and services from the resource, receive promotional-valued credits in return for the purchase, and play games to earn additional promotional-valued credits. The user can purchase products and services at the electronic resource with either or both of a government-issued legal tender, such as the U.S. dollar, or a virtual currency used by the electronic resource, such as the promotional-valued credits. In embodiments of the invention, the user is guaranteed that an amount of legal tender (e.g., the U.S. dollar) paid-in to the ecommerce platform is the same as or less than a fair market value of the products or services purchased via the ecommerce platform.
US11195372B2
A system which enables a user to log into one or more gaming establishment management systems using both of a biometric identifier capture device of a gaming establishment device and also using a biometric identifier capture device of an identified user's mobile device.
US11195362B2
A wireless device, system, and method for utilizing inaudible tones. One or more inaudible tones are associated with information. One or more inaudible tones are transmitted from an electronic device. The one or more inaudible tones are audio signals that are inaudible to humans. The one or more inaudible tones include the information identifying a user or an item associated with the electronic device.
US11195359B2
Methods and systems are described for a medication container that may be locked using a locking mechanism. In one exemplary method, a request from a user may be received by a medication provider for a medication. The medication may be placed in a medication container with a locking mechanism that is operable to lock and unlock the medication container. The medication container may be locked using the locking mechanism. The locked medication container with the medication within may be provided to the user. Subsequent to providing the locked medication container to the user, a request may be received from the user to access the medication in the medication container. A credential may be sent to the user that is usable, via the locking mechanism, to unlock the medication container. The user may then input the credential into the locking mechanism to unlock the medication container and access the medication therein.
US11195348B2
A system for determining a priority of monitoring a machine is provided. The system includes a data acquisition module disposed in communication with a sensor. The data acquisition module is configured to generate data based on at least an operational parameter associated with the machine. The system further includes a server configured to determine a first factor indicative of a rate of usage of the machine, a second factor indicative of a number of exceptions of the machine at corresponding severities, a third factor indicative of a risk of unscheduled downtime of the machine, a fourth factor indicative of a distance from a preventive maintenance of the machine, a fifth factor indicative of an importance of a sub-system of the machine, and the priority of monitoring the machine based on at least the first factor, the second factor, the third factor, the fourth factor and the fifth factor.
US11195340B2
Disclosed herein are systems for rendering an immersive environment, the systems comprising at least one electronic device configured to be coupled to a body part of a user, the at least one electronic device comprising a sensor, an actuator, or both; a processor capable of being communicatively coupled to the at least one electronic device; and a rendering device capable of being communicatively coupled to the processor. The processor is configured to execute machine-executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to obtain data from or provide data to the at least one electronic device. The rendering device is configured to receive rendering information from the processor, and render the immersive environment based at least in part on the rendering information from the processor.
US11195336B2
An augmented reality system associates a plurality of services with an augmented reality application that is executing on an augmented reality device. The system receives sensor data obtained by the augmented reality device, and causes the plurality of services to process the data. The system generates an event based on the processing of the received data by the services, and sends the event to the augmented reality device. The augmented reality device generates an augmented reality display based at least in part on the event.
US11195331B2
A neural network may be used to determine corner points of a skewed polygon (e.g., as displacement values to anchor box corner points) that accurately delineate a region in an image that defines a parking space. Further, the neural network may output confidence values predicting likelihoods that corner points of an anchor box correspond to an entrance to the parking spot. The confidence values may be used to select a subset of the corner points of the anchor box and/or skewed polygon in order to define the entrance to the parking spot. A minimum aggregate distance between corner points of a skewed polygon predicted using the CNN(s) and ground truth corner points of a parking spot may be used simplify a determination as to whether an anchor box should be used as a positive sample for training.
US11195321B2
An information processing apparatus includes a first detection unit configured to detect a first object located on a first direction side of a refracting surface from an image obtained by an imaging apparatus located on the first direction side, a second detection unit configured to detect a second object located on a second direction side of the refracting surface from an image obtained by an imaging apparatus located on the second direction side, an obtaining unit configured to obtain position information indicating at least either one of a positional relationship between the first and second objects and positions of the first and second objects, and an identification unit configured to identify positions of the plurality of imaging apparatuses in a common coordinate system, based on a result of detection performed by the first detection unit, a result of detection performed by the second detection unit, and the position information.
US11195320B2
An artificial reality system includes a head mounted display (HMD) and a physical overlay engine that generates overlay image data, referred to herein as a physical overlay image, corresponding to the physical objects in a three-dimensional (3D) environment. In response to an activation condition, a rendering engine of the artificial reality system renders the overlay image data to overlay artificial reality content for display on the HMD, thereby apprising a user of the HMD of their position with respect to the physical objects in the 3D environment.
US11195310B2
The present disclosure relates to image reconstruction with favorable properties in terms of noise reduction, spatial resolution, detail preservation and computational complexity. The disclosed techniques may include some or all of: a first-pass reconstruction, a simplified datafit term, and/or a deep learning denoiser. In various implementations, the disclosed technique is portable to different CT platforms, such as by incorporating a first-pass reconstruction step.
US11195307B2
Aspects of the present invention include an apparatus including a memory storing instructions, and a control unit configured to execute the instructions to detect an image of an object of interest within an image of real space, detect an orientation of the real space object image with respect to a real space user perspective, generate a modified image comprising an image of a modified object, corresponding to the real space object, such that an orientation of the modified object image corresponds to a desired user perspective, and display the modified image.
US11195301B1
There is provided a method of computing head pose of a subject in a 2D image, comprising: analyzing the image to identify a first nostril, a second nostril, a medial eye substructure of a first and a second eye, and a lateral eye substructure of the first and the second eye, computing a median nostril point between the first and second nostrils, computing a horizontal line that connects the lateral eye substructures of the first and second eyes, computing a vertical axis line that is orthogonal to the horizontal line and passes through a median eye point between the medial eye substructures of the first and second eyes, computing an offset distance between the vertical axis line and the median nostril point, and computing an indication of an estimated yaw angle of the head pose of the subject based on the offset distance.
US11195290B2
An apparatus and method are provided and include an interface unit configured to receive an electrical signal based on light received from a camera; and at least one processor configured to obtain depth information of a scene based on the electrical signal received from the interface unit, wherein the at least one processor is configured to identify a recognition pattern corresponding to the light received by the camera based on the electrical signal, to obtain a total distance value between properties of a partial source pattern corresponding to a target fragment in the source pattern and properties of a partial recognition pattern corresponding to the target fragment in the recognition pattern, and to estimate depth information of the target fragment based on the obtained total distance value.
US11195278B2
A computing system (118) includes a computer readable storage medium (122) with computer executable instructions (124), including a including a biophysical simulator (126) with a segmentor (202) and a boundary condition determiner (206). The computing system further includes a processor (120) configured to execute the biophysical simulator to compute a fractional flow reserve index with cardiac imaging data and at least one of an adapted coronary tree segmentation and an adapted boundary condition.
US11195275B2
Methods to induce non-rigid mesh transformation in-variance to CNN based medical imaging classifiers
Embodiments of the present systems and methods may provide techniques that are applicable to a variety of imaging modalities and that utilize prior knowledge of the dynamics of a physiological system to analytically generate augmented samples for machine learning. For example, in an embodiment, a method implemented in a computer comprising a processor, memory accessible by the processor, and computer program instructions stored in the memory and executable by the processor, the method may comprise generating a transform for an image of tissue based on deformation of the tissue under compression, obtaining an image of tissue using an imaging modality, and generating an output image by transforming the image of the tissue using the transform.
US11195274B2
There is provided a method of computing at least one slide-level tissue type for a tissue image of tissue extracted from a patient, comprising: receiving a tissue image of a slide including tissue extracted from the patient, segmenting tissue objects of the tissue image, creating a tissue image patches from the segmented tissue objects of the tissue image, classifying, by a patch-level classifier, each of the plurality of tissue image patches into at least one patch-level tissue type, wherein each of the classified tissue image patches is associated with a relative location within the tissue image, analyzing, by a slide-level analysis code, the classified at least one patch-level tissue type and associated relative location for each of the plurality of tissue image patches outputted by the patch-level classifier, for computing at least one slide-level tissue type for the tissue image, and providing the at least one slide-level tissue type.
US11195271B2
Methods and systems of analyzing images of a retina captured by an Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) scanner are disclosed. The methods and systems use a processor configured to implement a series of instructions that include creating a training set of images of a retina of a patient captured by an OCT scanner including labeled regions of diffuse intraretinal fluid (DIRF) such as by assessing maximum and minimum regions of DIRF and regions of pathology of the retina to generate a model, and analyzing the DIRF region or regions of pathology by the model to derive an assessment of the retina of the patient. The assessment of the retina enables, for instance, the treatment of the patient's retina to be evaluated and determined.
US11195266B2
Disclosed is a method for planning screw locking path using an ant colony algorithm, which includes: obtaining designated positions of screw holes to be locked; using a distance between the screw holes to be locked as pheromone; obtaining a set of initial paths for all lockings; determining whether a condition for ending an iteration is met, and the condition is whether all the locking paths have passed through all the designated positions; if the condition for ending the iteration is not met, obtaining a supplementary path for each locking path to form an entire path of each locking path until the condition for ending the iteration is met; taking a set of entire paths of all the locking paths as a set of final paths; obtaining a shortest path from the set of final paths.
US11195263B2
A method and system for selecting an image acquisition device. The method may include obtaining a set of device parameter corresponding to at least one image acquisition device. Each device parameter may correspond to an image acquisition device. The device parameters may include a pixel size, and a focal length. The method may include, for each image acquisition device, determining one or more first evaluation values of a target region based at least on the device parameter of the image acquisition device. Each first evaluation value may correspond to a first installation parameter of the image acquisition device. The method may include designating the image acquisition device as a target image acquisition device in response to a determination that at least one first evaluation value is greater than or equal to an evaluation value threshold. And the method may further include determining at least one target installation parameter of the target image acquisition device from the at least one the first installation parameter corresponding to the at least one first evaluation value which is greater than or equal to the evaluation value threshold.
US11195262B2
A method for identifying a body region in a medical image includes obtaining a medical image including a number of consecutive bio-section images, inputting the medical image into a preset machine learning model to obtain a numerical value for each of the bio-section images corresponding to the body region to which the bio-section image belongs, determining whether the numerical values of the medical image are abnormal, adjusting the numerical values when the numerical values are abnormal, determining the body region corresponding to the numerical values or the adjusted numerical values, and labeling the body region in the medical image and outputting the labeled medical image. The bio-section images are cross-sectional images of a living body.
US11195254B2
An interframe registration and adaptive step size-based non-uniformity correction method for an infrared image, comprising: first calculating a normalized cross-power spectrum of n-th and (n−1)-th original infrared images with the non-uniformity, and then calculating a horizontal relative displacement and a vertical relative displacement of the n-th and (n−1)-th original infrared images with the non-uniformity; calculating a space variance and a time variance of each pixel of the n-th original infrared image with the non-uniformity, using the obtained space variance and time variance to calculate an adaptive iterative step size of each pixel of the n-th original infrared image with the non-uniformity, and using the iterative step size to update a gain correction coefficient and a bias correction coefficient; finally, performing non-uniformity correction on the pixel in an overlapping area of the n-th and (n−1)-th original infrared images with the non-uniformity.
US11195247B1
An electronic image capture device captures a first image of a scene at a first time. A first local tone mapping operator for a first portion of the first image is determined. The electronic image capture device further captures a second image of the scene at a second time. A motion of the electronic device between the first time and the second time is determined. A second local tone mapping operator for a second portion of the second image is determined. The second portion is determined to correspond to the first portion based, at least in part, on the determined motion of the electronic device. The second local tone mapping operator is determined based, at least in part, on the first local tone mapping operator. At least the second local tone mapping operator is applied to the second portion of the second image.
US11195239B2
Systems and methods for market-based financial settlement in an electric power grid are disclosed. At least one active grid element is constructed and configured in network communication with a settlement processor. The at least one active grid element participates in the electric power grid by consuming power, supplying power, and/or curtailing power to provide operating reserves and/or grid stability for the electric power grid. The at least one active grid element generates at least one kilowatt packet (KWP) unit based upon measured data for the participation in the electric power grid. The at least one active grid element transmits at least one IP-based settlement message to the settlement processor. The settlement processor provides a market-based financial settlement for the participation of the at least one active grid element based on the at least one KWP unit in real time or near real time.
US11195237B2
Among other things, embodiments of the present disclosure improve the functionality of electronic messaging and imaging software and systems by determining the current activities of users based on location sensor information from the users' computing devices and generating customized media content items based on their activities. The media content can be generated for a variety of topics and shared with other users. For example, media content (e.g., images or video) can be generated and displayed on a user's computing device, as well as transmitted to other users via electronic communications, such as short message service (SMS) or multimedia service (MMS) texts and emails.
US11195229B1
An information processing and display system includes a first database storing milestones associated with an approval process. A computing system is configured to access the first database and estimate start dates for the milestones. A risk of delay is determined for the milestones based on information associated with the approval process, and first adjusted start dates are estimated based on the determined risk of delay. Alternative actions associated with the determined risk of delay are determined, and second adjusted start dates based on the alternative actions are estimated. The computer generates a display of the first adjusted start dates, the alternative actions, and the second adjusted start dates.
US11195227B2
The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer implemented methods for visual search, discovery, and attribution in e-commerce systems. One example method includes receiving an image to be used as a basis for a visual search. At least one clothing item in the image and a determined clothing type for each clothing item are identified. A highlighted image is generated that includes highlights of the identified at least one clothing item and determined clothing types. The highlighted image is provided. A selection of a selected clothing item on the highlighted image is received. In response to receiving the selection of the selected clothing item, a visual search is performed that includes searching a clothing item repository to find similar clothing items that are visually similar to the selected clothing item. Information for the similar clothing items is provided in response to the selection of the selected clothing item.
US11195217B2
Systems and methods of evaluating a third-party participant for inclusion in a networked environment are disclosed. A plurality of features representative of a third-party participant are received and at least one pairwise feature score is calculated for a first feature and a second feature selected from the plurality of features. The third-party participant is classified into one of a plurality of predetermined categories by a trained model based on the at least one pairwise feature score.
US11195216B2
A system includes a federated marketplace portal to allow a user to browse, order, and manage business services offered by a plurality of cloud marketplaces based at least in part on application programming interface (API) abstractions. The system includes an integration system to transform the API abstractions into product-specific APIs used by the cloud marketplaces and cause the invocation of the product-specific APIs.
US11195212B1
Systems, methods and computer readable products are provided for enabling dynamic loading of one or more digital image branding functions associated with one or more distribution rules. A distribution rule is used to target a group of end users that are selected from a dataset mapping a plurality of end-users according to one or more distribution rules. Instructions are forwarded to present an indication the digital image branding function to each member of the end users group.
US11195206B2
Methods for providing contextual information about communication devices and/or services. Profile information indicating a user's communication devices and/or services is stored. When profile information or a message log is displayed, the user may identify a communication device and/or service. A query inquires whether the user would like contextual information. The contextual information may be obtained from a gateway in a data network or a telecommunications manager in a telecommunication network. The contextual information is displayed. Profile information about a user's communicating partner may be stored. When the user makes an effort to communicate with the partner, a check may be made of the partner's profile information for a preferred communication device and/or service. If the user does not have a communication device and/or service corresponding to that of the communicating partner, a query may inquire whether the user would like contextual information. If so, the contextual information is presented.
US11195203B2
Systems and methods for predicting an outcome for a marketing asset. The systems and methods comprise first determining by a computing device, for a marketing asset received by the computing device, at least one asset type of the marketing asset. The marketing asset is parsed, by the computing device, into a plurality of segmented components, based on the determined at least one asset type. For at least one of the plurality of segmented components, at least one discrete marketing message conveyed by the marketing asset is determined, by applying at least one of a predictive model or rules to the at least one segmented component, where the at least one predictive model or rules are stored in a memory associated with the computing device. The method further includes determining, for each of the at least one discrete marketing message, at least one associated score. The method yet further includes inputting the determined at least one associated score to a trained predictive model to obtain a predicted marketing outcome, where the trained predictive model was trained using training scores associated with a multitude of training discrete marketing messages as independent variables and corresponding training marketing outcome data as dependent variables.
US11195196B2
A valid combination of products is constructed from a set of products identified by a retailing backend system. The valid combination satisfies a condition of an offer. A product in the combination of product is a physical product located in a physical store. A social sentiment towards the product in social media data of a shopper is evaluated, and a rating of the product is computed using the evaluation. A location of the product in the store is obtained from the retailing backend system. The location of the product is overlaid on a view of the store, where the view is from a perspective of a location of the shopper, the shopper being physically situated in the store.
US11195192B2
A computing system can generate data for rendering an interactive graphical user interface, allow a user to input transaction parameters, receive a vehicle identifier associated with an individual, determine that an existing vehicle is at a service location, and provide an indication that the first individual is a qualifying individual and that the existing vehicle is at the service location.
US11195188B2
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for identifying users, records, and/or devices using anonymous source data records associated with consumer activity are described. In general, the consumer activity may relate to consumer interactions with devices and/or content or data through devices. The source data records may be structured, such as associating the source data records with a sequential timeline. Behavioral markers may be generated by the matching system and associated with the source data records. Each behavioral marker may be analyzed across all of the source data records to determine the effectiveness of the behavioral marker to identify unique source data records. One or more of the behavioral markers may be used to generate a behavioral fingerprint. A behavioral fingerprint may be used to identify unique records, devices, and/or users, including identification based on different sets of source data records.
US11195174B2
Example embodiments of systems and methods for data transmission between a contactless card and a client device in support of a FIDO authentication are provided. In an embodiment, upon receipt of a challenge issued by a server in connection with a pending transaction, the contactless card may authorize the client device to utilize a FIDO private key to respond to the challenge. If the response to the challenge is successful, the FIDO authentication may proceed and the transaction may be completed.
US11195171B2
A method includes receiving, by a server, a data transmission of video content destined for a data storage device. The method includes generating, by the server, a content signature by application of a wavelet transform to a plurality of frames of a time sequence of frames of the video content. The method includes selecting, by the server based on content metadata for the video content, particular prohibited content signatures from a plurality of prohibited content signatures. Each prohibited content signature of the particular prohibited content signatures corresponds to a wavelet transform of a plurality of frames of prohibited content. The method also includes, in response to a first determination that a first prohibited content signature of the particular prohibited content signatures matches the content signature, preventing transmission of the video content from the server to the data storage device.
US11195169B1
A digital wallet may be accessed via a plugin on a browser. The digital wallet may store account information pertaining to various accounts of a user. The account information may be related to funding sources, reward programs, loyalty programs, retailers and other merchants, driver license information, voter registration information, government agencies, etc. The user may drag and drop account information from the digital wallet via the plugin to a checkout page or the plugin may automatically recognize and populate a checkout page. In an implementation, the plugin may select a funding source based on rules, such as use one funding source for payment of less than a predetermined amount and use another funding source for payment of at least the predetermined amount.
US11195168B2
A financial transaction may include utilizing a POS system to generate a unique one-time digital code that identifies the financial transaction, forwarding the unique digital code and a store identifying code that identifies the specific POS system, generating transaction data, transmitting the transaction data, the unique digital code, the store identifying code, and account information associated with the POS system from the POS system to a payment system via a first digital network path, transmitting the unique digital code, the store identifying code, and account information associated with a user of the mobile device from the mobile device to the payment system via a second digital network path, and determining whether the unique digital code and store identifying code transmitted via the first digital network path match the unique digital code and store identifying code transmitted via the second digital network path.
US11195165B2
Provided is a process of classifying ambient signals to reduce fraudulent use of information, the process including: receiving, with the mobile computing device, from a remote server, balance-access information by which a stored value card balance can be spent at a point of sale terminal; storing, with the mobile computing device, the balance-access information; sensing, with one or more sensors of a mobile computing device, ambient signals; classifying the ambient signals as indicating the user is in a retail establishment; and in response to the classification, displaying, on a display screen of the mobile computing device, the balance-access information, such that the balance-access information can be input to a point-of-sale terminal.
US11195163B2
A soft card provisioning application is instantiated on a device with wireless communications capabilities. A card number for a soft card desired to be provisioned on the device is obtained from a user of the device. An issuer identification number retrieved from the card number is communicated to a provisioning configuration server over an air interface. A provisioning issuer server network address is obtained from the provisioning configuration server based on the issuer identification number. Card issuer specific challenges are presented to the user, and the user's responses to the challenges are received. The challenge responses are communicated to the provisioning issuer server. Soft card image data and personalization data, where the personalization data includes personalized embossed and pre-printed data, are received from the provisioning issuer server over the air interface. The soft card is provisioned for use on the device based on the data received over the air interface.
US11195154B2
Method, device, computer program and apparatus are disclosed for: receiving by a first node from a second node a request for a resource controlled by a first node; and determining by the first node whether the request is authorized; wherein the determining includes: receiving from the second node a cryptocurrency transaction message indicative of a payment; and verifying credibility of the cryptocurrency transaction message.
US11195147B2
A method for checking fixed assets of an enterprise which may be in various locations include receiving a checking task sent by the server, and obtaining fixed assets information by reading an identification tag of a plurality of fixed assets by a tag reading device of one or more mobile terminals. The method further can include obtaining an result of checking the fixed assets by checking the plurality of fixed assets according to the fixed assets information and the checking task, determining whether the result of checking the fixed assets is normal, and sending the result of checking the fixed assets to the server when the result of checking the fixed assets is normal.
US11195130B2
A graphical workflow definition and management tool enables administrators and other authorized users to implement a workflow process that can be used to evaluate project submissions or other applications that require step-by-step process completion. The steps required to navigate through the workflow are first defined. Inputs, outputs, and actions, including conditional criteria, can be specified for the steps. The flow of control between the individual steps in the workflow is mapped out; changes to the status of a project submission can cause a submission to migrate to a succeeding step in the workflow. A “sandbox” testing environment allows changes to any aspect of the workflow to be safely evaluated without affecting live data. Conflicts between production and test workflows are identified and intelligently resolved.
US11195126B2
Efficiency improvements for electronic task managers and an improved user experience are realized when more relevant and fewer irrelevant tasks are presented to users and users are given greater control in manipulating those task items. By heuristically determining times, locations, and semantics associated with task relevance and integrating the management of tasks into more applications, the functionality of the systems providing for electronic task management is improved, as computer resources are spent with greater utility to the users and the user experience is improved for the users.
US11195116B2
A computer-implemented method includes employing a dynamic Boltzmann machine (DyBM) to solve a maximum likelihood of generalized normal distribution (GND) of time-series datasets. The method further includes acquiring the time-series datasets transmitted from a source node to a destination node of a neural network including a plurality of nodes, learning, by the processor, a time-series generative model based on the GND with eligibility traces, and, performing, by the processor, online updating of internal parameters of the GND based on a gradient update to predict updated times-series datasets generated from non-Gaussian distributions.
US11195115B2
A method of predicting a format of a file includes calculating a quotient vector storing a list of values in slots. Each slot of the quotient vector and binary vector correspond to a character of a set of distinct characters based on an order. Each value in the quotient vector indicates a frequency with which the corresponding distinct character is found relative to the set of distinct characters found in a file. The method also includes calculating, based on comparing each value in the quotient vector to a threshold, a binary vector storing a list of values in slots. The method further includes predicting, based on the binary vector, a format of the file.
US11195112B2
According to embodiments, methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for receiving one or more input compositions comprising one or more materials, assigning a material vector to each material, learning, for each of the input compositions, a composition vector based on the material vectors of the materials that form each composition, assigning predicted rating values having a confidence level to each of the composition vectors, selecting a composition to be rated based on the confidence levels, presenting the selected composition to be rated to a user, receiving a user rating for the composition to be rated; adjusting the predicted rating values and confidence levels of the composition vectors that have not been rated by the user, and generating a predictive model to predict a user's ratings for compositions when confidence levels of each composition vector is above a predetermined threshold value.
US11195109B2
A below-ground agricultural biological performance modeling approach in precision agriculture combines customized field modeling with machine learning techniques for environmental matching of variables to describe a below-surface soil state, to understand and predict the performance of soil-active agricultural biological products such as bio-pesticides, bio-stimulants, plant growth regulators, and other biologically-derives soil adjuvants. The modeling approach characterizes the influence of environmental relationships on the performance of such soil-active agricultural biological products to develop a suite of predictive models to provide notifications, advisories, and recommendations for appropriate products for individual fields.
US11195105B2
A method and an apparatus are provided for predicting the temporal course of a power requirement in a housing development comprising a plurality of power consumers and a common power supply that is subject to a temporally variable tariff. A prediction of the power consumption of the housing development for a future time period is continuously updated, each prediction of the power consumption using data of detected load profiles of the housing development in the time period having, a current prediction for the future time period being calculated on the basis of a previous prediction and a previously detected load profile The predictions and the detected load profiles are assigned characteristic variables, the predictions of which are known and which have an influence on the load profiles, and a current prediction for the future time period being calculated on the basis of a previous prediction and a previously detected load profile, each having the same characteristic variables.
US11195099B2
A content review system for an online system automatically determines if received content items to be displayed to users violate any policies of the online system. The content review system generates a semantic vector representing the semantic features of a content item, for example, using a neural network. By comparing the semantic vector for the content item with semantic vectors of content items previously determined to violate one or more policies, the content review system determines whether the content item also violates one or more policies. The content review system may also maintain templates corresponding to portions of semantic vectors shared by multiple content items. An analysis of historical content items that conform to the template is performed to determine a probability that received content items that conform to the template violate a policy.
US11195087B2
A neuromorphic device having a synapse array is provided. The synapse array of the neuromorphic device may include an input neuron; an output neuron; and a synapse. The synapse may include a plurality of ferroelectric field effect transistors electrically connected to each other in parallel.
US11195079B2
In one embodiment, a processor comprises a first neuro-synaptic core comprising first circuitry to configure the first neuro-synaptic core as a neuron core responsive to a first value specified by a configuration parameter; and configure the first neuro-synaptic core as a synapse core responsive to a second value specified by the configuration parameter.
US11195075B2
The disclosure includes a transaction card comprising a card body having a slot. A first portion of the slot is formed at a first angle, and a third portion of the slot is formed at a third angle. A card body may be fabricated by positioning the card body at a first angle with respect to a cutter, creating a first portion of a slot at the first angle by at least one of translating the card body across the cutter or translating the cutter across the card body, stopping the translating of the card body, rotating the card body to a third angle to create a second portion of the slot; and creating a third portion of the slot at the third angle by at least one of translating the card body across the cutter or translating the cutter across the card body.
US11195072B1
A method for streaming sensor data from a set of radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags includes determining an initial communication approach to be performed with respect to each RFID tag. The method also includes managing access to the RFID tag by refining the initial communication approach based on records of successes and failures of the initial communication approach. A radio-frequency identification (RFID) system is also disclosed, the system comprising one or more processors and a memory system comprising one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing instructions that, when executed by at least one of the one or more processors, causes the system to perform operations for streaming sensor data from one or more RFID tags to one or more RFID readers.
US11195071B2
An image forming apparatus is configured to form and output a printed material obtained by printing image information on a printing medium. The image forming apparatus includes processing circuitry configured to acquire designation information for designating an output state of the image information; detect orientation in which the printed material is to be output, and form an output state image based on the detected orientation in which the printed material is to be output and the designation information, the output state image representing an output state of the printed material and being to be displayed on a display.
US11195065B2
A calibration system includes a processing circuit configured to receive data corresponding to a first image where the data includes information corresponding to a 2D BEV of a scene, and to receive data corresponding to a second image where the data includes information corresponding to a 2D image of the scene. The processing circuit may determine a salient feature in the first image or the second image, and project, based on a first calibration setting, the salient feature from the first image to the second image or vice versa. The processing circuit may select a region corresponding to the projected salient feature in the first image or the second image, determine an identity of the salient feature, and determine a second calibration setting based on the identity of the salient feature and the selected region corresponding to the salient feature in the 2D BEV and the 2D image.
US11195059B2
According to one embodiment, a signal data processing apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry obtains first signal data of a plurality of frames that are in time series, selects a processing target frame among the frames and a reference frame that is similar to the processing target frame, inputs the first signal data of the processing target frame and the first signal data of the reference frame to the machine learning model, and outputs second signal data in which a deficient part of the first signal data corresponding to the processing target frame is reduced.
US11195057B2
Specification covers new algorithms, methods, and systems for: Artificial Intelligence; the first application of General-AI. (versus Specific, Vertical, or Narrow-AI) (as humans can do) (which also includes Explainable-AI or XAI); addition of reasoning, inference, and cognitive layers/engines to learning module/engine/layer; soft computing; Information Principle; Stratification; Incremental Enlargement Principle; deep-level/detailed recognition, e.g., image recognition (e.g., for action, gesture, emotion, expression, biometrics, fingerprint, tilted or partial-face, OCR, relationship, position, pattern, and object); Big Data analytics; machine learning; crowd-sourcing; classification; clustering; SVM; similarity measures; Enhanced Boltzmann Machines; Enhanced Convolutional Neural Networks; optimization; search engine; ranking; semantic web; context analysis; question-answering system; soft, fuzzy, or un-sharp boundaries/impreciseness/ambiguities/fuzziness in class or set, e.g., for language analysis; Natural Language Processing (NLP); Computing-with-Words (CWW); parsing; machine translation; music, sound, speech, or speaker recognition; video search and analysis (e.g., “intelligent tracking”, with detailed recognition); image annotation; image or color correction; data reliability; Z-Number; Z-Web; Z-Factor; rules engine; playing games; control system; autonomous vehicles or drones; self-diagnosis and self-repair robots; system diagnosis; medical diagnosis/images; genetics; drug discovery; biomedicine; data mining; event prediction; financial forecasting (e.g., for stocks); economics; risk assessment; fraud detection (e.g., for cryptocurrency); e-mail management; database management; indexing and join operation; memory management; data compression; event-centric social network; social behavior; drone/satellite vision/navigation; smart city/home/appliances/IoT; and Image Ad and Referral Networks, for e-commerce, e.g., 3D shoe recognition, from any view angle.
US11195053B2
A computer architecture for artificial image generation is disclosed. According to some aspects, a computing machine receives a voxel model of a target object. The target object is to be recognized using an image recognizer. The computing machine generates, based on the voxel model, a set of TSB (target shadow background-mask) images of the target object. The computing machine receives, at an auto-encoder, a set of real images of the target object. The computing machine generates, using an auto-encoder and based on the set of real images, one or more artificial images of the target object based on the set of TSB images. The computing machine provides, as output, the generated one or more artificial images of the target object.
US11195050B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-readable storage media, for machine learning to generate and evaluate visualizations. In some implementations, a system determines properties of a dataset. The system generates visualization specifications that each define a different visualization for the dataset, wherein the visualization specifications specify different subsets of the dataset being illustrated with different visualization formats. The system evaluates the visualization specifications using a machine learning model trained based on user feedback for visualizations for multiple datasets. The system selects a subset of the visualization specifications based on output of the machine learning model. The system provides, for display, visualization data for the subset of visualization specifications that were selected based on the output of the machine learning model.
US11195047B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for an active lighting system. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a first image of the physical document having a first glare signature and a second image of the physical document having a second glare signature that is different from the first glare signature; determining a first glare map of the first image and a second glare map of the second image; comparing the first glare map to the second glare map; and generating the digital image based on the comparison of the first and second glare maps.
US11195041B2
Methods and apparatus related to generating a model for an object encountered by a robot in its environment, where the object is one that the robot is unable to recognize utilizing existing models associated with the robot. The model is generated based on vision sensor data that captures the object from multiple vantages and that is captured by a vision sensor associated with the robot, such as a vision sensor coupled to the robot. The model may be provided for use by the robot in detecting the object and/or for use in estimating the pose of the object.
US11195031B2
A method of determining the boundary of a driveable space in a scene around a vehicle, comprises capturing a first colour image of the scene, computing a set of histograms of oriented gradients, for instance using a HOG algorithm, each histogram corresponding to a cell in a set of cells, assigning an entropy value to the cell by computing the entropy of the histogram for the cell, dividing the image into bins in a way that corresponds to a rectangular grid in the real world, and calculating an overall entropy value for each bin from the entropy values for the cells in the bin and an overall colour characteristic value for each bin. The entropy value and colour characteristic value for each bin are fed into a classifier that is configured to classify regions of the image corresponding to each bin as regions likely to be driveable space or that are not likely to be driveable space, from which the boundary is derived.
US11195027B2
Methods and systems to crowd source road related information. The crowd sourced road related information may include lane-specific data related to a lane-level police presence and/or a disabled roadside vehicle presence. The crowd sourced road related information may include lane-level vehicle spacing information. The communication of the lane-specific data to a crowd sourced road condition server may occur automatically in one mode and may occur only after confirmation from a user in another mode.
US11195024B1
Provided are embodiments including a computer-implemented method for performing recognition. The computer-implemented method includes receiving video data, and performing, at a pre-attention prediction module, a pre-attention prediction for the video data to generate first prediction priors. The computer-implemented method also includes receiving, at a dual attention module, data including the video data and data from the pre-attention prediction to generate attention maps, wherein the attention maps indicate a region of interest of a frame of the video data, wherein the dual attention module generates enhanced feature representations, and performing, at a post-attention prediction module, a post-attention prediction from data from the dual attention module based at least in part on the enhanced feature representation. Also provided are embodiments for a system and a computer program produce for performing recognition.
US11195018B1
Disclosed are augmented reality (AR) personalization systems to enable a user to edit and personalize presentations of real-world typography in real-time. The AR personalization system captures an image depicting a physical location via a camera coupled to a client device. For example, the client device may include a mobile device that includes a camera configured to record and display images (e.g., photos, videos) in real-time. The AR personalization system causes display of the image at the client device, and scans the image to detect occurrences of typography within the image (e.g., signs, billboards, posters, graffiti).
US11195013B2
A double attention network (DANet)-based drone patrol and inspection system for coastline floating garbage, including: an image acquisition module configured to shoot a video of a coastline in need of patrol and inspection by using a drone, and obtain an image from the video; a feature extraction module configured to extract shallow features and deep features, fuse the shallow features and the deep features to obtain a shared feature, and finally output a panoramic recognition result; a network training module configured to perform training on the labeled image so that the network can recognize the coastline and floating garbage; and a path correction module configured to adjust a flying direction of the drone.
US11194998B2
An intelligent assistant records speech spoken by a first user and determines a self-selection score for the first user. The intelligent assistant sends the self-selection score to another intelligent assistant, and receives a remote-selection score for the first user from the other intelligent assistant. The intelligent assistant compares the self-selection score to the remote-selection score. If the self-selection score is greater than the remote-selection score, the intelligent assistant responds to the first user and blocks subsequent responses to all other users until a disengagement metric of the first user exceeds a blocking threshold. If the self-selection score is less than the remote-selection score, the intelligent assistant does not respond to the first user.
US11194988B2
Provided are an optical fingerprint apparatus and an electronic device, applied to an electronic device having a display screen, where the optical fingerprint apparatus is configured to be disposed under the display screen, and the optical fingerprint apparatus includes: an optical fingerprint chip, where the optical fingerprint chip is configured to receive a fingerprint light signal returned from a finger above the display screen, and the fingerprint light signal is used to obtain a fingerprint image of the finger; and a light blocking layer formed on an upper surface of an edge region of the optical fingerprint chip, where the light blocking layer partially blocks the edge region of the optical fingerprint chip and does not block a sensing region of the optical fingerprint chip, and the light blocking layer is configured to block interference light entering the sensing region from the edge region of the optical fingerprint chip.
US11194982B2
Implementations of the present application provide a QR code positioning method and apparatus. Based on a predetermined pixel detection rule, centers of candidate position detection patterns in the QR code image are determined from a QR code image that includes first-type pixels and second-type pixels. The predetermined pixel detection rule includes that a consecutive arrangement ratio of the first-type pixels, the second-type pixels, and the first-type pixels satisfies a predetermined ratio. The candidate position detection patterns are identified based on the centers of the candidate position detection patterns. A set of patterns that satisfies a QR code image positioning rule are determined from the candidate position detection patterns. The set of patterns are used as position detection patterns of the QR code image.
US11194975B2
An electronic device executing an application through communication with a user input apparatus, the electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes: a communication unit that is configured to communicate with the user input apparatus; an information generation unit that generates information about an exclusive controller that controls the application and is executed in the user input apparatus; and a controller that controls the information generation unit to generate the information about the exclusive controller when the electronic device is paired with the user input apparatus, and controls the communication unit to transmit the generated information about the exclusive controller to the user input apparatus.
US11194974B2
A computer-implemented method and system are provided for teaching syntax for training a neural network based natural language inference model. The method includes selectively performing, by the hardware processor, person reversal on a set of hypothesis sentences, based on person reversal prevention criteria, to obtain a first training data set. The method further includes enhancing, by the hardware processor, a robustness of the neural network based natural language inference model to syntax changes by training the neural network based natural language inference model on original training data combined with the first data set.
US11194972B1
Disclosed is a semantic sentiment analysis method fusing in-depth features and time sequence models, including: converting a text into a uniformly formatted matrix of word vectors; extracting local semantic emotional text features and contextual semantic emotional text features from the matrix of word vectors; weighting the local semantic emotional text features and the contextual semantic emotional text features by using an attention mechanism to generate fused semantic emotional text features; connecting the local semantic emotional text features, the contextual semantic emotional text features and the fused semantic emotional text features to generate global semantic emotional text features; and performing final text emotional semantic analysis and recognition by using a softmax classifier and taking the global semantic emotional text features as input.
US11194967B2
A method for providing unsupervised entity resolution to a natural language processing system includes receiving a named entity for training from the natural language processing system, searching a corpus for a first undisambiguated named entity corresponding to the named entity, identifying a plurality of disambiguated named entities corresponding to the first undisambiguated named entity, identifying a plurality of aliases for each of the disambiguated named entities, training a classifier for the each of the disambiguated named entities utilizing the aliases identified for respective ones of the disambiguated named entities using the corpus, and resolving the named entity using the classifier, wherein resolving the named entity comprises selecting one of the disambiguated named entities from among the disambiguated named entities and returning, automatically, the selected disambiguated named entity to the natural language processing system.
US11194965B2
A keyword extraction method is provided. In the method, a candidate keyword set in a target text is obtained by processing circuitry of a server. An extraction degree of the candidate keyword is determined by the processing circuitry based on subject similarity and a text conversion frequency of a candidate keyword in the candidate keyword set. The subject similarity is between the candidate keyword and the target text. The extraction degree indicates a probability at which the candidate keyword used as a keyword matching the target text is extracted. The keyword is extracted by the processing circuitry from the candidate keyword set according to the extraction degree.
US11194964B2
Text suggestions are generated. A document is received, and a portion score for at least one portion of the document is generated. A global assessment score for at least two portions of the document is also generated. A variation between the portion score and the global assessment score is calculated. It is determined that the variation is above a threshold variation, and at least one text change suggestion is generated.
US11194961B2
In a hosted computing environment a web server receives a document history graph. The web server performs a hash function, providing the document history graph as input to the hash function, the hash function providing a hash value as output. A blockchain services interface in the hosted computing environment generates a blockchain block that includes the hash value in a block payload hash field and the document history graph in a block payload field in the blockchain block. A blockchain consensus manager proposes adding the blockchain block to a private blockchain and receives an indication of consensus A block validator adds the blockchain block to the private blockchain responsive to consensus.
US11194959B1
An example method and system for providing smart assistance in unused table space. A smart table assistance framework identifies table information of a table being presented on a table area of a display device. The table information comprises a set of table functions offered by the table and a table size, where the table size includes a table width of the presented table and a total columns' width of columns presented in the table. The framework determines a size of free space available inside the table based on the table width and the total columns' width. The smart table assistance framework determines whether smart guidance preconditions have been met based on the set of table functions and the free space size. In response to determining that the preconditions have been met, a smart guidance of a set of smart guidances is added to the free space available inside the table.
US11194956B2
Interactive natural language processing (NLP) results may be generated that allow a user to interact with the NLP results but do so in an offline manner so that the documents being processed need not be stored online. To provide interactive NLP results, event handlers may be attached to elements of the NLP results. A user may then select a word or phrase of the NLP results to cause computer software provided with the NLP to present the interactive features. For example, a user may click on a definite noun phrase to view information for diagnosing antecedent basis errors. For another example, a user may click on a word to view information about how that word is used in a document, such as viewing portions of the document that include the word or variants of the word.
US11194951B1
A computing system implementing an optical proximity correction model verification tool can determine parameters for design patterns associated with an integrated circuit described in a layer file, and determine differences between the design patterns and calibration patterns utilized to calibrate an optical proximity correction (OPC) model configured to predict a printed image on a substrate corresponding to a layout design for the integrated circuit by determining distances between the determined parameters for the design patterns and parameters for the calibration patterns. The computing system can classify the design patterns with a modeling capability of the OPC model for the design patterns based on the differences between design patterns and the calibration patterns and possibly error rates of the OPC model associated with the calibration patterns or lithographic difficulty of the calibration patterns. The computing system can modify the layer file to include the classifications of the design patterns.
US11194943B2
A hardware emulation system for emulating an integrated circuit design under test (DUT) includes a switch system, FPGAs and serial transmitter and receiver circuitry. The switch system has input and output ports and is configurable to change which ports are connected to each other. The FPGAs are configurable to emulate a functionality of the DUT. The functionality of the DUT is partitioned across multiple FPGAs. The serial transmitter circuitry transmits data from the FPGAs on serial lines to the ports of the switch system. The serial receiver circuitry receives data for the FPGAs on serial lines from the ports of the switch system.
US11194942B1
An emulation processor may be configured to support emulating unknown binary logic based on non-arbitrariness of the unknown binary logic. For example, an unknown binary logic signal may take the finite binary values of 0 and 1. The circuitry in the emulation processor is configured to generate and propagate outputs based on the interactions of known input binary signals with the unknown input binary signals having non-arbitrary states. The emulation processor may support the both combinational and sequential operations associated with the unknown binary logic.
US11194933B2
The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods to protect against SCA and fault injection attacks through the use of a temporary or ephemeral key to cryptographically alter input data portions. Universal resistant block (URB) circuitry receives a seed data value and a at least one secret key data value and generates an ephemeral key output data value. Cryptographic circuitry uses the ephemeral key data value to transform an input data portion to produce an transformed output data portion. The use of an SCA or fault injection attack on the transformed output data portion will reveal only the ephemeral key data value and not the at least one secret key data value. Further, where a unique ephemeral key data value is used to transform each input data portion, an attacker cannot discover the ephemeral key in a piecemeal manner and must instead discover the complete ephemeral key data value—significantly increasing the difficulty of performing a successful SCA or fault injection attack.
US11194929B2
Big data analytics is being used by many market participants. PII (Personally Identifiable Information) (e.g., age, race, social security number, address, etc.) plays a vital role in providing user-centric services. Many IT companies collect, store and process PII of their customers by means of various mobile applications. The example embodiments may explain how collective permission gathering through multiple Android applications by same publishers can disclose user's PII by using two new PII risk factors, and determine total risk factor for PII.
US11194924B2
A system includes profile control circuitry that may receive a sovereign onboarding command. The sovereign onboarding command may be issued on behalf of a sovereign associated with a profile. The sovereign onboarding command may update a status value in the profile. The profile may be recorded on a data-tamper-protected distributed ledger. Arbitration circuitry may review the recorded profile status value and ensure that status values are enforced against the sovereign during exchanges.
US11194921B2
Data masking is provided by, for at least one predetermined data item in data to be sent, applying a one-way function to that data item to produce a first value, producing a masked data item by encrypting the first value via a deterministic encryption scheme using a current encryption key for a current epoch, and replacing that data item by the masked data item. A data-provider computer sends the masked data to the data-user computer. On expiry of the current epoch, the data-provider computer generates a new encryption key for the encryption scheme in a new epoch, produces mask-update data, dependent on the current and new encryption keys, and sends the mask-update data to the data-user computer. The mask-update data permits updating, at the data-user computer, of masked data items produced with the current encryption key into masked data items produced with the new encryption key.
US11194907B2
An information processing apparatus including at least one device, and circuitry to perform at least one process using the at least one device, which controls access to each device from each process based on access restriction information for setting an access restriction to each device from each process, acquires diagnostic information from each device, detects an abnormal access to a particular device from a particular process based on the diagnostic information, and modifies the access restriction information to prohibit access to the particular device from the particular process when the abnormal access is detected.
US11194905B2
A network-accessible cyber-threat security analytics service is configured to characterize and respond to a description that includes threat indicators (e.g., IOCs), and an initial severity. Enterprises register with the service by providing identifying information, such as industry, geographies, and the like. For each threat indicator, a query is sent to each of a set of one or more security knowledge bases, and at least some of the queries are scoped by the enterprise industry/geo information specified. The knowledge bases may vary but typically include: a managed security service, a cyber threat intelligence service, and a federated search engine that searches across one or more enterprise-connected data sources. Responses to the queries are collected. A response provides an indication whether the threat indicator identified in the query has been sighted in the knowledge base and the frequency. The system then adjusts the initial severity to reflect the indications returned from querying the security knowledge bases.
US11194904B2
Taking security actions based on monitored computer and user physical activities includes using sensors of a computer system to identify physical activity being performed by a user of the computer system, monitoring computer system activity being performed by the computer system as the user performs the identified physical activity, determining whether the identified physical activity being performed by the user is associated with input to the computer system to cause the computer system activity being performed by the computer system, and performing processing based on determining that the identified physical activity is not associated with input to cause the computer system activity, the processing including automatically performing security measure(s) on the computer system.
US11194900B2
Trampoline and return-oriented programming attacks employ a variety of techniques to maliciously execute instructions on a device in a manner different from a legitimate programmer's original intent. By instrumenting a device to detect deviations from predicted behavior, these exploits can be identified and mitigated.
US11194894B2
An electronic apparatus for authenticating a user thereof based on a face angle, a rotational angle of the electronic apparatus, a difference value between the face angle and the rotational angle and a modified face image.
US11194892B2
The invention provides a computer-implemented authentication method comprising the step of enabling a user to input an identifier (e.g. a PIN) into an electronic device having a screen and a keypad operable within a keypad zone of the screen; by operating at least one key of the keypad via an image of at least part of a scrambled keypad which is displayed at least partially within the keypad zone. The user's operation of the keypad key via the image generates an encoded version of the user's intended input. In one sense the invention can be perceived as superimposing a non-functional image of a scrambled keyboard over an underlying, functional keypad. The image may be any type of electronic image, and may include a video image. The invention is particularly suited for use with, but not limited to, mobile phones, tablet computer, PCs etc. It can be implemented in any system wherein a user's identity must be verified before access is granted to a controlled resource.
US11194884B2
A method for facilitating identification of navigation regions in a web page based on document object model (DOM) analysis is provided. In one embodiment, the method includes analyzing the web page for features. The features include at least one of: interactive elements, content regions, link region roots, or landmarks. The method also includes representing the features in a tree structure and analyzing the tree structure for a link density to identify non-main landmarks, a reading order, and main content roots. The method further includes enabling a region navigation for the web page based on the identified non-main landmarks, reading order, and main content roots.
US11194880B2
Detecting selection of disabled inner links within nested content techniques are described herein. In one or more implementations, a document comprising nested content is displayed on a display of a computing device. The nested content is obtained from a third-party source and includes one or more disabled inner links to respective target portions within the nested content. A disabled link service monitors an address associated with the third-party source of the nested content to detect an address change corresponding to a user selection of one of the disabled inner links within the nested content. Responsive to detecting the address change, a respective target portion of the nested content associated with the selected inner link is located by scanning the nested content. The document is then scrolled to cause display of the target portion of the nested content on the display of the computing device.
US11194878B2
A method and a system for ranking a document in response to a query, the document having no value for a given feature with respect to the query. A set of documents relevant to the query is generated. The document is selected, and a set of past queries having presented the document as a search result are retrieved. Respective values for the given feature for the document with respect to the set of past queries are retrieved. A respective similarity parameter is determined between the query and each of the set of past queries. The value of the given feature for the document is generated based at least in part on the respective similarity parameter and the respective value for the given feature of at least one past query. The set of documents including the document is ranked based in part on the given feature.
US11194877B2
In an example the output of a machine learned model is a score is then compared to a threshold, and if the score transgresses the threshold, the corresponding item is available to be recommended to the user via the graphical user interface. In an example embodiment, rather than a fixed (static) threshold, a dynamic threshold is utilized. This dynamic threshold is based on a harmonic mean of probabilities utilized in the GLMix model. Specifically, the GLMix model may calculate and utilize the probability that a user will engage with a particular item via a graphical user interface, and also a probability that a user will dismiss a particular item via a graphical user interface.
US11194876B2
A method, system and computer program storage device to assist users interacting with message threads on social media. In an embodiment, the method comprises monitoring a message thread comprised of messages among a group of users on a social media platform for content that is inflammatory to one of the users; and when the inflammatory content has a defined condition, preventing the one of the users from posting messages to the message thread for a specified length of time. In an embodiment the defined condition is a defined level of the inflammatory content in the thread. In an embodiment, the defined condition is a defined increasing trend of the inflammatory content in the thread. In an embodiment, the monitoring the thread includes categorizing potentially inflammatory content into a plurality of categories, and specifying an inflammatory content level for each of the categories.
US11194871B2
To find enriching contextual information for an abbreviated domain name, a data enrichment engine can comb through web content source code corresponding to the abbreviated domain name. From textual content in the web content source code, the data enrichment engine can identify words with initial characters that match characters of the abbreviated domain name to thereby establish a relationship there-between. This relationship can facilitate more accurate and efficient domain name classification. The data enrichment engine can query a WHOIS server to find out if candidate domains having initial characters that match the characters of the abbreviated domain name are registered to the same entity. If so, keywords can be extracted from the candidate domains and used to find more relevant domains for domain risk analysis and detection. Candidate domains determined by the data enrichment engine can be provided to a downstream computing facility such as a domain filter.
US11194868B1
In one aspect, a method includes receiving a query, identifying search results in response to the query, grouping the search results into one or more clusters, identifying similarities across the one or more clusters, determining a related topic associated with the query based on the similarities of the one or more clusters, determining a categories associated with the query, identifying supplemental information based on the related topic and the category, and providing the search results and the supplemental information for display in response to the query.
US11194867B2
System, method, and apparatus for providing and using a centralized Link Metadata System to identify if navigational links are pop-out links, is provided. The present invention offers a Link Metadata System, available on the Internet, of metadata associated with any given, specific Internet domain and URL or URI path combination. Software browsing user agents on remote window servers are then configured with the ability to request metadata from the Link Metadata System indicating that a link is a pop-out link. Upon receiving metadata, the user agent determines whether to perform navigation as normal or perform the pop-out link functionality of reloading the remote client web browser's top level container with the content provided at the link's destination URL or URI.
US11194865B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods are provided for identifying a corresponding string stored in memory based on an incomplete input string. A system can analyze and produce phonetic and distance metrics for a plurality of strings stored in memory by comparing the plurality of strings to an incomplete input string. These similarity metrics can be used as the input to a machine learning model, which can quickly and accurately provide a classification. This classification can be used to identify a string stored in memory that corresponds to the incomplete input string.
US11194853B2
Annotation of large image datasets is provided. In various embodiments, a plurality of medical images is received. At least one collection is formed containing a subset of the plurality of medical images. One or more image from the at least one collection is provided to each of a plurality of remote users. An annotation template is provided to each of the plurality of remote users. Annotations for the one or more image are received from each of the plurality of remote users. The annotations and the plurality of medical images are stored together.
US11194852B2
Annotation of large image datasets is provided. In various embodiments, a plurality of medical images is received. At least one collection is formed containing a subset of the plurality of medical images. One or more image from the at least one collection is provided to each of a plurality of remote users. An annotation template is provided to each of the plurality of remote users. Annotations for the one or more image are received from each of the plurality of remote users. The annotations and the plurality of medical images are stored together.
US11194832B2
Provided is a method and system for normalizing catalog item data to create higher quality search results. In one example, the method may include receiving a record comprising an unstructured description of an object, identifying a type of the object from among a plurality of object types and identifying a predefined attribute of the identified type of object, extracting a value from the unstructured description corresponding to the predefined attribute and modifying the extracted value to generate a normalized attribute value, and storing a structured record of the object in a structured format comprising a plurality of values of a plurality of attributes of the object from the unstructured description including the normalized attribute value for the predefined attribute of the object.
US11194819B2
A feature importance score for a target machine learning feature of a target machine learning model used in a multistage feed ranking system for scoring feed items is supplemented with a feature computing resource cost. The feature computing resource cost represents the cost of using the target feature in the target model in terms of computing resources such as CPU, memory, network resources, etc. A tradeoff between feature importance and feature computing resource cost can be made to decide whether to have the target machine learning model use or not use the target machine learning feature in production, thereby improving the production multistage feed item ranking system and solving the technical problem of determining which machine learning features of a machine learning model represent the best tradeoff between feature importance and feature computing resource cost.
US11194804B2
A system for an index search engine includes a first non-volatile memory having a set of partitions. One partition includes one search array file having one or more search array records. The system also includes a second non-volatile memory having an index structure. The index structure includes a four-memory level configuration. Each memory level has a specified memory length. An entry in each memory level of first three levels contains a value pointing to a starting address of immediate next memory level. An entry in the fourth memory level contains a data value including an indexed field value of one of the search array records.
US11194795B2
Systems, methods, and devices for automated maintenance of external tables in database systems are disclosed. A method includes receiving, by a database platform, read access to content in an external data storage platform that is separate from the database platform. The method includes defining an external table based on the content in the external data storage platform. The method includes connecting the database platform to the external table such that the database platform has read access for the external table and does not have write access for the external table. The method includes generating metadata for the external table, the metadata comprising information about data stored in the external table. The method includes receiving a notification that a modification has been made to the content in the external data storage platform, the modification comprising one or more of an addition of a file, a deletion of a file, or an update to a file in a source location for the external table. The method includes refreshing the metadata for the external table in response to the modification being made to the content in the external data storage platform.
US11194793B1
A descriptor of a dynamically materialized view is stored. The descriptor includes a query to select a subset of cells from a data sheet, and a result of executing the query. In response to an update directed to the data sheet, the result stored in the descriptor is modified based on re-executing the query, and a notification is transmitted to an execution platform at which an application whose output depends on the dynamically materialized view runs.
US11194790B1
Various embodiments are directed to a federated network and database platform that is configured to sequence client write events occurring among several autonomous software applications. The federated network and database platform includes a client event sequencing server that is configured to receive a migration corpus of client write events from at least one software application server and assign a back-date time stamp to each client write event of the migration corpus. Upon receiving a new client write event associated with the software application, the client event sequencing server is configured to assign a current time stamp to the new client write event and store the new client write event to a client event sequencing database in a manner that positions the new client write event relative to the back-dated migration corpus of client write events.
US11194789B2
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for storing an object onto a first or second page. An embodiment operates by receiving the object and determining that the first page has sufficient unused space for storing at least one byte of the object. Thereafter, a data block of the object is created to comprise at least one byte of the object. The data block is then stored on the first page or the second page, and a location of the object's first data block is recorded. Thereafter, a pointer corresponding to the location of the object's first data block for loading the object is provided.
US11194786B2
The subject matter of this specification generally relates to reconciling conflicts between replicas of data. In one aspect, a system obtains a first document that includes a first replica of an object used by an application at a first device and a second document that includes a second replica of the object used by the application at a second device. The system generates a merged document from the first document and the second document. The system determines that the first value for the first key was modified at the first device at a later time than the first value for the first key was modified at the second device. In response, the system includes, in the merged document, the first value for the first key in the first document and, for each descendant element of the first element, a value for the descendant element's key in the first document.
US11194785B2
A self-learning, self-healing database-management system determines that erroneous input, such as an improper SQL query, has caused a critical database condition. The system parses each input statement into a set of tokens, and then translates each set into lines of a failure script. The script is consolidated by cross-referencing each line to infer relationships between input statements. The system then searches historical database logs for previously entered, error-free input similar to the erroneous input. A degree of similarity between the erroneous input and each previously entered input is determined by a computational method that quantifies similarities between the failure script and each script generated from a previously entered input. The system revises the erroneous input to more closely match the most-similar previously entered input and resubmits the corrected input. The results of the resubmission are used to train the system to more accurately correct future input errors.
US11194779B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for generating and manipulating an index for a table in a database. A query statement is received, the table of lines are searched, a result list is generated, and an index for the query statement is generated, wherein the index comprises information associated with the result list and the query condition. The query condition and the identifier of the table is extracted from the query statement, where the index is generated based on the query condition, the identifier of the table, and the result list. A hash value of the identifier of the table and the query condition is obtained, an association between the hash value and the result list to build the index is generated, and in response to a line of the plurality of lines in the table being modified, the index identified as invalid.
US11194762B2
Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with indexing spatial data in a distributed file system are described. A query window defining a portion of a spatial data space is received, and candidate partitions containing the spatial data within the query window are identified. An intermediate partition dataset comprising each of the identified candidate partitions is created. Execution of a distributed function is limited to the identified candidate partitions, and a data structure including at least one record included in the result of the query is generated, and returned as the result of the query over a communication network.
US11194761B2
Systems and methods to optimize utilization of a tablespace for export from a native database recovery environment are described. The system receives a database from a source host, operating in a native database recovery environment, at a backup host operating in a foreign database recovery environment. The foreign database recovery environment utilizes foreign snapshot files and foreign incremental files for storing the database. The system receives a tablespace identifier that identifies a tablespace and a point-in-time that identifies file information for export from the backup host to the source host. The backup host initiates a job to generate script information; create directories; materialize the file information; utilize an auxiliary database to generate tablespace metadata information; and communicate the tablespace metadata information and the script information and the file information, via the directories, and over a network, to the source host, to enable the source host to recover the tablespace.
US11194755B2
A method for providing multi-tenancy support for RDMA in a system that includes a plurality of physical hosts. Each physical host hosts a set of data compute nodes (DCNs). The method, at an RDMA protocol stack of the first host, receives a packet that includes a request from a first DCN hosted on a first host for RDMA data transfer from a second DCN hosted on a second host. The method sends a set of parameters of an overlay network that are associated with the first DCN to an RDMA physical network interface controller of the first host. The set of parameters are used by the RDMA physical NIC to encapsulate the packet with an RDMA data transfer header and an overlay network header by using the set of parameters of the overlay network to transfer the encapsulated packet to the second physical host using the overlay network.
US11194750B2
A processing device to perform operations including detecting a first host system connected to a first interface port of the plurality of interface ports of the memory device, the first host system is one of a plurality of host systems. Detecting a second host system connected to a second interface port of the plurality of interface ports, the second host system is one of the plurality of host systems. Assigning a first subset of a plurality of virtual functions (VF)s associated with the memory device to the first host system using root input/output virtualization (SR-IOV) and assigning a second subset of the plurality of VFs to the second host system using SR-IOV. Allocating a first corresponding range of logical block addresses (LBA) to each VF of the first subset of VFs and allocating a second corresponding range of LBAs to each VF of the second subset of VFs.
US11194736B2
A memory controller may include a map cache configured to store one or more of a plurality of map data sub-segments respectively corresponding to a plurality of sub-areas included in each of the plurality of areas, and a map data manager configured to generate information about a map data sub-segment to be provided to a host and which is determined based on a read count for the memory device, and generate information about a map data segment to be deleted from the host and which is determined based on the read count for the memory device and a memory of the host.
US11194732B2
A memory controller for controlling a memory device including a plurality of pages is provided. The memory controller comprises: an input data controller configured to receive data to be stored in a page selected from among the plurality of pages; a sequence information generator configured to generate sequence information indicating a sequential order of a program operation of storing the data in the first page based on sequential orders of program operations performed before the program operation; and a write operation controller configured to control the memory device to store the data in a first area of the first page and to store history information in a second area of the first page, wherein the history information includes a physical address of the first page and the sequence information corresponding to the data.
US11194710B2
A Solid State Drive (SSD) is disclosed. The SSD may include flash memory to store data. An SSD controller may manage reading and writing data to the flash memory. The SSD may include an automatic stream detection logic to select a stream identifier responsive to attributes of data. A garbage collection logic may select an erase block and program valid data in the erase block into a second block responsive to a stream ID determined the automatic stream detection logic. The stream ID may be determined after the garbage collection logic has selected the erase block for garbage collection.
US11194708B2
The present disclosure includes apparatuses, methods, and systems for data relocation in memory having two portions of data. An embodiment includes a memory having a plurality of physical blocks of memory cells, and a first and second portion of data having a first and second, respectively, number of logical block addresses associated therewith. Two of the plurality of physical blocks of cells do not have data stored therein. Circuitry is configured to relocate the data of the first portion that is associated with one of the first number of logical block addresses to one of the two physical blocks of cells that don't have data stored therein, and relocate the data of the second portion that is associated with one of the second number of logical block addresses to the other one of the two physical blocks of cells that don't have data stored therein.
US11194707B2
Systems and methods of building massively parallel computing systems using low power computing complexes in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. A massively parallel computing system in accordance with one embodiment of the invention includes at least one Solid State Blade configured to communicate via a high performance network fabric. In addition, each Solid State Blade includes a processor configured to communicate with a plurality of low power computing complexes interconnected by a router, and each low power computing complex includes at least one general processing core, an accelerator, an I/O interface, and cache memory and is configured to communicate with non-volatile solid state memory.
US11194702B2
A system includes a memory storing program versions in a program history and a processor in communication with the memory. The processor is configured to store program components of a version of a program in a first directory associated with the version and select first and second candidate versions of the program from the program history to compare to a test version of the program. The processor is also configured to compare the first and second candidate versions to the test version, estimate an amount of work to regenerate the program from each of the candidate versions, and select the candidate version associated with a lesser amount of work. Additionally, the processor is configured to regenerate the program using components from the selected candidate version to create a regenerated program, store components of the regenerated program in a second directory associated with test version, and test the regenerated program.
US11194698B1
Apparatuses, systems, methods, and computer program products are presented for multi-platform testing automation. A method includes electrically triggering, with a rotate command, at least one mechanical actuator to rotate a frame to successively present different faces of the frame to a camera of a mobile hardware device. A method includes simulating one or more touch input events on a mobile hardware device for each successively presented different face of a frame. At least one mechanical actuator and a mobile hardware device are disposed within an enclosure that comprises a light source. A method includes receiving data associated with simulated one or more touch input events and a camera of a mobile hardware device from the mobile hardware device over a data network.
US11194687B2
Provided is a controller for controlling a memory device. The controller may include a media scanner suitable for performing a media scan operation of reading a predetermined size of data from the memory device in a predetermined cycle, detecting an error of the read data, generating corrected data of the read data, and storing the corrected data in the memory device, a period calculator suitable for calculating a power-off period, and a media scan controller suitable for changing the predetermined cycle according to the power-off period.
US11194678B2
A method and apparatus for performing node information exchange management of an all flash array (AFA) server are provided. The method may include: utilizing a hardware manager module among multiple program modules running on any node of multiple nodes of the AFA server to control multiple hardware components in a hardware layer of the any node, for establishing a Board Management Controller (BMC) path between the any node and a remote node among the multiple nodes; utilizing at least two communications paths to exchange respective node information of the any node and the remote node, to control a high availability (HA) architecture of the AFA server according to the respective node information of the any node and the remote node, for continuously providing a service to a user of the AFA server; and in response to malfunction of any communications path, utilizing remaining communications path(s) to exchange the node information.
US11194668B1
A method for backup across redundant removable media includes the steps of selecting a current portion of a database to add to a backup collection. The backup collection includes N units of the removable media. N is an integer greater than two. Generating a backup file of a current file in the database using a K-of-N coding process. K is an integer less than N. The backup file has N parts. The current file may be recovered from any K parts among the N parts. Determining if less than N−K+1 backups of the current file exist in the backup collection. Writing a subset of the current file to a current unit of the N units in response to the backup collection having less than the N−K+1 backups. Writing a current part among the N parts of the backup file to the current unit.
US11194666B2
Time addressable storage in a content addressable storage system includes providing a log volume having an index and a journal. For each snapshot, an identifier is entered in the index and a corresponding journal offset is increased. For each write transaction received for a volume, an aspect includes recording a time, address, and hash handle as entries in the journal. Upon receiving a point in time (PIT) for one of the volumes, an aspect includes identifying a most recent snapshot (S) created before the PIT, taking a snapshot (S′) of snapshot (S), identifying a journal corresponding to the snapshot (S) in the index, and reviewing entries of the identified journal up to the PIT. An aspect further includes updating the snapshot (S′) with a corresponding hash handle for each address appearing in the entries until all write transactions before the PIT are contained in the snapshot (S′).
US11194651B2
A method, apparatus, and system for handling a failure of a hardware cryptography/compression accelerator is disclosed. The operations comprise: detecting that a hardware cryptography/compression accelerator at a first data storage system has failed; determining one or more failed cryptography and/or compression operation tasks that were submitted to the hardware cryptography/compression accelerator but were not completed due to the failure of the hardware cryptography/compression accelerator; and performing a remedial operation in response to the hardware cryptography/compression accelerator failure to prevent a systemic failure.
US11194646B2
Read operations can be performed to read data stored at a data block. Parameters reflective of a separation between a pair of programming distributions associated with the data block can be determined based on the plurality of read operations. A read request to read the data stored at the data block can be received. In response to receiving the read request, a read operation can be performed to read the data stored at the data block based on the parameters that are reflective of the separation between the pair of programming distributions associated with the data block.
US11194641B2
Embodiments of this application relate to the field of communications technologies, and disclose an application programming interface (API) topology hiding method, a device, and a system, to hide, from an API invoker, an API exposing function (AEF) that provides an API. The method includes: receiving, by a common API framework core function (CCF) from a topology hiding request entity, a request message that includes information about an API and that is used to request to hide an AEF that provides the API; determining, based on the request message, a topology hiding entry point used by an API invoker to invoke the API; and sending, to the topology hiding entry point, an identifier of the API and an identifier of the AEF that provides the API, so that the topology hiding entry point hides the AEF that provides the API.
US11194640B2
Provided is a validation framework for modelling possible failures that might occur when an orchestrated transaction calls external services to ensure that error handling and reporting is robust and well designed. The disclosed techniques ensure that no changes are necessary to either the code making a call or the services that might be called. The techniques are not limited to web servers and REST APIs as they may be used to test and validate any kind of system that employs well defined APIs. The claimed subject matter, or “validation framework” may be added to an existing API or created as a new module that acts as a proxy server in a non-micro service type of system. Although described with respect to a gateway-API service, the claimed subject matter is equally applicable to other systems that process orchestrated transactions.
US11194637B2
A system and method (referred to as a systems) builds alert packages that deliver messages to end-users analyzes inbound message data and identifies inbound event data objects. The systems store the inbound event data objects that are removed based on assigned priority values from a first multielement data structure. The systems process the inbound event data objects based on the assigned priority values through a cluster of event analyzer engines connected in parallel and identify the inbound event data objects associated with pre-designated notification alerts through a cluster of event analyzer engines connected in parallel. The systems store the inbound event data objects associated with the pre-designated notification alerts within a another instance of the multielement data structure. The system creates alert packages through a cluster of alert builder engines and enables and disable the processors that make up the event analyzer and alert builder engines.
US11194634B2
In some examples, thermal aware optimization logic determines a characteristic (e.g., a workload or type) of a wavefront (e.g., multiple threads). For example, the characteristic indicates whether the wavefront is compute intensive, memory intensive, mixed, and/or another type of wavefront. The thermal aware optimization logic determines temperature information for one or more compute units (CUs) in one or more processing cores. The temperature information includes predictive thermal information indicating expected temperatures corresponding to the one or more CUs and historical thermal information indicating current or past thermal temperatures of at least a portion of a graphics processing unit (GPU). The logic selects the one or more compute units to process the plurality of threads based on the determined characteristic and the temperature information. The logic provides instructions to the selected subset of the plurality of CUs to execute the wavefront.
US11194630B2
Shuffling of into partitions by first grouping input vertices of a limited number. Each group of input vertices may then be simply shuffled into a corresponding group of intermediate vertices, such as by broadcasting. A second grouping occurs in which the intermediate vertices are grouped by partition. The intermediate vertices then shuffle into corresponding output vertices for the respective partitions of that group. If the intermediate vertices are still too large, then this shuffling may involve recursively performing the shuffling just described, until ultimately the number of intermediate vertices shuffling into the output vertices is likewise limited. Thus, the final shuffling into the output vertices might also be simply performed by broadcasting.
US11194628B2
An approach is provided for providing disaster recovery, active/active and active/standby workload allocation in a networked computing environment according to aspects of the present invention. Risk factor data is obtained for each component of a plurality of components in a global data center. A resiliency score is calculated for each component of the plurality of components based on a set of risk factors that are applicable to the component gathered from the risk factor data. A set of group resiliency scores are computed by aggregating the resiliency scores for each of the plurality of components included in a component group. In response to a determination that an application's performance can be improved, a datacenter is selected for failover protection based on a group resiliency score corresponding to the datacenter. Moreover, the overall enterprise resiliency score can be improved by moving an application between sites in the enterprise.
US11194623B2
A resource scheduling method and a related resource scheduling apparatus to improve data input/output (I/O) efficiency, where the method includes determining a current task queue, where the current task queue includes a plurality of to-be-executed application tasks, determining, for data blocks on a disk to be accessed by the application tasks, a quantity of times that each data block is to be accessed by the application tasks, determining a hotspot data block according to the quantity of times that each data block is to be accessed by the application tasks, and sending a move-in instruction to a local node of the hotspot data block, where the move-in instruction instructs to move the hotspot data block into a memory such that the hotspot data block can be accessed in the memory.
US11194618B2
This accelerator control device includes: a decision unit which, in processing flow information representing a flow by which a task generated according to a program executed by an accelerator processes data, decides, from among the data, temporary data temporarily generated during execution of a program; a determination unit which, on the basis of an execution status of the task by the accelerator and the processing flow information, determines, for every task using the decided data among the temporary data, whether or not execution of the task has been completed; and a deletion unit which deletes the decided data stored in a memory of the accelerator when execution of every task using the decided data has been completed, whereby, degradation, of processing performance by an accelerator, which occurs when a size of data to be processed by the accelerator is large is avoided.
US11194610B2
Some embodiments provide novel methods for performing services for machines operating in one or more datacenters. For instance, for a group of related guest machines (e.g., a group of tenant machines), some embodiments define two different forwarding planes: (1) a guest forwarding plane and (2) a service forwarding plane. The guest forwarding plane connects to the machines in the group and performs L2 and/or L3 forwarding for these machines. The service forwarding plane (1) connects to the service nodes that perform services on data messages sent to and from these machines, and (2) forwards these data messages to the service nodes. In some embodiments, the guest machines do not connect directly with the service forwarding plane. For instance, in some embodiments, each forwarding plane connects to a machine or service node through a port that receives data messages from, or supplies data messages to, the machine or service node. In such embodiments, the service forwarding plane does not have a port that directly receives data messages from, or supplies data messages to, any guest machine. Instead, in some such embodiments, data associated with a guest machine is routed to a port proxy module executing on the same host computer, and this other module has a service plane port. This port proxy module in some embodiments indirectly can connect more than one guest machine on the same host to the service plane (i.e., can serve as the port proxy module for more than one guest machine on the same host).
US11194604B2
Systems and methods are provided for assigning and associating resources in a cloud computing environment. Virtual machines in the cloud computing environment can be assigned or associated with pools corresponding to users as dedicated, standby, or preemptible machines. The various states provide users with the ability to reserve a desired level of resources while also allowing the operator of the cloud computing environment to increase resource utilization.
US11194603B2
According to embodiments of the disclosure, a UE, a server, a control method of the UE, and a control method of the server may be provided to efficiently use storage space of the UE by performing AOT compilation based on the usage frequency of an application and function by a user and managing the AOT compiled machine code.
US11194591B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to loading software resources for execution by a software application. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US11194582B2
A cache system having cache sets, and the cache sets having a first cache set configured to provide a first physical output upon a cache hit and a second cache set configured to provide a second physical output upon a cache hit. The cache system also has a control register and a mapping circuit coupled to the control register to map respective physical outputs of the cache sets to a first logical cache and a second logical cache according to a state of the control register. The first logical cache can be a normal or main cache for non-speculative executions by a processor and the second logical cache can be a shadow cache for speculative executions by the processor.
US11194577B2
Apparatus for processing data (2) includes issue circuitry (22) for issuing program instructions (processing operations) to execute either within real time execution circuitry (32) or non real time execution circuitry (24, 26, 28, 30). Registers within a register file (18) are marked as non real time dependent registers if they are allocated to store a data value which is to be written by an uncompleted program instruction issued to the non real time execution circuitry and not yet completed. Issue policy control circuitry (42) responds to a trigger event to enter a real time issue policy mode to control the issue circuitry (22) to issue candidate processing operations (such as program instruction, micro-operations, architecturally triggered processing operations etc.) to one of the non real time execution circuitry or the real time execution circuitry in dependence upon whether that candidate processing operation reads a register marked as a non real time dependent register.
US11194567B1
A method, system, and program product are provided for updating software deployed on computers in an enterprise computer network wherein each computer has a software update agent installed to enable the computer to receive software patch updates. The method includes determining a required software component and updates; determining a version of the agent and updating the agent if required; selecting a server from which required updates are to be downloaded; scanning a plurality of software components on a selected computer and comparing the components with updates available on the server to determine required updates; downloading the required patches from the server; and installing the patches on the selected computer. The system includes components that perform the method steps when operated on a computer in the network. A computer readable medium implements the method for updating software deployed on computers in a network.
US11194560B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a system for preparing servers for service over a network, where the servers include out of band management cards. The system may include a processor, a database of server configuration information, and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations. The operations can include establishing a secure hypertext transport protocol session over the network with the out of band management card for the server to mount and execute a preinstall image that performs an installation, without any specific network configuration, and where the installation is performed without deploying an agent. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11194555B2
An example operation includes one or more of receiving a smart contract code by an analyzer node, building, by the analyzer node, a control flow-graph comprising a plurality of basic code blocks based on the smart contract code, computing, by the analyzer node, a read and write set for each of the basic code blocks from the plurality of the basic code blocks, and determining, by the analyzer node, at least two basic code blocks from the plurality of the basic code blocks that may be executed in parallel.
US11194552B1
Systems and methods are described for graphical user interfaces that enable users to graphically design nodes and interconnections of pipelines for preprocessing data later ingested into an indexing system. The preprocessing can include receiving messages published to a first publish-subscribe messaging system, the messages containing raw machine data generated by one or more components in an information technology environment, performing one or more processing operations on at least some of the messages to generate preprocessed messages, republishing the preprocessed messages to a second publish-subscribe messaging system, and providing to the indexing system, a subset of the messages from the second publish-subscribe messaging system. Nodes in the pipeline can specify the preprocessing operations, and interconnections in the pipeline can represent data flow through the nodes of the pipeline.
US11194551B2
A method for configuring a first computer executable program includes through a user interface, receiving information indicative of a source of data and a data target; and receiving a characterization of a process, including a type of the process and values for characteristics associated with the process. The method includes based on the received information, automatically assigning values to respective parameters of the first computer executable program to cause the first computer executable program to, when executed, receive data from the source of data and output data to the data target. The method includes automatically configuring the first computer executable program to reference a second computer executable program, including identifying the second computer executable program based on the type of the process; and assigning values to respective parameters of the second computer executable program based on the values for the respective characteristics.
US11194547B2
Electronic device includes display, microphone, and processor configured to activate voice input function based on user input, display graphic representation for indicating that the voice input function is activated, provide, on the display, a text display area for displaying text inputted by a plurality of user input methods and a keyboard input interface for receiving a user keyboard input, the plurality of user input methods including user keyboard input method and user voice input method, receive, via the keyboard input interface, the user keyboard input corresponding to a first text, display the first text in the text display area based on receiving the user keyboard input, receive user voice input corresponding to a second text while the keyboard input interface is provided and the voice input function is activated, and display the second text next to the first text in the text display area based on the user voice input.
US11194545B2
The electronic device according to an embodiment may receive a first user input including a first request for performing a first task requiring one or more first parameters for execution, to transmit first data associated with the first user input through the communication circuit to a server including an intelligence system providing a sequence of action states for the electronic device performing at least one task using the at least one application program, to receive the first sequence of the action states for performing the first task, from the server through the communication circuit, to perform not all but part of the first sequence of the action states, based at least on the first user input, and to transmit second data associated with an action state of the electronic device caused from the performing of the part of the first sequence, to the server through the communication circuit.
US11194538B2
An image management system includes a reception unit and transmission unit. The reception unit receives, from a first communication terminal, link information that is transmitted from the image management system and is managed in a link information management system. The transmission unit transmits, to the first communication terminal, a view script and image data corresponding to the link information. The image data is received from a second communication terminal.
US11194534B2
A control method for an information processing apparatus which is able to operate in any one of a plurality of states including a first state in which the information processing apparatus performs communication according to a predetermined communication method using a first number of antennas and a second state in which the information processing apparatus performs communication according to the predetermined communication method using a second number of antennas, the second number being less than the first number, includes causing the information processing apparatus to operate in a state that is based on at least one of information which is received from a communication apparatus capable of performing communication according to the predetermined communication method, a state of the communication apparatus, and a state of the information processing apparatus, out of the plurality of states.
US11194529B2
An image forming apparatus, an information processing apparatus, a printing system, a method of controlling the same, and a storage medium. An image forming apparatus authenticates a user, transmits a request for a list of print jobs, and receives a list of print jobs transmitted in response to the request. The image forming apparatus displays on a display unit the list of print jobs received in the receiving, and in the displaying, a list of the print jobs, for which a user name of the user authenticated in the authenticating and a job owner name of the print job match, and a list of print jobs for which a job owner name is unknown is displayed.
US11194525B2
A method of controlling a PC setting a first IP address for a printer having a network segment different from a network segment of the PC, the method including: setting a second IP address for the PC, searching for the printer having an IP address before a change by communication using the second IP address and transmitting a network setting command including the first IP address to the searched printer to set the first IP address, generating a third IP address having a network segment identical to a network segment of the first IP address set for the printer, setting the generated third IP address for the PC, and transmitting a printer setting command to the printer using the third IP address.
US11194513B2
A memory device having an improved booting speed includes: a memory cell array, and a control logic configured to set a memory block as one of a special block for storing special information and a user block for storing user data and configured to store data in a memory block in response to commands from a memory controller, wherein the control logic comprises: a control signal generator configured to generate a special information read signal for reading plural pieces of special information stored in at least two special blocks among the plurality of memory blocks, in response to a special information read command provided by the memory controller, a special information merger configured to read the plural pieces of special information in response to the special information read signal, and a special information storage configured to store the read plural pieces of special information as merged special information.
US11194510B2
A storage device and a method of operating a storage device including a non-volatile memory. The method includes selecting a first task from among a plurality of tasks queued in a task queue of the storage device; determining whether a mode of the first task is identical to a mode of a previously-executed task; and determining an execution order of the first task according to a result of determination. The modes and the region addresses of tasks may be utilized to group tasks to permit interleaving of programming data.
US11194500B2
One or more techniques and/or computing devices are provided for resilient replication of storage operations. For example, a first storage controller may host first storage having a replication relationship with second storage hosted by a second storage controller. To improve resiliency against transient network issues of a network between the storage controllers, the first storage controller may implement a queue and retry mechanism to retry replication operations not acknowledge back by the second storage controller within a threshold time. The second storage controller may maintain a cumulative sequence number of a latest replication operation performed in order, an operation response map of replication operations performed out of order, and an operation finder map identifying currently implemented replication operations, which may be used to process incoming replication operations. Single write semantics, write order consistency, and reduction of write amplification may be provided.
US11194499B2
Example implementations described herein are directed to management of a first storage system for an on-premise system and a second storage system for a public cloud system. Such example implementations can involve, responsive to an update to one or more of a plurality of snapshot volumes in the first storage system, updating first shared page information stored in the first storage system according to the update to the one or more snapshot volumes, the first shared page information indicative of pages shared between the plurality of snapshot volumes in the first storage system; transmitting instructions to the second storage system to copy the updates to the one or more snapshot volumes from the first shared page information to a second shared page information stored in the second storage system; and executing read or write operations made to the second storage system based on the second shared page information.
US11194492B2
An information management system is provided herein that uses machine learning (ML) to predict what data to store in a secondary storage device and/or when to perform the storage. For example, a client computing device can be initially configured to store data in a secondary storage device according to one or more storage policies. A media agent in the information management system can monitor data usage on the client computing device, using the data usage data to train a data storage ML model. The data storage ML model may be trained such that the model predicts what data to store in a secondary storage device and/or when to perform the storage. The client computing device can then be configured to use the trained data storage ML model in place of the storage polic(ies) to determine which data to store in a secondary storage device and/or when to perform the storage.
US11194491B2
A semiconductor device for achieving consistency of data is provided. The process performed by the semiconductor device includes a step of compressing data to generate compression information representing compressed data and the amount of information, a step of accessing management data for controlling access to a memory area, a step of permitting writing to a memory area in units of a predetermined data size based on the fact that the management data indicates that the accessed area is not exclusively allocated to another compression/expansion module, a step of writing data to update management data, a step of permitting reading from the area in units of the data size based on the fact that the management data indicates that the accessed area is not exclusively owned to another compression/expansion module, and a step of reading the compressed data and the compressed information from the area in units of the data size.
US11194488B2
A memory system includes: a plurality of nonvolatile memories; a controller connected to the plurality of nonvolatile memories via a plurality of channels that includes a plurality of memory physical layer circuits arranged corresponding to the plurality of channels, respectively, one or more pads for calibration corresponding to the plurality of memory physical layer circuits, and a processor that controls the plurality of memory physical layer circuits. A single reference resistor is connected to the plurality of memory physical layer circuits via the pad. An output based on a ZQ calibration of the plurality of memory physical layer circuits is wired-OR connected to the single reference resistor via the one or more pads. The processor performs a calibration for each of the plurality of memory physical layer circuits in a time division manner using the single reference resistor.
US11194486B2
Technologies are provided for secure sanitization of a storage device. A storage device can be configured to support an operational mode, into which the storage device is placed by default, and in which requests to cryptographically erase the storage device are rejected. The storage device can support a separate sanitization mode in which a request to cryptographically erase the storage device will be processed. Access to the sanitization mode can be restricted to trusted sources (such as a boot firmware of a computer connected to the storage device). The storage device can be configured to reject a command to place the storage device in the sanitization mode, unless the command is received during an initialization of the storage device. In at least some embodiments, the storage device can reject data access commands while it is in the sanitization mode.
US11194484B2
A licensing application implemented in a computational device receives a request to enable a feature for a logical volume of a plurality of logical volumes controlled by the computational device, wherein each feature of a plurality of features is configurable to be enabled or disabled for one or more logical volumes of the plurality of logical volumes. The licensing application determines, whether enabling the feature for the logical volume causes a licensed capacity limit for the feature to be exceeded. Enabling the feature for the logical volume is avoided, in response to determining that enabling the feature for the logical volume causes the licensed capacity limit for the feature to be exceeded.
US11194481B2
An information processing apparatus includes a master storage that is a nonvolatile semiconductor memory, a slave storage that is a nonvolatile semiconductor memory, a determination unit configured to determine a free storage area of the master storage, an instruction unit configured to provide an instruction to write dummy data into the area determined by the determination unit, and a control unit configured to perform one of rebuild control to rebuild the slave storage on a basis of the master storage and mirroring control on the master storage and the slave storage. The instruction unit provides an instruction to write dummy data into the free area before the control unit performs rebuild control.
US11194476B2
A computer-implemented method according to one embodiment includes receiving and storing historical data for historical data jobs performed within a data storage system; determining an optimal maintenance time for the data storage system, utilizing the stored historical data; determining a timing in which storage devices within the data storage system are taken offline, utilizing the optimal maintenance time and the stored historical data; and preparing the data storage system for one or more maintenance operations, utilizing the determined timing.
US11194474B1
An apparatus includes a first circuit and a second circuit. The first circuit may be configured to traverse a link list of connected components forming an object in an image being processed in a machine vision system. The link list may comprise object IDs and link pointers for each component of the object. The link pointers generally identify links between each component from a current leaf component to a root component of the object. Each of the connected components may comprise one or more pixels of the image belonging to the object. The second circuit may be configured to modify at least the link pointer associated with the current leaf component to point to the root component instead of a next component between the current leaf component and the root component by generating a control signal to control replacement of at least an object ID of a next connected leaf component in the link pointer of the current leaf component with the object ID of the root component.
US11194464B1
Systems and methods for controlling display of content using objects are disclosed. Objects may be placed on a surface and one or more computing devices may be configured to identify the objects, determine the shape of the objects, and/or determine the locations of the objects with respect to the surface. Content displayed on the surface may be updated based at least in part on interaction of the object with the surface, such as changing locations of the objects, object proximities, object flipping, and/or object stacking, for example.
US11194462B2
One exemplary aspect is a blackout feature that can be used in connection with touchscreen devices to hide selected data in a shared display environment. An exemplary embodiment may be provided as a service running in the background or on a touchscreen device. A service may pop-up in response to the initiation of a collaboration session or entry of the device into a data transfer or sharing environment to prompt the user as to handle they would like to handle the shared information, e.g., “hide” sensitive information. Another exemplary aspect can display data in a constellation fashion. For example, data included in a file or data set to be shared is displayed by the touchscreen device. The user can then run their finger over the data that the user does not wish to share. The selected data/information can then be prevented from delivery to and/or display on the collaborating device(s).
US11194458B2
A content editor for generating content including root blocks and nested blocks is disclosed. The content editor can generate a deployment that includes the content. The content editor can generate user interface code configured to edit the content. The content editor can receive updates to the content and update the root blocks and nested blocks. The updated root blocks and nested blocks can be used to generate updated content for editing and/or can be deployed to end-users.
US11194457B1
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for generating a user experience for a software program product based on a knowledge engine. Techniques for generating the user experience include a UI builder tool providing a set of tabular UI views and receiving in each tabular UI view corresponding input data for generating a calculation graph, a completeness graph, and a client UI view. Based on the input data, the UI builder tool and knowledge engine can generate a set of artifact files. The knowledge engine can generate and/or execute the calculation and completeness graphs as defined in the corresponding artifact files. The UI builder tool can generate an instance of the client UI view. With the generated calculation graph(s), completeness graph(s), and an instance of the client UI view, the user experience can be provided to a computing device.
US11194453B2
A system includes a content extraction engine comprising at least one processor and configured to receive a content page for a target product including product data for the target product and noise content unrelated to the target product, identify noise content pertaining to data unrelated to the target product, remove noise content from the content page, thereby generating a remainder content page containing target product data usable to enable product comparison between multiple sources.
US11194451B2
Disclosed are mechanisms for sharing managed content through external systems. A sharing module publishes content in a share and metadata associated therewith to an external system. The share represents a folder or directory in a repository managed by an information system such as an enterprise content management system. The publication is made possible through application programming interface (API) calls handled by a first sharing module API, a repository API, a second sharing module API, and an external system API. These APIs together provide a one-to-one mapping of communications protocols used by the managed repository and the external system. The share in the managed repository and the share published to the external system are synced and any conflict between the two is detected and resolved. The shared content can be repatriated back to the managed repository and the shared version deleted from the external system.
US11194444B2
An electronic device for indicating selection of a data transfer method is disclosed. A processor is coupled to an input interface module and an output interface module. A memory is coupled to the processor and stores an application comprising instructions to cause the device to display indications corresponding to a plurality of data transfer methods via the output interface module, receive a selection of one of the methods for use in making a subsequent data transfer, retrieve a graphical element corresponding to the selected method, configure the device for making data transfers using the selected method, and indicate the device is operable to perform data transfers using the selected method by presenting the graphical element in the interface of the application whenever the interface is displayed via the output interface module or by modifying an icon for launching the application to correspond to the graphical element.
US11194433B2
An improved touch sensor comprising a first sensing electrode unit formed on a substrate in a first direction and a second sensing electrode unit formed on the substrate in a second direction crossing the first direction. A plurality of fine etching patterns are formed in boundary portions of unit transparent electrodes included in the first sensing electrode unit and the second sensing electrode unit. Each unit transparent electrode may have a shape in which a portion of a curved line connecting the vertices of a polygon is removed. Adjacent unit transparent electrodes may be electrically connected to one another. The improved touch sensor prevents a transparent electrode from being visible to a user sensor and also results in the prevention of a reduction in light transmittance caused by the transparent electrode as well as the prevention a reduction in optical quality due to a moiré phenomenon.
US11194428B2
The present disclosure provides a touch screen and a pressure-sensitive touch method, and a display apparatus. In one embodiment, a touch screen includes: a touch sensing layer including a touch sensing area configured to sense touch information of a touch action; a pressure sensing layer including a pressure sensing area including a plurality of photosensitive devices therein, the pressure sensing area configured to sense pressure information of the touch action, the photosensitive devices being configured to receive optical signals from a light-emitting side of the touch screen and convert the optical signals into electrical signals; and a processor configured to process the electrical signals converted by the photosensitive devices and output corresponding pressure information, the pressure information at least comprising a pressure strength of the touch action.
US11194417B2
An NFC-enabled apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus includes a touch screen display and a near field communication (NFC) module comprising an NFC antenna and an NFC controller. In response to tagging between the NFC-enabled apparatus and the external NFC terminal, an NFC communication channel is established between the NFC-enabled apparatus and the external NFC terminal for data communication therebetween.
US11194410B2
A pointer position detection method includes detecting one or more candidate touch positions by detecting one or more changes in capacitances in a touch sensor, detecting one or more candidate pen positions based on a level of a downlink signal in each of a plurality of sensor electrodes, and determining a pen position from the one or more candidate pen positions, in which each of the one or more candidate pen positions having a corresponding candidate touch position that has not been detected is not determined as the pen position.
US11194407B2
A hand controller for commanding or controlling a target, such as a remote vehicle or a virtual target, includes a display mounted on a free end of a joystick for indicating graphically a direction of the remote vehicle from the hand controller and an orientation of the target relative to the hand controller's frame of reference, based on the location and orientation of the target received by the hand controller from the target and the location and orientation of the hand controller.
US11194406B2
An input device includes an optical sensor which senses an object on a plane where the emitted light travels, an optical member which changes a path of the light emitted from the optical sensor, and a processing unit which performs input processing based on sensing results of the optical sensor; the optical sensor and the optical member form a first sensing surface consisting of a planar region in which the light emitted from the optical sensor travels and a second sensing surface that is farther from the optical sensor than the first sensing surface, and the processing unit performs the input processing based on a first sensing result of the optical sensor on the first sensing surface and a second sensing result of the optical sensor on the second sensing surface.
US11194405B2
In a method for controlling an information display apparatus that displays information on a display seen by a plurality of users, a feeling of a first user among the plurality of users is estimated on the basis of a physical value obtained from a sensor, it is determined, using the obtained physical value or the estimated feeling, whether to display the estimated feeling, and the display is controlled in accordance with a result of the determination.
US11194404B2
Methods and systems for processing input from an image-capture device for gesture-recognition. The method further includes computationally interpreting user gestures in accordance with a first mode of operation; analyzing the path of movement of an object to determine an intent of a user to change modes of operation; and, upon determining an intent of the user to change modes of operation, subsequently interpreting user gestures in accordance with the second mode of operation.
US11194403B2
A reference position setting method according to the present disclosure is a reference position setting method for setting a reference position for recognizing whether or not an operation unit displayed as a virtual image has been operated. The reference position setting method includes: a step of displaying a marker displayed as a virtual image larger than an object approaching the marker; a step of detecting the object approaching the marker; and a step of making a color or shade of the outer edge of the marker different from a color or shade of the center of the marker after the step of detecting the object.
US11194398B2
Technologies for adaptively rendering content on a computing device are disclosed. Such technologies include analyzing 3D images to detect a gesture performed by a user and modifying a rendering, pre-fetching, or pre-navigation operation of the computing device based on the detected gesture. Such user gestures may be static or dynamic and may cause the computing device to retrieve additional content, zoom content, halt or reduce rendering of content, and/or perform other operations and functions related to the rendering of content.
US11194382B2
A processing system includes a memory controller that preemptively exits a dynamic random access (DRAM) integrated circuit rank from a low power mode such as power down mode based on a predicted time when the memory controller will receive a request to access the DRAM rank. The memory controller tracks how long after a DRAM rank enters the low power mode before a request to access the DRAM rank is received by the memory controller. Based on a history of the timing of access requests, the memory controller predicts for each DRAM rank a predicted time reflecting how long after entering low power mode a request to access each DRAM rank is expected to be received. The memory controller speculatively exits the DRAM rank from the low power mode based on the predicted time and prior to receiving a request to access the DRAM IC rank.
US11194381B2
Techniques and apparatus for managing performance states of processing circuitry of a computing device are described. In one embodiment, for example, an apparatus may include at least one memory, at least one processing circuitry, and logic, at least a portion of comprised in hardware coupled to the at least one processing circuitry, to set a first performance state (P-state) of the at least one processing circuitry based on system utilization information, access a performance interface element comprising a plurality of performance metric hints, update the first P-state to a second P-state responsive to one of the plurality of performance metric hints being set by an operating system (OS) of the apparatus, and maintain the first P-state responsive to none of the plurality of performance metric hints being set by the operating system (OS). Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US11194380B2
It is an object of the present invention to provide a technique capable of reducing power consumption of a semiconductor device even when the semiconductor device operates at high speed. The semiconductor device includes a module for outputting a signal, a delay element, a first output circuit having an input and an output, a first external terminal connected to the output of the first output circuit and to be connected to a signal wiring, and a second external terminal. The input of the first output circuit receives the signal delayed by the delay element. The second external terminal receives the signal without passing through the delay element. The signal of the second external terminal is used to change the potential level of the signal wiring to be connected to the first external terminal before the first output circuit changes the potential of the first external terminal based on the delayed signal.
US11194376B2
A mobile device with a sensor hub and sensors and a method for controlling the mobile device are provided. The method includes receiving state information regarding the mobile device, setting a sensor sampling period based on the received state information, and receiving measured values from one or more sensors according to the set, sensor sampling period. The sensor hub receives the state information regarding the mobile device, sets a sensor sampling period based on the received state information, and receives measured values from one or more sensors according to the set sensor sampling periods. The mobile device controls the sensors via the sensor hub irrespective of the operations of the main processor. The sensor hub sets a sensor sampling period based on the received state values of a mobile device.
US11194374B2
Systems and methods are provided that may be implemented to wake an information handling system from a reduced-powered state in response to a wireless signal wake-up event received from a wireless peripheral device. Non-operating system (OS) components and/or non-BIOS components of an information handling system may be optionally enabled to securely perform pre-OS operations to determine whether or not to wake other components (e.g., such as a system OS and/or system BIOS executing on a host processing device or embedded controller) of the information handling system from a reduced-powered state upon receipt of the wireless signal wake-up event.
US11194373B2
Various embodiments comprise prioritizing frequency allocations in thermally- or power-constrained computing devices. Computer elements may be assigned ‘weights’ based on their priorities. The computer elements with higher weights may receive higher frequency allocations to assure they receive priority in processing more quickly. The computer elements with lower weights may receive lower frequency allocations and suffer a slowdown in their processing. Elements with the same weight may be grouped together for the purpose of frequency allocation.
US11194370B2
A waveguide connector and a display apparatus including the same having a partition wall provided therein so that each of electromagnetic signals of different phases generated from a circuit board independently forms a waveform are provided. In accordance with an aspect of the present embodiment, a waveguide connector includes a main body including an inner space through which an electromagnetic signal travels; a first opening provided on one surface of the main body so that electromagnetic signals of different phases generated from an antenna provided on a circuit board enter the inner space; a second opening provided on the other surface of the main body so that the electromagnetic signals of the different phases traveling through the inner space enter a waveguide; and a partition wall provided in the inner space of the main body so that each of the electromagnetic signals having the different phases independently forms a waveform.
US11194352B2
A flow and pressure stabilization device includes a housing; a first fluid chamber; a gas chamber; a deformable bladder that separates the first fluid chamber from the gas chamber, the deformable bladder comprising a longitudinally protruding portion shaped such that, when a pressure in the gas chamber is greater than a pressure in the first fluid chamber, the longitudinally protruding portion extends toward the first fluid chamber; and a valve in fluid communication with a fluid outlet, the valve including: a second fluid chamber in fluid communication with the first fluid chamber; a fluid port in fluid communication with the fluid outlet; and a deformable diaphragm positioned adjacent to and biased toward the fluid port.
US11194351B2
A system and method prevent product-type contamination in a bulk liquid storage tank. A control unit receives an indication of a storage product type in the bulk storage and a delivery product type in the tanker truck. The control unit compares the delivery product type with the storage product type and controls delivery based on a result of the comparison.
US11194349B2
A method of automating entry of an aircraft into autorotation includes detecting a loss of engine power, analyzing a sensed height and sensed airspeed of the aircraft, determining an adjusted position of one or more control surfaces of the aircraft in response to the sensed height and sensed airspeed, and automatically moving the one or more control surfaces to the adjusted position.
US11194338B2
The present disclosure relates to a mobile robot capable of communicating with peripheral devices via a 5G communication environment, and recommending an efficient movement route and a location of a charging station via machine learning performed based on such communication. When the mobile robot according to the present disclosure is travelling, a score may be assigned to areas of items according to a type of an item located within a movement space in which the mobile robot moves. Here, a plus score may be assigned to an item area where presence of a socket is verified. Further, a highest score may be assigned to a movement route having a shortest distance required for the mobile robot to return to a charging station which charges a battery of the mobile robot, among the movement routes on which the mobile robot moves.
US11194334B2
An autonomous mobile device includes a communicator, a map information storage, a mover, a path generator, and a moving controller. The communicator receives first mark information stored in a mark information storage from a mark management server device. The map information storage stores map information concerning a delivery area. The mover moves the autonomous mobile device. The path generator sets a first object to which a first mark is attached as a first delivery destination, and generates a path from a moving start position of the autonomous mobile device to the first delivery destination based on the first mark information and the map information. The moving controller controls the mover to move the autonomous mobile device to the first delivery destination based on the path.
US11194328B2
An operation-security system for an automated vehicle includes an object-detector and a controller. The object-detector includes at least three sensors. Each sensor is one of a camera used to determine an image-location of an object proximate to a host-vehicle, a lidar-unit used to determine a lidar-location of the object proximate to the host-vehicle, and a radar-unit used to determine a radar-location of the object proximate to the host-vehicle. The controller is in communication with the at least three sensors. The controller is configured to determine a composite-location based on a comparison of locations indicated by the at least three sensors. Information from one sensor is ignored when a respective location indicated by the one sensor differs from the composite-location by greater than an error-threshold. If a remote sensor not on the host-vehicle is used, V2V or V2I communications may be used to communicate a location to the host-vehicle.
US11194320B2
TA communication system is provided that can be added to a legacy alarm system to provide a plurality of communication modes to a remote server system from the legacy alarm system and provide remote control and monitoring to a user of the system via two-way communication links. The communication system can be configured to communicate with an alarm processor of the legacy alarm system through use of a keypad bus typically used by the legacy alarm system for communication between the alarm processor and one or more keypads. Communication modes that can be provided by embodiments of the present invention can include, for example, communication over a public switched telephone network, cellular transmission, broadband transmission, and the like. The communication system can monitor all configured communication modes and determine which communication mode is the best for providing communication between the alarm system and the remote server. Through these communication modes and by virtue of being coupled to the alarm processor via the keypad bus, the communication system can provide both transmission to the remote server of the status and alarm condition of the legacy alarm system as well as provide control signals from the remote server to the legacy alarm system. The remote server provides pre-determined responses to information received from the alarm system, including providing alarm system condition information to a user or a monitoring station for response.
US11194313B2
A numerical controller includes a command analysis unit for analyzing the machining program in which the axis movement command for a plurality of sections is described in one block of the machining program in a reading processing for the one block to specify a plurality of coordinate values or movement amounts, and a block information generation unit for generating the block information for the plurality of sections based on the plurality of coordinate values or movement amounts. Each of one or more addresses is described only once and a plurality of command values corresponding to the respective addresses is described according to a predetermined order in the axis movement command, and the command analysis unit specifies a correlation between the addresses and the command values according to the order.
US11194312B2
The example systems, methods, and/or computer-readable media described herein help with design of highly accurate models of un-erupted or partially erupted teeth and help fabricate of aligners for un-erupted or partially erupted teeth. Automated agents that use machine learning models to parametrically represent three-dimensional (3d) virtual representations of teeth as 3D descriptors in a 3D descriptor space are provided herein. In some implementations, the automated agents described herein provide instructions to fabricate aligners for at least partially un-erupted teeth using representative 3D descriptor(s) of a tooth type.
US11194311B1
A method for the design and development of new ballistic resistant articles is provided. Improved ballistic articles are formed of polyethylene-based composite laminated structures having unique material properties including material density, Poisson's ratio, and modulus of elasticity (Young's modulus). Cycle time for completing design and development is less than 30 calendar days.
US11194308B2
Sensor data generated by a sensor of a computer numerically controlled machine can be compared with a forecast. The forecast can include expected sensor data for the sensor, over a course of an execution plan for making a cut with a movable laser cutting head. The sensor data can be generated during execution of the execution plan. During execution of the execution plan, the sensor data can be monitored and a deviation of from the forecast can be detected. It can be determined, based on the detecting, that an anomalous condition of the computer numerically controlled machine has occurred. Based on the determining, an action can be performed.
US11194307B2
A controller capable of preventing human mistakes by customizing checking contents upon operations of users to automatically perform customized checking appropriately is provided. A controller that controls an industrial machine includes: a receiving unit that receives a condition of a callback process associated with control of the industrial machine and an action corresponding to the condition; and a designated condition registering unit that registers the condition and the action received by the receiving unit as a callback process.
US11194296B2
An electronic device has a reception device; a display device; an input device; a display controller that controls the display device to display the set time zone data when a first operation of the input device instructing displaying time zone data is detected; a positioning driver that operates the reception device to run a reception process and acquire positioning information when a second operation of the input device instructing starting reception in the navigation mode is detected while time zone data is displayed on the display device; and a time zone setter that sets time zone data based on the acquired positioning information.
US11194289B1
An image forming apparatus includes a casing in which multiple units are disposed. The casing has a front wall having a first opening and a stepped wall having a second opening. In the casing, an exposure unit is disposed in front of an image forming unit, above the first opening, and above a sheet loading section, and a fixing unit is disposed above the image forming unit. The exposure unit is disposed with a first gap between the exposure unit and the image forming unit, and the fixing unit is disposed with a second gap between the exposure unit and the image forming unit. The first gap and the second gap constitute a ventilation channel for distributing outside air flowing into the casing through the first opening to the second opening.
US11194282B1
According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, an environmental sensor, a waste toner collection container, a paddle motor, a storage unit, and a control unit. The image forming unit is configured to forma toner image on a sheet using a toner that is replenished from a toner cartridge containing the toner. The environmental sensor is configured to acquire information regarding an environment around the image forming unit. The waste toner collection container is configured to contain a waste toner produced in the image forming unit. The paddle motor is configured to rotate a stirring paddle provided in the waste toner collection container. The storage unit is configured to store a correction factor corresponding to the information regarding the environment acquired by the environmental sensor. The control unit is configured to acquire a count value as a value relating to a replenishment amount when the toner is replenished from the toner cartridge to the image forming unit. The control unit is configured to correct the count value with the correction factor corresponding to the information regarding the environment. The control unit is configured to update a cumulative count value with the corrected count value. The control unit is configured to drive the paddle motor according to the updated cumulative count value.
US11194277B2
A fixing unit fixes the toner image on a sheet by causing the sheet carrying a toner image to pass through a nip portion formed by bringing a rotary fixing member and a rotary pressing member into pressure contact with each other. The image forming apparatus includes an image forming apparatus main body having a fixing unit accommodating portion for accommodating the fixing unit in an insertable and removable manner, and a heating unit provided in the image forming apparatus main body and heating a rotary fixing member of the fixing unit mounted on the fixing unit accommodating portion from outside in a radial direction. The direction in which the fixing unit is inserted into and removed from the fixing unit accommodating portion coincides with the axial direction of the rotary pressing member.
US11194276B2
A heating device includes: a rotating body; a heating body as defined herein; and a contact mechanism, in a non-existence state where a material to be heated does not exist between the rotating body and the heating body after the material to be heated passes between the rotating body and the heating body, configured to cause the rotating body to be in contact with the heating body at a central portion of the rotating body in a rotation axis direction of the rotating body, so that an area of the rotating body in contact with the heating body is smaller at each of both end portions of the rotating body than at the central portion of the rotating body in the rotation axis direction, or configured to switch the rotating body between a first contact state and a second contact state as defined herein.
US11194274B2
A fuser including an endless belt, a pressurizing roller, a heater, a shaft supporting member, rotation member, and a washer. The pressurizing roller is to form a heating nip with the endless belt and is to rotate to drive the endless belt. The heater is to supply heat to the heating nip. The supporting member includes a shaft and a flange The rotation member is inserted into an inner diameter portion of the endless belt to support the endless belt, the rotation member is to be slidably rotatable with respect to the shaft. A washer interposed between the rotation member and the flange in an axial direction to regulate a movement of the endless belt in the axial direction, the washer is to slide-contact with at least one of the flange and the rotation member.
US11194264B2
An image forming apparatus for forming an image in accordance with image information on a sheet includes a photosensitive member; a scanner unit for scanning the member with a laser beam in accordance with the information, the scanner unit including a source for emitting the beam, a deflector having a polygonal mirror for reflecting the beam to deflect it, and a sensor for receiving the beam deflected by the deflector; a controller for controlling scanning start timing of the beam in response to an output of the sensor. A reference position of scanning lines of the beam in a sub-scan direction and a center position of a receipt surface of the sensor in the direction are deviated from each other. For all scanning lines by reflecting surfaces of the rotatable polygonal mirror, only parts, in the direction, of the scanning lines pass the receipt surface of the sensor.
US11194262B2
An image forming apparatus includes a brilliant image forming part that forms a brilliant toner image using a brilliant toner, a color image forming part that forms a color toner image using a color toner, and a controller that controls a brilliant deposition amount of the brilliant toner and a color deposition amount of the color toner on a medium, wherein when the brilliant toner image is to be superimposed over the color toner image on the medium, the controller adjusts the brilliant deposition amount for the brilliant toner image in correspondence with a color type and the color deposition amount of the color toner that has been used for the color toner image.
US11194259B2
An Equipment Front End Module (EFEM) having a Front Opening Unified Pod (FOUP) dock and a tool access port, includes a robotic wafer handling system configured to transfer silicon wafers between a FOUP coupled to the FOUP dock and a process tool positioned for access via the tool access port. An air curtain system inside the EFEM is positioned to produce an air curtain across the tool access port while the port is open, acting to isolate the interior of the EFEM from the tool environment, and prevent passage of airborne contaminants into the EFEM via the access port.
US11194258B2
A lithographic process is one that applies a desired pattern onto a substrate, usually onto a target portion of the substrate. During the lithographic process, the focus needs to be controlled. There is disclosed a method for determining a fingerprint of a performance parameter associated with a substrate, such as a focus value to be used during the lithographic process. A reference fingerprint of the performance parameter is determined for a reference substrate. A reference substrate parameter of the reference substrate is determined. A substrate parameter for a substrate, such as a substrate with product structures, is determined. Subsequently, the fingerprint of the performance parameter is determined based on the reference fingerprint, reference substrate parameter and the substrate parameter. The fingerprint may then be used to control the lithographic process.
US11194254B2
Techniques for lithography process delay characterization and effective dose compensation are provided. In one aspect, a method of analyzing a lithography process includes: applying a photoresist to a wafer; performing a post-apply bake of the photoresist; patterning the photoresist with sequences of open frame base line exposures performed at doses of from about 92% E0 to about 98% E0, and ranges therebetween, at multiple fields of the wafer separated by intervening programmed delay intervals, wherein E0 is the photoresist dose-to-clear; performing a post-exposure bake of the photoresist; developing the photoresist; performing a full wafer inspection to generate a grayscale map of the wafer; and analyzing the grayscale map to determine whether the intervening programmed delay intervals had an effect on the open frame base line exposures during the lithography process. Exposure dose compensation can then be applied to maintain a constant effective dose.
US11194252B2
This cured film-forming resin composition is characterized in comprising: as a component (A), a polymer containing a structural unit derived from a first monomer having the structure with formula (1); a photoacid generator as a component (B); fine particles as a component (C); and a solvent (in the formula, R1 represents hydrogen or a methyl group and R2 represents an organic group capable of undergoing elimination with the oxygen atom bonded thereto). The cured film-forming resin composition forms a cured film that has solvent resistance to organic solvents and a high liquid repellency (lyophobicity) wherein the lyophilicity/lyophobicity can be easily varied using small ultraviolet exposure doses and the lyophilic areas have a high lyophilicity even for high surface tension liquids.
US11194248B2
There is provided a method of managing an imprint apparatus that comprises a processor configured to execute an imprint process for forming a layer of an imprint material on a substrate by using a mold, a chamber configured to accommodate the processor, and a chemical filter configured to remove a chemical impurity contained in a gas flowing inside the chamber. The method comprises retaining a test substrate inside the chamber during execution of the imprint process, forming a layer of an imprint material on the test substrate by executing the imprint process on the test substrate by the processor after the retaining, inspecting the layer formed on the test substrate in the forming, and determining whether or not to replace the chemical filter based on an inspection result obtained in the inspecting.
US11194243B2
Provided is a projection screen, comprising a substrate (10), a total reflection layer (20), and a light absorbing layer (30) for absorbing light rays, which are sequentially arranged from a light incident side, wherein the total reflection layer (20) is provided with a plurality of trapezoidal micro-structures extending in the vertical direction of the projection screen, and the plurality of trapezoidal micro-structures is periodically arranged in the horizontal direction of the projection screen. The projection screen has the characteristics of simple structure, easy processing, low cost and high contrast.
US11194242B2
An image display device according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a light source, an image generator, and a projection optical system. The image generator modulates a light beam emitted by the light source and generates image light. The projection optical system includes a first lens system, a first reflection optical system, a second lens system, and a second reflection optical system. The first lens system has a positive refractive power as a whole, and refracts the generated image light. The first reflection optical system includes two or more reflection surfaces, each reflection surface being a surface off which the image light refracted by the first lens system is reflected. The second lens system has a positive refractive power as a whole, and refracts the image light reflected off the first reflection optical system. The second reflection optical system includes a concave reflection surface off which the image light refracted by the second lens system is reflected to be directed to a projected-onto object onto which projection is performed.
US11194236B2
An optical-element angle adjustment device includes: a first protruding portion and a second protruding portion formed to protrude on the same axis from opposite positions across an optical mirror held by a mirror holding portion; a first adjustment member having an elongated hole formed along a direction corresponding to a first rotation direction representing a direction in which the axis is rotated, in which the second protruding portion is inserted; and a second adjustment member fitting with the second protruding portion protruding from the first adjustment member. A position of the second protruding portion in the elongated hole is adjusted using the first adjustment member. An angle of rotation of the second adjustment member in a second rotation direction with the axis as a rotation axis is adjusted. Thereafter positions of the first adjustment member and the second adjustment member are fixed.
US11194235B2
A projector includes a projection lens and a projector body. In the projection lens, a U-shaped optical path is formed by optical axis to optical axis. A lens barrel is a U-shaped barrel. A housing of the projector body includes a storage section. The projection lens is supported rotatably about the optical axis with respect to the housing, in an up-down direction and a right-left direction of the housing perpendicular to the optical axis, between a first position where the projection lens is stored inside a storage section provided in the housing and a second position where the projection lens is protruding from the housing.
US11194233B2
The present disclosure relates to a stand. The stand may include a supporting component, a rotation component, a rotation limiting component, and an adapter ring. The rotation component may be rotatably connected to the supporting component and may be configured to rotate about a first rotation axis. The adapter ring may be placed between the rotation component and the rotation limiting component. The rotation component may include first ratchet teeth on a first side of the rotation component. The rotation limiting component may include second ratchet teeth on a second side of the rotation limiting component facing the first side. The adapter ring may include third ratchet teeth and fourth ratchet teeth on a third side and a fourth side of the adapter ring, respectively. The third ratchet teeth may be engaged with the first ratchet teeth and the fourth ratchet teeth may be engaged with the second ratchet teeth.
US11194231B2
A method includes determining an actual orientation of a base of an apparatus, obtaining a target orientation of a payload support of the apparatus, and determining target angular displacements of the payload support about gimbal axes of a plurality of pivoted supports of the apparatus based on the actual orientation of the base and the target orientation of the payload support. The payload support is mounted to the base through the plurality of pivoted supports.
US11194228B2
An evidence capturing device, which includes an elongate tubular body having a first object end and a second, camera mounting, end, with an optical path defined between the object end and the camera mounting end, a bracket at the camera mounting end of the body for mounting a camera to the body, so that a mounted camera is directed towards the object end of the body at which an object plane is defined perpendicular to the body, a filter holder disposed in the optical path between the object end and the camera end, a light source housing protruding from the body between the object end and the camera end for mounting a light source so that a mounted light source is directed at the object plane from an angle and a rotatable ring for rotating the camera and light source housing relative to each other about an elongate axis of the body.
US11194225B2
The present disclosure provides a method for producing a laminate for non-linear optics.
US11194219B2
An optical modulator according to embodiments includes a first MZI and a second MZI each including a first optical coupler that splits CW light into two, a second optical coupler that couples the CW light split by the first optical coupler and outputs the CW light, and a bias electrode that adjusts a phase of the CW light split by the first optical coupler, a third optical coupler that couples outputs of the first MZI and the second MZI with at a predetermined ratio and outputs the light, and a bias adjustment circuit that adjusts an output voltage of a bias power supply applied to a bias electrode so that an optical path length difference between the CW light beams split by the first optical coupler is a predetermined times a carrier wavelength under a condition that an output of a differential output amplifier is a zero level, in accordance with an operating mode of the own apparatus.
US11194215B2
An electrochromic device includes an electrochromic element 110 including an anode electrode 2a, a cathode electrode 2b, and an electrochromic layer 4, and drive means 120 connected to the electrochromic element. The electrochromic element 110 includes a plurality of anode terminals (A1, A2) electrically connected to the anode electrode 2a, and a plurality of cathode terminals (C1, C2) electrically connected to the cathode electrode 2b, and each of the anode terminals constitutes a terminal pair in combination with one of the cathode terminals. At least part of a first application period in which the drive means 120 applies a voltage to a first terminal pair that is one of the terminal pairs and at least part of a second application period in which the drive means 120 applies a voltage to a second terminal pair that is another one of the terminal pairs are not overlapped with each other.
US11194209B2
The present disclosure is directed to providing to a smart window system capable of controlling a state of a display element (e.g., at least one of transparency, color, pattern, gradation degree, and displayed information) through various kinds of input devices and a control method thereof. In accordance with one aspect of the present disclosure, a smart window system may include a display element; an input device configured to receive a control command for the display element; and a controller configured to determine at least one of transparency, color, pattern, and gradation of the display element and information displayed on the display element on the basis of the control command.
US11194206B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor substrate includes a signal line including a first area overlapping a first concave groove portion and a second area not overlapping the first concave groove portion. The signal line includes a first layer and a second layer. A first end portion of the first layer of the first area projects from a side surface of the second layer in a direction parallel to a plane of the first base. The first layer of the first area includes a first portion between the side surface of the second layer and the first end portion. The first portion is in contact with a side surface of the first concave groove portion, and the side surface of the second layer is covered with the first portion in the first concave groove portion.
US11194202B2
A substrate for a display device includes image lines arranged in a first direction, scanning lines arranged in a second direction intersecting the first direction, pixel electrodes arranged in the first direction and the second direction, a first switching element, and a second switching element. Each of the pixel electrodes has an elongated shape extending in the first direction. The first switching element is connected to one of two scanning lines sandwiching the pixel electrodes, one of the pixel electrodes located at an even-numbered position from an end in the first direction, and one of the image lines adjacent to the even-numbered pixel electrode. The second switching element is connected to the other scanning line, one of the pixel electrodes located at an odd-numbered position from the end in the first direction, and one of the image lines adjacent to the odd-numbered pixel electrode.
US11194201B2
A display device includes a plurality of gate lines; a plurality of data lines; a plurality of pixel electrodes electrically connected with the plurality of data lines; a plurality of common electrodes corresponding to two or more pixel electrodes among the plurality of pixel electrodes; a data driving circuit outputting data voltages to the plurality of data lines; and a driving circuit outputting a first driving signal with a first voltage level to at least one common electrode among the plurality of common electrodes during a first driving period and a second driving signal with a second voltage level and a third voltage level to the at least one common electrode during a second driving period, the second driving signal being a pulse signal, wherein the second voltage level and the third voltage level differ from the first voltage level.
US11194195B2
A screen assembly and an electronic device are provided according to the disclosure. The screen assembly includes a backlight module, a display panel, a camera module, and a light shielding member. The backlight module is stacked with the display panel and defines a mounting through hole for at least partially receiving the camera module. The light shielding member is sandwiched between the backlight module and the display panel and defines a first through hole through which the camera module extends. The light shielding member is configured to block light leakage of the display panel and the backlight module toward the camera module.
US11194188B2
A display panel includes a substrate, a plurality of standard pixel units, and a plurality of dummy pixel units. A plurality of first conductor patterns and a plurality of shield blocks of a shield pattern layer are arranged in an array above the substrate. Each of the standard pixel units includes one of the first conductor patterns and a first shield block of the shield blocks. The first shield blocks and the first conductor patterns are overlapped, respectively. Each of the dummy pixel units includes a second shield block of the shield blocks. The second shield blocks and the first conductor patterns are not overlapped. A first edge of the substrate is spaced apart from a second edge of one of the standard pixel units adjacent to the dummy pixel units by a first distance. The first distance is within a range from 50 μm to 3000 μm.
US11194181B2
An optical modulator including an optical modulation element including an optical waveguide formed on a substrate, and a housing that accommodates the optical modulation element. The housing has a high-thermal resistance portion within at least a part of an optical input and output region. The optical input and output region is an area ranging from an outer surface of a first short side wall to a first end portion of the optical modulation element, and the high-thermal resistance portion having a higher thermal resistance than a portion of the housing other than the optical input and output region.
US11194180B2
A method may include thinning a silicon wafer to a particular thickness. The particular thickness may be based on a passband frequency spectrum of an adjustable optical filter. The method may also include covering a surface of the silicon wafer with an optical coating. The optical coating may filter an optical signal and may be based on the passband frequency spectrum. The method may additionally include depositing a plurality of thermal tuning components on the coated silicon wafer. The plurality of thermal tuning components may adjust a passband frequency range of the adjustable optical filter by adjusting a temperature of the coated silicon wafer. The passband frequency range may be within the passband frequency spectrum. The method may include dividing the coated silicon wafer into a plurality of silicon wafer dies. Each silicon wafer die may include multiple thermal tuning components and may be the adjustable optical filter.
US11194170B2
Devices for applying vibration and/or sliding motion to speckle diffusers are provided. A speckle diffusion device comprises at least one speckle diffuser element, one free form torsion spring with an axis of rotation, and at least one actuator. One end of the torsion spring includes an interaction element to interact with the actuator. The actuator actuates motion of the speckle diffusion element via the interaction element attached to the spring. The spring may also limit motion of the speckle diffuser element. The speckle diffusion device may be implemented or employed in various optical systems/devices. The speckle diffusion device may be easily adapted to accommodate various systems with various dimensions and geometry. Other embodiments may be disclosed and/or claimed.
US11194169B2
A light diffraction film includes a transparent substrate; and a light diffraction layer containing a binder resin and particles, in which an average primary particle diameter of the particles is 1 μm to 10 μm, and a coverage of a surface of the transparent substrate covered with the particles is 70% to 90%.
US11194165B2
A wearable display device includes an optical device that forms a virtual image, and a support device that supports the optical device. The support device includes a fixed temple and a movable temple in a temple, which is a contact portion, and the movable temple is attached so as to be positionable further to the upper side than the fixed temple when a state of being worn is assumed.
US11194163B1
The disclosed projector device may include (1) a first monochromatic emitter array having a plurality of emitters of a first color disposed in a two-dimensional configuration and (2) a second monochromatic emitter array having a plurality of emitters of a second color disposed in a two-dimensional configuration. The first and second monochromatic emitter arrays may be configured to emit images of the first and second colors into a waveguide configuration, and the first color may be different than the second color. Associated display systems and methods are also provided.
US11194149B2
A method for examining a sample by light sheet microscopy includes illuminating a sample surface located in an illumination plane by a light sheet propagating in the illumination plane. A position of a light sheet focal point of the light sheet in the illumination plane is moved by changing an optical length of a light path of illumination light forming the light sheet. Detection light emanating from the illumination plane is detected.
US11194148B2
An objective-changer apparatus for a microscope system comprising an objective-transfer element with at least one objective holder for holding an objective that has been provided with an adapter, wherein the objective-transfer element moves a selected active objective into position in a transfer position in controlled fashion and an objective axis of the active objective does not coincide with the optical axis of the microscope system in the transfer position. A receiving apparatus is adjustable in the direction of the optical axis of the microscope system and can be brought into contact with the adapter. The receiving apparatus transports the active objective along a transport path in a transport direction orthogonal to the microscope system's optical axis between the transfer position and a work position in line with the microscope system's optical axis. The transport path is shorter than the extent of the objective holder in the transport direction.
US11194147B2
A method for optically examining or manipulating a microscopic sample includes positioning the sample in front of a lens which is arranged both in an observation beam path and in an illumination beam path of a microscope which has a main beam splitter which separates the paths. An illumination device is selected depending on the type of sample or examination, or a manipulation of the sample to be carried out. The selected illumination device is coupled in a predefined desired position to a mechanical coupling interface of the microscope. An illumination light from the selected illumination device is directed along the illumination beam path to the main beam splitter and from there to the lens and through the lens onto the sample. No optical component for imaging, focusing and/or defocusing is arranged on a light path of the illumination light between the optical apparatus and the lens.
US11194145B2
An image reproducing device includes one or more processors. The processor acquires image group data including a plurality of images and tag information on at least one tag. The images relate to a biological sample along time series. The tag information relates to an operation on the biological sample and is associated with at least part of the images. The processor selects from the plurality of images using the tag information, images to be reproduced along the time series as reproduction selected images. The processor outputs to a display, data relating to the images for the reproduction selected images to be reproduced along time series.
US11194137B2
The zoom lens according to the present invention includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit with a negative refractive power and a rear lens group including one or more lens units, in which intervals between adjacent ones of the lens units are changed during zooming and focusing. The first lens unit includes three or more negative lenses. The rear lens group includes a focus lens unit with a negative refractive power that moves during focusing. A focal length of the first lens unit, a shortest focal length of the zoom lens, curvature radii of object-side and image-side lens surfaces of a lens in the first lens unit disposed closest to the object side, and a focal length of the focus lens unit are appropriately set.
US11194136B2
An optical system includes: a first lens group with negative refractive power at an object side of an aperture stop; a second lens group with positive refractive power at an image plane side of the aperture stop; and a third lens group with positive refractive power at the image plane side of the second lens group. The first lens group includes a first lens with negative refractive power and concave image plane side, a second lens of meniscus type, with negative refractive power, and convex image plane side, and a third lens with positive refractive power and convex object side. The second lens group includes a fourth lens with positive refractive power and convex image plane side; a fifth lens of meniscus type, with negative refractive power, and convex object side; and a sixth lens with negative refractive power and concave object side.
US11194127B2
A photographing optical lens assembly includes six lens elements, which are, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fifth lens element and a sixth lens element. The first lens element with negative refractive power has an object-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof. The sixth lens element has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof and includes at least one convex shape in an off-axis region thereof.
US11194108B2
A slot type optical cable includes: an optical fiber; a slot rod that includes a plurality of ribs forming a groove in which the optical fiber is accommodatable; and a cable jacket that is provided around the slot rod. The cable jacket includes a sheath portion that is formed around the slot rod at substantially the same thickness by linearly connecting outermost peripheral edges of adjacent ribs.
US11194101B2
Embodiments disclosed herein are a fiber optic connector construed using a front loadable unitary retainer and ferrule assembly inserted within a unitary connector housing at a proximal end of the connector housing. The unitary retainer and ferrule assembly has a pair of opposing protrusions at a proximal end configured to be accepted within the unitary connector housing and secured further therein with a bias member.
US11194096B2
A polarization converter based on taking a high-order TE mode as a transition mode comprises a ridge waveguide (1) and a slab waveguide (2) that are arranged in double layers and varying in width, and a strip waveguide (4) which is varying in width. The ridge waveguide (1) is disposed on the upper end face of the slab waveguide (2), and is aligned with two ends of the slab waveguide (2). The right end of the ridge waveguide (1) and the slab waveguide (2) are connected with the strip waveguide (4) with the varying width. A TM0 mode enters from the left ends of the ridge waveguide and the slab waveguide, and is converted into a TE0 mode for output. On the contrary, the TE0 mode enters from the right end of the strip waveguide and is converted into the TM0 mode for output.
US11194083B2
Color filter including quantum dots and metal nanoparticles and display apparatus including the same
A color filter and a display apparatus employing the color filter are provided. The color filter includes a base substrate and a color photoresist layer disposed on the base substrate. The color photoresist layer includes a photopolymerized photosensitive composition, at least one of a pigment and a dye, and quantum dots.
US11194072B2
A logging system includes an electromagnetic logging tool that collects at least one measurement of a subterranean formation at a borehole. The logging system also includes a processing system that generates a plurality of earth models of the subterranean formation based on the at least one measurement of the subterranean formation. The processing system projects at least one second earth model upon a well path of the borehole, and selects a model of the plurality of models based on a spatial correlation between at least one parameter of the selected model and a corresponding at least one parameter of the at least one second earth model.
US11194069B2
A method for borehole measurements may comprise receiving one or more signals from a linear receiver array, computing an arctan of a Hilbert Transform, isolating a first arriving energy, selecting a reference instantaneous phase on a reference receiver, finding the reference instantaneous phase for the linear receiver array, computing a relative travel time shift, combining a reference pick time with a relative time, and determining a travel time. A system for borehole measurements comprise a conveyance, a bottom hole assembly attached to the conveyance, a linear receiver array, wherein the linear receiver array is disposed on the bottom hole assembly, and a computer system connected to the linear receiver array.
US11194066B2
A device can receive sensor data from a plurality of sensor devices. The sensor data can include information relating to vibrations detected by the plurality of sensor devices. The device can determine, based on the information relating to vibrations, whether the vibrations are likely to be associated with one or more primary waves of a seismic event. The device can predict, based on determining that the vibrations are likely to be associated with the one or more primary waves, a geographic area that is likely to be impacted by one or more secondary waves of the seismic event. The device can transmit, based on predicting the geographic area, and to one or more of a plurality of user equipments, one or more of a notification providing information relating to the seismic event or instructions to perform one or more actions.
US11194057B2
An apparatus comprising a transceiver, an antenna and a processor. The transceiver may be configured to send/receive data messages to/from a plurality of vehicles. The antenna may be configured to receive signals from GNSS satellites. The processor may be configured to (i) determine a first region based on relative coordinates calculated using the data messages, (ii) determine a second region calculated using the signals received from the GNSS satellites, (iii) determine whether a pre-determined amount of the first region to the second region overlap and (iv) increase a confidence level of a positional accuracy of the plurality of vehicles if the pre-determined amount of the first region and the second region overlap. One of the vehicles implements one or more automatic responses based on the confidence level of the positional accuracy.
US11194051B2
A method for providing integrity information for checking atmospheric correction parameters for the correction of atmospheric disturbances for satellite navigation for a vehicle includes reading state signals relating to a state of an atmosphere between at least one satellite receiver and at least one satellite of the at least one satellite receiver. Each state signal represents certain state data that are transmitted between a satellite and a satellite receiver. The method further includes using at least one satellite signal and that are dependent on a state of the atmosphere between the satellite and the satellite receiver. The method further includes determining the integrity information using the state data. A variation of the state data against time is analyzed.
US11194050B2
The invention relates to the development, control and execution of interactive software. An interactive component of the invention is configured to enable a defined interaction between the interactive digital system and an environment of the interactive digital system. It comprises a first subcomponent, defining a coupling between a second interactive component and a third interactive component. Said first subcomponent is configured, when executed by the interactive digital system, to generate an activation of the third interactive component conditional upon an activation of the second interactive component, said activation enabling the defined interaction.
US11194049B2
Disclosed is a 5G or pre-5G communication system for supporting a data transmission rate higher than that of a 4G communication system such as LTE. Provided in the present disclosure is a relay-based communication method for a communication terminal provided in a vehicle, comprising the steps of: acquiring global positioning system (GPS) coordinates of the vehicle; determining a traveling direction of the vehicle on the basis of map information and the GPS coordinates; sensing a traveling lane of the vehicle; generating a location code including information on the GPS coordinates, the traveling direction, and the traveling lane; and generating a message, which includes the generated location code, and transmitting the message.
US11194044B2
Methods and devices for detecting movement of an object includes: receiving a plurality of output signal values from a sound wave receiver, each of the plurality of output signal values being representative of a distance between the object and the sound wave receiver; determining, based on the received plurality of output signal values, a difference value representative of a difference between a first output signal value and a second output signal value among the plurality of output signal values; determining whether the difference value is representative of motion of the object based on whether the difference value has a magnitude between a predetermined minimum threshold and a predetermined maximum threshold; and outputting a motion detection signal if the difference value is determined to have a magnitude between the predetermined minimum threshold and the predetermined maximum threshold.
US11194041B2
Various communication systems may benefit from suitable architectures. For example, L-band radio frequency (RF) architectures may be beneficial to systems including avionics systems. A system can include a mode-s function as well as a traffic alert and collision avoidance system function separate from the mode-s function. The system can further include a directional antenna in reception and transmission connection with the traffic alert and collision avoidance system function. The system can additionally include an omni-directional antenna in reception and transmission connection with the mode-s function.
US11194036B2
A method for detecting motion may include: performing at least one scanning cycle on a monitored space using a radar apparatus; detecting and identifying at least one moving object in the monitored space, including detecting an actual displacement value for each moving object detected inside the monitored space between a detection cycle and a subsequent detection cycle; providing a threshold value of maximum allowable displacement associated with every moving object detected inside the monitored space between the detection cycle and the subsequent detection cycle; locating at least one semi-static zone in the monitored space, the at least one semi-static zone corresponding to a portion of the monitored space that surrounds at least one semi-static object; and generating an alarm signal only when, in the monitored space, at least one moving object situated outside the at least one semi-static zone is detected.
US11194023B2
An image acquiring apparatus for a vehicle includes a light emitting unit configured to emit pulse light to a predetermined direction, an image acquisition unit configured to acquire a plurality of different images of target distance ranges by imaging reflected light returning from the target distance ranges at imaging timings set according to the target distance ranges, and a timing controller configured to control a light emission cycle of the pulse light and the imaging timings. The timing controller is configured to set a light emission interval time to be longer than a delay time which is a time from a light emission start time point of the light emitting unit to an imaging start time point of the image acquisition unit and is required to image a longest-distance range of the target distance ranges from which the reflected light can be imaged.
US11194021B2
An electromagnetic wave detection apparatus (10) includes an irradiator (11), a first detector (17), a propagation unit (20), a memory (13), and a controller (14). The irradiator (11) irradiates electromagnetic waves. The first detector (17) detects reflected waves of the electromagnetic waves irradiated onto an object (ob). The propagation unit (20) includes propagation elements (px). By irradiation position of the electromagnetic waves irradiated onto the object (ob), the propagation elements (px) switch between propagating and not propagating the reflected waves of the electromagnetic waves towards the first detector (17). The memory (13) stores related information. The controller (14) updates the related information based on the position of the propagation element (px) that is propagating the reflected waves toward the first detector (17) when the first detector (17) detects the reflected waves.
US11194012B2
Provided is a radio source position estimation system including a plurality of radio transmission devices spaced a predetermined distance apart from one another and configured to transmit radio frequency (RF) signals received from an arbitrary radio source and a central radio reception device configured to estimate a position of the radio source using the RF signals received from at least three radio transmission devices.
US11194006B2
An angle-of-arrival identification device receives a reception signal including a plurality of subcarriers, using a plurality of antenna elements, and identifies an angle of arrival of the reception signal. The angle-of-arrival identification device includes signal processing units that extract predefined specific subcarriers (pilot carriers) from the reception signals received by each of the plurality of antenna elements, and an angle identification unit that identifies the angle of arrival on the basis of a phase difference between the specific subcarriers extracted by each of the signal processing units. The signal processing unit includes a frequency adjustment unit that adjusts a deviation, from a defined value, of a frequency of the reception signal received by the antenna element, and a filter unit that extracts the specific subcarrier by performing bandpass filter processing on the reception signal whose frequency has been adjusted.
US11194003B2
In one embodiment, an MRI apparatus includes a scanner and processing circuitry. The scanner includes at least two gradient coils. The processing circuitry is configured to cause the scanner to acquire k-space data for correction in a band-shaped two-dimensional k-space along a readout direction, or in a columnar three-dimensional k-space along a readout direction, while changing rotation angles, wherein each of the rotation angles corresponds to the readout direction, generate correction data for correcting an error due to a gradient magnetic field generated by the gradient coils, by using the acquired k-space data for correction, cause the scanner to acquire k-space data for reconstruction, based on a radial acquisition method, while correcting the gradient magnetic field by using the correction data, and generate an image by reconstructing the acquired k-space data for reconstruction.
US11194000B2
The invention provides for a magnetic resonance imaging system (100) comprising a radio frequency system (116, 114, 118) configured for acquiring magnetic resonance data (144) from an imaging zone (108). The radio frequency system is configured for sending and receiving radio frequency signals to acquire the magnetic resonance data, wherein the radio frequency system comprises: an elliptical transmission coil (114) configured for generating a B1+ excitation field within the imaging zone; and an active B1 shim coil (118) configured for being placed within the imaging zone, wherein the radio frequency system is configured for suppling radio frequency power to the active B1 shim coil during the generation of the B1+ excitation field by the elliptical transmission coil, wherein the B1 shim coil is configured for shimming the B1+ excitation field within the imaging zone.
US11193996B2
There is described a magnet assembly comprising a superconducting coil, a cryogenic system, a DC voltage source, an SMPS, current leads, and a controller. The cryogenic system comprises a cryostat and is configured to maintain the superconducting coil at an operating temperature below the critical temperature of the superconductor. The DC voltage is source located outside the cryostat. The SMPS is located inside the cryostat and configured to supply power from the DC voltage source to the superconducting coil. The SMPS comprises a voltage step-down transformer having a primary and a secondary winding. The current leads connect the DC voltage source to the SMPS. The controller is configured to cause the SMPS to supply a first amount of power to the magnet in order to ramp up the magnet to operating current, and a second amount of power to the magnet during steady state operation of the magnet, wherein the first amount of power is greater than the second amount of power.
US11193990B2
An integrated microfabricated alkali vapor cell sensor includes two alkali vapor regions, with a signal path through each. One or two signal emitters, with associated optical signal rotators, such as quarter wave plates, provide circularly polarized input signals into the alkali vapor regions, so that a first signal through the first alkali vapor region is circularly polarized in an opposite direction from a second signal through the second alkali vapor region. Output signals from the two alkali vapor regions are transformed to linearly polarized signals and then measured by one or more signal detectors. A first Larmor frequency is estimated from the output signal from the first alkali vapor region, and a second Larmor frequency is estimated from the output signal from the second alkali vapor region. A heading error-free Larmor frequency is estimated from the first Larmor frequency and the second Larmor frequency.
US11193988B2
Provided is a method of measuring a magnitude of magnetization of a perpendicular magnetic thin film, including: forming a stripe pattern in which a first magnetic domain that extends in a y direction and is magnetized in a z direction and a second magnetic domain that extends in the y direction and is magnetized in a direction opposite to the z direction are arranged alternately in an x direction, in a perpendicular magnetic thin film that extends in an xy plane; changing widths in the x direction, of the first and second magnetic domains by applying a magnetic field having a predetermined magnitude, in the z direction, to the perpendicular magnetic thin film; and calculating an absolute value of the magnetization of the perpendicular magnetic thin film on the basis of a ratio between the widths in the x direction, of the first magnetic domain and the second magnetic domain.
US11193978B2
A power conversion device according to the present invention is connected to a rotating machine comprising an armature coil and supplies and receives power. The power conversion device has a function for: collectively applying voltage pulses to the armature coil or coils for one or more specific phases of the rotating machine, sampling the current values of the specific phases from the start of the rising or falling of the voltage pulses until a designated delay time, detecting variation in the capacitance of an insulation member of the armature coils of the specific phases of the rotating machine from variation from a normal state of the current values, and diagnosing insulation degradation.
US11193974B2
A failure diagnostic apparatus includes a path calculation unit which calculates, for each input pattern to a diagnosis target cell, a path affecting an output value of the diagnosis target cell when a failure is assumed as an activation path, a path classification unit which classifies the activation path associated with the input pattern for which the diagnosis target cell has passed a test and the activation path associated with the input pattern for which the diagnosis target cell has failed the test, a path narrowing unit which calculates a first failure candidate path, a second failure candidate path and a normal path of the diagnosis target cell based on classified activation paths, and a result output unit which outputs information on the first failure candidate path, the second failure candidate path and the normal path.
US11193972B2
An inspection equipment is used for inspecting an antenna, and includes a testing device having a first circuit structure, a carrier, a supporting part and a second circuit structure detachably stacked on one another sequentially. Therefore, the carrier, the first circuit structure, the second circuit structure or the supporting part can be detached when different devices under test are inspected, without replacing the whole testing device, thereby achieving effects of modular replacing and cost saving.
US11193968B2
A diagnostic system for a vehicle electrical system having first and second voltage regulators outputting first and second voltages, respectively, is provided. The diagnostic system includes a microcontroller having an analog-to-digital converter, a first application, and a first diagnostic handler application. The first application sets a first analog-to-digital converter status flag equal to a first fault value when a difference between a first corrected voltage value and a second corrected voltage value is greater than a threshold difference value indicating that the analog-to-digital converter is malfunctioning. The first diagnostic handler application commanding a digital input-output device to generate control signals if the first analog-to-digital converter status flag is equal to the first fault value.
US11193966B1
A low frequency active load pull tuner allows creating and controlling the reflection factor in a different frequency range than the operation frequency. It includes an active feedback loop and a remotely controlled digital electronic tuner, wherein the electronic tuner operates at an ordinary octave wide (Fmax/Fmin=2) frequency range (i.e. as an example 1-2 GHz), which leads to a low intermediate frequency band of 6 octaves or more. All required MHz range components for the tuner, except the custom-made digital electronic tuner, are readily available.
US11193944B2
The present invention relates to a method for the accurate, rapid and sensitive detection of breast or ovarian cancers from body fluid samples of a mammalian subject and related assay, kits and peptides suitable for such a method.
US11193940B2
The present invention relates to a sensor for the detection of Neurotrophic Factor (NF). The sensor, preferably a Screen Printed Electrochemical sensor (SPE), has a working electrode coated by a Molecularly Imprinted Polymer (MIP) imprinted by a NF. The invention also relates to a method for preparing such a sensor and comprising the steps of 1) formation of a cleavable linking layer on the working electrode of the sensor; 2) immobilization of NF molecules on the cleavable linking layer; 3) polymerization of m-PD on the working electrode of the sensor; and 4) cleavage of the cleavable linking layer thereby removing the NF molecules from the MIP layer.
US11193939B2
The invention relates to a method for detecting and measuring the presence of nucleosome-protein adducts and the use of such measurements for the detection and diagnosis of disease. The invention also relates to a method of identifying nucleosome adduct biomarkers for the detection and diagnosis of disease and to biomarkers identified by said method.
US11193934B2
A method for increasing the veracity of classification by detecting protein YKL-40 and MASP2 levels in the samples, comprises detecting the content of the YKL-40 and MASP2 in the samples; the ratio of the content of YKL-40 to the that of MASP2 acted as variable, receiving the ROC curve according to the sensitivity and specialty of the difference threshold value to the diagnosis for the cancer, calculating an area under the curve AUC; classifying the samples according to the value of the AUC, sensitivity and specialty. And a kit for detecting the protein YKL-40 and MASP2 levels in the samples.
US11193922B2
A nanopore-based sequencing system includes a plurality of nanopore-based sequencing chips. Each of the nanopore-based sequencing chips comprises a plurality of nanopore sensors. The system comprises at least one flow cell coupled to at least one of the plurality of nanopore-based sequencing chips, wherein the flow cell coupled to the at least one of the plurality of nanopore-based sequencing chips comprises one or more fluidic flow channels that allow a fluid external to the system to flow on top of the nanopore-based sequencing chip and out of the system. The system further comprises a printed circuit board electrically connected to the plurality of nanopore-based sequencing chips.
US11193921B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide for methods for detecting the presence and/or concentration of anions in a solution, systems for detecting the presence and/or concentration of anions in a solution, anion sensor systems, and the like.
US11193897B2
A mount assembly includes a stage including a base and one or more sidewalls extending upward from the base to define an elongated channel, and a holder including an elongated body having a first end portion and a second end portion opposite the first end portion, a bracket extending upward from the elongated body at the first end portion, and a foot extending upward from the elongated body at the second end portion. The elongated body is positionable within the elongated channel. An inspection device is extendable between the bracket and the foot.
US11193894B2
A user identification and contaminant detection system for a portable computer with the computer having a camera, an integral screen and central processing unit (CPU; a. an enclosure having at least one grasper disposed for coupling the system to the portable computer; b. a light emitter capable of generating light of with least one excitation wavelength for a contaminant present in its output spectrum with output of the emitter oriented into the field of view of the camera; c. electronic communication between the computer and the emitter; c. software loaded onto the computer capable of (1) activating the emitter, (2) comparing a scene recorded by the camera to at least one emission wavelength for the specific contaminant corresponding to the excitation wavelength, and (3) displaying an output on the computer's screen corresponding to the areas within the camera's field of view where the contaminant is present in amounts greater than a detection threshold, and (4) using the output of the camera to determine the identity of a user by their hand shape.
US11193891B2
Provided are chemosensor compounds of formula (I) useful for detecting an ion, such as Pb2+ in an aqueous sample. Also provided are a chemosensor device including such compounds and methods of use thereof.
US11193890B2
A method for fabricating a composite film structure, the method includes determining a desired morphology for a metallic layer of the composite film structure, selecting a first metal substrate based on the determining, transferring a graphene layer onto the first metal substrate, depositing the metallic layer on the graphene layer to achieve the desired morphology, and removing the first metal substrate from the graphene and the deposited metallic layer to form the composite film structure. A surface energy difference between the first metal substrate and the deposited metallic layer results in the desired morphology of the metallic layer.
US11193889B2
A compact and miniaturized Fourier transform photoluminescence (PL) spectrometer is provided comprising five functional modules, which are all mounted on a same baseplate: (i) a sample placement module for positioning and spatially adjusting the sample to be tested, which includes a 3-axis stage (10) and a position mark (11) for the expected front surface of the sample being tested. The stage is employed for positioning the sample directly or a low-temperature optical cryostat that contains the sample (said sample and cryostat being not parts of the spectrometer), the position mark indicates the pre-aligned position for the projection of the sample's front surface in the horizontal plane; (ii) a built-in pump light source module for generating PL signal, which includes two lasers (20) and (21) with different laser wavelengths, the lasers' output can be selected on request in the wavelength range from ultraviolet to near-infrared.
US11193886B2
The invention relates to a device (1) and a corresponding method for mid-infrared microscopy and/or analysis, the device (1) comprising at least one radiation unit (10) configured to generate radiation (11) of time-varying intensity, the radiation (11) comprising one or more wavelengths in the mid-infrared spectral range, at least one refractive and/or reflective optical unit (12) which is configured to focus and/or direct the radiation (11) to at least one region or point of interest (20) located on and/or with-in an object (2), at least one detection unit (18) configured to detect ultrasound waves (17) emitted by the object (2) at the at least one region or point of interest (20) in response to an interaction of the radiation (11) with the object (2) and to generate according detection signals, and an evaluation unit (25) configured to derive infor-mation regarding at least one property of the object (2) from the detection signals and/or to generate a spatial and/or spatio-temporal distribution of the detection sig-nals or of information derived from the detection signals obtained for the at least one region or point of interest (20) located on and/or within the object (2).
US11193883B2
Disclosed is a kit for detecting content of fluoride ions in a microsample, including: at least one 96-well plate, reagent A, reagent B, reagent C, reagent D, reagent E and a fluoride standard solution having a concentration of 2.5 mg/L. The kit can be used to effectively overcome the uncertainties in the existing methods for detecting fluoride ions, and also involves rapid and convenient operation. Moreover, this method involves simple and rapid operation, the use of a small amount of a sample and simultaneous detection of multiple samples. This kit provides a more standardized detection to lower the human error, thereby allowing for a more reliable result and for a suitable application in the on-site detection of content of fluoride ions in various environments such as in water quality engineering or in the laboratory.
US11193876B2
A particulate matter sensing device includes a light source to generate a pulsed light at a first wavelength in response to a drive pulse. The device further includes one or more photodetectors. A thin-film filter is formed over the photodetectors and is tuned to be transparent to scattered light having a second wavelength substantially equal to the first wavelength. The scattered light is produced as a result of scattering of the pulsed light by the particulate matter. A charge collection circuit of the plurality of photodetectors electronically rejects background light.
US11193870B2
The present invention provides a method for estimating a condition parameter of a laser diode having an associated photodiode, to an apparatus for monitoring the operation of such a laser diode, and to a particle sensor apparatus. The photodiode (PD) is operable together with the laser diode (LD), wherein it detects the light (LS) of the laser diode (LD) and converts it into an electrical current, and is thermally coupled to the laser diode (LD). The at least one condition parameter is estimated during the operation of the laser diode (LD) and the estimation is based on current measurements and/or voltage measurements at the laser diode (LD) and/or at the photodiode (PD).
US11193864B2
A system for preparing a test sample includes a vial holder, a needle trap connected to the vial holder, and a sample preparation station. The vial holder includes a vial chamber configured to hold a vial, a purge gas needle, and a needle trap heater. The needle trap includes a needle with the needle trap heater surrounding a distal end portion of the needle. A packing bed is disposed in the needle at the distal end portion. The sample preparation station includes a housing and a vial heater assembly including a vial heater and defining a cavity. The vial holder is configured to be received in the cavity in an installed position with the vial heater surrounding at least a portion of the vial.
US11193850B2
A gas leak detecting device of a heater pipe and a gas leak detecting method of a heater pipe, which are able to reliably detect a leak of gas from a heater pipe in which a fine hole is formed. A gas leak detecting device of a heater pipe, which is provided with an inside pipe housing a heater element and an outside pipe sealed surrounding the inside pipe and which is adjusted by a pressure adjustment mechanism in gas pressure in a space between the outside pipe and the inside pipe to a predetermined pressure value. The gas leak detecting device includes a gas flow resistance part, a pressure detection unit, and a leak judging device that judges whether gas is leaking from the heater pipe based on a detected pressure value obtained by the pressure detection unit.
US11193848B2
A sensor cable of conductive and non-conductive liquids leaks for example stored in a tank or flowing in a pipe. The cable is composed of a main body and at least one sensor element made of a central wire surrounded by an insulating sheath, itself integrated in an expandable conductive sheath, the wire and the expandable conductive sheath being arranged to contact conductive and non-conductive fluids, the main body being formed by extruding a plastic material and extruded on a central support in the form of either a plastic rod or a metal rod coated with plastic. This can be applied to liquid leakage watch systems.
US11193846B2
A compressible element for a sensor assembly includes an elastomer matrix having a first compressibility and a plurality of closed areas distributed within the elastomer matrix and each surrounded by the elastomer matrix. Each of the closed areas has a second compressibility greater than the first compressibility.
US11193845B2
The present invention relates to an ultrahigh sensitive pressure-sensing film based on spiky hollow carbon spheres and the fabrication method thereof. The fabricated spiky hollow carbon spheres composed polydimethylsiloxane sensing film whose spheres were well dispersed in the matrix. The spiky structure is useful for the spheres to trigger Fowler-Nordheim (F-N) tunneling effect and thus enhancing the sensitivity of the material. The carbon material fabricated by the precursor transformation method contains a proper Nitrogen doping, which has efficiently increased the carrier migration ability. The hollow structure can both regulate the density of fillers and help to improve its temperature independence. Calcine the spheres under an inert atmosphere to transform the spiky hollow organic spheres into a carbon one, in this process the Nitrogen fraction and graphitization can be adjusted. The above carbon spheres then can be assembled with polydimethylsiloxane to achieve the composite film. The material of the present invention exhibits ultrahigh sensitivity, high sensing density, transparent, low hysteresis, temperature noninterference, and its processing method is simple, maturity and environment friendly.
US11193843B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide a capacitive pressure sensor. The capacitive pressure sensor can include a first substrate having a first surface and a second surface, a movable plate at a bottom of a first cavity recessed into the substrate from the first surface, and a second substrate bonded to the first substrate over the first surface. A second cavity is formed between the movable plate and the second surface. The second substrate includes a fixed plate disposed over the movable plate to form a capacitor. The second substrate further includes a third cavity between a surface of the fixed plate opposite to the movable plate and a surface of the second substrate opposite to the first substrate.
US11193838B2
A method for determining plane stresses on an in-service steel structure member based on phase spectrum of ultrasonic transverse wave, including: calibrating stress-spectrum parameters k and c of a replica of the in-service steel structure member; determining a first response frequency of a phase difference and a maximum value of a derivative function of the phase difference of an ultrasonic transverse wave echo of the in-service steel structure member, and obtaining a polarization angle of ultrasonic transverse wave components generated by a birefringence effect; solving a plane normal stress difference and a plane shear stress inside the in-service steel structure member; and separating normal stresses by a shear difference method to obtain three independent plane stress components.
US11193835B2
A circuit for determining and/or compensating for a measurement error of a sheathed sensor due to a property of a sheath of that sheathed sensor comprises a first and a second terminal for connecting to a pair of sensor signal leads of a sensor element in a sheathed sensor and a voltage measurement circuit. A switching unit controls switching an electrical connection between a first and a second state. A correction measurement circuit generates a correction signal indicative of that a measured current running from the first terminal through the switching unit. A controller receives the measurement and correction signal in both the first and second state, and calculates an error value indicative of the measurement error and/or a sensor readout value that is corrected for the measurement error by taking the measurement and correction signal into account as obtained in both the first and second state.
US11193833B2
The invention relates to a process for manufacturing a microbolometer (10) comprising a sensitive material (15) based on vanadium oxide (VOx) comprising an additional chemical element chosen from among boron (B), carbon (C), with the exception of nitrogen (N), comprising the following steps: i. determining a non-zero effective amount of the additional chemical element (B, C) starting from which the sensitive material (15), having undergone exposure to a temperature Tr for a duration Δtr, has an electrical resistivity ρa|r at ambient temperature greater than or equal to 50% of the native value ρa of said sensitive material (15); ii. producing the sensitive material (15) in a thin layer having an amount of the additional chemical element (B, C) greater than or equal to the effective amount determined beforehand, the sensitive material being amorphous and having an electrical resistivity of between 1 and 30 Ω·cm; iii. exposing the sensitive material (15) to a temperature less than or equal to Tr for a duration less than or equal to Δtr.
US11193823B2
A multi-angle imager (10) comprises an imaging array (Mij) configured to receive light beams (Li) via one or more entrance pupils (A1) according to distinct fields of view (Vi) of an object (P0) along each of multiple entry angles (αi). The imaging array (Mij) comprises multiple imaging branches (M1j, M2j) configured to form respective optical paths for the light beams (L1, L2) through the imager (10) for imaging respective subsections (S1, S2) of the object (P0). Each imaging branch (M1j) comprises a distinct set of optical elements (M11, M21) configured to receive the respective light beam (L1) along the respective entry angle (α1) and redirect the respective light beam (L1) towards the imaging plane (P1). The light beams (L1, L2) from each of the multiple imaging branches (M1j, M2j) are redirected to travel in a common direction (y) between the imaging array (Mij) and the imaging plane (P1).
US11193822B2
An air quality monitoring system that enables a wide scale deployment of instruments with enough accuracy for meaningful and actionable data is provided. In one aspect, an advanced technique is used to calibrate limited-capability gaseous chemical sensors to obtain accurate measurements by cross-calibrating those sensors with reference sensors to correct sensitivities to parameters that cause errors to measurements of targeted gases. In another aspect, air quality measurements are used to identify sources of chemicals in a localized level by accounting for local conditions using data such as ambient condition data and user-provided data about the local environment. In yet another aspect, a gaseous chemical sensor with an improved encasement having a cell for reflecting and lengthening light path is provided to reduce the limitations and enhance the accuracy of a conventional spectrophotometric gaseous chemical sensor.
US11193809B2
In at least one illustrative embodiment, a guided wave radar (GWR) level transmitter may comprise a waveguide probe to be positioned in a tank containing media, a measurement circuit, and a compute device. The measurement circuit may transmit a series of pulses along the waveguide probe and measure a series of reflected waveforms, where each of the series of reflected waveforms resulting from transmission of one of the series of pulses along the waveguide probe. The compute device may implement an expert control system to determine a level of the media in the tank, where the expert control system comprises (i) a knowledge base incorporating prior knowledge and (ii) an inference engine to apply logical rules from the knowledge base to evaluate information contained in the series of reflected waveforms to determine the level of media in the tank. The prior knowledge may comprise a system model of the GWR level transmitter, behaviors associated with typical level measurement applications, and/or system parameters supplied by a user of the GWR level transmitter.
US11193805B2
A fluid flow meter can include a sensor capable of transmitting a transmit signal to propagate, at least partially, through a fluid in a pipe and receiving a respective receive signal. The fluid flow meter can include a memory storing computer code instructions and a plurality of pipe type signatures associated with a plurality of pipe types. Each pipe type signature of a respective pipe type of the plurality of pipe types can include one or more characteristics of receive signals associated with that pipe type. The fluid flow meter can also include a processor communicatively coupled to the sensor and to the memory. When executing the computer code instructions, the processor can determine one or more signal features of the receive signal, and identify a pipe type of the pipe based on the one or more signal features of the receive signal and the plurality of pipe type signatures.
US11193804B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for operating a magnetoinductive flowmeter as well as to such a flowmeter, wherein a disturbance superimposed on a measurement signal is at least partially compensated for by negative feedback of the disturbance to the measurement signal.
US11193790B2
A method for detecting changes in road information includes converting a captured road image and a projected road-layout map into first intermediate data and second intermediate data of a same feature space, respectively, and calculating the similarity between the captured road image and the projected road-layout map based on the first intermediate data and the second intermediate data Thereafter, the presence or the absence of changes in road information on the projected road-layout map is detected based on the calculated similarity.
US11193784B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to providing an end of trip sequence when a vehicle is nearing its destination. One or more computing devices may generate and display a video indicating a projected trajectory of the vehicle and objects detected by sensors on the vehicle, on a map corresponding to a route the vehicle is currently following, where the video is generated from a perspective of a virtual camera at a default position and default pitch A determination that the vehicle has reached a threshold relative to the route of the vehicle may be made and the position and pitch of the virtual camera may be adjusted to an updated position above the vehicle and a perspective which looks downwards towards a roof of the vehicle. The video may then be generated and displayed from the perspective of the virtual camera at the updated position.
US11193773B2
A wayfinding system comprising: a first device comprising at least one sensor for sensing a spatial environment to generate a first map, said a first device positioned in a first position in said spatial environment; a second device for receiving signals from said first device to determine a relative position of said second device within said spatial environment; and wherein on said second device said relative position is used in conjunction with said first map to provide turn-by-turn navigation within said spatial environment.
US11193757B2
An image measurement apparatus, which functions as a non-contact profile-measuring device, includes: an image sensor as an image pick-up device; a variable focal length lens (liquid lens unit) disposed on an optical axis extending from a workpiece to the image sensor; and a controller (image-pickup lens controller and image measurement processor) configured to control the variable focal length lens and process a detected image by the image sensor. The image measurement apparatus, which also functions as a non-contact displacement-detecting device, includes: an image sensor; a variable focal length lens (liquid lens unit) disposed on an optical axis extending from the workpiece to the image sensor; and a controller (displacement-detection lens controller and profile measurement processor) configured to control the variable focal length lens and a detected image by the image sensor.
US11193755B2
Provided are a measurement system, a measurement device, a measurement method, and a measurement program. 3D data is registered to 3D data based on the displacements of joints of a robot at a point in time when a 3D sensor measures 3D data of a measurement object at a specific measurement point while the robot is stopped, and the displacements of the joints of the robot at a point in time when the 3D sensor measures 3D data of the measurement object at a measurement point other than the specific measurement point while that robot is in motion. The 3D data is further registered to the 3D data such that a registration error between the 3D data and the 3D data is less than a threshold value. Similarly, each of 3D data is registered to the 3D data.
US11193753B2
A tomographic imaging device includes a light source, a light pulse generator, a wave shaper, a splitter, a frequency shifter, a light path length changer, an optical detector, filters, a demodulator and an analyzer. The light pulse generator generates an optical pulse train from an output of the light source. The wave shaper modulates the optical pulse train by binary phase shift keying with PN codes. The splitter splits the pulse train into two signals, one is shifted by the frequency shifter, and one has a path length changed by the light path length changer. The optical detector inputs back scattered light from an object and the signal whose length has changed, and generates a difference signal. The filters filter the difference signals, and the demodulator demodulates the filter outputs. The analyzer calculates a reflection site of the measurement object by analyzing the output signal of the demodulator.
US11193750B1
Systems and methods for dynamic optical interferometer locking using entangled photons are provided. In certain embodiments, a system includes an optical source for generating a pair of photons. Also, the system includes first and second emitter/receivers that emit first and second photons towards first and second remote reflectors and receive reflected first and second photons along first and second optical paths. Additionally, the system includes a mode combiner for combining the reflected first photon and second photon into a first and second output port. Moreover, the system includes a coarse adjuster that performs coarse adjustments and a fine adjuster that performs fine adjustments to the first and second optical paths. Further, the system includes a plurality of photodetectors that detect photons from the first and second output ports. Additionally, the system includes a processor that controls the coarse and fine adjustments based on received signals from the photodetectors.
US11193747B1
A tape measure extension apparatus is provided. The apparatus effectively extends the length of a tape measure's hook for attaching to items with corner radii greater than about 0.5 inches. The apparatus includes an attachment portion including a slot adapted to receive and secure the distal end of the tape measure's blade and its corresponding hook. An extension arm extends generally perpendicularly away from the attachment portion thereby replacing the hook of the tape measure. The distal end of the extension arm is coupled to a torque redirection mechanism that minimizes kinking of the tape measure's blade when in use.
US11193746B1
The embodiments are directed to methods of initiating insensitive explosive formulations. The disclosed methods include positioning a donor explosive pellet adjacent to an insensitive acceptor explosive pellet having a plurality of relative percent theoretical maximum density (TMD) zones. The insensitive acceptor explosive pellet is adjacent to an insensitive explosive fill. Upon donor explosive pellet initiation, the donor explosive pellet provides a shock stimulus to the insensitive acceptor explosive pellet, which initiates the insensitive acceptor explosive pellet, causing a detonation wave to be driven through the plurality of relative percent TMD zones and into the insensitive explosive fill.
US11193735B2
This invention provides a quick detaching mechanism for handle light, including a handle light, a base and a locking rod; the base is rotatably connected to the locking rod; the locking rod detachably mounts the handle light on a bottom of the base; the base has a top which is mounted on a firearm rail. Through the cooperation of the base and the locking rod, the handle light with the handle and the tactical light combined can be quickly mounted on and detached from the firearm rail. The mounting and detachment processes can be completed by only controlling the locking rod. It is convenient to use and no other tools is required. Its operation is simple and convenient.
US11193733B2
An optic focusing cover. The optic focusing cover includes a cylindrical body with openings at both ends. A corrective lens is disposed within the cylindrical body such that it covers the entire opening. The corrective lens is capable of further magnifying the telescope. A cap is attached to a first side of the cylindrical body, the cap is capable of going from an open to a closed configuration. A second end of the cylindrical body is configured to be accepted by a telescope.
US11193727B1
A crossbow includes a barrel with a flight groove, and a bow. A magazine is mounted to the body and located above the flight groove. A passage is defined through the magazine for accommodating multiple arrows therein. A slot is formed between the magazine and the flight groove. A string of the bow movably extends through the slot. An arm is pivotably located in the passage and includes a hook end which normally presses on a top-most arrow of the arrows in the magazine. When no arrow is in the magazine, the hook end is inserted into the slot and the user cannot successfully cock the string because the string is stopped by the hook end, so that the user is acknowledged that there is no arrow in the magazine.
US11193725B2
A device implementable on a firearm includes a magazine extension housing, a pocket clip and a securing device. The magazine extension housing is attachable to a bottom opening of a magazine well of a magazine that is implementable on the firearm. The securing device is configured to secure the pocket clip to the magazine extension housing.
US11193723B2
A main header for an internal combustion engine radiator has cut-outs and V-shaped notches provided at the four corners of the main header. The cut-outs and V-shaped notches release the stresses after the main header is flanged, thereby ensuring the flatness or straightness of the main header. The main header further includes one or more strengthening strips disposed along the length sides and the width sides of the main header, and optionally at the region adjacent to the cut-outs, to further enhance the flatness of the main header.
US11193722B2
A heat exchanger with a multi-zone heat transfer surface is disclosed. The heat exchanger includes a fluid flow passage extending between and interconnecting a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet. A heat transfer surface is disposed within the fluid flow passage wherein the heat transfer surface includes at least one heat transfer-reducing zone disposed in thermal contact with a portion of at least one of the walls of the fluid flow passage and at least one heat transfer-augmenting zone disposed in thermal contact with a portion of the at least one of the walls of the fluid flow passage. The configuration of the heat transfer-augmenting zones with the heat-transfer-reducing zones is such that heat transfer across the surface of the heat exchanger in contact with the heat transfer-augmenting zones is increased relative to the heat transfer across the surface of the heat exchanger in contact with the heat transfer-reducing zones.
US11193709B2
A graphical display device for mounting to a door of an appliance includes an electronic visual display having a display screen, a housing having a receptacle for receiving the electronic visual display and a mount for affixing the housing to the door of an appliance. The housing additionally includes an internal cavity with a controller retained within the internal cavity, with the controller being operable to selectively enable visual display information to be displayed on the display screen. In a particular embodiment the graphical display device is configured as a housing with the housing including a grip portion and one or more mounts extending rearwardly from the grip portion. The controller may include an interface enabling connection with a remote computer for controlling the visual display information to be displayed on the display screen.
US11193708B2
Manual and automated methods of pre-charging an empty or partially empty insulated container with CO2 snow are provided. A first location such as a charging location charges CO2 liquid into a container to create a pre-charged container with CO2 snow. The charging location prepares the pre-charged container for delivery to a second location, either by itself, or through a third party. The second location may be a clinical site, which upon receipt of the pre-charged container, loads a perishable item such as a biological sample into the pre-charged container. A user receives the pre-charged container with perishable item and removes the perishable item from the pre-charger container for testing (e.g., biological testing). Depending on the level of depletion of the CO2 snow in the pre-charged container, the user returns the depleted container to the first location or the intermediate location.
US11193704B2
Provided are a control method of a heat pump system and a heat pump system. The heat pump system includes a throttling element and a four-way valve. The four-way valve has a first state in a case that the heat pump system operates for refrigerating and a second state in a case that the heat pump system operates for heating. The control method includes that: before the four-way valve is switched from the first state to the second state, A is compared with B, and switching of the state of the four-way valve is controlled and the opening degree of the throttling element is adjusted according to the comparison result, or switching of the state of the four-way valve is controlled according to the comparison result, or the opening degree of the throttling element is adjusted according to the comparison result.
US11193696B2
A process for liquefying a process gas that includes introducing a heat transfer fluid into an active magnetic regenerative refrigerator apparatus that comprises a single stage comprising dual multilayer regenerators located axially opposite to each other.
US11193694B2
A combined heat, cooling and power system is configured to generate energy as well capture a large percentage of energy that would otherwise be lost using components, including heat transfer components, embedded within a vessel to transfer energy in the form of heat to liquid within the vessel.
US11193684B2
Air conditioner units and methods for operating air conditioner units are provided. A method includes determining a benchmark control signal corresponding to a predetermined speed of a fan of the air conditioner unit. The method further includes activating a heating unit of the air conditioner unit. The heating unit includes a plurality of heater banks. The method also includes activating the fan while the heating unit is active and measuring a control signal to the fan after activating the fan. The method further includes comparing the measured control signal to the benchmark control signal, and disabling one of the plurality of heater banks when the measured control signal is less than the benchmark control signal.
US11193677B2
An air conditioner and a control method thereof perform cooling through an outlet if room temperature or room humidity is high to reduce the room temperature or the room humidity, and closing the outlet to perform cooling at low velocity through an outlet hole if room temperature or room humidity reaches a predetermined value so that a user can little feel the wind velocity of cooling of the air conditioner, while maintaining indoor space at pleasant temperature or humidity. By performing cooling at low velocity through the outlet hole formed in the lower portion of the air conditioner, it is possible to cool the lower area of indoor space at pleasant temperature when a user is asleep.
US11193676B2
A cooking apparatus is disclosed. The cooking apparatus according to one exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure comprises: an inner wall for forming a cooking chamber; an outer wall for encompassing the inner wall; a microwave generating part for emitting a microwave at a passage, which is a space surrounded by the inner wall and the outer wall; and an absorbing layer absorbing the microwave to be propagated along the passage, so as to emit an infrared ray at the cooking chamber.
US11193673B2
An oven has at least one of bake and broil heating elements which have a temperature switch as a portion of the replaceable heating element. Upon reaching a predetermined temperature, the switch opens and power through the heating element is secured. Once temperature is reduced below another predetermined temperature, the switch closes for normal operation.
US11193672B2
An assembly is provided for a turbine engine. This turbine engine assembly includes a combustor wall. The combustor wall includes a shell, a heat shield and an annular body. The annular body extends through the combustor wall and at least partially defines a quench aperture along a centerline through the combustor wall. The shell defines a first cooling aperture radially outwards of the annular body relative to the centerline and is configured to direct air to impinge against a portion of the annular body between the heat shield and the shell.
US11193668B2
A flexible inside corner trim piece is formed with concave depressions at hinge portions where wings attach to the body. The trim piece can be formed such that wings and a top cap lay flat in plane perpendicular to body or wings and top cap curve at an angle. Hinge portions can be narrow or wide and symmetrical or asymmetrical. The trim piece can be dyed, paintable, or present another decorative surface. The trim piece can include embedded lighting.
US11193660B2
A lighting apparatus includes a light source circuitry and an optical element. The light source circuitry has a light source baseplate, a plurality of light-emitting units arranged in an annular shape on the light source baseplate, and a driving circuitry located in an annular region surrounded by the light-emitting units on the light source baseplate. The optical element includes an annular optical accommodation region at an outer periphery and a driving accommodation region protruded from the optical accommodation region and is disposed in a region surrounded by the optical accommodation region. The optical accommodation region includes an optical accommodation groove which is facing the light-emitting units and configured to accommodate the light-emitting units. Light emitted by the light-emitting units is incident onto the optical accommodation groove and then exits upon being distributed; and the driving circuitry of the light source circuitry is correspondingly accommodated in the driving accommodation region.
US11193659B2
The present disclosure provides a point-control copper wire lamp and a lamp, comprising: a plurality of lamp beads, a first connecting line, a signal line and a second connecting line. A lamp bead includes a positive electrode welding leg, a negative electrode welding leg and a signal line welding leg; the positive electrode welding leg is welded to the first connecting line, the negative electrode welding leg is welded to the second connecting line, the signal line welding leg is welded to the signal line, and the lamp beads are arranged sequentially according to the preset positions. The point-control copper wire lamp and the lamp provided by the present disclosure have simple structures, and the lamp beads work independently and do not affect each other.
US11193657B2
A frame system for securing a lighting fixture to a surface is provided. The frame system can include a frame defining an opening. The frame can be configured to accommodate a selected insert of a plurality of inserts associated with the lighting fixture and coupleable to the frame. Each of the plurality of inserts can include an aperture defining portion of a different size or shape. The aperture defining portion of the selected insert can extend through the opening defined by the frame.
US11193638B2
The back plate has four lateral walls and a bottom plate. A back side of the bottom plate includes multiple sets of folding hooks. Each set corresponds a different installation platform. One of the multiple sets of folding hooks is folded to be used for hooking to a corresponding installation platform. The light source module has multiple LED modules disposed on the bottom plate. Each LED module has a LED device and a lens. The lens diffuses a light of the LED device to be evenly emitted from the lens and broadening an output angle of the light via the lens. The diffusion plate with a peripheral edge is fixed to the four lateral walls of the back plate. The driver cover is attached to an external side of one of the four walls of the back plate. The driver cover defines a container cavity for concealing the driver module.
US11193631B2
To provide a filling apparatus capable of suppressing radial movement of a rod-shaped member (connecting pin) of a nozzle, and preventing damages and deformations (recesses and so on) from generating on an outer peripheral surface of the connecting pin. A filling apparatus (100) according to the present invention includes: a storage tank for storing hydrogen fuel; a filling nozzle (10) for filling a hydrogen gas from the storage tank through a fuel filling system to an in-vehicle hydrogen filling tank mounted on a vehicle; a rod-shaped member (2: connecting pin) and a main body portion (1) mounted on the filling nozzle (10); a sealing member (3: laminated sealing member) arranged on (a radially outer peripheral portion of the rod-shaped member of) the main body portion (1); a guide member (4: pressing member), projecting radially inward, mounted on a portion separated from an end side of the rod-shaped member (2) (from a receptacle 20 side in an in-vehicle hydrogen filling tank to the fuel filling system); and means for protecting an outer peripheral surface of the rod-shaped member (2) from slide on the guide member (4).
US11193626B2
The invention is an articulated funnel holder and a method, the articulated funnel holder comprising a magnetic tray supporting a J-shaped support arm that attaches at one end to the magnetic tray and at another end to a pivoting device, the pivoting device further connects to one mast end of telescopic mast to move the telescopic mast between raised and lowered positions relative to the magnetic tray, a remaining mast end removably supports a funnel ring that removably receives and supports a funnel, wherein the articulated funnel holder moves between an open operative position and compact storage position; wherein articulated funnel holder in the compact storage position places the telescopic mast and the one or more funnel rings within a storage area as defined by edges of the magnetic tray.
US11193623B2
A sleeve is provided for covering a pipe joint formed between two pipes that are coupled to one another to form a tube. The sleeve comprises a heat-shrinkable material that is configured to conform to the first and second pipes when heated to cover the pipe joint.
US11193619B2
A fibre-reinforced polymer component is provided which comprises a main portion comprising fibre-reinforced polymer and at least one surface and at least one raised feature extending from said surface. The at least one raised feature consists of non-reinforced polymer and is shaped to incur visually perceptible damage when the component is subject to an impact with an energy above a predetermined impact energy threshold and to resist an impact with an energy below the predetermined impact energy threshold. The at least one raised feature thus provides a clear visual aid as to when a component has experienced an impact with an energy above the impact energy threshold. Because the raised feature consists of polymer without fibre reinforcement, it is more fragile than the fibre-reinforced polymer main portion 204 and thus reduces the energy at which impacts may be detected.
US11193617B2
A quick connect fitting kit includes a chuck having a threaded end. The chuck defines a channel. A collar has a threaded end and a sloped inner surface. The threaded end of the collar is meshable with the threaded end of the chuck to mount the collar to the chuck. A collet has a sloped outer surface. The collet is positioned within the collar such that the sloped outer surface of the collet is positioned on the sloped inner surface of the collar. The collet defines a passage. The passage of the collet is sized for receipt of a pipe. The pipe is in fluid communication with the channel of the chuck when the collet is compressed against the pipe and the collar is mounted to the chuck.
US11193612B2
A no-hub connector has a tubular gasket enclosed by a tubular shield and includes two end clamps and two intermediate clamps to tighten the connector around the ends of two pipe sections joined by the connector. Axially extending straps are fastened to each ring clamp, and fastened to the shield at the location of each ring clamp encircling the shield. An inward facing shield surface has optional gripping projections and the shield may optionally extend axially past the intermediate clamps to the end clamps. The inward facing surface of the end clamps may have optional gripping projections if the shield does not extend axially to the end clamps.
US11193606B2
An electric valve includes a stator assembly, a rotor, a circuit board assembly, a sleeve and a valve assembly. The stator assembly is arranged around the rotor. The sleeve isolates the stator assembly from the rotor. The stator assembly is electrically connected to the circuit board assembly. A valve port is formed in the electric valve. The rotor can drive the movement of the valve assembly with respect to the valve port. The electric valve further comprises a box body. The circuit board assembly is arranged in the box body. The box body includes a shell and a cover body. A seal ring is arranged at a joint of the shell and the cover body. The seal ring is compressed between the shell and the cover body. The cover body is fixedly connected to the shell by means of welding.
US11193600B2
A solenoid valve system includes a valve body defining porting for a fluid flow through the valve body, and first and second solenoid valve components attached oppositely to the valve body. Each valve component includes an electromagnetically driven armature with a poppet that moves between a closed position and an open position. The porting defined by the valve body includes first side porting, second side porting, and common porting in fluid communication with an internal common chamber defined by the valve body. When a respective poppet is in the closed position, flow of fluid is blocked between the respective side porting and the common porting, and when the respective poppet is in the open position the poppet permits a flow of fluid between the respective side porting and the common porting through the common chamber.
US11193593B2
A hydrostatic seal assembly includes a primary seal configured to maintain a selected gap between the primary seal and a rotating component. The primary seal includes a seal support, a seal shoe, and one or more seal beams operably connecting the seal support to the seal shoe. The one or more seal beams are configured as spring elements integral with the seal shoe to allow radial movement of the seal shoe relative to the seal support. A seal carrier including a radial outer wall is configured to radially position the primary seal. The seal carrier is configured for a non-contact relationship with the seal shoe during operation of the hydrostatic seal assembly.
US11193590B2
Systems and methods are presented for sealing a higher pressure fluid cavity from a lower pressure fluid cavity in a rotating machine. The cavities are at least partially disposed between a rotatable shaft and a housing. The seal assembly comprises a runner mounting assembly, a circumferential ceramic runner, a carbon seal ring, and an annular seal member. The carbon seal ring is sealing engaged with the housing and at least a portion of the runner to thereby form a boundary between the higher pressure fluid cavity and the lower pressure fluid cavity. The annular seal member is coupled to the housing axially displaced from the seal ring in the lower pressure fluid cavity. The seal member has a curvilinear face surface that engages the runner.
US11193586B2
A parking lock for a transmission of a motor vehicle may include a park gear rotatable about an axis of rotation, and an actuation device adjustable into a locking position and an unlocking position radially relative to the axis of rotation. In the unlocking position, rotating of the park gear may be possible, and in the locking position, rotating of the park gear may be prevented by way of positive locking. The actuation device may include a shifting drum and a locking lever, wherein the shifting drum may be rotatable about a guiding axis that is radial relative to the axis of rotation. The locking lever, by way of a guide track formed in the shifting drum, may interact with the guide track so that when the shifting drum is rotated, the locking lever may be guidable by the guide track radially relative to the axis of rotation and parallel to the guiding axis, and thereby the actuation device may be adjustable into the locking position and into the unlocking position.
US11193579B2
A vehicle shifter including a shift lever; a bracket that moves in response to the shift lever, and includes a neutral lock notch, a first outer surface and a second outer surface on either side of the neutral lock notch; a solenoid actuator movable between a first position and a second position; a blocker coupled to the solenoid actuator that moves the blocker between a neutral lock release position and a neutral lock position, the blocker including a neutral lock hook that, when in the neutral lock position, moves along the first and second outer surfaces and that selectively falls into the neutral lock notch to selectively prevent shifting out of the neutral position; and a toggle cam coupled to the bracket including a catch for engaging the neutral lock hook so as to prevent the neutral lock hook from sliding into the neutral lock notch.
US11193577B2
An epicyclic gear system, a fluid directing ring, and a method of directing a fluid to at least one fluid passage of a carrier in an epicyclic gear system are provided. The system includes a sun gear, a plurality of planet gears disposed around the sun gear, a carrier configured for rotation relative to the sun gear and having at least one fluid passage having a fluid passage inlet for supplying a fluid to at least one of the plurality of planet gears, and a plurality of fluid directors fixed for rotation with the carrier and disposed radially inward from the fluid passage inlet. Each of the plurality of fluid directors has a directing surface configured to receive the fluid conveyed radially outwardly and direct the fluid in a direction of rotation of the carrier.
US11193566B2
An actuator includes a threaded spindle and an internally threaded component screwed onto the threaded spindle. The component includes a plastic element having a first axial end and a second axial end and an interior having a width and a radially inwardly projecting flange at the first axial end, and the flange has an inner diameter less than the width of the interior. A metal element, such as a nut, is fixedly mounted in the interior of the plastic element, and the internal thread of the nut has a maximum diameter greater than the inner diameter of the flange.
US11193561B2
A drive assembly for a motor vehicle includes a housing having a transmission housing chamber, a reservoir, and a clutch housing chamber. At least one of the transmission housing chamber or the clutch housing chamber are fluidically connected to the reservoir. A transmission is disposed in the transmission housing chamber. A clutch is disposed in the clutch housing chamber. The clutch is drivingly connected to the transmission. An actuator has an actuating element engaged with the clutch. The clutch is moveable by the actuating element between a disengaged position and an engaged position. A valve is operatively connected to the actuating element of the actuator to allow lubricant flow from the reservoir to at least one of the transmission housing chamber and the clutch housing chamber when the clutch is in the engaged position and to prevent lubricant flow from the reservoir when the clutch is in the disengaged position.
US11193559B2
A transmission having planetary gearsets (RS1, RS2, RS3, RS4, RS5). Elements (ST2, ST4) of gearsets (RS2, RS4) form input and output shafts, respectively. Element (SO1) of gearset (RS1) couples element (HO5) of gearset (RS5) and can be immobilized by shift element (A). Element (ST1) of gearset (RS1) couples element (HO4) of gearset (RS4). Element (HO1) of gearset (RS1) can be immobilized by shift element (B). Elements (SO4, ST2) of gearsets (RS4 RS2) can connect by shift element (C). Elements (HO2, SO3, SO5) of gearsets (RS2, RS3, RS5) couple and can couple element (SO4) of gearset (RS4) by shift element (E). An element of gearset (RS4) is connected to an element of gearset (RS3), while another element of gearset (RS4) can be connected by shift element (D) to another element of gearset (RS3). Elements (SO2 ST5) of gearsets (RS2, RS5) are connected and can be immobilized by shift element (F).
US11193538B2
A bearing cage assembly is disclosed. The assembly includes a stiffening ring formed from a first material, and a cage formed from a second material that is different than the first material. The cage includes a plurality of arms extending axially away from a base rim. The plurality of arms define a plurality of rolling element pockets therebetween. Each of the plurality of arms defines a slot dimensioned to receive a portion of the stiffening ring, such that the stiffening ring is secured to the cage via engagement within the slots of the plurality of arms.
US11193527B2
A supporting device includes a first and a second support, a fixed washer, and a threaded fastener. The first support has a threaded structure extending along a rotation axis, and a first engaging structure. The second support is pivotally connected to the first support relative to the rotation axis and has a through hole aligning with the threaded structure. The fixed washer includes a washer portion and a second engaging structure. The washer portion is disposed on the second support and aligns with the through hole. The second engaging structure passes through the through hole to engage with the first engaging structure. The threaded fastener presses against the washer portion and passes through the washer portion and the through hole to engage with the threaded structure. When the second support and the first support rotate relatively, the fixed washer and the first support remain fixed relative to the rotation axis.
US11193522B2
A shear bolt including a head portion and a shaft portion extending along an axis from the head portion is described. The shaft portion has a threaded outer surface and a stepped bore where the stepped bore has a plurality of regions along the axis and a plurality of steps. Each step in the plurality of steps separates adjacent regions in the plurality of regions and an inner diameter of the stepped bore is constant in each region in the plurality of regions and changes discontinuously at each step in the plurality of steps. The inner diameter increases from a first region in the plurality of regions closest to the head portion to a second region in the plurality of regions farthest from the head portion.
US11193518B2
The present disclosure relates to modular furniture made from a number of substantially flat panels. The panels have bevelled edges and magnets are disposed in or on the bevelled edges. Multiple panels thus may be joined together magnetically to construct a piece of furniture. In some examples, the outward pointing poles of adjacent magnets alternate (North, South, North South, etc.) around the panel. In some examples, there are protrusions and depressions on some or all bevelled edges, such that a protrusion of one panel can mate with the depression of another panel so as to resist the bevelled edges sliding past each other.
US11193516B2
A thermostat retention strap member including a thermostat housing, a thermostat positioned in the thermostat housing and upwardly extending from an upper surface of the thermostat housing, a first electrical cable extending into a first end of the thermostat housing, a second electrical cable extending into a second end of the thermostat housing, a retention strap extending from a first side of the thermostat housing, a retention strap receptacle positioned on a second side of the thermostat housing, wherein the retention strap is adapted to extend around a water pipe such that when the retention strap is extended through the retention strap receptacle the thermostat is in engagement with the water pipe.
US11193511B2
The invention relates to a method for producing a piston rod unit, or a shaft, in lightweight construction, with a rod which is hollowly-drilled by means of a deep bore into the rod shank, and the resulting rod opening is closed subsequently by means of a forging process.
US11193510B2
A hydraulic stage includes a hydraulic element located between and sealing a first and second chamber, wherein the first chamber comprises at least one aperture through which fluid is arranged to flow into or out of the first chamber; and at least one piezoelectric element which is positioned adjacent to the at least one aperture and is arranged to deform in response to an applied potential difference such that it blocks or obstructs the at least one aperture to a varying degree according to the level of deformation, so as to control fluid flow into or out of the first chamber. The level of deformation of the piezoelectric element thus reduces or increases an effective size of the inlet or outlet aperture to which it is adjacent, restricting or permitting an increase in fluid flow accordingly.
US11193508B2
A system and method is provided for monitoring a hydraulic power system having at least one light emitter and a button. The method includes powering on the hydraulic power system, receiving an actuation at the button and detecting a release of the button after a first time interval, and entering a diagnostic state. The method further includes retrieving a code and displaying the code by turning on the emitter in a first pattern. In some embodiments, a system and method is provided for regulating a temperature of a hydraulic power system. In some embodiments, a system and method is provided for controlling operation of a hydraulic torque wrench.
US11193504B1
A centrifugal pump to improve the efficiency of fluid flow, and minimize long term wear on the pump by progressively increasing fluid pressure as fluid moves from an eye of an impeller towards diffuser blades, into the volute and out through an outlet that is medio-laterally aligned with an inlet. The fluid pressure is increased by progressively increasing the volume through which the fluid travels. A tear-drop shaped volute casing surrounding the diffuser and impeller creates a pocket of maximum pressure just below the outlet. A dampener dampens the vibration of the motor. A cylindrical basket strainer is provided with a flat face abutting against the volute casing to distribute pressure evenly. A clamp ring is provided to easily seal and access the basket strainer using a plain rod.
US11193498B2
A turbocharger for an internal combustion engine is provided. The turbocharger includes at least three connections for respective lines. The at least three connections are arranged on the same side of the turbocharger. The turbocharger is designed in such a manner that the lines can be mounted with a common screw to the at least three connections.
US11193488B2
A scroll compressor includes a slider. The slider includes a cylindrical portion and a balance weight portion. The balance weight portion includes a counter weight part, a first main weight component, and a second main weight component. The counter weight part has a first outer circumferential surface that is a partial cylindrical surface about the axis of rotation of the slider. The first main weight component has a second outer circumferential surface that is a partial cylindrical surface about the axis of the cylindrical portion. The second main weight component has a third outer circumferential surface that is located radially outward of the second outer circumferential surface and that is a partial cylindrical surface about the axis of rotation of the slider and an inner circumferential surface that is a partial cylindrical surface about the axis of the cylindrical portion.
US11193481B2
A sump pump system includes a plurality of sump pumps adapted to be disposed within a crock. The sump pump system also includes a plurality of water level sensors adapted to be disposed within the crock. Each of the plurality of water level sensors generates water level signals. The sump pump system further includes a plurality of electronic controllers. Each of the plurality of water level sensors is connected to each of the plurality of electronic controllers, and each of the plurality of electronic controllers is connected to operate each of the plurality of sump pumps in response to the water level signals.
US11193475B2
A connection structure for a motor of an air compressor contains: a base, a cylinder, a motor, and a transmission mechanism. The base includes a first positioning orifice and a second positioning orifice. The cylinder includes an air storage seat. A small-diameter gear is inserted through the first positioning orifice to fit on the motor, a bearing housing is accommodated in the first positioning orifice, and the motor includes a magnetic coil. The transmission mechanism actuates a piston to move in the cylinder reciprocately so as to compress air. The magnetic coil includes a first segment and a second segment, and the base includes two symmetrical elongated plates which respectively have two hooks. The base further includes two symmetrical arcuate retainers.
US11193465B2
The invention relates to the technology of gasoline direct injection (GDI) in automotive engines. In this context, the invention provides a method for maximizing the formation of deposits in injector nozzles of GDI engines, said method including at least one test cycle, each test cycle including at least one testing step in which a predetermined condition of speed and load of the GDI engine is maintained for a specified period of time, wherein, in said cycle, in at least one testing step, the engine speed is maintained between 1300 and 3700 rpm, the engine load is maintained between 10 and 80% and the specified period of time is from 10 to 200 minutes. Thus, the method of the invention is able to reproduce severe conditions of deposition of material in a few days, so that, in a short period of time, the test fuel can be assessed for tendency to form deposits.
US11193455B2
A turbocharger is provided and includes a compressor housing and a recirculation slit and a recirculation passage provided at an inlet of the compressor housing to enable air flowing into the compressor to be recirculated. A gas supply part supplies blow-by gas towards the inlet of the compressor housing to allow blow-by gas to be joined with air recirculated through the recirculation slit and the recirculation passage and to guide recirculating air towards a compressor wheel.
US11193454B1
The invention includes methods and devices for preventing excessive NOx formation during the combustion event of a compression-ignition engine with any combustible fuel (diesel, Jet-A, JP8, bio fuel, etc).
US11193450B2
A nacelle comprising a fixed structure with a fixed cowling and a cowling movable in translation between closed and open positions, to open an opening between a duct and the exterior. A blocking door is rotatably movable on the movable cowling between a stowed position and a deployed position. A deployment system comprises an arm with a first end articulated on the blocking door and a second end that bears a stop, a slider fixed to the arm, a linear guide system is fixed on the fixed structure and guides the slide, and a cam. The stop is configured to lie against the cam when the movable cowling reaches an intermediate position from the closed position and to be guided by the cam to drive the rotation of the arm about the slider when the movable cowling moves from the intermediate position to an open position.
US11193443B2
A method of calibrating a soot load estimating function for a diesel particulate filter uses radio frequency attenuation measurement and temperature measurements. The method comprises identifying a minimum mean attenuation value associated with a standard deviation that exceeds a standard deviation threshold and using this minimum mean attenuation value as a reference value. The method further comprises using a data library that contains gradient values for each of a range of possible temperature values to obtain a first gradient value, the first gradient value corresponding to the first temperature value, wherein each gradient value relates to the gradient of a linear approximation between mean attenuation and soot load at the corresponding temperature. The method involves using the reference value and the first gradient value to determine an axis intercept value for use as an offset value and adopting the offset value as a temperature-independent calibration value for the diesel particulate filter.
US11193442B2
Provided is a fuel injection control device capable of detecting individual differences in fuel injection valves and appropriately collecting information on the individual differences. For this reason, the fuel injection control device includes a fuel injection valve drive circuit that supplies a current or a voltage to a coil of a fuel injection valve to drive the fuel injection valve, a valve body operation time period detection unit that detects a valve body operation time period related to an operation of a valve body of the fuel injection valve, and a state determination unit that determines that at least one of the fuel injection valve, the valve body operation time period detection unit, and the fuel injection valve drive circuit is abnormal based on information related to a valve body operation time period detected by the valve body operation time period detection unit.
US11193438B1
Methods and systems are provided for an engine of a vehicle during a cold start. In one example, a method may include heating a catalyst of an exhaust aftertreatment device with a plurality of electric heaters during an unfueled engine operation. The engine may be operated as a pump to oscillate air across the exhaust aftertreatment device, thereby heating the air via the plurality of electric heaters which, in turn, heats the catalyst. A configuration of the catalyst may promote expedited light-off which may reduce emissions during the cold start.
US11193421B2
Methods and systems for increasing efficiency of combustion in a turbine, methods including expanding in an expansion unit a pressurized fluid stream to form an expanded, cooled fluid stream; exchanging heat between an oxygen containing stream and the expanded, cooled fluid stream to reduce temperature of the oxygen containing stream to a reduced temperature and create a reduced temperature turbine compressor inlet oxygen containing stream; and compressing the reduced temperature turbine compressor inlet oxygen containing stream to an operating pressure of the turbine, where the step of compressing the reduced temperature turbine compressor inlet oxygen containing stream is more efficient than compressing the oxygen containing stream.
US11193419B2
The present invention relates to the carbon deposit buildup in the internal combustion engine, or more specifically the removal of such carbon from the induction system, combustion chamber, and the exhaust system. The method is one in which a high volumetric flow rate of chemical/chemical mixes are used to remove a greater amount of carbon from the engine. These preferred chemical/chemical mix flow rates are 6 to 9 Gallons per hour, which is approximately 9 times the volumetric flow rate of the industry standard of 1 gallon per hour.
US11193413B2
An exhaust aftertreatment system for use with over-the-road vehicle is disclosed. The exhaust aftertreatment system includes a reducing agent mixer with a mixing can and a flash-boil doser configured to inject heated and pressurized reducing agent into the mixing can for distribution throughout exhaust gases passed through the mixing can.
US11193412B2
An automotive exhaust aftertreatment system includes a reagent mixer. The reagent mixer includes a mixer body and doser that injects a reagent into the mixer body. The reagent mixer mixes an exhaust gases and the reagent prior to the exhaust gases being discharged from the reagent mixer.
US11193407B2
According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, an exhaust gas treatment apparatus may include: a preprocessor configured to primarily remove harmful substances from exhaust gas produced by combustion; and a postprocessor configured to further remove harmful substances from preprocessed gas, which is the exhaust gas from which the harmful substances have been primarily removed by the preprocessor, wherein the postprocessor may include a postprocessor housing having a preprocessed gas inlet through which the preprocessed gas is introduced and a postprocessed gas outlet through which postprocessed gas from which harmful substances have been further removed by the postprocessor is discharged and forming a flow path of the preprocessed gas therein, and a diffuser disposed adjacent to the preprocessed gas inlet and configured to diffuse the preprocessed gas introduced through the preprocessed gas inlet.
US11193403B2
An internal combustion engine switches valve operation states, reduces or prevents wear of a cam and a rocker arm, and reduces the size of the cylinder head to ensure a sufficient valve lift amount. A valve spring retainer includes a cylindrical portion including a first through hole with an inner diameter decreases from the first end portion toward the second end portion, a cone-shaped portion including a second through hole with an inner diameter increases as it extends away from the second end portion of the cylindrical portion, and a flange portion extending radially outward from the cone-shaped portion. An outer diameter of the cylindrical portion is constant from the first end portion to the second end portion, and an outer diameter of the cone-shaped portion increases as it extends away from the second end portion.
US11193402B2
A valve seat ring for a gas exchange valve of a cylinder of an internal combustion engine includes: a one-part or multi-part main body defining a through-flow opening; and a valve seat region arranged on a portion of the main body in the region of the through-flow opening, a surface of the valve seat region forming a valve seat for a valve body of the gas exchange valve. At least into the main body at least one recess is introduced, which is at least partly filled with a solder material.
US11193401B2
A valve gear includes a lost motion mechanism including a lost motion spring. A pillar is inserted into the lost motion spring, and a seat supports a lower end portion of the lost motion spring. A protrusion is provided on an opposite side of the seat from the lost motion spring. When viewed from an axial direction of the lost motion mechanism, the protrusion does not project out of the seat. By fitting the protrusion into the recess of the cylinder head, the seat, i.e., the lost motion mechanism is attached to the cylinder head.
US11193400B2
A camshaft phaser routes pressurized fluid from a set of chambers that are decreasing in volume to a reservoir. Oscillations of the rotor with respect to the stator create intervals in which the pressure in the reservoir exceeds the pressure in the set of chambers which are increasing in volume. During these intervals, fluid flows from the reservoir, through one-way valves, into the chambers which are increasing in volume. Pressurization of the reservoir increases the volume of flow through the one-way valves, decreasing the pump flow requirement for the camshaft phaser.
US11193393B2
A turbine assembly adapted for use in a gas turbine engine with a turbine vane comprising ceramic matrix composite materials. The turbine vane is configured to redirect air moving through a primary gas path of the gas turbine engine. The turbine assembly includes a vane-stage support for holding the turbine vane in place relative to a turbine case.
US11193389B2
A seal land includes a seal land body that extends circumferentially about an axis and radially between an inner seal land side and an outer seal land side. The seal land body is configured with a plurality of fluid passages arranged about the axis. A first of the fluid passages includes an inner passage segment and an outer passage segment fluidly coupled with the inner passage segment. The inner passage segment extends along a first trajectory within the seal land body towards the outer passage segment. The outer passage segment extends along a second trajectory within the seal land body away from the inner passage segment and towards the outer seal land side. The second trajectory is different than the first trajectory and includes a radial component and a circumferential component.
US11193387B2
Systems and methods for controlling powerplants that include and/or leverage one or more health models to proactively optimize component life or minimize damage of one or more components of the powerplant are provided. In one exemplary aspect, a control system for a powerplant feeds engine data into one or more health models. The health models output health data indicative of a condition of one or more components of the powerplant. The control system utilizes the health data outputs to proactively control the components of the powerplant in such a way so as to optimize component life/damage.
US11193383B2
A tail bearing housing of a turbomachine comprises an inner casing and an outer casing concentrically arranged along a longitudinal axis, and a plurality of vanes having a leading edge, a trailing edge, a first wall extending from the leading edge to the trailing edge and a second wall extending from the leading edge to the trailing edge, the first wall and the second wall defining an aerofoil, the vanes being connected at a first end to the outer casing and at a second end to the inner casing. At least one vane of the plurality of vanes is a vent vane comprising a first aperture arranged in the first end and a second aperture arranged in the aerofoil, the second aperture being configured to be in fluid communication with the first aperture through an inner cavity to vent bleed air.
US11193382B2
A turbine engine turbine including a nozzle stage made of ceramic matrix composite material and including a plurality of annular sectors forming an annulus presenting an inner shroud and an outer shroud, each sector having an inner platform forming a portion of the inner shroud, an outer platform forming a portion of the outer shroud, and at least one airfoil extending between the outer and inner platforms and secured thereto. A metal ring includes at least one annular sector, and presents an outer surface in contact with the surface of the inner shroud opposite from the surface from which the airfoils extend, the metal ring presenting an outside diameter at its outer surface that is greater than the diameter of the inner shroud such that the nozzle stage is held in compression between a casing and the metal ring.
US11193378B2
A turbine airfoil (10) includes a trailing edge coolant cavity (41f) located in an airfoil interior (11) between a pressure sidewall (14) and a suction sidewall (16). The trailing edge coolant cavity (41f) is positioned adjacent to a trailing edge (20) of the turbine airfoil (10) and is in fluid communication with a plurality of coolant exit slots (28) positioned along the trailing edge (20). At least one framing passage (70, 80) is formed at a span-wise end of the trailing edge coolant cavity (41f). The airfoil (10) further includes framing features (72A-B, 82A-B) located in the framing passage (70, 80). The framing features are configured as ribs (72A-B, 82A-B) protruding from the pressure sidewall (14) and/or the suction sidewall (16). The ribs (72A-B, 82A-B) extend partially between the pressure sidewall (14) and the suction sidewall (16).
US11193372B2
There is an oil and gas zone effectiveness evaluation method. The oil and gas zone effectiveness evaluation method has the steps of: obtaining a controlling factor parameter distribution of a target interval; obtaining an evaluation parameter lower limit value of an industrial oil and gas reservoir; obtaining an accumulation parameter value of each grid coordinate point according to the controlling factor parameter distribution; obtaining an evaluation parameter processing value of each grid coordinate point according to the evaluation parameter, the evaluation parameter lower limit value and the accumulation parameter value of the grid coordinate point; and obtaining a zone evaluation value of the target interval according to the evaluation parameter processing value of the grid coordinate point. There also is an apparatus that is capable of improving the evaluation coincidence rate.
US11193371B2
A method of formation fluid sampling that includes setting a dual packer tool in a wellbore. The dual packer tool is used to isolate an interval between an upper packer and a lower packer. The method also includes drawing fluid from the interval with a lower inlet, until an oil fraction increases over a base line reading, and drawing oil from by pumping at a low rate with an upper inlet.
US11193368B2
Tracers for oil recovery, particularly fluorescent nanotracers comprising polynucleotides such as DNA strands. The tracer comprises a core-shell nanoparticle tailored according to the operation to be traced. It contains a fluorescent core comprising a target polynucleotide that allows the detection thereof in the field and a functionalized polymeric shell that provides increased stability in high salinity aqueous phases. A method for preparing said nanotracer by encapsulation of a polynucleotide.
US11193366B2
A high-temperature miniaturized resonant gyroscope, which comprises a resonator, a circuit board, a piezoelectric element, a supporting base, a shell and a binding post, wherein the resonator is arranged in the shell and connected with the supporting base, the piezoelectric element is connected with the binding post through a metal conductor, and key process points of internal elements of the gyroscope are fixedly connected by high-temperature materials and high-temperature processes. The gyroscope is a small-sized gyroscope capable of working at a high temperature; the present disclosure also provides an inertial navigation system, which comprises a triaxial gyroscope, a triaxial accelerometer and a damper, wherein the gyroscope is fixedly connected with the damper, and the gyroscope adopts the high-temperature resonant gyroscope. A drilling measurement system and a measurement method.
US11193362B2
The invention discloses a method of solution mining trona by injecting an aqueous solvent into an underground cavity comprising trona to dissolve trona in the aqueous solution and removing the aqueous solution from the cavity at about the WTN triple point (the temperature at which solid phase wegscheiderite, trona, and nahcolite can co-exist in an aqueous solution). Alkaline values from the removed aqueous solution are recovered to produce a barren liquor. The method further includes either (i) treating the barren liquor to produce an aqueous solvent or (ii) treating injected aqueous solvent to reduce clogging at the trona dissolution surface caused by supersaturation of sodium bicarbonate, and precipitation of nahcolite and wegscheiderite as the aqueous solution in the cavity approaches saturation of both dissolved sodium bicarbonate and sodium carbonate.
US11193360B1
Methods, systems, and devices to enhance fracturing fluid delivery to subsurface formations to enhance hydrocarbon production from the subsurface formations may include providing a manifold coupling having a manifold coupling passage with a manifold coupling axis. The manifold coupling may include a first inlet passage positioned to provide fluid flow between a first fracturing fluid output and the manifold coupling passage, and a second inlet passage positioned opposite the first inlet passage to provide fluid flow between a second fracturing fluid output and the manifold coupling passage. The first inlet passage may have a first inlet passage cross-section at least partially defining a first inlet axis extending transverse relative to the manifold coupling axis. The second inlet passage may have a second inlet passage cross-section at least partially defining a second inlet axis extending transverse relative to the manifold coupling axis and not being co-linear with the first inlet axis.
US11193354B2
A motor includes one or more actuator, one or more one passive members, and one or more pushing members. The actuator(s) vibrate along a first axis. The vibrations vary a dimension of the actuator(s) as measured along the first axis. The passive member(s) rotate around a second axis that is substantially parallel to the first axis. The pushing member(s) are positioned between the actuator(s) and the passive member(s). The pushing member(s) are fixed to the actuator(s) and have a contact surface frictionally engaging and applying a mechanical force to the passive member (s). The pushing member(s) have an asymmetric rigidity along the first axis. The motor and a power consumer may be conveyed into a wellbore. The motor may be energized to supply mechanical power to the power consumer.
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A sliding sleeve well device has a first sliding sleeve received in a second sliding sleeve. A polymer seal having a polymer sealing surface is between and in sealing contact with the sliding sleeves. A metal-to-metal seal is between the sliding sleeves and actuable into sealing contact with the first and second sliding sleeves.
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A frac plug with a flapper, wherein the flapper is configured to set and unset based on a pressure differential and/or fluid flow associated with the frac plug.
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A slip insert is provided. The slip insert may include a concave surface formed therein. An edge can be formed between a first two-dimensional planer surface and the concave surface. The slip insert may include an edge formed between an intersection of a first two-dimensional planer surface and a second two-dimensional planer surface extending form the concave surface.
