US11203722B2
A multi-stage process for reducing the environmental contaminants in an ISO8217 compliant Feedstock Heavy Marine Fuel Oil involving a core desulfurizing process and a ultrasound treatment process as either a pre-treating step or post-treating step to the core process. The Product Heavy Marine Fuel Oil complies with ISO 8217 for residual marine fuel oils and has a sulfur level has a maximum sulfur content (ISO 14596 or ISO 8754) between the range of 0.05 mass % to 1.0 mass. A process plant for conducting the process is also disclosed.
US11203714B2
The present application relates to a luminescent material and a preparation method thereof. The luminescent material having a chemical formula of M1-x-y-zNbO3:xPr,yEr, where M is alkali metal element, 0.001≤x≤0.05, 0.001≤y≤0.1, and −0.05≤z≤0.05. The luminescent material is a dual-lifetime (fluorescence and long-lasting luminescence) and colorful (red, orange, yellow, yellow green and green) renewable luminescent material that respond to multiple stimulation (heat, force and light), and has a characteristic of multidimensional identifiability such as excitation mode, luminescence lifetime and luminescence color.
US11203712B1
A wellbore fluid may include a gemini surfactant, a zwitterionic surfactant, an activator, and an aqueous base fluid. The gemini surfactant may have a structure represented by formula (I): where R1 is a C1-C10 hydrocarbon group, m and o are each, independently, an integer ranging from 1 to 4, and n is an integer ranging from 8 to 12.
US11203711B2
An aqueous composition comprising at least a continuous aqueous phase and particles of a paraffin inhibitor component distributed therein, which is stabilized by a combination of at least 3 surfactants. Processes for producing compositions of this kind, and the use of compositions of this kind as a pour point depressant and wax inhibitor.
US11203699B2
A resin emulsion for a coating material, which contains emulsion particles each having an inner layer and an outer layer, and wherein: each emulsion particle has a resin layer containing a polymer (I) that is obtained by emulsion polymerizing a monomer component A containing 80 to 100% by mass of a styrene monomer and 0 to 20% by mass of a monomer other than the styrene monomer and a resin layer containing a polymer (II) that is obtained by emulsion polymerizing a monomer component B containing 70 to 100% by mass of a (meth)acrylic acid ester and 0 to 30% by mass of a monomer other than the (meth)acrylic acid ester; and the content of the styrene monomer in all monomer components used as starting materials for the emulsion particles is 10 to 55% by mass.
US11203690B2
Provided are thin leaf-like indium particles having a first peak and a second peak at a greater particle diameter than a particle diameter at which the first peak appears in a volume-based particle size distribution representing a relationship between particle diameters of indium particles and ratios by volume of the indium particles at the particle diameters, wherein a volume V1 of the indium particles at the first peak and a volume V2 of the indium particles at the second peak satisfy a formula (V1/V2)×100≥25%.
US11203685B2
The present invention is to provide an acrylic matte resin film with good matte appearance, high thermal stability during molding, stable production, in addition, excellent appearance design, high mechanical strength, easy handling, and applicability for various applications. Provided is an acrylic matte resin film which has a surface having a 60° surface glossiness (Gs60°) of less than 100% on at least one of the films, wherein an arithmetic mean roughness (Ra) of the surface having the surface glossiness satisfies the following formula (1) and wherein the surface satisfying the following formula (1), comprises an acrylic resin composition (a) has a gel content of 40% by mass or more: 2.2×NGs60°(−0.97)≤Ra≤4.4×NGs60°(−0.97) . . . (1) wherein NGs indicates a value obtained by excluding % from Gs60°, which is less than 100%.
US11203681B2
Disclosed are new precursors of recyclable cross-linked diene elastomers including chain-end units with furanyl groups, their use in the preparation of the recyclable elastomers and their process of preparation. Also disclosed are new recyclable cross-linked diene elastomers, their preparation process and their uses.
US11203677B2
The present disclosure provides, among other things, surface coverings with a protective coat applied thereto a rubber material. As provided herein, in some embodiments, a surface covering has or includes an exposed surface that is no-wax. The present disclosure further provides methods of making, and methods of using. Such surface coverings have surprising and beneficial attributes. They are particularly advantageous as resistant to soiling and abrasion. These surface covering are also resistant to crumbling under load. Such surface coverings would be useful as flooring products with desirable properties. In particular, such abrasion and soil resistant surfaces could be useful as a rubber flooring product.
US11203668B2
This polysiloxane: comprises a hydrolytic condensation product of a silicon compound that contains a cyclic alkoxysiloxane represented by formula (1) (in the formula, R1 groups each independently denote a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group having 1-3 carbon atoms, R2 groups each independently denote a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group having 1-6 carbon atoms, and n denotes an integer between 3 and 8); has at least two hydrosilylable carbon-carbon unsaturated groups per molecule; has at least two hydrosilyl groups per molecule; and in which the inequality 0.25≤t1<1 is satisfied, where t1 denotes the molar ratio of T units having a group represented by R1 relative to all siloxane units in the hydrolytic condensation product. The polysiloxane is addition crosslinkable, and is therefore suitable as a binder component of a heat-resistant paint or the like or as a coating material.
US11203666B2
Provided are a continuous production method and a continuous production apparatus utilizing the solution polycondensation for aromatic cyclic oligomers, which achieve a good space-time yield and are inexpensive and simple. The continuous production method includes: (a) supplying a polymerization solvent and a reaction raw material to a continuous production apparatus; (b) performing a polymerization reaction in the reaction vessels to form a reaction mixture; (c) removing water in gas phase parts of the reaction vessels from the reaction vessels; and (d) successively moving the reaction mixture to each of the reaction vessels; the steps (a), (b), (c), and (d) being performed in parallel; wherein an amount of the polymerization solvent in the reaction vessel positioned furthest downstream in a movement direction of the reaction mixture is not less than 1 L and not greater than 50 L per 1 mol of arylene units in the reaction raw material.
US11203665B2
The production method of the present invention includes a step of supplying an organic polar solvent, a sulfur source, and a dihalo aromatic compound as reaction raw materials to at least one of a plurality of reaction vessels mutually communicated via a gas phase; a step of removing at least a portion of the water present in the reaction vessels; and a step of performing a polymerization reaction. These steps are carried out in parallel, and the reaction mixture is sequentially moved between reaction vessels. At that time, the internal temperatures of the reaction vessels are all not less than 150° C.
US11203657B2
Disclosed are maleic anhydride-grafted cyclic olefin copolymers, methods for preparing maleic anhydride-grafted cyclic olefin copolymers, low temperature methods for laminating anodes comprising the maleic anhydride-grafted cyclic olefin copolymers, and anodes and alkali ion batteries that comprise the maleic anhydride-grafted cyclic olefin copolymers.
US11203656B2
The invention relates to a novel synthesis process in order to produce meltable PAN copolymers with increased thermal stability. The PAN copolymers produced using the method according to the invention surprisingly exhibit improved thermal and mechanical properties compared to PAN copolymers produced using methods known from the prior art. The invention additionally relates to corresponding PAN copolymers and to molded bodies produced therefrom or to a method for producing such molded bodies, in particular melt-spun mono- or mufti-filaments.
US11203650B2
A method of producing a silane cross-linked polyethylene is disclosed which includes maleating a polyethylene polymer to form a maleated polyethylene and reacting the maleated polyethylene with a primary or secondary amino silane to form a silane-grafted polyethylene. The method further includes treating the silane-grafted polyethylene in a moisture curing process to form the silane cross-linked polyethylene.
US11203643B2
Disclosed herein are humanized anti-CD137 antibodies and methods of using such for eliciting CD137 signaling, thereby enhancing immune responses such as T cell functions. The antibodies disclosed within may be used to treat diseases, such as cancer and immune disorders.
US11203637B2
Provided are antibodies that specifically bind to T-cell immunoglobulin domain and mucin domain 3 (Tim-3). The anti-Tim-3 antibodies can be used to treat, prevent or diagnose immune, cancerous, infectious diseases or other pathological disorders that may be modulated by Tim-3-mediated functions.
US11203635B2
The invention relates to an anti-human p53 antibody suitable for specifically binding a linear epitope which is exposed only in a conformationally altered isoform of the characteristic p53 protein of patients with Alzheimer's disease or prone to develop Alzheimer's disease or cognitive impairment during ageing. Methods and diagnostic and prognostic kits are also described.
US11203630B2
The present invention relates to polypeptides which include tenth fibronectin type III domains (10Fn3) that binds to serum albumin, with south pole loop substitutions. The invention further relates to fusion molecules comprising a serum albumin-binding 10Fn3 joined to a heterologous protein for use in diagnostic and therapeutic applications.
US11203623B2
The present invention provides for engineered molecular opsonins that may be used to bind biological pathogens or identify subclasses or specific pathogen species for use in devices and systems for treatment and diagnosis of patients with infectious diseases, blood-borne infections or sepsis. An aspect of the invention provides for mannose-binding lectin (MBL), which is an abundant natural serum protein that is part of the innate immune system. The ability of this protein lectin to bind to surface molecules on virtually all classes of biopathogens (viruses, bacteria, fungi, protozoans) make engineered forms of MBL extremely useful in diagnosing and treating infectious diseases and sepsis.
US11203622B2
The present invention relates to novel ficolin-associated polypeptides, and polypeptides derived from these ficolin-associated polypeptides for the use in the treatment of conditions associated with inflammation, apoptosis, autoimmunity, coagulation, thrombotic or coagulopathic related diseases, as well as the use as biomarkers. The present invention further relates to antibodies recognising such novel ficolin-associated polypeptides, and polypeptides derived thereof, nucleic acid molecules encoding such polypeptides, vectors and host cells used in the production of the polypeptides.
US11203618B2
The present disclosure provides immunogenic compositions against Campylobacter and methods for using the immunogenic composition to generate an immune response against Campylobacter and/or reduce intestinal colonization by Campylobacter.
US11203604B2
Provided is a process for preparing certain silane precursor compounds, e.g., triiodosilane from trichlorosilane utilizing lithium iodide in powder form and catalyzed by tertiary amines. The process provides triiodosilane in high yields and high purity. Triiodosilane is a precursor compound useful in the atomic layer deposition of silicon onto various microelectronic device structures.
US11203600B2
The present disclosure relates generally to compounds and compositions, intermediates, processes for their preparation, and their use as kinase inhibitors.
US11203599B2
Crystalline solid forms of methyl {(2S)-1-[(2S,5S)-2-(9-{2-[(2S,4S)-1-{(2R)-2-[(methoxycarbonyl)amino]-2-phenylacetyl}-4-(methoxymethyl)pyrrolidin-2-yl]-1H-imidazol-5-yl}-1,11-dihydroisochromeno[4′,3′:6,7]naphtho[1,2-d]imidazol-2-yl)-5-methylpyrrolidin-1-yl]-3-methyl-1-oxobutan-2-yl}carbamate (Compound I) were prepared and characterized in the solid state: Also provided are processes of manufacture and methods of using these crystalline forms.
US11203596B2
Disclosed are compound and methods of using the compounds for modulating ornithine aminotransferase (OAT) activity. The disclosed compound are characterized as analogs of 3-amino-4-(propan-2-ylidene)cyclopentane-1-carboxylic acid which may be formulated as therapeutic agents for treating diseases and disorders associated with ornithine aminotransferase (OAT) activity such as hepatocellular carcinoma and other cancers.
US11203590B2
A compound represented by formula (I), which is highly effective in controlling harmful arthropods, an intermediate thereof and a production method thereof are described. In formula (I), A1 represents CH or a nitrogen atom; R1 represents a C1-C6 alkyl group optionally having one or more halogen atoms; R5 represents CF3, C2F5, or S(O)mCF3; Q represents NR2C(O)OR3 or N═CR4R6; R2 represents a hydrogen atom or the like; R3 represents a C1-C6 alkyl group optionally having one or more halogen atoms or the like; R4 represents a hydrogen atom or the like; R6 represents a phenyl group optionally having one or more substituents selected from group D, or the like; and n and m each independently are 0, 1, or 2. Group D: a group consisting of C1-C6 alkyl groups optionally having one or more halogen atoms and C1-C6 alkoxy groups optionally having one or more halogen atoms or the like.
US11203586B2
An iridinesulfonamide compound having isocitrate dehydrogenase 1 (IDH1) inhibitory activity, pharmaceutically acceptable salts, solvates or hydrates thereof, a pharmaceutical composition, as well as use of the compound or the pharmaceutically acceptable salts, solvates or hydrates thereof, and the pharmaceutical composition thereof in treating IDH1 mutation induced cancer.
US11203575B2
A new method for producing a crystalline form of 5-amino-2,3-dihydro-1,4-phthalazinedione (luminol) is provided. Advantageous uses for this crystalline form as a detecting agent or as an agent for forensic purposes are disclosed, as well a pharmaceutical composition containing said crystalline form.
US11203572B2
The invention provides compounds having the general formula I: and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein the variables RA, RAA, subscript n, ring A, X2, L, subscript m, X1, ring B, R1, and RN have the meaning as described herein, and compositions containing such compounds and methods for using such compounds and compositions.
US11203570B2
The invention relates to a virtual sensing method and system for controlling at least one composition variable in a urea production process, based on a plurality of online measured process variables and a model, wherein the model is used to estimate, during the urea production process, the at least one composition variable indicative of a urea content on the basis of the plurality of online measured process variables, and modifying at least one of the plurality of online measured process variables for ensuring that a value of the at least one composition variable is within a predetermined range. The invention also relates to determining the model.
US11203562B2
The present subject matter relates to a process for separating compound (I) from a mixture comprising compound (I). The present subject matter also relates to a process for separating compound (I) from a mixture comprising compound (I) and compound (II).
US11203560B2
A MEG reclamation process includes the step of increasing above 2,000 ppm the divalent metal salts concentration of a rich (wet) MEG feed stream flowing into a precipitator. The increasing step includes routing a salts-saturated MEG slipstream from the flash separator it to the precipitator. The slipstream may be mixed with a fresh water feed stream, a portion of the rich MEG feed stream, or some combination of the two. The rich MEG feed stream also may be split into two streams, with a portion of the stream being heated and routed to the flash separator and the other portion being combined as above with the removed slipstream. The process can be performed on the slipstream after dilution and prior to entering the precipitator or after being loaded into the precipitator. Removal of the insoluble salts may be done in either a batch or continuous mode.
US11203558B2
A process for producing olefins comprising introducing butane feed (n-butane, i-butane) and hydrogen to hydrogenolysis reactor comprising hydrogenolysis catalyst to produce a hydrogenolysis product stream (hydrogen, methane, ethane, propane, i-butane, optionally n-butane, optionally C5+ hydrocarbons); and feeding the hydrogenolysis product stream and hydrogen to hydrocracking reactor comprising a hydrocracking catalyst to produce hydrocracking product stream (hydrogen, methane, ethane, propane, i-butane, optionally n-butane), wherein the amount of i-butane in the hydrocracking product stream is less than in the hydrogenolysis product stream, and wherein the amount of ethane in the hydrocracking product stream is greater than in the hydrogenolysis product stream. The hydrocracking product stream is separated into first hydrogen stream, first methane stream, first C2+ gas stream (ethane, propane), first C4s stream (i-butane, optionally n-butane), optionally C5+ stream; and the first C2+ gas stream is fed to gas steam cracker to produce a steam cracker product stream comprising olefins (ethylene, propylene).
US11203553B2
Highly dense lithium based ceramics can be prepared by a low temperature process including combining a lithium based ceramic with a polar solvent having a lithium based salt dissolved therein and applying pressure and heat to the combination to form a salt-ceramic composite. Advantageously, the lithium salt is one that dissolves in the polar solvent and the heat applied to the combination is no greater than about 250° C. Such composites can also have high ionic conductivity.
US11203552B2
A ceramic material, including: BaWO4-xM2CO3-yBaO-zB2O3-wSiO2, where x=0-0.2 mole, y=0-0.05 mole, z=0-0.2 mole, w=0-0.1 mole, M represents an alkali metal ion selected from Li+, K+, Na+, and x, y, z, and w are not zero at the same time.
US11203550B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a chemically strengthened glass plate that is chemically strengthened and thereby increased in strength in its entirety, a portable information terminal using the chemically strengthened glass plate, and a manufacturing method of the a chemically strengthened glass plate. The chemically strengthened glass plate and the manufacturing method thereof according to the present invention is suitable for use in fields of portable information terminals, substrates, etc. in which glass plates having high resistance to impact are required.
US11203548B2
An optical glass includes, in terms of mol % of cations, a total amount of La3+, Y3+, and Gd3+ components falling within a range of from 5% to 65% and a total amount of Zr4+, Hf4+, and Ta5+ components failing within a range of from 5% to 65%, and a relationship expressed in Expression (1) given below is satisfied. (La3++Y3++Gd3+)×(Zr4+ Hf4++Ta3+)≥400(%)2.
US11203545B2
A device for bending glass panes, includes a lower press-bending mould with a frame-shaped contact surface, an upper press-bending mould arranged opposite the contact surface, wherein the lower press-bending mould and the upper press-bending mould are suitable for reshaping a glass pane situated therebetween by pressing, wherein the side edge of the glass pane rests on the contact surface along a contact line, wherein during pressing, the contact line migrates from a first contact line all the way to a pressing line, and wherein the contact surface between the first contact line and the pressing line is convexly curved.
US11203544B1
A method, system and composition is described for treating waste generated from manufacturing operations including at least one of Printed Circuit Boards Fabrication (PCB FAB), General Metal Finishing (GMF), semiconductors manufacturing, chemical milling, and Physical Vapour Deposition (PVD). The method, system and composition are used to create zero liquid discharge recycling.
US11203537B1
A membrane filter apparatus for splitting a feed into filtrate and retentate is provided. The apparatus comprises a body chamber, a feed inlet disposed on the body chamber, a retentate outlet located in the body chamber, a feed distribution tube connected to the feed inlet, and a filter assembly having a filter. The feed distribution tube has a length sufficient to cause the feed to enter the body chamber at a feed distance from the filter assembly of no greater than 50% of a total length of the body chamber. The feed flows across the filter in a direction parallel to a surface of the filter assembly. The filtrate passes through the filter assembly and the retentate flows through the body chamber in a direction antiparallel to the feed flow through the feed distribution tube and out through the retentate outlet.
US11203531B2
Provided is a method for inhibiting extractant degradation in the DSX process through the manganese extraction control, the method comprising: (a) stirring DSX solvent and DSX feed solution, which is a solution containing a valuable metal from which iron has been removed in an agitator, in which soda ash (Na2CO3) is further added to maintain a constant pH; and (b) scrubbing the manganese from the DSX solvent, extracted in step (a).
US11203507B1
A sheet post-processing apparatus includes a stacker, a pair of folding rollers having a nip portion therebetween, and a blade. A sheet is stacked on the stacker. The blade is configured to fold the sheet in half by pushing the sheet stacked on the stacker into the nip portion of the pair of folding rollers. The pair of folding rollers are configured to switch between a first posture and a second posture. In the first posture, the sheet is pushed into the nip portion by the blade. In the second posture, a feeding direction of the sheet is different from that in the first posture.
US11203506B2
In order to enable a sheet end portion to be properly guided to a nip portion in performing folding processing a plurality of times, provided are a transport path including a guide face to guide a transported sheet, a rotating body pair which nips the sheet transported to the transport path by a nip portion to rotate, a folding blade that pushes the sheet to the nip portion of the rotating body pair, and a blade guide member including a guide portion for pushing one end of the sheet to the nip portion when the folding blade pushes the sheet to the nip portion, and a shift section that shifts the folding blade and the blade guide member in a push direction for pushing to the nip portion and in a return direction opposite to the push direction.
US11203498B2
A medium feeding apparatus includes a mounting section on which a medium to be fed is mounted, a feeding roller configured to feed the medium mounted on the mounting section, a separation roller configured to nip and separate the medium with the feeding roller therebetween, and a regulation section disposed downstream of the nipping position between the feeding roller and the separation roller, the regulation section being configured to regulate the contact of the medium to be fed and the separation roller by coming into contact with the medium from the side of the separation roller.
US11203490B1
A weldment structure for reinforcing a boom of a material conveyor apparatus includes a pair of elongate rigid members having an overall length with cut ends, a set of cross members sharing an overall length with cut ends, the cross members fixed orthogonally to the elongate rigid members functioning to hold the rigid members apart and parallel and at the same edge alignment, and a set of cross support brackets fixed to the cross members and to the elongate rigid members, the cross support brackets each supporting at least a return roller bracket assembly and a pair of opposing belt guides.
US11203473B1
A cooler device having a body and lid that can be secured shut and locked against the cooler body with a combination lock, keypad lock, key operated lock or electronic lock installed on the body of the cooler or lid of the cooler and that has retractable wheels that retract into the body when the cooler is stationary and released by a spring mechanism to extend the wheels for rolling the cooler.
US11203471B2
A method and system to provide a pill bottle with a removable pill cap case. A bottle cap has a hollow area which receives the removable pill cap case which fits (snaps) into the bottle cap. The removable pill cap case has a flip-top lid which can open and close and enable pills to be placed therein. As such, a user can open the pill bottle, place one or more of the pills inside the removable pill cap case, close the removable pill cap case, and then carry the removable pill cap case around with him/her without having the carry the entire pill bottle.
US11203461B2
A stringer and plank pallet, system and method includes a plurality of planks made of a composite material or a non-wood material and a thickness and holes defined therein comprising a plurality of post cutouts in each of a first and a second end of the plurality of planks. A plurality of stringers made of the composite or non-wood material are configured to receive the plurality of planks via a plurality of post plugs equivalent to the plank thickness and complementary to the plurality of post cutouts. An assembled outside surface relation of the plurality of stringers to the plurality of planks is self-aligning and flush. A plurality of holes are defined in the planks adjacent a first and a second end of the post cutouts to receive a plurality of fasteners driven into the plurality of stringers.
US11203452B2
A system includes a forming funnel, a cutting element, and a fusing device. The forming funnel has divergent surfaces arranged to receive a mailer in an insertion direction between the divergent surfaces. The forming funnel includes a slot that constrains the mailer after the mailer is inserted between the divergent surfaces. The cutting element cuts off a portion of the mailer and to forms a cut end of the mailer as the mailer is moved through the slot in a sliding direction. The fusing device applies pressure to an exterior of the cut end of the mailer and applies heat to the cut end of the mailer as the mailer is moved through the slot. The pressure and the heat applied by the fusing device cause portions of the cut end to fuse together to close the mailer.
US11203448B2
The invention relates to a method for forming package bodies open at one end from package sleeves open at both ends for the manufacture of filled packages. In order to allow packages with a cross section which is neither square nor rectangular to be formed more simply and reliably, the package sleeves are kept ready for further processing in a stack, folded flat along at least two folded edges running in the longitudinal direction of the package sleeve, the flat-folded package sleeves are transferred in succession from the stack to a forming station, the package sleeves are unfolded in a forming station and the unfolded package sleeves are, in the forming station, pushed onto a mandrel in order to close, in particular seal, a longitudinal end of the package sleeve.
US11203446B2
The present invention discloses a method for fault diagnosis of the sensors and actuators of an aero-engine based on LFT, and belongs to the field of fault diagnosis of aero-engines. The method comprises: establishing an aero-engine state space model using a combination of a small perturbation method and a linear fitting method; establishing an affine parameter-dependent linear-parameter-varying (LPV) model of the aero-engine based on the model; converting the LPV model of the aero-engine having perturbation signals and sensor and actuator fault signals into a linear fractional transformation (LFT) structure to obtain an synthesis framework of an LPV fault estimator; solving a set of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs) to obtain the solution conditions of the fault estimator; and designing the fault estimator in combination with the LFT structure to realize fault diagnosis of the sensors and actuators of an aero-engine.
US11203433B2
Systems and methods for monitoring passenger activity in an aircraft cabin environment to predict immediate future passenger needs. The systems and methods make use of sensors positioned within an aircraft cabin environment configured to sense condition changes of objects corresponding to predetermined service issues, device(s) usable by the service crew indicating the sensed condition changes, and processing circuitry configured to receive sensor signals and indicate the condition changes through the device(s) such that the service crew is made aware of the condition changes requiring actions to be completed by the service crew to attend to the immediate future passenger needs.
US11203421B1
A proprotor system for a ducted aircraft includes a duct and proprotor blades surrounded by the duct. Each proprotor blade is rotatable about a respective pitch change axis. The proprotor blades are configured to change collective pitch about the pitch change axes. The proprotor blades are extendable along the pitch change axes into various positions including a retracted position and an extended position. The proprotor blades change between the retracted position and the extended position based on the collective pitch of the proprotor blades, thereby controlling a tip gap between the proprotor blades and the duct.
US11203416B2
Systems and methods for tuning power transmission circuits may sweep a power frequency applied to a transmission coil across a plurality of frequencies. The transmission coil may be inductively coupled to a receiving coil and separated from the receiving coil by an air gap. A current and/or voltage at the transmission coil may be measured in response to the power frequency being at each frequency of the plurality of frequencies. A transmission frequency may be selected based at least in part on the measured current and/or the measured voltage.
US11203415B2
Disclosed herein is a flight control cable sensor for detecting actuation of a flight control cable of an aircraft. The flight control cable sensor comprises a draw wire encoder, comprising an extendable-retractable wire. The flight control cable sensor further comprises a first connector, co-movably fixed to the extendable-retractable wire, and a second connector, co-movably fixable to the flight control cable and configured to removably co-movably engage the first connector up to a predetermined pull-off force.
US11203410B2
An aircraft is disclosed having a wing, the wing having a fixed wing with a wing tip device moveably mounted about a hinge at the tip thereof. The wing tip device is operable between a flight configuration, and a load alleviating configuration for load alleviation during flight. The aircraft includes a restraining assembly operable between a restraining mode in which the wing tip device is held in the flight configuration using a restraining force such as by a brake, and a releasing mode in which the restraining force on the wing tip device is released, such that the wing tip device may adopt the load alleviating configuration.
US11203409B2
An airfoil member includes an airfoil skin, a trailing edge member, a spar member extending in a lateral direction within the airfoil skin, and an airfoil member morphing device configured to modify a shape of the airfoil skin. The device includes at least one motor or actuator, an airfoil skin support sheet attached to the spar member and corrugated to define alternating upper and lower lines of contact with inner surfaces of the rearward upper skin and rearward lower skin. Actuating bands extend from the spar member through alternating upward and downward sections of the airfoil skin support sheet and are operably connected to the at least one motor or actuator. The airfoil member morphing device is configured to independently adjust a camber, twist, and chord length of the airfoil member.
US11203403B2
A self-aligning structural attachment and a corresponding method are disclosed. The self-aligning structural attachment includes a main body having a proximal end and a distal end, wherein the main body is attached to (i) a CIP of a support system and (ii) a clevis on an airframe of an aircraft. Further, the self-aligning structural attachment includes a first attachment fitting disposed on the proximal end, wherein the first attachment fitting is a slide-and-swivel attachment fitting. Still further, the self-aligning structural attachment includes a second attachment fitting disposed on the distal end, wherein the second attachment fitting is a slide attachment fitting. Yet still further, the self-aligning structural attachment includes a pivoting hinge disposed between the first attachment fitting and the second attachment fitting.
US11203401B1
A transmission for an outboard motor, the transmission having an input shaft with an input gear non-rotatably fixed thereto and rotatable by an engine. A countershaft has a countershaft driven gear and a reverse driving gear non-rotatably fixed thereto, where the countershaft driven gear meshes with the input gear. An output shaft has first and second driven gears non-rotatably fixed thereto. First and second driving gears mesh with the first and second driven gears, a reverse idler gear meshes with the reverse driving gear, and a reverse driven gear meshes with the reverse idler gear. First and second clutches selectively rotate the first and second driving gears with the countershaft in first and second modes at first and second speeds in forward rotation, respectively, and a reverse clutch selectively rotates the output shaft with the reverse driven gear in a reverse mode with reverse rotation.
US11203399B1
A house is provided. The house includes a base and a roof. The roof is attached to the base. The base has sufficient buoyancy to enable the house to float on water.
US11203396B2
A bicycle drive unit is basically provided with an input rotational shaft, an output part, a transmission mechanism, an assist motor and a switching mechanism. The transmission mechanism has at least two shift stages, and is configured to change a speed of a rotational input that is input from the input rotational shaft and output this rotational input to the output part. The assist motor is coupled to a power transmission path from the input rotational shaft to the output part, and is driven according to a manual drive force. The switching mechanism is configured to switch a gear changing state of the transmission mechanism by using a rotational force of the assist motor.
US11203395B2
A method of making a bicycle sprocket having a rotational center axis basically includes providing an annular portion and forming a first tooth and a second tooth. The annular portion is made of a base material and has a plurality of teeth. At least one of the teeth is processed to form a first tooth, and at least one other of the teeth is processed to form a second tooth. The first tooth has a first axial chain engaging width that is smaller than a first axial spacing of an outer link of a bicycle chain and larger than a second axial spacing of an inner link that is coupled to an outer link. The second tooth is formed to have a second axial chain engaging width that is smaller than the second axial spacing. The second tooth is formed by deforming the base material.
US11203394B2
A bicycle hydraulic device is basically provided with a base member, a piston, a guide rod and a guide rod seal ring. The base member includes a main body having a cylinder bore and a guide bore. The piston is movably disposed in the cylinder bore. The guide rod is coupled to the piston to move the piston. The guide rod is movably disposed in the guide bore. The guide rod seal ring is disposed on the guide rod and in sliding contact with the guide bore.
US11203389B2
A leaning vehicle is equipped with a double wishbone (DWB) type suspension apparatus capable of improving comfort felt by an operator In the leaning vehicle, a connecting member is provided such that a first distance is smaller than a second distance. A distance from the connecting member to a hip point of an operator seat in a leaning-vehicle front-back direction is larger than a distance from the connecting member to a rotational center axis of each axle of a left rear wheel and a right rear wheel in the leaning vehicle front-back direction.
US11203380B2
In a steering assistance device 1, a steering control unit 74 causes a first auxiliary unit 14 to generate torque with reducing by a predetermined amount and causes a second auxiliary unit 20 to generate torque equal to or less than the decreased predetermined amount, in a case where the first auxiliary unit 14 is able to generate a steering assistance force such that a steering angle of a vehicle can reach a target steering angle determined according to curvature so as to make the vehicle travel in the center of a lane.
US11203379B2
Technical solutions are described for disturbance feedforward compensation technique for improving the disturbance rejection properties of a closed loop position control system using a cascaded control structure with an inner velocity and outer position control loops. According to one or more embodiments, a system includes a position controller that receives an input rack-position command, and a measured rack-position, and computes a velocity command based on a difference in the input rack-position command and the measured rack-position. The system further includes a velocity controller that receives the velocity command, and a measured motor velocity, and computes an input torque command based on a difference in the velocity command and the measured motor velocity. The system adjusts a position of a rack by generating an amount of torque corresponding to the applying the input torque command to a motor.
US11203378B2
A control device performs steering control of a vehicle by electric power of a first battery and a second battery and includes a calculation unit that calculates a total torque to be produced and a distribution controller that controls output of the first motor and the second motor such that a sum of a first torque produced by the first motor and a second torque produced by the second motor is the total torque. When neither the first system nor the second system is defective, the distribution controller sets the first torque and the second torque based on a state of the first battery and a state of the second battery such that predetermined performance of the first battery and the second battery is within an allowable range.
US11203371B2
The present invention discloses a folding device and a child carrier therewith. The folding device is installed between a frame and a seat of the child carrier and includes a sliding structure, a mounting base and a linking component. The sliding structure is fixedly disposed on or inside a handle of the frame. The mounting base is slidably disposed on the sliding structure for detachably engaging with the seat. A first end of the linking component is pivotally connected to the mounting base. A second end of the linking component is pivotally connected to a rear leg of the frame. The linking component is driven to drive the mounting base to slide relative to the sliding structure when the handle pivots relative to the rear leg. The folding device and the child carrier have advantages of easy operation, simple structure and compact folding of the frame.
US11203367B2
An improved safety system used to determine the present position of a car riding on railroad tracks that provides data to control signals, such as flashing lights, and crossing gates at railroad grade crossings in order to prevent accidents with vehicles or persons.
US11203365B2
A vehicle system having processors configured to determine permissible regions of a trip where the vehicle system is permitted for automatic control. The permissible regions of the trip are determined based on one or more of parameters of a route, a trend of operating parameters of the vehicle system, or a trip plan that designates one or more operational settings of the vehicle system at different locations, different times, or different distances along a route. The processors also are configured to control transition of the vehicle system between manual control and the automatic control in the permissible regions by alerting an operator of the vehicle system, automatically switching between the manual control and the automatic control, or modifying conditions on which the transition occur.
US11203357B2
A vehicle automated driving system 100 comprises a surrounding environment information acquiring device 10, a vehicle information acquiring device 20, a driver information acquiring device 30, a package selecting part 90, a package proposing part 91, an automated driving executing part 92, and a rejection count detecting part 93. The package selecting part determines the driving assistance package based on at least one of the surrounding environment information, the vehicle information, and the driver information, selects the determined driving assistance package if the rejection count of the determined driving assistance package is less than a predetermined threshold value, and selects a driving assistance package different from the determined driving assistance package if the rejection count of the determined driving assistance package is the threshold value or more.
US11203350B2
A vehicle control system includes first and second control apparatus for controlling a vehicle and a power supply. Each apparatus includes a detection unit for detecting a surrounding situation of the vehicle, and a driving control unit for executing automated driving control. The power supply includes a first power supply for supplying power to the first control apparatus, and a second power supply for supplying power to the second control apparatus.
US11203347B2
The present invention provides an in-vehicle device that provides a driving guidance to a driver, comprising: a selection unit for selecting ideal traveling information from a plurality of pieces of ideal traveling information associated with a plurality of skill levels, respectively, in accordance with an estimation result of a feeling of the driver; a determination unit for determining, for each of a plurality of items to provide a driving guidance, whether a difference between traveling information detected by a sensor of a vehicle during traveling and the ideal traveling information selected by the selection unit falls within an allowable range; and a notification unit for notifying the driver of an item for which the determination unit determines that the difference does not fall within the allowable range in the plurality of items.
US11203345B2
A method for protecting a dual mass flywheel DMF, by detecting, when the engine in running, that the DMF is entering into resonance, the DMF being arranged between an internal combustion engine and a gearbox of a vehicle, comprising the following steps: • Determining the average rotational speed (Vvilmoy) of the crankshaft, over time, over a predetermined given period, as a first parameter constituting a risk of the DMF entering into resonance, • Measuring the maximum instantaneous rotational speed and the minimum instantaneous rotational speed of the crankshaft, the difference defining the maximum amplitude (AmpVvil) of the rotational oscillations of the crankshaft, over the period, as a second parameter constituting a risk of the DMF entering into resonance, • Detecting when the DMF is entering into resonance from a determined combination of values of the first and second parameters, over the period, • limiting or cutting off the fuel injection in the cylinders after said detection.
US11203344B2
Systems and methods for driving trajectory planning of an automated vehicle. The system includes an electronic processor configured to determine a lane segment graph indicating allowable transitions between a plurality of lane segments. The electronic processor is also configured to determine a current type of traffic flow situation. The electronic processor is further configured to determine weighting factors for each of the allowable transitions based on aggregate observations of previous real-world traffic flow transitions for the current type of traffic flow situation. Each of the weighting factors indicate a likelihood of transition for a respective one of the allowable transitions. The electronic processor is also configured to determine a weighted lane segment graph based at least in part on the weighting factors. The electronic processor is further configured to determine a driving trajectory of the automated vehicle based at least in part on the weighted lane segment graph.
US11203341B2
A method to control a road vehicle for the execution of a standing start; the control method comprises the steps of: engaging a gear in a transmission while a corresponding clutch is open; progressively closing the clutch causing the clutch to transmit a torque that causes the rotation of at least a pair of drive wheels; determining a target slip of the drive wheels; cyclically determining a real slip of the of the drive wheels; and continuously modulating the torque transmitted by the clutch during the closing of the clutch based of a difference between the target slip of the drive wheels and the real slip of the of the drive wheels.
US11203327B2
The invention relates to a connecting device intended to connect a wiper to a motor arm of the wiper, comprising at least one connector (7) configured to be securely attached to the wiper and an adapter (6) intended to be received in a terminal part of the motor arm, the adapter (6) comprising an attachment device (13) which can move in rotation and is intended to immobilise the adapter (6) in relation to the terminal part at least longitudinally, characterized in that the connecting device comprises a first device (41) limiting the mobility of the attachment device (13) in a first direction of rotation (43) and a second device (42) limiting the mobility of the attachment device (13) in a second direction of rotation (44) opposite the first direction of rotation (43).
US11203320B2
An airbag uses a rear surface side when inflated as an occupant protection section. The occupant protection section includes a frontal collision restriction surface, oblique collision restriction surfaces on left and right sides of the frontal collision restriction surface, and restriction recessed portions between the frontal collision restriction surface and each oblique collision restriction surface. A recessed portion tether links a tip end side of a recess of the restriction recessed portions and a front end side of the airbag to each other to the inside thereof, and when inflated, at the time of dividing the region into two in the left-right direction around the vicinity of the attachment center to the storage part, provides a remote side region on a side away from a driver seat and a driver seat side region. The capacity of the remote side region is smaller than the driver seat side region.
US11203283B2
A headlight apparatus configured to irradiate illumination light onto a road surface on which a vehicle travels includes a visible radiation lighting unit and a projector lens. The visible radiation lighting unit generates illumination light. The projector lens is provided on an optical axis of the visible radiation lighting unit, and is configured to distribute and project the illumination light irradiated from the visible radiation lighting unit. The visible radiation lighting unit has an LED, a liquid crystal display panel, and a shutter. The LED emits light. The liquid crystal display panel controls light distribution of the illumination light emitted from the LED. The shutter is provided between the liquid crystal display panel and the projector lens, and is configured to shield the liquid crystal display panel from solar light that enters through the projector lens.
US11203281B1
An emblem for a vehicle comprises: (a) a light source configured to emit visible light; (b) a cover assembly disposed over the light source, the cover assembly having an inner surface, an outer surface, and a transparent portion that is transparent to the visible light, the visible light being incident to the inner surface, and the visible light that the light source emits transmitting through the transparent portion out of the outer surface to an external environment beyond the emblem; and (c) one or more surface relief patterns disposed on the cover assembly, the one or more surface relief patterns configured to manipulate (i) the visible light that the light source emits, (ii) visible light from the external environment, or (iii) both (i) and (ii).
US11203280B2
This disclosure details tie-down systems for securing cargo within vehicle cargo spaces. An exemplary tie-down system may include a vehicle-mounted magnetic assembly and a tie-down that may be magnetically connected to the magnetic assembly for securing cargo within the cargo space. A magnet of the magnetic assembly may be energized to hold the tie-down and cargo in place within the cargo space or de-energized to release the tie-down and the cargo relative to the cargo space.
US11203273B2
A method and apparatus for determining a state of health of a battery in a vehicle includes determining a state of charge of the battery; determining a battery temperature and a cranking temperature; obtaining a cranking signal from the battery when the battery is discharged during cranking of a combustion engine of the vehicle; determining one or more cranking type classes based on the determined battery temperature and the determined cranking temperature; determining battery parameters from the cranking signal; determining the state of health of the battery from the battery parameters, a vehicle identifier and historical battery parameters determined in a historic state preceding the current state; and outputting the state of health. Determining the battery parameters from the cranking signal includes: obtaining an intermediate cranking signal based on the cranking signal and a window function; and determining the battery parameters from the filtered cranking signal.
US11203271B2
An apparatus for displaying a distance to empty of a vehicle includes a controller configured to: estimate a mass of the vehicle, which increases or decreases while the vehicle is running; to calculate a driving energy consumption using a past-learned energy consumption based on a mass level corresponding to the increase or decrease in mass of the vehicle while the vehicle is running, and a current energy consumption of the vehicle; to calculate the distance to empty of the vehicle based on the driving energy consumption; to determine whether to update the distance to empty displayed on a display based on the mass level while the vehicle is running; and to update display information on the display based on the distance to empty.
US11203270B2
An electric vehicle includes a power receiver, a controller, an error detector, and a record processor. The power receiver wirelessly receives electric power from power transmission equipment disposed outside the vehicle. The controller controls the reception of the electric power via the power receiver. The error detector detects an error in power transmission from the power transmission equipment to the power receiver during the control of the reception of the electric power by the controller. The record processor records error history information regarding the error detected by the error detector and causes a data volume of the error history information retrievable from the record processor to be smaller when the error is due to a foreign object present between the power transmission equipment and the vehicle than when the error is not due to the foreign object.
US11203265B2
System and method of controlling power distribution from a charging source to an electric vehicle having a battery. The system includes a plurality of switches selectively connectable between the charging source, the battery and a thermal circuit. A controller is configured to control operation of the plurality of switches to provide multiple settings for the electric vehicle. The controller is configured to select from the multiple settings based on part on a trigger signal from a mobile application. The multiple settings include an external power mode, a charging mode, a discharging mode and a mixed charging and conditioning mode. The mixed charging and conditioning mode allows charging of the battery concurrently with thermal conditioning of at least one of the battery and a cabin of the vehicle. The mixed charging and conditioning mode enables a power split between a thermal conditioning power (PT) and a charging power (PC).
US11203261B2
Methods and systems are provided for controlling an airflow to an engine via a primary air induction pathway or a secondary air induction pathway, where the secondary air induction pathway routes the airflow to the engine via a deployable snorkel system. Thus, in one example, a method comprises routing the airflow to the engine solely via the primary air induction pathway by commanding open a first air inlet valve and commanding closed a second air inlet valve, and responsive to a request to switch the routing, commanding closed the first air inlet valve and commanding open the second air inlet valve. In this way, the snorkel system may selectively be used in response to requests from a vehicle operator.
US11203258B2
An active air curtain apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a duct that is formed with a suction port, a discharge port, and an air flow path from the section port to the discharge port and that is mounted to the inner surface of a bumper of the vehicle. A flap having a plate shape is operated by being supported and guided by the duct and is configured to open and close the discharge port.
US11203239B2
The disclosure relates to a traction device and a traction method. The traction device includes: a support chassis; a swing arm, one end of the swing arm is rotatably connected to the support chassis by a rotating shaft such that the swing arm can be switched in a retracted state and a deployed state, wherein the swing arm in the deployed state is adapted to drive the wheel of the vehicle to rotate and tow the vehicle; a driving mechanism, connected to the swing arm, wherein the driving mechanism is capable of driving the swing arm to horizontally rotate around the rotating shaft to switch the swing arm between the retracted state and the deployed state; and a rolling assembly, disposed on a side of the support chassis and being capable of preventing the wheel from contacting with the side of the support chassis when the vehicle is towed.
US11203238B2
A lockable tow device for a vehicle includes a main portion defining a hook or shackle and a connector portion extending from the main portion and forming a receptacle. A pin is received in the receptacle, the pin forming a wrist joint of the tow device. An integral lock has a locked position that prevents removal of the pin and an unlocked position that enables removal of the pin, and can be spaced from the pin.
US11203232B2
A radial tire for an aircraft, the radial tire having a rim diameter of 20 inches or less includes a pair of bead portions; a pair of sidewall portions extending outward from the bead portions in a substantially radial direction; a tread portion that couples together respective radial outer ends of the sidewall portions; a toroidal carcass layer reinforcing a portion between bead cores embedded in the bead portions; a belt layer and a tread that are sequentially laminated on an outer side of the carcass layer in the radial direction, wherein a value M obtained by dividing a tire external diameter D by a distance L between bead heels of the bead portions is in a range of from 4.1 to 5.4.
US11203230B2
The caster wheel support assembly has a first section securable to a frame member of a wheelchair and a second section holding a swivel member coupled to a caster wheel. The caster wheel support assembly has a holding member designed as a collet configured to hold a first portion of the swivel member which extends along a first axis. A second portion of the swivel member, which is coupled to the caster wheel, extends away from the first portion along a second axis which forms an angle relative to the first axis. The first portion of the swivel member is supported by the holding member to selectively allow rotation thereof relative to the holding member about the first axis, causing adjustment of a camber of the caster wheel. The collet is configured to selectively prevent or permit rotation of the swivel member relative to the holding member.
US11203225B2
A lightweight wheel spoke for an automobile increases the strength around the heat dissipation holes by thickening the material around the heat dissipation hole on the inner wall of the spoke. The thinning of the material between the heat dissipation holes, that is where there is no heat dissipation holes on the tapered barrel, enables the tapered barrel of the spoke to form a unique concave-convex structure on the inner wall or the outer wall, thereby enabling the entire spoke to be secured.
US11203211B2
A system and method for coating a lens (10) using a plurality of inkjet print bars (46) arranged in-line, includes generating, using at least one processor (54, 110) in communication with the plurality of inkjet print bars (46), at least one graphical user interface configured to facilitate the automation of the creation or selection of an image to be printed on a lens (10); generating a plurality of image layers based on the lens (10) geometry, target product, and number of print bars (46); and controlling, using the at least one processor (54, 110), at least two of the plurality of inkjet print bars (46) to print the image on the lens (10), such that each of the at least two inkjet print bars (46) prints at least one image layer of the plurality of image layers.
US11203199B2
Embodiments of the invention relate to a method of indirect printing with an aqueous ink. In some embodiments, an intermediate transfer member (ITM) comprising a silicone-based release layer surface is employed. For example, the release layer surface satisfies at least one of the following properties: (i) a receding contact angle of a drop of distilled water deposited on the silicone-based release layer surface is at most 60°; and (ii) a 10-second dynamic contact angle (DCA) of a drop of distilled water deposited on the silicone-based release layer surface is at most 108°. Related apparatus, systems and treatment formulations are disclosed herein.
US11203193B2
Embodiments of a laminate structure for use in flexible packaging comprise a sealant film comprising ethylene-based polymer, and a multilayer polyethylene print film laminated to the sealant film. The print film comprises at least 3 layers and has an overall thickness from 15 to 30 μm. The print film comprises a middle layer, an inner layer disposed between sealant film and the middle layer, and an outer layer, wherein the middle layer comprises at least 90% by weight high density polyethylene (HDPE) polymer having a density from 0.950 to 0.965 g/cc. The inner layer and the outer layer comprise linear low density polyethylene (LLDPE) having a density from 0.925 to 0.965 g/cc. The laminate structure yields desired optical and mechanical properties coupled with recyclability and improved printing efficiency, while maintaining these low thicknesses for the print film.
US11203190B2
A breathable film includes a substrate, a membrane disposed on the substrate, and an adhesive interposed between the substrate and the membrane. The membrane includes a plurality of fibers of polyvinylidene fluoride. The breathable film has an air transmission rate equal to or greater than 4000 ml/min/cm2 under air pressure of 70 mbar.
US11203182B2
The present invention aims to provide a filling-bonding material that is suitably used to fill a space between parts, while bonding the parts, in optical devices in various shapes not limited to flat shapes. The present invention also aims to provide a protective sheet-equipped filling-bonding material, a laminate, an optical device, and a protective panel for an optical device each including the filling-bonding material. Provided is a filling-bonding material having a shape with an uneven thickness.
US11203181B2
Provided herein are stabilized underfill film-containing assemblies which extend the work-life of underfill films. In accordance with certain aspects of the present invention, there are also provided stabilized underfill film-containing assemblies which extend the shelf-life of underfill films. In certain aspects of the present invention, there are also provided methods for extending the work-life of underfill films. In another aspect of the present invention, there are also provided methods for extending the shelf-life of underfill films.
US11203180B2
A gas barrier film has, in sequence, a support, an inorganic layer disposed on one surface side of the support, an adhesive layer disposed on a surface of the inorganic layer, and a resin layer disposed on a surface of the adhesive layer in which the adhesive layer has a thickness of 15 μm or less, and the adhesion strength between the inorganic layer and the adhesive layer is 21 N/25 mm or more and 60 N/25 mm or less. A method for producing a gas barrier film includes an inorganic layer deposition step and a bonding step in a vacuum.
US11203178B2
A reinforced substrate is used for molding a composite material. The reinforced substrate includes a first region and a second region. The first region includes reinforcing fibers extending in a fiber direction that is aligned in a single direction. The second region includes the reinforcing fibers aligned in the same direction as the fiber direction and being thinner than the first region. The first region and the second region are lined up in alternating fashion in a plane along a direction intersecting the fiber direction.
US11203176B2
A ply for fabricating composite material includes a first tow of a plurality of fibers, which are spread in a direction along a width of a cross section of the ply, wherein a first sheet of enhanced performance material overlies the first tow. A second tow of a plurality of fibers, which are spread in the direction along the width of the cross section of the ply, overlies the first sheet of the enhanced performance material. Another tow of a plurality of fibers, which are spread in the direction along the width of the cross section of the ply, are positioned against and laterally extend from the first tow, the second tow and the first sheet of enhanced performance material.
US11203173B2
A box making machinery and a corrugated board running register method, include a feeding unit, a processing apparatus which carries out processing on a corrugated board, a running register device which adjusts the processing position of the processing device in a carrying direction of the corrugated board, and a control device which controls the running register device, wherein the control device includes a carrying misalignment amount calculation unit which calculates the carrying misalignment amount of the corrugated board from the feeding unit to a preset predetermined carrying position, and a control unit which adjusts the processing position of the corrugated board to be processed next using the running register device on the basis of the carrying misalignment amount after processing of the corrugated board has finished.
US11203170B2
A method of manufacturing a 3-dimensional variable refractive-index optical-element with surface figure, the method comprising: depositing a plurality of nanocomposite-inks comprising an organic-matrix with a nanoparticle filler dispersed within, and at least partially curing a portion of the nanocomposite-ink to form a nanocomposite slab that is at least semi-solid; transferring the nanocomposite slab to a press, the press having a die mold with at least a first surface figure; and actuating the press to compress the nanocomposite slab and impart the die mold's first surface figure onto the nanocomposite slab to form a nanocomposite optical-element.
US11203162B2
Techniques for evaluating support for an object to be fabricated via an additive fabrication device are provided. In some embodiments, a three-dimensional representation of the object is obtained and a plurality of voxels corresponding to the representation of the object is generated. A first supportedness value may be assigned to a first voxel of the plurality of voxels based on an amount of support provided by a support structure to the first voxel, and a second supportedness value determined for a second voxel of the plurality of voxels, wherein the second voxel neighbors the first voxel, and wherein the second supportedness value is determined based on the first supportedness value of the first voxel and a weight value representing a transmission rate of supportedness through voxels of the plurality of voxels.
US11203156B2
Methods and systems for forming objects through photo-curing of a liquid resin in a tank by selective exposure (through a mask) to radiation, in which during printing operations the liquid resin in the tank is displaced relative to the build area along an axis orthogonal to that along which the object is extracted from the liquid resin in the tank. A volume of the photo-curing liquid resin may be cycled through a cooling arrangement by being extracted from the tank, cooled, and then reintroduced into the tank as printing of the object is taking place. The mask is preferably one in which charged colorant particles are dispersed in an optically transparent fluid within a plurality of bi-state cells.
US11203155B2
Examples are described that generate control data for production of a three-dimensional object. Build material profile data is accessed for an indicated build material. The build material profile data for a given build material defines one or more parameter values that are dependent on the properties of the given build material and that are configured to generate a three-dimensional object with predefined build properties.
US11203150B2
A method of producing a 3D part using a selective deposition based additive manufacturing system can include developing a first layer using at least one electrostatography engine, determining a first cross-track offset distance between an average cross-track symmetry line of the first layer and a centerline of a transfer medium, transferring the first layer to the transfer medium such that the average cross-track symmetry line of the first layer is aligned with the centerline of the transfer medium, moving a build platform relative to the transfer medium in the cross-track direction to align the first layer on a part build surface, and transfusing the first layer on the build platform using a transfusion assembly to build the part in a layer-by-layer manner. The first layer comprises at least one of a part material and a support material. The first cross-track offset distance is measured in a cross-track direction perpendicular to an in-track direction of movement of the transfer medium.
US11203143B2
A machine for producing a container from a preform having a body and a neck defining an inner cylindrical opening. The machine includes a container forming and filling station where the preform is placed in a mold having a molding cavity and a forming liquid is injected into the preform thereby forming and filling the container with a liquid. Prior to forming of the container, an extension device is attached to the neck of the preform thereby forming an assembly. The extension device includes a connection part for attaching to the preform and an extension part defining an inner opening extending in the continuity of the inner opening of the neck of the preform. The extension device remains attached to the neck of the preform at least during the forming and the filling of the container.
US11203136B2
A method of producing thermoplastic resin composite material in which a main base material containing thermoplastic resin and a sheet-like shaped auxiliary base material are integrally molded and are made into composite material. The production method includes the steps of: heating the auxiliary base material (step S1); disposing the heated auxiliary base material in a mold (step S2); disposing the main base material in the mold via the auxiliary base material (step S3); closing the mold, and pressing together and integrally molding the auxiliary base material and the main base material (step S4); and taking out the integrally-molded thermoplastic resin composite material from the mold.
US11203135B2
A method includes applying a transferrable material to an outer surface of a casting plate to form a pattern on the outer surface of the casting plate. After applying of the transferrable material, a composite material is applied to the outer surface of the casting plate to form an inflatable membrane. The composite material covers at least a portion of the pattern and includes a florescent material and a pigment material. The inflatable membrane is cured to allow removal of the inflatable membrane from the casting plate. The inflatable membrane has an inner surface having the pattern detectable upon receiving of light causing the fluorescing material to emit florescent light.
US11203130B2
A safety device for a bandsaw includes a frame and a pair of jaws rotatably mounted thereon. The frame is mounted on the framework of the saw with the jaws on either side of the blade. An actuating rod is slidably mounted on the frame. A resilient return member constrains the sliding and a two-way transmission transforms it into a rotation of the pair of jaws. An electromagnetic actuator is rigidly connected to the frame and a retaining member is rigidly connected to the actuator. The rod has a receiving portion which engages with the retaining member when the rod is in a first position relative to the frame. The transmission is arranged so that the jaws are separated from one another when the rod is in the first position.
US11203129B2
A food slicer assembly includes a housing defining a first opening and a second opening perpendicularly arranged. A slicing blade received at the second opening enters the first opening of the housing. A coupling releasably couples a food product or a food product packaging to the housing. The first opening receives a food product therethrough, the second opening receives the slicing blade therethrough, and the slicing blade slices the food product arranged in the first opening such that the food product is divided into multiple portions using the food slicer assembly. The slicing blade may pass into the first opening from a first end, and upon reaching the second end, the slicing blade seals the food slicer assembly at the first opening. The assembly may be a cheese slicer assembly for slicing a block of cheese so that a slice of cheese can be removed from the first opening.
US11203117B2
A control point extraction unit (1d) is configured to extract, when a center of a joint portion (V) of a fifth rotary shaft (C5) is defined as a control point (A), a position (P1) of the control point (A) for a teaching point (T1) and a position (P2) of the control point (A) for a teaching point (T2). A linear path calculation unit (1e) is configured to calculate a linear path (L) that passes through the position (P1) and the position (P2). An arm movement calculation unit (1f) is configured to generate teaching data (D1) by calculating a movement of an arm (3) to cause the control point (A) to move along the linear path (L) from the position (P1) to the position (P2).
US11203115B2
A programmable motion system is disclosed that includes a dynamic end effector system. The dynamic end effector system includes an end effector that is coupled via a dynamic coupling to the programmable motion system, wherein the dynamic coupling provides that at least a portion of the end effector may spin with respect to an other portion of the end effector.
US11203111B2
A robot includes a base, a first arm coupled to the base and rotating about a first rotation axis, and a second arm coupled to the first arm and rotating about a second rotation axis, wherein the first arm has a first portion coupled to the base, a second portion coupled to the second arm, and a third portion located between the first portion and the second portion and having an internal space, and a liquid exhaust hole communicating between the internal space and an outside of the first arm and exhausting a liquid entering the internal space to the outside of the first arm is provided in the third portion.
US11203107B2
A working head for a hydraulic power tool including a head frame and a first moveable die head configured to move along the working head frame. The first moveable die head configured to receive a first moveable die comprising a first body length. A second die head is adapted to receive a second die comprising a second body length. The first body length of the moveable die is different from the second body length of the stationary die.
US11203101B1
A torque structure includes a first body set, and a second body set. The second body set has a torque slip function. The second body set includes a second body, a drive head, a resisting module, a plurality of balls, and a mounting ring. The second body is provided with a third receiving recess and a plurality of ball slots. The drive head is connected with the second body. The resisting module is received in the third receiving recess and includes a first abutting element. The mounting ring is mounted on the second body and has an interior provided with a fourth receiving recess. The balls are received in the ball slots and located between the first abutting element and the fourth receiving recess.
US11203099B2
Use of multiple-slope and/or multiple-offset mechanism or equivalent to address the issues with current mechanical clickers that have single-slope spring mechanism. The varying-slope can be a continuously varying-slope non-linear spring, or a combination of discretely varying multiple-slope springs. This inventior is useful for clicker type torque wrenches, clicker type torque screw drivers, beam type torque wrenches, beam type torque screw drivers and shock absorbers. The present invention is equally applicable to clickers that click in both the CW (clockwise) and CCW (counterclockwise) directions or clickers that click only in one direction. The invention is generally characterized by placing a non-linear spring or combination of springs in the tool body to achieve multiple slope operation rather than using one single slope spring.
US11203094B2
In a substrate cleaning device, with a polishing head in contact with one surface of a substrate rotated by a spin chuck, the polishing head is moved at least between a center and an outer periphery of the substrate. Thus, the one surface of the substrate is polished by the polishing head, and contaminants present on the one surface of the substrate are removed. At this time, capacity for removing contaminants by the polishing head is changed according to a position in a radial direction of the substrate. The capacity for removing contaminants refers to capacity for scraping contaminants adhering to the one surface of the substrate, and suction marks, contact marks and the like remaining on the one surface of the substrate by polishing. It is possible to change the capacity for removing contaminants by adjusting a pushing force exerted on the one surface of the substrate from the polishing head, for example.
US11203086B2
A laser welding method includes a pretreatment process and a welding process. At least one metal member of the plurality of metal members is formed from a metal-plated steel plate in which a base metal has been covered with a coating material that has a melting point lower than the base metal. In the pretreatment process, with the position of the first metal member in the in-plane direction fixed, processing is performed from the front surface of the first metal member to form on the back surface, a protrusion that bulges from the back surface. Then, in the welding process, the first metal member in which a protrusion has been formed is superposed on a second metal member with the protrusion therebetween while maintaining the position in the in-plane direction, and laser light is irradiated on the superposed region to weld the plurality of metal members to each other.
US11203083B2
Method of fabricating a microfluidic device by means of inducing internal cracks in fused silica employing a picosecond laser beam, firstly utilizing irradiation of a focused temporally controlled picosecond laser beam in fused silica to generate a spatially selective modification region including randomly oriented nanocracks, then employing chemical etching to remove the irradiated area and obtain a hollow and connected three-dimensional microstructure, thereby achieving three-dimensional fabrication of microchannel structures inside the fused silica. The method can realize polarization insensitive three-dimensional uniform etching by regulating the pulse width of the picosecond laser beam, and has high chemical etch rate and selectivity, applicable for fabrication of large-sized three-dimensional microfluidic systems, high-precision 3D glass printing, etc.
US11203081B2
A removal device of a welding electrode tip includes a first insertion piece and a second insertion piece that are inserted into a space formed between an end surface of a large diameter portion of a shank and an end surface of the welding electrode tip, each of the first insertion piece and the second insertion piece having a wedge shape having a thickness that increases from a front end to a back portion in an insertion direction, wherein the first insertion piece and the second insertion piece have a thickness by overlap of the first insertion piece and the second insertion piece, and the thickness changes from a thickness smaller than a length of the space to a thickness larger than the length of the space according to an overlap amount in the space.
US11203080B2
Provided is a welding method using a special torch and a flux cored wire, in which the special torch has a suction nozzle between the contact tip and the shield nozzle, and the flux cored wire has a flux filled inside the steel outer casing, and a seam portion where both ends of a metal in a width direction of the steel outer casing are butted or overlapped in a longitudinal direction of the flux cored wire.
US11203067B2
An additive manufacturing method may involve: Providing a first material in powder form and a second material as a consumable electrode; forming the first material into a first layer on a base; placing an end of the second material in close proximity to a portion of the first layer; operating a power supply connected to the base and the second material to provide electrical energy sufficient to initiate a chemical reaction between the first and second materials and form a reaction product; feeding additional amounts of the second material while moving the end of the second material along a desired pattern adjacent the first layer, additional reaction products forming additional portions of the article; providing additional quantities of the first material over the first layer to form a subsequent layer; and operating the power supply to form additional portions of the article in the subsequent layer.
US11203051B2
The invention relates to a rolling element bearing cage formed of one or more segments, each segment comprising: a supporting frame having a plurality of spaced apart openings each for accommodating a rolling element; and a reinforcing frame, inserted within the supporting frame, having a corresponding plurality of openings each for aligning with the openings of the supporting frame.
US11203041B2
The disclosure relates to integrated modules for Synchronized Array of Vibration Actuators (FIG. 125A). The modules provide physical interface, power and communication interfaces. Each module may include vibration actuators (FIG. 123A) which can be precisely attached and aligned to the module housing, a microcontroller or other microprocessor, and one or more sensors for closed loop control of actuators (FIG. 126G). Interleaved pairs of ERMs having a center of mass in the same plane eliminate parasitic torque. A single module can produce a vibration force that rotates at a specific frequency and magnitude, which on its own could cancel out some types of periodic vibrations (FIG. 125B). Two modules paired together and counter-rotating with respect to each other can produce a directional vibration at a specific frequency and magnitude, which could prove even more useful for canceling out a vibration. Such modules are also employed to produce beating patterns (FIGS. 131-133). Both amplitude and frequency of the beating force are variable.
US11203040B2
A piezoelectric driving device includes a piezoelectric vibrating body and a driving circuit. The piezoelectric vibrating body includes a contact which comes into contact with a driven member, and a piezoelectric element which generates vibration in accordance with a driving voltage. The driving circuit sets a driving frequency of the driving voltage to a first frequency and starts the driving at the time of initiation from a stopped state, and sets the driving frequency of the driving voltage to a second frequency lower than the first frequency in a driving state after the initiation.
US11203033B2
Methods and devices for atomizing a fragrant liquid are disclosed. A reservoir receives a volume of a base liquid. One or more drops of a substance are added to the base liquid to form a volume of an aromatic liquid. A vaporizer atomizes the aromatic liquid, forming a mist that is emitted from the device. The device allows a user to customize the blend of substances that are used to form the aromatic liquid.
US11203029B2
A mold paint-spraying device includes a frame and a mold fixed to the frame. A motor is fixed to the frame, an output end of the motor is fixedly connected to a mounting rack, a servo motor and a linear guide rail are fixedly connected to the mounting rack, a rail slide is arranged on the linear guide rail, a screw nut is fixed on the rail slide, a spray gun is fixed on the screw nut, and an output end of the servo motor is connected with a screw matching the screw nut.
US11203027B2
An additive manufacturing (AM) system includes a housing defining a chamber, a build platform disposed in the chamber at a first elevation, and a lower gas inlet disposed at a second elevation and configured to supply a lower gas flow. The AM system includes a contoured surface extending between the lower gas inlet and the build platform to direct the lower gas flow from the second elevation at the lower gas inlet to the first elevation at the build platform, where the contoured surface discharges the lower gas flow in a direction substantially parallel to the build platform. The AM system also includes one or more gas delivery devices coupled to the lower gas inlet to regulate one or more flow characteristics of the lower gas flow, and a gas outlet configured to discharge the lower gas flow.
US11203022B2
A grinding machine for grinding food-products, such as meat or the like, includes an orifice plate at the outlet of a grinding head. The orifice plate has collection passages that discharge a mixture of soft material and hard material through the orifice plate. A separator assembly, including a separator screw, separation chamber, metering auger, and metering cone, is located downstream of the orifice plate for separating the soft material from the hard material. The metering auger is fixedly coupled to a distal end of the separator screw and has a reduced diameter relative to the separator screw. The metering auger advances in a downstream direction the hard material of the mixture of soft material and hard material. The metering cone includes an internal conical portion and a metering passageway formed therein, where the metering auger is in communication with the metering passageway, and where a selected diameter of the metering auger defines an amount of the hard material that is advanced in the downstream direction through the metering passageway toward a discharge end.
US11203011B2
Provided is a nitrogen oxide (NOX) reduction catalyst including an active site including at least one of a metal vanadate expressed by [Chemical Formula 1] and a metal vanadate expressed by [Chemical Formula 2], and a support for loading the active site thereon. (M1)XV2OX+5 [Chemical Formula 1] (where M1 denotes one selected from among manganese (Mn), cobalt (Co), and nickel (Ni), and X denotes a real number having a value between 1 and 3.) (M2)YVO4 [Chemical Formula 2] (where M2 denotes one selected from among lanthanum (La), cerium (Ce), praseodymium (Pr), neodymium (Nd), promethium (Pm), samarium (Sm), europium (Eu), gadolinium (Gd), terbium (Tb), dysprosium (Dy), holmium (Ho), erbium (Er), thulium (Tm), ytterbium (Yb), and lutetium (Lu), and Y denotes a real number having a value between 0.5 and 1.5).
US11202991B2
This exhaust gas purifying catalyst is provided with a substrate 10 and a catalyst layer 20 formed on a surface of the substrate 10. The catalyst layer 20 contains zeolite particles 22 that support a metal, and a rare earth element-containing compound 24 that contains a rare earth element. The rare earth element-containing compound 24 is added in such an amount that the molar ratio of the rare earth element relative to Si contained in the zeolite 22 is 0.001 to 0.014 in terms of oxides.
US11202989B2
The invention present provides a method (and suitable apparatus) to convert biomass to ethanol, comprising gasifying the biomass to produce raw syngas; feeding the raw syngas to an acid-gas removal unit to remove at least some CO2 and produce a conditioned syngas stream; feeding the conditioned syngas stream to a fermentor to biologically convert the syngas to ethanol; capturing a tail gas from an exit of the fermentor, wherein the tail gas comprises at least CO2 and unconverted CO or H2; and recycling a first portion of the tail gas to the fermentor and/or a second portion of the tail gas to the acid-gas removal unit. This invention allows for increased syngas conversion to ethanol, improved process efficiency, and better overall biorefinery economics for conversion of biomass to ethanol.
US11202975B2
A flat filter for water treatment is provided. The flat filter for water treatment according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises: filtration members formed in the shape of a plate having a predetermined area; support frames, which are coupled to the rim sides of the filtration members so as to support the filtration members, and have channels into/in which filtered water produced through the filtration members flows and moves; and gap adjustment members coupled to the support frames so as to adjust the gap between the filtration members adjacent to one another.
US11202974B2
A mineral recovery system for use in a mining operation is described. The mineral recovery system includes a mining operations model generated based on inputs of sensed conditions, wherein the mining operations model incorporates a thickener sub-model and a material sub-model. The mineral recovery system includes a thickener controller to issue commands based on the mining operations model. The mineral recovery system includes a thickener having a process water. The thickener also includes an underflow output provided with an underflow controller to adjust outflow of thickened slurry from the thickener based on issued commands. The thickener further includes an overflow output to dispense clarified water from the thickener.
US11202972B2
An automatic tritium extraction device for environmental monitoring comprises a distillation chamber, a temperature control unit, a condensation unit and an auxiliary condensation unit. The distillation chamber is connected to a first pump, a second pump and a third pump. A delivery pipe comprises a first vertical pipe, a second vertical pipe and an oblique pipe which inclines upwards from the distillation chamber to the condensation unit. An automatic tritium extraction method for environmental monitoring comprises the following steps: 1) cleaning of a distillation chamber; 2) distillation rising; 3) distillation; 4) condensation; 5) discharging samples out of the distillation chamber. By the adoption of the automatic tritium extraction device and method for environmental monitoring, fully-automatic distillation and condensation of environmental tritium samples, automatic cleaning of the distillation chamber, and automatic and accurate addition of required agents are realized, and fully-automatic acquisition, preparation, distillation, purification, measurement and analysis of environmental tritium can be completed; and manual intervention is reduced, so that monitoring results are more accurate, and labor costs are saved.
US11202966B2
A sculpture device has a base, a figurine, a control element, a cover, and a device attachment clip. The control element has a magnetic mechanism for moving the figurine along an upper surface of the base in correspondence with movement of the control element along a lower surface of the base. The cover is coupled to the base and encloses a device interior of the sculpture device. The device attachment clip is coupled to the cover and has a through-hole or a sculpture lens. The device attachment clip removably attaches the sculpture device to an electronic device in a manner such that the through-hole or the sculpture lens is aligned with a camera lens of the electronic device allowing an operator to view the figurine and the device interior on a display screen of the electronic device when the camera is activated.
US11202963B2
A display mount for connecting electronic devices includes a body, a display support, and a movable arm connected to the body and the display support. The body has a lower surface and an upper surface. The body further includes a controller connection mechanism. The arm is positioned above the upper surface to hold the display support above the body and opposite the lower surface.
US11202961B2
A mobile device is configured as a point and shoot type weapon for gaming, training, or the like. Utilizing the mobile device based weapon, such as a smart phone for example, a user thereof can simply aim the mobile device at a target and shoot. Shooting may be accomplished by tapping the mobile device, activating a button or soft key on the mobile device, making a gesture (e.g., moving a finger as if a trigger is being pulled), providing an audible command (e.g., “shoot”), or the like.
US11202953B2
A method and system for use in the game of football to determine ball placement and position, as well as first down demarcations, is described, with various embodiments configured to track the location of a football to determine its position on the field and to determine and display the first down demarcation on the field. Certain embodiments employ software to assist in performing placement determinations, distance determinations, track movement of the ball, first down markers, as well as light emitting modules along a track that extends parallel to the field.
US11202951B1
A free-standing A-frame exercise equipment cabinet comprising a first portion of the free-standing A-frame exercise equipment cabinet configured to removably house first exercise weight plates of a plurality of different sizes and a plurality of different weights. A second portion of the cabinet is configured to house a computer screen display. A third portion of the cabinet is configured to house at least one camera, one or more processors, and memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the cabinet to present a display on the computer screen display housed in the second portion of the cabinet. A fourth portion of the cabinet is configured to removably house at least one barbell and a plurality of dumbbells. A fifth portion of the cabinet comprises four legs of the cabinet that allow the cabinet to stand upright without additional support.
US11202948B2
A retractable sports goal includes a base housing and a goal frame. The housing includes first and second post sections and a crossbar housing section. The goal frame includes first and second goal posts and a crossbar. The goal frame has a playing position and a retracted position. In the playing position the crossbar is extended vertically away from the crossbar housing section and the first and second goal posts are respectively extended from the first and second goal post housing sections. In the retracted position the crossbar is disposed in the crossbar housing section and the first and second goal posts are respectively disposed in the first and second goal post housing sections. A cover plate includes portions that surround the goal posts. Wheels may be attached to the bottom portions of the goal posts. A counter-weight may be provided to bias the goal frame towards the playing position.
US11202945B2
A golf club head for a driver is disclosed. The golf club head includes a face portion and a rearward end portion. An upward facing surface in a crown portion of the golf club head curves up towards the rearward end portion to keep airflow from separating from the crown portion. A downward facing surface on a sole portion of the golf club includes an airfoil that helps keep air stuck to the sole portion of the golf club head. The airfoil portion extends across a substantial entirety of the width of the golf club head.
US11202944B1
A golf club head having a laser-generated features to create contrast on the club face of the golf club head. The club face includes a central region, a toe region, and a heel region. The central region includes a first plurality of laser-generated features that provide a height-intersection coverage of the central region, a width-intersection coverage of the central region, and a surface-area coverage of the central region. The toe region includes a second plurality of laser-generated features that provide a height-intersection coverage of the toe region, a width-intersection coverage of the toe region, and a surface-area coverage of the toe region. The heel region includes a third plurality of laser-generated features that provide a height-intersection coverage of the heel region, a width-intersection coverage of the heel region, and a surface-area coverage of the heel region.
US11202936B1
A foot inline deflecting swim fin with hinge coupled to a two-leaf-blade fin with embedded channel-hinge with leaves free to rotate from a perpendicular fluid flow configuration upon power stroke to parallel fluid flow configuration upon an upstroke. The hinge-leaf blade will have pivot stops, limiting leaf rotations to accommodate the two stroke swim propulsion, upstroke and power stroke. An embedded unitary elastomeric hinge having integrated channel with channel limiter stops is disclosed.
US11202933B2
In at least one embodiment a resistance training harness is provided having a first upper loop having a front portion and a rear portion, a second upper loop having a front portion and a rear portion, at least one front connector, the first end of the at least one front connector adjoining at least one first upper loop and the second upper loop; a transverse belt component adjoining the second end of the at least one front connector, the first end of the transverse belt component and second end of the transverse belt component having attachment means, a first lower loop having a front portion and a rear portion, a second lower loop having a front portion and a rear portion, and at least one resilient cord adapted to engage with the resistance training harness.
US11202930B2
A fire extinguishing equipment including an extinguishing-launching part-unit and a pressure-resistant storage body with an internal space housing a fire extinguishing material. A transport pipe is connected to the internal space to transport the fire extinguishing material to a use location. An extinguishing part-unit is connected to the external end of the transport pipe and includes one or more event-detecting part-units, which are connected to the extinguishing-launching part-unit. The extinguishing-launching part-unit is supplemented with a separation fitting disposed within the transport pipe, separated from a transport regulation fitting also disposed within the transport pipe. A reference pressure supply part-unit is within the transport pipe between the separation fitting and the transport regulation fitting. Each of the transport regulation fitting and the separation fitting includes a clamping housing and a rupture disc fixed therein, which rupture upon detection of a fire to dispense the fire extinguishing material.
US11202928B2
Disclosed is a fire extinguisher cover for covering over a motor vehicle, the battery of which has caught fire. The cover comprises a sheet for covering over the vehicle, the sheet comprising an opening disposed thereon, and a casing assembly comprising a plurality of spaced apart casings and a drawstring running through the plurality of casings. The drawstring is arranged to be tightened to achieve a tight abutment between the casing assembly, the ground and the vehicle tires when the vehicle is covered by the sheet, and the fire-extinguishing fluid is run through the at least one opening to be fill up between the vehicle and the sheet resulting in said fluid reaching the battery for extinguishing the fire emanating therefrom.
US11202927B2
A fire extinguishing equipment with improved characteristics which includes a pressure-resistant storage body with an internal space that houses a fire extinguishing composition. A monitoring unit is connected to the storage body to measure and regulate one or more physical characteristics. At least one discharge outlet is in communication with the internal space of the storage body and is configured to discharge the fire-extinguishing composition from the internal space to a use location. A charging inlet is disposed within the storage body and is configured to fill the internal space with the fire-extinguishing composition. An extinguishing-launching part-unit is inserted into a pipe section between the use location and the discharge outlet.
US11202918B2
A system (1) for treating and monitoring the condition of an eye (6) includes a light source, preferably a non-lasing LED (2), for irradiating the eye at a wavelength sufficient to reverse eye damage. The system also includes an excitation light source, preferably a non-lasing LED (4), for exciting fluorescence in the eye and a detector (22) for detecting fluorescence stimulated by the excitation LED (4). The system may also include a second non-lasing light source, preferably a non-lasing LED, for irradiating the eye; and a detector for detecting scatter of light from the eye. Methods for monitoring, diagnosis and treatment of eye conditions such as cataracts are also provided.
US11202915B2
A retention device for use with an implantable medical device (IMD) are disclosed. An illustrative retention device may comprise an elongate body including a configured to receive the lead of the IMD. The retention device may also include securing mechanisms coupled to the elongate body and configured to push against tissue of a patient. The securing mechanisms may also include linking elements coupled to the elongate body and a portion of the securing mechanisms.
US11202903B2
Self-righting articles, such as self-righting capsules for administration to a subject, are generally provided. In some embodiments, the self-righting article may be configured such that the article may orient itself relative to a surface (e.g., a surface of a tissue of a subject). The self-righting articles described herein may comprise one or more tissue engaging surfaces configured to engage (e.g., interface with, inject into, anchor) with a surface (e.g., a surface of a tissue of a subject). In some embodiments, the self-righting article may have a particular shape and/or distribution of density (or mass) which, for example, enables the self-righting behavior of the article. In certain embodiments, the self-righting article a tissue-interfacing components. In some embodiments, each tissue-interfacing component may comprise an electrically-conductive portion configured for electrical communication with tissue and an insulative portion configured to not be in electrical communication with tissue.
US11202898B2
A bolus control device for use with an injection device, the bolus control device including a valve body having a proximal end opposite a distal end. The valve body defines a fluid channel therethrough to allow a passage of medical fluid from the proximal end to the distal end. A connector is provided at the proximal end and configured for connecting to a fluid inlet line. A connector subassembly is provided at the distal end and configured for connecting to a fluid outlet line. A compressible check valve is disposed within the fluid channel, such that the compressible check valve is adjustable to control a cracking pressure at which the compressible check valve closes.
US11202890B2
Actuating mechanism, method of operation and assembly for fluid displacement and pressurizing device
A fluid pressurizing and displacement device which is configured for both macro movement and micro movement of a plunger. In order to execute micro movement of the plunger, a user need only rotate the plunger; to execute macro movement of the plunger, a user need only push or pull the plunger. This simplicity in use is possible because a half-nut (or other suitable structure within the device) remains engaged with the plunger, except when the plunger is being pushed or pulled by its operator. All user motions are simple and intuitive.
US11202886B2
A catheter insertion device and method for insertion. The catheter insertion device can include a housing, a needle attached to a needle carrier, a catheter including a catheter shaft attached to a catheter hub, and a guidewire. The guidewire can include a coil tip positioned in a lumen of the needle. The method for insertion can include inserting a distal end of the needle and the catheter shaft into a blood vessel of a patient, advancing the coil tip out of the needle lumen and into the blood vessel, advancing the catheter over the guidewire, and withdrawing the guidewire and the needle from the catheter. The coil tip can include a straightened configuration and a coiled configuration. The coil tip can transition from the straightened configuration in the needle lumen to the coiled configuration in the blood vessel.
US11202885B2
A tuning pin for a steering actuator comprising a head portion proximate a proximal end of the tuning pin, the head portion comprising an anti-rotation element, a body portion distal the head portion, the body portion comprising a through hole, and a tip portion distal the body portion and proximate a distal end of the tuning pin, the tuning pin configured to couple with a pin block in the steering actuator. A system comprising a catheter, and a steering actuator comprising a tuning pin, the tuning pin comprising a head portion proximate a proximal end of the tuning pin, the head portion comprises an anti-rotation element, a body portion distal the head portion, where the body portion comprises a through hole, and a tip portion distal the body portion and proximate a distal end of the tuning pin, wherein the tuning pin is configured to couple with a pin block.
US11202872B2
The electronic system for vaporizing smokable materials for personal inhalation includes two or more heating elements for vaporizing cannabis, tobacco, e-cigarette fluid and other inhalable materials. Includes a power source and two or more heating elements, each connected to a multi-heating-element circuit-switching-element that allows individual control of the duration and amount of heat applied to each heating element. Each heating element applies heat to one smokable material, which can be contained in a cartridge. The multi-heating-element circuit-switching-element can be a slide switch, push button, rotary encoder, pressure switch, infrared switch, a voice activated switch or a graphical user interface attached to a integrated circuit. The power source can be a battery.
US11202866B2
A drug delivery device comprises a medicament reservoir attached to a housing, a drive mechanism comprising a plunger movable relative to the housing, a dose selecting element releasably coupled to the drive mechanism and rotatable relative to the housing, a trigger axially movable relative to the housing, and a limiter selectively permitting and preventing axial movement of the trigger depending on the amount of a selected dose. The limiter is constrained to the dose selecting element and to the trigger. One of the limiter or a component part is axially coupled to the housing comprises a track which is in engagement with a blocking feature of the other of the limiter or the component part axially coupled to the housing. The track comprises a narrow section limiting relative movement between the track and the blocking feature and a wide section permitting relative movement between the track and the blocking feature.
US11202858B2
An electronic injector including a needle insertion assembly configured to move a needle in an insertion direction from a first needle position where the needle is above the surface of a patient's skin to a second needle position where the needle pierces the patient's skin. The injector further includes a member mechanically coupled to the needle and configured to move when the needle. The injector further includes an optical detector having a generally planar detection surface and configured to detect movement of the member based on a change in a transverse projection of the member onto the detection surface and output a signal based on the change in the transverse projection. Additional, a processor is configured to determine the position of the needle based on the output signal, and the transverse projection of the member changes when the needle moves.
US11202852B2
The present invention relates to a neural implant comprising a biomaterial having an outer surface with a stochastic nanoroughness (Rq), and the application of said stochastic nanoroughness in the diagnosis and/or treatment of a neurological disorder, such as, for example, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, glioblastoma and/or for disrupting and/or preventing glial scars in the context of mammalian mechanosensing ion channels selected from the family of PIEZO-1 and PIEZO-2 ion channels.
US11202848B2
Compositions and methods for sealing tissue of a patient in a wet environment are disclosed.
US11202840B2
Synthetic nucleic acids encoding mini and microdystrophin genes comprising the membrane binding motifs or domains of the R10-R11-R12 region are provided. Also provided are vectors, host cells, and related methods of using the same to treat a subject suffering from Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), Becker muscular dystrophy (BMD) or X-linked dilated cardiomyopathy (XLDC), or for ameliorating one or more adverse effects of DMD, BMD, or XLDC. Also provided are a fusion protein comprising a nNOS binding domain of dystrophin R16-R17 that is operably linked to a syntrophin PDZ domain and synthetic nucleic acids comprising the same that can be used to treat subjects with diseases characterized by loss of sarcolemmal neuronal nitric oxide synthase (nNOS) activity.
US11202838B2
This invention relates to compositions useful for localized and sustained release of therapeutic agents, and more particularly to functionalized liposomes embedded in a polyelectrolyte multilayer. Methods of preparing the compositions, methods of treating diseases, devices, and pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compositions are also provided.
US11202837B2
The invention provides compounds comprising a therapeutic agent coupled to a carrier molecule, with a minimum coupling ratio of 5:1; wherein the carrier molecule is (i) an antibody fragment or derivative thereof or (ii) an antibody mimetic or derivative thereof; and wherein the therapeutic agents are coupled onto a lysine amino acid residue; and further wherein the therapeutic agent is not a photosensitising agent. There is also provided uses, methods relating to such compounds, as well as processes for their manufacture.
US11202835B2
The present invention relates to a method of controlled competitive exchange of a first agent bound to a metal coordination complex with a competing agent, with selection of the nature of the first agent allowing a tailoring of the binding strength and thereby allowing for a desired level of control for subsequent displacement by the selected competing agent. The method may be employed for release of therapeutic agents, sequestration of larger molecules from a sample, generation of a preferred binding surface and the like.
US11202832B2
The present invention relates to compositions providing improved preservative efficacy. The present invention further relates to polyquaternium compound containing compositions having improved the antifungal activity. In certain embodiments, the present invention relates to ophthalmic compositions comprising a polyquaternium compound, a polyol or combination of polyols, borate compound, and an antimicrobial mixture comprising electrolytes and nutrients.
US11202831B2
The present specification discloses pharmaceutical compositions, methods of preparing such pharmaceutical compositions, and methods and uses of treating a chronic inflammation and/or an inflammatory disease in an individual using such pharmaceutical compositions.
US11202829B2
Provided is a method for enhancing the potency of a targeted cancer immunotherapy in a subject by using a superantigen in combination with a PD-1 inhibitor.
US11202823B2
Provided herein are subunit vaccine compositions comprising a nanocarrier and a lipid antigen, a peptide antigen or combinations thereof that elicit bother a CD1-restricted and an MHC-restricted T cell response in a subject. Methods for making and using the subunit vaccine compositions are also provided.
US11202818B2
In certain aspects, disclosed herein are novel compositions and methods related to either the enhancement or inhibition of erythropoiesis that are useful, for example, in the treatment of anemia or erythrocytosis.
US11202801B2
The present disclosure generally relates to, inter alia, a new class of receptors engineered to modulate transcriptional regulation in a ligand-dependent manner. Particularly, the new receptors, even though derived from Notch, do not require the Notch negative regulatory regions previously believed to be essential for the functioning of the receptors. In addition, the new receptors described herein incorporate an extracellular oligomerization domain to promote oligomer formation of the chimeric receptors. The disclosure also provides compositions and methods useful for producing such receptors, nucleic acids encoding same, host cells genetically modified with the nucleic acids, as well as methods for modulating an activity of a cell and/or for the treatment of various health conditions such as cancers.
US11202799B2
The present invention relates to the use of thiosulfate to potentiate the anti-pathogenic effect of lactobacilli bacteria, the thiosulfate being in a quantity of at least 100 mg for 107 to 1010 CFU of lactobacilli. The invention also relates to a pharmaceutical composition including at least 100 mg of thiosulfate per gram, in combination with a Lactobacillus crispatus strain, and to its use in the treatment of urogenital infections such as vaginosis, candidosis and urinary tract infections.
US11202798B2
The present invention is directed to methods for treating or ameliorating skin conditions, diabetic conditions, cardiovascular conditions, cancer, infections or metal poisoning, enhancing performance, or providing nutritional support, comprising administering to a subject in need thereof compositions comprising a magnetic dipole stabilized solution (MDSS). The MDSS solution may include additional components and can be provided in a kit.
US11202795B2
This application relates to the field of neurodegenerative diseases, more particularly to the field of Parkinson's disease. In particular, the disclosure describes that inhibitors reducing FAS activity can be used for treatment of Parkinson's disease, in particular, the treatment of patients suffering from Parkinson's disease having loss of function mutations in PINK1 or PARKIN genes.
US11202787B2
This invention provides new methods for a) identifying Cushing's Syndrome patients at high risk of developing hypokalemia during glucocorticoid receptor modulator (GRM) treatment, and b) for prophylactically treating such patients to prevent, or reduce the severity of, hypokalemia. Patients at such high risk may be identified prior to their developing hypokalemia. Such a patient may be an adult patient with endogenous Cushing's Syndrome having type 2 diabetes mellitus or glucose intolerance to control hyperglycemia secondary to hypercortisolism. Patients may be identified by an above-threshold level of ACTH or cortisol in a patient sample taken post-GRM administration or pre-GRM administration, respectively. Upon identifying such a patient prior to the development of low potassium, the present methods provide for prophylactically treating the patient by administration of one or more hypokalemia treatments concurrently with an increased dose of GRM or with an initial dose of GRM to prevent hypokalemia.
US11202783B2
The present disclosure relates to a pharmaceutical composition for preventing or treating non-alcoholic fatty liver disease or dyslipidemia comprising an aminoalkylbenzothiazepine derivative or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof as an active ingredient.
US11202782B2
Disclosed herein is a method for the prevention, delay of progression or treatment of cancer in a subject, comprising administering to the subject in need thereof a PARP inhibitor, particularly, (R)-2-fluoro-10a-methyl-7,8,9,10,10a,11-hexahydro-5,6,7a,11-tetraazacyclohepta[def]cyclopenta[a]fluoren-4(5H)-one, a sesqui-hydrate thereof, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, in combination with an immune checkpoint inhibitor or a chemotherapeutic agent. Also, disclosed a pharmaceutical combination comprising a PARP inhibitor, particularly, (R)-2-fluoro-10a-methyl-7,8,9,10,10a,11-hexahydro-5,6,7a,11-tetraazacyclohepta[def]cyclopenta[a]fluoren-4(5H)-one, a sesqui-hydrate thereof, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, in combination with an immune checkpoint inhibitor, or a chemotherapeutic agent and the use thereof.
US11202778B2
Amorphous solid dispersions and pharmaceutical compositions of the protein kinase inhibitor dasatinib. The pharmaceutical compositions may be used in methods of treating a proliferative disorder such as cancer, or in methods of delivering dasatinib to patients without regard to whether the patient is concurrently administered a gastric acid-reducing agent, or without regard to whether the patient has an elevated gastric pH. The compositions may be particularly suitable for patients afflicted by achlorhydria or hypochlorhydria, or Helicobacter pylori infection.
US11202774B2
The present invention concerns the synthesis and use of formulations of 5-substituted 2, 4-thiazolidinediones, pseudothiohydantoins, and propseudothiohydantoins and 2, 4-thiazolidinediones metforminate salts for topical and systemic treatments of infections caused by herpes simplex viruses and varicella zoster viruses.
US11202770B2
Liquid suspensions of tasimelteon and methods for their use.
US11202769B2
Compositions and methods for producing elevated blood levels of ketone bodies and modifying metabolic function in a mammal. Compositions include at least one ester of S-beta-hydroxybutyrate and/or a mono- or di-ester of S-1,3-butanediol and at least one ketone body component. The ketone body component includes beta-hydroxybutyrate, acetoacetate, or both. The beta-hydroxybutyrate is R-beta-hydroxybutyrate, S-beta-hydroxybutyrate, or both. When the ketone body component is S-beta-hydroxybutyrate, the 1,3-butanediol is R-1,3-butanediol, S-1,3-butanediol, or both. Compositions may comprise a keto stack of multiple forms of ketone bodies.
US11202767B2
The present invention provides methods for the treatment of urea cycle disorders and Maple Syrup Urine Disease.
US11202764B2
A patch comprises a backing layer and an adhesive layer, wherein the adhesive layer contains at least one selected from the group consisting of butorphanol and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, and contains a rubber-based adhesive base and a silicone-based adhesive base, and a mass ratio of the rubber-based adhesive base to the silicone-based adhesive base (the mass of the rubber-based adhesive base:the mass of silicone-based adhesive base) in the adhesive layer is 9.5:0.5 to 1.9:8.1.
US11202754B2
The present technology relates to depots for the treatment of postoperative pain via sustained, controlled release of a therapeutic agent. In some embodiments, the depot may comprise a therapeutic region comprising an analgesic, and a control region comprising a bioresorbable polymer and a releasing agent mixed with the polymer. The releasing agent may be configured to dissolve when the depot is placed in vivo to form diffusion openings in the control region. The depot may be configured to be implanted at a treatment site in vivo and, while implanted, release the therapeutic agent at the treatment site for no less than 3 days.
US11202751B2
The present invention relates to a cosmetic composition for whitening comprising a Caragana sinica root extract, and more specifically relates to a cosmetic composition having an outstanding skin-whitening effect, the composition comprising a Caragana sinica root extract, a fraction thereof or α-viniferin isolated therefrom. In the present invention, the Caragana sinica root extract, fraction thereof or α-viniferin isolated therefrom inhibits tyrosinase activity and suppresses melanin production and is therefore effective in skin whitening.
US11202748B2
Photoprotective compositions containing malassezia-derived compounds and/or chemical analogs thereof
The present invention relates to compounds, compositions, and methods for modulating skin pigmentation and treating or preventing UV-induced skin damage, erythema, aging of the skin, sunburn, and hyperpigmentation in a subject. The compounds, compositions, and methods of the present invention generally involve Malassezia-derived compounds, including malassezin and indirubin, and/or chemical analogs thereof. Other applications of the compounds and compositions disclosed herein include, but are not limited to, improving hyperpigmentation caused by a hyperpigmentation disorder, inducing melanocyte apoptosis, and modulating arylhydrocarbon receptor (AhR) activity, melanogenesis, melanin production, melanosome biogenesis, melanosome transfer, melanocyte activity, and melanin concentration.
US11202747B2
A composition comprising: (a) an acyl isethionate surfactant; (b) a cationic polymer; and (c) a water insoluble benefit agent: wherein the composition comprises less than 3 wt % amphoteric or zwitterionic surfactants.
US11202746B2
Methods for enhancing fragrance of a rinse-off cleansing composition prior to use can include combining surfactant, perfume, solvent, and water, to form the composition, wherein the composition is not a ringing gel.
US11202745B2
A process for permanently reshaping keratin fibers comprising mixing a component A and a component B to form a reducing composition. The component A comprises at least one thiol-based reducing compound having one thiol group selected from the group consisting of thioglycolic acid and derivatives thereof, thiolactic acid and derivatives thereof, 3-mercaptopropionic acid and derivatives thereof, and cysteine and derivatives thereof, and has pH 7.0 or less and the component B comprises at least one buffer salt selected from the group consisting of carbonates, bicarbonates and carbamates, and has pH 8.0 or more, wherein at least one of the component A and component B comprises at least one disulfide compound that is further defined, and wherein the reducing composition has a pH ranging from 7.0 to 7.8 and a viscosity ranging from 500 cps to 100,000 cps. The reducing composition is then applied to the keratin fibers.
US11202740B2
Described herein is dosage of foam including from about 5 cm3 to about 70 cm3 of the foam. The foam includes from about 0.5 g to about 4 g of a detersive surfactant; from about 0.001 g to about 4 g propellant; a foam density of from about 0.02 g/cm3 to about 0.25 g/cm3; and a bubble size distribution having an R32 of from about 5 μm to about 150 μm.
US11202737B2
A cleansing composition and method of using a cleansing composition, the cleansing composition including a blend of three different emollients, the emollients including a first stearic ester, a second stearic ester, and a branched hydrocarbon, where the first stearic ester and second stearic ester are different from each other.
US11202710B2
An exemplary valve repair device for repairing a native valve of a patient includes: a strip of material; a coaption element formed from the strip of material; a collar connected to the coaption element; and a pair of paddles formed from the strip of material and connected to the coaption element. The paddles are movable between an open position and a closed position and are configured to attach to the native valve of the patient.
US11202698B2
An implant material having an implant surface comprising a plurality of tissue-contacting members arranged in a regular or irregular two-dimensional array, each tissue-contacting member having a convex curved tissue-contacting surface. Methods of preparing and using such implant materials.
US11202696B2
A dental irrigation device for heating a solution and mixing solutes within the solution. The present invention utilizes an oscillator and inductive coil to heat and/or mix the solution. A pump then delivers the heated and mixed pressurized solution from a basin ultimately into a dispenser.
US11202695B2
A dental post configured to be fitted within a dental cavity of a tooth being restored. The post comprises a head portion and a foot portion consecutively arranged in an axial direction of the post, the axial direction being defined as a direction in which a central axis of the head portion extends. The foot portion comprises a free lower end such that the post can be inserted into the dental cavity in the axial direction with the lower end inwardly facing a closed inner end of the dental cavity. At least the foot portion is composed of a composite material comprising a resin matrix reinforced with fibers. A method of fabrication of such a dental post, and to set comprising at least two such dental posts. To allow a better adaptability of the dental post to a variety of naturally occurring dental cavities, the foot portion comprises a plurality of rods being separated from one another along the axial direction of the post such that each rod is bendable in a transverse direction with respect to the axial direction.
US11202694B2
A method of making a dental article, has steps of (i) providing a layer of sinter powder, (ii) providing a solidifiable binder to form a circumferential fixation zone (114) which encloses a portion of the powder layer. The method further has the step of repeating steps (i) and (ii) with each fixation zone (114) of one layer being in contact with a fixation zone (114) of an adjacent layer such that a plurality of the fixation zones (114) together form a coherent hollow sleeve (116) extending across the layers. The corresponding plurality of powder portions in combination form a contiguous batch (118) of powder captured in the sleeve. The method facilitates the manufacturing of sintered dental articles.
US11202691B2
The present invention provides methods and systems including orthodontic tooth positioning appliances. An exemplary appliance can include teeth receiving cavities shaped such that, when worn by a patient, repositioning the patient's teeth from a first arrangement toward a subsequent or target arrangement. Appliances can include a cavity having one or more shaped features or protrusions shaped and/or positioned so as to apply a desired force to a patient's tooth received in the cavity and move the tooth along a desired path or direction.
US11202690B2
A method for digitally designing a modified dental setup up on a digital 3D dental model representing at least a part of the jaws of a patient includes the steps of obtaining a pre-treatment digital 2D image of at least a part of the patient's teeth, obtaining a digital 3D representation of the at least a part of the patient's set of teeth, obtaining a proposed digital 2D image of a desired dental setup based on the pre-treatment digital 2D image, wherein at least one digital tooth modification has been provided, and transferring the at least one digital tooth modification from the proposed digital 2D image to the digital 3D representation. This provides a method where the practitioner with relative simple means can present the patient with a visualization of an expected outcome of a dental treatment.
US11202689B2
A combination has an implant, a dental dam and a holding device for detachably holding the dental dam at an implant end portion of the implant. The holding device is formed of a circular ring which is closed on its periphery and which has a ring-clamping portion that extends around a ring through-opening. A system has a combination that has an implant, which is preferably a dental implant; a dental dam; and a holding device. A dental tool can be used for detachably fastening a dental dam to an implant via a holding device.
US11202685B2
The present invention relates to a system and method for identifying position of marker for orthopedic surgery, wherein the system comprises a main sensor and an auxiliary sensor having different sensing schemes, so that during orthopedic surgery, it is possible to flexibly handle a situation where a single sensor fails or a sensing signal cannot be received, thereby accurately identifying the position and posture of a marker.
US11202678B2
The present invention relates to electromagnetic tracking of medical devices. In order to provide improved tracking of medical devices, a wireless readout unit (10) for an electromagnetic tracking system of medical devices is provided. The wireless readout unit comprises a data input (12), a data processor (14) and a data output (16). The data input is configured to receive raw signals (18) from an electromagnetic sensor, and the data processor is configured to at least partly pre-process the raw signals provided by the data input for further transformation. Further, the data output is configured for data transmission of the at least partly pre-processed data to a control unit of an electromagnetic tracking system of medical devices. The data output provides a wireless data link (20) to a control unit.
US11202676B2
A surgical system includes a robotic device, and a surgical tool coupled to the robotic device and comprising a distal end. The system further includes a neural monitor configured to generate an electrical signal and apply the electrical signal to the distal end of the surgical tool, wherein the electrical signal causes innervation of a first portion of a patient's anatomy which generates an electromyographic signal, and a sensor configured to measure the electromyographic signal. The neural monitor is configured to determine a distance between the distal end of the surgical tool and a portion of nervous tissue based on the electrical signal and the electromyographic signal, and cause feedback to be provided to a user based on the distance.
US11202672B2
A method for maintaining patency in a duct or hollow vessel located within the body of a patient is described wherein the duct includes one or more obstructions. The method comprises the steps of introducing a device into the duct, the device comprising a catheter having a distal and a proximal end, wherein the distal end includes a distal tip portion and wherein the distal tip portion comprises at least one energy delivery member; locating the device within the duct at a position proximal to the obstruction; delivering energy to the duct and any surrounding tissue via the at least one energy delivery member for a specified time period, so that the obstruction is removed from the duct; and withdrawing the device from the duct. It is optional to subsequently place a device such as a stent at the therapy site in order to further maintain long term patency of the duct. It is also optional to apply a dilation force to the duct or hollow vessel after the energy delivery phase. Systems are also described for performing the methods of the disclosure.
US11202666B2
A surgical staple (714) for inserting into one or more bone parts (10, 12) comprises a plate (718), a first screw (748) and a second screw (748). The plate (718) includes a first end (768F), an opposed second end (768S), a first aperture (742) that is positioned near the first end (768F), and a second aperture (742) that is positioned near the second end (768S). Additionally, the plate (718) is curved along a length of the plate (718) from the first end (768F) to the second end (768S). The first screw (748) extends through the first aperture (742). The second screw (748) extends through the second aperture (742). Further, the first screw (748) and the second screw (748) are angled toward one another when the surgical staple (714) is in a relaxed configuration.
US11202662B2
The present invention provides a technique for percutaneous intramedullary fixation. A protective outer sheath is provided for internal fixation of the proximal tibia. Additionally, a unique intramedullary plate is provided that is adapted for percutaneous insertion into the intramedullary canal of a long bone. A plate holder is also provided that may be utilized through the outer sheath to drive and position a fixation plate within the intramedullary canal.
US11202647B2
An apparatus, device and method are provided for executing a clot or plaque removal procedure. In one embodiment, a clot removal device may include a clot holding element for penetrating a target clot and stabilizing the clot in its position; a controllable distal filter that can be extended to cover the target clot; a distal filter, openable downstream from the clot, designed to substantially prevent flow through of clot elements, and further designed to drag the clot out of a vessel, for retrieving by the clot removal device.
US11202646B2
The devices and methods described herein relate to improved structures for removing obstructions from body lumens. Such devices have applicability in through-out the body, including clearing of blockages within the vasculature, by addressing the frictional resistance on the obstruction prior to attempting to translate and/or mobilize the obstruction within the body lumen.
US11202645B2
A cardioprotective patch with an integrated cutting guide includes a membrane having a top edge, a bottom edge distal from the top edge, a right side edge connecting the top edge and the bottom edge; and a left side edge, distal from the right side edge and connecting the top edge and the bottom edge. A fold extends parallel to the top edge about half way between the top edge and the bottom edge. The crease is slit from the right side edge, forming a right slit. An elongate frame is fixedly connected to the membrane. The frame includes a tubular member and a plurality of arms extending outwardly from the tubular member and connected to the membrane.
US11202644B2
Shapeable guide catheters and methods for manufacturing and using such shapeable guide catheters. In one embodiment, the shapeable guide catheter comprises a tubular member having a shapeable region, a malleable shaping member attached to the shapeable region such that, when the shape of the shapeable region is changed from a first shape to a second shape, the shaping member will plastically deform to thereafter substantially hold the shapeable region in the second shape, a tubular outer jacket disposed about the outer surface of the tubular member and a tubular inner jacket disposed within the lumen of the tubular member. The shapeable region of the guide catheter may be manually formed into a desired shape before insertion of the guide catheter into the body. In some embodiments, the guide catheter is sized to be inserted through a nostril of a human patient and used to guide the transnasal insertion of another device (e.g., a guidewire, catheter, etc.) to a desired location within the nose, throat, ear or cranium of the subject.
US11202643B2
An anchor delivery system includes both a straight and curved drill guide along with a flexible drill, a flexible obturator and a flexible anchor inserter. The curved drill guide has a distal tip with approximately a 15° bend from the primary axis of the drill guide. Both the drill and the obturator have a reduced diameter section to improve flexibility during passage through the curved drill guide. Additionally, a surface of the inserter shaft has a laser cut pattern which permits flexing of the inserter around the inner diameter of the curved drill guide.
US11202641B2
A bone removal device, including: an elongated shaft having a longitudinal axis, a distal end and a proximal end; a bone borer having a distal drilling tip configured to drill into a bone tissue and at least one proximal reamer, wherein the bone borer is movably coupled to a distal end of the elongated shaft, wherein the bone borer is configured to move between a drilling state in which the drilling tip is placed in contact with bone tissue, and reaming states in which the at least one proximal reamer is placed in contact with the bone tissue.
US11202635B2
A surgical device includes a handle assembly having a controller and a motor. The surgical device also includes an adapter assembly having: a tubular housing having a proximal end portion configured to couple to the handle assembly and a distal end portion; and an actuation assembly configured to couple to the motor. The surgical further includes a reload configured to couple to the distal end portion of the adapter assembly; and an anvil assembly including an anvil head pivotally coupled to an anvil shaft, the anvil assembly configured to couple to the actuation assembly and the reload. The controller of the surgical device is configured to control the motor to actuate the actuation assembly to move the anvil assembly in a distal direction for a distance based on a dimension of one of the reload or the anvil head, thereby pivoting the anvil head relative to the anvil shaft while maintaining engagement of the anvil assembly to the reload.
US11202633B2
A buttress material for use with a surgical staple cartridge. In various forms, the buttress material comprises a buttress body that is sized to be operably received on a deck of the surgical staple cartridge. The buttress body includes at least four edges and a central portion. At least two of the edges have a plurality of edge notches formed therein. The central portion may include a plurality of cutout openings therein.
US11202632B2
An adjunct material for use with an end effector for a surgical instrument is provided that has different types of features for mating with the end effector. The adjunct is configured to be releasably retained on a jaw, such as a cartridge or anvil, using a plurality of female features formed thereon. Each female feature is configured to encompass a corresponding at least one of male features formed on the jaw in a clearance fit such that the adjunct is able to move with respect to the jaw at least in a first plane parallel to the tissue-facing surface. The male and female features mate such that the adjunct is not retained in a second plane that is perpendicular to the first plane. The adjunct also includes at least one attachment feature configured to releasably retain the adjunct on the jaw.
US11202630B2
A surgical stapling apparatus includes a staple cartridge and an anvil member. The staple cartridge includes a plurality of surgical fasteners disposed in rows of retention slots. The staple cartridge may have an annular or linear configuration of retention slots. The tissue contacting surface of the staple cartridge may be tapered or stepped. The anvil member has a tissue contacting surface that includes a number of pockets arranged for substantially aligning with the retention slots. In addition, the tissue contacting surface of the anvil member may complement the tissue contacting surface of the staple cartridge.
US11202628B2
A cartridge for use with a surgical instrument includes a curved body and a deck configured to clamp tissue against an anvil. A plurality of staple openings is formed in the deck and is configured to house a plurality of staples. An arcuate slot formed in the deck is configured to slidably receive a cutting member therethrough. An opening formed in the deck adjacent to an end of the arcuate slot is configured to slidably receive a pin therethrough. The cartridge further includes a raised surface offset from the deck and extending circumferentially about at least a portion of the opening. The raised surface is configured to clamp tissue against the anvil to thereby fix the tissue relative to the opening.
US11202626B2
An assembly used in osteosynthesis comprising a delivery instrument in combination with an implant wherein the delivery instrument releasably holds the implant in a first configuration prior to attachment of the implant to bone. The delivery instrument allows the implant to be affixed to bone before the implant is released from the instrument. And the instrument may comprise guide means for drills, depth gauges, screws, pins, pegs, blades and or drivers which are used or implanted when the implant is releasably attached to the instrument. After the implant is affixed to bone and released from the delivery instrument, the implant assumes at least a second configuration which provides compression and or distraction and or control of spatial orientation.
US11202625B2
The present invention includes, in one embodiment, a method of forming a suture having various cross-sectional shapes, the method including the steps of braiding the suture such that the suture has a first cross-sectional shape along a length; holding a first end of the suture and holding the suture at a second position at a location in between the first end and a second end such that a first portion of the suture is defined between the first end and the second position; manipulating the first end relative to the second position to alter the first portion of the suture into an altered cross-sectional shape different from the first cross-sectional shape; and releasing the first end and the second position, wherein the step of manipulating is performed such that, upon release, the first portion maintains its manipulated shape.
US11202623B2
A suturing device for grasping soft tissue and placing stitches in soft tissue during endoscopic procedures is described. An elongate housing with a stationary jaw and a movable jaw disposed at the distal end are configured for grasping and releasing soft tissue. A movable needle disposed within the housing is actuated to engage a length of suture and drive the suture into and through the grasped soft tissue. A suture capture member is disposed on the movable jaw and is configured to allow passage of the needle therethrough while securing a portion of the stitched length of suture.
US11202620B2
An ultrasonic endoscope includes an ultrasonic vibrator unit provided at a distal end part, the ultrasonic vibrator unit being composed of at least an ultrasonic vibrator array and a first thermally conductive member, the ultrasonic vibrator array having the plurality of ultrasonic vibrators that are arranged in a cylindrical form, the first thermally conductive member being disposed thermally in contact with the ultrasonic vibrator array; a plurality of cables that are electrically connected to the ultrasonic vibrator array; and an electrically conductive structural body that is disposed to extend from a distal end side toward a proximal end side of the ultrasonic endoscope. The ultrasonic vibrator unit and the electrically conductive structural body are connected to each other via an electrically insulating second thermally conductive member. Thus, the ultrasonic endoscope that has a heat release structure which transmits the heat generated from the ultrasonic vibrator to the electrically conductive endoscopic structure housed in a distal end part and which can efficiently release the heat therefrom while electric safety is secured; and that can prevent a burn of an alimentary canal by suppressing a temperature rise of surfaces of the ultrasonic vibrators is provided.
US11202619B2
An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus according to an embodiment comprises a data acquisition unit configured to execute ultrasonic scanning for a tissue region throughout a predetermined period and acquire a plurality of image data respectively corresponding to phases in the predetermined period; a positional information acquisition unit configured to acquire positional information of a region of interest in the tissue region at least one phase in the period by executing tracking processing using at least part of the plurality of image data; a shape information calculation unit configured to calculate shape information corresponding to the region of interest at least one phase in the period by using positional information of the region of interest at the at least one phase; and an output unit configured to output the shape information at the at least one phase.
US11202617B2
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for enhanced navigation and visualization of body passages. In particular, the systems and methods of the present disclosure provide enhanced navigation through the pulmonary peripheries, and enhanced visualization within larger pulmonary passages.
US11202615B2
A method for determining the position and/or orientation of at least one sensor system relative to the base structure of a scanning system during scanning of an object, the method includes obtaining one or more tracking images using one or more cameras, where the cameras are in a fixed position with respect to the sensor system; and determining from the one or more tracking images the position and/or orientation of the sensor system relative to the base structure at a given time.
US11202614B2
An X-ray imaging apparatus and control method thereof precisely designates an imaging region and reduces user fatigue by designating a segmentation imaging region using an image of a target object captured by a camera and automatically controlling an X-ray generator according to the designated segmentation imaging region. The X-ray imaging apparatus includes an X-ray generator to perform X-ray imaging of a target object by generating and irradiating X-rays, an image capturer to capture an image of the target object, an image display to display the image captured by the image capturer, an input part to receive designation of a region for which segmentation imaging is to be performed on the image displayed on the image display, and a controller to control the X-ray generator to perform segmentation imaging with respect to the designated region.
US11202610B2
A radiological imaging system including a bed extending along a main direction, and a load-bearing structure supporting the bed in a raised position. The system includes a collapsible gantry having a circular trajectory of expansion lying on a positioning plane, and the collapsible gantry includes a source to emit radiation and a detector to receive the radiation. The gantry also includes a casing housing the source and the detector. The casing includes a fixed arched module and a mobile arched module. There is a rotation mechanism suitable to rotate the collapsible gantry in relation to the bed and the load-bearing structure to vary the inclination of the positioning plane in relation to the main direction. There is also a kinematic expansion mechanism connected to the casing to translate the mobile arched module with respect to the fixed arched module.
US11202604B2
A system and method of automatically assessing pediatric and neonatal pain using facial expressions along with crying sounds, body movement, and vital signs change to improve the diagnosis and treatment of pain in the pediatric patient population.
US11202603B1
The various embodiments of the method of the present invention include a method to improving or expanding the capacity of a sleep analysis unit or laboratory, a method sleep analysis testing a patient admitted for diagnosis or treatment of another primary medical condition while being treated or diagnosed for that condition, a method of sleep analysis testing a patient that cannot be easily moved or treated in a sleep analysis unit or laboratory and other like methods.
US11202602B2
Methods, systems, and computer readable media for non-invasively predicting patient-specific mechanical competence at an anatomical site. In some examples, a method includes receiving images from the anatomical site of a patient; using computational analysis of the images to simulate mechanical loading at the anatomical site; and generating, based on the analysis, an indication of stiffness, strength, resilience or toughness under the mechanical loading conditions.
US11202600B2
Multifunctional neurophysiologic monitoring and probing system and a method of implementing the same
A multifunctional neurophysiologic monitoring and probing system, having a main unit (1), a main wire (2), negative electrode neurophysiologic monitoring and probing parts and positive electrode neurophysiologic monitoring and probing parts; one end of the main wire (2) is connected with the main unit (1); another end of the main wire is divided into two branch wires connecting with the negative electrode neurophysiologic monitoring and probing parts and the positive electrode neurophysiologic monitoring and probing parts respectively.
US11202596B2
A system and methods utilizing electrical stimulation to achieve a desired therapeutic effect are provided. In one aspect, a method for controlling nerve activity in a subject is provided. The method includes receiving input indicating a desired therapeutic effect for at least one neural structure of a subject, and selecting, based on the input received, an electrical stimulation configured to achieve the desired therapeutic effect. The method also includes controlling a sympathetic nerve activity in the subject by delivering the electrical stimulation using electrodes positioned proximate to nerves innervating the subject's skin.
US11202595B2
A system and method are described for assessing muscle parameters (e.g., force(s) exerted, force dynamics, strength, voluntary muscle movement, etc.) in a diagnostic or therapeutic environment. The muscle parameter assessment system includes a force-gauging device and a computing device. The force-gauging device includes at least one pressure-sensing component (e.g., transducer, pressure sensor, etc.) configured to respond to a force applied by a subject and produce one or more output signals. The force-gauging device can further include electronic circuitry configured to convert the output signals into data indicative of a muscle parameter. The computing device is configured to build a muscle assessment protocol based on one or more patient characteristics and/or user input. The computing device is further configured to execute one or more muscle assessments via the force-gauging device, receive data from the force-gauging device, and determine one or more muscle measurements for a subject.
US11202584B2
A gait aid is to be disposed on a shoe, and includes a detecting module, a control circuit and a projecting module. The detecting module generates a sense output based on pressure exerted on a sole of the shoe. The control circuit generates a control signal based at least on the sense output generated by the detecting module. The projecting module is electrically coupled to the control circuit for receiving the control signal therefrom, and is operable, based on the control signal, to project or not to project a cueing mark.
US11202579B2
A feedback device for an acute care provider includes: at least one motion sensor; a haptic output component for providing feedback having a varying haptic pattern to the acute care provider regarding performance of a resuscitation activity; and a controller. The controller can be configured to receive and process a signal representative of performance of the resuscitation activity from the at least one motion sensor, compare the acute care provider's performance of the resuscitation activity to a target performance of the resuscitation activity, and cause the haptic output component to provide haptic feedback to the acute care provider by changing the haptic pattern based, at least in part, on the signal from the at least one motion sensor and the comparison of the acute care provider's performance to the target performance of the resuscitation activity. The device can be adapted to be wrist-worn by the acute care provider.
US11202573B2
A system for capturing, storing and comparing dermatological images includes two components, namely, a handheld exam control and a patient interface. The handheld exam control includes a camera, display screen, illuminator and a position sensor. The patient interface includes a patient position template and a position sensor interface. The system captures an image sequence and the precise location of each image. Images may be compared to previous images by a clinician.
US11202565B2
A method for intermediate assessment of an eye, whereby an intermediate assessment is carried out making it possible to adapt and optimise a subsequent full assessment. The preliminary assessment takes slightly more time initially but provides for greater efficiency in carrying out the subsequent full assessment by preventing the performance of operations or calculations that are unsuccessful.
US11202563B2
A Progressive Lens Simulator comprises an Eye Tracker, for tracking an eye axis direction to determine a gaze distance, an Off-Axis Progressive Lens Simulator, for generating an Off-Axis progressive lens simulation; and an Axial Power-Distance Simulator, for simulating a progressive lens power in the eye axis direction. The Progressive Lens Simulator can alternatively include an Integrated Progressive Lens Simulator, for creating a Comprehensive Progressive Lens Simulation. The Progressive Lens Simulator can be Head-mounted. A Guided Lens Design Exploration System for the Progressive Lens Simulator can include a Progressive Lens Simulator, a Feedback-Control Interface, and a Progressive Lens Design processor, to generate a modified progressive lens simulation for the patient after a guided modification of the progressive lens design. A Deep Learning Method for an Artificial Intelligence Engine can be used for a Progressive Lens Design Processor.
US11202559B2
The present disclosure includes vision preservation systems for medical devices, such as cryospray devices for use with endoscopes. Exemplary embodiments provide a distal attachment in the form of a shroud or cap that mounts to the end of a flexible endoscope. A purging fluid supply mechanism is provided along the length of the endoscope, providing a channel for purging fluid, such as gas, to communicate between the endoscope tip and an external gas supply. The cap or shroud assembly incorporates a lens clearing flow field adjustment mechanism, such as nozzles, designed to direct warm (room temperature or higher) purging fluid across a lens at the scope tip. Another flow deflection mechanism, such as a guide or nozzle, may be included with the cap to direct purging fluid at an angle away from the lens.
US11202541B2
An outer rotor motor includes an inner stator and an outer rotor. The inner stator includes a stator frame and a stator unit mounted to the stator frame. The outer rotor includes a shaft and a rotor unit fixed to the shaft. The stator frame is integrally formed from plastic as an integral structure and comprises a base and a hub extending from the base, the hub forms a chamber therein, supporting components are installed in the chamber, and the shaft extends into the chamber and supported by the supporting components such that the shaft is rotatable relative to the stator frame. In the present invention, the stator frame has an integral structure made of plastic which simplifies the structure of the motor and reduces the cost of the motor. The present invention further provides a vacuum cleaner that employs the motor.
US11202539B2
A hand vacuum cleaner comprises a main body has a driving handle and houses a suction motor and fan assembly, the suction motor and fan assembly having a suction motor axis of rotation wherein the driving handle has a hand grip portion that extends upwardly and forwardly when the hand vacuum cleaner is oriented with the upper end above the lower end. An air treatment member has a dirt collection region having an openable door provided on a front end of the air treatment member.
US11202535B2
A dispensing system comprises a first electronic sensor and a controller. The first electronic sensor may be configured to detect a first change from a first amount of a fluid product in a dispensing system reservoir to a second amount of the fluid product in the dispensing system reservoir. The controller may be coupled to the first electronic sensor and configured to receive a first signal from the first electronic sensor indicative of the first change. The dispensing system reservoir may be disposed in the dispensing system. A method for determining a remaining service interval for a dispensing system reservoir is also provided.
US11202534B1
One or more embodiments of a device for holding a pot or pan and a lid are disclosed. The device includes a base, a front holder element, a first holder element, a second holder element, and an attachment extension. The base includes a front surface which extends in a front plane. The first holder element is attached to the front surface between the front surface and the front holder element. The first holder element includes a first surface extending in a first plane. The second holder element is attached to the front surface between the front surface and the front holder element. The second holder element includes a second surface extending in a second plane. The second plane is different from the first plane. The attachment extension is attached to the front surface.
US11202519B1
A bassinet apparatus having a base with first and second elongate support members parallel to each other. Lower portions of first and second side support member are slideably engaged respectively on the first and second elongate support members. Upper portions of the first and second side support members pivotally engage first and second bassinet support members extending from the upper portion of the first side support member to the upper portion of the second side support member. A bassinet receptacle depends from the first and second bassinet support members.
US11202518B1
A baby chair includes a baby chair comprising a chair body and a support rack assembled with the chair body. The chair body includes a plurality of legs. The support rack includes a base and a plurality of fastening members. The base has a top provided with a plurality of positioning recesses. The fastening members are pivotally mounted in positioning recesses. The chair body is used individually to function as a baby chair, and the support rack is used individually to function as a baby table. When the support rack is assembled with the chair body, each of the legs of the chair body is inserted into each of the positioning recesses of the support rack, and is locked by each of the fastening members. Thus, the support rack increases the height of the chair body.
US11202516B2
A mattress made of natural latex foam has at least four layers. Each of the layers having a density that is different than the density of the adjacent layers. The mattress may also have on the first layer a plurality of magnets and infrared elements. The mattress may also have massage elements and/or a low frequency energy element between the second and third layers.
US11202514B1
A mattress core includes sandwiched layer of coils that includes coils disposed between a first spacer fabric layer and a second spacer fabric layer. The mattress core also includes a viscoelastic foam disposed beneath the sandwiched layer of coils. A top surface of the first spacer fabric layer is disposed at or adjacent to a top surface of the mattress core. The first spacer fabric layer defines or more first air channels and the second spacer fabric layer defines one or more second air channels. The one or more first air channels extend above the coils included in the sandwiched layer of coils and the one or more second air channels extends below coils.
US11202511B2
The present invention relates to a seat lock including: a fixed bracket fixed to a leg of a chair; a locking unit disposed on the fixed bracket; and a movable bracket fixed to a seat of the chair in such a manner as to rotate together with the seat and having a seat rotation shaft and a locking piece coupled to an end periphery of the seat rotation shaft in such a manner as to be exposed to the outside, wherein the locking unit includes a driving motor having a driving shaft, a driving cam fitted to the driving shaft of the driving motor, and a latch rotating in a range of a given angle around a shaft fixed to the fixed bracket to limit the rotational movement of the locking piece. According to the present invention, the seat lock can utilize the locking unit to allow the seat to be more efficiently managed.
US11202502B1
A middle shelf installation tool is disclosed for use in combination with a pair of upstanding corner posts during the assembly of a boltless shelving system. Upper and lower sets of hingedly connected corner post surrounding members are spaced one above the other so as to extend across the top and bottom of the installation tool. The installation tool is wrapped in surrounding engagement around the bottom of an upper one of the pair of corner posts and the top of the lower one of the pair. The installation tool forms a splice to hold the upper and lower corner posts in axial alignment one above the other to facilitate the location by a single individual of a middle shelf at the intersection between the corner posts to lie between upper and lower shelves of the system. Once the middle shelf has been installed, the installation tool is pulled off and removed from the corner posts.
US11202499B2
There is provided a light guiding unit (10) for use in an oral cleaning device. The light guiding unit is configured to be coupled to a light source (50), and the light guiding unit comprises a homogenizing component (110) having a length along which light from the light source is guided. The homogenizing component is further configured such that at least one of an amount of refraction of the guided light and an amount of internal reflection of the guided light varies along the length to homogenize, along the length of the homogenizing component, an amount of light transmitting out of the homogenizing component.
US11202495B1
Embodiments of the invention relate to load carrier systems and associated manufacturing methods. In one embodiment, a load carrier system can include a unitary piece of material. The unitary piece of material can include a body portion comprising a first face side, an opposing face side, a first peripheral edge and an opposing second peripheral edge; and one or more straps comprising a respective extended end, wherein the straps are an integral part of the body portion; wherein the one or more straps are folded over onto the first face side adjacent to the first peripheral edge; and wherein at least one respective end of the one or more straps is fastened to the opposing second peripheral edge.
US11202492B2
The present invention relates to an applicator (2) for applying a cosmetic or care product to the eyelashes or eyebrows, having a moulded applicator member (8) having: —a core (10) that extends along a longitudinal axis (X), —spikes (18) that are carried by the core and extend from the core, a majority of the spikes being substantially parallel to one another, the core (10) having, at least in cross section, an outwardly concave overall shape, forming a cavity (20), spikes (18) being disposed inside the cavity (20) in the core.
US11202491B2
Systems, devices, and methods for a cosmetic sponge having: a tip portion at one end of the cosmetic sponge; an angled portion, where the tip portion is surrounded by the angled portion; a bulbous portion, where the bulbous portion is disposed proximate a bottom of the cosmetic sponge; and a bottom portion, where the bottom portion is surrounded by the bulbous portion; and a thermochromic pigment in at least a portion of the cosmetic sponge, where the portion of the cosmetic sponge changes from a first color at a first temperature to a second color at a second temperature.
US11202489B2
The invention relates to a key holding device with an ejectable platform that not only retrieves keys but also holds keys in an organized manner. The key holding device comprises a bottom case, a top cover, at least one key holder, and a sliding apparatus to slide the key held in the key holder.
US11202487B2
A first stop member includes a first base and a first insert that is positioned between the first base and a first fastener element and is inserted into the slider via a rear mouth of a slider. A second stop member includes a second base and a second insert that is positioned between the second base and a second fastener element and is inserted into the slider via a second slit of the slider. The second insert moves toward the second slit of the slider in accordance with at least one or respective rotations of the first and second bases. A rotational axis with respect to the at least one or respective rotations of the first and second bases is positioned between the first tape region and the second tape region.
US11202478B2
What has been described is a necktie locking principle that confines movement of the necktie while in use. The intent is to secure the necktie in a general static position and limit relative movement for a larger portion of the necktie.
US11202476B2
A continuous elongated ring configured to engage a filtration textile to a nose-mouth perimeter of a user, said continuous elongated ring including an upper curvilinear portion adapted to engage said filtration textile disposed about a nasal periphery of the user; said upper curvilinear portion including a pair of attachment features adapted to fastenly receive an upper support strap configured to engage the user's head, and a lower curvilinear portion adapted to engage said filtration textile disposed about a mouth periphery of the user, the lower curvilinear portion including a pair of attachment features adapted to fastenly receive a lower support strap configured to engage the user's head.
US11202466B2
The method for manufacturing inductively heatable tobacco rods comprises the steps of providing a continuous profile of a susceptor, guiding an aerosol-forming tobacco substrate along a tobacco substrate converging device, positioning the continuous profile of susceptor in the aerosol-forming tobacco substrate and converging the aerosol-forming tobacco substrate to a final rod shape. Therein, the step of positioning the continuous profile of susceptor in the aerosol-forming tobacco substrate is performed before performing the step of converging the aerosol-forming tobacco substrate to its final rod shape.
US11202465B2
A non-heating, non-combustion type flavor inhaler including a supply flow path unit including a first flow path leading aerosol toward a user side and a suction port, a liquid holding unit accommodating an aerosol base, a second flow path having one end communicating with the liquid holding unit and the other end which is located in the supply flow path unit and is opened toward the suction port side, and having a conductive portion, a liquid feeding system feeding the aerosol base, a power supply and a control unit applying a voltage to the conductive portion, to atomize the aerosol base and to eject the aerosol from an opening of the other end, and a static elimination unit neutralizing charge of the aerosol ejected from the opening.
US11202463B2
Provided herein are formulations of flavors and fragrances encapsulated in plasmolysed micro-organisms, as well as glass particles or beads comprising these encapsulated flavors and fragrances. Also provided herein are methods of making formulations of encapsulated flavors and fragrances.
US11202460B2
The present invention relates to a mixed saccharide composition containing psicose, glucose and fructose with improved sweetness quality and crystallization, and a method for preventing crystallization of a mixed saccharide composition containing a psicose.
US11202459B2
The present invention relates to a method for preparing a fat-based flavour concentrate, comprising the following steps: (i) providing a fat/oil base ranging from 40 to 75% w/w and further providing a flavour precursor composition comprising at least one added polyol, at least one added amino compound, at least a dairy ingredient, and at least a particulate processing aid, wherein the ratio of the dairy ingredient to the particulate processing aid is from 1:1 to 4:1 (measured as w/w); (ii) continuous thermal processing of the flavour precursor composition with particulate processing aid suspended in the fat/oil base to generate a fat-based flavour concentrate, wherein heating step is performed in a continuous oil phase at a low moisture content ranging from 0 to 5% added water; and (iii) cooling the fat-based flavour concentrate.
US11202455B2
Provided is a method for producing a vegetable fresh cheese-like food product which is free from dairy products, has a natural, fresh cheese-like dairy flavor and body, and has excellent spreadability and squeezability as a confectionery material. The pH of an emulsified oil composition which contains a soybean emulsified composition containing a specific protein and lipid, a specific soybean protein material having a reduced content of a lipophilic protein among soybean proteins, and a protein coagulant is adjusted to a pH of 5.5-6.3 using lactic acid fermentation and/or an organic acid.
US11202452B2
In an embodiment, an apparatus for processing meat product and a method of using same is provided. A first station includes a scanner which scans features of a meat product. A second station side straps the meat product in accordance with information received from the scan of the features. The second station includes a support, and spaced-apart knifes disposed on opposite sides of the support. Each knife has an axis of rotation that is normal to the longitudinal axis of the support. A position of each knife relative to the support in a direction normal to the longitudinal axis can be varied. A controller is programmed to control movement of each knife in accordance with the information received from the scanner.
US11202450B2
Disclosed herein are methods of increasing, enhancing, or accelerating root nodulation in a plant, accelerating growth of nitrogen fixing bacteria in nodules of a plant, increasing protein content in a plant, increasing yield of a plant, improving water retention of a plant, or reducing water use of a plant, the method comprising identifying a plant in need of root nodulation, and applying to the plant a composition comprising a protein component comprising yeast stress proteins resulting from subjecting a mixture obtained from the yeast fermentation to stress.
US11202443B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure describe an aquaculture environment control system comprising one or more control apparatuses positioned within a vessel at an angle relative to a proximal vessel wall and configured for scouring of the vessel, wherein each control apparatus has a discharge conduit and each discharge conduit has one or more orifices; and a fluid source in fluid communication with each of the control apparatuses. Embodiments of the present disclosure describe a method of controlling an aquaculture environment comprising supplying one or more of a fluid and gas to a control apparatus positioned within a vessel at an angle relative to a proximal vessel wall; and discharging one or more of the fluid and gas from the control apparatus at a fluid velocity sufficient for scouring of the vessel.
US11202439B2
A structure for sheltering and cooling livestock may include a concrete floored barn having an improved evaporative cooling system. The cooling system may include a misting stack having air inlets, a mixing chamber, and three cooling zones wherein the cooling zones correspond to three different temperature ranges. Each of the cooling zones may include a plurality of nozzles which produce a mist. As air passes through the mixing chamber, the mist may evaporate and cool the air. The cooling system may further include a plurality of large exhaust fans located at an end of the barn distal from the misting stack. The fans may draw the cool air through the barn, over and around the livestock, and out of the barn.
US11202436B1
A hybrid tomato plant, designated HMC44133 is disclosed. The disclosure relates to the seeds of hybrid tomato designated HMC44133, to the plants and plant parts of hybrid tomato designated HMC44133, and to methods for producing a tomato plant by crossing the hybrid tomato HMC44133 with itself or another tomato plant.
US11202435B1
A soybean cultivar designated 92040765 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 92040765, to the plants of soybean cultivar 92040765, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 92040765, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 92040765. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 92040765. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 92040765, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 92040765 with another soybean cultivar.
US11202424B1
A wheat variety designated 6PWBD39B, the plants and seeds of wheat variety 6PWBD39B, methods for producing a wheat plant produced by crossing the variety 6PWBD39B with another wheat plant, and hybrid wheat seeds and plants produced by crossing the variety 6PWBD39B with another wheat line or plant, and the creation of variants by backcrossing, mutagenesis or transformation of variety 6PWBD39B are disclosed. Methods for producing other wheat varieties or breeding lines derived from wheat variety 6PWBD39B and to wheat varieties or breeding lines produced by those methods are also provided.
US11202423B1
A novel hybrid cantaloupe plant designated SWEET SPOT is disclosed. The disclosure relates to the seeds of hybrid cantaloupe designated SWEET SPOT, to the plants and plant parts of hybrid cantaloupe designated SWEET SPOT, and to methods for producing a cantaloupe plant by crossing the hybrid cantaloupe SWEET SPOT with itself or another cantaloupe plant.
US11202418B2
A container farm provides a grow zone and a work zone within an enclosure. Plants are grown in vertical grow towers within the grow zone supported by a rotatable carousel grow structure. The grow towers can be moved within the grow zone to a location in which they are accessible from the work zone. A seedling station can be provided within the work zone. Other systems, including an irrigation system, a lighting system, and a climate control system, can be provided to support the growth of plants within the container.
US11202416B2
A method for tracking seeds in an assembly line grow pod having a plurality of carts is provided. A target seed is deposited in a selected cell which is a part of a selected tray located in a selected cart travelling on an assembly line grow pod. A position of the target seed is tracked in the selected cell by determining the position of the target seed in the selected cart and determining a position of the selected cart in the assembly line grow pod. Sustenance is provided to the target seed including the selected cell. A growth factor of the target seed is determined in the selected cell. Upon determination that the growth factor of the target seed in the selected cell is below a predetermined threshold, supply of the sustenance provided to the selected cell is adjusted.
US11202413B2
A fastener device adapted for attaching at least one tag (or other identifier) to an object. The fastener device comprises a T-bar component, a paddle component, and a filament component flexibly attached to both the T-bar component on one end and the paddle component on the other end. In some embodiments, the fastener device is deployable via a fastener dispensing device comprising a needle designed to puncture a hole in at least one tag and the object while also inserting the T-bar component through the hole. Once inserted, the paddle component exerts a cantilever spring force against at least one tag holding the tag(s) securely against the object.
US11202403B2
A system for detecting the operational status of a seed-planting implement. The system includes a row unit including a frame and a residue removal device coupled to the frame. The residue removal device is configured to remove residue from a path of the row unit. The system further includes a sensor configured to capture data indicative of at least one of a position or an acceleration of the residue removal device. The system further includes a controller configured to monitor the data received from the sensor and compare at least one monitored value associated with the at least one of the position or the acceleration of the residue removal device to a predetermined threshold value set for the residue removal device. The controller is further configured to identify the residue removal device as being plugged when the at least one monitored value differs from the predetermined threshold value.
US11202402B2
A system for identifying plugging of ground engaging tools of an agricultural implement may include a ground engaging tool configured to be supported by an agricultural implement and a signal transmission device provided in operative association with the ground engaging tool, with the signal transmission device being configured to transmit wireless signals. The system may also include an antenna spaced apart from the signal transmission device and configured to receive the wireless signals transmitted from the signal transmission device, and a controller communicatively coupled to the antenna. The controller is configured to determine when the ground engaging tool is experiencing a plugged condition based at least in part on at least one of an attenuation parameter of the wireless signals received by the antenna from signal transmission device or a lack of wireless signals received by the antenna from signal transmission device.
US11206747B1
A heat release device includes a housing, a substrate located within the housing, a heat source disposed on the substrate, a first member provided between the housing and the substrate and between the housing and the heat source, and a plurality of second members that support the first member from the substrate. The first member is disposed to have a gap with the heat source and so as to have a gap with the housing. Among the plurality of second members, a second member far from the heat source is larger in area in contact with the substrate and the first member than a second member close to the heat source.
US11206741B2
The disclosure provides a display including a carrying main body, a flexible display panel, at least one magnet, and a plurality of electromagnets. The flexible display panel is disposed on the carrying main body and is adapted to unfold on the carrying main body. The at least one magnet is disposed on the flexible display panel. The electromagnets are disposed on the carrying main body. Magnetic poles of the electromagnets are adapted to change and drive the at least one magnet and the flexible display panel to move relatively to the carrying main body.
US11206737B2
A composite electronic component includes a composite body in which a multilayer ceramic capacitor and a ceramic chip are coupled to each other, the multilayer ceramic capacitor including a first ceramic body in which a plurality of dielectric layers and internal electrodes disposed to face each other with respective dielectric layers interposed therebetween are stacked, and first and second external electrodes disposed on both end portions of the first ceramic body, and the ceramic chip being disposed on a lower portion of the multilayer ceramic capacitor and formed of a ceramic material having substantially no piezoelectric property, wherein a ratio (T/L) of thickness (T) of the ceramic chip to length (L) of the multilayer ceramic capacitor is selected to minimize vibration of the ceramic chip.
US11206731B2
A communication module includes: a substrate; a supplementary substrate disposed to surround an electronic element mounted on a lower surface of the substrate; a molding material configured to seal an electronic element mounted on an upper surface of the substrate; and a shielding layer disposed on a side surface and an upper surface of the molding material, a side surface of the supplementary substrate, and a side surface of the substrate. The supplementary substrate includes: a plurality of first pads disposed on an upper surface of the supplementary substrate; a plurality of second pads disposed on a lower surface of the supplementary substrate; a plurality of vias connecting the plurality first pads to the plurality of second pads; and a ground pad disposed on the side surface of the supplementary substrate. The ground pad includes an extender connected to a corresponding first pad and a corresponding second pad.
US11206726B2
The present invention relates to a smart lighting and an operation method thereof, characterized in that the smart lighting communicates with surrounding electronic devices in a 5G communication environment, and on the basis of such communication and through machine learning, the smart lighting shows operational information of an electronic device when a control command is inputted. When a control command for an operation of an electronic device is generated by a user, information of the operation of the electronic device according to the generated control command is shown through the smart lighting, to thereby improve user convenience in using the electronic device.
US11206720B2
An LED light fixture, in the form of lamps or luminaires, is comprised on a plurality of LED lights producing bright white or warm light and a plurality of color LED lights producing light of a visibly different color. The fixture includes control circuitry for receiving an input voltage signal from a dimmer switch wherein when the dimmer switch reduces the input voltage to the LED light fixture within a top range setting of the dimmer switch, the brightness of the light is maintained while the color Kelvin temperature of the light spectrum is reduced. If the dimmer switch is increased in the top range, the color temperature increases. This is achieved by increasing the frequency of a reduced input voltage signal during a reduction of the dimmer switch in the top range thereof to supply full driver current to the white or warm light LED's while reducing the driver current to the color LED's. When the dimmer switch is operated below the top range both drive currents to the while and color LED's is reduced to provide a warm relaxing light spectrum but with substantially high luminosity/brightness.
US11206715B2
In one embodiment, a method includes configuring a router to act as a BNG and establishing, by the router, a connection between CPE and the BNG. The method also includes receiving, by the router, end-user and access parameters and communicating, by the router, the end-user and access parameters to one or more 5G NFs by interacting with one or more SBIs. The method further includes allowing, by the router, the CPE access to the one or more 5G NFs in response to communicating the end-user and access parameters to the one or more 5G NFs.
US11206713B2
A multi-antenna receiver within an uplink MIMO communication system is described. The antenna receiver includes an RRU and a BBU communicating between themselves through a fronthaul (FH) link. The multi-antenna receiver significantly decreases the fronthaul (FH) throughput requirements, while guaranteeing a low EVM between the time-domain signals transmitted from the users towards the RRU and the signals reconstructed and recovered at the BBU. The RRU processes the obtained frequency-domain signals in a space of dimensionality N by projecting them into a signal space of lower dimensionality (N′) and compressing them in the obtained projected signal subspace. At the BBU, the frequency-domain signals are decompressed and reconstructed on the projected signal subspace, before recovering the transmitted time-domain signals.
US11206705B2
Various embodiments disclosed herein provide for flexible carrier uplink and downlink pairing for 4G, 5G and future networks. Downlink and uplink channels can be assigned to different bands that are not contiguous or bands that have different bandwidths. This enables base station devices to have the flexibility to assign uplink and downlink communications to bands that have lower load and thus improve the efficiency and throughput of the communication link for both uplink and downlink. The base station device can also assign uplink and downlink pairing in order to minimize passive intermodulation interference. Passive intermodulation interference from a transmission can cause interference in bands near the transmission band, and so the base station device can assign downlink and uplink bands that are separate from each other in order to reduce the passive intermodulation interference.
US11206703B2
A terminal operation method for providing vehicle communication services. The operation method includes obtaining broadcast information broadcast by a plurality of external terminals, identifying locations of the plurality of external terminals with respect to the terminal, based on the obtained broadcast information, and selecting at least one terminal of the plurality of external terminals as a unicast target terminal, based on the identified locations.
US11206699B2
Network devices can be registered to access a network using known host devices to thereby simplify the device registration process. The host device can be an administrator's device that is already registered and authorized to vouch for another user desiring to register his or her device. Alternatively, the host device can be the user's previously registered device and can be used to register the user's additional devices.
US11206697B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication scheme and system for converging a 5th generation (5G) communication system for supporting a data rate higher than that of a 4th generation (4G) system with an internet of things (IoT) technology. The present disclosure is applicable to intelligent services (e.g., smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart cars, connected cars, health care, digital education, retails, and security and safety-related services) based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology. The present disclosure provides a method for managing a data transmission connection of a PDU session for data communication between a terminal and a network based on a determination made by the network in a mobile communication system.
US11206696B2
A field device includes a process communication module, a graphical display and a controller. The process communication module is configured to communicate in accordance with a process industry standard communication protocol. The controller is operably coupled to the process communication module and the graphical display and is configured to responsively cause the graphical display to generate a machine-readable display output.
US11206694B2
It is one of the objects to achieve an appropriate communication in a next generation communication system. The user terminal according to one aspect of the present invention includes a receiving section that receives a synchronization signal and a transmitting section that uses a sequence and/or a radio resource determined based on the synchronization signal to transmit a random access preamble.
US11206683B2
Methods, apparatus, and computer-readable media are described to decode a geolocation database dependent (GDD) enabling signal sent on a lower band. A 6 GHz band element is decoded. The 6 GHz band element includes a list of 6 GHz channel numbers. Data is encoded for transmission at 6 GHz on a 6 GHz channel associated with a 6 GHz channel number.
US11206667B2
This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to extreme high throughput (EHT) data scrambler. A device may determine an extreme high throughput (EHT) data field of a frame to be scrambled using an EHT data scrambler. The device may determine to initialize the EHT data scrambler using an initialization seed, wherein the initialization seed has a size greater than seven bits. The device may generate scrambled data using the initialization seed. The device may cause to send the frame comprising the scrambled data to a first station device.
US11206659B2
This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for multiple downlink control information (DCI) message handling for multiple control resource set (CORESET) groups. In one aspect, a user equipment (UE) may provide separate or joint feedback for data messages received from different CORESET groups. In some examples, the UE may be configured with code block group (CBG)-based transmissions for a component carrier (CC) or a CORESET group in a CC. If implementing a dynamic codebook, the UE may track separate transport block (TB)-based and CBG-based downlink assignment indexes (DAIs) for each CORESET group or may track joint TB-based and CBG-based DAIs across the set of CORESET groups to handle the CBG configuration. Additionally, or alternatively, if implementing a semi-static codebook, the UE may apply skipping rules across the set of CORESET groups or separately for each CORESET group to reduce signaling overhead.
US11206657B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. Disclosed is a method of subcarrier index mapping for application to Phase Tracking Reference Signal, PTRS, within a Resource Block, RB, in a telecommunication system, wherein a particular subcarrier index to which PTRS is mapped is determined on the basis of one or more of: Cell ID, DMRS Port Index, DMRS SCID UE-specific ID (RNTI).
US11206639B2
Provided are a method and a device for transmitting a scheduling request in a wireless communication system. Particularly, user equipment receives information on first and second scheduling request resources which is broadcasted from a base station. The user equipment receives information on the first and second scheduling request resources which is transferred specifically to the user equipment from the base station. On the basis of the information, the user equipment selects the first scheduling request resource or the second scheduling request resource. The user equipment transmits a scheduling request via the selected resource.
US11206638B2
The present disclosure discloses a method and a device for wireless communication in UE and base station. The user equipment determines a first time-frequency resource block by itself on a first sub-band and transmits a first wireless signal in the first time-frequency resource block on the first sub-band. Wherein, the first wireless signal carries a first bit block and a second bit block; the first time-frequency resource block comprises a first time-frequency resource sub-block, and whether the first time-frequency resource block comprises a second time-frequency resource sub-block is related to the number of bits included in the first bit block; the second bit block is used to determine the first time-frequency resource block; The above method allows the UE to dynamically select the size of the occupied uplink wireless resource according to the size of the actual data amount, while avoiding the resource waste and the extra transmission time delay.
US11206637B2
A communication method and system for converging a 5th-generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT) is provided. The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. The method for obtaining numerology information by a user equipment (UE) includes detecting synchronization signals, obtaining first numerology information for the synchronization signals, decoding a physical broadcast channel (PBCH) based on the first numerology information, obtaining second numerology information for a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) according to a result of the decoding, and receiving control information on the PDCCH based on the second numerology information.
US11206636B2
Disclosed are a paging message sending method and device, and a computer storage medium. The method comprises: a network determining the maximum number of paged UEs of a paging message according to paging configuration parameters, the paging configuration parameters comprising configuration information of a paging time unit and information concerning the maximum number of paged UEs corresponding to the paging time unit; the paging time unit comprising at least a first type of paging time unit and a second type of paging time unit, each type of paging time unit corresponding to the respective maximum number of paged UEs; the network sending a paging message according to the paging configuration parameters.
US11206630B2
There is provided an information processing system including a relative-position estimation processing unit configured to estimate a relative position between an access point and a wireless client by using a cooperative position estimation method using distance information based on a signal strength between the access point and the wireless client; and an inside/outside determination processing unit configured to determine an inside/outside positional relationship between a polygonal target area formed by access points and the wireless client, in which the inside/outside determination processing unit determines whether the wireless client is present inside or outside the target area by determining a direction of vector product of the access points forming a side of the target area and a direction of vector product of the wireless client and the access point as a vertex of the polygonal area.
US11206625B2
A communication system comprises a clock generator configured to generate a plurality of system clock signals used to synchronize components included in each of communication nodes in the communication system based on an external clock signal provided by an external clock source located outside the communication system and a physical layer configured to transmit any one of the generated system clock signals to a small cell communicatively connected to an end communication node of the communication system.
US11206617B2
A method for a terminal for transmitting a signal in a wireless communication system according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises: receiving repeated transmission related information comprising the count N by which an uplink signal transmission is to be repeated from a base station; determining the transmission power of the uplink signal; and transmitting repeatedly the uplink signal N times by the determined transmission power on the basis of the repeated transmission related information, wherein the terminal can determine the transmission power of the uplink signal on the basis of the count N by which the transmission of the uplink signal is to be repeated. The terminal is capable of communicating with at least one of another terminal, a terminal related to an autonomous driving vehicle, a base station or a network.
US11206598B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, selecting a first pathway of available pathways during a first time period according to predicted opportunities for a mobile communication device to access a first network via the available pathways, and directing transmission of first data to the mobile communication device via the first pathway during the first time period, wherein a presence of a second data at the mobile communication device enables an application to access the first data at the mobile communication device. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11206595B2
Systems and methods for handover of 5G location sessions for an NG-RAN location management component
A RAN location server function (e.g. for 5G New Radio), referred to as Location Management Component (LMC), may be included in a gNB and connected to a gNB Central Unit (gNB-CU). The gNB-CU may receive a location request for a UE (e.g. from an AMF) and may initiate a location session for the UE, including selecting an LMC for the location session. The gNB-CU may handover the UE to a new serving gNB during the location session. The LMC for the location session may then remain unchanged after the handover or may be changed to a new LMC to suit the new serving gNB. The location session may then continue using the original LMC if not changed or the new LMC if changed.
US11206584B2
A gateway for X2 interface communication is provided, including: an X2 internal interface for communicating with, and coupled to, a plurality of radio access networks (RANs); and an X2 external interface for communicating with, and coupled to, a destination outside of the plurality of RANs, the X2 external interface further including a single X2 endpoint for the plurality of radio access networks, such that the X2 external interface provides a single interface for an external macro cell or core network to interact with the plurality of radio access networks. The gateway may further include a handover module for maintaining X2 signaling associations and transactions for incoming and outbound handovers, including X2 to S1 and S1 to X2 translation.
US11206582B2
Embodiments for performing a fast return to Wi-Fi following completion of a cellular voice call are provided. These embodiments include detecting that a device has switched from communicating over a Wi-Fi interface to communicating over a cellular interface; determining the earliest time that the device can switch back to Wi-Fi; and instituting the switch. In some embodiments, the process of performing a fast return to Wi-Fi is carried out by devices having small form factors, such as smartwatches and other wearables, which may be susceptible to coexistence and peak power problems. The fast return to Wi-Fi embodiments disclosed herein allow a device to perform a voice call over a cellular interface when Wi-Fi calling is not available, and switch over to a Wi-Fi interface immediately upon completion of the voice call in order to conserve battery life, achieve higher data speeds, and avoid high costs associated with cellular data transmissions.
US11206577B2
Method and apparatus for improving fronthaul interfaces in wireless communication is provided. An apparatus of managing slicing in a fronthaul connection between entities in a Radio Access Network, RAN, comprises at least one processor configured to: estimate load on the fronthaul connection; and split traffic on a plurality of fronthaul slices according to a predetermined criterion.
US11206573B2
[Object] To allow an increase in load on the base station to be suppressed when the device-to-device communication is performed. [Solution] There is provided a terminal apparatus capable of communicating with a base station, the terminal apparatus including an acquisition unit that acquires radio resource information related to a radio resource usable for device-to-device communication not via the base station, of radio resources controllable by the base station, and a determination unit that determines a size of data to be transmitted and received in the device-to-device communication on the basis of the radio resource information.
US11206572B2
The present disclosure relates to a 5G or pre-5G communication system for supporting a higher data transfer rate beyond a 4G communication system, such as LTE. An embodiment of the present invention may provide an operating method of a reception apparatus, the operating method comprising the steps of: receiving a signaling radio bearer (SRB) message; determining whether at least one SRB message has not been sequentially received; checking whether a reordering timer has expired, in case that the at least one SRB message has not been sequentially received; and determining a loss of the at least one SRB message in case that the reordering timer has expired.
US11206564B2
A method of processing measurement information, a terminal, and an access network node are provided. The method is applied to a multi-connection system. The method includes: acquiring, by the terminal, measurement information on at least one frequency other than a serving frequency of a second access network node; and transmitting, by the terminal, the measurement information on the at least one frequency other than the serving frequency of the second access network node to the second access network node, where the at least one frequency other than the serving frequency of the second access network node includes a serving frequency of a first access network node.
US11206561B2
Provided is an analysis method for testing a vehicle-to-object (V2X) communication system and a system for performing the analysis method. The analysis method for a vehicle-to-object (V2X) communication system includes the steps of collecting data on a radio signal from the V2X communication system, the radio signal being transmitted or received in the V2X communication system; and transferring at least a portion of the collected radio signal data to a client; wherein the radio signal data is collected from two or more layers of layers constructing the V2X communication system.
US11206557B2
In a fronthaul network system, when a CPRI link fault is detected at either of the REC or RE, both the REC and RE perform a Layer 1 synchronization. The fault may be a loss of signal, loss of frame, or a line code violation, which also translates to a loss of signal if seen beyond a threshold. A proxy slave recognizes the fault in a CPRI signal from a first radio device and inserts the fault alarm into a header of a radio over Ethernet frame. The proxy slave continues to communicate the signal for a configured number of hyper-frames. A proxy master receives the signal and communicates the signal and the fault alarm to a receiving radio device for a configured number of hyper-frames. The proxy and radio devices all perform a joint resynchronization.
US11206556B2
A power outage processing method: receiving, by a controller in a base station, notification information sent by a first power source, where the notification information is used to indicate that a power outage has occurred on the first power source; the base station includes M radio units, and the M radio units are supplied with power by N power sources, where each power source is connected to at least one radio unit; and the first power source is one of the N power sources, and the N power sources are all supplied with power by using a power grid, determining, by the controller based on connection relationships between the N power sources and the M radio units, a radio unit connected to the first power source; and instructing, by the controller, all or some of radio units connected to the first power source to reduce power consumption.
US11206548B2
Systems and methods provide reliable voice connections and highest possible data rates in New Radio dual-connectivity environments, given limitations of available spectrum. A system includes a first wireless station and a second wireless station. The first wireless station provides a shared spectrum of a first frequency band, the shared spectrum including a first spectrum for a first cellular wireless standard and a second spectrum for a second cellular wireless standard. The second wireless station is at least partially within a coverage area of the first wireless station and provides a third spectrum for the second cellular wireless standard. The third spectrum is a millimeter wave (mmWave) spectrum. The first wireless station broadcasts cell parameters barring an end device in an idle mode from camping on the second spectrum. The first wireless station or the second wireless station triggers the end device to swap to the second spectrum when a paging request for a voice call is received.
US11206543B2
A method includes monitoring data security events on mobile computing devices and positions of the mobile computing devices when the plurality of data security events occurred. A plurality of demographic information of the plurality of geographic positions are determined and a classifier is trained based on the data security events and demographic information. A particular mobile computing device is determined to be located at a particular geographic location and particular demographic information of the particular geographic location is determined. The classifier is applied to the particular demographic information and a particular security risk prediction of the particular geographic location is generated. A particular security measure is activated on the particular mobile computing device based on the particular security risk prediction.
US11206529B2
A base station in a mobile communication system that supports a function to reuse context information retained in each of a user apparatus and the base station to establish a connection is disclosed including a deletion unit configured to delete predetermined information in the context information associated with the user apparatus when the user apparatus ends a connected state in a condition where the base station retains the context information associated with the user apparatus, and an acquisition unit configured to acquire the predetermined information from a communication control apparatus that retains the predetermined information in the mobile communication system when the user apparatus restarts the connected state.
US11206526B2
The disclosure relates to a communication technique for combining, with IoT technology, a 5th generation (5G) communication system or a pre-5G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate after a 4th generation (4G) system such as long-term evolution (LTE), and to a system therefor. The disclosure may be applied to intelligent services (e.g., a smart home, a smart building, a smart city, a smart car or connected car, healthcare, digital education, retail business, security and safety-related service, etc.), based on a 5G communication technology and an IoT-related technology. Various embodiments may provide a method for managing context of a terminal in a mobile communication system.
US11206519B2
The present invention pertains to a wireless communication system. More specifically, a signal transmission and reception method is proposed, wherein the method for a relay terminal transmitting and receiving a signal in a device to device (D2D) wireless communication system comprises receiving a disaster information message from a base station, and transmitting the disaster information message to one or more remote terminals if a message including the same disaster information as the disaster information message has not been received already.
US11206518B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose an access network node, a core network node, and a paging method, and relate to the communications field, so as to resolve a problem that an M2M service cannot be normally used because a network side cannot determine whether a coverage enhancement technology needs to be used in a paging process. A specific solution is as follows: A communications interface is configured to receive a first packet paging message sent by a core network node; a processor determines, according to the first packet paging message received by using the communications interface, that a terminal is an M2M terminal; and a transmitter sends a coverage-enhanced second packet paging message to the terminal. The present invention is used in a paging process.
US11206517B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. An operation method of a terminal in a wireless communication system may include activating sidelink mode-2 (d) and obtaining sidelink radio resource configuration information of other terminals and transmitting the obtained sidelink radio resource configuration information to a target terminal. An operation method of a terminal in a wireless communication system may include activating sidelink mode-2 (d) and receiving sidelink radio resource configuration information from other terminals and allocating sidelink radio resource to a base station or the terminal itself using the received sidelink radio resource configuration information.
US11206515B2
The present disclosure relates to a method of charging packets in a mobile network using a combined packet gateway (PGW) and serving gateway (SGW) which includes receiving a data packet; determining at least one of a rating group and a service rule associated with the data packet; and determining a state of a user device associated with the data packet. When the determined state of the user device comprises a connected state, the method includes charging the data packet, including updating an amount of credit in an account associated with the user device based on the at least one of the rating group and the service rule, and sending the data packet to an enodeB. When the determined state of the user device comprises an idle state, the method includes preventing delivery of the data packet to the enodeB such that the data packet is not charged.
US11206508B2
An electronic device includes a communication interface configured to receive a call from another electronic device, a sensor to sense a motion speed of the electronic device, and a processor configured to provide, to a server, a status of the electronic device based on the motion speed for notifying the another electronic device of the status, determine a type of the call according to an input received from the another electronic device after providing the status, and control to provide a notification related to the call in the electronic device based on the type of the call.
US11206506B2
A method, a computing system, and a computer program product for delivering a message to a user via at least one communication device. The method includes receiving, via a processor of a computing system, a message for a user. User presence data is received from several communication devices associated with the user, the communication devices including a first communication device and at least one second communication device. The received user presence data is stored for each communication devices to a database of the computing system. The method further includes identifying, based on the user presence data, a recipient communication device from among the communication devices to deliver the message to the user.
US11206502B1
A system for evaluating an ear seal between an earphone of a hearing device and an ear canal includes a first transducer that plays sound in response to an electrical signal that includes a reference frequency component and a test frequency component lower than the reference frequency. A second transducer receives the sound in the ear canal. A controller is configured to: calculate at least one electrical signal level difference between the electrical signal reference and test frequency components, measure acoustical levels of the reference and test frequency components of the sound in the ear canal, calculate an acoustical signal level difference between the measured acoustical levels of the reference and test frequency components, calculate a normalized acoustical difference value by subtracting the electrical signal level difference from the acoustical signal level difference, and determine a measurement of the ear seal based on the normalized acoustical difference value.
US11206500B2
A bone conduction speaker is provided. The bone conduction speaker includes: a housing forming an exterior; a stator including a pole piece fitted to a bottom of the housing and a voice coil arranged to an outer circumference of the pole piece; a vibrator including a permanent magnet mounted concentrically with the pole piece and voice coil, with an air gap from the pole piece, a weight attached to the permanent magnet to increase a vibration force, and a yoke attached to the permanent magnet and weight; a flexible printed circuit board mounted on the bottom of the housing, part of which extends out of the housing, and configured to transmit a signal to the voice coil; and a bone conduction pad attached to an outer surface of the housing. The vibration of the vibrator is transmitted to a bone of a user through the housing and bone conduction pad.
US11206491B2
Provided in an embodiment of the present disclosure is a speaker module and an electronic device. The speaker comprises: a module housing, a speaker unit and sound-absorbing particles; wherein the speaker unit divides an inner cavity enclosed by the module housing into a front acoustic cavity and a rear acoustic cavity; the rear acoustic cavity is provided with a filling area separated out by a partition wall, and the filling area is provided with a port enabling air circulation; the sound-absorbing particles are filled in the filling area and are confined within the filling area; a gap is formed between the port of the filling area and an inner wall of the module housing, and sound-absorbing cotton is provided in the gap. The technical solution of the present disclosure can reduce influence of the resonance caused by the gap on acoustic performance of the speaker module.
US11206486B2
Embodiments relate to providing a conference for client devices with spatialized audio. Input audio streams are received from the client devices. For each client device, placement data defining spatial locations of other client devices within a sound field is determined. A mixed stream including a left mixed channel and a right mixed channel for the client device is generated by mixing and panning input audio streams of the other client devices according to the placement data. A spatially enhanced stream including a left enhanced channel for a left speaker and a right enhanced channel for a right speaker is generated by applying subband spatial processing and crosstalk processing on the left mixed channel and the right mixed channel of the mixed stream.
US11206481B2
A display apparatus includes a display panel displaying an image, a rear cover supporting the display panel, and a vibration generating device vibrating the display panel. The vibration generating device includes a sound generating module spaced apart from a rear surface of the display panel. Accordingly, shaking of the display panel is prevented, and heat is prevented from being transferred to the display panel.
US11206472B2
Embodiments describe an acoustic shielding component including a stiffener formed of a rigid material providing structural integrity to the acoustic shielding component, a cosmetic mesh comprising a plurality of interlaced wires, and an acoustic mesh disposed between the stiffener and the cosmetic mesh. The stiffener includes first and second walls extending along a length of the stiffener and a plurality of ribs spaced apart from each other and extending between the first and second walls. The cosmetic mesh includes a mesh cover disposed over the stiffener and having an outer surface and an inner surface, and a mesh wall extending from an outer periphery of the inner surface of the mesh cover and defining a tab.
US11206469B2
This application provides a headset accommodating apparatus, a headset, and a portable device. The headset accommodating apparatus includes a base, and an accommodating cavity used to accommodate a headset is formed on the base. The accommodating cavity has a bottom surface, a side wall, and an opening, and has a first end corresponding to a headset head and a second end corresponding to a headset tail. An epitaxial frame that extends toward the second end is formed at an opening of the first end. The apparatus includes a first spring and a sliding block at a side wall of the second end, and the first spring may be compressed in a direction of a connecting line between the first end and the second end. A first end of the sliding block is connected to the first spring, and a protruding part is formed on a second end of the sliding block.
US11206465B1
A system for adaptive storage includes a storage memory and a processor. The processor is configured to determine, using a first model, one or more sampling rates for a second set of sensors based at least in part on input data from a first set of sensors. The first set of sensors and the second set of sensors are mounted on a vehicle. The processor is further configured to provide the one or more sampling rates to the second set of sensors and store data from the second set of sensors in the storage memory.
US11206461B2
A device may be configured to cause application based features corresponding to a service provided by a service provider to execute based on one or more determined user settings.
US11206460B2
A transmitter for transmitting payload data and emergency information using data symbols in a single-carrier or multi-carrier broadcast system includes a modulator configured to modulate one or more transmission symbols with signaling data for use in detecting and recovering the payload data at a receiver and to modulate one or more transmission symbols with the payload data. An emergency information receiver receives emergency information carrying information of an actual emergency. An emergency information embedder embeds emergency information into one or more transmission symbols, wherein the emergency information is embedded within a predetermined time period after its reception by using a resource used for carrying signaling data and/or payload data if no emergency information shall be transmitted. A transmission unit transmits the transmission symbols.
US11206454B2
Systems and methods for, while a user is consuming a first media asset, generating for the user a recommendation of a second media asset based on a viewing history of the user. In some aspects, the systems and methods determine that a user is consuming only video of a first media asset, determine a first category for the first media asset, and retrieve a viewing history corresponding to the user. The viewing history comprises media assets consumed simultaneously with a media asset corresponding to the first category. The systems and methods select a second category corresponding to a highest number of media assets in the viewing history, select a second media asset based on the second category. Alternatively, the user can select the second media asset manually. The systems and methods generate for output the audio of the second media asset for simultaneous consumption with the video of the first media asset.
US11206444B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method, an apparatus for previewing video, an electronic device, and a computer-readable storage medium. The method includes: determining a first video corresponding to the first video cover fully displayed in a current screen when stop of a slide on the screen is detected; playing the first video on the current screen for user previewing; jumping to a subpage corresponding to the first video and playing the first video on the subpage when a click operation to the first video is detected. According to this disclosure, users can know the specific content of the video during the previewing process, so as to determine whether they are interested in the video. If they are not interested, the uses may skip it directly and continue watching the next video; else, the users may click the video to further watch the full video content, so that the users can intuitively filter the watching contents, thereby improving the user experience.
US11206438B2
Techniques for video enhancement using a service are described. In some examples, a video enhancement service is to receive, from a requesting device, a request to provide a video, the request including an indication that at least a proper subset of the video is to be enhanced using at least one machine learning model; select at least one machine learning model to be used to enhance at least the proper subset of the video; enhance at least the proper subset of the video using the selected at least one machine learning model; and output the video including the at least proper subset of the video that had been enhanced.
US11206430B2
An image decoding method performed by a decoding apparatus according to the present disclosure comprises the steps of: decoding, on the basis of a bitstream, an affine flag that indicates whether affine prediction is applicable to a current block and a sub-block TMVP flag that indicates whether a temporal motion vector predictor based on a sub-block of the current block is usable; determining whether to decode a predetermined merge mode flag that indicates whether to apply a predetermined merge mode to the current block, on the basis of the decoded affine flag and the decoded sub-block TMVP flag; deriving prediction samples of the current block on the basis of the determining of whether to decode the predetermined merge mode flag; and generating reconstructed samples of the current block based on the prediction samples of the current block.
US11206428B1
A method and apparatus for performing a frequency-dependent joint component secondary transform (FD-JCST). The method includes obtaining a plurality of transform coefficients in a transform coefficient block; determining whether at least one of the plurality of transform coefficients is a low-frequency coefficient; based on determining that the at least one of the plurality of transform coefficients is the low-frequency coefficient, determining whether the low-frequency coefficient is a non-zero value; and based on determining that the low-frequency coefficient is the non-zero value, performing a joint component secondary transform (JCST) on the low-frequency coefficient and signaling a related syntax to indicate that the JCST is performed.
US11206424B2
An inter prediction method according to the present invention comprises: a step for deriving reference motion information related to a unit to be decoded in a current picture; and a step for performing motion compensation for the unit to be decoded, using the reference motion information that has been derived. According to the present invention, image encoding/decoding efficiency can be enhanced.
US11206420B2
Encoding methods, decoding methods, encoding apparatuses, and decoding apparatuses are provided, for a video image with forward and backward reference blocks. One encoding method includes: determining an optimal integrated neighboring block for a current block based on a motion vector integration technology; determining, based a prediction direction of the optimal integrated neighboring block, a motion vector derivation mode that needs to be used by a decoder; correcting a motion vector of the current block based on the motion vector derivation mode, and determining a residual between a predicted value and an original value of the current block based on the corrected motion vector, thereby encoding the current block. According to the technical solutions, a more accurate predicted value is obtained by correcting the motion vector, and a smaller residual is generated.
US11206416B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for video encoding/decoding. In some examples, an apparatus for video decoding includes receiving circuitry and processing circuitry. For example, the processing circuitry decodes partition information from a coded video bitstream. The partition information is indicative of a minimum allowed quaternary tree (QT) leaf node size for an intra coded (I) slice. The minimum allowed QT leaf node size for the I slice is constrained by a threshold that is lower than a coding tree unit (CTU) size. Further, the processing circuitry partitions a coding tree block in the I slice into coding blocks based on the minimum allowed QT leaf node size, and reconstructs the coding blocks respectively from the coded video bitstream.
US11206410B2
An encoder includes memory, and circuitry accessible to the memory. The circuitry accessible to the memory: determines whether OBMC is applicable to generation of a prediction image of a current block, according to whether BIO is to be applied to the generation of the prediction image of the current block; when BIO is to be applied to the generation of the prediction image of the current block, determines that OBMC is not applicable to the generation of the prediction image of the current block, and applies BIO to the generation of the prediction image of the current block without applying OBMC.
US11206409B2
An image decoding method includes: restoring a selected prediction mode used in prediction at a time of coding; and decoding a current block included in coded image data to generate a decoded block, according to the prediction based on the selected prediction mode. The restoring includes: determining a first estimated prediction mode; determining a second estimated prediction mode different from the first estimated prediction mode; and restoring the selected prediction mode based on the mode information, the first estimated prediction mode, and the second estimated prediction mode.
US11206401B2
Provided is an image encoding or decoding method and device capable of increasing image compression efficiency by determining a differential quantization parameter of a current block based on statistical information of original samples of the current block or samples reconstructed previously to the current block. The image decoding method includes receiving a bitstream, obtaining a predicted quantization parameter value and a quantized transformation coefficient of a current block from the bitstream, obtaining a differential quantization parameter of the current block based on statistical information of samples reconstructed previously to the current block, obtaining a quantization parameter of the current block based on the differential quantization parameter of the current block and the predicted quantization parameter value, and inversely quantizing the quantized transformation coefficient of the current block based on the quantization parameter of the current block.
US11206395B2
A method for signaling scaling matrices for transform coefficient quantization is provided. A decoder receives data from a bitstream to be decoded as a current picture of a video, the current picture to be decoded by using a plurality of scaling matrices. The decoder receives a reference index offset for a first scaling matrix of the plurality of scaling matrices. The decoder applies the reference index offset to a first index identifying the first scaling matrix to derive a second index identifying a second scaling matrix of the plurality of scaling matrices. The second scaling matrix is previously reconstructed. The decoder reconstructs the first scaling matrix by referencing the second scaling matrix. The decoder dequantizes transform coefficients of transform blocks of the current picture by using the plurality of scaling matrices and reconstructs the current picture by using the dequantized transform coefficients.
US11206389B2
The invention relates to a method for reducing moire patterns on an autostereoscopic display, which display comprises an array of pixels, each having at least one sub-pixel corresponding to a main color, lined with a view altering layer, such as a lenticular lens stack or parallax barrier, and wherein the display further comprises an eye tracking system for determining the position of the eyes of a viewer relative to the display, which method comprises the steps of: —moire pattern detection by repeating for each main color the steps of: +activating the sub-pixels of all pixels corresponding to the single main color; obtaining moire pattern data by observing the display from a plurality of viewing positions; determining from the obtained moire pattern data the frequency, phase, direction and amplitude of the moire pattern for each of the viewing positions and storing the determined values; —controlling the pixels of the autostereoscopic display to display images, wherein the controlling comprises at least the steps of: determining the viewing position of the eyes of a viewer using the eye tracking system; rendering 3D images from image data, while correcting the 3D images by superimposing a compensation pattern for each main color, which pattern is generated based on the stored values and the determined viewing position to reduce the moire pattern for said viewing position.
US11206380B2
A projector controller includes an object detector and control electronics, and is configured to protect audience members from intense light imposing an exclusion zone in front of a projector. The object detector is configured to optically sense a presence of an object in a detection region beneath the exclusion zone and above the audience members. The control electronics is configured to control the projector when the object detector indicates the presence of the object in the detection region. A method for protecting audience members from intense light imposing an exclusion zone in front of an output of a projector includes: (i) optically sensing a presence of an object in a detection region between the exclusion zone and the audience members, and (ii) controlling the projector when the presence of the object is sensed in the detection region.
US11206375B2
Systems and methods for analyzing past events by identifying and delivering specific imagery data that was collected and stored locally by a plurality of on-road vehicles. A plurality of on-road vehicles capture visual records of areas surrounding locations visited by the vehicles, in which the visual records are stored locally onboard the vehicles, thereby resulting in a corpus of imagery data that is stored distributively onboard the vehicles. Upon a request to analyze a past event associated with a certain location and a certain time, the system finds and retrieves from the vehicles those of visual records that were captured by the respective vehicles at about said certain time and in vicinity of said certain location. The visual records found and retrieved are used by the system to analyze the past event and to determine additional times and locations that may be relevant for further analysis the past event.
US11206363B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing, a camera module, a memory, a gyro sensor, and a processor. The housing may include a front plate, a rear plate, and a lateral member surrounding a space between the front plate and the rear plate. The camera module may include a first camera disposed in the space and performing shooting based on a first direction, a second camera disposed in the space and performing shooting based on a second direction, and an image signal processor for correcting images. The processor may be configured to control at least one of the first camera or the second camera to capture images, to identify a camera switching command while capturing the images, to acquire gyro motion information through the gyro sensor in response to the camera switching command, and to control the image signal processor to correct the captured images.
US11206361B2
The present disclosure relates to a pixel sensor, a control method thereof, and a detector. The pixel sensor includes a photoelectric conversion circuit, an energy storage circuit, a reset circuit, a first switch circuit, and a second switch circuit; wherein, the energy storage circuit is connected to the photoelectric conversion circuit, and the photoelectric conversion circuit is further connected to a second power supply; a control end of the reset circuit is connected to a second scanning signal end; the first switch circuit is connected between the first power supply and a first node, and a control end thereof is connected to the first end of the energy storage circuit; second switch circuit is connected between the first node and a signal output end, and a control end thereof is connected to a first scanning signal end.
US11206360B2
Disclosed in the present disclosure are an exposure control method, an exposure control device and an electronic device. The exposure control method includes the following. Scene data is processed to obtain a foreground part of a cached main image. A reference exposure is determined according to brightness information of the foreground part. A first exposure for a first image and a second exposure for a second image are determined according to the reference exposure. An imaging device is controlled to expose according to the reference exposure, the first exposure and the second exposure.
US11206358B1
A method for auto-exposure control in a multi-imager system is disclosed. The method comprises using an auto exposure control circuit of a first imager to set exposure control parameters based on a target brightness; and selectively adjusting the target brightness based on difference in brightness between the images from the first imager and images from other imagers in the system.
US11206346B2
An imaging device including a pixel matrix and a processor is provided. The pixel matrix includes a plurality of phase detection pixels and a plurality of regular pixels. The processor performs autofocusing according to pixel data of the phase detection pixels, and determines an operating resolution of the regular pixels according to autofocused pixel data of the phase detection pixels, wherein the phase detection pixels are always-on pixels and the regular pixels are selectively turned on after the autofocusing is accomplished.
US11206342B2
System and method for improving the shaving experience by providing improved visibility of the skin shaving area. A digital camera is integrated with the electric shaver for close image capturing of shaving area, and displaying it on a display unit. The display unit can be integral part of the electric shaver casing, or housed in a separated device which receives the image via a communication channel. The communication channel can be wireless (using radio, audio or light) or wired, such as dedicated cabling or using powerline communication. A light source is used to better illuminate the shaving area. Video compression and digital image processing techniques are used for providing for improved shaving results. The wired communication medium can simultaneously be used also for carrying power from the electric shaver assembly to the display unit, or from the display unit to the electric shaver.
US11206339B2
Spectator view into an interactive gaming world showcased in a live event held in a real-world venue
A method including establishing a multi-player gaming session of a gaming application that generates an interactive gaming world, the live event being a real-world venue where players playing the gaming application are present. A 3D live view of the venue is generated based on captured video streams, and generated for a physical POV anchored to a physical location in the venue. The 3D live view is streamed to an HMD of a remote user located outside the venue, and presents an augmented reality view of the live event. A request is received from the remote user to jump into the gaming session as a spectator of the interactive gaming world from a virtual POV defined by a virtual location in the gaming world. The spectator view is delivered to the HMD of the remote user for display, the spectator view presenting a virtual reality view of the interactive gaming world.
US11206338B2
A file processing system includes an information processing apparatus, a terminal apparatus that has a process instructing function for directly transmitting a file to be processed to the information processing apparatus and executing a process, by a user, and a server that is connected to the terminal apparatus and the information processing apparatus through a network, in which the terminal apparatus includes a file transmitting unit that transmits a file to the server, in a case where the process instructing function is not capable of being used due to a failure of communication with the information processing apparatuses, and the file processing system further includes a transfer control unit that controls transfer of the file transmitted to the server, to the information processing apparatus, and the information processing apparatus includes a process control unit that controls a process of the file acquired from the terminal apparatus through the server, in a case where the process instructing function is not capable of being used due to the failure of communication with the information processing apparatuses.
US11206331B2
Techniques for sharing control of assigning tasks between an external pairing system and a task assignment system with an internal pairing system are disclosed. In one embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a method for sharing control of assigning tasks between an external pairing system and a task assignment system with an internal pairing system comprising receiving, from the task assignment system, a plurality of task pairing requests and an agent pairing request, wherein each task request of the plurality of task pairing requests is assigned to one of a first pairing strategy and a second pairing strategy. The agent pairing request may indicate an agent that is available for pairing. The method may further comprise transmitting, to the task assignment system, a pairing recommendation being based in part on the plurality of task pairing requests, the first pairing strategy, the second pairing strategy, and the agent pairing request.
US11206328B1
A system for controlling smartphones of drivers of moving automobiles including a plurality of smartphones, each smartphone including a GPS unit to record speed and location of smartphone, a driver control application to control access to phone services and social media applications, a low frequency receiver to receive low frequency radio frequency identification, an LF RFID, signal from key fob located within moving automobile, and a computing unit to measure a received signal strength indicator, RSSI, of LF RFID signal, a transmitter to transmit the speed, location, LF RFID signal, and RSSI to a centralized monitor. The centralized monitor includes a computing circuitry to receive the speed, location, LF RFID signal, and RSSI of each smartphone, generate clusters of speeds and locations of smartphones, analyze clusters to determine smartphones located within a particular moving automobile, determine smartphone of driver, and transmit a control signal to the smartphone of the driver.
US11206313B1
When a request for accessing a service is received, a user object may be stored in a long-term data store, as well as in a short-term cache. The cache may be divided into a regular cache that stores full versions of the user objects, and a surrogate cache that stores compact versions of the user object. The compact version of the user object may include a field that is derived from the full user object indicating whether a subsequent request for access to a particular service should be granted. After access is granted/denied based on this value in the compact user object, the system can process an update to the full user object offline. This surrogate cache structure may be used to rapidly approve/deny requests, decoupling this procedure from the processing involved with a full user object.
US11206310B2
A method and system for serving assets is disclosed, comprising receiving an asset request to serve an asset, wherein the asset request originates at an application, and wherein the asset request comprises an advertisement of an asset to be served and a request for the network address of an asset server configured to serve the requested asset. The method further comprises causing a service discovery server to identify an asset server configured to serve the requested asset, and causing the requested asset to be served to the application.
US11206303B2
A first evaluation-value calculation unit calculates, using data on a captured image outputted by an image-capturing unit, a first evaluation value related to an image quality of the captured image. An environment acquisition unit acquires environmental information indicating an image-capturing environment at the time the captured image is taken by the image-capturing unit. A second evaluation-value calculation unit calculates, using the environmental information acquired by the environment acquisition unit, a second evaluation value related to the image-capturing environment at the time the captured image is taken by the image-capturing unit. A transmission determination unit determines, on the basis of at least one of the first evaluation value and the second evaluation value, whether or not the data on the captured image is to be transmitted to a server.
US11206293B2
Non-text content may be exchanged in real time text (RTT) messages over a telecommunications network as part of an enhanced RTT (eRTT) service. A first UE can receive, from a second UE over a telecommunications network, capability information indicating whether the second UE is capable of exchanging text content and/or non-text content via RTT messages. Using this capability information, the first UE may determine whether to enable eRTT functionality on the first UE by determining whether to display a user interface element(s) in a selectable state on the display next to a RTT conversation window. The selectable user interface element(s), upon selection, allows a user of the first UE to create new non-text content, or select particular non-text content from available non-text content, for inclusion in a RTT message. The first UE may thereafter send non-text content in the RTT message to the second UE.
US11206289B2
Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing monitoring and detection of fraudulent or unauthorized use in telephone conferencing systems or voice networks. In various embodiments, a computing system might monitor call activity through telephone conferencing system or voice network. In response to detecting use of the telephone conferencing system or voice network by at least one party based on the monitored call activity, the computing system might identify incoming and/or outgoing associated with a call initiated by the at least one party. The computing system might analyze the identified incoming and/or outgoing call data to determine whether the call initiated by the at least one party constitutes at least one of fraudulent use or unauthorized use of the telephone conferencing system or voice network. If so, the computing system might initiate one or more first actions.
US11206280B2
Embodiments of the present invention provides a system to create a decentralized, scalable, blockchain powered cyber security management solution to monitor, protect themselves against and eliminate cyber threats, thereby managing cyber security. The cyber security management solution places an emphasis upon the strength of the wider community to contribute to finding vulnerabilities through a blockchain based mechanism. The cyber security management platform (such as Uncloak platform) may harness knowledge and expertise, aggregate it into the platform, and transform it into a service for end users. If the end user clients can understand their security risk position in real-time, they can place themselves in a strong position to eliminate cyber threats before they occur.
US11206274B2
An apparatus and a method for calibrating a system for recognizing attempts to penetrate into a computer network, in particular of a motor vehicle, at least one parameter being estimated on the basis of a data set, the data set encompassing values that characterize a detected occurrence of messages in the computer network; a distribution function being determined on the basis of the at least one parameter; an inverse of the distribution function being determined; and at least one limit for the values being calibrated, on the basis of the inverse, in a rule for rule-based recognition of attempts to penetrate into the computer network.
US11206269B1
Techniques for managing access to infrastructure components hosted in a cloud computing environment are provided. One technique includes receiving a request from a user to access a single infrastructure component of multiple infrastructure components hosted in the cloud computing environment. At least one of a current operating state of the cloud computing environment and a context of the user is determined in response to the request. A determination is made to grant the user access to the single infrastructure component, based on an analysis of at least one of the current operating state and the context of the user. In response to the determination, a credential is retrieved that is specific to the single infrastructure component and is valid for a temporary amount of time. The credential is provided to the user.
US11206267B2
An example method of fine grained digital experience controls is performed by an application server. The application server receives telemetry data that indicates a usage of a user device. The telemetry data is stored to one or more databases and analyzed to determine one or more usage patterns that are clustered by an identity of a user of the user device. The application server then monitors content accessed by the user and determines whether a rule violation has occurred by applying one or more rules to the accessed content. In response to determining that the rule violation has occurred, the application server sends a content blocking trigger to the user device to trigger the user device to block the content.
US11206266B2
The safety is improved when executing a transaction instructed after the login from a user having carried out the login operation to the server. A transaction system (101) includes a server (121), a first terminal (141), and a second terminal (161). A user logs-in the server (121) through the first terminal (141). The server (121) generates a notice to be transmitted to the second terminal (161) when receiving an instruction of a transaction through the first terminal (141) from a user. The first terminal (141) or the second terminal (161) prompts the user to input a confirmation of details of the transaction when the notice is transmitted to the second terminal (161) from the server (121). The server (121) regards the confirmation of the transaction made by the user as having been made when the input of the user matches with the details of the transaction.
US11206263B1
Systems and methods to determine content to present based on interaction information of a given user
Systems and methods to determine content to present based on interaction information of a given user are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: store, in electronic storage, psychological profiles; obtain, in an ongoing manner, interaction information of users from the online platforms; determine psychological profiles of the users based on the interaction information for the individual users; update, in an ongoing manner, the determined psychological profiles as the interaction information is ongoingly obtained such that the first psychological profile is ongoingly updated as the first interaction information is ongoingly obtained; and provide, based on the psychological profiles, the individual users with content.
US11206262B2
A method, computer program product and a computer system for facilitating a maintenance of access control information for controlling access to one or more resources of an information technology system by one or more subjects. One or more trigger policies are evaluated according to one or more policy parameters relating to the resources, the subjects and/or the access to the resources by the subjects. A revision of the access control information including a mining activity for mapping the subjects to the resources is triggered according to a result of the evaluation of the trigger policies. A computer program and a computer program product for performing the method are also proposed.
US11206261B2
Managing authentication of a child device includes receiving, by a host device, sensor data from a child device, deriving simplified authentication data from the sensor data based on a capability of the child device, storing the simplified authentication data in an authentication profile for the child device, and transmitting the simplified authentication data to the child device, wherein the simplified authentication data is sufficient to allow the child device to authenticate a user without the host device.
US11206260B2
An intermediate data transmission device arranges for mutual authentication between itself and a remote terminal to allow data to be exchanged between the remote terminal and a server through the device. The server sends first and second key codes to the intermediate device, the key codes both being derived from a shared secret known to the server and remote terminal but not to the intermediate device. In response to a challenge from the intermediate device the remote terminal uses the shared secret to generate a duplicate of the first key code and transmits the duplicate to the intermediate device. The intermediate device compares the first key code and the duplicate of the first key code received respectively from the server and the remote terminal to verify the authenticity of the remote terminal. The intermediate device then transmits the second key code to the remote terminal, to be compared by the remote terminal with a duplicate of the second key code to verify the authenticity of the intermediate device. This process allows the intermediate device to be used without itself having the shared secret. The codes generated by the server may be encoded with a network identity of the intermediate device using the shared secret, such that the remote terminal can only respond to the same intermediate device that transmitted the codes. This prevents a “man-in-the middle” attack by another intermediate device, as without the shared secret no intermediate device can modify the codes to include a different network identity.
US11206255B2
An improved information processing apparatus, an authentication method and non-transitory recording medium are provided. The information processing apparatus authenticates a user based on first authentication information input by a user to generate an authentication result based on the first authentication information, receives an authentication request generated by first application software, authenticates the first application software based on second authentication information to generate an authentication result based on the second authentication information when the authentication request includes the second authentication information, acquires the authentication result of the user based on the first authentication information when the authentication request does not include the second authentication information, and executes processing based on one of the authentication result based on the first authentication information and the authentication result based on the second authentication information.
US11206249B2
Concepts for defining and processing an expression of an enterprise workspace application are presents. Such concepts may associate an expression of an enterprise workspace application with a modified version of the expression and a state flag which is configured to define whether processing of at least part of the expression is to be based on (i.e. employ) the modified version of the expression. In this way, there may be provided concepts for protecting against malicious users setting triggers or overriding function definitions that cause other users to perform unexpected activities.
US11206248B2
A user is assigned an initial risk score during a session with a messaging platform. During the session, the user attempts an operation with an external service. One or more additional authentication factors are requested from the user to dynamically lower the initial risk score. The lowered risk score is processed with the external service to perform the operation on behalf of the user during the session.
US11206244B2
A method and video decoder system using the method are provided for identifying video frames in an encoded or encrypted video stream without performing decoding or decryption. The method includes: receiving a video data stream comprised of a plurality of transport stream (TS) packets; detecting a first video frame in the video data stream, wherein detection of the first video frame includes registering a last checked position at the start of the video data stream, examining bytes in a next TS packet to identify a predetermined pattern indicating a network abstraction layer (NAL) unit, repeating the examining step until two TS packets have been identified that include an NAL unit, wherein the last checked position is updated after each examining step, and identifying a video frame based on a position of the NAL unit identified in the two TS packets; and repeating the detecting step for a plurality of additional video frames in the video data stream.
US11206240B2
Certain embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and apparatus for processing data. The method comprises, at an edge device, parsing a first data packet after receiving the first data packet sent by a client device to obtain a virtual IP address and a destination port that correspond to the first data packet; querying an IP address mapping table according to the virtual IP address to obtain a destination IP address corresponding to the virtual IP address; and sending the first data packet according to the destination IP address and the destination port.
US11206236B2
Chat room content classification, in an online communication environment, where higher applicable chat rooms are prioritized for a user, is provided. First, an chat room service receives chat room content for at least a first chat room and a second chat room. A chat room analyzer can then analyze a characteristic(s) associated with the first chat room and/or the second chat room. Based on the characteristic, the chat room determines that the first chat room is more applicable to the user. Then, a user interface may be presented to the user where the first chat room is prioritized (or ranked) over the second chat room.
US11206233B2
An apparatus and method of operating a computer system is disclosed herein for rendering a user interface of an email service that includes a triage menu. In a user interface to an email service, an option to triage an email is rendered. In response to a selection of the option to triage the email, a triage menu is rendered that comprises a plurality of triage actions. At least one triage action of the plurality of triage actions corresponds to a service other than the email service. In response to a selection of the one triage action, triage information is communicated which indicates the selection of the one triage action to trigger a reminder in an application associated with the service.
US11206228B2
Aspects of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for detecting and mitigating adversarial virtual interactions. The method includes one or more processors initiating a mitigation protocol on interactions between the user and the virtual agent, wherein the mitigation protocol is based on the actions performed by the user while interacting with the virtual agent. The method further includes one or more processors, in response to initiating the mitigation protocol on interactions between the user and the virtual agent, generating a lower fidelity response from the virtual agent to the user, wherein the lower fidelity response is a progressive dilution of the precision of language of an original response from the virtual agent to the user prior to the user exceeding the risk level threshold.
US11206226B1
Embodiments include methods, systems, and computer program products for routing mode selection in a switched fabric network. A fabric login request including a fabric login payload is received at a network device to establish communication parameters with a switched fabric network. The network device can determine whether the fabric login payload includes an extension for routing policy support and whether a current routing policy of the network device is compatible with a routing mode defined in the fabric login payload based on the extension for routing policy support. The fabric login request can be rejected based on determining that the current routing policy of the network device is incompatible with the routing mode defined in the fabric login payload. The fabric login request is completed based on determining that the current routing policy of the network device is compatible with the routing mode defined in the fabric login payload.
US11206216B2
A flexible Ethernet (FlexE) frame forwarding method, including receiving a first frame through a FlexE client input channel, obtaining a first channel identifier used to indicate the FlexE client input channel and a first subchannel identifier carried in the first frame, where the first subchannel identifier is used to indicate a logical subchannel of the FlexE client input channel, searching a preset forwarding table based on the first channel identifier and the first subchannel identifier to obtain a second channel identifier and a second subchannel identifier, where the second channel identifier is used to indicate a FlexE client output channel, and the second subchannel identifier is used to indicate a logical subchannel of the FlexE client output channel, and forwarding the first frame based on the second channel identifier and the second subchannel identifier.
US11206214B2
The present disclosure provides a Virtio port-based data transmission method and system, and relates to the field of virtualization technologies. The method includes: determining, by a Vswitch, when receiving first data content sent by a physical adapter, a first Vswitch logical port that sends the first data content, and adding a port identifier of the first Vswitch logical port into the first data content; sending, by the Vswitch, the first data content to a Vrouter by using the first Vswitch logical port and a Virtio port shared by the Vswitch and the Vrouter; receiving, by the Vrouter, the first data content by using a first Vrouter logical port uniquely corresponding to the port identifier of the first Vswitch logical port, and sending the first data content to a first virtual network adapter corresponding to the first Vrouter logical port.
US11206208B2
Systems, methods, and devices for improved routing operations in a network computing environment. A system includes a virtual customer edge router and a host routed overlay comprising a plurality of host virtual machines. The system includes a routed uplink from the virtual customer edge router to one or more of the plurality of leaf nodes. The system is such that the virtual customer edge router is configured to provide localized integrated routing and bridging (IRB) service for the plurality of host virtual machines of the host routed overlay.
US11206206B2
Systems and methods for establishing routing information between software containers or other virtualized environments within a network, and providing inter-container routing between the software services operating on the network, are disclosed herein. The system utilizes an existing routing protocol such as Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) and establishes an overlay network that provides end-to-end connectivity between services of a customer operating in an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) network, while maintaining isolation from the traffic of other customers of the IaaS network. The system uses OSPF to learn aspects of the routes between containers in the network, and further builds a customer-specific overlay network based on IP-to-IP encapsulation of the OSPF messages.
US11206203B2
Embodiments generally disclosed herein include a computer-implemented method for monitoring and correlating network traffic data associated with a primary network that is in communication with a plurality of secondary networks. The method generates a network traffic data set by monitoring network traffic between the primary network and the plurality of secondary networks. The method also determines a mapping of network connectivity by monitoring inter-network routing information between the primary network and the plurality of secondary networks. In addition, the method generates a traffic measurement data set by monitoring network utilization statistics between the primary network and the plurality of secondary networks. With the collected data sets, the method then calculates a relational network mapping between the primary network and the plurality of secondary networks by correlating the network traffic data set, the mapping of network connectivity, and the traffic measurement data set.
US11206199B2
A highly scalable distributed connection interface for data capture from multiple network service sources, comprising a connector module wherein, the connector module retrieves a plurality of operational data from a plurality of network data sources; employs a plurality of application programming interface routines to communicate with the plurality of operational data sources; accepts a plurality of analysis parameters and control commands directly from human interface devices or from one or more command and control storage devices; and specifies the action or actions to be taken on the retrieved operational data.
US11206198B2
There is provided a method for adaptive bitrate (ABR) adjustments in an IP network before making upshift of ABR level of media streams like video for live Over the Top (OTT) distribution. The invention is based on before upshifting of a current ABR level to a higher ABR level for one or more client devices, probing the network system with a higher bitrate of the data stream provided by e.g. replicating data in the data stream, and monitoring network conditions during probing. Based on the probing it is determined if the available resources in the network are sufficient to sustain an upshift of ABR-level for the client device.
US11206196B2
A system for troubleshooting network problems is disclosed. A model can use demographic information, network usage information, and network membership information to determine an importance of a problem. The importance of the problem for the user who reported the problem, a number of other users affected by the problem, and the importance of the problem to the other users can be used to determine a priority for resolving the problem. Before and after a work order is executed to resolve the problem, network metrics can be gathered, including aggregate network metrics, and automatically presented in various user interfaces. The analysis of the metrics can be used to update a database of which work orders are assigned in response to which problems.
US11206193B2
Embodiments provide methods and apparatuses of allocating resources in a network of computing service nodes to applications. Based on a first service level agreement (SLA) for a first application, a number of physical central processing unit cores and respective quantities of additional physical resources needed are determined to satisfy the first SLA; one or more of the service nodes are selected that collectively have available the number of physical CPU cores and the respective quantities of the one or more additional physical resources wherein the one or more additional physical resources comprise a last level cache (LLC); a first virtual machine on one of the selected service nodes is allocated for the first application; the number of physical CPU cores and the respective quantities of the one or more additional physical resources on the selected service nodes are reserved for use by the first virtual machine.
US11206185B2
The disclosed embodiments provide for rules-based deployment of software installations. In some aspects, operational parameters for a computer system are monitored over time to generate a historical database of values for the operational parameters. The computer system may include multiple instances of a software installation. A portion of the multiple instances is updated with a new version of software. The operational parameters are then monitored to quantify whether the new version results in an improvement or degradation of performance of the computer system. The improvement or degradation is based on comparing values of the operational parameters after deployment to their historical values. Depending on the evaluation of the operational parameters after the installation, the installation may be rolled back if a degradation is indicated. Otherwise, the new software version may be propagated to additional installation instances.
US11206183B2
A narrow-band wireless data network includes a central provisioning server that is configured for providing command and control data to the network, to retain the mesh-tree structure of the network, and to manage and retain all sensor data and new connection requests. A gateway device is connected to the central provisioning server for communicating with the network through a first and a second radio receiver/transmitter that is configured to send and receive data on at least one frequency channel. Multiple device nodes that control and communicate with associated sensor devices for collecting sensor data. The device nodes interpret and execute commands transmitted from the gateway device or other device nodes on the network addressed to individual device nodes. The commands are executed with no acknowledgment.
US11206179B1
At least some embodiments are directed to a system that receives from an online portal loaded in a computing device, a user request to instantiate a server cluster in a hybrid computer network. The system authenticates and redirects the user request via a proxy service to a selected computer network configured in the hybrid computer network. The system instantiates the server cluster in the selected computer network causing the server cluster to initiate a microservice agent during bootup. The system sends a command to the server cluster to initiate the execution of a process and receives from the microservice agent event data associated with the process. The system inputs the event data into a trained machine learning model to determine a first execution state of the process and sends a command to change the first execution state of the process to a second execution state.
US11206167B1
A method of performing carrier frequency offset (CFO) estimation and/or time offset (TO) estimation at a radio equipment in a mobile communications system. The method allows, for each of a plurality of synchronization signal (SS) blocks (SSBs) in a SS Burst detected at said radio equipment, determining a CFO estimation and/or a TO estimation based on network information signal prediction. The method includes selecting at least some of said detected SSBs in said SSB Burst and combining the CFO estimations and/or the TO estimations to obtain improved CFO compensation and/or TO compensation for signal processing at said radio equipment.
US11206156B2
The present application discloses a method for storing data of a transmission signal, which includes: upon the reception of the transmission signal, analyzing a clock signal corresponding to the transmission signal to obtain a signal frequency of the clock signal; according to the signal frequency, acquiring zero-volt time points of a clock signal after signal superposition with the transmission signal; acquiring a preset time length, and according to the zero-volt time points and the preset time length, generating data storage time periods with each of the zero-volt time points as a central time point; and storing data of the transmission signal within each of the data storage time periods. The present application further provides an apparatus for storing data of a transmission signal and a computer readable storage medium.
US11206153B2
A building management system includes a search and control system coupled to a building network. The building network includes a plurality of devices of building equipment that operate to affect a variable state or condition within a building. The search and control system is configured to provide a search interface, receive filter criteria, perform a search regarding the devices of building equipment based on the filter criteria, return a set of search results based on the filter criteria, receive a selection of one or more devices of building equipment of the set of search results, receive command criteria regarding a command to provide to the one or more selected devices of building equipment, and provide the command to the one or more selected devices of building equipment. The command causes the one or more selected devices of building equipment to affect the variable state or condition within the building.
US11206148B2
Methods, devices and computer readable storage media for performing bit indexed explicit replication (BIER) are disclosed. One embodiment of a method includes obtaining, at an egress node of a network, a bit position assigned to the egress node. This embodiment also includes sending an outgoing advertisement to other nodes in the network, where the outgoing advertisement identifies the egress node and the assigned bit position. The bit position is within a bit mask comprising bits in a plurality of bit positions, and each bit position corresponds to a respective egress node of the network.
US11206129B2
The invention relates to a method for setting up a secure session between a first entity and a second entity. In an embodiment, the first entity is a user authentication device and the second entity is an application running on a platform. The method comprises generating a first random number. A user enters a first string, derived from said first number, into the second entity. Further, the method includes applying a one-way function to the first string or to a derivative thereof, obtaining an encoded string. The method also comprises transmitting the encoded string to an intermediate node that is in connection to the first entity and the second entity. Further, the method comprises the step of sharing a second random number with the second entity. The method also comprises a step of deriving a secret key from the first and the second string.
US11206126B2
A system, method and elliptic curve cryptography scheme having a fault injection attack resistant protocol. The cryptographic scheme has a first arithmetic operation having at least one of a single input bit, a single output bit, or a single output bit-string that is vulnerable to a fault injection attack. The protocol includes: performing a first arithmetic operation to determine a first output; performing a second arithmetic operation to determine a second output, the second arithmetic operation being a variant of the first arithmetic operation; and comparing the first output and the second output, and if the comparison is incompatible, outputting an invalidity condition, otherwise, outputting the first output.
US11206120B2
A method, network node and wireless device for waveform selection are provided. A method includes selecting a waveform based on one of a modulation and coding scheme, MCS, a resource allocation, and transport block size, TBS, and transmitting using the selected waveform.
US11206118B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. Disclosed is a method of configuring a reference signal in a telecommunication system, comprising the step of determining if multiple Transmission Points, TRP, operation is activated or not, and configuring the reference signal in accordance with the determination.
US11206116B2
A technique for assigning pilot signals to user equipments is described. The UEs access an RBS that provides radio access. As to a method aspect of the technique, an access burst including initial pilot signals is received from the UEs, wherein at least two of the UEs apply simultaneously the same initial pilot signal. A multicast channel to the at least two UEs is estimated based on the received access burst. A combined signal power received at the RBS is computed for the at least two UEs based on the estimated multicast channel. A message to the at least two UEs is sent using the multicast channel. The message is indicative of the combined signal power and assigns different pilot signals to the at least two UEs, wherein the assignment depends for each of the at least two UEs on the combined signal power and a signal power received at the respective UE.
US11206108B2
The present application provides a method for transmitting data, which includes the following. A UE detects a physical downlink control channel, PDCCH, on a configured control resource set; the UE analyzes the detected PDCCH, and determines a method for dividing code blocks, CBs, and a method for rate matching of a physical downlink shared channel, PDSCH, and receives the PDSCH accordingly. By the method of the present application, when a service with a low delay requirement punches the time-frequency resources of other services, a performance of the other services is improved as much as possible, and the resource utilization rate is improved as much as possible.
US11206085B2
A device (10;150;200) is configured to receive an optical signal. The device comprises a dispersion compensator (210a) comprising a plurality of optical dispersion compensator units (220). Each optical dispersion compensator unit comprises a plurality of delay elements (20;40). The dispersion compensator (210a) is configured to selectively activate one or more of the optical dispersion compensator units (220). The dispersion compensator (210a) is configured to compensate for dispersion of the optical signal with the activated one or more optical dispersion compensator unit (200).
US11206081B2
An optical reception terminal includes a plurality of matrix filters (40, 41) respectively provided for a plurality of modes and configured to perform polarization separation and equalization on a coherently received signal in a corresponding mode, and two combining filters (50, 51) respectively provided for two polarizations and configured to combine signals in corresponding polarization among signals output from the plurality of matrix filters (40, 41) after weighting the signals. Filter coefficients of the plurality of matrix filters (40, 41) and weighting coefficients of the two combining filters (50, 51) are controlled based on a deviation from a desired state of both signals in two polarizations after combining by the two combining filters (50, 51), so as to minimize a sum of deviations.
US11206079B2
Radio communications systems use 100 to 200 satellites in random low-earth orbits distributed over a predetermined range of north and south latitudes. The satellites themselves create a radio route between ground stations via radio links between multiple satellites by virtue of onboard global navigation satellite system circuitry for determining the location of the satellite and route creation circuitry for calculating in real time the direction from the satellite's location at a particular instant to a destination ground station. Directional antennas in the satellites transmit routing radio signals to enhance the probability of reception by other satellites. One embodiment facilitates the creation of satellite-to-satellite links by assigning each satellite a unique identifier, storing orbital information defining the locations of all of the orbiting satellites in the system at any particular time, and including in the radio signal the unique identifier associated with the transmitting satellite.
US11206075B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A communication device may perform a first set of beam measurements for a first plurality of beams over a wireless channel, each beam in the first plurality of beams having a first beam-width. The communication device may transmit a first beam measurement report for the first plurality of beams, the first beam measurement report indicating a beam sweep order for a second set of beam measurements for a second plurality of beams. The communication device may perform the second set of beam measurements for the second plurality of beams over the wireless channel according to the indicated beam sweep order, each beam in the second plurality of beams having a second beam-width that is narrower than the first beam-width.
US11206073B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a base station may synchronize a beam switch of the base station with transmission of a reference signal for channel state feedback, and schedule a channel state feedback report to be transmitted after the transmission of the reference signal for channel state feedback. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11206071B2
A UE may be configured to communicate using one of analog beamforming or hybrid beamforming. The UE may receive a set of beamformed signals from a base station. The UE may determine a set of angular spread values associated with a set of clusters in a channel between the base station and the UE based on the set of beamformed signals received from the base station. The UE may transmit the set of angular spread values to the base station. The UE may receive, from the base station based on the set of angular spread values, a set of transmission ranks associated with at least one cluster of the set of clusters. The UE may communicate at least one data stream with the base station across the at least one cluster using the set of transmission ranks associated with the at least one cluster of the set of clusters.
US11206069B2
The present disclosure provides a method for receiving a channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS) by a UE in a wireless communication system. Particularly, the method includes receiving information on a measurement bandwidth and cell list information for a plurality of cells, receiving CSI-RSs of the plurality of cells, and measuring reception power for the CSI-RSs within the measurement bandwidth, wherein sequences of the CSI-RSs are mapped to physical resources based on the same reference position configured by a higher layer.
US11206067B2
An object is to provide an antenna system, a control method of an antenna system, and program capable of maintaining communication quality even when communication state between wireless communication apparatuses is changed. Detection antennas are arranged in a Z-direction to respectively correspond to radiation antennas and receive radio waves. A combiner/divider circuit (13) distributes a transmission signal to the radiation antennas. A detection circuit detects reception sensitivity distribution of the detection antennas in the Z-direction. A control circuit controls the combiner/divider circuit based on the reception sensitivity distribution to cause the radiation antennas corresponding to the detection antenna having reception sensitivity higher than a predetermined value to radiate the radio wave.
US11206064B2
This application provides a transmission precoding matrix indication method and a device. The method includes: determining a bit quantity of a transmission precoding matrix indicator field corresponding to a subband scheduled for uplink based on downlink control information received from a network device, where the bit quantity of the transmission precoding matrix indicator field corresponding to the subband is related to a quantity of subbands corresponding to the resource scheduled for uplink; and further, determining an uplink transmission precoding matrix corresponding to the subband based on the bit quantity of the transmission precoding matrix indicator field corresponding to the subband and the uplink transmission layer quantity. A transmission precoding matrix indicator field can be effectively used, and control channel resource utilization is improved.
US11206055B2
There is provided an audio transmission method, comprising: wirelessly connecting an audio receiver device to a first audio streaming device; transmitting a first audio stream from the first audio streaming device using a first protocol to the audio receiver device, wherein at least one audio data packet is transmitted in each frame in at least one audio packet slot; and scanning, by the audio receiver device, while receiving the first audio stream from the first audio streaming device, during at least one scan window (S) for frequency hopping synchronization (FHS) packets (F) transmitted from a second audio streaming device in a second audio stream using a second protocol. The scanning activity enables reception of at least one audio packet per frame of the first audio stream by preventing collision of the at least one scan window with at least one audio packet slot (A) per frame (R).
US11206053B2
A wearable article, system, and methods may include a structure configured to enclose a human body part. A first antenna, positioned with respect to the structure, is tuned to communicate, while the wearable article is being worn, according to a first wireless communication modality with a first external antenna. A second antenna, positioned with respect to the structure, is tuned to communicate according to a second wireless communication modality with a second external antenna different than the first external antenna, the second communication modality being different than the first communication modality. A transceiver, coupled to at least one of the first antenna and the second antenna, is configured to communicate via one of the first and second antennas based, at least in part, on the one of the first and second antennas coming into wireless communication contact with a corresponding one of the first and second external antennas.
US11206051B2
A device includes a frequency multiplier circuit to receive a base frequency signal, multiply the base frequency signal, and output the multiple of the base frequency signal, and includes an offset frequency generator, including at least one logic gate, to receive the multiple of the base frequency signal and output an offset frequency signal from the at least one logic gate combination. A mixing circuit receives the offset frequency signal and a digital data signal, converts the digital data signal into an analog representation of the digital data signal, and mixes the offset frequency signal and the analog representation of the digital data signal to produce a mixed signal. The device yet further includes a power amplifier to amplify the mixed signal and output the amplified mixed signal as an output frequency signal of the device.
US11206042B2
An improved layered decoding method for a low density parity check (LDPC) code and a device therefor are disclosed. Disclosed is the layered decoding method for an LDPC code, capable of determining whether decoding is successful by performing a syndrome check on each check node at every variable node update. In addition, the syndrome check can be performed by using reduced variable nodes, thereby reducing decoding power consumption and decoding time consumption.
US11206031B2
A phase rotator receives control signals and thermometer coded signals that specifies the phase of an output signal. The phase rotator may be used, for example, by a clock and data recovery (CDR) circuit to continually rotate the phase of a clock to compensate for phase/frequency mismatches between received data and the clock. The control signals determine the phase quadrant (i.e., 0°-90°, 90°-180°, etc.) of the output signal. The thermometer coded signals determine the phase of the output signal within a quadrant by steering a set of bias currents between two or more nodes. The set of bias currents are selected to reduce the non-linearity between the thermometer coded value and the phase of the output signal.
US11206021B2
Apparatus and associated methods relate to quasi-adiabatic logic gates in which at least one supply terminal receives sinusoidal power. The quasi-adiabatic logic gate is configured to perform a specific logic function operative upon one or more input signals. When the quasi-adiabatic logic gate switches the output from one logic state to another logic state, the transient switching portion of the output signal substantially tracks the sinusoidal supply signal. Such a sinusoidal transient switching portion of the signal has lower frequency components than have traditional CMOS logic gate transients. Some embodiments include an inductor through which the sinusoidal supply signal is provided to the quasi-adiabatic logic gate. Such an inductor can both provide charge to and recover charge from switching quasi-adiabatic logic gates, thereby further reducing power.
US11206019B2
The present disclosure relates to the field of touch technologies, and in particular, to a capacitance detection circuit, a capacitance detection method, a touch chip, and an electronic device. The capacitance detection circuit includes: a control module, a charge transfer module, a processing module, a drive module, and a cancellation module. The control module is configured to control the drive module to charge a capacitor to be detected. The cancellation module is configured to perform M times of charge cancellations on the capacitor to be detected. The charge transfer module is configured to convert a charge of the capacitor to be detected, subject to the M times of charge cancellations, to generate an output voltage. The processing module is configured to determine, according to the output voltage, a capacitance variation of the capacitor to be detected.
US11206014B1
A modulator spreads the spectrum of a generated clock to reduce Electro-Magnetic Interference (EMI). A capacitor is charged by a variable current to generate a ramp voltage that is compared to a reference to end a clock cycle and discharge the capacitor. An up-down counter drives a Digital-to-Analog Converter (DAC) that controls the variable charging current to provide triangle modulation. A smaller offset current is added or subtracted for cubic modulation when the up-down counter reaches its minimum count. A frequency divider that clocks the up-down counter also clocks a Linear-Feedback Shift-Register (LFSR) to that controls pseudo-random current sources that further modulate variable current and frequency. The LFSR is clocked with the up-down counter to modulate each frequency step, or only at the minimum count to randomly modulate at the minimum frequency. Binary-weighted bits from the up-down counter to the DAC are swapped to modulate the frequency step size.
US11206008B2
Embodiments of the invention include an acoustic wave resonator (AWR) module. In an embodiment, the AWR module may include a first AWR substrate and a second AWR substrate affixed to the first AWR substrate. In an embodiment, the first AWR substrate and the second AWR substrate define a hermetically sealed cavity. A first AWR device may be positioned in the cavity and formed on the first AWR substrate, and a second AWR device may be positioned in the cavity and formed on the second AWR substrate. In an embodiment, a center frequency of the first AWR device is different than a center frequency of the second AWR device. In additional embodiment of the invention, the AWR module may be integrated into a hybrid filter. The hybrid filter may include an AWR module and other RF passive devices embedded in a packaging substrate.
US11206007B2
Guided Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) devices with improved quartz orientations are disclosed. A guided SAW device includes a quartz carrier substrate, a piezoelectric layer on a surface of the quartz carrier substrate, and at least one interdigitated transducer on a surface of the piezoelectric layer opposite the quartz carrier substrate. The quartz carrier substrate includes an orientation that provides improved performance parameters for the SAW device, including electromechanical coupling factor, resonator quality factor, temperature coefficient of frequency, and delta temperature coefficient of frequency.
US11205997B2
An apparatus includes: a transistor including an input terminal for an input signal and an output terminal for an output signal; a matching circuit configured to match a load impedance regarding a fundamental harmonic of at least one of the input signal and the output signal to an impedance of the transistor and include a first conductive film being laminated over the transistor and coupled to at least one of the input terminal and the output terminal; and a processing circuit configured to adjust an impedance regarding a harmonic of at least one of the input signal and the output signal and include a second conductive film being laminated over the first conductive film and coupled to at least one of the input terminal and the output terminal through a via which penetrates through a dielectric layer sandwiched between the first conductive film and the second conductive film.
US11205996B2
A control circuit switches an oscillation circuit from a second operation mode to a first operation mode. When a first predetermined signal is detected and mode switching permission information indicates that the switching from the second operation mode to the first operation mode is permitted, then the oscillation circuit switches from the second operation mode to the first operation mode. When the first predetermined signal is not detected and the mode switching permission information indicates that the switching from the second operation mode to the first operation mode is not permitted, then the oscillation circuit continues in the second operation mode.
US11205994B2
The present invention provides a solar photovoltaic installation capable of storing power while supplying power during daytime when solar radiation conditions are excellent. The solar photovoltaic installation of the invention includes at least a first solar module string 11 and a second solar module string 12 as solar module strings 10, the solar photovoltaic installation further includes at least a first storage battery array 21 and a second storage battery array 22 as storage battery arrays 20, and while power storage capacity detection means 60 detects that the second storage battery array 22 is less than a predetermined capacity and voltage detection means 50 detects voltage of more than predetermined voltage, the control means 40 connects the first solar module string 11 to a power conditioner 30, and connects the second solar module string 12 to the second storage battery array 22.
US11205988B2
A motor control device includes at least one power converter. The at least one power converter is connected between a DC power supply and a motor. The at least one power converter converts a DC electric power into a multi-phase AC electric power by operating a plurality of switching elements and supplies the multi-phase AC electric power to the motor. The motor control device calculates a command value for operating the at least one power converter to control electrical conduction to the motor. The motor control device determines an overcurrent fault when a value of a current flowing through the at least one power converter or a motor winding of the motor exceeds an overcurrent threshold value. The motor control device estimates or detects a power supply current that is a direct current flowing between the DC power supply and the at least one power converter.
US11205975B2
A piezoelectric drive device for vibrating a vibrating body to make a tip of a protruding part make a rotational motion of drawing an elliptic orbit to thereby drive a driven member, wherein the vibrating body includes a substrate, a driving piezoelectric element configured to vibrate the substrate, and a detecting piezoelectric element configured to detect a vibration of the substrate, the driving piezoelectric element includes a first driving piezoelectric element for making the vibrating body perform a stretching vibration in a first direction, and a second driving piezoelectric element for making the vibrating body perform a flexural vibration in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, the detecting piezoelectric element is arranged with the first driving piezoelectric element in the first direction, and there is provided a voltage control section for controlling a magnitude of a voltage to be applied to the first driving piezoelectric element.
US11205973B2
A method of controlling a piezoelectric motor as a piezoelectric drive device having a vibrator including piezoelectric elements, a rotor as a driven unit that moves at a target speed by vibration of the vibrator, and drive signal generation units that generate drive signals and output the drive signals to the piezoelectric elements, includes intermittently outputting the drive signals to the piezoelectric elements by the drive signal generation units, wherein a time when output of the drive signals is stopped is shorter than a time from when output of the drive signal is stopped to stoppage of the vibration.
US11205972B2
A mechanical system is provided for maintaining a desired gap between a stator electrode array and a rotor electrode array by employing repelling magnets on the inner surface of the rotor and on movable carts that support azimuthally segmented stator arrays.
US11205971B2
A multilevel inverter includes an inner DC source group circuit that generates a plurality of voltage levels, and an outer DC source group circuit that generates a substantially sinusoidal output voltage. The substantially sinusoidal output voltage is generated using, at least in part, the plurality of voltage levels generated by the inner DC source group circuit. An H-bridge circuit supplies the substantially sinusoidal output voltage at alternating polarities to a load.
US11205965B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to calibrate a power converter. An example apparatus includes a comparator including a first input terminal, a second input terminal, and an output terminal, the first input terminal of the comparator configured to be coupled to a filter to receive a filtered feedback signal, the second input terminal of the comparator configured to receive a first voltage signal, and the output terminal of the comparator coupled to a node, an oscillator including an output terminal, and a voltage stepper including a first input terminal, a second input terminal, and an output terminal, the first input terminal of the voltage stepper configured to receive a second voltage signal, the second input terminal of the voltage stepper coupled to the output terminal of the oscillator, and the output terminal of the voltage stepper configured to be coupled to an error amplifier.
US11205952B2
Current source rectifier (CSR) systems and methods for a power source including three phase lines are disclosed. One illustrative CSR system includes a rectifier operable to receive an AC input voltage and provide a DC output voltage and a controller communicatively coupled to the rectifier. The rectifier comprises first, second, and third phase legs including a plurality of switches with each switch coupled to an associated phase line of the three phase lines. The controller is operable to (i) control operation of the plurality of switches in accordance with a first switching sequence when measured input voltages on at least two phase lines of the three phase lines are outside of the predetermined voltage range and (ii) control operation of the plurality of switches in accordance with a second switching sequence when the measured input voltages on the at least two phase lines are within the predetermined voltage range.
US11205946B2
A photovoltaic power generation system, having a photovoltaic panel, which has a direct current (DC) output and a micro-inverter with input terminals and output terminals. The input terminals are adapted for connection to the DC output. The micro-inverter is configured for converting an input DC power received at the input terminals to an output alternating current (AC) power at the output terminals. A bypass current path between the output terminals may be adapted for passing current produced externally to the micro-inverter. The micro-inverter is configured to output an alternating current voltage significantly less than a grid voltage.
US11205945B2
An annular field of a superconducting generator includes a partial cryogenic shielding assembly and a superconducting field winding surrounded by a thermal shield. The thermal shield is surrounded by a housing defining an insulating vacuum enclosure. The annular field includes a torque tube assembly disposed within the housing and coupling the thermal shield to the housing. A blanket of multi-layer thermal insulation is disposed within the vacuum enclosure, extending generally between the housing and the thermal shield. The annular field further includes a partial cryogenic shielding assembly including a floating shield disposed within the vacuum enclosure, between the housing and the thermal shield. The floating shield extends only a portion of an overall length of the housing. The floating shield includes an insulative stack of multi-layer thermal insulation. A superconducting generator and a wind turbine utilizing the superconducting generator with improved partial shielding are disclosed.
US11205943B1
The present invention discloses a new two-stator and two-rotor combined energy-saving motor, which relates to the technical field of motor. The motor comprises a motor shell, two rotors and two stators, wherein the stators and the rotors are arranged in the motor shell, each rotor comprises an outer rotor part, an inner rotor part and a flange, the outer rotor part is arranged outside the cylindrical inner rotor part, the outer rotor part and the inner rotor part are connected by flange; an inner stator zone is formed between the outer rotor part and the inner rotor part, and one of the stators is arranged in the inner stator zone of the rotor; an outer stator zone is formed between the outer rotor part and the motor shell, and the other of the stator is arranged in the outer stator zone.
US11205935B2
The purpose of the present invention is to obtain a structure with which it is possible to improve the heat dissipation performance and efficiency of an axial gap dynamo-electric machine. Accordingly, the present invention is an axial gap dynamo-electric machine of such construction that a disc-shaped rotor in which permanent magnets are disposed is provided in the axial direction and a stator is disposed in the axial-direction center portion, wherein the outer circumferential side of a stator winding is in intimate contact with the inside diameter of a housing, embedding with a mold resin is used for the housing and a stator core and for a stator coil and the housing so that a connection is established with the housing, and the housing comprises a nonmagnetic, electrically nonconductive material.
US11205928B2
A device for high-frequency communication and for the inductive charging of an apparatus, including a charging surface, at least one charging antenna emitting a magnetic field at a low frequency and a layer of ferromagnetic material. The device includes at least one communication antenna and a printed circuit board. The communication antenna is in the form of a coil locally surrounding the layer with an axis of symmetry situated in a plane parallel to the layer. The material of the layer is selected so as to have, at high frequency, an imaginary part with sufficiently high permeability to generate leaks on a surface of the layer extending perpendicular to the layer, while at the same time maintaining, at low frequency, an imaginary part with sufficiently low permeability to allow inductive charging.
US11205922B2
A multiple power supply system includes first and second power supply units. The first power supply unit provides a main output voltage while in a normal mode of operation. The first power supply unit includes a first bulk capacitor, and first standby power circuitry. The first standby power circuitry provides a standby voltage while the first power supply unit is in the normal mode of operation. The second power supply unit provides the main output voltage while in the normal mode of operation. The first power supply unit includes a second bulk capacitor, and second standby power circuitry. The second standby power circuitry provides the standby voltage while the first power supply unit is in the normal mode of operation, and enables reverse charging of the second bulk capacitor by the first power supply unit while the second power supply unit is in a reverse charging mode of operation.
US11205914B2
The present invention relates to a battery charging device and a charging control method thereof, the battery charging device including: a charger configured to provide a charging voltage for charging a battery; at least one processor configured to control the charger; and a variable resistor placed on a charging path and configured to adjust a charging capacity provided from the charger to the battery and have a resistance determined corresponding to a digital code received from the processor, wherein the processor corrects the digital code to be output to the variable resistor in accordance with battery charging characteristics monitored during a charging cycle of the battery. Thus, flexible and adaptive charging control is possible through at least one digital variable resistor provided in the charging device, and error situations are handled in real time by correcting the digital code through monitoring in a charging process.
US11205913B2
A method for controlling charging includes: determining charge cycle counts of a battery; obtaining a set charge cut-off current corresponding to the charge cycle counts based on a preset charge strategy; adjusting a charge cut-off current of the battery according to the set charge cut-off current corresponding to the charge cycle counts to control a charge volume of the battery.
US11205911B2
The present invention relates to an energy storage system. An energy storage system, according to an embodiment of the present invention, relates to an energy storage system for managing power of a system and a direct current (DC) distribution network linked with the system, the energy storage system comprising: a first converter connected between the system and the DC distribution network so as to control a voltage of the DC distribution network; a second converter connected to the DC distribution network; a load connected to the second converter, and controlling the voltage by means of the second converter; a battery connected to the DC distribution network; and a third converter connected between the battery and the load, and controlling discharge of the battery.
US11205904B2
A predetermined internal voltage of a charging and discharging conversion unit is monitored by using voltage supervisor circuits of a voltage monitoring unit in response to a drive voltage for a load to operate such that a connection state of a plurality of capacitors included in the conversion unit is converted to a series connection or a parallel connection in a charging mode or a discharging mode, switching of switching elements of the conversion unit is controlled through switching control signals generated corresponding thereto, and thereby, the plurality of capacitors of the conversion unit are connected in series in the charging mode, and the connection state of the plurality of capacitors is converted and connected in the order of an entire parallel connection, a partial series connection, and an entire series connection in response to the drive voltage for the load to be driven in the discharging mode.
US11205897B2
The present disclosure provides a DC power supply system, comprising: a first power supply circuit and a second power supply circuit, each power supply circuit comprises a phase-shifting transformer and an AC-DC conversion circuit; and a bidirectional electronic switch electrically coupled between the output end of the first power supply circuit and the output end of the second power supply circuit, wherein the bidirectional electronic switch is configured to transmit power between the output end of the first power supply circuit and the output end of the second power supply circuit depend on the voltage difference of the two output voltages.
US11205892B2
A method for locating phase faults in a microgrid in off-grid mode. The method includes obtaining a grid topology of the microgrid having at least two busbars and determining the position of all circuit breaker position of the grid topology. Further, acquiring measurement data which includes current magnitude and voltage magnitude. Monitoring the at least two busbars for a voltage dip in one of phase-to-phase or phase-to-neutral voltages. On detecting a voltage dip, determining a defect phase having a minimum phase-to-neutral voltage value. And for the defect phase performing busbar analysis and feeder analysis, using phase-directional information.
US11205887B2
A quantum cascade laser of an embodiment includes a semiconductor stacked body in which a ridge waveguide is provided. The semiconductor stacked body includes an active layer including a quantum well region including a layer including Al; and the active layer emits laser light. The layer that includes Al includes first regions, and a second region interposed between the first regions; the first region includes Al oxide and reaches a prescribed depth inward from an outer edge of the active layer along a direction parallel to a surface of the active layer in a cross section orthogonal to the optical axis; and the second region does not include Al oxide.
US11205885B2
A method of producing laser bars or semiconductor lasers includes providing a carrier composite to form a plurality of carriers for the laser bars or for the semiconductor lasers, providing a semiconductor body composite including a common substrate and a common semiconductor layer sequence grown thereon, forming a plurality of separation trenches through the common semiconductor layer sequence such that the semiconductor body composite is divided into a plurality of semiconductor bodies, applying the semiconductor body composite to the carrier composite such that the separation trenches face the carrier composite, thinning or removing the common substrate, and singulating the carrier composite into a plurality of carriers, wherein a plurality of semiconductor bodies are arranged on one of the carriers, and the semiconductor bodies arranged on one common carrier are laterally spaced apart from one another by the separation trenches.
US11205884B2
A broadband light source device for creating broadband light pulses includes a hollow-core fiber and a pump laser source device. The hollow-core fiber is configured to create the broadband light pulses by an optical non-linear broadening of pump laser pulses. The hollow-core fiber includes a filling gas, an axial hollow light guiding fiber core configured to support core modes of a guided light field, and an inner fiber structure surrounding the fiber core and configured to support transverse wall modes of the guided light field. The pump laser source device is configured to create and provide the pump laser pulses at an input side of the hollow-core fiber. The transverse wall modes include a fundamental transverse wall mode and second and higher order transverse wall modes.
US11205878B2
A solenoid is provided with a valve body having a cylindrical shape extending along a front-rear direction, and a device connector including leg portions projecting outward from a side wall of the valve body and a connector housing provided on sides of the leg portions opposite to the valve body with a clearance provided between the side wall of the valve body and the connector housing, and a magnetic shield member made of metal, to be mounted outside the valve body and having a tubular shape open on one end part. The magnetic shield member includes avoidance recesses formed into a concave shape from an opening end to avoid interference with the leg portions and an inserting portion to be inserted into the clearance between the side wall of the valve body and the housing.
US11205875B2
Disclosed is a plug connector which can be latched to a mating plug connector having a plug connector housing having a plurality of sides each having a flat shape, a plug connector insert which is fixed or at least can be fixed in the plug connector housing, and an unlocking sleeve which engages around the plug connector housing and is held thereon so as to be displaceable counter to the plugging direction. At least one polarization element is mounted on a side of the unlocking sleeve. Also disclosed is a system, a method for mounting, a method for plugging, and a method for separating plug connectors and mating plug connectors.
US11205871B2
A household appliance includes a connector for electrical contacting. The connector includes a body configured to mechanically retain at least one electrically conductive contact, which is accessible on an exit side of the body for contacting. The body is constructed from at least two different components, with one of the at least two components at least substantially forming the exit side and being made from a fire-retardant plastic.
US11205866B2
A joint structure of a high-voltage cable includes a cable core wrapped from interior to exterior sequentially by an inner insulating layer, a shielding layer and an outer insulating layer, a section of the inner and outer insulating layers is stripped at an end of the cable core, and a length of the stripped section of the outer insulating layer is greater than a length of the stripped section of the inner insulating layer. The end of the cable core is connected to an external terminal, a connection between the end and the external terminal and an adjacent section of the inner insulating layer are wrapped by a heat-shrinkable tube, a spacing is provided between an end of the heat-shrinkable tube and the outer insulating layer, the shielding layer within the spacing is wrapped by a copper foil and connected externally to a cable connector via the copper foil.
US11205859B2
The present disclosure provides a dual-polarized radiating element comprising a feeding arrangement and four dipole arms. The feeding arrangement comprises four slots, which extend from a periphery towards a center of the feeding arrangement and are arranged at regular angular intervals forming a first angular arrangement. The four dipole arms extend outwards from the feeding arrangement and are arranged at regular angular intervals forming a second angular arrangement. The second angular arrangement of the four dipole arms is rotated with respect to the first angular arrangement of the four slots.
US11205858B1
This patent application describes systems, devices, and methods for element-level self-calculation of phased array vectors by a beam forming ASIC using direct calculation such as for fast beam steering.
US11205847B2
5-6 GHz wideband dual-polarized MIMO array antennas are disclosed. The antennas comprise a double layered PCB, a single layered PCB and a plurality of microstrip patch antennas. The microstrip patches are radiating elements which are coupled to apertures in the ground plane. The aperture coupling avoids the need for complex multi-layered boards with plated via holes. Standard SMA connectors can be used with the array antenna.
US11205843B2
An RF receiver may include antenna elements to receive RF signals, and electro-optic modulators to generate corresponding upconverted optical signals by mixing an RF signal with an optical carrier beam. The RF receiver may include a transmission array having a first bundle of optical waveguides that receive and transmit upconverted optical signals from their ends. The ends may be arranged in a first pattern. The RF receiver may include an interference space to receive the upconverted optical signals to form a composite beam, and an array of single mode optical fibers that have lenses positioned in a detection plane to receive a portion of the composite beam. The first pattern of the ends generates an RF emitter interference pattern at the detection plane, and the single mode optical fiber lenses have a geometric arrangement that corresponds to the first RF emitter interference pattern.
US11205841B2
An antenna assembly includes a base, a gimbal disposed at the base, an antenna disposed at the gimbal, and a mainboard configured to control an attitude of the gimbal to control a radiation direction of the antenna.
US11205839B2
A beamforming antenna assembly is provided. The beamforming antenna assembly includes a mirror glass coated with a material, and a beamforming antenna disposed on a portion of the mirror glass. A pattern is formed on the portion of the mirror glass so that a beam radiated from the beamforming antenna passes therethrough.
US11205837B2
A tunable antenna system is provided for a wearable personal computing device, such as a smartwatch. The tunable antenna system includes at least two antennas configured for respective sets of frequency ranges. One or more radiating elements of the antennas are formed from portions of a metal bezel of the wearable personal computing device. For at least one of the antennas, an aperture tuner and an impedance tuner positioned within the metal bezel are provided, e.g., to tune between various communication bands. Non-conductive slits may be positioned within the metal bezel to provide isolation between the antennas. A ground plane of the antenna system may be formed by a metallic component of the wearable personal computing device. The antenna system can be insulated from a wearer's skin by a non-metallic back cover and optionally a glass back plate arranged to contact the wearer's skin or clothing during use.
US11205833B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an electronic device and an antenna. The antenna for includes a first component configured for high frequency feed; a second component configured for low frequency feed; a third component configured for high frequency signal transmission; and a fourth component configured for low frequency signal transmission. The first component is coupling a high frequency signal to the third component, and the second component is coupling a low frequency signal to the fourth component.
US11205832B2
An electronic device may have a display. A display cover layer and a transparent inner display member may overlap a display pixel layer. The display pixel layer may have an array of display pixels for displaying images for a user. A touch sensor layer may be interposed between the display pixel layer and the transparent display member. A ferromagnetic shielding layer may be mounted below the display pixel layer. A flexible printed circuit containing coils of metal signal lines that form a near-field communications loop antenna may be interposed between the ferromagnetic shielding layer and the display pixel layer. A non-near-field antenna such as an inverted-F antenna may have a resonating element mounted on an inner surface of the display cover layer. The resonating element may be interposed between the transparent display member and the display cover layer.
US11205828B2
A waveguide includes a first double-ridge waveguide, a second double-ridge waveguide, and a polarization rotator. The first double-ridge waveguide provides a phase of an input electrical field rotated 0° or 90°. The second double-ridge outputs an electric field with a polarization that is perpendicular to a first polarization of the input electrical field. The polarization rotator is mounted between the first double-ridge waveguide and the second double-ridge waveguide and includes a frame, a dielectric layer, a first conducting pattern layer forming a first conductor and a second conductor, a first switch connected between the first conductor and the second conductor, a second conducting pattern layer forming a third conductor and a fourth conductor, and a second switch connected between the third conductor and the fourth conductor. Wherein a phase rotation of 90° or −90° is provided by the polarization rotator based on a state of the first and second switch.
US11205827B2
Provided is a rapid over-the-air (OTA) production line test platform, including a device under test (DUT), an antenna array and two reflecting plates. The DUT has a beamforming function. The antenna array is arranged opposite to the DUT, and emits beams with beamforming. Two reflecting plates are disposed opposite to each other, and are arranged between the DUT and the antenna array. The beam OTA test of the DUT is carried out by propagation of the beams between the antenna array, the DUT and the two reflecting plates. Accordingly, the test time can be greatly shortened and the cost of test can be effectively reduced. In addition to the above-mentioned rapid OTA production line test platform, platforms for performing the OTA production line test by using horn antenna arrays together with bending waveguides and using a 3D elliptic curve are also provided.
US11205825B2
A non-contact type coaxial switch that eliminates all contacts and inner conductors. The switch includes a stator/coax base assembly and a rotor. The stator/coax base assembly is fixed, while the rotor is rotatably mounted to the stator/coax base assembly and eliminates all contacts and inner conductors. The rotor is disposed between bearings, and consists of waveguide paths that couple between selected coax connectors. When the rotor is rotated, different selected coax connectors occur. For other arrangements selected, the rotor can switch between a condition of coax and waveguide outputs. The rotor, between bearings, consists of waveguide paths which couple between selected coax connectors. When the rotor is rotated, a different selected coax connector occurs. For other arrangements selected, the rotor can switch between a combination of coax and waveguide outputs. The switch can assume many configurations. For example, a Double-Pole-Double-Throw (DPDT) configuration; a 3 and 4 Way R-Type configuration; a Single-Pole-Multiple-Throw (SPMT) configuration; a T-Switch configuration; and a Multiple-Pole-Multiple-Throw (MPMT) configuration.
US11205816B2
A battery housing for a vehicle driven by electric motor has a first housing part and a second housing part connected to the first housing part. A battery chamber is enclosed by the housing parts. The housing parts have a connecting flange. The connecting flange of at least one of the two housing parts has at least one supporting projection, which extends in the direction of the connecting flange of the other housing part as support for the connecting flange of the other housing part. The two connecting flanges of the housing parts are connected to one another at a distance from the supporting projection and are put under tension. A plurality of supporting projections spaced a distance apart from one another in the circumferential direction of the connecting flange is arranged on the flanges.
US11205814B2
A power storage device packaging material having a structure including at least a substrate layer, an adhesive layer, a metal foil layer, a sealant adhesive layer, and a sealant layer laminated in this order. The substrate layer is formed of a polyester film exhibiting ΔA, as expressed by the following formula, of 10% or more and a 50% elongation stress of 75 MPa or more after heat treatment at 160° C.: “ΔA=(break elongation after 160° C. heat treatment)−(break elongation before 160° C. heat treatment)”.
US11205809B2
Devices, methods and systems used to detect thermal incidents are disclosed. In one embodiment, there may be a thermal incident detection apparatus for a battery pack including one or more battery modules, the one or more battery modules comprising a plurality of battery cells arranged in a plurality of rows, wherein each battery cell in the one or more battery modules comprises a vent, the apparatus comprising a thermally anisotropic material positioned in proximity to one or more battery cells of the one of more battery modules, wherein the thermally anisotropic material has an in-plane thermal conductivity greater than a through-plane thermal conductivity; and a sensor positioned in proximity to the thermally anisotropic material to sense thermal energy transferred by one of more of the battery cells to the thermally anisotropic material.
US11205805B2
A test device for an electrochemical cell is arranged inside the electrochemical cell in such a way that it is in electrical contact with two current-carrying electrodes of the electrochemical cell. The test device includes a switching device having at least one cathode and one anode partial electrode which are adjacently arranged, but with a space thereinbetween. In an initial state, the switching device is opened such that electrical current cannot flow between the partial electrodes. The switching device is closed in a short-circuit state by bridging the space between the partial electrodes such that an electrical current can flow between the current-carrying electrodes of the electrochemical cell and through the partial electrodes.
US11205791B2
An apparatus for inspecting a stack assembly including a fluid channel through which fluid is supplied into fuel cell stacks includes a frame, a conveyor that is installed in the frame and that carries the stack assembly in a predetermined direction of movement to locate the stack assembly in a predetermined inspection position, a masking mechanism that is installed in the frame and that masks a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet of the stack assembly to seal the fluid channel of the stack assembly from outside the stack assembly, and a gas injection mechanism that is installed in the frame and that injects an inspection gas into the fluid channel of the stack assembly to inspect a sealing state of the fluid channel in the stack assembly, in a state in which the stack assembly is sealed by the masking mechanism.
US11205773B2
The present invention provides an electrode mixture layer for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary batteries, which contains an electrode active material, a carbon-based conductive agent containing fibrous carbon having an average effective length of 10 μm, and a binder, and which has a thickness of 50 μm or more. This electrode mixture layer has an inner layer portion where the fibrous carbon is three-dimensionally dispersed in a random manner.
US11205771B2
The present invention provides a method for preparing an electrode for a secondary battery, including the steps of: (i) mixing and kneading an active material, a binder, and a conductive material together with a solvent to prepare a slurry in the form of a paste having a solid content of 70 to 90 wt %; (ii) positioning the slurry in the form of a paste on a current collector; and (iii) passing the current collector through a rolling apparatus together with the slurry in the form of a paste to simultaneously press it while forming an electrode coating layer on the current collector.
US11205758B2
An organometallic compound represented by Formula 1:2 wherein, in Formula 1, groups and variables are the same as described in the specification.
US11205742B2
A luminescent material, a light emitting device, and a display device are disclosed. The luminescent material includes particles and a phosphor. The particles include quantum dots and have an average diameter of 0.06 μm to 30 μm.
US11205740B2
A light emitting device package according to an embodiment has a first frame and a second frame arranged to be spaced apart from each other, a third frame arranged between the first frame and the second frame and spaced apart from the first frame and the second frame, a body supporting the first to third frames, a first light emitting device arranged on the body and electrically connected to the first frame and the third frame, and a second light emitting device arranged on the body and electrically connected to the second frame and the third frame. The body has a first recess in an upper area between the first frame and the third frame, and a second recess in an upper area between the third frame and the second frame. An embodiment may have a first resin part arranged in the first recess, and a second resin part arranged in the second recess. The first light emitting device has a first bonding portion and a second bonding portion, and may be arranged on the first resin part and electrically connected to the first frame and the third frame. The second light emitting device has a third bonding portion and a fourth bonding portion, and may be arranged on the second resin part and electrically connected to the second frame and the third frame.
US11205735B2
Optoelectronic devices having an improved architecture are disclosed, such as p-i-n hybrid solar cells. These solar cells are characterized by including an insulating mesoporous scaffold in between the hole transportation layer and the photoactive layer, in such a way that the photoactive layer infiltrates the insulating mesoporous scaffold and contacts the hole transportation layer. The infiltration of the photoactive layer in the mesoporous scaffold improves the performance of the hole transportation layer and increases the photovoltaic performance of the solar cell. Solar cells, according to the present invention are manufactured in their entirety below 150° C. and present advantages in terms of cost and ease of manufacture, performance, and energy efficiency, stability over time and reproducibility.
US11205714B2
In one example, a semiconductor device includes a substrate, a first elongated fin structure disposed on the substrate, and a second elongated fin structure disposed on the substrate. The longitudinal axis of the first elongated fin structure is aligned with a longitudinal axis of the second elongated fin structure. The device further includes a dummy structure extending between the first elongated fin structure and the second elongated fin structure. The dummy structure includes a dielectric material.
US11205695B2
Methods of fabricating a thick oxide feature on a semiconductor wafer include forming a oxide layer having a thickness of at least six micrometers and depositing a photoresist layer on the oxide layer. The oxide layer has a first etch rate of X with a given etchant, the photoresist layer has a second etch rate of Y with the given etchant and the ratio of X:Y is less than 4:1. Prior to etching the photoresist layer and the oxide layer, the photoresist layer is patterned with a grayscale mask that creates a photoresist layer having a sidewall that forms an angle with the horizontal that is less than or equal to 10 degrees.
US11205691B2
A display panel and a display device are provided, and the display panel includes a substrate and a pixel layer disposed on the substrate. The pixel layer includes a plurality of pixel units arranged in an array. The display panel includes a main light-transmitting region surrounded by the plurality of pixel units, and an orthographic projection of the main light-transmitting region on the substrate is not overlapped with orthographic projections of the plurality of pixel units on the substrate, so that external light is allowed to pass through the main light-transmitting region of the display panel, and then is received by an image acquisition device disposed on a side of the display panel.
US11205689B2
There is provided a light emitting display apparatus including at least a light emitting element and a thin film transistor (TFT) for driving the light emitting element, characterized in that a mechanism is provided in which a semiconductor constituting the TFT is irradiated with at least a part of light whose wavelength is longer than a predetermined wavelength among the light emitted by the light emitting element.
US11205680B2
A semiconductor device and methods for making the same are disclosed. The device may include: a first transistor structure; a second transistor structure; a capacitor structure comprising a trench in the substrate between the first and second transistor structures, the capacitor structure further comprising a doped layer over the substrate, a dielectric layer over the doped layer, and a conductive fill material over the dielectric layer; a first conductive contact from the first transistor structure to a first bit line; a second conductive contact from the second transistor to a non-volatile memory element; and a third conductive contact from the non-volatile memory element to a second bit line.
US11205678B2
Techniques for integrating an embedded MRAM device with a BEOL interconnect structure are provided. In one aspect, a method of forming an embedded MRAM device includes: depositing a cap layer onto a substrate; forming a metal line and metal pad on the cap layer; patterning the metal line to form first top vias, and the metal pad to form a second top via; depositing a dielectric material onto the substrate surrounding the first/second top vias; recessing the second top via to form a bottom contact via self-aligned to the metal pad which serves as a bottom contact; forming an MRAM cell over the bottom contact via; and forming first/second top contacts in contact with the first top vias/the MRAM cell. An embedded MRAM device is also provided.
US11205661B2
Embodiments of three-dimensional (3D) memory devices with an enlarged joint critical dimension and methods for forming the same are disclosed. In an example, a 3D memory device is disclosed. The 3D memory device includes a substrate, a memory stack having a plurality of interleaved conductor layers and dielectric layers on the substrate, and a memory string extending vertically through the first memory stack and having a memory film along a sidewall of the memory string. The memory film includes a discontinuous blocking layer interposed by the dielectric layers.
US11205660B2
A memory array comprising strings of memory cells comprises a vertical stack comprising alternating insulative tiers and conductive tiers. The strings of memory cells in the stack comprise channel-material strings and storage-material strings extending through the insulative tiers and the conductive tiers. At least some of the storage material of the storage-material strings in individual of the insulative tiers are intrinsically less charge-transmissive than is the storage material in the storage-material strings in individual of the conductive tiers. Other aspects, including method, are disclosed.
US11205645B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, first, second, third and fourth bottom contacts in the substrate, and first, second, third and fourth active fins on respective ones of the first, second, third and fourth bottom contacts, the second and third fins overlapping in a first direction. First, second and third gate electrodes extend longitudinally in the first direction, the first and second gate electrodes disposed on side surfaces of respective ones of the first and fourth active fins and the third gate electrode disposed on side surfaces of the second and third active fins. A first top contact is on the first and second active fins and a second top contact is on the third and fourth active fins.
US11205639B2
An integrated circuit device and techniques for manufacturing the same are described therein. The integrated circuit device leverages two or more pairs of stacked integrated circuit dies that are fabricated in mirror images to reduce the complexity of manufacturing, thus reducing cost. In one example, an integrated circuit device is provided that includes an integrated circuit (IC) die stack. The IC die stack includes first, second, third and fourth IC dies. The first and second IC dies are coupled by their active sides and include arrangements of integrated circuitry that are mirror images of each other. The third and fourth IC dies are also coupled by their active sides and include arrangements of integrated circuitry that are mirror images of each other.
US11205636B2
A semiconductor package includes a redistribution structure, at least one semiconductor device, a heat dissipation component, and an encapsulating material. The at least one semiconductor device is disposed on and electrically connected to the redistribution structure. The heat dissipation component is disposed on the redistribution structure and includes a concave portion for receiving the at least one semiconductor device and an extending portion connected to the concave portion and contacting the redistribution structure, wherein the concave portion contacts the at least one semiconductor device. The encapsulating material is disposed over the redistribution structure, wherein the encapsulating material fills the concave portion and encapsulates the at least one semiconductor device.
US11205630B2
A composite integrated circuit (IC) device structure comprising a host chip and a chiplet. The host chip comprises a first device layer and a first metallization layer. The chiplet comprises a second device layer and a second metallization layer that is interconnected to transistors of the second device layer. A top metallization layer comprising a plurality of first level interconnect (FLI) interfaces is over the chiplet and host chip. The chiplet is embedded between a first region of the first device layer and the top metallization layer. The first region of the first device layer is interconnected to the top metallization layer by one or more conductive vias extending through the second device layer or adjacent to an edge sidewall of the chiplet.
US11205629B2
A package structure including a wiring substrate, conductive terminals, an insulating encapsulation, a redistribution circuit structure, guiding patterns and a semiconductor device. The conductive terminals are disposed on a surface of the wiring substrate. The insulating encapsulation laterally encapsulates the wiring substrate and the conductive terminals. The redistribution circuit structure is disposed on the insulating encapsulation and the conductive terminals, and the redistribution circuit structure is electrically connected to the wiring substrate through the conductive terminals. The guiding patterns are disposed between the wiring substrate and the redistribution circuit structure, and the guiding patterns are in contact with and encapsulated by the insulating encapsulation. The semiconductor device is disposed on a top surface of the redistribution circuit structure, and the semiconductor device is electrically connected to the wiring substrate through the redistribution circuit structure and the conductive terminals.
US11205628B2
A semiconductor device package and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The semiconductor device package includes a circuit structure. The circuit structure includes a dielectric layer and a bonding pad. The dielectric layer has a first dielectric surface and a second dielectric surface opposite to the first dielectric surface, where the dielectric layer defines a recess in the first dielectric surface, and the recess includes a sidewall. The bonding pad is disposed in the recess, where a first pad surface of the bonding pad is adjacent to the first dielectric surface, a second pad surface of the bonding pad is adjacent to the second dielectric surface, and an edge of the bonding pad is spaced from the sidewall of the recess by a first distance.
US11205622B2
To overcome the problem of devices in a multi-chip package (MCP) interfering with one another, such as through electromagnetic interference (EMI) and/or radio-frequency interference (RFI), the chip package can include an electrically conductive stiffener that at least partially electrically shields the devices from one another. At least some of the devices can be positioned in respective recesses in the stiffener. In some examples, when the devices are positioned in the recesses, at least one device does not extend beyond a plane defined by a first side of the stiffener. Such shielding can help reduce interference between the devices. Because device-to-device electrical interference can be reduced, devices on the package can be positioned closer to one another, thereby reducing a size of the package. The devices can electrically connect to a substrate via electrical connections that extend through the stiffener.
US11205620B2
An integrated circuit module, system and method of providing power and signals is disclosed that includes a silicon chip and a package substrate having voltage connections and signal connections. The silicon chip includes a silicon substrate having a top surface, a bottom surface and circuitry formed therein, one or more front-side metal layers formed on the top surface of the silicon substrate, one or more back-side metal layers formed on the bottom surface of the silicon substrate, and one or more through silicon vias (TSVs) formed through the silicon substrate for creating a conductive pathway from the back-side of the silicon substrate to the front-side of the silicon substrate, preferably closest to the silicon substrate.
US11205619B2
Embodiments of bonded semiconductor structures and fabrication methods thereof are disclosed. In an example, a semiconductor device includes a first and a second semiconductor structures. The first semiconductor structure includes a first interconnect layer including first interconnects. At least one first interconnect is a first dummy interconnect. The first semiconductor structure further includes a first bonding layer including first bonding contacts. Each first interconnect is in contact with a respective first bonding contact. The second semiconductor structure includes a second interconnect layer including second interconnects. At least one second interconnect is a second dummy interconnect. The second semiconductor structure further includes a second bonding layer including second bonding contacts. Each second interconnect is in contact with a respective second bonding contact. The semiconductor device further includes a bonding interface between the first and second bonding layers. Each first bonding contact is in contact with a respective second bonding contact at the bonding interface.
US11205618B2
Interconnect structures and method of forming the same are disclosed herein. An exemplary interconnect structure includes a first contact feature in a first dielectric layer, a second dielectric layer over the first dielectric layer, a third dielectric layer over the second dielectric layer, a second contact feature extending through the second dielectric layer and the third dielectric layer, and a graphene layer between the second contact feature and the third dielectric layer.
US11205612B2
In an embodiment, a package includes: an interposer having a first side; a first integrated circuit device attached to the first side of the interposer; a second integrated circuit device attached to the first side of the interposer; an underfill disposed beneath the first integrated circuit device and the second integrated circuit device; and an encapsulant disposed around the first integrated circuit device and the second integrated circuit device, a first portion of the encapsulant extending through the underfill, the first portion of the encapsulant physically disposed between the first integrated circuit device and the second integrated circuit device, the first portion of the encapsulant being planar with edges of the underfill and edges of the first and second integrated circuit devices.
US11205609B2
A semiconductor structure with an air gap includes a dielectric stack having a first dielectric layer on a substrate, a second dielectric layer on the first dielectric layer, and a third dielectric layer on the second dielectric layer. A first conductive layer and a second conductive layer are disposed in the dielectric stack. The first conductive layer and the second conductive layer are coplanar. A cross-like-shaped air gap is disposed in the dielectric stack between the first and second conductive layers. An oxide layer is disposed on a sidewall of the second dielectric layer within the cross-like-shaped air gap.
US11205607B2
A semiconductor structure and a method of manufacturing thereof are provided. The semiconductor includes a semiconductor integrated circuit device and a redistribution layer structure. The semiconductor integrated circuit device has a top surface and an electrode on the top surface. The redistribution layer structure is formed on the top surface. The redistribution layer structure includes an oxide layer, a nitride layer, a dielectric layer, a groove and a through via. The oxide layer and the nitride layer are formed on the top surface. The dielectric layer is formed on the nitride layer. The groove is formed at a topside of the dielectric layer and overlaps the electrode. The through via is formed at a bottom of the groove and extends within the electrode through the dielectric layer, the nitride layer and the oxide layer. The through via and the groove are filled with a conductive material.
US11205599B2
An evaluation method of a silicon epitaxial wafer, including using a photoluminescence (PL) measuring apparatus to measure a PL spectrum of the mirror wafer and adjusting the apparatus so emission intensity of a TO-line becomes 30000 to 50000 counts, irradiating the silicon epitaxial wafer with an electron beam, measuring PL spectrum from an electron beam irradiation region, and sorting out and accepting a silicon epitaxial wafer which has emission intensity resulting from a CiCs defect of the PL spectrum being 0.83% or less of the emission intensity of the TO-line and from a CiOi defect being 6.5% or less of the emission intensity of the TO-line.
US11205598B2
A chip includes a dielectric layer having a top surface and a bottom surface, a first semiconductor layer overlying and bonded to the top surface of the dielectric layer, and a first Metal Oxide-Semiconductor (MOS) transistor of a first conductivity type. The first MOS transistor includes a first gate dielectric overlying and contacting the first semiconductor layer, and a first gate electrode overlying the first gate dielectric. A second semiconductor layer is underlying and bonded to the bottom surface of the dielectric layer. A second MOS transistor of a second conductivity type opposite to the first conductivity type includes a second gate dielectric underlying and contacting the second semiconductor layer, and a second gate electrode underlying the second gate dielectric.
US11205597B2
A method includes forming a first fin extending from a substrate, forming a first gate stack over and along sidewalls of the first fin, forming a first spacer along a sidewall of the first gate stack, the first spacer including a first composition of silicon oxycarbide, forming a second spacer along a sidewall of the first spacer, the second spacer including a second composition of silicon oxycarbide, forming a third spacer along a sidewall of the second spacer, the third spacer including silicon nitride, and forming a first epitaxial source/drain region in the first fin and adjacent the third spacer.
US11205558B2
A sample exchange device includes a first transport mechanism that includes a grip portion that grips a sample holding member and transports a sample holding member to a sample exchange chamber, a cooling unit that cools the sample exchange chamber, fiber sensors that detect whether or not the grip portion of the first transport mechanism grips the sample holding member in the sample exchange chamber, and a control unit. The control unit turns on the fiber sensors when the grip portion of the first transport mechanism enters the sample exchange chamber and turns off the fiber sensors after it is detected whether or not the grip portion of the first transport mechanism grips the sample holding member.
US11205555B2
An electron emission element of the present invention includes a lower electrode, a surface electrode, and a silicone resin layer disposed between the lower electrode and the surface electrode, wherein the surface electrode includes a silver layer, and the silver layer is in contact with the silicone resin layer.
US11205553B2
Electrical switching device, including separable electrical contacts, a switching mechanism and a control lever. This switching mechanism is designed to move the separable contacts reversibly and selectively between a stable closed state and a stable open state. The control lever can be moved between a closing position and an opening position. The switching mechanism is configured to move the separable contacts from their closed state to their open state when the lever is moved from its closing position to its opening position, and to this end includes a spring which, between the closing position of the lever and a first intermediate position referred to as the “dead point”, exerts a force that opposes the movement of the lever and which, between the dead-point position and the opening position of the lever, exerts a force that drives the contacts towards the open position. The switching mechanism comprises a holding device which is configured to prevent the switching mechanism from moving the contacts towards their open position when the lever is moved from the closing position to the opening position and when the lever has not passed a second intermediate position located between the dead-point position and the opening position.
