US11240941B2
Autonomous vehicles are made by fitting sensors to non-autonomous vehicle platforms. A mounting structure to mount sensors to the vehicle is needed to provide sensor data about the environment of the vehicle. The mounting structure is sealed to prevent exterior environmental elements from harming the sensor hardware. Therefore, any heat generated from the sensors or equipment and/or exterior heat is sealed and trapped in the mounting structure. Thus, a way to cool the sensors is needed and to limit additions to the mounting structure is optimized by tapping into existing vehicle cooling systems to cool the sensors. Additionally, removal of the heated air by exhausting the air out from the mounting structure to aid in the cooling of the sensors is necessary.
US11240939B2
A heat dissipation control method includes determining a total power consumption of a heat generating component and a heat dissipating component, determining a heat dissipation parameter based on the total power consumption of the heat generating component and the heat dissipating component, and controlling an operating state of the heat dissipating component based on the heat dissipation parameter.
US11240935B2
A data center cooling system is operated in a first mode, has an indoor portion wherein heat is absorbed from components in the data center by a heat transfer fluid, and has an outdoor heat exchanger portion and a geothermal heat exchanger portion. The first mode includes ambient air cooling of the heat transfer fluid in the outdoor heat exchanger portion and/or geothermal cooling of the heat transfer fluid in the geothermal heat exchanger portion. Based on an appropriate metric, a determination is made that a switch should be made from the first mode to a second, different, mode; and, responsive thereto, the data center cooling system is switched to the second mode. The second mode includes at least another of ambient air cooling of the heat transfer fluid in the outdoor heat exchanger portion and geothermal cooling of the heat transfer fluid in the geothermal heat exchanger portion.
US11240929B2
The invention is concerned with an inhibitor module arrangement, a shielding arrangement comprising an inhibitor module and a converter station comprising a converter and a shielding arrangement. The inhibitor module arrangement comprises a first string, a second string, and at least one first inhibitor module (30), where the first string comprises resistors (R1), the second string comprises capacitors (C1, C2, C3), the first string is physically separated from and electrically connected in parallel with the second string and the at least one first inhibitor module (30) comprises a first electrical connection terminal (32) at a first end for connection to a piece of high voltage equipment, a second electric connection terminal (34) at a second end for connection to a first shield element for this piece and a closed interior comprising at least one of the strings electrically connected between the first and the second electrical connection terminals (32, 34).
US11240927B2
A cover window includes a window member and a protective member. The window member includes a light transmitting area and a light shielding area. The protective member is disposed on a surface of the window member and includes an incision pattern. The light shielding area includes a trench portion extending concavely toward the light transmitting area. The protective member overlaps the trench portion in a thickness direction.
US11240921B2
Various embodiments of the disclosure relate to a display device and an electronic device including the same, and for example, to a display device with a filler flow restricting structure for preventing and/or reducing part of a filler from projecting to the outside of the display device in the process of manufacturing the display device and an electronic device including the same. According to an embodiment, a display device comprises a window, a first substrate spaced apart from the window member to define a space, an optical adhesive disposed between the window and the first substrate and configured to attach the window with the first substrate, and a filler flow restricting structure disposed in the space between the window member and the first substrate and formed in a specified area of the first substrate.
US11240920B2
A foldable display device is discussed, which is to be switched between a folded state and an unfolded state, the foldable display device including adjustable support units to support a display panel of the foldable display device together with an inner surface of set frames in the unfolded state, the adjustable support units being connected to a hinge unit to enable the adjustable support units to retreat to the inner surface of the set frames in the folded state. In the unfolded state, the adjustable support units and the set frames support the entire area of the display panel to be flat to reduce damage of the display panel.
US11240919B2
A connecting device includes a first flexible printed circuit including a bonding end in which a plurality of connecting pads are provided, a first base portion, a junction portion extending between the bonding end and the first base portion, and a plurality of traces extending from the first base portion to the bonding end, a first connector that is mounted on the first base portion, a second flexible printed circuit including a bonding end in which a plurality of connecting pads are provided, a second base portion, a junction portion extending between the bonding end and the second base portion, and a plurality of traces extending from the second base portion to the bonding end, and a second connector that is mounted on the second base portion. The first connector and the second connector are disposed side by side in a same plane.
US11240904B2
Provided is an apparatus for and method of controlling formation of droplets (102a, b) used to generate EUV radiation that comprise an arrangement producing a laser beam directed to an irradiation region and a droplet source. The droplet source (92) includes a fluid exiting an nozzle (98) and a sub-system having an electro-actuatable element (104) producing a disturbance in the fluid (96). The droplet source produces a stream (100) that breaks down into droplets that in turn coalesce into larger droplets as they progress towards the irradiation region. The electro-actuatable element is driven by a hybrid waveform that controls the droplet generation/coalescence process. Also disclosed is a method of determining the transfer function for the nozzle.
US11240895B2
A device includes an analog current division circuit configured to divide an input current into a first current and a second current, and a multiplexer array including a plurality of switches to provide the first current to a first of three colors of LEDs and the second current to a second of three colors of LEDs simultaneously during a first portion of a period, the first current to the second of three colors of LEDs and the second current to a third of three colors of LEDs simultaneously during a second portion of the period, and the first current to the first of three colors of LEDs and the second current to the third of three colors of LEDs simultaneously during a third portion of the period.
US11240890B2
In one embodiment, a method comprising: (a) receiving a set of physiological data associated with at least one health condition of an animal subject; (b) receiving a set of environmental data associated with one or more environment conditions to which the subject is or has been exposed; (c) determining a set of operating parameters for at least one environmental device based at least partially on at least a portion of the set of physiological data and at least a portion of the set of environmental data; and (d) transmitting the set of operating parameters to the at least one environmental device to at least partially control at least one controlled environmental condition to which the subject is exposed to thereby at partially control the at least one health condition.
US11240887B2
A control device for power delivered to electrical loads in a load control system via respective load control devices may comprise a programming user interface for programming the operation of the load control system. The control device may be configured to select one or more load control devices in response to successive actuations of a programming button of the programming interface. The control device may be configured to controllably illuminate visual indicators of the programming interface to indicate which of the load control devices is selected in response to successive actuations of the programming button. The control device may transmit programming information to the load control devices. The programming information may determine which of the load control devices are responsive to a digital message transmitted on the digital communication link.
US11240881B2
A method of adjusting a watt density distribution of a resistive heater includes designing a baseline heater circuit. A detection circuit is designed having a constant trace watt density and the detection circuit overlaps the baseline heater circuit. The detection circuit is manufactured, and its baseline thermal map is obtained. The baseline heater circuit is manufactured, and a nominal thermal map is obtained. A subsequent detection circuit is manufactured, and an actual thermal map is obtained. A subtraction thermal image is created by subtracting the baseline thermal map from the actual thermal map, and a subsequent baseline heater circuit is modified according to the subtraction thermal image.
US11240874B2
A data transmission method includes: receiving a first indication message from a base station, the first indication message including first information indicating a PDCP packet duplication function and at least two transmission entities configured for a radio bearer (RB) by the base station; setting a transmission function corresponding to the RB as the PDCP packet duplication function according to the first indication message; setting a transmission entity corresponding to the RB according to the at least two transmission entities indicated in the first indication message; setting a present state of the PDCP packet duplication function, the present state including an active state and an inactive state; and performing data transmission according to the present state and the transmission entity.
US11240872B2
Systems and techniques facilitating resource frequency management are provided. An apparatus comprises: a processor; and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations. The operations comprise: receiving information indicative of an emergency condition in a defined area; and transmitting a command to a network device for the defined area to cause the base station device to send a communication for the emergency condition via a first wireless communication channel with a mobile device of mobile devices associated with a subscriber identity of respective subscriber identities assigned to provide a response to the emergency condition.
US11240871B2
This document describes techniques and apparatuses for releasing information to improve cell selection in different resource control states. To improve communication performance, a user equipment (UE) 110 releases dedicated cell-selection information 306, which may not be appropriate as the UE 110 moves to different geographical locations and transitions to different resource control states 218. Different situations cause the UE 110 to release the dedicated cell-selection information 306, including performing a cell-selection procedure in an inactive state that selects another cell that does not support the inactive state, processing a paging message 308, or transitioning from the inactive state to an idle state. By releasing the dedicated cell-selection information 306, the UE 110 performs a future cell-selection procedure without relying on the dedicated cell-selection information. As a result, the UE 110 can select an optimal cell for achieving a target communication performance in different resource control states 218.
US11240861B2
A method for activating bearers in radio access networks includes receiving information regarding channel conditions for a secondary RAT; identifying a first set of radio bearers for a primary RAT and a second set of radio bearers for the secondary RAT based on the received channel conditions; and establishing the first set of radio bearers associated with the primary RAT. The method may also include providing a message to a core network indicating that first set of radio bearers have been established for the primary RAT, the message includes an indication that the second set of radio bearers will be established after the core network has been configured for operation with the first set of radio bearers; reconfiguring a UE for establishing the second set of radio bearers associated with the secondary RAT; and indicating that the reconfiguration of the UE for the second set of radio bearers is complete.
US11240860B2
During a setup phase, a computing device determines a map of an area including one or more regions. Signals are received from a plurality of ultra-wideband (UWB) nodes and a plurality of Bluetooth Low energy (BLE) nodes in the area, relayed through one or more agents at one or more positions of the area. A precision map is created based on a correlation between the received signals from the UWB nodes and the received signals from the BLE nodes. Locations to place the plurality of BLE nodes are identified based on the precision map.
US11240859B2
A method and apparatus for multiple radio access technology (multi-RAT) access mode operation for a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) are disclosed. A WTRU and a network may enable a multi-RAT access mode of operation based on at least one of WTRU subscription, a service agreement of the WTRU, a roaming status of the WTRU, a selected access point name (APN), an Internet protocol (IP) flow class, a subscriber profile identity for the WTRU, requested quality of service, or a proximity indication indicating proximity to a cell supporting multi-RAT access mode. The WTRU may send a capability indication of support of multi-RAT access to a network, wherein the multi-RAT access mode is enabled based on the capability indication. A partial handover of bearers may be performed. In performing the handover, the target cell is determined based on a priority rule.
US11240853B2
A method and system for virtualizing mobile device sensors includes requesting from a first mobile device a virtual connection with a mobile device having a specific type of sensor, configuring an operating system of the first mobile device to allow an application program to accept data by proxy from the available sensor of the second mobile device; receiving a response from a second mobile device having the sensor, establishing a trusted temporary communication connection between the first and second mobile devices, sending a control signal from an application program on the first mobile device to the second mobile for operating the sensor on the second mobile device and receiving device sensor data from the sensor on the second mobile device.
US11240852B2
Disclosed herein is a network apparatus for designing collision avoidance and a method for controlling the same. The network apparatus for designing collision avoidance includes a plurality of controllers, and a main controller configured to generate a plurality of transmission schedule tables on the basis of transmission data for the plurality of controllers, perform real-time monitoring, and select and change one of the plurality of the transmission schedule tables for collision avoidance.
US11240838B2
The present invention relates to a method for performing uplink transmissions by a transmission end in a wireless communication system. In particular, the method includes the steps of: receiving a dynamic uplink grant for a HARQ process from a reception end; and performing an uplink transmission scheduled by the dynamic uplink grant, wherein at least one uplink transmission on at least one configured uplink grant for the HARQ process after receiving the dynamic uplink grant before performing the uplink transmission scheduled by the dynamic uplink grant is skipped.
US11240835B2
A method for scheduling a downlink transmission is provided. The method includes receiving, by a user equipment (UE), downlink control information (DCI) from a base station, the DCI indicating a location of a transmission duration within a subframe, the location of the transmission duration including a start position of the transmission duration and a length of the transmission duration, the length of the transmission duration being 2, 4, or 7 symbols. The method further includes receiving downlink data from the base station, the downlink data carried by the transmission duration at the location indicated by the DCI.
US11240830B2
Methods, devices, and computer program products concerning accommodating ultra-reliable low latency communications (URLLC) traffic by making a determination of which mobile broadband (MBB) user equipment (UE) to puncture, where in response to an indication that URLLC traffic needs to be scheduled in the midst of ongoing MBB transmissions in a wireless communications network, the determination is made from a plurality of MBB UEs with the ongoing MBB transmissions, of a set of the plurality scheduled for transmission in a slot required by the URLLC traffic. From that set of MBB UEs, a subset of MBB UEs for puncturing is chosen, where that choice is made at least in relation to accommodating a reliability constraint of the URLLC traffic, maximizing a sum proportional fairness metric of the plurality of MBB UEs, and minimizing a block error rate in a computation of a proportional fairness metric for each UE of the subset.
US11240829B2
A method for Scheduling Request (SR) resource prioritization for Beam Failure Recovery (BFR) includes a User Equipment (UE) receiving a first SR configuration from a Base Station (BS), receiving a second SR configuration from the BS, triggering a first SR procedure for a BFR procedure based on the first SR configuration, triggering a second SR procedure for a Buffer Status Report (BSR) procedure based on the second SR configuration, in a case that the first SR procedure and the second SR procedure are triggered and not cancelled and the first SR resource overlaps the second SR resource in the time domain, prioritizing the first SR resource over the second SR resource, and transmitting an SR on the first SR resource after prioritizing the first SR resource over the second SR resource.
US11240828B2
Embodiments include methods, in a base station operating in a wireless communications network, for over-the-air synchronization with a cell served by a further base station. Such methods include receiving time synchronization information and muting availability information associated with a plurality of further base stations serving a plurality of cells. Such methods also include determining that a cell served by a first further base station is a preferred synchronization source cell for the base station, and sending, to one or more second further base stations, respective requests to activate muting in one or more of the cells served by the second further base stations. Embodiments include complementary methods performed by a further base station, and base stations configured to perform operations corresponding to the exemplary methods.
US11240827B2
Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for to managing use of a satellite positions system (SPS) receiver in conjunction with one or more radio access technology (RAT) transmitters. In certain embodiments, a controller can be used to prioritize reception by the SPS receiver over transmission by the one or more RAT transmitters.
US11240816B2
A method of buffering application data operable at a delivery control server is provided. Related systems and computer program products are also provided.
US11240815B2
A device may receive a request, from a user equipment (UE), to connect to a network. The device may receive antenna information indicating that the UE has a single antenna, and the device may receive device type information indicating a device type of the UE or network resource requirements associated with the UE. The device may obtain network policy information, relating to the UE, based on the antenna information and/or the device type information. The network policy information may indicate one or more policy rules associated with allocating network resources. The device may determine a quantity of network resources to allocate based on the network policy information, and the device may allocate the quantity of network resources for the UE.
US11240814B2
Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to methods and/or apparatuses involving stations (102, 104, 105) participating in wireless station-to-station communications in which each of a plurality of stations shares a wireless communications channel (101). Information is collected wirelessly (102) from transmissions associated with a first communication protocol and from transmissions associated with a second communication protocol. A current communication environment is dynamically discerned therefrom (102), and used to characterize a dynamic relationship of the collected information, which is indicative of respective usage of the wireless communication channel by data transmitted via the respective protocols. Usage of the channel is allocated (102) for respective communications that use the first and second communication protocols based on the dynamic relationship. Sets of data (110, 111, 120, 121, 122) are wirelessly transmitted via the first and second communication protocols over the channel, based on the allocated usage.
US11240810B2
A method of operating a terminal is provided. The method includes: selecting a first pattern as a pattern of a reception beam; searching for cells in the wireless communication system using the reception beam of the first pattern; determining a first candidate group including at least one candidate for a beam pattern pair with the first pattern of the reception beam, wherein each of the at least one candidate corresponds to a transmission beam pattern and a cell; determining whether to decode a physical broadcast channel received from a first candidate of the first candidate group; decoding the PBCH based on the determining; and selecting one of the transmission beam patterns for the beam pattern pair with the first pattern of the reception beam from the first candidate group based on the decoding.
US11240809B2
A method and apparatus are disclosed from the perspective of a UE (User Equipment). In one embodiment, the method includes the UE receiving an SCell activation/deactivation MAC (Medium Access Control) control element to activate the SCell. The method further includes the UE activates the SCell based on the SCell activation/deactivation MAC control element. The method also includes the UE receiving a beam indication by a MAC control element via the PCell, wherein the beam indication includes a cell index and the beam indication is used to derive at least one beam to be used in the SCell. In addition, the method includes the UE using the at least one beam for a DL (Downlink) transmission or an UL (Uplink) transmission in the SCell.
US11240798B2
A transmission control method includes generating, by a first device, transmission control information, and sending the transmission control information to the second device. The transmission control information includes resource indication information, compression indication, and first indication. The resource indication information indicates a transmission resource allocated by the first device to a second device. The transmission resource includes at least two symbols. The compression indication indicates a numerology of a specific symbol in the transmission resource. The specific symbol includes at least an end symbol or a second symbol. The end symbol is the last symbol in the transmission resource. The second symbol is a symbol in the transmission resource and is used for transmitting only a demodulation reference signal or a long training field. The second symbol includes at least one symbol. The first indication indicates a numerology of a symbol in the transmission resource other than the specific symbol.
US11240797B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. The present application discloses a method for generating a preamble, comprising the following steps of: receiving dedicated preamble configuration information and random access preamble configuration information, wherein the dedicated preamble configuration information comprises root sequence configuration information and/or cyclic shift value configuration information; determining dedicated root sequence configuration information, dedicated cyclic shift value configuration information and dedicated preamble index according to the dedicated preamble configuration information and random access preamble configuration information.
US11240789B2
Methods and apparatus are provided for a base station to enable a user equipment (UE) configured for operation with carrier aggregation over a number of cells to determine cells and transmission time intervals (TTIs) where the base station transmits data information to the UE and for the UE to determine and arrange corresponding acknowledgement information in a codeword.
US11240788B2
According to the present invention, UL control information can be reported properly in future radio communication systems. According to one aspect of the present invention, a user terminal has a transmission section that transmits a UL signal, including UL control information and/or a scheduling request, and a generation section that generates the UL signal, and when reporting the UL control information, the generation section generates the UL signal by using code resources associated with values of the UL control information and the presence/absence of a scheduling request, and, when not reporting the UL control information but reporting the scheduling request, the generation section generates the UL signal by using a specific code resource.
US11240783B2
The present invention provides a V2X operation method implemented by a V2X (vehicle-to-X) terminal in a wireless communication system, the method characterized by: if a V2X transmission operation and a wide area network (WAN) transmission operation overlap in a time domain, determining whether or not the V2X transmission operation and the WAN transmission operation are performed on a same carrier; and performing the V2X transmission operation on the basis of the determination, wherein, if the V2X transmission operation and the WAN transmission operation are performed on different carriers, the V2X transmission operation is performed on the basis of a transmission power applied to the V2X transmission operation or, if the V2X transmission operation and the WAN transmission operation are performed on the same carrier, the V2X transmission operation is performed on the basis of a priority applied to the V2X transmission operation.
US11240781B2
A communication method, a terminal device, and an access network device are provided. The method includes: the terminal device receives a first message sent by an access network device; and the terminal device determines a paging type according to the first message. The terminal device includes an input interface and a processor, wherein the input interface is used for receiving a first message sent by an access network device; and the processor is used for determining a paging type according to the first message.
US11240780B2
Wireless communications for paging assistance are described. Paging assistance information may comprise one or more beam parameters to provide beam-based paging for a wireless device. One or more devices may use beam-based paging to reduce usage of wireless resources.
US11240778B2
Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a network node performs one or more positioning measurements of one or more types of positioning measurements of one or more reference signals, and reports, to a positioning entity, the one or more positioning measurements and one or more measurement quality values representing a measurement quality of the one or more positioning measurements, the one or more measurement quality values based on measurement quality reporting parameters, wherein the measurement quality reporting parameters comprise a minimum error value, a maximum error value, a number of bits used for the one or more measurement quality values, a scaling function or an identifier of the scaling function, or any combination thereof.
US11240773B2
A method includes receiving a current velocity and a current position of a mobile node relative to a fixed node. The method also includes identifying a receive time slot for the fixed node to receive a transmission of a data packet from the mobile node and determining a propagation delay for the data packet between the mobile node and the fixed node based on the current position of the mobile node. The method includes determining a transmission time based on the receive time slot and the propagation delay and determining a Doppler shift based on the current velocity of the mobile node. The method includes determining a transmission frequency based on the Doppler shift and a clock rate correction. The method also includes transmitting the data packet to the fixed node at the determined transmission time using the determined transmission frequency compensated by the determined clock rate correction.
US11240770B2
A terminal is disclosed including a receiver that measures a first received power in a first resource of a synchronization signal per synchronization signal block index in a cell, and measures a second received power in a second resource; and a processor that derives a measurement result based on a ratio of the first received power to the second received power per the synchronization signal block index. In other aspects, a radio communication method for a terminal is also disclosed.
US11240766B2
Wireless communications systems and methods related to mitigating maximum permissible exposure (MPE) constraints based on user equipment (UE) feedback are provided. A first wireless communication device transmits, to a second wireless communication device, a plurality of reports, each report indicating an allowable transmission power level at the first wireless communication device satisfying an MPE parameter. The first wireless communication device receives, from the second wireless communication device, a first configuration based on an MPE profile associated with the first wireless communication device in response to the plurality of reports. The first wireless communication device transmits, to the second wireless communication device, a first communication signal over a first beam based on the first configuration.
US11240764B2
A method for improving performance of an uplink non-orthogonal multiple access system under imperfect received user power control. The method is based on a plurality of user-specific transmitter filters assigned to a plurality of users. At a transmitter of each user, a signal to be transmitted according to the uplink non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) method is filtered by a unique filter assigned to a corresponding user, and then a baseband-to-RF processing is performed onto a symbol sequence to generate a transmitted signal. Each user transmits their respective signal using a same time-frequency resource, and receiver receives a superimposed signal which is transmitted through a plurality of respective uplink channels under imperfect received power control. An RF-to-baseband conversion is applied onto a received superimposed signal. Then, a receiver signal detection module; including an interference-cancellation multi-user detector detects each user data using knowledge of a plurality of transmitter filters of each user.
US11240761B2
A method for power control for uplink transmission is provided. In an embodiment, a method in a user equipment (UE) for reference signal (RS) relationship specific uplink (UL) transmission power control includes transmitting, by the UE, a first UL signal according to a first power control set including at least one of a first target power, a second target power, a DL reference signal (RS) for pathloss estimation, a pathloss compensation factor, and a transmit power command (TPC). The first power control set is determined according to a first RS relationship between one first RS and a first UL signal.
US11240757B2
The present disclosure discloses an electronic device, including: an electronic device body, with a display screen disposed on one side of the electronic device body, the electronic device body including at least one folding area and a non-folding area, and the electronic device body and the display screen being foldable along the folding area; a folding detection apparatus, disposed on the electronic device body and configured to detect a degree of folding of the electronic device body and send the detected signal to a processor of the electronic device body, the processor being capable of adjusting a display state of the display screen according to the signal detected by the folding detection apparatus.
US11240750B2
A radio transmission apparatus (1) includes a first radio communication unit (2A) for performing radio communication in accordance with a predetermined radio communication scheme, a second radio communication unit (2B) for performing radio communication by LPWA (Low Power Wide Area) communication, a control unit (3) for controlling a predetermined device provided in a station accommodating the radio transmission apparatus (1) or the radio transmission apparatus (1) based on a signal received by the second radio communication unit (2B), a power supply unit (4) for supplying power to the first radio communication unit (2A), the second radio communication unit (2B), and the control unit (3), and a storage battery (5) for supplying power to the second radio communication unit (2B) and the control unit (3) when an abnormality occurs in the power supply unit (4).
US11240748B1
A wireless communication network delivers multi-frequency service to User Equipment (UE). A primary node receives signaling from the UE that indicates secondary nodes along with their frequencies and signal strengths. The primary node selects candidate nodes based on the signal strengths for the secondary nodes. The primary node determines potential intermodulation interference between the primary frequency and the frequencies for the candidate set. The primary node selects a qualifying set from the candidate set based on the potential intermodulation interference. The primary node determines communication performance for the qualifying set and selects a serving set from the qualifying set based on the communication performance. The primary node wirelessly transfers signaling to the UE identifying the serving set and transfers signaling to the serving set identifying the UE. The serving set of secondary access nodes wirelessly transfer user data to the UE over their frequencies responsive to the signaling.
US11240742B2
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. A cell selection/re-selection method and an apparatus adapted thereto is provided. The cell selection method of a terminal includes: receiving, from a base station, first maximum power information, PEMAX1 and second maximum power information, PEMAX2, related to maximum transmission power levels of the terminal on the uplink; calculating a compensation parameter, Pcompensation, related to uplink transmission power of the terminal, using the first maximum power information and the second maximum power information; calculating a cell selection reception level value, Srxlev, using the compensation parameter; and selecting a cell based on the calculated cell selection reception level value.
US11240732B2
A method for managing a mobile node of an SDN controller according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes receiving a router solicitation message of a mobile node transmitted through a first AP operated by the SDN controller.
US11240727B2
The disclosure provides an improved method of operating a mobile terminal or user equipment in a cellular telecommunications network to efficiently discover preferred cells, in particular a HeNB, prior to connecting. Whilst constant searching for a preferred cell can ensure it is found as soon as it is within range, this has a significant impact on resources at the UE, such as battery power, and can disrupt any existing services that might be running. The proposed method determines the probability of the UE being within range of a preferred cell based on measurements already available to the UE or by the network. Additional measurements can then be made as required, and made with increasing frequency as the probability of being within range of the preferred cell increases.
US11240724B2
A method for a handover of a mobile station performed by a source base station and a target base station. The target base station receives a handover request message, from the source base station, in which includes QoS information of the mobile device, radio bearer identifier information of the source base station, and a first mapping relationship between a flow and a radio bearer of the source base station, the target base station acknowledges with a handover acknowledgement message. Therefore resource preparation at the target base station during a handover procedure is improved.
US11240717B2
The disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system is provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). The disclosure provides a method and apparatus for effectively performing cell reselection in a wireless communication system. The disclosure relates to an operation method for a terminal in a wireless communication system, and the method includes determining to initiate a cell reselection in a radio resource control inactive state (RRC_Inactive state), discovering for a first cell that satisfies a first condition and a second condition, among a plurality of neighboring cells, if the first cell is discovered, camping on the first cell, and if the first cell is not discovered, camping on a second cell that satisfies the first condition and does not satisfy the second condition, among the plurality of neighboring cells, wherein the terminal is in the RRC_Inactive state.
US11240715B1
A method and system for controlling configuration of dual connectivity of a UE in a system where the UE is served by a first access node over a first air-interface connection and in which configuring the dual connectivity includes adding for the UE a second air-interface connection with a second access node to facilitate concurrent service of the UE by the first access node over the first connection and the second access node over the second connection. An example method includes determining whether both (i) the second access node is threshold highly loaded and (ii) the UE is likely to engage in a threshold high extent of data communication when served by the second access node. And the example method includes, responsive to the determination being affirmative, forgoing from adding for the UE the second air-interface connection between the UE and the second access node.
US11240711B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a policy control method and system, a network element, and a storage medium. A control plane network element establishes, for UE, a first DN connection that uses a first forwarding plane network element as an anchor. The method includes: when the control plane network element receives a handover notification message for the UE and determines that a second forwarding plane network element serves the UE, or when the control plane network element establishes, for the UE, a second DN connection that uses a second forwarding plane network element as an anchor, the control plane network element updates a forwarding path of the first DN connection, so that an updated forwarding path of the first DN connection passes through the second forwarding plane network element, and the second forwarding plane network element performs policy control on a packet on the first DN connection.
US11240707B2
The disclosure includes embodiments for providing adaptive vehicle ID generation. A method includes determining a set of channel loads for a V2X network. The method includes analyzing the set of channel loads to determine if a threshold is satisfied by broadcasting a V2X message including a standard vehicle identifier. Satisfying the threshold is indicative of a channel congestion. The method includes activating a digital switching decision that switches the connected vehicle from broadcasting the standard vehicle identifier to broadcasting a compressed vehicle identifier. The method includes inputting vehicle feature data describing the connected vehicle to a compression module. The compression module analyzes the vehicle feature data and outputs compressed vehicle identifier data describing the compressed vehicle identifier so that the compressed vehicle identifier is determined independently of the standard vehicle identifier. The method includes broadcasting a V2X message including the compressed vehicle identifier data which identifies the connected vehicle.
US11240706B2
Methods and techniques are described for limiting a size of LTE Positioning Protocol (LPP) messages in a location session between a user equipment and location server. In one embodiment, a first device sends a first LPP message to a second device, indicating that the first device is capable of receiving segmented LPP messages. Subsequently, the first device receives a plurality of LPP message segments from the second device comprising one or more non-final LPP message segments and a final LPP message segment, where each LPP message segment includes a “non-final” or “final” indication. The first device stores the non-final LPP message segments and processes the LPP message segments after receiving the final LPP message segment. Prior to sending the first LPP message, the first device may receive an LPP message from the second device indicating the second device is capable of sending segmented LPP messages.
US11240705B2
Provided is a wireless communication terminal that communicates wirelessly. The terminal includes: a transceiver; and a processor. The processor is configured to transmit first information on a fragmentation level to be used for data to be transmitted to a recipient by using the transceiver in an add Block ACK (ADDBA) setup procedure.
US11240695B2
The present invention efficiently performs communication. Included are a transmitter configured to transmit a measurement report including a measurement result for a serving cell c and/or a PUSCH for the serving cell c, wherein in a case that the number of SS blocks and/or CSI-RSs used for the RSRP measurement is greater than one for the serving cell c, the measurement result of RSRP included in the measurement report and the RSRP used for evaluation of a path loss for transmit power of the PUSCH are calculated separately.
US11240689B1
The described technology is generally directed towards automated cell parameter updates in cellular networks. A network automation platform architecture is disclosed which includes elements configured to automatically analyze, recalculate, and deploy cell parameters such as PCI and RSI parameters, for cells of a cellular communication network.
US11240683B2
Personal adaptive radio access network advanced capabilities are provided. A device can include a transceiver; a processor; and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations comprising facilitating movement of the device from a first position associated with a user equipment (UE) to a second position in response to an observed signal strength at the UE from a communication network being determined to have fallen below a threshold; in response to facilitating the movement of the device, determining a first communication frequency for communications between the device and the UE based on features determined to be present in an environment associated with the UE; and conveying signals transmitted by the communication network to the UE via the transceiver at the first communication frequency instead of a second communication frequency used by the communication network.
US11240675B2
A method is provided. The method comprises receiving design criteria for a fixed microwave network; identifying proximate interfering signals; determining whether interference levels satisfy design criteria of the fixed microwave network; and if the interference levels do not satisfy the design criteria, then optimize operating parameters of radio systems of the fixed microwave network.
US11240674B2
In an embodiment, a method, implemented in a User Equipment (UE) operating in Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN) New Radio-Dual Connectivity (EN-DC), of adding a New Radio (NR) Secondary Node (SN) in EN-DC is disclosed. The method includes receiving, in response to a measurement report sent by the UE, configuration data associated with an NR cell. The method includes, ascertaining whether the configuration data comprises a pre-determined parameter indicative of a frequency-shift for dynamic spectrum sharing for an uplink. The method includes performing one of an addition of an NR SN corresponding to the NR cell or a transmission of a failure notification message to the MN, based upon determining that the pre-determined parameter indicative of the frequency-shift criteria for dynamic spectrum sharing for the uplink is absent or present in the configuration data.
US11240672B2
Various embodiments disclosed herein enable performing energy detection on a subset of a channel. In various embodiments, a method of performing energy detection is performed by a computing device. In various embodiments, the computing device includes a wireless transceiver, one or more processors, and a non-transitory memory. In various embodiments, the method includes performing energy detection on one or more overlapping portions of a first channel and a second channel. In some embodiments, the method includes determining whether a detected energy level from the energy detection satisfies a threshold. In some embodiments, the method includes transmitting a signal into the first channel based on the threshold being satisfied.
US11240669B2
A wireless mouse includes a mouse body and a wireless receiver. The wireless receiver is connected with a computer host. When the mouse body is operated by a user, an original information is generated. The original information is encrypted and converted into an encryption information by the mouse body. The wireless receiver receives the encryption information from the mouse body. After the encryption information is received by the wireless receiver, the encryption information is decrypted by the wireless receiver. Consequently, the encryption information is restored into the original information. After the computer host receives the original information through the wireless receiver, the computer host performs a corresponding operation.
US11240665B2
The present invention provides a method of how the serving base station notifies UE of the encryption information used in the re-establishment process, how the serving base station finds the UE context information and authenticates the UE, in the 5G architecture. By means of the method of the present invention, the message between the RRC message and the base station can be optimized, the UE is correctly authenticated, and the re-establishment failure is avoided.
US11240647B2
Current approaches to vehicular services lack capabilities and efficiencies. As described herein, various embodiments improve how information is shared among road side units, vehicles, road side unit repositories, and pedestrians. Further, new information is defined to enhance vehicular capabilities.
US11240636B1
Systems and methods for accurately and securely assembling, storing, and leveraging travel data are provided. A method may include detecting a travel event of a user. The method may include recording the travel event in a travel map that is stored in a database. The travel map may be a temporal- and spatial-based record of one or more travel events of the user. The travel map may be stored as a blockchain ledger. The method may include tokenizing sensitive information associated with the user in the database, and calculating a hazard vector. The method may include updating, based at least in part on the hazard vector, a status index associated with the user, and providing the user and a system administrator access to the travel map and the status index. Access may be provided via an online portal configured to be viewed via an application running on a mobile device.
US11240635B1
In an example, the present technique includes a method for capturing information from a spatial region to monitor human activities and create a spatial map of the spatial region. In an example, the technique allows a user of a cell phone to move from one location to another location and be tracked using rf backscattering, and each location being identified by the user by communicating a label via a cell phone or other mobile device.
US11240634B1
Systems and methods for executing a secured media transfer session between mobile computing devices during image capture. The system receives a request to initiate a secure media session, determines a first geospatial location of a first mobile computing device, determines a second geospatial location of a second mobile computing device, and determines whether the second mobile computing device is within a proximity of the first mobile computing device. In response to determining that the second mobile computing device is within the proximity of the first mobile computing device, the system initiates a secure media session between the first and second mobile computing device, captures the media content during the initiated secure media session, associates a secure ID with the captured media content and transmits the captured media content and associated secured ID to a first memory location at a third computing device.
US11240622B2
A dual source spatialized audio system includes a general audio system and a personal audio system. The general system includes a general audio processor and general speakers to produce general sound. The personal system includes a frame to be worn on a head of a user and a plurality of personal speakers attached to the frame. The personal system also includes a head pose sensor to collect head pose data of the user. The personal system further includes a head pose processor to determine a head pose of the user from the head pose data. Moreover, the personal system includes a personal audio processor to generate personal audio data based on the head pose of the user. The personal speakers generate personal sound corresponding to the personal audio data. The personal processor receives timing information/metadata from the general audio processor to synchronize the personal sound with the general sound.
US11240621B2
A specification of a mesh of filters may be defined on a grid in a three-dimensional space presented in a user interface. A plurality of sound tracks may be determined, wherein each of the sound tracks is associated with a corresponding sound source that may be represented in the three-dimensional space along with a listener. Responsive to user configuration of a position of the listener and/or positions of the sound sources in the three-dimensional space, a plurality of filters may be selected based on the mesh of filters and the positions of the sound sources and the listener in the three-dimensional space. Each of the filters may be applied to a corresponding one of the plurality of sound tracks to generate a plurality of filtered sound tracks and the three-dimensional sound may be generated based on the plurality of filtered sound tracks.
US11240616B2
The present invention pertains to a method for adjusting a hearing device to personal preferences and needs of a user. The proposed method comprises providing initial settings and target settings for signal processing parameters of the hearing device, the user operating the user control element to provide an input for adjusting the current settings so as to meet the personal preferences and needs of the user, adjusting the current settings based on the initial settings and the target settings in dependence of the input to provide adjusted settings for the signal processing parameters. Thereby the user control element is located at the hearing device and/or a hearing device accessory such as a smartphone or tablet. Moreover, the present invention provides a system structured and configured to carry out the proposed method.
US11240607B2
An optical microphone assembly comprises a rigid substrate; an interferometric arrangement, a light source, at least one photo detector and an enclosure. The interferometric arrangement comprises a membrane and at least one optical element spaced from the membrane, wherein the at least one optical element comprises a surface of the substrate and/or is disposed on a surface of the substrate. The light source is arranged to provide light to the interferometric arrangement such that a first portion of the light propagates along a first optical path via the interferometric arrangement and a second portion of the light propagates along a second different optical path via the interferometric arrangement, thereby giving rise to an optical path difference between the first and second optical paths which depends on a distance between the membrane and the optical element. The photo detector(s) are arranged to detect at least part of an interference pattern generated by said first and second portions of light dependent on said optical path difference. The enclosure is arranged to form an acoustic cavity in fluid communication with one side of the membrane. The volume of the acoustic cavity is at least 3 mm multiplied by d2, where d is a diameter of the membrane.
US11240606B2
Systems and methods of audio processing and control for improved audibility and performance in a parametric loudspeaker system. The parametric loudspeaker system includes a parametric loudspeaker providing a capacitive load, an output stage having a plurality of switches interconnected in a bridge configuration and connected to the capacitive load of the parametric loudspeaker, and a controller operative to generate a series of pulse width modulation (PWM) pulses, and to generate a plurality of control signals synchronized with the series of PWM pulses for switchingly controlling the plurality of switches in the bridge configuration, thereby driving the capacitive load of the parametric loudspeaker.
US11240603B2
A speaker apparatus includes a measuring unit configured to measure a first distance to a detection object, the detection object existing on one side in a vertical direction substantially orthogonal to a sound radiation direction, and a second distance to a detection object, the detection object existing on another side in the vertical direction.
US11240594B1
A loudspeaker is provided that includes an outer tubular section, an inner tubular section at least partially disposed within the outer tubular section, a driver disposed in the inner tubular section, a sound deflector disposed at a first end of the outer tubular section, and a void defined collectively by a space between a first end of the inner tubular section within the outer tubular section and the sound deflector, and a space between an outer portion of the inner tubular section and an inner portion of the outer tubular section. The sound produced by the driver passes through the void via the space between the first end of the inner tubular section within the outer tubular section and the sound deflector, and then via the space between the outer portion of the inner tubular section and the inner portion of the outer tubular section.
US11240592B2
An acoustic device includes an enclosure and a bass reflex port that includes a tube body. An inner wall surface of the tube body includes multiple regions in which viscous resistances in a tube axis direction of moving air and the inner wall surface are different. The multiple regions are provided along a circumferential direction of the inner wall surface. The tube body is attached to an opening area in the enclosure.
US11240586B1
A method, apparatus and device for synchronously playing audio are provided. The method includes: acquiring status information of a Bluetooth controller in the first audio playing device, and determining native Bluetooth time of the first audio playing device based on the status information; estimating, based on the native Bluetooth time of the first audio playing device and offset data of the native Bluetooth time of the first audio playing device relative to native Bluetooth time of a second audio playing device or native Bluetooth time of an audio providing device, absolute time of the second audio playing device or absolute time of the audio providing device; and playing an audio signal provided by the audio providing device synchronously with the second audio playing device based on the estimated absolute time.
US11240585B2
A personal audio device (e.g., headphones, earphones) can have an earpiece (e.g., an ear cup or earbud) with a removable cushioning member (e.g., headphone cushions or ear tips for earbuds). The cushioning member can include an identification tag that encodes identification data for the cushioning member. When the cushioning member is attached to the earpiece, the identification tag is brought into proximity with a tag sensor in the earpiece and the earpiece can read the identification tag to determine identification data for the cushioning member. The identification data can be used to modify a behavior of the earpiece and/or of a host device communicably coupled to the earpiece.
US11240583B1
A pair of earbuds having interchangeable and rechargeable batteries is implemented, enabling the user to switch out a depleted battery with a charged one and virtually endlessly listen to music, video, etc. A rear of the earbud's main body is adapted with charging/connecting points to which corresponding connecting points on a detachable battery are positioned. The contact points are positive and negatively charged so that a current from the battery can pass to the main body for use. In addition, the battery is external to the earbud's main body so that the user can easily detach and replace it with a new one within seconds. Furthermore, a rear side of the battery is adapted with a touch-input surface that receives input from a user to control the earbuds and connected computing device's functions, such as play and pause, adjust the volume, and answer phone calls.
US11240580B2
The present invention relates to a modular stand that connects the microphone stand directly to the pedal board, said modular stand comprises a first flange, a slat or railing based pedal board, an identical second flange, wherein the first flange is a rectangular metal structure consisting of two openings at the two distal ends and a central protrusion having threading on the inside surface; wherein the second flange is a rectangular metal structure consisting of openings at the two distal ends; wherein the flanges are connected there between by sturdy means such as a nut and bolt assembly; and wherein the central protrusion provides a structural means to support a microphone stand.
US11240579B2
A sensing system comprising a hand-held sensing device with a vibracoustic sensor module (VSM). The VSM comprises a voice coil component comprising a coil holder supporting wire windings; a magnet component comprising a magnet supported by a frame, a magnet gap configured to receive at least a portion of the voice coil component in a spaced and moveable manner; a connector connecting the voice coil component to the magnet component, the connector being compliant and permitting relative movement of the voice coil component and the magnet component; a diaphragm configured to induce a movement of the voice coil component in the magnet gap responsive to incident acoustic waves; a housing for retaining the vibroacoustic sensor module having a handle end and a sensor end, the sensor end having an opening, the VSM positioned such that at least a portion of the diaphragm extends across the opening.
US11240576B1
A device with water drainage for a speaker is provided. The device comprises: a housing having a cavity; a speaker mounted in the cavity; a hydrophobic mesh over at least a portion of the cavity, the hydrophobic mesh being air-permeable; a hydrophilic grill adjacent the hydrophobic mesh at a speaker-facing side of the hydrophilic grill, the hydrophilic grill comprising apertures therethrough, the hydrophobic mesh located at least at the apertures; and a bezel covering the hydrophilic grill, one or more of the housing and the bezel including drainage features.
US11240569B2
Systems and methods for video presentation and analytics for a sporting event are disclosed. In one embodiment, the sporting event is an auto racing event. A server platform is provided to collect and analyze real-time raw data and historical raw data, and compare drivers/vehicles from a current auto racing event and/or a historical auto racing event. The server platform is operable to overlay a ghost driver/vehicle on the images of a driver/vehicle in the current auto racing event based on the comparison. The server platform also provides a GUI for displaying the current auto racing event with enhanced features.
US11240568B2
An electronic device and method for replacing and outputting an advertisement are provided. The electronic device includes: a memory storing at least one program; a communication unit configured to receive context data to be used to determine a state of a user, from at least one external device; and a processor configured to replace and output an advertisement by executing the at least one program, wherein the at least one program includes instructions to: acquire user state information indicating the state of the user from the received context data, based on a learning model using one or more neural networks; and perform control to replace a previously determined first advertisement with a second advertisement determined based on the user state information and to output the second advertisement.
US11240561B2
Systems and methods are described for managing presentation of content. An action may be scheduled to occur at a first time within the presentation of the media asset, where the action may interrupt the presentation of the media asset. When a current presentation position is approaching the first time, an option to delay the action may be generated for presentation. In response to receiving selection of the option to delay the action, the action may be scheduled to occur at a later second time within the presentation of the media asset.
US11240559B2
A content reproducing apparatus is provided. The content reproducing apparatus includes: a communicator configured to periodically transmit and receive a connection signal with a terminal; a content outputter configured to output content; a memory configured to store one or more instructions; and a processor configured to execute the one or more instructions stored in the memory to control the content outputter to adjust the output of the content, based on a distance to the terminal being greater than a certain distance, the distance being obtained based on the connection signal.
US11240557B2
Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed for the detection of boring media. An example apparatus includes a feature calculator to determine at least a first feature and a second feature associated with at least one of a video feed or an audio feed of monitored media when a media monitoring code is not detected in the monitored media, the first and second features representing different characteristics of at least one of the video feed or the audio feed, and a boring media event determiner implemented by hardware or at least one processor to process the first and second features with a neural network, propagate a code absence alert to a first server when an output of the neural network does not satisfy a threshold, and propagate a boring media event notification to a second server when the output of the neural network does satisfy the threshold.
US11240550B2
An electronic apparatus includes: a display; a communication circuit; and a processor configured to: display an image on the display, in response to receiving a request for transmitting content of the image from an external apparatus through the communication circuit, identify whether or not to perform an operation for selecting content based on a number of content included in the image, based on the identifying to perform the operation for selecting the content, receive a user input for selecting the content from the external apparatus, and transmit data of the content, which is selected from a plurality of contents in the image according to the user input, to the external apparatus through the communication circuit, and based on the identifying to not perform the operation for selecting the content, transmit data of the image displayed on the display to the external apparatus.
US11240547B2
The progressive delivery of targeted secondary content may include determining that primary content requested from a particular distribution point of a distributed platform includes a first tag to integrate targeted secondary content as part of an initial presentation of the primary content, and a second tag to integrate targeted secondary content outside the initial presentation. The progressive delivery may further include modifying the primary content by replacing the first tag so that the primary content and targeted secondary content for the initial presentation (e.g., third-party content associated with the first tag) are provided from the particular distribution point without accessing a third-party content provider, while targeted secondary content outside the initial presentation (e.g., third-party content associated with the second tag) may be selected and provided by one or more third-party content providers as originally specified in the primary content.
US11240545B2
Systems and methods for generating and displaying a non-time bound content channel in a time-bound grid is provided. The system comprises receiving content data representing non-time bound content to be displayed in the time bound grid. The system generates the time bound grid, by creating, based on the content data, a non-time bound content channel. The non-time bound content channel displays one or more content objects representing the non-time bound content in the time bound grid. The system incorporates the non-time bound content channel with a plurality of time bound channels in the time bound grid. The system then causes display of the generated time bound grid on a viewing device of a user.
US11240542B2
A system and method for playing back video feeds includes determining from the video feeds a subset of currently available video feeds, determining a playback layout based on the number of currently available video feeds and playing back the subset of currently available video feeds within the playback layout. The system and method further includes determining at least one change in availability in a given video feed of the plurality of video feeds, updating the subset of currently available video feeds based on the at least one change, updating the playback layout based on the updated subset of currently available video feeds and playing back the updated subset of currently available video feeds within the updated playback layout.
US11240537B2
A set-top box with enhanced features and system and method for use of the same are disclosed. In one embodiment of the set-top box, the set-top box is deployed to provide an interactive portal in a hospitality establishment having multiple rooms, such as a hotel. The set-top box generates a default interactive portal as well as a guest-specific interactive portal, which is generated from a guest configuration profile having information including guest identification, a guest channel preference presentation, and a guest service preference presentation with guest account information. The guest configuration profile may also enable the creation of a local area wireless network with substantially the same behavior as the guest's home wireless network. The guest configuration profile may further enable the control of in-room amenities, such as temperature control, lighting, shades, and availability, for example.
US11240531B2
One example method of video processing includes implementing, by a processor, a decoder-side motion vector derivation (DMVD) scheme for motion vector refinement during a conversion between a current video block and a bitstream representation of the current video block by deriving parameters based on a deriving rule. The conversion may include compressing the current video block into the bitstream representation or uncompressing the bitstream representation into pixel values of the current video block.
US11240529B2
A picture prediction method includes: determining motion vectors of W control points in a current picture block; obtaining motion vectors of P pixel units of the current picture block by using a motion model and the motion vectors of the W control points, where precision of the determined motion vectors of the W control points is 1/n of pixel precision, precision of the motion vector of each of the P pixel units is 1/N of the pixel precision, the motion vector of each of the P pixel units is used to determine a corresponding reference pixel unit in a reference picture of a corresponding pixel unit; and performing interpolation filtering on a pixel of the corresponding reference pixel unit by using an interpolation filter with a phase of Q, to obtain a predicted pixel value of each of the P pixel units.
US11240526B2
Disclosed are a method and apparatus for decoding an image using inter-prediction. The method of decoding an image using inter-prediction includes receiving a bitstream; acquiring a portion of information indicating a motion vector of a current block to be decoded in the received bitstream, obtaining the motion vector of the current block by using the acquired information to determine the remaining information other than the portion, and generating a prediction block for the current block through inter-prediction that uses the motion vector of the current block. Therefore, it is possible to improve image decoding/encoding efficiency.
US11240519B2
A method for decoding a coded video sequence includes decoding at least one tile which comprises a first tile boundary defined by a first tile layout and a second tile boundary defined by second tile layout, wherein the coded video sequence indicates that at least one first prediction mechanism is available across the first tile boundary, and that the at least one first prediction mechanism is not available across the second tile boundary.
US11240512B2
A method of decoding video, comprising: receiving an encoded bit stream representing frames of video, each of the frames comprising blocks of pixels; for a current block to be decoded, obtaining a vanishing point from the encoded bit stream and calculating pixel values of the current block to be decoded by performing intra-prediction based on a prediction line originating in the vanishing point; and providing decoded video based on the calculated pixel values. A method of encoding video, an encoder, and a decoder are also disclosed.
US11240504B2
A method for decoding a block of a picture represented in a current HDR/WCG format is disclosed. The method comprises receiving a bitstream representative of a coded block of picture, an indication representative of a default d QP table (index_d QP_table), an indication representative of a QP offset (slice_qp_delta); determining a quantization parameter responsive to the current format based on the default d QP table and the QP offset; decoding the coded block of a picture using the determined QP. Corresponding encoding method, transmitting method, decoding device, encoding device and transmitting device are disclosed. Besides an embodiment relative to adapting generic codec parameters to any HDR/WCG format as done for d QP table is also disclosed.
US11240501B2
An approach for encoding/decoding video data including obtaining video data; parsing the obtained video data to obtain partitioning parameters; obtaining a partitioned coding block based on the partitioning parameters; and decoding the obtained video data based on the partitioned coding block. The partitioned coding block may be partitioned into a rectangular partition and at least one non-rectangular partition.
US11240495B2
The present invention discloses an image coding/decoding method and an apparatus for the method. More specifically, a method for filtering an image by a decoding apparatus comprises deriving boundaries of a block divided into quad-tree plus binary-tree structure; determining an edge among boundaries of the block to which de-blocking filtering is applied; determining a type of de-blocking filtering to be applied to the edge; and performing de-blocking filtering to a picture sample restored according to the de-blocking filtering type, wherein the edge or the type of de-blocking filtering is determined by considering width or height of the block.
US11240488B2
A volumetric display may include a two-dimensional display; a varifocal optical system configured to receive image light from the two-dimensional display and focus the image light; and at least one processor configured to: control the two-dimensional display to cause a plurality of sub-frames associated with an image frame to be displayed by the display, wherein each sub-frame of the plurality of sub-frames includes a corresponding portion of image data associated with the image frame; and control the varifocal optical system to a corresponding focal state for each respective sub-frame.
US11240482B2
There is provided an information processing device, an information processing method, and a computer program that can improve comfortability at the time when a plurality of users share and view a three-dimensional image. The information processing device includes a control unit configured to perform control for determining a transmission starting point of three-dimensional image information based on positional information and sight line information of a first user, positional information and sight line information of a second user, and display position information of the three-dimensional image information that is shared and viewed by the first user and the second user.
US11240477B2
The present invention provides a method and a device for image rectification, which are applied in the field of image processing. The method includes: receiving two images, the two images are images of a target object captured from different viewpoints; performing an epipolar rectification on the two images; rectifying the two images after the epipolar rectification based on the image contents; and splicing the two images after the rectification based on the image contents. The method can rectify the images captured from different viewpoints, thereby ensuring the pixel alignment, and avoiding visual discomfort to the viewer.
US11240462B2
A display system includes a conversion apparatus converting video luminance including a luminance value in a first luminance range and a display apparatus connected thereto and displaying the video. The conversion apparatus includes a first acquisition unit, a first luminance converter, a second luminance converter, a quantization converter, and an output unit outputting a third luminance signal to the display apparatus. The display apparatus includes: a second acquisition unit acquiring the third luminance signal and setting information indicating display settings recommended to the display apparatus in display of the video; a display setting unit setting the display apparatus, using the setting information; a third luminance converter converting a third code value indicated by the third luminance signal into a second luminance value compatible with a second luminance range, using the setting information; and a display controller displaying the video on the display apparatus based on the second luminance value.
US11240460B2
The invention relates to a biometric sensing system, comprising: a light emitter, a polarization sensor, and a signal processing module, wherein the polarization sensor includes a first polarizer and a second polarizer. First, the light emitter emits a plurality of emitted light from the object under sensing, and reflected by the object. Then, a first reflected light in a first polarization direction and a second reflected light in a second polarization direction in the reflected light are sensed by the polarization sensor. Finally, the signal processing module calculates a first reflectance and a second reflectance according to the first reflected light and the second reflected light, and generate a reflectance ratio based on the first reflectance and the second reflectance. As such, the user determines whether the surface of the object under sensing is 3D by the reflectance ratio, so as to achieve improving safety and saving costs.
US11240456B2
An amplifier circuit for use in an image sensor includes a common source amplifier coupled to receive an input signal representative of an image charge from a pixel cell of the image sensor. An auto-zero switch is coupled between an input of the common source amplifier and an output of the common source amplifier. A feedback capacitor is coupled to the input of the common source amplifier. An offset switch is coupled to the feedback capacitor and is further coupled to a reset voltage and an output of the amplifier circuit. The auto-zero switch and the offset switch are configured to couple the feedback capacitor to the reset voltage during a reset of the amplifier circuit. The offset switch is configured to couple the feedback capacitor to the output of the amplifier circuit after the reset of the amplifier circuit.
US11240455B2
The present technology relates to an AD conversion device, an AD conversion method, an image sensor, and an electronic apparatus that are able to achieve high-speed, low-power-consumption AD conversion. In a case where an electrical signal and a variable-level reference signal are compared by a comparator and the result of comparison is used to perform AD (Analog to Digital) conversion of the electrical signal, control is exercised in such a manner that a bias current flowing in the comparator to operate the comparator during a certain section of the reference signal including a section where the reference signal changes is increased from a first current, which is larger than 0 (zero), to a second current, which is larger than the first current. The present technology is applicable, for example, to AD conversion of an electrical signal.
US11240446B2
In order to be able to appropriately control whether to generate a wide-angle image in accordance with control of an imaging range of the plurality of imaging units, an imaging device includes: a first imaging unit and a second imaging unit, each of which is movable in a predetermined direction; a combination processing unit configured to combine a first image obtained by the first imaging unit and a second image obtained by the second imaging unit to generate a wide-angle image; a determination unit configured to determine whether or not to generate the wide-angle image by the combination processing unit, based on a relation between an imaging range of the first imaging unit and an imaging range of the second imaging unit, or a position relation between the first imaging unit and the second imaging unit in the predetermined direction.
US11240440B2
A method of obtaining an image from an image sensor provided in a vehicle includes obtaining a vehicle speed of the vehicle; adjusting a shutter speed of the image sensor; adjusting either one or both of an international organization for standardization sensitivity (ISO) of the image sensor and an aperture of the image sensor based on the vehicle speed; and obtaining the image from the image sensor based on the adjusted shutter speed and the adjusted either one or both of the ISO and the aperture.
US11240434B2
A method of removing a mobile airborne device from a field of view of a primary camera. A sensor associated with a primary camera detects a mobile airborne device within a field of view of the primary camera, where a three-dimensional physical space is within the field of view of the primary camera. A signal generator generates a signal that, when received by the mobile airborne device, causes the mobile airborne device to exit the three-dimensional physical space. A transmitter transmits the signal to the mobile airborne device to cause the mobile airborne device to exit the three-dimensional physical space that is within the field of view of the primary camera.
US11240430B2
A disclosed example to operate a mobile camera includes recognizing a first feature in first sensor data in response to the first feature being detected in the first sensor data; transitioning the mobile camera from a first feature detection state to a second feature detection state in response to the recognizing of the first feature, the mobile camera to operate using higher power consumption in second feature detection state than in the first feature detection state; recognizing a second feature in second sensor data in the second feature detection state; and sending to an external device at least one of first metadata corresponding to the first feature or second metadata corresponding to the second feature.
US11240420B2
An image pickup apparatus includes an image sensor that photoelectrically converts an object image formed by an image pickup optical system including a zoom lens and a focus lens, a data storage that stores focus data indicating an in-focus position of the focus lens according to an object distance and a position of the zoom lens, and a wavelength acquirer that acquires a wavelength of imaging light incident on the image sensor. The focus data includes data for visible light and data according to a wavelength of infrared light. The wavelength acquirer acquires includes the wavelength of the imaging light using the focus data, the object distance, the position of the zoom lens, and a position of the focus lens when the image pickup optical system is in focus in a state where the visible light and the infrared light can enter the image sensor.
US11240414B2
A camera module includes a lens driving device having a housing, a first circuit board disposed below the housing, a filter disposed on an upper surface of the first circuit board, a second circuit board disposed below the first circuit board, an image sensor disposed on the second circuit board and coupled to a lower surface of the first circuit board, and a first adhesive member disposed between the lower surface of the first circuit board and an upper surface of the second circuit board, and electrically connecting the first circuit board and the second circuit board. A lower surface of the image sensor is higher than the upper surface of the second circuit board.
US11240406B2
There is provided a method and apparatus for motion estimation in a sequence of video images. The method comprises a) subdividing each field or frame of a sequence of video images into a plurality of blocks, b) assigning to each block in each video field or frame a respective set of candidate motion vectors, c) determining for each block in a current video field or frame, which of its respective candidate motion vectors produces a best match to a block in a previous video field or frame, d) forming a motion vector field for the current video field or frame using the thus determined best match vectors for each block, and e) forming a further motion vector field by storing a candidate motion vector derived from the best match vector at a block location offset by a distance derived from the candidate motion vector. Finally, steps a) to e) are repeated for a video field or frame following the current video field or frame. The set of candidate motion vectors assigned at step b) to a block in the following video field or frame includes the candidates stored at that block location at step e) during the current video field or frame The method enables a block or tile based motion estimator to improve its accuracy by introducing true motion vector candidates derived from the physical behaviour of real world objects.
US11240402B2
An optical scanning device for displaying or capturing an image is used, the device including: an optical scanning unit configured to scan emitted light while drawing a spiral trajectory, wherein the unit includes: a light guide path configured to guide incident light to output the emitted light from an emission end; and a vibration unit configured to vibrate the emission end; a light emission control unit configured to control light emission of the emitted light; a polar coordinate generation unit configured to generate a radius and a deflection angle relating to the spiral trajectory; a driving signal generation unit configured to generate a driving signal for driving the vibration unit; an angle correction unit configured to perform calculation for correcting an angle based on information from the driving signal generation unit and output an corrected angle; and a coordinate calculation unit configured to calculate coordinates of an image.
US11240397B2
When an image forming apparatus acquires notification destination information from a document processing flow execution system, and is instructed to change information, the image forming apparatus requests that a master system, indicated by the notification destination information, change the information. The master system changes the information held by the master system itself as requested by the image forming apparatus. When the image forming apparatus is notified about the successful change of information from the master system, the image forming apparatus notifies a slave system, indicated by the notification destination information, about the change of information. When the slave system is notified about the change of information by the image forming apparatus, the slave system changes the information held by the slave system itself to the information acquired from the master system.
US11240396B2
An image data transfer control device includes a first interface, a first and a second memory, a processor, and a second interface. The first interface acquires image data transferred in predetermined units. The first memory stores inclination correction data corresponding to the inclination of a print head, and correction position data indicating a correction position included in at least one divided image line among the predetermined number of divided image lines including each divided image line group. The second memory stores correction target image data at the correction position. The processor selects each divided image line group based on the inclination correction data, and specifies first and second correction target image data. The second interface outputs the second divided image line group including the first correction target image data instead of the second correction target image data.
US11240388B2
In an example implementation, a method of providing image registration information in a digital printing press includes imaging a printed page on an impression drum of a digital printing press, determining image registration information from printed content on the page, and displaying a graphical visualization of the image registration information on a user interface screen of the digital printing press.
US11240387B2
A terminal that can communicate with a multifunctional machine includes a touch panel and a terminal control unit that, by execution of a control application, causes the touch panel to display icons including a multifunctional machine icon such that the icons are arranged in a line and, when an icon selected by a selection operation is the multifunctional machine icon, calls a control function of a multifunctional machine application which corresponds to the multifunctional machine icon, and the terminal control unit causes the touch panel to display the icons such that a part of one icon of the icons is superimposed on the other icon adjacent to the one icon.
US11240383B2
An image reading apparatus acquires first image data of a background portion stored in advance and read by a reading unit, acquires second image data by reading the background portion, generates third image data by increasing resolution of the first image data and fourth image data by increasing resolution of the second image data, detects an amount of shift of an image sensor relative to a lens array in a predetermined direction by shifting a specific pixel range of the fourth image data relative to the third image data and comparing the specific pixel range with the third image data, and compares fifth image data obtained by shifting the fourth image data in accordance with the shift amount with the third image data, so as to determine whether each of pixels included in the fifth image data is a defective pixel having an abnormal value.
US11240380B2
A serverless Page Party (SPP) station is provided for page announcing and party line conferencing that is configured to implement mutual provisioning to allow all SPP stations within a system to mutually maintain their configurations in runtime, and multiple master station negotiation and master failover. Plural SPP stations are connected with Ethernet cable or WIFi to a network and therefore without need for expensive and cumbersome cabling and daisy-chain configuration among stations. SPP stations route packets between each other via multicast technology and without need for a IP-PBX or other server (e.g., a SIP server) for controlling inter-station connections. In Mutual Provisioning Mode, SPP stations operate using a system configuration obtained from other SPP stations already on the network using a command channel. System configuration is maintained by a SPP station designated as a master station. Plural SPP stations can negotiate among themselves to designate a new master station.
US11240377B2
A first text message is received from a first user communication endpoint. In one embodiment, the first text message is addressed to a general text messaging address for a corporation. In response to receiving the first text message from the first user communication endpoint, a second text message is sent to the first user communication endpoint. The second text message is used to identify a way to select an individual user of the plurality users. For example, the second text message may have a menu with a list of users. A third text message is received from the first user communication endpoint. The third text message identifies the individual user of the plurality of users. A fourth text message is sent that allows the first user communication endpoint and a user communication endpoint of the selected individual user to establish a text messaging session.
US11240375B2
There are provided systems and methods of using the systems to make telecommunications. The systems and methods include application software on a user phone, and a telecommunications apparatus, or computer communication network, configured to make communications for the user. The system permits the user to carry out steps including opening the software app on a mobile phone, as a source telephone; making a communication with a target telephone of another through the app; and receiving a response to the communication, where the response includes a GPS location of the target telephone. The GPS location is displayed on the telephone user interface of the source telephone. In the systems, the numeric telephone identification of the source telephone device, and/or the numeric telephone identification of the target telephone device may be masked.
US11240366B2
Systems and methods may be used for providing a location of a device during an emergency communication. These systems and methods may include operations (e.g., performed by a processor), including detecting that an emergency service call has been started at the device, and initiating a digital assistant in response to detecting that the emergency service call has been started. The systems and methods may include operations including parsing audio during the emergency service call to determine a request for location information, and providing audio, by the digital assistant during the emergency service call, indicating a location based on location information determined at the device.
US11240345B2
The present disclosure describes a plurality of examples for deploying an application workload consisting of micro-service instances. The examples include federating a cluster from a plurality of computing nodes, defining a network overlay policy based on an application policy associated with the application workload, configuring one or more virtual networks in accordance with defined network overlay policy, each virtual network from one or more virtual networks connects one or more computing nodes from the two or more computing nodes of the cluster for providing layer 2 adjacency, and deploying the plurality of micro-service instances on the two or more computing nodes in accordance with the network overlay policy, for executing the application workload.
US11240342B2
Agent device, method of controlling agent device, and computer-readable non-transient storage medium
A agent device includes a plurality of agent function parts configured to provide a service including causing an output section to output a response by a voice in response to a speech of an occupant in a vehicle, the plurality of agent function parts includes a first agent function part and a second agent function part having less dependence on a network connection than that of the first agent function part, a network observation part configured to recognize or predict a change in communication environment of the network connection is further provided, and the second agent function part stores a speech of the occupant in the vehicle in a storage when the first agent function part is under operation and deterioration of the communication environment of the network connection is recognized or predicted by the network observation part.
US11240334B2
Maintaining cache coherency in the presence of a network attached memory is disclosed. A computer system includes a plurality of physical nodes. An operating system is run collectively across the plurality of physical nodes. The physical nodes are configured to communicate with a network attached memory. Based at least in part on an operation to be performed with respect to page on a first physical node included in the plurality of physical nodes, the network attached memory is configured to receive a message. The network attached memory is configured to perform an action based at least in part on the received message.
US11240325B2
A system is provided for tracing end-to-end transactions. The system uses bytecode instrumentation and a dynamically injected agent to gather web server side tracing data, and a browser agent which is injected into browser content to instrument browser content and to capture tracing data about browser side activities. Requests sent during monitored browser activities are tagged with correlation data. On the web server side, this correlation information is transferred to tracing data that describes handling of the request. This tracing data is sent to an analysis server which creates tracing information which describes the server side execution of the transaction and which is tagged with the correlation data allowing the identification of the causing browser side activity. The analysis server receives the browser side information, finds matching server side transactions and merges browser side tracing information with matching server side transaction information to form tracing information that describes end-to-end transactions.
US11240322B2
Various systems and methods for request distribution are described herein. In an example, a system for request distribution includes a storage to store instructions and a processor. In an example, upon execution of the instructions, the processor instructs the system to identify an endpoint for routing a request based on a request value using a global lookup table. In an example, upon execution of the instructions, the processor instructs the system to generate a case identifier, wherein the case identifier includes a case hint based on the endpoint for routing the request. In an example, upon execution of the instructions, the processor instructs the system to route the request to an independent scale group based on the case hint, wherein the independent scale group is selected based on a co-location of a geographic interaction point for a service agent and a data shard corresponding to the request.
US11240310B2
A smart sensor group management service may be used to establish groups of smart sensors that are associated with one or more common characteristics, such as a common application associated with the smart sensors. The group management service may establish multiple physical groups per application so that multiple entities may have access to managing the groups. The physical groups may be associated with a virtual group that facilitates management of the physical groups and may be accessible by the entities. The entities may perform different types of management operations using the group management service, such as creating groups, adding smart sensors to groups, removing smart sensors from groups, and adjusting settings of features of the applications that are associated with the groups.
US11240299B2
A group definition is received via a network interface. Communications are transmitted to destinations, the communications comprising an invitation to associate with the a content sharing group. Authentication data associated with users that accept the invention is encrypted. The accepting users are associated with the content sharing group. A content gallery definition is received. A communication is received that the content gallery is to be shared with the content sharing group. The content gallery is caused to be instantiated on devices of users associated with the group. A content request for the content sharing group is received and the content request is transmitted accordingly to users associated with the group. A content item is received in response the request and the content item is transmitted to user devices associated with the group and enabled to appear in instantiations of the content gallery on the user devices.
US11240296B2
A first distributed processing node transmits distributed data to a second distributed processing node as intermediate consolidated data. A third distributed processing node generates intermediate consolidated data after update from received intermediate consolidated data and distributed data, and transmits the intermediate consolidated data to a fourth distributed processing node. The first distributed processing node transmits the received intermediate consolidated data to fifth distributed processing node as consolidated data. The third distributed processing node transmits the received consolidated data to a sixth distributed processing node. When an aggregation communication time period required by each distributed processing node to consolidate the distributed data or an aggregation dispatch communication time period being a total time period of the aggregation communication time period and a time period required by each distributed processing node to dispatch the consolidated data exceeds a predetermined time period, the first distributed processing node issues a warning.
US11240292B2
A content management system interface at a local computer device configured to receive user file commands from a file manager and translate the user file commands into content management commands for sending to the remote content management system via a network interface. The content management system interface is further be configured to receive remote file information from the remote content management system via the network interface and translate the remote file information into user file information for the file manager.
US11240291B2
To share snips of content, content access rules of a content file can be parsed to identify an accessible range of the content file and an inaccessible range of the content file. In one example, content sharing includes receiving an identifier of a recipient for a content file, parsing content access rules for the recipient, to identify an accessible range of the content file, and presenting an indicator of the accessible range and an inaccessible range of the content file for the recipient. A user can then identify a selection of a snip of the accessible range of the content file in a user interface. In some cases, a copy of the snip of the content file, a link to the snip of the content file, or both can be generated and forwarded after the selection is identified.
US11240278B1
A communication/collaboration system enables a first user at a first entity to define a collaboration object, and to invite a second entity to collaborate on the collaboration object in accordance with a hierarchy with corresponding permissions. A second user at a second entity is enabled to collaborate on the collaboration object. A communications log regarding the collaboration between the first user and the second user is maintained. A communications log between the first user and other users at the first entity is maintained. A communication interface is displayed on the first user computer system that displays the log of communications between the first user and the second user on the collaboration object, together with the log of communications regarding the collaboration object between the first user and other users at the first entity, and excluding communications regarding the collaboration object between the second user and other users at the second entity.
US11240274B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a storage device, for securing a network associated with a property in response to the detection of a hacking drone within a vicinity of the property. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining sensor data from one or more sensors located at a property, detecting, based on the obtained sensor data, the presence of a drone, determining, based on the obtained sensor data, that the detected drone is an unauthorized drone, determining, by the monitoring system, that the unauthorized drone (i) is communicating or (ii) attempting to communicate with a network associated with the property, selecting one or more network adjustment policies, and transmitting one or more instructions to (i) one or more monitoring system components or (ii) one or more network components that are configured to adjust network parameters based on the one or more selected network adjustment policies.
US11240271B2
A system may include a plurality of computational instances dedicated to different managed networks and a central instance communicatively coupled to the plurality of computational instances. A first computing device disposed within a first computational instance may be configured to: obtain a profile of a software application operational within a first managed network to which the first computational instance is dedicated, calculate a threat level of the software application based on the profile, determine that the threat level exceeds a pre-determined threshold, and transmit, to the central instance, an indication that the threat level exceeds the pre-determined threshold. A second computing device disposed within the central instance may be configured to: receive the indication, determine that the software application is also operational within a second managed network to which a second computational instance, and transmit, to the second computational instance, an indication that the threat level exceeds the pre-determined threshold.
US11240270B1
A system and method for extending data protection of data elements of a data packet beyond a TLS tunnel termination point by using encryption keys established when the TLS tunnel was established. The system and method include authenticating a client device to establish a shared secret. The system and method include receiving a data packet comprising a data element and an object identifier associated with the data element, the data element encrypted with a first content-specific key associated with the shared secret, the data packet encrypted with a session key. The system and method include decrypting the data packet using the session key to recover a decrypted data packet. The system and method include determining an existence of an object identifier in the decrypted data packet. The system and method include decrypting the data element of the decrypted data packet using a second content-specific key associated with the object identifier.
US11240266B1
Embodiments of the present disclosure use natural language processing, machine learning and relevant corpora to detect social engineering attacks with a high degree of accuracy. In various embodiments, lexical features, spelling features and topical features are automatically analyzed from a source text and a model is employed to assess the likelihood that the source message is a social engineering attack.
US11240263B2
In some examples, an alert relating to an issue in a computing arrangement is received. It is determined that the received alert is similar to a given alert in an information repository containing information of past processes performed to address respective issues, the determining comprising comparing a property associated with the received alert to a property of alerts associated with the past processes, and the information contained in the information repository comprising actions taken in the past processes to address the respective issues. Performance of a remediation action is triggered that comprises an action, identified by the information in the information repository, taken to respond to the given alert.
US11240262B1
Computerized techniques to determine and verify maliciousness of an object by a security logic engine are described. A method features receiving information pertaining to a first set of events associated with a first object (first information) from an endpoint and information pertaining to a second set of events associated with a second object (second information) from an analysis system. Thereafter, the likelihood of the cyber-attack being conducted on the network is determined by at least correlating the first information and the second information with at least events associated with known malicious objects. Any endpoint vulnerable to the cyber-attack are identified based on a configuration of each of the plurality of endpoints and requesting the analysis system to conduct one or more further analyses in accordance with at least a software profile identified in a configuration of the first endpoint of the plurality of endpoints identified as vulnerable.
US11240252B2
A method includes receiving an access feature request for utilization of a feature in a computing system, determining a system requestor associated with the access feature request, determining an achievement associated with the feature, accessing a plurality of first document types associated with the system requestor, determining that a document of the plurality of first document types reflects successful completion of the achievement, and providing a system access to the feature based on a determination that the document reflects successful completion of the achievement.
US11240251B2
The present invention discloses an intelligent cloud server for cloud storage information management and encryption. In some embodiments, the intelligent cloud server can save and store documents without the need of first saving them in a local drive for upload. Upon storage, the document can be scanned and classified in a security level according to pre-determined settings and parameters. In some embodiments, depending on the classification, the system can encrypt portions of the document in order to facilitate the sharing and access of information in a secure way. Encryption keys and access to the encrypted portions are only provided upon authentication of the user, network, and/or need, according to corresponding protocols for the information.
US11240243B2
According to one embodiment, a method, computer system, and computer program product for preventing statistical inference attacks is provided. The present invention may include splitting records into items, and classifying these items into shared items and private items; grouping the private items according to privacy and confidentiality requirements; restricting access of the private items to stakeholders based on the confidentiality requirements using cryptographic keys; generating and encrypting one or more placeholders for both existent and non-existent stakeholders; storing private items in private storage as indicated by links; creating shared records comprising links, placeholders, and shared items; adding integrity signatures to the shared records; and publishing the shared records to a shared medium.
US11240242B1
A system and method for providing remote zero trust access to a private network. A cloud server provides a user at a remote device with access to the private network. A proxy server interfaces between the remote device and the private network. A web interface initiates a session with the user. The proxy server allows the user to enter login credentials, verifies the entered login credentials, provides a dashboard page for displaying a list of assets available to the user at the private network, establishes a first remote session between a client at the remote device and the proxy server, establishes a second remote session between the proxy server and a proxy agent at the remote server, and informs the proxy agent of a selected asset, and enables the user to access the selected asset via the first remote session, the second remote session, and the proxy agent.
US11240236B2
According to an embodiment, there is provided a method for authorizing use of an application on a device. The method includes: identifying a plurality of device identifiers of the device; determining authorization information based on predetermined one or more of the plurality of device identifiers; and determining authorization for use of the application on the device in response to the authorization information.
US11240224B2
Systems, methods, and apparatus for identity access management for web services are disclosed. The method includes: creating on a user device, a session's access token and an identity token to be sent along with a request for accessing web services, wherein: the accessing of web services includes at least one of: retrieving and pushing information from an instance storage which is client specific and protected from unauthorized access by another instance storage; the session's access token indicates a location where the session's access token was created, an expiration time, and a hash identity for verifying a validity of the session's access token; the identity token identifies a user who sends the request; and authenticating the user on the user device according to the session's access token and the identity token to authorize the accessing of web services in a session.
US11240223B1
Systems, apparatuses, and methods are disclosed for quantum entanglement authentication (QEA). An example method includes transmitting a first number and a second electronic identification of a second subset of the first set of entangled quantum particles to a second computing device, transmitting a second number and a first electronic identification of a first subset of a first set of entangled quantum particles to a first computing device, wherein each entangled quantum particle in the first set of entangled quantum particles is entangled with a respective entangled quantum particle in a second set of entangled quantum particles, receiving, from the first computing device, a third number, receiving, from the second computing device, a fourth number and in an instance in which the third number corresponds to the first number and the fourth number corresponds to the second number, authenticating a session between the first computing device and the second computing device.
US11240219B2
A portable communication device may include a mobile application executing in an application execution environment and a secure application executing in a trusted execution environment. The secure application may receive, from the mobile application, a storage request to store sensitive data. The storage request may include an encrypted data type identifier and an encrypted sensitive data. The secure application may decrypt the encrypted data type identifier and the encrypted sensitive data using a transport key, and re-encrypt the sensitive data using a storage key. The re-encrypted sensitive data can then be stored in a memory of the portable communication device which is outside the trusted execution environment.
US11240217B1
Disclosed in some examples are devices, systems, and machine readable mediums for establishing peer to peer mobile wallet communications (P2PMW) over short range wireless communication networks. These P2PMW communications allow exchange of information between two wallet clients. Example communications include payments, providing identification, providing loans, and the like. The use of P2PMW communications opens up the prospect of anyone accepting payment from anybody else at any time. All that is needed is a computing device with a mobile wallet. Example short range wireless communications include Wireless LANs (WLAN) such as WIFI (e.g., communicating according to an Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.11 family of standards), BLUETOOTH® or the like.
US11240214B2
Systems and methods for processing inbound and outbound secure packet traffic are provided herein. A first lookup operation can be performed to identify a security association corresponding to a received packet. A second lookup operation can be performed to determine a security parameters index associated with the packet and the identified security association. The packet can be processed in accordance with the security association and the security parameters index.
US11240206B2
An apparatus receives an upper layer packet that includes data from a source device, a virtual private network (VPN) identification, a destination address, and a destination option type. The apparatus authenticates the upper layer packet by comparing the VPN identification of the received upper layer packet to a customer VPN identification. The apparatus determines whether the apparatus recognizes the destination option type of the upper layer packet. The apparatus discards the upper layer packet on a condition that the apparatus does not recognize the destination option type. The apparatus decapsulates the upper layer packet into a lower layer packet and transmits the decapsulated packet to a destination on a condition that the apparatus recognizes the destination option type.
US11240205B1
This disclosure describes systems, devices, and techniques for implementing master rules in firewalls. In some cases, at least one master rule is identified. The at least one master rule can be associated with performing at least one first operation on a first type of data traffic that satisfies at least one first condition. Multiple firewalls may implement the at least one master rule. In addition, a first firewall among the multiple firewalls may implement at least one application-specific rule in addition to the at least one master rule. The at least one application-specific rule may be associated with performing at least one second operation on a second type of data traffic that satisfies at least one second condition. The multiple firewalls may be between multiple applications and at least one network. Specifically, the first firewall may be deployed between a first application among the multiple applications and the network(s).
US11240200B1
Disclosed are various embodiments for time based network addresses. A network packet is received over a network by a first computing device from a second computing device. The network packet contains a time-dependent destination address for a third computing device, such as a time-dependent internet protocol version 6 (IPv6) address. The time-dependent destination address contains a time-dependent checksum based at least in part on a current time and an encryption key associated with the third computing device. The checksum is validated upon receipt. In response to a determination that the checksum is valid, the network packet is forwarded to the third computing device.
US11240199B2
A method for operating a session control entity configured to control a data packet session of a user in a cellular network. A policy request is transmitted to a policy control entity of the cellular network requesting at least one policy rule for the data packet session. A policy response is received including the at least one policy rule for the data packet session and including a request to provide information about an address translation carried out in a user plane on the data packets of the data packet session. Rules for handling the data packet session are transmitted to a user plane entity configured to handle the user plane of the data packet session. The rules include a translation detection rule by which the user plane entity is requested to inform the session control entity about the address translation that has taken place in the user plane.
US11240194B2
An apparatus for facilitating instant messaging communications between clients of different instant messaging service provider networks is provided. The apparatus includes translation logic for translating received communications related to an instant messaging service, the received communications associated with an external instant messaging service provider network and formatted according to a secondary protocol. The translation logic translates the received communication from the secondary protocol to a primary protocol, the primary protocol native to a receiving service provider network. The communication may then be routed to a client of the primary network according to the native, primary protocol.
US11240191B2
A socializing support apparatus includes a detector that detects presence of a visiting user, the visiting user being a user visiting a shared apparatus, and a first controller that controls notification of first notification information, the notification being provided from a terminal apparatus to a terminal user if a notification condition is satisfied, the notification condition being detection of presence of the visiting user, the first notification information being information indicative of presence of the visiting user, the terminal user being a user of the terminal apparatus different from the visiting user.
US11240190B2
Disclosed are methods, apparatus, systems, and computer-readable storage media for providing access to communities of users in an online social network. In some implementations, a server is configured to identify a user identity (ID), received from a computing device, as one of a plurality of first user identities (IDs) of first users belonging to a first community maintained on behalf of a first organization by a social networking system. The computing device can then be provided access to the first community. When a request to access a second community maintained on behalf of a second organization is received from the computing device, the user ID can be identified as one of a plurality of second user IDs of second users belonging to the second community. The computing device can then be provided access to the second community.
US11240189B2
Disclosed aspects relate to biometric-based sentiment management in a social networking environment. A set of biometric data for an originating-user of an electronic message may be detected using a set of biometric sensors. Based on the set of biometric data, an originating-user sentiment for at least a portion of the electronic message may be determined. The electronic message and the originating-user sentiment for at least the portion of the electronic message may be compiled to establish a compiled message. The compiled message which indicates the originating-user sentiment for at least the portion of the electronic message may be provided in the social networking environment.
US11240186B2
Technologies are disclosed for identifying converged conversation threads. A number of the most recent messages in a conversation thread are selected. Selected messages that are action messages or query messages are identified. Scores are then assigned to the action and query messages. A determination is then made as to whether the conversation thread is converged or non-converged based upon the scores. Data is then stored that indicates that the conversation thread is converged or non-converged. The stored data can be used to locate converged or non-converged threads and identify the threads in a UI as such.
US11240184B2
Artificial intelligence systems utilizing a chat driven interface that includes a chat portion and a display portion are disclosed. The user may interact with the chat portion of the interface in a human understandable and comfortable manner (e.g., through natural language). The artificial intelligence system uses the context of the interactions in the chat potion of the interface to drive the presentation of content in the display portion interface and the chat portion of the such that the content presented in the display portion of the interface reflects the intents or concepts expressed in the chat portion of the interface and the chat portion and the display portion of the interface are kept in synchronicity.
US11240182B2
Centralized hospital communication system and methods are provided for event monitoring and notification. In some embodiments, consistent with the present embodiments, a centralized hospital communication server is disclosed. The centralized hospital communication server may include a memory storing instructions, and at least one processor configured to execute the stored instructions to: receive, from a networked device, event information indicative of an event, the event information including at least one personal attribute of a first individual associated with the event; search a network database for information associated with at least one location within a hospital, the first location information including at least one location attribute; identify, based on the received event information and the received first location information, a selected location for the first individual associated with the event; and automatically generate and transmit at least one electronic communication to a first electronic device associated with the selected location.
US11240181B1
Systems and methods involving AI-assisted service provisioning and modification for delivering message-based services. One exemplary method includes: receiving an input sequence from a user in relation to a request for a service, the input sequence including one or more inputs; processing the input sequence to determine a service type; associating a workflow with the request based at least in part on the service type and a profile of the user, the workflow including a set of one or more steps, a step of the set of one or more steps corresponding to a set of attributes including at least one of: a communication mode, a communication type, or a communication priority, the workflow being performed by at least one of: a chatbot, an AI assistant, or a service professional; modifying the workflow based on a new input sequent from the user using a workflow engine comprising at least one of: an AI model, a machine learning model, and a ruleset; and interacting with the user based at least in part on the workflow to deliver the service.
US11240180B2
A message providing device includes: a receiver; and a controller. At least first and second operation modes are operations of a software robot program. The program operates on a service exchanging messages between users. In the first mode, a specific service is executed upon reception of a message or a sticker. In the second mode, the specific service is not executed even if the message or the sticker is received. The receiver receives the message or the sticker from the user. When the received message is a first specific message or the received sticker is a first specific sticker, the controller switches the first mode to the second. When the received message is a second specific message different from the first or the received sticker is a second specific sticker which is different from the first, the controller switches the second mode to the first.
US11240176B2
Example methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture (e.g., physical storage media) to facilitate time-spaced messaging for network communications are disclosed. An example method may include receiving a plurality of messages at a message rate. The method may further include determining a number of the plurality of messages a network device is unable to process. The method may further include determining, based on the number, a miss rate associated with the plurality of messages. The method may further include determining whether the miss rate exceeds a threshold miss rate and, if the miss rate is determined to exceed the threshold miss rate, determining a time delay based on the miss rate and message rate, and applying the first time delay to at least one message received subsequent to the plurality of messages.
US11240172B2
A method and system for responding to requests for network resources implemented in a cloud computing infrastructure are described. A proxy server responds to requests from client devices based on the state of the origin instances that serve the requested network resources. The proxy server modifies the state of the origin instance based on whether requests are received for the network resources. The proxy server receives from the client device, a first request for a network resource that is served by an origin server. The proxy server determines a state of the origin instance, where the state of the origin instance indicates whether the origin instance is executing on the cloud computing infrastructure. Upon receipt of the state of the origin instance, the proxy server determines based on the received state, a response to be transmitted to the client device.
US11240167B2
An apparatus for optimization for Spanning Tree Protocol (“STP”) data network includes an egress filter setting circuit in a first network node that sets an egress filter to discard data packets at an egress port of the first network node connected to a second network node in response to receiving an egress filter bridge protocol data unit (“BPDU”) message from the second network node indicating that a link between the first network node and the second network node is a redundant link. The network nodes are layer-2 STP bridges. The apparatus includes, in the first network node, an egress filter timeout circuit that resets a timer in response to receiving the egress filter BPDU message, and a filter clear circuit that clears the egress filter to allow data packets to be sent from the egress port to the second network node in response to the timer reaching a timeout.
US11240156B2
In various embodiments, domain name system (DNS) servers are implemented on a content distribution network (CDN) infrastructure in order to facilitate centralized control of traffic steering. Each server appliance in the CDN infrastructure acts as both an authoritative DNS nameserver and a dynamic request proxy, and each such server appliance is assigned to one of multiple cloud computing system regions. The assignment of server appliances to cloud regions is based on latency measurements collected via client application probes and an optimization that minimizes an overall latency experienced by the client applications subject to constraints that the maximum traffic to each cloud region is less than a capacity constraint for that region, the maximum deviation of traffic to each cloud regions at any point in time is less than a given percentage, and the maximum deviation of traffic between direct and indirect paths is less than a given percentage.
US11240148B2
A packet processing method and a related apparatus are provided. The method includes: obtaining a first packet including first indication information, wherein the first indication information is used to indicate a data flow corresponding to the first packet; determining a target flow entry in an integrated flow table based on the first indication information, wherein the integrated flow table includes at least one flow entry, each flow entry includes a unified match entry and a comprehensive behavior entry, the unified match entry uniquely identifies a data flow, a unified match entry of the target flow entry identifies the same data flow as indicated by the first indication information; and performing an operation on the first packet based on a comprehensive behavior entry included in the target flow entry.
US11240147B2
In some examples, an example method to minimize asymmetric routing at a network node may include maintaining a flow table including one or more records, each record indicating a packet flow and a corresponding tunnel, receiving a data packet to process at a network node, and determining whether to process the data packet as a follower node. The method may also include, responsive to a determination to process the data packet as a follower node, determining whether there is an entry in the flow table for a packet flow associated with the received packet, and, responsive to a determination that there is an entry in the flow table for the packet flow, transmitting the received data packet through a tunnel corresponding to the packet flow.
US11240145B2
Shared risk representation in networks for troubleshooting, assignment, and propagation across layers includes obtaining a configuration for a format to represent shared risks in a network; assigning a value to a plurality of shared risks in the network utilizing the format and utilizing a plurality of assignment techniques including automatic assignment and manual assignment; propagating the assigned values of the plurality of shared risks across one or more layers in the network; and storing the assigned values for use in path computation in the network.
US11240138B2
A method for managing communication on a network between a first device and a second device. The devices communicate via a first communication link, called a main link, and a second communication link, called a secondary link. The energy consumption of the secondary link is less than that of the first communication link. The method includes establishing validity of a criterion relative to data traffic on at least one of the main or secondary link, and on the basis of the validity of the criterion, managing activation of the at least one link.
US11240135B1
An example operation may include a method comprising one or more of creating a VNFC monitor, starting a VNFC monitor, sending VNFCI state change notifications which includes a status of one or more VNFC modules, stopping a VNFC monitor, and destroying a VNFC monitor.
US11240123B2
Systems and methods for managing a network are disclosed. In certain systems and methods, access to a network such as a wireless network, can be granted or denied based upon a threshold number of devices accessing the network. Moreover, access to a first service available over the network can be granted or denied based upon a threshold number of devices accessing the first service. Various network resource can be allocated to the first service based at least upon the number of device access the first service.
US11240122B2
In one embodiment, a service detects that an event of a particular event type has occurred in a software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN). The service activates, in response to detecting the occurrence of the event, a machine learning model to assess telemetry data regarding a first tunnel in the SD-WAN. The service predicts a failure of the first tunnel, based on the assessment of the telemetry data regarding the first tunnel by the machine learning model. The service proactively reroutes at least a subset of traffic on the first tunnel onto a second tunnel in the SD-WAN, in advance of the predicted failure of the first tunnel.
US11240121B2
Implementations of the subject matter described herein provide methods and systems of controlling data backup, and a computer readable storage medium. The method comprises: obtaining test data for performing data backup with a plurality of backup solutions, the plurality of backup solutions being associated with each set of values amongst a plurality of sets of values of a plurality of factors affecting the data backup; generating a training sample set based on comparison of the test data; converting the training sample set into a decision model for controlling data backup; and optimizing the decision model based on the configuration parameters obtained by performing data backup with the decision model.
US11240117B2
A services platform acts as an intermediary between an existing enterprise analytic environment, and one or more underlying cloud service providers. The platform provides enterprise “big data-as-a-service,” by which an enterprise can seamlessly and easily provision new capacity for processing its analytic workload, and migrate data sources (e.g., data warehouse marts, enterprise data warehouses, analytic sandboxes, and the like) to the cloud for processing. The platform provides end-to-end enterprise class manageability of enterprise data assets, from data collection, aggregation, movement, staging and processing, all while providing service levels, security, access and governance. The platform integrates directly but seamlessly into the enterprise analytic stack, and existing analytics applications work as normal. The platform provides a way for the enterprise to translate its workloads into clusters of compute resources that meet its service level requirements.
US11240106B2
Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for providing backup and restore services to network attached appliances in a network. Configuration settings comprising configuration settings used in a network attached appliance are gathered and a unique identifier for the network attached appliance is determined. A backup request is generated including the configuration settings, the unique identifier, and a backup operation code. The backup request is broadcasted on the network to be received by the backup servers to store the configuration settings for the unique identifier.
US11240103B2
An embodiment provides a network parameter optimization method and apparatus, to implement online network parameter optimization. The method includes: sending, by a first function entity, an evaluation model to a second function entity, where the evaluation model is used by the second function entity to determine a first network parameter adjustment action performed by a network element in a first network environment state; receiving, by the first function entity, information about the first network parameter adjustment action; updating, by the first function entity, the evaluation model based on information about the first network environment state, the information about the first network parameter adjustment action, information about a return obtained after the network element performs the first network parameter adjustment action, and information about a second network environment state after the network element performs the first network parameter adjustment action.
US11240100B2
Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for using an out-of-band network to coordinate a first node reconfiguring a bus interface port used by a second node to communicate on a bus. The first node configures the bus to enable the second node to link to the bus. The second node sends a join request to the first node over an out-of-band network separate from the bus in response to determining that the second node cannot join the bus. The first node reconfigures the bus to enable the second node to communicate on the bus in response to receiving the join request from the second node over the out-of-band network.
US11240081B2
A UE in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The UE includes a communication module and a processor for controlling the communication module. The processor determines a first cyclic shift (CS) value based on hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgment (HARQ-ACK) information representing a response to a downlink channel having been received from a base station, determines a CS offset based on request information representing a request to be transmitted from the UE to the base station, determines a second CS value representing a degree of cyclic-shifting a base sequence to be used in a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) based on the first CS value and the CS offset, and transmits the PUCCH for simultaneous transmission of the request information and the HARQ-ACK information using a sequence generated by cyclic-shifting the base sequence based on the second CS value.
US11240080B2
Provided are an electronic device and method for wireless communication, the electronic device comprises a processing circuit, which is configured for: generating a first indication indicating the number of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing symbols occupied by a front load-on demodulation reference signal; generating a second indication indicating a configuration of an additional demodulation reference signal; and determining a mode of demodulating the reference signal on the basis of the first indication and the second indication, and generating a mode index corresponding to the mode to provide to user equipment.
US11240078B1
A Continuous Phase Frequency Shift Keying modulator provided to receive a series of binary symbols having a predetermined repetition period, and generate a series of sinusoidal signals comprising in sequence: a first sinusoidal signal with a first frequency in response to each received binary symbol having a first binary value; and a second sinusoidal signal with a second frequency in response to a received binary symbol having a second binary value, where the lowest of the first and second frequencies is larger than or equal to a third of the symbol rate; wherein the sinusoidal signals are shortened or lengthened with respect to the binary symbol they respond to, such that each first sinusoidal signal comprises an integer number of half periods of said first frequency and each second sinusoidal signal comprises an integer number of half periods of said second frequency.
US11240070B1
A digital isolator provided includes a pair of transceiver circuits and a control circuit. Each transceiver circuit includes a transmitter circuit, a receiver circuit, and a DC isolation circuit. When the control circuit controls one of the pair of transceiver circuits to operate in a transmitting mode and the other of the pair of transceiver circuits to operate in a receiving mode, the transmitting circuit of the transceiver circuit operating in the transmitting mode receives a square wave signal to generate a pair of differential square wave signals, the connected DC isolation circuits receive the pair of differential square wave signals to generate a pair of differential coupling signals, and the transceiver circuit operating in the receiving mode uses the pair of differential coupling signals to output the square wave signal through the design of a pair of feedback voltage divider circuits and a differential comparison circuit included therein.
US11240069B2
A communication device is configured to correlate a first signal with a second signal at a designated interval, the second signal corresponding to the first signal and being received by the communication device where the other communication device transmits a signal including a pulse as the first signal, convert a correlation computation result that is a result of correlating the first signal with the second signal at the designated interval into a format including a matrix product of an expanded modal matrix and an expanded signal vector, the expanded modal matrix including a plurality of elements indicating the correlation computation result obtained when assuming that the signals are received at respective set times, the expanded signal vector being a vector including a plurality of elements, each of which indicates whether or not there is a signal received at each of the set times and amplitude and phase of the signal.
US11240058B2
A device to provide information to a visual interface that is mountable to a vehicle dashboard includes a memory configured to store device information indicative of controllable devices of a building and occupant data indicative of one or more occupants of the building. The device includes a processor configured to receive, in real-time, status information associated with the one or more occupants of the building. The status information includes at least one of dynamic location information or dynamic activity information. The processor is configured to generate an output to provide, at the visual interface device, a visual representation of at least a portion of the building and the status information associated with the one or more occupants. The processor is also configured to generate an instruction to adjust an operation of one or more devices of the controllable devices based on user input.
US11240050B2
The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus for sharing an online document, an electronic device, and a storage medium. The method includes: providing (101) a sharing interface containing one or more candidate conference events based on a request from a currently logged-in user for sharing an online document; obtaining (102) a target conference event selected by the currently logged-in user from the one or more first candidate conference events, and obtaining an operation permission for the online document set by the currently logged-in user for the target conference event; then, obtaining (103) a participant account number participating in the target conference event, and setting an operation permission of a participant corresponding to the participant account number for the online document based on the operation permission; and sending (104) prompt information to the participant, such that the participant accesses the online document based on the prompt information.
US11240044B2
Embodiments of the present systems and methods may provide techniques for verifying the correct application purpose for applications that serve multiple purposes and to determine the correct purpose for each requested data access. For example, in an embodiment, a method for controlling application access to data implemented in a computer comprising a processor, memory accessible by the processor, and computer program instructions stored in the memory and executable by the processor may comprise: receiving an application comprising a plurality of application parts, each application part associated with a declared data access purpose and generating a cryptographic certificate for each application part to be certified by determining whether a declared data access purpose for each application part to be certified is correct and the only data access purpose for that part, wherein the declared purpose is included in purpose information associated with each application part to be certified.
US11240041B2
This disclosure relates to blockchain-based transaction verification. Some aspects include receiving, by a blockchain system, transaction data to be verified. The transaction data includes plaintext transaction information and at least one piece of verifier signature data. The plaintext transaction information includes a designated-verifier information set that identifies verifiers that have been designated to verify the plaintext transaction information and that includes, for each of one or more verifiers, a piece of designated-verifier information. Each piece of signature data includes a digital signature generated by one of the verifiers. The blockchain system obtains an authenticated information set by verifying each digital signature. The authenticated information set includes the piece of designated-verifier information for each verifier for which the digital signature is successfully verified. The blockchain system determines that the transaction data is verified successfully when the authenticated information set includes a pre-determined quantity of pieces of designated-verifier information.
US11240036B2
Implementations of the present specification disclose a consensus verification method, apparatus, and device. In the implementations of the present specification, for each piece of service data, if first consensus verification on the service data fails, a first node determines whether the service data satisfies a predetermined retry condition instead of directly considering the service data to be invalid. If the predetermined retry condition is satisfied, then the service data is stored as service data to be retried. The first node can perform the first consensus verification on the service data to be retried in response to determining that a predetermined retry execution condition is triggered.
US11240034B2
A consensus method and system in a consortium blockchain is provided. An example method includes, when a first consensus node in a consensus network of the consortium blockchain does not complete a consensus operation on target data on which a consensus is to be reached within a predetermined time period, the first consensus node broadcasts a ViewChange message in the consensus network based on a P set and a Q set constructed from an ECHO message. For a received ViewChange message, a second consensus node sends a ViewChangeACK message corresponding to the received ViewChange message to a second consensus primary node. When the second consensus primary node receives N−f−2 ViewChangeACK messages from consensus nodes, the second consensus primary node obtains identical P sets and a identical Q sets in the received ViewChange message. The second consensus primary node makes a view change decision based on the received ViewChange message.
US11240033B2
A method includes determining a password-length threshold. The password-length threshold may comprise an integer. The method also includes obtaining, for a first user, a set of nucleotide locations. The number of nucleotide locations in the set may be greater than or equal to the integer. The method also includes obtaining a first sample of the user's DNA. The method also includes determining, in the first sample, a nucleotide at each nucleotide location in the set of nucleotide locations, resulting in a first nucleotide-password sequence. The method also includes performing a one-way hashing operation on the first nucleotide-password sequence with a first hashing algorithm, resulting in a first hashed password.
US11240019B2
Method, device, and system for deriving keys are provided in the field of mobile communications technologies. The method for deriving keys may be used, for example, in a handover process of a User Equipment (UE) from an Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (EUTRAN) to a Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (UTRAN). If a failure occurred in a first handover, the method ensures that the key derived by a source Mobility Management Entity (MME) for a second handover process of the UE is different from the key derived for the first handover process of the UE. This is done by changing input parameters used in the key derivation, so as to prevent the situation in the prior art that once the key used on one Radio Network Controller (RNC) is obtained, the keys on other RNCs can be derived accordingly, thereby enhancing the network security.
US11240010B2
Systems and techniques are provided for random oracles in open networks. A node computing device of an open network may choose a random secret. The random secret may be a numeric or alphanumeric value. The node computing device may distribute shares of the random secret to node computing devices that are members of essential subsets for the node computing device. The node computing device may receive a share of a random secret from a second node computing device. The node computing device may be a member of an essential subset of the second node computing device. The node computing device may sign a deterministic seed message using the share of the random secret received from the second node computing device to generate a signature share. The node computing device may reveal the signature share and may receive a random value in response.
US11240006B2
The present disclosure includes apparatuses, methods, and systems for secure communication for a key replacement. An embodiment includes a processing resource, memory having a first operator's key, and a vehicular communication component. The vehicular communication component can be configured to provide, to a server, a public key generated along with a private key and decrypt, in response to receipt of a second operator's key (e.g., received in response to providing the public key to the server) encrypted using the public key, the second operator's key using the private key. The vehicular communication component can be configured to replace, in response to decrypting the encrypted second operator's key, the first operator's key with the second operator's key.
US11240004B2
A system, method, and computer-readable storage medium is provided for creating first and second blockchain instances, each comprising representative blocks corresponding to steps in first and second multistep processes, respectively; performing a linking operation to link a block in the first blockchain instance to a block in the second blockchain instance; receiving change evidence data pertaining to steps in one of the first and second multi-step processes; and performing an update operation comprising updating one of the first and second blockchain instances based on said change evidence data.
US11239989B2
The present disclosure relates to an in-vehicle communication device and a time synchronization method thereof. The in-vehicle communication device includes a clock generator for generating a clock signal, a local counter for counting the number of pulses of the clock signal, a transceiver for receiving a message via an in-vehicle communication network, and a processor that determines whether the message received via the transceiver is a synchronization message, extracts synchronization time information from the synchronization message, and adjusts a count value of the local counter based on the synchronization time information to perform time synchronization.
US11239984B2
Embodiments of the disclosure are generally directed to disabling sounding, resource-block allocation, and various full-duplex (FDX) capabilities in a particular portion of a spectrum used in FDX-enabled cable networks. The disclosure further describes using an upstream mode of communication in the particular portion of the spectrum originally designated for FDX communication. In another aspect, the disclosure can thereby facilitate an increase in upstream capacity on the cable network, for example, a fifteen-fold increase in the upstream capacity. In some embodiments, control messages can be transmitted from a controller node to devices on the network periodically, describing the usage of the FDX portion of the spectrum for upstream transmission. The control messages can include medium access control (MAC) management messages and/or tag-length-value (TLV) messages.
US11239975B2
A terminal apparatus includes: a reception unit configured to: receive a PDCCH or an EPDCCH with a DCI format and a first RRC parameter, and decode a PDSCH according to detection of the PDCCH or the EPDCCH; and a transmission unit configured to: transmit a HARQ-ACK in a subframe n according to detection of the PDSCH in a subframe n−k. Whether the PUCCH resource is given at least based on the first RRC parameter is determined at least based on part of or all of the first condition and the second condition described below: first condition: the value k, and second condition: which one of CSS and USS is a search space to which a physical downlink control channel including the DCI format is mapped.
US11239974B2
Provided are a data transmission method and apparatus. The method includes that a first node configures configuration information of each time unit within a transmission period, where the configuration information includes a transmission direction and transmission content in each time unit, that the first node notifies the configuration information to a second node, and that the first node performs data transceiving with the second node according to the configuration information.
US11239973B2
Transmit device and method therein, for providing transmission burst information to a receive device by downlink control signalling. The transmit device is configured to: transmit a Downlink Control Information, DCI (210-1), comprising the transmission burst information, wherein the DCI (210-1) has the same number of bits as a DCI format used for PDSCH scheduling. Also a receive device (120) and method (600) therein is disclosed.
US11239967B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. Generally, the described techniques provide for determining a suitable pattern for transmitting reference signals used for positioning on allocated resources. In particular, the pattern may be used to assign the reference signals to frequency tones across multiple symbols such that the frequency tones to which the reference signals are mapped in at least two consecutive symbols are non-adjacent (e.g., separated by at least one frequency tone). In some cases, a wireless device may determine the pattern used to assign reference signals used for positioning autonomously (e.g., based on configured algorithms or a look-up table), and, in other cases, a wireless device (e.g., a user equipment (UE)) may determine the pattern used to assign reference signals used for positioning based on a configuration received from another wireless device (e.g., a base station).
US11239966B2
Wireless communications devices and methods are adapted to facilitate DMRS sequence grouping. In one example, information is obtained for a transmission scheduled with pi/2 BPSK modulation, the transmission including two or more symbols scheduled for a DMRS (DMRS symbols). Respective DMRS sequences may be identified for each of the DMRS symbols, where each DMRS sequence subsequent to another DMRS sequence is dependent on its immediately preceding DMRS sequence, and the transmission may be sent with the identified DMRS sequences in the two or more DMRS symbols. In one example, a first transmission may be sent to schedule a second transmission from another device with pi/2 BPSK modulation, where the second transmission includes two or more DMRS symbols. The scheduled second transmission may be received with at least one DMRS symbol including a DMRS sequence based on its immediately preceding DMRS sequence. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also included.
US11239963B2
A system and method for transmitting data ultrasonically through biological tissue employs a network of a plurality of nodes, at least a portion of the nodes implantable within the biological tissue. At least one implanted node includes a transmitter having an orthogonal frequency division multiplex signal generator to encode an ultrasonic signal for transmission through the biological tissue to an ultrasonic receiver at another node.
US11239959B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive a transmission comprising an indication of at least one failed code block group in a plurality of code block groups, wherein a code block group comprises a plurality of code blocks, re-assign code blocks to different code block groups (CBGs) according to a total number of code blocks (CBs) across the at least one failed code block group (CBG) and a maximum number of code block groups (CBGs) per a transport block (TB), and configure a retransmission based on the re-assigned code blocks (CBs).
US11239955B2
A radio device (110) and/or network node (105) support multiple HARQ processes. In particular, responsive to the radio device (110) receiving a resource grant for a first HARQ process, the radio device (110) starts or restarts a timer that configures the radio device (110) to monitor for a resource grant of a second HARQ process. Additionally or alternatively, the network node (105) transmits a resource grant for a first HARQ process and a resource grant for a second HARQ process to the same radio device (110).
US11239953B2
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for triggering HARQ-ACK feedback for a downlink slot set. One apparatus includes a receiver that receives a first control signal from a base unit for triggering HARQ-ACK feedback for a downlink slot set. The downlink slot set comprises multiple downlink slots. The apparatus includes a processor that identifies the downlink slot set in response to the first control signal and a transmitter that transmits UCI to the base unit in a slot determined by the first control signal. Here, the UCI comprises the HARQ-ACK feedback for the identified downlink slot set. The HARQ-ACK feedback for the downlink slot set corresponds to all downlink transmissions in the downlink slot set and is transmitted in one UCI.
US11239947B2
Methods, systems, and devices for encoding and decoding are described. To encode a vector, an encoder allocates information bits of the vector to channel instances of a channel that are separated into groups. The groups may vary in size and allocation of the information bits is based on a base sequence of a given length. During decoding, a decoder assigns different bit types to channels instances by dividing a codeword into a plurality of groups and assigning bit types to channel instances of the plurality of groups using the base sequence.
US11239940B2
A method of joint encoding schemes with interleaver and tone mapper for multiple-resource unit (multi-RU) operation involves performing joint encoding of a plurality of information bits to generate a plurality of encoded bit sequences. The method also involves processing the plurality of encoded bit sequences by interleaving and tone mapping the encoded bit sequences with respect to a plurality of resource units (RUs) on either or both of an aggregate-RU basis and an individual-RU basis to generate a plurality of processed bit sequences. The method further involves transmitting the plurality of processed bit sequences over the plurality of RUs.
US11239939B2
A method for a user equipment (UE) to receive physical downlink control channels (PDCCHs) with a first sub-carrier spacing (SCS) includes receiving a bitmap indicating symbols of a slot that are first symbols of control resource sets (CORESETs) for PDCCH receptions, determining, based on the bitmap, a first number of symbols that is a smallest number of symbols in between a first symbol of PDCCH receptions in first CORESETs and a first symbol of PDCCH receptions in second CORESETs, determining, based on the first number of symbols and the SCS, a first maximum number of non-overlapping control channel elements (CCEs), and receiving the PDCCHs with the first SCS according to the first maximum number of non-overlapping CCEs.
US11239934B2
Embodiments disclosed herein provide techniques to selectively distribute Precision Time Protocol (PTP) data in a network. The network can include multiple different network devices (e.g., switches) connected to form a network architecture (e.g., a spine/leaf architecture). Rather than distributing the PTP data (e.g., PTP timestamps) through all the network devices in order to synchronize local clocks to a global, master clock, the embodiments herein describe an out-of-band distribution network which selectively distributes the PTP data to select network devices in the network.
US11239927B2
A method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided for wireless communication at a user equipment. The UE receives an indication from a base station that a medium access control-control element (MAC-CE) activation of a pathloss reference signal is enabled. The UE receives a MAC-CE activating the pathloss reference signal. The UE determines the pathloss reference signal based on the MAC-CE and the indication that indicates that the MAC-CE activation of the pathloss reference signal is enabled. Then, the UE estimates a downlink pathloss based on the pathloss reference signal that is activated by the MAC-CE.
US11239923B2
An apparatus and a method for transmission system are disclosed. According to an embodiment, a voltage standing wave ratio (VSWR) detection apparatus, comprising: a signal processing circuit with 1-bit analog-to-digital converter (ADC) functionality configured to receive a forward coupled signal in a transmission line of an antenna system, receive a reverse coupled signal in the transmission line of the antenna system, detect the forward coupled signal and the reverse coupled signal, convert the forward detected signal and the reverse detected signal to an analog voltage signal mapped to a return loss value, convert by the 1-bit ADC the analog voltage signal into a digital pulse train and output the digital pulse train to a digital interface of a processing device or unit.
US11239919B2
A method, system and apparatus for optimizing parameters between two optical coherent transceivers connected via an optical link, including determining performance of a second optical receiver; wherein the second optical transceiver uses a set of parameters; and inputting information into a side channel communication between a first optical transceiver and the second optical transceiver to update the set of parameters for the second transceiver.
US11239914B2
A light fixture includes a housing defining a peripheral wall around a reference axis and being provided with a base defining a light emission window. The light fixture further includes a photoreceiver mounted on the base and configured to receive a light beam from the remote terminal carrying a data signal, called the uplink signal, a lighting module arranged in the housing and configured to emit a light beam carrying a data signal, called the downlink signal, through the window and a module for processing data signals according to at least one communication protocol of the network. The light fixture includes a printed circuit board, called the processing board, extending transversely inside the housing and remote from the base, on which the processing module is mounted.
US11239905B2
The disclosed technology relates to systems and methods for tasking satellite constellations. A method is disclosed herein for receiving, from a resource database of a satellite control system, knowledge data corresponding to a plurality of components associated with a satellite constellation communications system. The plurality of components can include one or more satellites associated with a constellation. The method includes processing the knowledge data according at least one received mission objective. Processing the knowledge data can include determining a status of at least one satellite in the constellation. The method includes scheduling the satellite control system based at least in part on the received mission objective and the processed knowledge data; initiating communication with the at least one satellite in the constellation according to the scheduling; receiving updated status information for at least one component of the plurality of components; and storing, in the resource database, the updated status information.
US11239904B2
A communication system has a phased antenna array configured to communicate via a plurality of beams with a wireless device, such as user equipment (e.g., a smart phone). The plurality of beams define a field of view of the phased antenna array, the field of view having a plurality of cells and each of the plurality of beams is associated with one of the plurality of cells within the field of view. A processing device detects the wireless device within the field of view and determines a coarse geographic location of the wireless device within the field of view of the wireless device when the wireless device is within the field of view, or within a cell. The system further determines a fine geographic location for the wireless device based on frequency offset (due to Doppler) and signal flight time.
US11239903B2
A wireless communication system beamforms an uplink from an airborne transceiver to a terrestrial transceiver. The airborne transceiver comprises antennas that have an antenna type an aperture beamwidth. The airborne transceiver transfers a transceiver ID to the terrestrial transceiver. The terrestrial transceiver initiates aerial uplink beamforming for the antenna type and the aperture beamwidth based on the airborne transceiver ID. The terrestrial transceiver determines uplink beamforming metrics and altitude for the airborne transmitter. The terrestrial transceiver generates an uplink beamforming instruction and an uplink power instruction for the antenna type and the aperture beamwidth of the airborne transceiver based on the uplink beamforming metrics and altitude. The terrestrial transceiver transfers the uplink beamforming instruction and the uplink power instruction to the airborne transceiver. The airborne transceiver beamforms, amplifies, and transmits an uplink wireless signal to the terrestrial transceiver per the uplink beamforming instruction and the uplink power instruction.
US11239883B1
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media are configured to determine data for subcarriers of a cable modem signal. Values which characterize the cable modem signal can be generated. A plot can then be generated. The plot can depict one or more of the values which characterize the cable modem signal.
US11239881B2
Methods, systems, and apparatuses are presented to transmit fragmented communication frames, such as fragmented ultra-wideband (UWB) frames. In some implementations, a communication frame may be divided into a plurality of fragments, and the fragments may be transmitted across a plurality of regulatory test intervals. E.g., each fragment may be transmitted within a mutually-exclusive regulatory test interval. In some implementations, each fragment may be constrained in time and/or transmission power, such that the total energy emitted during transmission of the fragment remains within a maximum energy limit defined for the regulatory test interval, e.g., by a regulatory entity. In some implementations, the sum of the energy emitted during transmission of two or more fragments may exceed the maximum energy limit defined for the regulatory test interval.
US11239873B2
A front-end circuit includes: a power divider that performs power division on a radio frequency signal inputted to an input terminal, using a predetermined division ratio, and outputs resultant radio frequency signals from output terminals; a filter connected to one of the output terminals and having a first passband; and a filter connected to the other of the output terminals and having a second passband having a frequency range that at least overlaps a frequency range of the first passband.
US11239869B2
A multistage Doherty power amplifier and a transmitter are provided, and the multistage Doherty power amplifier includes: a generalized carrier amplifier, which is a nested 2-way inverted Doherty sub amplifier, and a generalized peaking amplifier, connected to the generalized carrier amplifier, which is a nested single ended sub amplifier or a nested 2-way normal Doherty sub amplifier, the generalized carrier amplifier and the generalized peaking amplifier are arranged in a generalized 2-way inverted Doherty power amplifier form. With the multistage Doherty power amplifier, signal power probability distribution function (PDF) oriented for a cost-effective multi stage Doherty PA design is applied, and 2-way normal and inverted Doherty PA cells are used as basic units to construct multistage Doherty PA with gain extension effect.
US11239865B2
Disclosed are devices, systems and methods for error correction decoding using an iterative decoding scheme. An error correction circuit includes a node processor to perform a plurality of iterations for updating values of one or more variable nodes and one or more check nodes using initial values assigned to the one or more variable nodes, respectively, a trapping set detector to detect a trapping set in at least one of the plurality of iterations by applying a predetermined trapping set determination policy, and a post processor to reduce at least one of the initial values or invert at least one of values of the variable nodes corresponding to an iteration in which the trapping set is detected, upon detection of the trapping set.
US11239857B2
An open-loop digital-to-analog converter (DAC) circuit may include a delta-sigma modulator, a decode block responsive to the delta-sigma modulator configured to perform a DAC decode operation, a plurality of DAC elements responsive to the DAC decode operation, an analog output driver responsive to the plurality of DAC elements, a test signal generator configured to generate a test signal that is responsive to inputs of the plurality of DAC elements, and a synchronizer configured to enable replication of the test signal at an external test system coupled to the open-loop DAC circuit in order to generate a matching test signal at the external test system that matches the test signal generated by the test signal generator.
US11239856B1
An image sensor may include an analog-to-digital converter. The converter may have a input capacitor, one or more metal-oxide-semiconductor capacitors, a digital-to-analog converter, and a comparator. An input signal may be sampled onto the input capacitor while the metal-oxide-semiconductor capacitors are activated. A few conversion steps may be performed while the metal-oxide-semiconductor capacitors are activated. After the few conversion steps, the metal-oxide-semiconductor capacitors are deactivated to realize a voltage gain, which makes the converter less sensitive to comparator noise.
US11239843B2
A system and apparatus can include a first port configured to support a first link width; a second port configured to support a second link width, the second link width different from the first link width; and physical layer logic to receive from the first port a first data block arranged according to the first link width and frequency; create at least one second data block arranged according the second link width and frequency, the at least one second data block including data bytes from the first data block arranged sequentially in the at least one second data block; and transmit the at least one second data block to the second port.
US11239842B1
A level down shifter circuit includes a latch and an assist circuit. The latch is configured to generate a digital shifted signal and a complementary shifted signal by a voltage downshift of a digital input signal and a complementary input signal. The digital input signal and the complementary input signal are in a first voltage domain. The digital shifted signal and the complementary shifted signal are in a second voltage domain. The second voltage domain has a smaller voltage range than the first voltage domain. The assist circuit is configured to alternately pull the digital shifted signal and the complementary shifted signal to an intermediate voltage in response to the digital input signal and the complementary input signal. The intermediate voltage is in the second voltage domain.
US11239837B2
A switch device includes a switching element that connects/disconnects a current path from a power supply terminal to a ground terminal via a load, and an overcurrent protection circuit that limits output current flowing in the switching element to be an overcurrent limit value or less. When an output short circuit of the load is detected, the overcurrent protection circuit decreases the overcurrent limit value to be lower as a power supply voltage is higher. In addition, the switch device preferably includes a switching element that connects/disconnects a current path from a power supply terminal to a ground terminal via a load, an intermittent control unit that intermittently drives the switching element when an abnormality is detected, and an output voltage monitoring portion that disables the intermittent control unit until an output voltage applied to the load reaches its target value.
US11239836B2
A circuit and a method for providing a switchable current linkage between a first terminal and a second terminal is presented. The circuit has a transistor switch and a charge pump circuit. An output node of the charge pump circuit is coupled to a control terminal of the transistor device, and an input node of the charge pump circuit is coupled to a predetermined voltage. The charge pump generates a boosted voltage. A drive circuit provides feedback control for the current flowing through the transistor. The drive circuit also controls the voltage magnitude at the input node of the charge pump circuit in accordance with the feedback control or to control a magnitude of a voltage at the control terminal of the transistor device in accordance with the feedback control.
US11239832B1
A circuit to generate complementary signals comprises a first string of inverters with two inverters in series to produce a true signal in response to an input signal, and a second string of inverters with three inverters in series to produce a complement signal in response to the input signal. A compensation capacitance circuit is connected to a node in the first string of inverters. The compensation capacitance circuit can add capacitance to the node to increase a resistance-capacitance RC delay at the node in a manner which emulates the delay across PVT conditions an inverter in the second string of inverters.
US11239831B2
In an example, an apparatus includes a level-shifting circuit and a ramp detector. The level-shifting circuit has a current choke and a transistor coupled across the current choke, the level-shifting circuit adapted to be coupled to a first voltage source. The ramp detector has a ramp detector input adapted to be coupled to the first voltage source and a ramp detector output coupled to the transistor, the ramp detector adapted to be coupled to a second voltage source.
US11239826B2
A filter device includes series and parallel arm resonators provided at a filter chip and inductors electrically connected in series with respective ones of the parallel arm resonators. A first inductor having the highest inductance of the inductors is electrically connected in series with a first parallel arm resonator having the highest anti-resonant frequency of the parallel arm resonators. One end of the first parallel arm resonator and one end of a second parallel arm resonator in other ones of the parallel arm resonators are electrically connected to a same wiring line in wiring lines separated by the series arm resonators on a line electrically connecting an input terminal and an output terminal of the filter chip. The other ends of the first and second parallel arm resonators are respectively electrically connected to first and second ground terminals of the filter chip.
US11239822B2
Acoustic resonator devices, filters, and methods are disclosed. An acoustic resonator includes a substrate and a lithium niobate (LN) plate having front and back surfaces and a thickness ts. The back surface faces the substrate. A portion of the LN plate forms a diaphragm spanning a cavity in the substrate. An interdigital transducer (IDT) is on the front surface of the LN plate with interleaved fingers of the IDT on the diaphragm. The LN plate and the IDT are configured such that a radio frequency signal applied to the IDT excites a shear primary acoustic wave in the diaphragm. Euler angles of the LN plate are [0°, β, 0°], where 0≤β≤60°. A thickness of the interleaved fingers of the IDT is greater than or equal to 0.8 ts and less than or equal to 2.0 ts.
US11239821B2
An electronic component device includes first and second mount boards, and first, second, and third electronic components. The first electronic component includes a first major surface and a second major surface, and is disposed on the first mount board. The first major surface is positioned closer to the first mount board than the second major surface. The second electronic component includes a third major surface and a fourth major surface, and is disposed on the second mount board. The third major surface is positioned closer to the second mount board than the fourth major surface. The third electronic component includes a fifth major surface and a sixth major surface, and is disposed on the second mount board. The fifth major surface is positioned closer to the second mount board than the sixth major surface. The second major surface directly contacts the fourth and sixth major surfaces, or indirectly contacts the fourth and sixth major surfaces with a bonding layer interposed therebetween.
US11239816B1
Acoustic resonator devices and filters are disclosed. An acoustic resonator includes a substrate and a piezoelectric plate having parallel front and back surfaces, the back surface attached to the substrate. A decoupling dielectric layer is on the front surface of the piezoelectric plate. An interdigital transducer (IDT) is formed over the decoupling dielectric layer such that interleaved fingers of the IDT are over a portion of the piezoelectric plate suspended across a cavity formed in the substrate.
US11239815B2
A resonance matching circuit used in a power supply system that supplies electric power by an electric field coupling method is provided. The resonance matching circuit includes an inverter circuit that functions as a voltage source, parallel transformer devices that are connected in parallel to the inverter circuit and transmit a current supplied from the inverter circuit, and a timing adjustment circuit that is located between the inverter circuit and the parallel transformer devices and adjusts an input timing of a pulse current supplied by the inverter circuit.
US11239814B2
The present subject matter provides technical solutions for the technical problems facing cryogenic ion traps by providing a cryogenic radio-frequency (RF) resonator that is compact, monolithic, modular, and impedance-matched to a cryogenic ion trap. The cryogenic RF resonator described herein is power-efficient, properly impedance-matched to the RF source, has a stable gain profile, and is compatible with a low temperature and ultra-high vacuum environment. In some examples, the gain profile is selected so that the cryogenic RF resonator acts as a cryogenic RF amplifier. This cryogenic RF resonator improves the performance of ion traps by reducing or minimizing the heat load and reducing or minimizing the unwanted noise that may erroneously drive trapped ions. These features of the present subject matter improve the performance of atomic clocks and mass spectrometers, and especially improve the performance of trapped ion quantum computers.
US11239808B2
A power amplifier and power amplification circuit are described herein. An illustrative power amplifier is disclosed to include an input terminal, a drive amplifier connected to the input terminal, and an impedance modulator having a capacitance that is adjusted inversely and proportionately relative to a signal output by the drive amplifier, wherein the impedance modulator provides a feedback loop between an output of the drive amplifier and the input terminal.
US11239801B2
An amplifier circuit configuration capable of processing non-contiguous intra-band carrier aggregate (CA) signals using amplifiers is disclosed herein. In some cases, each of a plurality of amplifiers is an amplifier configured as a cascode (i.e., a two-stage amplifier having two transistors, the first configured as a “common source” input transistor, e.g., input field effect transistor (FET), and the second configured in a “common gate” configuration as a cascode output transistor, (e.g. cascode output FET). In other embodiments, the amplifier may have additional transistors (i.e., more than two stages and/or stacked transistors). The amplifier circuit configuration can be operated in either single mode or split mode. A switchable coupling is placed between the drain of the input FETs of each amplifier within the amplifier circuit configuration. During split mode, the coupling is added to the circuit to allow some of the signal present at the drain of each input FET to be coupled to the drain of the other input FET.
US11239789B2
A floating photovoltaic power station and a load-bearing system thereof are provided according to the present application. The load-bearing system of the floating photovoltaic power station includes an aisle floating body providing buoyancy and forming a first operation and maintenance passage. The aisle floating body is provided with a fixing portion for fixedly connecting with a front side of a photovoltaic assembly, and one photovoltaic assembly is only fixedly connected to one aisle floating body located on the front side of the photovoltaic assembly. In the load-bearing system of the floating photovoltaic power station, the aisle floating body can support the photovoltaic assembly, and can provide buoyancy at the same time.
US11239787B2
A control system and method of controlling a multi-phase electric machine for controlling the flow of electrical current between a voltage source and the multi-phase electric machine or other application/load. The control system includes, between each phase of the multi-phase electric machine and the voltage source: a high side diode and a high side switch positioned in parallel between a positive terminal of the voltage source and the electric machine with the high side diode being reverse biased with regard to the positive terminal; and a low side diode and a low side switch positioned in parallel between a negative terminal of the voltage source and the electric machine with the low side diode being reverse biased with regard to the electric machine. The control system operates the high side and low side switches to provide efficient operation of the electric machine.
US11239781B2
A motor driving circuit includes a wiring pattern formed in a circuit board, which is configured such that electrical current flowing into a motor flows through the wiring pattern; and a current measurement circuit configured to measure an amount of electrical current flowing through the wiring pattern, based on an amount of voltage drop occurring in response to flowing of the electrical current. The motor driving circuit includes a drive unit configured to adjust a current measurement value measured by the current measurement circuit, based on first adjustment data that compensates for variation in resistance of the wiring pattern caused by an individual difference in the circuit board, and to drive the motor based on an adjusted current value which is the adjusted current measurement value.
US11239777B2
The present disclosure relates to a method of tuning an electric charge extraction circuit of a vibrational energy harvester having a mechanical resonator, the method comprising varying, during a first phase, first and second parameters (ψ1,ψ2) of the electric charge extraction circuit based on detected harvested power (PHARVEST), each of the first and second parameters (ψ1,ψ2) influencing the amount of damping of the mechanical resonator and at least the first parameter (ψ1) influencing the resonance frequency of the mechanical resonator, wherein the first and second parameters (ψ1,ψ2) are varied during the first phase such that the amount of damping remains constant or varies by less than a first significant amount and the resonance frequency reaches a final level.
US11239775B1
The invention provides a separately excited direct current motor drive apparatus and electric equipment. The separately excited direct current motor drive apparatus includes: a separately excited direct current motor; a direct current power supply; an armature chopper; and a field chopper, wherein the armature chopper has m armature chopper units, each armature chopper unit has a pair of armature power output terminals and w armature switch control ends, the field chopper has n field chopper units, each field chopper unit has a pair of field power output terminals, the separately excited direct current motor has m pairs of armature external terminals and n pairs of field external terminals, the m pairs of armature external terminals are connected to the m pairs of armature power output terminals in a one-to-one correspondence manner, the n pairs of field external terminals are connected to the n pairs of field power output terminals in a one-to-one correspondence manner, m is a positive integer not less than 2, n is a positive integer not less than 2, and w is 1, 2 or 4.
US11239774B2
Various embodiments of a power wand are provided. The power wand may be utilized with an awning assembly including a motor to power and direct rotation of the motor. Therefore, the power wand will electrically drive and direct extension and retraction of the awning assembly. The power wand may be a portable hand-held device which provides battery powered operation of the awning motor. The use of the wand therefore eliminates the connection of awning wiring to the electrical system of the recreational vehicle (RV) or other mobile or fixed structure to which the awning may be mounted.
US11239773B2
A method for controlling the start-up phase of a sensorless permanent magnet synchronous motor, the method including: 1) according to the formula T=K×Iq where T is a torque, K is a coefficient, and Iq is a current on a q-axis of a coordinate system of a motor mathematical model, based on a maximum output torque Tmax of a motor, calculating a maximum current Iq_max on the q-axis, setting the maximum current Iq_max as an upper limit of current on the q-axis, and controlling the motor to run in an open-loop control mode; and 2) when an actual running speed V of the motor reaches a first target speed V_ref1, reducing the maximum current Iq_max to a target current Iq0 on the q-axis corresponding to a target torque T0 set by users, and controlling the motor to run in a closed-loop control mode under the first target speed V_ref1.
US11239765B2
A multi-level circuit, a three-phase multi-level circuit, and a control method are provided. The multi-level circuit includes two groups of bus capacitors (C1 and C2) that are connected in series; a plurality of switching transistor branches that are connected in parallel to the capacitors, where each switching transistor branch includes a first half bridge (Q1 and Q2) and a second half bridge (Q3 and Q4), and a common terminal of the two half bridges is grounded (N); and two negative coupled inductors (L1 and L2), where each input terminal of each negative coupled inductor is connected to a common terminal (A1 and A2) of two switching transistors in the first half bridge in only one of the switching transistor branches. In this circuit, a quantity of groups of bus capacitors is decreased and circuit design complexity is reduced. Further, a dropout voltage of the switching transistors is reduced.
US11239764B2
A voltage-source converter, VSC, control system including an active damper, AD, a direct-voltage controller, DVC, and an alternating-voltage controller, AVC. The VSC control system is configured to control a VSC. The AVC is configured to regulate, using an integrator, an ac-bus voltage of the VSC by calculating a q component of a current reference vector for the VSC. The DVC is configured to regulate, using an integrator, a dc-bus voltage of the VSC by calculating a d component of the current reference vector. The AD is configured to amplify a vectoral difference between the ac-bus voltage and a corresponding reference, and to add the q component of the amplified vectoral difference to the q component of the current reference vector and to an input of the integrator of the AVC.
US11239762B2
An object of the present invention is to ensure the reliability of a capacitor element by appropriately securing a heat path around the capacitor element. A power converter according to the present invention includes: a power semiconductor circuit unit that converts DC power into AC power; a capacitor element that smooths the DC power; a DC-side bus bar that transmits the DC power; a capacitor terminal that is connected to an electrode surface of the capacitor element and to the DC-side bus bar; and a case that forms a capacitor housing portion for housing the capacitor element, in which the DC-side bus bar has: a power supply-side terminal; a main body portion that is arranged at a position facing a bottom of the capacitor housing portion with the capacitor element interposed therebetween; and an extending member that is formed between the case and the capacitor element and formed from the main body portion toward the bottom of the capacitor housing portion, and that does not contact the electrode surface.
US11239757B2
There is provided a power conversion apparatus including: a first power supply terminal and a second power supply terminal which are paired with each other; a third power supply terminal and a fourth power supply terminal which are paired with each other; 1st to nth switches sequentially connected between the first power supply terminal and the fourth power supply terminal; 1st to nth rectifier devices sequentially connected between the first power supply terminal and the third power supply terminal; and each of 1st to (n−1)th capacitors which is physically disposed and electrically connected between an Nth terminal between an Nth switch and a (N+1)th switch, and an Nth terminal between an Nth rectifier device and a (N+1)th rectifier device, in which the 1st to nth switches are disposed to be physically aligned with the 1st to nth rectifier devices, respectively.
US11239756B2
Embodiments of the application disclose a troubleshooting method and device. The method is applicable to an inverter power supply system in the power supply device. The inverter power supply system includes at least two direct current to direct current (DC/DC) power supply modules, and any DC/DC power supply module of the at least two DC/DC power supply modules includes fuses F1 and F2, relays K1 and K2, inductors L1 and L2, switch modules Q1, Q2, and Q3, and direct current bus capacitors C1 and C2. The troubleshooting method includes: if it is detected that any DC/DC power supply module of the at least two DC/DC power supply modules is a faulty module, determining a faulty component in the faulty module; and if the faulty component is a C1 or a C2, and the inverter power supply system is in a battery discharging mode, turning on a Q2 in the faulty module, so that an F1 and an F2 of the faulty module are blown, thereby disconnecting the faulty module from another DC/DC power supply module.
US11239748B2
A water area apparatus according to one aspect of embodiments includes: a first device; a second device whose power consumption is smaller than that of the first device; a Power Factor Correction (PFC) circuit that is connected to an Alternating-Current power supply, reduces harmonic current, and steps up a voltage to output the stepped-up voltage; and a regulator that is connected to the PFC circuit and steps down a voltage to obtain a constant voltage, wherein the voltage stepped up by the PFC circuit is applied to the first device, and the voltage stepped down by the regulator is applied to the second device.
US11239747B2
Current sensing apparatus in power factor correction circuits and related methods are disclosed. An example power factor correction circuit includes a first Gallium Nitride (GaN) transistor having a first current terminal and a second current terminal, a second GaN transistor having a third current terminal and a fourth current terminal, a first diode having a first anode, a second diode having a second anode, the second anode coupled to the first anode, and a resistor having a first terminal and a second terminal, the first terminal coupled to the second current terminal and the fourth current terminal, the second terminal coupled to the first anode and the second anode.
US11239741B2
A semiconductor switch control circuit includes: a pulse signal generating part configured to generate a pulse signal which becomes a time reference for performing an ON/OFF control of a semiconductor switch; a drive current generating part configured to generate a drive current based on the pulse signal which the pulse signal generating part generates and to supply the drive current to a gate electrode of the semiconductor switch; a current detecting part configured to detect a drain current or a source current of the semiconductor switch; and a drive current control part configured to have a function of controlling a drive current which the drive current generating part generates based on the pulse signal which the pulse signal generating part generates and the current which the current detecting part detects.
US11239738B2
A variable-speed magnetic coupling having a radially movable magnet, comprising a drive disc assembly (I), a driven disc assembly (II), and a speed adjusting device assembly (III). Relative rotation of a speed adjustment sleeve (15) with respect to a drive shaft (16) is achieved by means of contact and fitting of a cylindrical pin (20) with respect to a vertical recess on an inner wall of the drive shaft and to an inclined recess on an inner wall of the speed adjustment sleeve. The speed adjustment sleeve is connected to a circular slotted disc (18) by means of a screw. A permanent magnet (10) is attached to a permanent magnet bearer (9) and inserted into a rectangular through hole of a circular frame (13), and a radial movement of the permanent magnet is enabled by means of a cam and groove sliding block mechanism consisting of the circular slotted disc, the circular frame, the permanent magnet bearer, and the permanent magnet. By moving a movement block (21) to drive the movement pin (20) to slide in the recesses of the drive shaft and the speed adjustment sleeve and then drive the speed adjustment sleeve to rotate, the present invention enables a radial movement of the permanent magnet, and then changes a coupling area or an air gap distance between the permanent magnet and conductive rings (8, 11) on two sides, thus changing a magnetic flux density of the air gap, and accordingly enabling speed adjustment.
US11239732B2
An electrical rotating machine, such as a generator or motor, communicates power from a stationary location to the rotating rotor of the rotating machine via opposed pairs of capacitor plates, one plate of each pair rotating with the rotor and one plate of each pair fixed not to rotate. Larger plate gaps suitable for mechanically rigid plates are possible through high-voltage and high-frequency AC signals managed by using a dielectric support design for the capacitor plates minimizing dielectric loss and/or impedance matching on the rotor.
US11239724B2
A motor assembly includes a motor, a housing that houses the motor, an inverter that is electrically connected to the motor, an inverter case that houses the inverter and is provided integrally with the housing, a wire harness electrically connected between a connector of the inverter case and a connector of the housing, a cooling water hose connecting between a hose nipple of the inverter case and a hose nipple of the housing, and a retainer to fix the wire harness and the cooling water hose in a bundled state to the housing. The housing includes an axle connecting portion to which an axle of a vehicle is connected, and the wire harness is farther away from the axle than the cooling water hose at a position facing the axle.
US11239723B2
An interconnection device for providing an electrical connection between a motor and an inverter is disclosed. The interconnection device comprises a base member having a first receiving aperture arranged relative to a second receiving aperture, and a mounting interface that provides for direct coupling of the base member to the motor. A substrate is coupled to the base member and comprises a first connector assembly, a second connector assembly, and integrated electronic circuitry arranged thereon. The first connector assembly is coaxially aligned with the first receiving aperture of the base member and arranged to receive a plurality of motor pin connections. The second connector assembly comprises a plurality of connection elements arranged to transmit and receive power and signal connections for powering and controlling the motor.
US11239713B2
A rotor structure of a motor includes a rotor core formed by laminating a plurality of laminated steel plates, a permanent magnet, and end plates. First holes and second holes are perforated alternately in a circumferential direction at equal intervals. The end plates have holes. The end plates are respectively fixed to end portions of the rotor core by fastening members inserted to the holes and the first holes. When the rotor core is divided into first laminated portions and a second laminated portion, in the second laminated portion, the plurality of the laminated steel plates adjacent to the first laminated portions are rotationally laminated in such a manner that the second holes are connected to the first holes.
US11239712B2
A stator for an electrical machine, in particular for an electromotive drive machine for an electric or hybrid vehicle, includes a stator core stack with a stator yoke and a number of radial stator teeth, as well as a corresponding number of stator slots, arranged between the stator teeth, for receiving a stator winding. A cooling apparatus has a number of cooling channels, each of which runs axially in one of the stator slots.
US11239708B2
Described herein is an apparatus having a wireless power receiver comprising a receiver coil used to receive power wirelessly and to communicate wirelessly. The wireless power receiver outputs power to a bus based on the wirelessly received power. The apparatus has an open-loop DC-DC converter and a linear regulator. The apparatus has a controller configured to enable the open-loop DC-DC converter to use the power on the bus to charge a battery. The controller is further configured to control the linear regulator to stabilize a current in the bus at the output of the wireless power receiver to reduce interference to the wireless communication when using the receiver coil to wirelessly communicate from the wireless power receiver to the transmitter of the power while the open-loop DC-DC converter is being used to charge the battery.
US11239705B2
Methods and apparatuses for detecting a foreign object during wireless charging are described. The method can include obtaining a first parameter value and a second parameter value according to: a charging current when a transmitted power falls into a first charging power range, obtained; or a charging voltage when the transmitted power falls into a second charging power range. A reference received power can be obtained according to the first parameter value, the second parameter value, and the received power of the wireless charging receiver. The existence of a foreign object between the wireless charging transmitter and the wireless charging receiver can be determined according to a difference between the transmitted power and the reference received power. For the first charging power range, the transmitter can output a constant voltage, and for the second charging power range, the transmitter can output a constant current.
US11239699B2
An inductive power transfer system (1) for coupling a power source to a load across an air gap (11) is disclosed. The system (1) comprises a primary unit (3) associated with a host platform and a secondary unit (5) arranged to receive power transmitted inductively from the primary unit (3). The primary unit (3) includes a phase detection circuit (21) configured to detect phase changes in a signal in the primary unit (3) indicative of changes in an operating condition within the secondary unit (5), and a drive circuit (17). The drive circuit (17) is configured to adjust the power level transmitted to the secondary unit (5) depending on the detected phase.
US11239691B2
An emergency LED lighting system maintains power to an LED lighting source based on measured voltages and currents provided to the LED lighting source; rolls back or decreases power provided to an LED lighting source over time in order to increase the amount of time the battery can power the LED lighting source; executes a soft start procedure, such that the power provided to the LED lighting source is gradually ramped up during activation of the LED lighting sources; identifies a type of battery coupled to the emergency LED lighting system; cycles the emergency LED lighting system between charging mode and standby mode to reduce power consumption over a window of time; detects AC power or an absence of AC power; and/or uses a status LED to communicate information about the emergency LED lighting system with a remote device.
US11239684B2
An electronic device includes a first connection unit, a second connection unit, and a control unit. The control unit determines whether a first external device is connected to the first connection unit, and controls the electronic device to prevent charging of a battery connected to the first external device with power supplied from a second external device connected to the second connection unit, in a case where the first external device is connected to the first connection unit.
US11239682B2
A wireless battery pack is provided which may be magnetically connected to a device to be charged having the capability for wireless charging. The battery pack includes an emitter coil and battery to provide wireless charging to a battery powered electronic device which is capable of wireless charging, including but not limited to cellular telephones.
US11239677B2
One or more embodiments are directed to a battery charger that can support multiple battery applications with a single USB type-C port. The architecture can be easily extended to support more applications such as those including two or more USB Type-C ports by adding additional voltage regulators. Additionally, the architecture can easily be extended to support additional batteries by adding corresponding battery chargers. Some embodiments enable supplying two or more system voltages and charging two or more batteries simultaneously using a single adapter and/or port. Other embodiments enable supplying voltage to On the Go devices from two or more batteries simultaneously.
US11239676B2
A mobile device includes a drive element, a first battery which outputs power, and a supplying unit which supplies the power output by the first battery or power output by a second battery to the drive element, in which the supplying unit prioritizes supplying of the power output by the second battery to the drive element over the power output by the first battery.
US11239671B2
An in-vehicle power storage device that discharges a battery in a case where collision of a vehicle is detected or predicted, and stops discharging the battery when an over-discharged state has not been reached, and a control method thereof. The in-vehicle power storage device includes: a battery mounted in a vehicle; charge-state detection means for detecting a charge state of the battery; and a discharging load for discharging the battery, and a control device which includes: battery charge-state detection means for detecting a charge state; a battery discharger means for discharging the battery using the load if collision of the vehicle is detected or predicted; and discharge stopping means to stop discharging the battery before the battery becomes over-discharged.
US11239669B2
An underwater power supply system includes: a working apparatus arranged underwater with at least one power receiving pad; a first battery unit detachably attached to the apparatus with a power supplying pad and battery, the pad configured to supply electric power to the power receiving pad in a non-contact state, the battery electrically connected to the power supplying pad; and an underwater sailing body configured to shuttle between the apparatus and a surface ship or an underwater station suspended from the surface ship, the body configured to carry a second battery unit to the apparatus, detach the first battery unit from the apparatus, and attach the second battery unit to the apparatus, the second battery unit including a power supplying pad and battery, the pad configured to supply the electric power to the power receiving pad in a non-contact state, the battery electrically connected to the power supplying pad.
US11239657B2
An AC switching arrangement is provided with an energy transfer arrangement connected in parallel with a switching mechanism. The energy transfer arrangement comprises a capacitance arrangement and a diode arrangement. The switching mechanism normally closed in a first state, and on reception of a signal indicating the second state, the switching mechanism is arranged to open. When the switching mechanism is in the second state, the diode arrangement is arranged in each AC half cycle to enable energy (source energy, stored inductance energy, etc.) to transfer from the grid to the capacitance arrangement but to prevent energy transfer from the capacitance arrangement back to the grid.
US11239654B1
A three-stage surge protection device protects against complex, time-variant voltage transients, including those resulting from a high-altitude nuclear electromagnetic pulse or a solar coronal mass ejection. The device relies on interaction between a snubbing low-pass filter, a transient voltage suppressor, and an electronic crowbar circuit. The low-pass filter significantly lowers the let-through voltage of the device for short-duration pulses, and helps to spread the energy to more effectively utilize the transient voltage suppressor. The transient voltage suppressor limits the let-through voltage to a clamping level and provides indication to the crowbar circuit when it is no longer able to do so. Once the clamping level is no longer able to be maintained, the crowbar circuit draws enough current to trip an upstream protective device, such as a breaker or fuse.
US11239651B2
An electronic temperature switch (10), comprises a measurement circuit (11) that measures temperature and generates an temperature signal corresponding to the sensed temperature; an evaluator circuit (12) that receives said temperature signal and compares said temperature signal to a lower threshold value and an upper threshold value, and generates an evaluation signal indicating when said temperature signal is between the lower temperature threshold value and an higher temperature threshold value; and a loading circuit (13) that in response to the evaluator circuit, generates a first pre-set output signal indicating when the temperature signal is between the lower threshold value and the higher threshold value, and a second pre-set output signal when the temperature signal is not between the lower threshold value and the higher threshold value.
US11239650B2
A digital input circuit for receiving digital input signals of at least one signal generator comprises first and second subcircuits. Each subcircuit includes a digital input to receive a digital input signal and a threshold value element to determine a logic state of the subcircuit. Each subcircuit adopts a first state in response to its digital input signal reaching or falling below a lower threshold value and adopts a second state in response to its digital input signal reaching or exceeding an upper threshold value. The digital input circuit further comprises a combined test and current increasing apparatus to generate a driving signal such that a function test of both the first and second subcircuits is conducted simultaneously with the driving signal and an input current of the digital inputs is increased.
US11239649B2
A circuit interrupter including a current sensor having a normal sensor output and an over current detection output, a solid state switch module structured to have a closed state to allow current to flow through the circuit interrupter and an open state to interrupt current flowing through the circuit interrupter, a gate driver structured to control the solid state switch module including a desaturation function output, wherein the gate driver is structured to cause the solid state switch module to interrupt current flowing through the circuit interrupter when the DESAT function output changes to the on state, and an electronic trip circuit structured to output a trip signal to the gate driver when the normal sensor output reaches a first threshold level or the overcurrent detection output changes to the on state.
US11239648B2
An arc fault detection circuit interruption (AFCI) device includes a high frequency arc noise sensor and an arc fault detection circuit for sensing a high frequency arc noise. The high frequency arc noise sensor is disposed across a hot conductor and a neutral conductor and includes a surge protection device and a surge protection circuit such that the surge protection device protects against a first voltage surge in a first range of thousands to hundreds volts and the surge protection circuit protects against a second voltage surge in a second range of hundreds to few volts. The arc fault detection circuit is coupled in series with the high frequency arc noise sensor. The arc fault detection circuit is coupled to a series combination of a trip solenoid or electromagnet and a silicone-controlled rectifier disposed across the hot conductor and the neutral conductor.
US11239647B2
A baseplate is attachable to a structure in the vicinity of an electrical power source. Optionally, the baseplate may be shaped so that when attached to the structure, the baseplate lies on at least one edge of an opening. The baseplate may have a plurality of connection points for connecting accessories. In different embodiments, the baseplate or faceplate system (which may be modular) attaches to a junction box, and/or may be installed in an opening for a light switch and/or outlet. Optionally, accessories and/or other electrical components may communicate with one another via the baseplate. Optionally, accessories and/or other electrical components may share power with one another, via the baseplate. Optionally, the accessories, the baseplate and/or other electrical components may communicate with a remote device.
US11239641B2
A self-set home automation and method for handling the self-set home automation and the related devices including cascading intelligent support boxes and plug-in devices to provide simple to install and operate, with less wiring wherein the cascaded devices are optically linked, to include separated low voltage grid and related devices, and a converter for communicating RF, wifi and IR.
US11239634B2
The present invention provides one or more injection-lockable whistle-geometry semiconductor ring lasers, which may be cascaded, that are integrated on a common silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substrate with a single-frequency semiconductor master laser, wherein the light output from the semiconductor master laser is used to injection-lock the first of the semiconductor ring lasers. The ring lasers can be operated in strongly injection-locked mode, while at least one of them is subjected to direct injection current modulation.
US11239633B2
A driver circuit includes digital inputs, such as a first digital input and a second digital input. The digital inputs receive voltages at either a digital high-voltage or a digital low-voltage. The driver circuit has a clock input, an analog output, a first differential pair of transistors connected to the analog output, second differential pairs of transistors connected to the analog output, and voltage limiters connected to the clock input and the second differential pairs of transistors. The voltage limiters supply different voltages to the second differential pairs of transistors, which results in the second differential pairs of transistors providing analog signals to the analog output that are at different voltage steps at, and between, the digital high-voltage and the digital low-voltage.
US11239628B2
A method for realizing precise gain control for a hybrid fibre amplifier, and a hybrid fibre amplifier, in which by an erbium-doped fibre amplifier firstly outputting a constant power, a comparable source signal optical power is provided for a raman fibre amplifier of a next stage. A feedback for the gain control may be formed by comparing a source signal optical power calculated after starting pumping of the Raman fibre amplifier and a source signal optical power detected after pumping stops, thereby greatly improving gain control precision of the Raman fibre amplifier. Moreover, the erbium-doped fibre amplifier parts of all the hybrid fibre amplifiers may simultaneously output a constant optical power, and the Raman amplifier parts of all the hybrid fibre amplifiers may simultaneously start calibration, so that the time for starting operation of the entire system may be improved greatly.
US11239627B2
The present disclosure provides a waveguide integrated optical modulator, which is made of a bismuth film, an antimony film, or a tellurium film. A thickness of the bismuth film, the antimony film, or the tellurium film is between 10 nm and 200 nm, and the bismuth film, the antimony film, or the tellurium film is produced by physical vapor deposition method. The waveguide integrated optical modulator can directly add the symmetrical electrode on the surface of the bismuth film, the antimony film, or the tellurium film, and apply an external bias voltage of different amplitudes to the bismuth film, the antimony film, or the tellurium film by adjusting the power source. Thus, the waveguide integrated optical modulator can actively control the nonlinear optical characteristics of the saturable absorber by changing the magnitude of the external voltage, and further actively modulate the laser characteristics of the pulse.
US11239621B2
An electrically conductive, single-piece flat part (100) for a plug with first and second contact pins (112, 114) are arranged in two parallel rows, and with a connector region for a cable. The part has a connecting element (102). Conductors (108, 110) which open into the first and second contact pins (112, 114) extend from the first and from the second side of the connecting element, the conductors (108, 110) which lie on the opposite sides of the connecting element (102) being connected to the connecting element (102) in a manner which is offset with respect to one another in such a way that the imaginary straight extension of a conductor (108, 110) runs on the one side of the connecting element (102) next to one or between two conductors (108, 110) on the opposite side of the connecting element (102). The first contact pins (112) are connected via an offset region (132) to the first conductors (108) which extend from the first side of the connecting element (102), which offset region (132) compensates for the offset of the first and second conductors (108, 110) on the connecting element (102).
US11239616B2
The present disclosure relates to a coaxial connector, and particularly, a coaxial connector including a fixing module which is connected to a first PCB, and a contact module which is coupled movably to the fixing module, and provided to be contactable to a second PCB facing the first panel, in which the contact module includes a contact body which is made of a conductive material, and has a hollow formed therein, a contact pin which is made of a conductive material, and disposed to penetrate the hollow of the contact body, and a contact insulator which is disposed in the hollow of the contact body to insulate the contact pin and the contact body by partitioning the contact pin and the contact body, and the contact module is configured so that the contact body, the contact pin, and the contact insulator are integrally formed to be assembled to the fixing module by a singular process, thereby providing the advantages which may reduce the cost of a product, and improve the quality of the product by improving a contact rate.
US11239590B2
An electrical connector includes an insulating block and multiple terminals arranged along a left-right direction of the insulating block. The insulating block has multiple opening holes along a vertical direction thereof. Each terminal has a fixing portion fixed to the insulating block. The fixing portion has an adjustment portion. The terminals in one row include multiple first ground terminals, multiple second ground terminals and multiple pairs of differential signal terminals, correspondingly arranged along the left-right direction sequentially as: one of the first ground terminals, one of the pairs of differential signal terminals, one of the second ground terminals, another one of the pairs of differential signal terminals, and another one of the first ground terminals. The adjustment portion of each second ground terminal is exposed in the opening hole along the vertical direction, and the adjustment portion of each first ground terminal is not exposed in the opening hole.
US11239577B2
In various representative aspects, an apparatus for clamping and grounding solar panel frames to a mounting rail is disclosed herein. The apparatus comprises a fastener with an enlarged end, and a shank, with the enlarged end having one or more sharp protrusions that resemble teeth, and a washer with one or more sharp protrusions, and an opening. When installed, the shank is inserted through the opening of the washer, the sharp protrusions of the enlarged end penetrate either the lower or upper surface of the mounting rail and the sharp protrusions of the washer penetrate the other surface of the solar panel frames while at the same time creating a grounding path through the apparatus.
US11239576B2
An electrical connector that has a conductive shell supporting at least one signal contact therein and that has a front end for mating with a mating connector and a back end opposite the front end for electrically connecting to a coaxial cable. A ground connection is located inside of the conductive shell. A coupling member is rotatably coupled to the conductive shell and has an engagement feature for mechanically engaging a support panel associated with the mating connector. A sealing member is disposed on the conductive shell that is configured to provide an environmental seal between the conductive shell and the support panel when the conductive shell is mated with the mating connector.
US11239558B2
A terminal device is provided, which includes: a housing including a conductive frame provided with a first frame connecting point, a second frame connecting point and a grounding point; and a feeding point disposed on a circuit board. A first antenna is formed by the feeding point, the first signal wire, the first frame connecting point, the third signal wire and the conductive frame when the first frame connecting point is connected with the feeding point through a first signal wire and the second frame connecting point is disconnected from the feeding point. A second antenna is formed by the feeding point, the second signal wire, the third signal wire, the second frame connecting point and the conductive frame when the first frame connecting point is disconnected from the feeding point and the second frame connecting point is connected with the feeding point through a second signal wire.
US11239549B2
Provided is a glass substrate with which it is possible to reduce dielectric loss in high-frequency signals, and which also has excellent thermal shock resistance. This invention satisfies the relation {Young's modulus (GPa)×average thermal expansion coefficient (ppm/° C.) at 50-350° C.}≤300 (GPa·ppm/° C.), wherein the relative dielectric constant at 20° C. and 35 GHz does not exceed 10, and the dielectric dissipation factor at 20° C. and 35 GHz does not exceed 0.006.
US11239536B2
The present disclosure relates to a coupling structure of a filter. One example coupling structure of the filter includes at least two resonant cavities. Each resonant cavity includes an internal space surrounded by a resonant cavity wall, a resonant cavity bottom plate, and a resonant cavity lid. The at least two resonant cavities are sequentially connected. Each resonant cavity of the at least two resonant cavities includes one resonator. A coupling rib assembly is between every two resonant cavities of the at least two resonant cavities. The coupling rib assembly includes a first coupling rib and a second coupling rib, where the first coupling rib is connected to the resonant cavity wall and the resonant cavity bottom plate to block two adjacent resonant cavities from each other, and the second coupling rib is connected to the resonant cavity bottom plate and intersects with the first coupling rib.
US11239535B2
Embodiments of the invention include waveguide switch rotors, stators, waveguide switch housings and meander clamping mechanisms. In particular, the waveguide switch rotor design employs isolation posts surrounding waveguide ports disposed on the external face of the rotor to achieve an artificial magnetic boundary condition to achieve high isolation with improved gap from rotor to stator.
US11239534B2
A battery connection system includes a conductor configured to connect with a battery that has a post. An inner clamp element has a wall that is shaped to mate with the post and that defines a hollow interior and an exterior. The wall has a notch defining a void in the wall. An outer clamp element mates with the exterior of the wall of the inner clamp element to reduce the size of the void to secure the conductor to the battery.
US11239527B2
Provided are a tray for a secondary battery, which is environmentally friendly and can reduce the manufacturing cost while improving formability of the tray, and a jig for forming the tray. The tray includes a series of receiving spaces for receiving a series of cylindrical secondary batteries, and a flange portion at an outer part of the receiving space. Each receiving space includes a bottom surface configured to support one cylindrical secondary battery, a series of fixing ribs protruding upwardly from the bottom surface, and a series of bridges protruding upwardly from the bottom surface. The fixing ribs are spaced apart from each other and spaced around an outer portion of the bottom surface. Each bridge of the series of bridges connects adjacent fixing ribs.
US11239526B2
An energy storage apparatus includes an energy storage device, a first wiring electrically connected to the energy storage device, a harness plate holding the first wiring, and a first connector connected to the first wiring, the first connector being located at a central portion of the harness plate and capable of detachably attaching an external wiring.
US11239513B2
A direct heat to electricity engine includes solid state electrodes of an electrochemically active material that has an electrochemical reaction potential that is temperature dependent. The electrodes are configured in combination with electrolyte separators to form membrane electrode assemblies. The membrane electrode assemblies are grouped into pairs, whereby each membrane electrode assembly of a given pair is ionically and electronically interconnected with the other. One membrane electrode assembly of a given pair is coupled to a heat source with the other to a heat sink. One membrane electrode assembly of the pair is electrically discharged while the other is electrically charged, whereby the net and relative charge between the two remains constant because of the electronic and ionic interconnection and the difference in temperature of the membrane electrode assemblies, and thereby voltage, results in net power generation.
US11239508B2
A battery pack includes: a cell stack; a first duct and a second duct configured to feed cooling air toward the cell stack; and a housing case. The first duct and the second duct extend in a first direction and are spaced apart from each other in a second direction, the first direction being parallel to a front-back direction of a vehicle in a mounted state in which the battery pack is mounted on the vehicle, the second direction being parallel to a width direction of the vehicle in the mounted state. The first duct is arranged on an outer side of the cell stack on one side in the second direction, and the second duct is arranged on an outer side of the cell stack on the other side in the second direction.
US11239507B2
Lead from lead acid battery scrap is recovered in two separate production streams as clean grid lead and as high-purity lead without smelting. In preferred aspects, lead recovery is performed in a continuous process that uses an aqueous electroprocessing solvent and electro-refining. Spent electroprocessing solvent and/or base utilized to treat lead paste from the lead acid battery scrap can be recycled to the recovery process.
US11239496B2
There is provided a use, in an electrolyte for a battery, of an additive which comprises at least one organocatalyst. Also, there is provided a method of preventing the contact between the anode and residual water in a battery and/or reducing the level of gas in a battery. Moreover, there is provided electrolyte for a battery, comprising an additive which comprises at least one organocatalyst. Moreover, there is provided a battery comprising an electrolyte which comprises an additive which comprises at least one organocatalyst.
US11239488B2
A energy storage device for cycling between a charged state and a discharged state, the energy storage device including an enclosure, an electrode assembly and a non-aqueous liquid electrolyte within the enclosure, and a constraint that maintains a pressure on the electrode assembly as the energy storage device is cycled between the charged and the discharged states.
US11239483B2
The invention relates to a stack of several electrochemical cells stacked on top of one another in a stacking direction. The stack comprises at least: a first electrochemical cell, a second electrochemical cell, and an intercalary plate. Each cell includes an upper frame housing a first electrode and a lower frame housing a second electrode, the first electrode and the second electrode being separated from one another by a membrane. The second electrode of the first electrochemical cell and the first electrode of the second electrochemical cell are separated by an intercalary plate. The stack includes an intercalary frame arranged on the periphery of the intercalary plate.
US11239477B2
A purging circuit for purging an anodic compartment of a cell of a fuel cell, this circuit including: a capacity, forming a related volume at least equal to 500 ml, for containing and homogenising a recovery gas, including an inlet and an outlet; a first nonreturn valve to prevent the recovery gas from returning through the outlet and allowing gas to flow from the first outlet to an inlet of the compartment; a second nonreturn valve to prevent gas from being discharged from the capacity through the inlet; a pressure sensor able to measure the pressure of a fluid present in the circuit; a valve controlling the flow of a supply gas to and from the compartment as a function of data of the sensor and allowing gas to flow from the first nonreturn valve to the inlet of the compartment.
US11239476B2
A fuel cell system of a fuel cell vehicle includes an injector device disposed side by side with a fuel cell stack in a stacking direction of a plurality of power generation cells, and a heat exchanger. The injector device includes an injector body, and a support part. The support part has a fuel gas inlet channel, and supports the injector body. The heat exchanger is fixed to the support part.
US11239471B2
A membrane electrode assembly including: an anode electrode; a cathode electrode; and a polymer electrolyte membrane; wherein the cathode includes a first cathode catalyst sublayer including a first precious metal catalyst composition and a first ionomer composition including a first ionomer and a second ionomer; and a second cathode catalyst sublayer including a second precious metal catalyst composition and a second ionomer composition including a third ionomer; wherein the first ionomer is different from the second ionomer in at least one of chemical structure and equivalent weight.
US11239470B2
A topping cycle fuel cell unit includes a support plate having internal flow passages that extend to combustion outlets, a first electrode layer, an electrolyte layer, and a second electrode layer. The second electrode layer is configured to be coupled to another support plate of another fuel cell unit. The internal flow passages are configured to receive and direct air across the first electrolyte layer or the second electrolyte layer and to receive and direct fuel across another of the first electrolyte layer or the second electrolyte layer such that the first electrode layer, the electrolyte layer, and the second electrode layer create electric current. The internal flow passages are configured to direct at least some of the air and at least some of the fuel to the combustion outlets where the at least some air and the at least some fuel is combusted.
US11239464B2
A method of producing a positive electrode active material for a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, the method includes preparing nickel-containing composite oxide particles having a ratio 1D90/1D10 of a 90% particle size 1D90 to a 10% particle size 1D10 in volume-based cumulative particle size distribution of 3 or less; obtaining a raw material mixture containing the composite oxide particles and a lithium compound and having a ratio of a total number of moles of lithium to a total number of moles of metal elements contained in the composite oxide in a range of 1 to 1.3; subjecting the raw material mixture to a heat treatment to obtain a heat-treated material; subjecting the heat-treated material to a dry-dispersion treatment to obtain a first dispersion; and bringing the first dispersion into contact with a liquid medium to obtain a second dispersion.
US11239458B2
An energy storage device is provided that has improved power performance at low temperature. In the present embodiment, an energy storage device is provided that includes an electrode having an active material layer, the active material layer contains at least active material particles, the particles contained in the active material layer gives a volume-based particle size frequency distribution that has a first peak and a second peak appearing in a particle size larger than a particle size of the first peak, and particles having particle sizes equal to or smaller than a particle size Dx have a volume proportion of 49% or more and 62% or less in a volume of whole particles contained in the active material layer, with the particle size Dx defined as a particle size at a local minimum frequency between the first peak and the second peak in the particle size frequency distribution.
US11239454B2
An apparatus for forming an electrode film mixture can have a first source including a polymer dispersion comprising a liquid and a polymer, a second source including a second component of the electrode film mixture, and a fluidized bed coating apparatus including a first inlet configured to receive from the first source the dispersion, and a second inlet configured to receive from the second source the second component.
US11239440B2
The present invention relates to an electronic device comprising between a first electrode and a second electrode at least one first hole transport layer, wherein the first hole transport layer comprises (i) at least one first hole transport matrix compound consisting of covalently bound atoms and (ii) at least one electrical p-dopant selected from metal sate and from electrically neutral metal complexes comprising a metal cation and a at least one anion and/or at least one anionic ligand consisting of at least 4 covalently bound atoms, wherein the metal cation of the electrical p-dopant is selected from alkali metals; alkaline earth metals, Pb, Me, Fe, Co, Ni, Zn, Cd; rare earth metals in oxidation state (II) or (III); Al, Ga, In; and from Sn, Ti, Zr, Hf, V, Nb, Ta, Cr, Mo and W in oxidation state (TV) or less; provided that a) p-dopants comprising anion or anionic ligand having generic formula (Ia) or (Ib) wherein A1, A2, A3 and A4 are independently selected from CO, SO2 or POR1; R1=electron withdrawing group selected from the group comprising halide, nitrile, halogenated or perhalogenated C1 to C20 alkyl, halogenated or perhalogenated C6 to C20 aryl, or halogenated or perhalogenated heteroaryl with 5 to 20 ring-forming atoms; B1, B2, B3 and B4 are same or independently selected from substituted or unsubstituted C1 to C20 alkyl, substituted or unsubstituted C1 to C20 heteroalkyl, substituted or unsubstituted C6 to C20 aryl, substituted or unsubstituted C5 to C20 heteroaryl, or B1 and B2 form a ring; and b) p-dopants consisting of Li cation and an anion selected from perchlorate and tetrafluoroborate are excluded, and the first hole transport layer comprises a sublayer, wherein the electrical dopant is comprised in an amount, by weight and/or by volume, exceeding the total amount of other components which may additionally be comprised in the sublayer, and a method for preparing the same.
US11239437B2
The present specification provides a photoactive layer including: an electron donor; and an electron acceptor, in which the electron donor includes: a single molecular material; and a polymer material, a content of the electron donor is higher than a content of the electron acceptor, and in the electron donor, a content of the single molecular material is higher than a content of the polymer material, and an organic solar cell including the same.
US11239434B2
A compound including a first ligand LA of Formula I is disclosed.
US11239431B2
The present invention relates to an organic electronic device or an organic semiconducting material comprising a borane compound a borane compound, the borane compound comprising at least one boron atom in the oxidation state (III) and at least one anionic ligand, the anionic ligand having the formula (Ia) or (Ib) wherein in the formulas (Ia) and (Ib) A1 to A6 are independently selected from the group consisting of CO, SO2 or PDX1; X1 is independently selected from the group consisting of halide, nitrile, halogenated or perhalogenated C1 to C20 alkyl, halogenated or perhalogenated C6 to C20 aryl, and halogenated or perhalogenated heteroaryl having 5 to 20 ring-forming atoms; and R1 to R6 are independently selected from the group consisting of substituted or unsubstituted C1 to C20 alkyl, substituted or unsubstituted C1 to C20 heteroalkyl, substituted or unsubstituted C6 to C20 aryl, and substituted or unsubstituted C5 to C20 heteroaryl, wherein it may be provided that R1 and R2 are linked to each other to form a ring; as well as to a respective borane compound.
US11239430B2
Boron and nitrogen containing heterocyclic compounds are disclosed, which can be used as emitters, hosts, charge blocking materials, charge transporting materials, etc. in an electroluminescent device. These novel compounds can offer very narrow emissive spectrum, and obtain high saturated deep blue emission. Also disclosed are an organic light-emitting device and a formulation.
US11239429B1
An emissive perovskite ternary composite thin film comprising a perovskite material, an ionic-conducting polymer and an ionic-insulating polymer is provided. Additionally, a single-layer LEDs is described using a composite thin film of organometal halide perovskite (Pero), an ionic-conducting polymer (ICP) and an ionic-insulating polymer (IIP). The LEDs with Pero-ICP-IIP composite thin films exhibit a low turn-on voltage of about 1.9V (defined at 1 cd m−2 luminance) and a luminance of about 600,000 cd m−2.
US11239424B2
A polymer for an electron injection layer, an electron injection layer, an OLED device, and a display device are disclosed. The polymer includes a unit A and a unit B, in which the unit A is an aromatic group; and the unit B is a group represented by one of six possible formulae disclosed herein. The electron injection layer includes the polymer. The OLED device includes an anode, a hole injection layer, a hole transport layer, a light-emitting layer, an electron transport layer, the electron injection layer, and a cathode stacked in sequence.
US11239414B2
An integrated circuit including a memory array and a physical unclonable function array is obtained by causing metal back sputtering in specific regions of the integrated circuit during ion beam etch. MRAM pillars within the memory array have larger widths than the underlying bottom electrodes while those within the physical unclonable function array have smaller widths than the underlying bottom electrodes. Metal residue deposited over tunnel barrier layers causes random electrical shorting of some of the MRAM pillars within the physical unclonable function array.
US11239413B2
A spin-orbit-torque (SOT) magnetic device includes a bottom metal layer, a first magnetic layer, as a magnetic free layer, disposed over the bottom metal layer, a spacer layer disposed over the first magnetic layer, and a second magnetic layer disposed over the spacer layer. The first magnetic layer includes a lower magnetic layer, a middle layer made of non-magnetic layer and an upper magnetic layer.
US11239410B2
A piezoelectric composition including copper and a complex oxide having a perovskite structure represented by a general formula ABO3, in which an A site element in the ABO3 is potassium or potassium and sodium, a B site element in the ABO3 is niobium or niobium and tantalum, the copper is included in n mol % in terms of a copper element with respect to 1 mol of the complex oxide, and n satisfies 0.100≤n≤1.000.
US11239409B2
Provided is a piezoelectric material filler including alkali niobate compound particles having a ratio (K/(Na+K)) of the number of moles of potassium to the total number of moles of sodium and potassium of 0.460 to 0.495 in terms of atoms and a ratio ((Li+Na+K)/Nb) of the total number of moles of alkali metal elements to the number of moles of niobium of 0.995 to 1.005 in terms of atoms. The present invention can provide a piezoelectric material filler having excellent piezoelectric properties, and a composite piezoelectric material including the piezoelectric material filler and a polymer matrix.
US11239404B2
A method for reducing switching losses and waveform distortion in a driver for a circuit with a capacitive load includes generating a variable pre-drive pulse to achieve zero voltage and zero-current switching of a high-side switch of the unfolding stage. A controller computes the variable pre-drive pulse with the controller, and a sense resistor in series with the power converter inductor detects a zero voltage switching condition point and/or a zero voltage switching condition point. The driver includes a power converter that receives an input voltage vin as input and generates a clean folded waveform as an output. An unfolding stage referenced to vin receives the clean folded waveform from the converter and unfolds the folded waveform into a full waveform.
US11239401B2
A semiconductor light-emitting device includes a substrate having a base, a conductive layer and an insulating layer, a semiconductor light-emitting element and a resin member. The base has a pair of base first side surfaces and a pair of base third side surfaces. The conductive layer includes a front-surface segment and a side-surface segment. The front surface segment includes a front-surface first part. The insulating layer includes an insulating-layer first part and an insulating-layer second part. The resin member covers the insulating-layer first part and the insulating-layer second part of the insulating layer. A first thickness of the insulating-layer first part is greater than a second thickness of the insulating-layer second part.
US11239379B2
A solar cell can include a silicon substrate; a tunnel layer disposed on a first surface of the silicon substrate, the tunnel layer including a dielectric material; a polycrystalline silicon layer disposed on the tunnel layer; a dielectric layer disposed on the polycrystalline silicon layer; and an electrode penetrating through the dielectric layer and directly contacting with the polycrystalline silicon layer, wherein the polycrystalline silicon layer includes a metal crystal region positioned at a region where the polycrystalline silicon layer contacts the electrode, and wherein the metal crystal region includes a plurality of metal crystals, the plurality of metal crystals including a metal material same as a metal material included in the electrode.
US11239377B2
An optoelectronic module. In some embodiments, the optoelectronic module includes: a substrate; a digital integrated circuit, on an upper surface of the substrate; and a frame, secured in a pocket of the substrate. The pocket is in a lower surface of the substrate, and the substrate includes an insulating layer, and a plurality of conductive traces.
US11239366B2
Structures for a field-effect transistor and methods of forming a structure for a field-effect transistor. A gate structure extends over a semiconductor body, a first source/drain region includes an epitaxial semiconductor layer on a first portion of the semiconductor body, and a second source/drain region is positioned in a second portion of the semiconductor body. The gate structure includes a first sidewall and a second sidewall opposite the first sidewall, the first source/drain region is positioned adjacent to the first sidewall of the gate structure, and the second source/drain region is positioned adjacent to the second sidewall of the gate structure. The first source/drain region has a first width, and the second source/drain region has a second width that is greater than the first width.
US11239360B2
A method of forming a vertical transport field effect transistor is provided. The method includes forming a vertical fin on a substrate, and a top source/drain on the vertical fin. The method further includes thinning the vertical fin to form a thinned portion, a tapered upper portion, and a tapered lower portion from the vertical fin. The method further includes depositing a gate dielectric layer on the thinned portion, tapered upper portion, and tapered lower portion of the vertical fin, wherein the gate dielectric layer has an angled portion on each of the tapered upper portion and tapered lower portion. The method further includes depositing a work function metal layer on the gate dielectric layer.
US11239359B2
Channel engineering is employed to obtain a gate-all-around field-effect transistor having an asymmetric threshold voltage. A dual channel profile enables a steep potential distribution near the source side that enhances the lateral channel electric field and thus increases the carrier mobility.
US11239352B2
A vertical IGBT device is disclosed. The vertical IGBT structure includes an active MOSFET cell array formed in an active region at a front side of a semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type. One or more column structures of a second conductivity type concentrically surround the active MOSFET cell array. Each column structure includes a column trench and a deep column region. The deep column region is formed by implanting implants of the second conductivity type into the semiconductor substrate through the floor of the column trench. Dielectric side wall spacers are formed on the trench side walls except a bottom wall of the trench and the column trench is filled with poly silicon of the second conductivity type. One or more column structures are substantially deeper than the active MOSFET cell array.
US11239347B2
Method for making a transistor, comprising: making, on a substrate, a gate surrounded by a dielectric material; depositing a stop layer on the gate and the dielectric material; etching the stop layer in accordance with an active region pattern, forming a channel location located on the gate; etching the dielectric material located in the active region pattern, forming source and drain locations; depositing a semimetal material in the channel, source and drain locations; planarizing the semimetal material; crystallizing the semimetal material, forming the channel and the source and drain; and wherein the semimetal material of the channel is semiconductive and the semimetal material of the source and drain is electrically conductive.
US11239333B2
A semiconductor device and a manufacturing method thereof includes a source contact structure, a gate stack structure including a side region adjacent to the source contact structure, and a center region extending from the side region. The semiconductor device further includes a source gate pattern disposed under the side region of the first gate stack structure. The source gate pattern has an inclined surface facing the source contact structure. The semiconductor device also includes a channel pattern penetrating the center region of the gate stack structure, the channel pattern extending toward and contacting the source contact structure.
US11239326B2
A Field Effect Transistor (FET) structure having: a semiconductor; a first electrode structure; a second electrode structure; and a third electrode structure for controlling a flow of carriers in the semiconductor between the first electrode structure and the second electrode structure; a dielectric structure disposed over the semiconductor and extending horizontally between first electrode structure, the second electrode structure and the third electrode structure; and a fourth electrode passing into the dielectric structure and terminating a predetermined, finite distance above the semiconductor for controlling an electric field in the semiconductor under the fourth electrode structure.
US11239319B2
A semiconductor device includes an n-type semiconductor substrate which includes an n-type impurity having a diffusion coefficient less than a diffusion coefficient of phosphorus, an n-type epitaxial layer which includes a high concentration region, an intermediate concentration region and a low concentration region formed in this order from the semiconductor substrate side and has a concentration gradient in which an n-type impurity concentration is decreased in a downward step-wise manner from the semiconductor substrate toward a crystal growth direction by the high concentration region, the intermediate concentration region and the low concentration region, and a trench structure which includes a trench formed in the low concentration region, an insulating layer formed on an inner wall of the trench and an embedded electrode which is embedded in the trench across the insulating layer.
US11239315B2
The present disclosure generally relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to dual trench isolation structures and methods of manufacture. The structure includes: a doped well region in a substrate; a dual trench isolation region within the doped well region, the dual trench isolation region comprising a first isolation region of a first depth and a second isolation region of a second depth, different than the first depth; and a gate structure on the substrate and extending over a portion of the dual trench isolation region.
US11239309B2
Semiconductor devices and methods of fabricating semiconductor devices are provided. The present disclosure provides a semiconductor device that includes a first fin structure and a second fin structure each extending from a substrate; a first gate segment over the first fin structure and a second gate segment over the second fin structure; a first isolation feature separating the first and second gate segments; a first source/drain (S/D) feature over the first fin structure and adjacent to the first gate segment; a second S/D feature over the second fin structure and adjacent to the second gate segment; and a second isolation feature also disposed in the trench. The first and second S/D features are separated by the second isolation feature, and a composition of the second isolation feature is different from a composition of the first isolation feature.
US11239307B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to a metal-oxide-metal (MOM) capacitor formed from a subtractive back-end-of-line (BEOL) scheme. One example method of fabricating a semiconductor device generally includes forming an active layer and forming a capacitive element above the active layer with a back-end-of-line subtractive process for conductive materials.
US11239294B2
A display device including a partition wall disposed on a substrate between a first electrode and a second electrode. The partition wall has an opening. A light emitting layer is disposed in the opening. An auxiliary layer having lyophobicity is disposed between the partition wall and the second electrode.
US11239292B2
Provided are an array substrate, a display panel, a display apparatus and a preparation method therefor. The array substrate comprises: a base substrate; and multiple pixel units arranged on one side of the base substrate, each of the pixel units comprising: a thin-film transistor and an electroluminescent structure, and a shading structure located between the thin-film transistor and the base substrate, wherein the thin-film transistor comprises: an active layer located on one side, away from the base substrate, of the shading structure; the electroluminescent structure comprises: first electrodes for driving the pixel units; and one of the shading structure and the active layer is a same-layer structure fabricated by the same mask plate as the first electrodes so as to reduce the number of mask procedures required in preparation of an array substrate.
US11239285B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an organic electroluminescent display panel, a display device, and a detection method. For the organic electroluminescent display panel, the light-emitting control lines include two first light-emitting control lines electrically connected to the two light-emitting control circuits; and each first light-emitting control line includes: a surrounding portion surrounding the hole area, and a connecting portion electrically connecting two ends of the surrounding portion to the two light-emitting control circuits, the connecting portion is electrically connected by a control component at a position of being connected to one light-emitting control circuit, and the control component is configured to disconnect the light-emitting control circuit from the connecting portion when defect detection is performed, to determine a cracking state of the hole area according to a light-emitting state of pixels driven by the connecting portion between the control component and the hole area.
US11239283B2
A pixel structure includes a plurality of pixels, and each of the plurality of pixels includes at least one green sub-pixel and at least one other color sub-pixel. A display region determined by the plurality of pixels includes a main display region and at least one special-shaped display region. A boundary of the at least one special-shaped display region includes an arc-shaped edge. The plurality of pixels include a plurality of pixels disposed in the main display region and a plurality of pixels disposed in the at least one special-shaped display region. In each pixel disposed at a corresponding position of the arc-shaped edge, the at least one green sub-pixel is disposed at a side of the at least one other color sub-pixel proximate to the arc-shaped edge.
US11239276B2
Methods to build multi-functional scattering structures while respecting tight requirements imposed by manufacturing processes are described. The described methods and devices are based on etching away wire networks embedded in 3D structures to form voids in order to perform a target function. Optimization algorithms for designing binarized devices that meet manufacturing requirements are also disclosed.
US11239274B2
Example embodiments relate to an image sensor configured to achieve a high photoelectric conversion efficiency and a low dark current. The image sensor includes first and second electrodes, a plurality of photodetection layers provided between the first and second electrodes, and an interlayer provided between the photodetection layers. The photodetection layers convert incident light into an electrical signal and include a semiconductor material. The interlayer includes a metallic or semi metallic material having anisotropy in electrical conductivity.
US11239272B2
A photoelectric conversion apparatus includes a semiconductor substrate, a floating diffusion, an amplifying transistor, first and second contact plugs, a wire, and a metal portion. The semiconductor substrate has a first plane and a second plane to be entered by light, and includes a photoelectric conversion element. The amplifying transistor includes a first gate electrode. The first contact plug is connected to the floating diffusion. The second contact plug is connected to the first gate electrode. The wire is configured to electrically connect the first gate electrode and the floating diffusion to each other. The metal portion, which is arranged between the first plane and a third plane, covers at least a part of the photoelectric conversion element in a planar view, and has an opening over which at least a part of the wire is superimposed in a planar view.
US11239269B2
An image sensor including a semiconductor substrate having a first surface and a second surface; and a pixel isolation film extending from the first surface of the semiconductor substrate into the semiconductor substrate and defining active pixels in the semiconductor substrate, wherein the pixel isolation film includes a buried conductive layer including polysilicon containing a fining element at a first concentration; and an insulating liner between the buried conductive layer and the semiconductor substrate, and wherein the fining element includes oxygen, carbon, or fluorine.
US11239262B2
An embodiment of the present invention discloses an array substrate, a method of fabricating the same, and a display panel. Compared with the conventional technology, the present invention combines a sensing material with thin film transistors to prepare a sensing layer on the thin film transistors, and since the thin film transistors can be formed by a large-area preparation, the sensors can be formed by a large-area preparation accordingly, thereby improving a performance of the sensors and reducing the production cost of the sensors.
US11239255B1
An IC structure includes first and second transistors, an isolation region and a first gate extension. The first transistor includes a first gate and first source/drain regions respectively on opposite sides of the first gate. The second transistor includes a second gate and second source/drain regions respectively on opposite sides of the second gate. The isolation region is laterally between the first and second transistors. A first one of the first source/drain regions has a first source/drain extension protruding from a first boundary of the isolation region, and a first one of the second source/drain regions has a second source/drain extension protruding from a second boundary of the isolation region. The first gate extension extends from the first gate to a position overlapping the isolation region.
US11239253B2
A semiconductor structure includes a memory die bonded to a support die. The memory die includes an alternating stack of insulating layers and electrically conductive layers located over a first single crystalline semiconductor layer, and memory stack structures extending through the alternating stack and containing respective memory film and a respective vertical semiconductor channel including a single crystalline channel semiconductor material. The support die includes a peripheral circuitry.
US11239248B2
A method of forming a microelectronic device comprises forming isolated nitride structures on steps of stair step structures comprising stacked tiers comprising alternating levels of a first insulative material and a second insulative material, forming a photoresist material over some of the stair step structures, and replacing the isolated nitride structures and the second insulative material with an electrically conductive material to respectively form conductive pad structures and electrically conductive lines. Related microelectronic devices and electronic devices are also disclosed.
US11239246B2
Various embodiments of the present application are directed to a method of forming an integrated circuit (IC). An isolation structure is formed between a logic region and a memory region of a substrate. A dummy structure is formed on the isolation structure and defines a dummy sidewall of the dummy structure facing the logic region. A boundary sidewall spacer is formed covering the dummy structure and at least partially defines a boundary sidewall of the boundary sidewall spacer facing the logic region. A protecting dielectric layer is formed on a top surface of the boundary sidewall spacer by converting an uppermost portion of the boundary sidewall spacer to the protecting dielectric layer. The protecting dielectric layer is removed, and a logic device structure is formed on the logic region.
US11239245B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards a method for opening a source line in a memory device. An erase gate line (EGL) and the source line are formed elongated in parallel. The source line underlies the EGL and is separated from the EGL by a dielectric layer. A first etch is performed to form a first opening through the EGL and stops on the dielectric layer. A second etch is performed to thin the dielectric layer at the first opening, wherein the first and second etches are performed with a common mask in place. A silicide process is performed to form a silicide layer on the source line at the first opening, wherein the silicide process comprises a third etch with a second mask in place and extends the first opening through the dielectric layer. A via is formed extending through the EGL to the silicide layer.
US11239243B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device for preventing row hammering issue in DRAM cell, including the steps of providing a substrate, forming a trench in the substrate, forming a gate dielectric conformally on the trench, forming an n-type work function metal layer conformally on the substrate and the gate dielectric, forming a titanium nitride layer conformally on the n-type work function metal layer, and filling a buried word line in the trench.
US11239235B2
A transistor includes a substrate having a plurality of source/drain regions and a channel region between the source/drain regions, a gate, and a gate dielectric layer between the gate and the substrate. The substrate tapers in a direction away from the gate dielectric layer in top view. The gate is embedded in the gate dielectric layer. The transistor structure density can be improved.
US11239233B2
An integrated circuit package and a method of forming the same are provided. A method includes attaching a first side of an integrated circuit die to a carrier. An encapsulant is formed over and around the integrated circuit die. The encapsulant is patterned to form a first opening laterally spaced apart from the integrated circuit die and a second opening over the integrated circuit die. The first opening extends through the encapsulant. The second opening exposes a second side of the integrated circuit die. The first side of the integrated circuit die is opposite the second side of the integrated circuit die. A conductive material is simultaneously deposited in the first opening and the second opening.
US11239232B2
Embodiments herein describe techniques for an integrated circuit (IC). The IC may include a lower device layer that includes a first transistor structure, an upper device layer above the lower device layer including a second transistor structure, and an isolation wall that extends between the upper device layer and the lower device layer. The isolation wall may be in contact with an edge of a first gate structure of the first transistor structure and an edge of a second gate structure of the second transistor structure, and may have a first width to the edge of the first gate structure at the lower device layer, and a second width to the edge of the second gate structure at the upper device layer. The first width may be different from the second width. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US11239228B2
An integrated circuit includes at least one first active region, at least one second active region adjacent to the first active region, and a plurality of third active regions. The first active region and the second active region are staggered. The third active regions are present adjacent to the first active region, wherein the third active regions are substantially aligned with each other.
US11239206B2
Semiconductor devices including a dual-sided redistribution structure and having low-warpage across all temperatures and associated systems and methods are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a first semiconductor die electrically coupled to a first side of a redistribution structure and a second semiconductor die electrically coupled to a second side of the redistribution structure opposite the first side. The semiconductor device also includes a first molded material on the first side, a second molded material on the second side, and conductive columns electrically coupled to the first side and extending through the first molded material. The first and second molded materials can have the same volume and/or coefficients of thermal expansion to inhibit warpage of the semiconductor device.
US11239200B2
Semiconductor die assemblies including stacked semiconductor dies having parallel plate capacitors formed between adjacent pairs of semiconductor dies in the stack, and associated systems and methods, are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a semiconductor die assembly includes a first semiconductor die and a second semiconductor die stacked over the first semiconductor die. The first semiconductor die includes an upper surface having a first capacitor plate formed thereon, and the second semiconductor die includes a lower surface facing the upper surface of the first semiconductor die and having a second capacitor plate formed thereon. A dielectric material is formed at least partially between the first and second capacitor plates. The first capacitor plate, second capacitor plate, and dielectric material together form a capacitor that stores charge locally within the stack, and that can be accessed by the first and/or second semiconductor dies.
US11239197B2
A method for automatically threading wire in a wire bonding apparatus includes the steps of extending a wire tail of a wire from a wire spool, locating the wire tail in a wire locating device and positioning the wire tail at a straightening location of the wire locating device. The wire tail is straightened at the straightening location with a wire manipulating device and then conveyed to a threading location. With a wire threading device, the straightened wire tail is received at the threading location and is threaded through a capillary of the wire bonding apparatus.
US11239183B2
A multi-chip module (MCM) package includes an organic laminate substrate; first and second semiconductor device chips that are mounted to a top side of the substrate and that define a chip gap region between opposing edges of the chips; and a stiffener that is embedded in the bottom side of the substrate. The stiffener extends across a stiffening region, which underlies the chip gap region, and does not protrude beyond a bottom side metallization of the substrate.
US11239181B2
Some embodiments include an integrated assembly having a semiconductor die with memory array regions and one or more regions peripheral to the memory array regions. A stack of alternating insulative and conductive levels extends across the memory array regions and passes into at least one of the peripheral regions. The stack generates bending stresses on the die. At least one stress-moderating region extends through the stack and is configured to alleviate the bending stresses.
US11239173B2
A package structure and a formation method of a package structure are provided. The method includes forming a redistribution structure over a carrier substrate and disposing a semiconductor die over the redistribution structure. The method also includes stacking an interposer substrate over the redistribution structure. The interposer substrate extends across edges of the semiconductor die. The method further includes disposing one or more device elements over the interposer substrate. In addition, the method includes forming a protective layer to surround the semiconductor die.
US11239170B2
The present invention relates to a module that has a lower component of a module (1) having a material (3) in which at least one first structural element (4) is embedded, and an upper component of a module (2) having a material (3) in which at least a second component (16) is embedded. The upper component of the module (2) and the lower component of the module (1) are stacked, with the lower and the upper component of the module (2) being electrically connected and mechanically linked to each other. In addition, the present invention relates to a simple and cost-effective process for the production of a variety of modules. The invention makes it possible for the modules to be miniaturized with respect to surface and height and/or makes it possible to achieve greater integration by 3D packaging.
US11239145B2
According to one embodiment, the electrode pads are provided at a surface of the substrate. The metal pad is provided at the surface of the substrate. The electronic component is mounted to the surface of the substrate. The electronic component includes a plurality of opposing electrodes. The opposing electrodes oppose the electrode pads in a direction toward the surface direction and are electrically connected to the electrode pads. The positioning component is fixed to the metal pad. A gap between the positioning component and the electronic component in an in-plane direction of the surface of the substrate is shorter than a minimum distance of the electrode pads.
US11239137B1
A driver board assembly includes first and second substrates, one or more power device assemblies and a cooling manifold. At least one jet impingement assembly is formed on a first surface of the first substrate and includes an impingement receiving portion that is at least partially circumferentially surrounded by a plurality of fluid microchannels that extend radially from the impingement receiving portion along the first surface. The second substrate is bonded onto the first substrate. The second substrate surface has a recess. The plurality of receiving contours are etched within the first surface of the first substrate. The one or more power device assemblies are bonded into the recess of the second substrate. A first cooling surface of the cooling manifold is bonded to the first surface such that the first cooling surface bonds within the plurality of receiving contours within the first surface of the first substrate.
US11239136B1
Provided are a package structure and a method of forming the same. The package structure includes a first die, a second die, an interposer, an underfill layer, a thermal interface material (TIM), and an adhesive pattern. The first die and the second die are disposed side by side on the interposer. The underfill layer is disposed between the first die and the second die. The TIM is disposed on the first die, the second die, and the underfill layer. The adhesive pattern is disposed between the underfill layer and the TIM to separate the underfill layer from the TIM.
US11239125B2
A carrier structure includes: a plurality of substrates; a separation portion provided between the substrates; and a periphery portion provided at the periphery of the substrates and formed with at least one opening. With the configuration of the opening, the area of an insulating layer of the carrier structure can be reduced. Therefore, the overall space of electrostatic buildup in the carrier structure can also be reduced.
US11239115B2
Partial self-aligned contact structures are provided. In one aspect, a method of forming a semiconductor device includes: patterning fins in a substrate; forming a gate(s) over the fins, separated from source/drains by first spacers, wherein a lower portion of the gate(s) includes a workfunction-setting metal, and an upper portion of the gate(s) includes a core metal between a metal liner; recessing the metal liner to form divots in the upper portion of the gate(s) in between the first spacers and the core metal; forming second spacers in the divots such that the first spacers and the second spacers surround the core metal in the upper portion of the gate(s); forming lower source/drain contacts in between the first spacers over the source/drains; recessing the lower source/drain contacts to form gaps over the lower source/drain contacts; and forming source/drain caps in the gaps. A semiconductor device is also provided.
US11239114B2
Semiconductor device and the manufacturing method thereof are disclosed herein. An exemplary semiconductor device comprises a substrate; a gate structure disposed over the substrate and over a channel region of the semiconductor device, wherein the gate structure includes a gate stack and spacers disposed along sidewalls of the gate stack, the gate stack including a gate dielectric layer and a gate electrode; a first metal layer disposed over the gate stack, wherein the first metal layer laterally contacts the spacers over the gate dielectric layer and the gate electrode; and a gate via disposed over the first metal layer.
US11239112B2
Passivating silicide-based approaches for conductive via fabrication is described. In an example, an integrated circuit structure includes a plurality of conductive lines in an inter-layer dielectric (ILD) layer above a substrate. Each of the plurality of conductive lines is recessed relative to an uppermost surface of the ILD layer. A metal silicide layer is on the plurality of conductive lines, in recess regions above each of the plurality of conductive lines. A hardmask layer is on the metal silicide layer and on the uppermost surface of the ILD layer. A conductive via is in an opening in the hardmask layer and on a portion of the metal silicide layer on one of the plurality of conductive lines.
US11239095B2
Semiconductor die assemblies having high efficiency thermal paths and molded underfill material. In one embodiment, a semiconductor die assembly comprises a first die and a plurality of second dies. The first die has a first functionality, a lateral region, and a stacking site. The second dies have a different functionality than the first die, and the second dies are in a die stack including a bottom second die mounted to the stacking site of the first die and a top second die defining a top surface of the die stack. A thermal transfer structure is attached to at least the lateral region of the first die and has a cavity in which the second dies are positioned. An underfill material is in the cavity between the second dies and the thermal transfer structure, and the underfill material covers the top surface of the die stack.
US11239090B2
A plasma processing method executed by a plasma processing apparatus includes steps of an opening formation, a first film formation, a second film formation, and an etching. In the opening formation, the plasma processing apparatus performs etching on a substrate including a base layer and a first layer formed on the base layer so as to form an opening in the first layer. When determined that the opening satisfies a predetermined condition, in the first film formation, the plasma processing apparatus forms an inhibitor on a bottom surface of the opening so as to form a first film to which a predetermined gas species is not adsorbed. After the formation of the first film, the plasma processing apparatus forms a second film on the side wall of the opening in the second film formation. The plasma processing apparatus also performs etching in the opening in the etching.
US11239089B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device is provided. The method includes forming a first isolation feature in a peripheral region of a substrate; recessing the cell region of the substrate after forming the first isolation feature; forming a second isolation feature in a cell region of the substrate after recessing the cell region of the substrate; forming a plurality of control gates over the cell region of the substrate; and forming a gate stack over the peripheral region of the substrate.
US11239084B2
A semiconductor device includes a fin structure disposed over a substrate, a gate structure and a source. The fin structure includes an upper layer being exposed from an isolation insulating layer. The gate structure disposed over part of the upper layer of the fin structure. The source includes the upper layer of the fin structure not covered by the gate structure. The upper layer of the fin structure of the source is covered by a crystal semiconductor layer. The crystal semiconductor layer is covered by a silicide layer formed by Si and a first metal element. The silicide layer is covered by a first metal layer. A second metal layer made of the first metal element is disposed between the first metal layer and the isolation insulating layer.
US11239081B2
A method for preparing an ohmic contact electrode of a GaN-based device. Said method comprises the following steps: growing a first dielectric layer (203) on an upper surface of a device (S1); implanting silicon ions and/or indium ions in a region of the first dielectric layer (203) corresponding to an ohmic contact electrode region, and in the ohmic contact electrode region of the device (S2); growing a second dielectric layer (206) on an upper surface of the first dielectric layer (203) (S3); activating the silicon ions and/or the indium ions by means of a high temperature annealing process, so as to form an N-type heavy doping (S4); respectively removing portions, corresponding to the ohmic contact electrode region, of the first dielectric layer (203) and the second dielectric layer (206) (S5); growing a metal layer (208) on the upper surface of the ohmic contact electrode region of the device, so as to form an ohmic contact electrode (S6). The ohmic contact electrode prepared by the method can ensure that the metal layer (208) has flat surfaces, smooth and regular edges, and said electrode has stable device breakdown voltage, and is reliable and has a long service life.
US11239070B2
A method includes rendering a cleaning nozzle of a spin coating device below a base plate and out of optimal exposure to a bottom surface and edges of a substrate material placed on a spin chuck in a state of engagement of the base plate with the spin chuck, and rendering the base plate completely under the spin chuck even in the aforementioned state of engagement. In response to disengagement of a lid from the base plate, the method also includes disengaging the base plate from the spin chuck to lower the base plate to a locking point whereupon a portion of the cleaning nozzle below the base plate passes through a hole in the base plate and emerges completely out of and above the base plate, and cleaning the bottom surface and/or the edges of the substrate material utilizing the cleaning nozzle based on an optimal exposure thereof.
US11239065B2
Method and devices are provided for assessing tissue samples from a plurality of tissue sites in a subject using molecular analysis. In certain aspects, devices of the embodiments allow for the collection of liquid tissue samples and delivery of the samples for mass spectrometry analysis.
US11239059B2
The present invention has features (1) to (3). The feature (1) is that “an active gas generation electrode group is formed in such a manner that a ground side electrode component supports a high-voltage side electrode component”. The feature (2) is that “stepped parts are provided in a discharge space outside region of a dielectric electrode in the high-voltage side electrode component, and project downward, and by a formation height of these stepped parts, the gap length of a discharge space is defined”. The feature (3) is that “the high-voltage side electrode component and the ground side electrode component are formed to have the thickness of a discharge space formation region relatively thin and the thickness of a discharge space outside region relatively thick”.
US11239053B2
Charged particle beam systems and methods, such as a multi beam charged particle beam system and related methods, can compensate sample charging.
US11239051B2
An object of the invention is to provide a device for observing the same field of view with a charged particle beam device and a camera without increasing a size of a housing. A charged particle beam device according to an aspect of the invention includes: a lens barrel that irradiates a sample with a charged particle beam; an imaging unit that images an optical image of the sample; a sample table on which the sample is placed; and a stage that is movable and on which the sample table is placed, wherein when a distance between a physical central axis of the sample table and a physical optical axis of the imaging unit is defined as a first distance, and a distance between a virtual central axis of the sample table and a physical central axis of the imaging unit, or between the physical central axis of the sample table and a virtual central axis of the imaging unit, or between the virtual central axis of the sample table and the virtual central axis of the imaging unit is defined as a second distance, the second distance is shorter than the first distance.
US11239049B2
A transmission electron microscope is provided, including a column defining an object chamber, at least one ballistic material jet source outside the object chamber, and tightly attached to the column, facing an opening, referred to as a port, provided on the column; having at least one jet source arranged outside the column and including a collimator of the material jet towards a predetermined direction, passing through the port and leading into the object chamber so that a portion of the material jet exits the source in the object chamber.
US11239030B2
An electronic component includes a laminate including internal electrodes alternately laminated in a lamination direction with dielectric layers interposed therebetween. The laminate includes main surfaces opposite to each other in the lamination direction, side surfaces opposite to each other in a width direction, and end surfaces opposite to each other in a length direction, and external electrodes provided on surfaces of the laminate and electrically connected to the internal electrodes. Each of the dielectric layers includes Ti and Mg. When a cross section including the length direction and the width direction of the laminate is viewed from the lamination direction, side margin portions in which the internal electrodes do not exist each include a dielectric including Ti and Mg with a molar ratio in each of the side margin portions smaller than a molar ratio of Mg to Ti included in each of the dielectric layers.
US11239023B2
A highly reliable winding part is provided which is capable of providing insulation with reliability. A core is attached to a bobbin along a first direction. First terminals and second terminals are disposed along the first direction. A first terminal group and a second terminal group are disposed with the core interposed between the groups. A first insulation portion or a recess along a second direction that is not parallel to the first direction is provided between the first terminals and the second terminals, and a second insulation portion or a core groove along the first direction is provided between the first terminal group and the second terminal group.
US11239017B2
A common mode choke coil includes a differential transmission line including first and second signal lines, a main circuit including a first coil provided in the first signal line, and a second coil provided in the second signal line and connected to the first coil by magnetic field coupling, and a parallel resonance circuit including a third coil connected to both the first and second coils by magnetic field coupling, and a first capacitor electrically connected in parallel to the third coil. In the common mode choke coil, a first resonant frequency of the main circuit is equal or substantially equal to a second resonant frequency of the parallel resonance circuit.
US11239002B1
A technique is disclosed for electro-optically inducing a force to fabricated samples and/or devices with laser light. The technique uses the interaction of the oscillating electric field of the laser beam in opposition with the electric field produced by an appropriate electric charge carrier to achieve a net repulsive (or attractive) force on the component holding the electric charge. In one embodiment, force is achieved when the field near the charge carrier is modulated at a subharmonic of the electric field oscillation frequency of the laser and the relative phases of the light field and electric charge carrier field are controlled to provide optimal repulsion/attraction. The effect is scalable by applying the technique to an array of charge carrier fields sequentially as well as using higher power lasers and higher carrier field voltages.
US11238998B2
An in-vessel cooling and power generation system according to the present disclosure may include a small scale reactor vessel, a heat exchange section provided inside the reactor vessel, and formed to supply supercritical fluid to receive heat from a reactor coolant system in the reactor vessel, an electric power production section comprising a supercritical turbine formed to produce electric energy using the energy of the supercritical fluid whose temperature has increased while receiving heat from the reactor coolant system, a cooling section configured to exchange heat with the supercritical fluid discharged after driving the supercritical turbine to shrink a volume of the supercritical fluid, wherein the supercritical fluid that has received heat from the reactor coolant system in the heat exchange section is formed to circulate through the electric power production section, and the cooling section.
US11238992B2
A scalable configurable universal complete spectrum concise datasets platform is provided that utilizes measure points from sensor-observation-derived representations or concise datasets in the making of selected cyber determinations regarding or utilizing sensor observations or sensor observation subjects. The platform utilizes necessary resources and predetermined criteria in the making of selected cyber determinations, the platform utilizes measure points and personalized processes in the accurate or reliable locating of selected analytically rich aspects, characteristics or features from sensor-observation-derived representations, wherein appropriate informational representations are assigned to selected analytically rich aspects, characteristics, features, measure points or the sensor observation and stored in concise datasets where they may be utilized in real-time or thereafter in the making of selected cyber determinations regarding or utilizing sensor observations or sensor observation subjects. The platform is configurable for being utilized as a touchless user interface, a 100% accurate cyberspace identity test or a universal health metrics monitor.
US11238982B2
A system for managing medical events, includes: at least one medical sensor, configured to output a plurality of sensor measurements; at least one display; at least one hardware processor connected to the medical sensor and the display, and adapted to: receive a plurality of events, each having a time of occurrence, including the plurality of measurements and a plurality of external events; identify a target sequence of events in the plurality of events; identify in the plurality of events a plurality of matching sequences, each including a sequence of events matching the target sequence; augment each of the matching sequences with some temporally related events according to a predefined time test; cluster the plurality of augmented sequences in a plurality of clusters according to a temporal distribution of events; and display on the display a visual representation of the plurality of clusters according to a predefined set of similarity criteria.
US11238980B2
Systems and methods for automated generation of medical device communication software, cloud-based storage of medical device data including an electronic medical device (EMD) application communication interface and a central communication interface, and user interface software to allow a user device to receive EMD data transmitted from a data storage medium (DSM) and transmit data to the DSM for transmission to the EMD, that meets one or more medical device standards set by government or industry regulatory bodies.
US11238979B1
Systems and methods for using a reconfigurable multi-manager observer system to identify markers are provided. The system allows for easy collaboration among users of the system and with subjects. Systems and methods may comprise receiving subject data, selecting predictor and outcome variable classes based on the data, generating a predictor score based on the data and a predictor rule, generating an outcome score based on the data and an outcome rule, generating a marker score based on the predictor score and a marker rule, generating a marker metric based on the outcome score, the marker score, and a marker relationship, and, optionally, taking an action based on the predictor score, the outcome score, the marker score, or the marker metric.
US11238970B2
A method of dispensing medication from a plurality of medication containers, using a dispensing system for collecting a medication dosage from a medication container including: receiving a medication selection; selecting a medication container, from the plurality of medication containers, based on the medication selection; matching a collection protocol to be applied to the medication container including one or more parameter for control of the dispensing system; and dispensing the medication selection from the medication container according to the collection protocol.
US11238967B1
A system for generating dynamic multi-layered graphical user interfaces may include at least one processing device configured to retrieve treatment regimen data for a patient from at least one networked database, retrieve patient attribute data for the patient, generate a graphical user interface reflecting a medication identified in the treatment regimen data and one or more associated patient attributes, compare the extracted patient attributes to one or more thresholds in a rule set, the rule set correlating a dose of the medication to one or more expected values of the extracted patient attributes, evaluating at least one condition of at least rule in the rule set, generate, based on the evaluation an interactive icon for display in the graphical user interface, and generate an overlay window displayed adjacent the interactive icon, the overlay window providing details associated with the interactive icon.
US11238965B2
Described herein are methods and systems for filling a medical prescription. One implementation comprises a central prescription handling engine comprising a server and a database, which is in communication with a computing device of a given user via a wide-area network and configured to receive prescription data corresponding to the medical prescription. The central prescription handling engine selectively routes the received prescription data to a given pharmacy interface among a plurality of pharmacy interfaces and selectively routes scheduling data received at the given pharmacy interface for communication to the given user. The given pharmacy interface is in communication with the central prescription handling engine and is configured to receive the prescription data from the central prescription handling engine and to communicate to the central prescription handling engine the scheduling data corresponding to the prescription data.
US11238964B2
There is provided a system for tracking events associated with a treatment by personalised medicine, the system comprising a plurality of nodes hosting a blockchain. The plurality of nodes include a plurality of sequence manager nodes, each associated with a respective sequence manager contract on the blockchain, and a hub node associated with a hub contract on the blockchain. A first sequence manager contract of the sequence manager contracts is arranged to receive first event data indicating a first event associated with the treatment, and store the first event data on the blockchain in association with a first event sequence. The hub contract is arranged to store an association between the first event sequence and one or more further event sequences associated with the treatment, on the blockchain.
US11238961B2
A method, device, and computer program storage product for generating a query to extract clinical features into a set of electronic medical record (EMR) tables based on clinical knowledge. A knowledge tree is constructed according to a set of clinical knowledge data. An EMR graph corresponding to a set of EMR tables is obtained. The EMR graph comprises at set of table nodes and a set of attribute nodes. The set of table nodes and the set of attribute nodes represent a structure of each EMR table in the set of EMR tables and a reference relationship among attributes of set of EMR tables. A plurality of sub-queries is generated based on the knowledge tree and the EMR graph. At least one query is generated by combining the plurality of sub-queries according to the knowledge tree.
US11238959B2
A device for searching a biomarker to be used for determining whether or not a first treatment has an effect on a disease, the biomarker search device includes: a first storage; a second storage storing; a third storage; a fourth storage; a signature molecular information detector; a regression analyzer; a network generator; and a biomarker determinator.
US11238954B2
A storage device includes a plurality of nonvolatile memory devices; and a controller connected in common to the plurality of nonvolatile memory devices through data lines, the controller being configured to detect first offset information by performing a first training operation with respect to a first nonvolatile memory device from among the plurality of nonvolatile memory devices, the controller being further configured to, based on the first offset information, perform a second training operation with respect to a second nonvolatile memory device from among the plurality of nonvolatile memory devices.
US11238952B2
A memory system performs Error Correcting Code (ECC) decoding on data read from a plurality of target memory cells of a memory device, determines whether to update a read bias used in read operations of the memory device according to results of the ECC decoding, and then may update a value of the read bias based on result data produced by the ECC decoding and the number of data bits corrected by the ECC decoding, thereby optimizing the read bias value according to a change in a threshold voltage distribution of the memory cell, and increasing the likelihood of success of the ECC decoding.
US11238937B2
Memories having a controller configured to apply a particular multi-step programming pulse to a selected access line of a programming operation, enable for programming memory cells that have a particular desired data state for the programming operation and are deemed to have a threshold voltage lower than a first threshold voltage level while applying a first step of a multi-step programming pulse to the selected access line, and enable for programming memory cells that have the particular desired data state for the programming operation and are deemed to have a threshold voltage lower than a second threshold voltage level and higher than the first threshold voltage level while applying a second step of the multi-step programming pulse, lower than the first step of the multi-step programming pulse, to the selected access line.
US11238928B2
A read-write circuit mainly includes a read circuit and a write circuit. The write circuit comprises: a first voltage selector and a first voltage follower circuit that is electrically connected to the memristor storage array. The read-write circuit further includes a second voltage selector and a second voltage follower circuit that is electrically connected to the memristor storage array. Voltage stable following during bipolar writing is selected through the foregoing selector. Meanwhile, the reading circuit is provided with a variable resistor to select an access mode. The actual read-out voltage and the output voltage passing through the reference resistor under the same read voltage are input into a differential amplifier to obtain read-out data.
US11238922B2
The present disclosure relates to a circuit structure for in-memory computing. The circuit structure comprises a plurality of 8T SRAMs, four BLs, two WLs, and a direction configuration circuit. Each of the 8T SRAMs comprises two groups of read/write dual ports, two WL ports and two direction configuration ports. Data of first read/write port and second read/write port of each group of the read/write dual ports are inverse of each other. Each of the BLs is connected to a corresponding processor, and is connected to a read/write port of a corresponding read/write dual port of each 8T SRAM in a row direction or a column direction. Each of the WLs is connected to a corresponding processor and connected to a corresponding WL port of each 8T SRAM.
US11238920B2
One example of the present disclosure includes performing a comparison operation in memory using a logical representation of a first value stored in a first portion of a number of memory cells coupled to a sense line of a memory array and a logical representation of a second value stored in a second portion of the number of memory cells coupled to the sense line of the memory array. The comparison operation compares the first value to the second value, and the method can include storing a logical representation of a result of the comparison operation in a third portion of the number of memory cells coupled to the sense line of the memory array.
US11238919B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor storage device includes a first stacked portion including a first peripheral circuit and a second stacked portion above the first stacked portion. The second stacked portion including a memory cell, a word line connected to the memory cell, a bit line connected to the memory cell and the first peripheral circuit, and at least one of a second peripheral circuit connected to the bit line and a third peripheral circuit connected to the word line. The at least one of the second or third peripheral circuits including a field effect transistor having a channel layer containing an oxide semiconductor.
US11238913B2
Methods, systems, and devices for operating a ferroelectric memory cell or cells are described. A first ferroelectric memory cell may be initialized to a first state and a second ferroelectric memory cell may be initialized to a different state. Each state may have a corresponding digit line voltage. The digit lines of the first and second ferroelectric memory cells may be connected so that charge-sharing occurs between the two digit lines. The voltage resulting from the charge-sharing between the two digit lines may be used by other components as a reference voltage.
US11238910B2
A signal generator includes N stages of cascaded control signal generating circuits, and is configured to receive K clock signals whose valid pulse edges are different from each other by a set time, an n-th control signal generating circuit of the N stages of control signal generating circuit generates a strobe signal based on a k-th clock signal of the K clock signals and sequentially outputs at least two different clock signals of other K−1 clock signals based on the strobe signal. A valid pulse edge of the k-th clock signal is within a valid pulse duration of a strobe signal of an (n−1)-th stage control signal generating circuit.
US11238908B2
A memory circuit includes a first memory cell, a second memory cell and a sense amplifier. The sense amplifier is coupled to the first memory cell by a first bit line, and coupled to the second memory cell by a second bit line. The sense amplifier includes a header switch, a footer switch, a first cross-coupled inverter and a second cross-coupled inverter. The header switch has a first size, and is coupled to a first node and a first supply voltage. The footer switch has a second size, and is coupled to a second node and a second supply voltage. The first size is greater than the second size. The first size includes a first number of fins or a first channel width. The second size includes a second number of fins or a second channel width.
US11238901B1
An image capture device may provide playback of audio content during capture of visual content. Moments within the audio content may be associated with cue markers. The visual content may be synchronized with the audio content provided during capture, and a video edit may be automatically generated based on the moments associated with the cue markers.
US11238892B2
According to one embodiment, a disk device includes a recording medium, a base accommodating the recording medium, the base including a bottom wall, a sidewall on a peripheral portion of the bottom wall, and a rib on a part of an upper surface of the sidewall, a first cover on a part of the upper surface of the sidewall, and a second cover on the rib and above the first cover. The rib includes a first region with a first chamfered surface with a first chamfered width and a second region with a second chamfered surface with a second chamfered width which is less than the first chamfered width. The first region and the second region are located corresponding to a side portion of the recording medium.
US11238890B2
To provide a servo signal verifying device for verifying a servo signal of a magnetic recording tape with high recording density. The present technology provides a servo signal verifying device including: at least one servo signal reading head that reads a servo signal written to a servo band of a magnetic recording tape; a first amplifier that amplifies the servo signal read by the servo signal reading head; and a second amplifier that includes a low-pass filter with a cutoff frequency of 35 MHz or less and amplifies a signal amplified by the first amplifier. Further, the present technology provides also a servo writer that includes the servo signal verifying device, and a method of producing a magnetic recording tape using the servo signal verifying device. Further, the present technology provides also a servo signal reading head constituting the servo signal verifying device.
US11238881B2
A method of decomposing digital signals using non-negative matrix factorization by generating an initial set of values in a row in the weight matrix from a ratio of a first function of a first signal of a plurality of digital signals divided by a second function of at least two other signals of the plurality of the digital signals, wherein the row in the weight matrix determines a decomposition of the plurality of digital signals into signal components.
US11238870B2
The present application discloses a method, device, system, and computer system for interfacing with a terminal in connection with performing a service function. The method includes receiving audio information based at least in part on a voice input from a user, determining a service function corresponding to the audio information, determining user information for the user based at least in part on the audio information, and performing the service function based at least in part on the user information.
US11238868B2
Implementations set forth herein relate to a system that employs an automated assistant to further interactions between a user and another application, which can provide the automated assistant with permission to initialize relevant application actions simultaneous to the user interacting with the other application. Furthermore, the system can allow the automated assistant to initialize actions of different applications, despite being actively operating a particular application. Available actions can be gleaned by the automated assistant using various application-specific schemas, which can be compared with incoming requests from a user to the automated assistant. Additional data, such as context and historical interactions, can also be used to rank and identify a suitable application action to be initialized via the automated assistant.
US11238853B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for determining a direction associated with a detected spoken keyword, forming an acoustic beam in the determined direction, and listening for subsequent speech using the acoustic beam in the determined direction.
US11238850B2
Systems and methods for e-commerce systems using natural language understanding are described. A computing device is configured receive a user utterance and identify at least one semantic element within the user utterance. An intent associated with the at least one semantic element is identified and an intent flow associated with the identified intent is executed. The intent flow includes a set of tasks executed in a predetermined order. A system utterance is generated by instantiating a response template selected from a plurality of response templates associated with the executed intent.
US11238846B2
[Problem] More effective information is gathered efficiently for the correction of device behavior. [Solution] Provided is an information processing device that includes an output control unit that controls, on the basis of a gathered operation history of a device, an output of a reproduced scene pertaining to a behavior which the device has executed on the basis of context information; and a communication unit that receives feedback input by a judge regarding the reproduced scene thus output. Further provided is an information processing device that comprises a communication unit that receives information on a reproduced scene pertaining to a behavior which the device has executed on the basis of context information; and a playback unit that plays back the reproduced scene, wherein the communication unit transmits feedback input by a judge regarding the reproduced scene.
US11238841B2
An active noise control device includes an updated value table operating unit that writes initial values of an initial value table into an updated value table as updated values and writes updated coefficients of a secondary path filter C{circumflex over ( )} updated in a secondary path filter coefficient updating unit during active noise control, into the updated value table as updated values. The secondary path filter coefficient updating unit reads the updated value corresponding to a frequency from the updated value table before updating the coefficients of the secondary path filter C{circumflex over ( )}, and updates the coefficients of the secondary path filter C{circumflex over ( )}, using the read updated values as the pervious values.
US11238840B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to using a display as a sound emitter and may relate to an electronic device including a display and for sound leak cancellation. A vibration sensor such as an accelerometer is physically coupled to the display and senses the display vibration to provide a signal representing actual acoustic output from the display. The electronic device includes a first actuator physically coupled to the display and configured to cause vibration of the display in response to a first audio signal. The electronic device further includes the vibration sensor configured to output a vibration sensor signal proportional to the vibration of the display. The electronic device further includes a second actuator physically coupled to a portion of the electronic device different from where the first actuator is physically coupled to the display and configured to cause vibration of the portion in response to a second audio signal.
US11238838B2
A brass instrument includes a mouthpiece configured to convert vibrations of player's lips into sound and take the sound inside; a bell configured to magnify a volume of the sound taken by the mouthpiece and release the sound to the outside; and a main tube intervening between the mouthpiece and the bell, and is characterized in that the main tube includes a main tube body formed to spread out in a spiral manner in a state in which side surfaces of the main tube body are closely attached to each other, and a part of the closely attached side surfaces of one of the tubes constitutes a part of the side surface of the closely attached other tube.
US11238835B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, presenting a first virtual object in accordance with a first context associated with a first user engaged in a communication session via a first application, presenting a second virtual object in accordance with a second context associated with a second user engaged in the communication session via a second application, identifying a conflict between the presenting of the first virtual object and the presenting of the second virtual object, a presenting of a physical object, or a combination thereof, and responsive to the identifying of the conflict, modifying the first virtual object, the second virtual object, or a combination thereof. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11238831B2
Provided are an electronic device and an operating method thereof. The electronic device includes a display, a plurality of optical sensor units arranged to respectively correspond to a plurality of regions divided on the display, a memory storing one or more instructions, and a processor configured to execute the one or more instructions stored in the memory, in which the processor is further configured to, by executing the one or more instructions, determine an intensity and a direction of external light incident to each of the plurality of regions divided on the display, by using the plurality of optical sensor units, determine a shadow region on the display, based on the determined intensity and direction of the external light corresponding to each of the plurality of regions, and control the display to provide a shadow effect on the determined shadow region, overlappingly with an image that is currently displayed on the display.
US11238823B1
A driving circuit, a display panel and a display device are provided. The driving circuit includes cascaded driving units. Each of the driving units comprises a pull-up control circuit, a pull-down circuit, a pull-down maintaining circuit, a bootstrap circuit, a discharging circuit and a reset circuit. Furthermore, the discharging circuit comprises a twelfth TFT and a fourteenth TFT.
US11238822B2
The present disclosure is related to a driver circuit, a preset protection value and a first voltage are input via a first circuit. A first switching circuit is electrically connected to the first circuit and a trigger circuit. A second switching circuit is electrically connected to a first voltage, and the trigger circuit is electrically connected to a printed circuit board.
US11238818B2
A display module including a plurality of pixels is provided. The display module according to an embodiment includes a plurality of inorganic light emitting elements constituting the plurality of pixels, a plurality of pixel circuits provided for each of the plurality of inorganic light emitting elements and providing a driving current corresponding to an applied grayscale data voltage to each of the plurality of inorganic light emitting elements, and an ESD (Electro Static Discharge) protection circuit arranged in at least one of the plurality of pixel circuits.
US11238813B2
A luminance compensation method is provided. The luminance compensation method includes: establishing a time-varying luminance sequence according to an average luminance value of a plurality of sampled display devices in each unit time during an initial start-up period; establishing an operating luminance sequence according to an average operating luminance value of the sampled display devices under a plurality of different driving condition values after the initial start-up period; generating a driving condition value look-up table according to the time-varying luminance sequence and the operating luminance sequence; and obtaining compensation driving condition values in each unit time according to the driving condition value look-up table and the time-varying luminance sequence and accordingly establishing a time-varying compensation sequence, such that a display device drives a backlight module according to the time-varying compensation sequence in each time unit during the initial start-up period.
US11238794B2
A display apparatus includes a substrate which includes a first pixel area and a second pixel area. A third pixel area is spaced apart from the second pixel area. A notch peripheral area is adjacent to the first, second and third pixel areas. A plurality of pixels are provided in the first, second and third pixel areas. A first scan line is disposed on the substrate. The first scan line includes a first portion disposed in the second pixel area, a second portion disposed in the third pixel area, and a third portion which connects the first portion to the second portion. The third portion is disposed in the notch peripheral area. A second scan line is disposed on the substrate in the first pixel area. A surface area of the first scan line is from about 90% to about 110% of a surface area of the second scan line.
US11238785B2
A display device of the present inventive concept includes: a display panel include a first display area including a first pixel area in which first pixels are disposed and a transmissive area in which no pixel is disposed, and a second display area including a second pixel area in which second pixels are disposed; a panel driver configured to supply an analog data signal to the first and second pixels; and a camera configured to include at least one camera module for capturing an image and disposed to overlap the first display area of the display panel. The panel driver controls luminance of at least some of the first pixels in the first display area at a first time point at which the at least one camera module captures an image.
US11238783B2
The present embodiments disclose a pixel and a display device including the same. A pixel according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a luminous element and a pixel circuit connected to the luminous element, wherein the pixel circuit includes a first pixel circuit configured to control light-emission and non-emission of the luminous element in response to a control signal applied to each of a plurality of subframes constituting a frame during a light-emitting period and a second pixel circuit storing a bit value of image data in a data writing period and generating the control signal based on the bit value and a clock signal in the light-emitting period.
US11238775B1
An image adjustment method comprises: generate a grayscale value of a target pixel by weighted averaging a plurality of input sub-pixel data of the target pixel; calculate an average of grayscale values of all pixels comprising the target pixel in a first window to generate a foreground value of the target pixel; calculate an average of grayscale values of all pixels comprising the target pixel in a second window to generate a background value of the target pixel; according to the foreground value of the target pixel and the background value of the target pixel, obtain a just-noticeable difference value in a look-up table as a grayscale difference value; generate an adjusted grayscale value of the target pixel according to the grayscale difference value; and generate a plurality of output sub-pixel data according to the plurality of input sub-pixel data of the target pixel and the adjusted grayscale value.
US11238765B2
A display device includes a substrate, a plurality of pixel columns, and a lighting test circuit unit. The lighting test circuit unit is disposed in a non-display area on the substrate, includes a plurality of lighting test transistors, and provides a lighting test voltage to the pixel columns. Each of the lighting test transistors includes an active pattern including a source area, a drain area, and a channel area, a gate electrode disposed in the channel area, an interlayer insulating layer including a first contact hole spaced apart from a first side of the gate electrode by about 7 um or more, and a source electrode contacting the source area of the active pattern through the first contact hole.
US11238762B2
A cable hanger includes: a base panel having opposed ends; a pair of arms, each of the arms attached to a respective end of the base panel and having a free end; a pair of locking projections, each of the locking projections attached to a respective free end of the arms; and a pair of gripping members, each gripping member attached to a respective arm, each gripping member having opposed ends, wherein one of the ends of each gripping member is fixed to the arms and the other of the ends of each gripping member is fixed to the arm or to the base panel. The arms and locking projections are configured to spread apart to enable insertion of a cable between the arms, wherein the gripping projections engage and grip the cable, and wherein the locking projections are configured to be inserted into the aperture of the supporting structure.
US11238758B2
A foldable article having a sliceform removably secured to one or more panels of the foldable article. A tab having a retaining portion may extend from at least one of the one or more panels of the foldable article. The tab may pass through an opening in the sliceform and the retaining portion may be wider than the width of the opening. The retaining member may be manipulated to pass through the opening to removably secure the sliceform to, and/or detach the sliceform from, the foldable article.
US11238755B2
A test bench assembly for simulating cardiac surgery includes a passive heart having at least one pair of cardiac chambers with an atrial chamber and a ventricular chamber. A reservoir is adapted to house working fluid. A pressure generator fluidically connects both to the ventricular chamber of the passive heart and to the reservoir. A pressure regulation device provides working fluid in input to the atrial chamber with preload pressure, and working fluid in output from the ventricular chamber with afterload pressure. The pressure regulation device fluidically connects both to the atrial chamber of the passive heart and to the ventricular chamber of the passive heart. The pressure regulation device has a single compliant element for each pair of cardiac chambers, which provides working fluid with both preload, and afterload pressures.
US11238753B2
Disclosed embodiments include apparatuses, methods and storage media associated with modifying a food record database. The method comprises receiving a plurality of food records from a plurality of sources, each of the plurality of food records comprising at least a food record description, the plurality of sources including (i) at least one government agency and (ii) users of the food record database. The method further comprises receiving search requests from users, and returning one or more top search results from the food record database in response. The method also comprises determining a score for a particular food record identified by the top search results, wherein the score is calculated based at least in part on one of: a number of times the particular food record has been included in the top search results of the search requests or a number of times the particular food record has been logged.
US11238749B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for providing a customized educational content by an electronic device, the method including: a step a of generating a set of tags of sub-learning elements by listing a learning element of a particular subject in a tree structure, and designating analysis groups of the tags; a step b of generating structural information of a question by indexing an incorrect-answer tag to each of distractors of the question; a step c of inquiring about a result of a user test so as to calculate a user conquest rate for each of the analysis groups; and a step d of providing a user-customized question by using at least one of the structural information of the question and the user conquest rate.
US11238748B2
A method is implemented by a computing device for helping a particular user use a user interface (UI). Electroencephalography (EEG) data is obtained that indicates brain activity of a particular user during a period in which that user views the UI and/or interprets help information that describes how to use the UI. Based on the EEG data, the computing device selects, from among multiple predefined cognitive states, the one or more cognitive states that characterize the particular user during the period. The computing device assists the particular user to use the UI by customizing the help information for the particular user based on the one or more selected cognitive states. A complementary computing device and computer program product are also disclosed.
US11238746B2
A device for checking the consistency of a positioning includes: a transmitter, a receiver, a time measuring unit, a distance determining module and a check module. The transmitter emits at least one signal, and the receiver receives at least four response signals from at least four different response elements. A response element receives the at least one signal and, upon receipt, emits a response signal. The time measuring unit determines, for each response signal, a total delay time from a transmission time of the signal and a reception time of the respective signal. The distance determination module determines a distance to the respective response element based on each total delay time, and the check module performs a consistency check of a determination of a position based on distances to the different response elements. With the device, erroneous distance values may be detected in ground-based positioning systems.
US11238740B2
An apparatus for assisting driving of a host vehicle provides stable control of the host vehicle by using road conditions including intersections, crosswalks and the like, forward lane markings, and a preceding vehicle. The apparatus includes an image sensor to capture images of an area in front of the host vehicle, and a controller configured to recognize a road section having no lane markings on a drive path, or recognize forward lane markings. The controller performs lateral control of the host vehicle selectively based on the forward lane markings and the recognized preceding vehicle according to whether the road section having no lane markings is recognized.
US11238733B2
A social driving style learning framework or system for autonomous vehicles is utilized, which can dynamically learn the social driving styles from surrounding vehicles and adopt the driving style as needed. Each of the autonomous vehicles within a particular driving area is equipped with the driving style learning system to perceive the driving behaviors of the surrounding vehicles to derive a set of driving style elements. Each autonomous vehicle transmits the driving style elements to a centralized remote server. The server aggregates the driving style elements collected from the autonomous vehicles to determine a driving style corresponding to that particular driving area. The server transmits the driving style back to each of the autonomous vehicles. The autonomous vehicles can then decide whether to adopt the driving style, for example, to follow the traffic flow with the rest of the vehicles nearby.
US11238731B2
The disclosure relates to a method for detecting the passing of a motor vehicle through a road sign gantry, having the steps: receiving information on the surroundings, detecting road signs in the information on the surroundings, selecting a first road sign and a second road sign which together form a road sign gantry, acquiring position data for the first road sign and for the second road sign from the information on the surroundings, determining a gantry width between the first road sign and the second road sign, determining a first distance of the motor vehicle from the first road sign, determining a second distance of the motor vehicle from the second road sign, and detecting the passing through of the vehicle as a function of the gantry width, the first distance and the second distance.
US11238730B2
A system mountable in a host vehicle, configured to operate while the host vehicle is moving in a road environment. The system includes a backward-looking camera with field-of-view behind the host vehicle, a side-looking camera with field-of-view to a side of the host vehicle, a forward-looking camera with field-of-view in front of the host vehicle. A processor is configured to control the cameras, to acquire and store in memory images acquired from the cameras. The processor is configured to detect a target vehicle in the images of a one camera and track a feature of the target vehicle in the images of the other cameras. A traffic violation is declared when a feature of the target vehicle is identified in images of the other cameras.
US11238727B2
An aerial vehicle can proceed to a target location upon receiving a message based on a ground vehicle being at an aerial vehicle deploy location. A user can be identified from an image captured at the target location. The aerial vehicle can be navigated to lead the user to a rendezvous with the vehicle.
US11238724B2
Systems and methods for automatically activating self-test devices of sensors of a security system are provided. Such systems and methods can include a self-test monitoring device that can identify a test triggering event and, responsive thereto, activate the self-test devices of the sensors and determine whether each of the sensors passes or fails a respective self-test associated with its self-test devices. In some embodiments, when any of the sensors fails its respective self-test, the self-test monitoring device can identify one or more notification devices based on a type of the test triggering event and transmit a self-test failure report to the one or more notification devices.
US11238721B2
A system and computer-implemented method for efficiently monitoring hand hygiene is provided. The system comprises one or more sensors configured to determine presence of one or more individuals in vicinity. The system further comprises one or more controllers configured to ascertain identity of the one or more individuals. The one or more controllers are further configured to send one or more alerts to the one or more identified individuals to wash their hands. Furthermore, the one or more controllers are configured to monitor one or more handwashing instances by the one or more identified individuals and generate one or more compliance results for each of the one or more monitored handwashing instances. The one or more controllers are also configured to initiate one or more actions corresponding to each of the one or more monitored handwashing instances based on the generated one or more compliance results.
US11238717B2
A method includes receiving first position data from at least one of a TOF sensor or a LIDAR. The first position data is representative of a position of a human within a hazardous environment. The method further includes receiving second position data associated with a plurality of wearable sensors associated with a plurality of personnel. The method further includes comparing the first position data to the second position data to identify a match between the first position data and the second position data. The method further includes sensing a signal to an alert device associated with the hazardous environment such that the alert device issues an alert in response to the first position data failings to match the second position data.
US11238711B2
A method of directing individuals to an evacuation point during a fire including: determining a location of one or more fire detection device and one or more fire suppression devices within a building; detecting a fire using the one or more fire detection devices; determining a location of the fire in response to the location of the one or more fire detection devices; determining a safe evacuation route between an individual and an evacuation point in response to the location of the fire within the building; and directing an individual towards the evacuation point along the safe evacuation route.
US11238707B2
A method of operating an automated transaction machine (ATM) can include receiving a token from a user. The method can also include confirming a personal identification number (PIN) of the user and dispensing banknotes in response to the confirming. The method can also include at least partially disengaging a first component of the ATM from a remainder of the ATM. The method can also include altering the first component to a non-conforming condition after being at least partially disengaged. The method can also include re-engaging the first component with the ATM after being altered. The method can also include replacing a second component of the ATM after the re-engaging. Replacing the second component can include pairing the second component with a computing device of the ATM. The pairing can be responsive at least in part to the altering.
US11238706B2
Disclosed is a crane game machine, which includes at least: a camera unit which images an inside of a main body in which prizes are accommodated, and generates an internal image; a prize moving unit which picks up a prize and then moves the prize to a first score point inside the main body; a sensor unit which is installed at the first score point and senses the passing of the prize through the first score point; a communication unit which transmits the internal image and the sensing result to an external device, and receives a prize moving unit control signal from the external device; and a control unit which controls the movement of the prize moving unit according to the prize moving unit control signal.
US11238693B2
A modular electronic gaming machine is provided. The modular electronic gaming machine includes a structural core including a gaming controller and a plurality of coupling mechanisms including a first coupling mechanism. The first coupling mechanism comprises an electrical connector. The first coupling mechanism is configured to couple to a first peripheral device to provide electrical power and structural support to the first peripheral device. The first coupling mechanism is configured to releasably couple to the first peripheral device.
US11238692B2
A method of playing a feature game on a gaming machine. A display displays a first game and a second game. A game controller determines if a merging condition occurs, and if a merging condition occurs, animates a merging of the first game and the second game into a merged game at the display. The merged game has a plurality of display positions from the first game, the second game, and a set of additional display positions.
US11238686B2
Systems for item validation and image evaluation are provided. In some examples, a system may receive an instrument and associated data. The instrument may be received and at least one of a bill pay profile and a user profile may be retrieved. The bill pay profile and user profile may each include a plurality of previously processed instruments that have been determined to be valid and/or authentic. The instrument may be compared to the plurality of previously processed instruments to determine whether one or more elements of the instrument being evaluated match one or more corresponding elements of the plurality of previously processed instruments. Matching or non-matching elements may be identified. In some examples, one or more user interfaces may be generated displaying the instruments and including any highlighting or enhancements identifying matching or non-matching elements.
US11238683B1
An identity reader is coupled to a card reader that is coupled to a peripheral device, and includes a transceiver for scanning ephemeral ID signals including a first ephemeral ID signal from a user smart-device, wherein the first ephemeral ID signal is not permanently associated with the user, for outputting a reader identifier and a second ephemeral ID signal not permanently associated with a reader device to the smart device, and for receiving an authorization server token from the smart device, a processor coupled to the transceiver for determining whether the authorization server token is valid, and for determining card emulation data from a payload portion of the authorization server token, a radio frequency (rf) transmitter coupled to the processor for transmitting the card emulation data to the card reader device via rf signals, and wherein the reader device is for directing the peripheral device to perform a user-perceptible action.
US11238672B2
A system for use with a vehicle includes at least one device installed or present onboard the vehicle and configured to sense or determine at least one condition or characteristic of the vehicle or its driver. The at least one device communicates the condition or characteristic with a remote site or web service using a wireless communication device. The remote site or web service correlates or compares the condition or characteristic of the vehicle or its driver with road conditions, capacities, facilities, and/or established safety data associated with the upcoming roadway, and determines whether the vehicle should stop or enter a facility due to an incompatibility or conflict between the condition or characteristic and the road conditions, capacities, facilities, and/or established safety data. The remote site or web service then communicates the determination of whether the vehicle should stop or enter the facility to the device on the vehicle.
US11238666B2
A first position of a hybrid reality system (DHR) relative to a first real-world object is determined and data associated with an occluded object is received. A viewport is established anchored to a first location on the first real-world object and a first image showing a first virtual view of the hidden portion of the occluded object as it would be seen from the first position of the DHR through the viewport is presented on the DHR overlaid on a first view of the first real-world object. At a second time, a second position of the DHR is determined and a second image showing a second virtual view of the hidden portion of the occluded object as it would be seen from the second position of the DHR through the viewport is presenting on the DHR overlaid on a second view of the first real-world object.
US11238653B2
An information processing device includes: a memory configured to store data illustrating a three-dimensional model reproducing an environment of a work site; and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to specify a first partial region in which a work target is present from the three-dimensional model based on a detection result of an orientation of a work operator present at the work site, specify a second partial region corresponding to the work target from the first partial region based on at least one of a geometric shape of the first partial region and color information of the first partial region, and register, in the memory, three-dimensional coordinates of the second partial region in a coordinate space in which the three-dimensional model is formed as position information for displaying, according to a position of the work target, image information on an image in which the work site is photographed.
US11238640B2
A technique for performing ray tracing operations is provided. The technique includes reading descendant-shared type metadata for a non-leaf node of a bounding volume hierarchy; identifying one or more culling types for a ray-intersection test for a ray; and determining whether to treat the non-leaf node as not intersected based on whether the one or more culling types includes at least one type specified by the descendant-shared type metadata.
US11238636B2
Techniques for sport-specific training with captured body motions are described. A computing device is provided to receive sensing data wirelessly from a plurality of sensor modules respectively attached to different body parts of a user in accordance with a particular sport. The motion of the user per the received sensing data is derived. A corresponding 3D graphic environment pertaining to the sport is provided on a display to show reference motion performed by a reference chosen by the user with the derived motion performed by the user. Differences between the reference motion and the derived motion are highlighted or animated in the 3D graphic environment.
US11238631B2
A method, apparatus and system for visual grounding of a caption in an image include projecting at least two parsed phrases of the caption into a trained semantic embedding space, projecting extracted region proposals of the image into the trained semantic embedding space, aligning the extracted region proposals and the at least two parsed phrases, aggregating the aligned region proposals and the at least two parsed phrases to determine a caption-conditioned image representation and projecting the caption-conditioned image representation and the caption into a semantic embedding space to align the caption-conditioned image representation and the caption. The method, apparatus and system can further include a parser for parsing the caption into the at least two parsed phrases and a region proposal module for extracting the region proposals from the image.
US11238629B2
A notification device that gives notification of predetermined information can be used more conveniently. A notification device includes a state detecting section, a guidance notifying section, a determining section, and a notification control section. The state detecting section sequentially detects a face state of a subject on the basis of images which are sequentially input. The guidance notifying section gives notification of face guidance information. The determining section determines whether or not the face state sequentially detected by the guidance notifying section satisfies a state corresponding to the notified face guidance information. In a case in which the determining section determines that the state corresponding to the notified face guidance information is satisfied, the notification control section controls the guidance notifying section such that another face guidance information different from the notified face guidance information is notified.
US11238628B2
Methods and systems are provided for an intelligent auto-fill process capable of smartly filling objects on a canvas using selected context-based images. Content related to the canvas is analyzed to determine context tags related to the canvas. The context tags are used to generate a media list comprised of one or more context-based image. The media list is used to automatically fill at least one object on the canvas such that a relevant part of the context-based image is visible. In this way, objects on a canvas can be automatically filled with images related to the context of the canvas.
US11238623B2
A computer is caused to realize: a line drawing data acquisition function to acquire line drawing data to be colored; a size-reducing process function to perform a size-reducing process on the line drawing data acquired to a predetermined reduced size so as to obtain size-reduced line drawing data; a first coloring process function to perform a coloring process on the size-reduced line drawing data based on a first learned model that has previously learned the coloring process on the size-reduced line drawing data by using sample data; and a second coloring process function to perform a coloring process on original line drawing data by receiving an input of the original line drawing data and colored, size-reduced line drawing data as the size-reduced line drawing data on which the first coloring process function has performed the coloring, based on a second learned model that has previously learned the coloring process on the sample data by receiving an input of the sample data and colored, size-reduced sample data as the sample data on which the first coloring process function has performed the coloring.
US11238620B2
A implicit structured light decoding method, a computer equipment and a computer-readable storage medium. The method includes: traversing an image captured by a camera to acquire a grayscale value of each pixel point and an ideal neighborhood grayscale distribution; extracting and outputting an updated output image according to the grayscale value of each pixel point and the ideal neighborhood grayscale distribution and in combination with a preset output image; classifying stripe central points in the updated output image into different stripes; determining a correspondence between stripes in the updated output image and stripes in a structured light image according to the different stripes; and decoding all stripe central points by using triangulation method in combination with the correspondence between the extracted stripes and the projected stripe pattern. This solution can efficiently and robustly decode the implicit stripe-based structured light on a basis of ensuring precision.
US11238618B2
Aspects of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for image processing. The method includes one or more processors generating a first set of binary images from a first image based on a first color attribute value range associated with a textual object presented in the first image. The method further includes one or more processors recognizing a first set of candidates for the textual object from the first set of binary images. The method further includes one or more processors determining a first appearance frequency of a first candidate in the first set of candidates. In response to determining that the first appearance frequency exceeds a first frequency, threshold he method further includes one or more processors determining that the first candidate is a first recognition result for the textual object in the first image.
US11238616B1
In one implementation, a device has a processor, a projector, a first infrared (IR) sensor, a second IR sensor, and instructions stored on a computer-readable medium that are executed by the processor to estimate the sensor-to-sensor extrinsic parameters. The projector projects IR pattern elements onto an environment surface. The first sensor captures a first image including first IR pattern elements corresponding to the projected IR pattern elements and the device estimates 3D positions for first IR pattern elements. The second IR sensor captures a second image including second IR pattern elements corresponding to the projected IR pattern elements and the device matches the first IR pattern elements and the second IR pattern elements. Based on this matching, the device estimates a second extrinsic parameter corresponding to a spatial relationship between the first IR sensor and the second IR sensor.
US11238609B2
A trajectory of a measuring device is calculated based on measurement data acquired by the measuring device that is moving along a measurement route, and on a vertical plane orthogonal to the trajectory, a two-dimensional figure is identified by designating an extraction angle range around an intersection of the trajectory and the vertical plane based on a perpendicular drawn down to a horizontal plane from the intersection and an extraction distance range based on the intersection on the vertical plane, and a region obtained by extending the two-dimensional figure along the trajectory is set as an extraction region, and point cloud data in a region including a specific analysis target is extracted as extracted point cloud data from entire circumference point cloud data acquired by scanning the circumference of the measuring device and included in the measurement data.
US11238598B1
A head mounted display comprises an eye tracking system configured to enable eye tracking using polarization. The eye tracking system includes one or more illumination sources and an optical detector comprising polarization sensitive pixels. The one or more illumination sources are configured to illuminate a user's eye and generate reflections directed towards the optical detector. The eye tracking system determines, for each polarization sensitive pixel in a subset of the polarization sensitive pixels, one or more estimation parameters. The eye tracking system determines, for the subset of the polarization sensitive pixels, depth information for one or more glints associated with one or more surfaces of the eye, based in part on the polarization of the reflections and the one or more estimation parameters. The determined depth information is used to update a model of the eye. The eye tracking system determines eye tracking information based on the updated model.
US11238596B1
Devices and techniques are generally described for object co-segmentation in image data using a semantic filter. In various examples, first image data and second image data may be received. First semantic feature data may be determined for the first image data and second semantic feature data may be determined for the second image data. Filtered semantic feature data corresponding to the first semantic feature data may be generated by filtering the first semantic feature data and the second semantic feature data in a semantic feature space. A determination may be made that a first pixel corresponds to a first class of an object, where at least one object of the first class is represented in the first image data and the second image data.
US11238594B2
A method includes acquiring at least one image with at least one camera associated with at least one mobile robot; and extracting a plurality of straight lines from the at least one image; creating at least one dataset comprising data related to the plurality of straight lines extracted from the at least one image; forming a plurality of hypotheses for a walkway boundary based on the at least one dataset and determining at least one hypothesis with the highest likelihood of representing a walkway boundary; and using the at least one hypothesis to adjust a direction and/or speed of motion of the at least one mobile robot.
US11238591B1
A medical image processing system includes a memory and a processor coupled to each other. The processor accesses and executes instructions which memory stores to perform the following: obtaining a plurality of brain MR images corresponding to a subject, wherein the brain MR images corresponds to a subject brain space; accessing a DBS targets atlas corresponding to a specific stimulation area; transforming the DBS targets atlas from a MNI brain space to the subject brain space based on a DARTEL algorithm; marking at least one coordinate having a largest Voxel value in the brain MR images based on the transformed DBS targets atlas; and storing the brain MR images being targeted with the at least one coordinate into a predetermined format corresponding to a guiding device so that the guiding device displays the brain MR images being targeted with the at least one coordinate for guidance in DBS procedure.
US11238589B2
The following provides an exemplary method. An image is generated. Scan data generated by the sensing of a subject brain is received and a sequence of volumetric-images are accessed. For at least some of the voxels in at least some of the volumetric images, a change value is determined for the voxel by comparing the current-intensity value of the voxel to the adjacent-intensity value of the comparison voxel. For at least some of the plurality volumetric images, a first-aggregate is determined using at least a mean value of change values of the volumetric image and a second-aggregate is determined using at least a median value of change values of the volumetric image. At least one, but not all, of the volumetric images is determined as invalid as a result of the aggregates.
US11238578B2
A foil-stamped print inspection apparatus includes: a region selecting unit that selects a foil-stamped region based on data for inspection for a printed material; and an inspection unit that inspects a foil-stamped state of the printed material and determines that foil is unsatisfactory if the foil-stamped region in an image acquired by reading the printed material has a gray level that falls outside a predetermined range. A method of inspecting foil-stamped print includes: a region selecting step of selecting a foil-stamped region based on data for inspection for a printed material; and an inspecting step of inspecting a foil-stamped state of the printed material and determining that foil is unsatisfactory if the foil-stamped region in an image acquired by reading the printed material has a gray level that falls outside a predetermined range.
US11238576B2
An information processing device includes a communication unit that acquires first image data in which an observation value observed at a time t is used as a pixel value and a learning processing unit that generates second image data in which an observation value predicted to be observed at a time t+n after the time t is used as a pixel value from the first image data acquired by the acquiring unit based on a learning model obtained by machine learning using the first image data, in which the machine learning occurs based on a comparison of the first image data in which an observation value observed at a target time is used as a pixel value and the second image data in which an observation value predicted to be observed at the target time is used as a pixel value.
US11238565B1
An apparatus includes a raw image pipeline comprising a first circuit and a second circuit. The first circuit of the raw image pipeline may be configured to distinguish between smooth picture noisy areas and non-smooth clean areas of an image by performing tone based non-smooth detection on data of the image to obtain an adjusted non-smoothness value for at least one area comprising a plurality of pixels of the image. The second circuit of the raw image pipeline may be configured to adjust one or more of noise reduction filtering or sharpening filtering performed on the at least one area of the image based on the adjusted non-smoothness value.
US11238564B2
Methods, systems, devices and computer software/program code products enable generating reduced-noise image frames based on image frames received from a digital, camera pipeline; and enable efficient stereo image search between corresponding images generated by at least two cameras.
US11238561B2
Correcting motion-based inaccuracy in point cloud data generated by one or more sensors carried by a scanning platform, and associated systems and methods are disclosed herein. A representative method includes associating a motion model with a target object of the point cloud, estimating adjusting factors based on the motion model, and adjusting scanning points in the point cloud using the adjusting factors.
US11238554B2
Zones are defined within an enterprise. Video captured from the zones are monitored for threats (financial or physical). Any transaction data associated with transactions are monitored with the video along with sensor data captured from sensors within the zones. Threat policies are evaluated to identify actions and behaviors of individuals within the zones and threat scores are maintained. When a current threat score associated with a specific type of threat for a given individual or set of individuals exceeds a threshold, one or more automated remediation or threat avoidance actions are processed to mitigate and/or prevent the perceived threat.
US11238552B2
A system for automating preparation of IP applications has a server, a priority computer associated with a priority professional and a priority jurisdiction, and a second computer associated with a second professional and a second jurisdiction. A data store has portions associated with each professional, and which are only accessible by the respective professional after authentication. The priority professional sends application data for an IP application to the server for storage in the data store. The priority professional sends an instruction to initiate filing of the IP application in the second jurisdiction. A replicator on the server copies the application data to the portion of the data store associated with the second professional. A document assembler on the server assembles filing documents for the second jurisdiction by combining the application data with at least one form. The server sends the filing documents to the second professional for review and filing.
US11238550B2
Licenses to software services are assigned automatically to users as a function of one or more user attributes. An attribute can include membership in a group such as a license group or a security group, among other things such as location. License assignments can also be retracted automatically upon changes in one or more user attributes.
US11238542B1
In response to receiving a request from a querying entity, such as a seller of goods or services, embodiments of a service engine present to a client computing device of the querying entity a set of queries about goods or services sold by the querying entity and other characteristics of the business of the querying entity. The service engine may intelligently determine which queries to present based on responses to preceding queries. The service engine may then compare the entries in response to the queries against stored rules for a one or more of a plurality of tax jurisdictions, the stored rules being about establishing nexus for purposes of remitting transaction tax in the certain tax jurisdiction. The service engine may then determine information regarding potential lack of tax compliance of the querying entity based on the comparison, and notify accordingly.
US11238539B1
A system and method classify insurance documents. The system and method receive a request to access documents from an assessment queue stored in a memory of a device where each of the documents contain insurance data and have an associated destination and associated metadata. The system and method convert the set of documents encoded in a first file format to a second file format to remove the metadata. The system and method partition each document of the set of documents into separate stand-alone documents and converts each of the partitioned documents into separate recognition vectors. The system and method classifies the partitioned documents through an additive learning algorithm in which routing data is embedded in second metadata and merge the classified partitioned documents. The merged documents are routed to a remote destination independent of the originally intended destination and the associated metadata.
US11238533B2
Systems and methods are provided for an optimized electronic match engine of an exchange is disclosed that distributes a minimum data set to an external market data generation (MDG) processor. The optimized electronic match engine derives a minimum data set from data already known to the optimized electronic match engine. The MDG processor may extract the minimum data set and uses it to generate market data outside of the optimized electronic match engine. In some examples, an order entry (OE) message transmitted from the optimized electronic match engine may be appended with the minimum data set in a simple binary encoding (SBE) format.
US11238531B2
Systems, methods, and computer program products to provide credit decisioning based on graph neural networks. A lending network graph of a plurality of loans may be received, each loan associated with a creditor and one account. A first node of the graph may be associated with a first creditor and the second node may be associated with a first account. A graph neural network may receive a respective message from each node connected to the first node, each message comprising an embedding vector reflecting a current state of the node. The graph neural network may update weights for the first node in a forward pass. The graph neural network may receive a respective message from each node connected to the second node, each message comprising the embedding vector reflecting the current state of the node. The graph neural network may update weights for the second node in a backward pass.
US11238525B2
A system and process within a mobile device and/or social media application of coordinating, scheduling and booking people to connect and have live face to face streaming meet-and-greets through the application. A network connected server maintains a database and information to Facilitate the buying and selling of direct air time between specific users within the application. Wherein Users can go on and offer time available for a live meet-and-greet and other users can then go on and book and schedule time from the said time available. The application can also be used to schedule and pay for the meet-and-greet time, facilitating live “meet-and-greets” via the application.
US11238517B2
Provided is a navigation server or the like capable of improving a convenience for trip planning by a user of a navigation client. The user can designate, on the navi-client 2, a plurality of topics from among the plurality of topics TPX0(k) in the designated area ROI, as the primary designated topics TPX1(i) and further as the secondary designated topics TPX2(j). Then, on the navi-client 2, the guide information can be output for guiding the plurality of POI(j) corresponding to the plurality of secondary designated topics TPX2(j) in the order which is basically defined in accordance with the correlation rule among the designated topics TPX2(j).
US11238511B2
In one scenario, a computer system receives from a user an indicator of a home décor item. The computer system identifies a color associated with the presented home décor item, and further determines other home décor items that have colors that coordinate with the color of the presented home décor item. The computer system also displays to the user images of the determined other home décor items, receives user input selecting some of the displayed home décor items and informs the user which of the selected home décor items are available at the retail establishment.
US11238496B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products for predicting consumer behavior. In one embodiment a method is provided comprising automatically creating a link graph comprising nodes representing webpages, links representing hyperlinks, and weights for each link representing a number of times a hyperlink associated with the respective link redirected the a user devices from a webpage associated with a first node connected to the link to a webpage associated with a second node connected to the link; and determining based on the link graph a programmatically expected path for a particular user, wherein the programmatically expected path identifies, at least, two or more webpages that the particular user is programmatically expected to visit and specifying a programmatically expected order at which the particular user will visit the webpages.
US11238486B2
A device may determine a multi-customer offer, wherein the multi-customer offer identifies a threshold quantity of customers of the multi-customer offer to allow access to the multi-customer offer. The device may receive one or more requests to accept the multi-customer offer, wherein a request, of the one or more requests, is associated with a customer device of the one or more customer devices. The device may determine, based on a quantity of requests of the one or more requests, that the threshold quantity of customers is not satisfied. The device may identify, based on the threshold quantity of customers not being satisfied, one or more candidate customer devices having a likelihood of requesting to accept the multi-customer offer, wherein the one or more candidate customer devices are associated with respective users that are the potential customers, and wherein the likelihood satisfies a threshold.
US11238485B2
The present disclosure pertains to a method for providing digital goods using a URL coupon. The method includes: generating a digital goods provision URL containing information on digital goods; generating a URL coupon containing the digital goods provision URL; providing the URL coupon; receiving a digital goods provision request at the digital goods provision URL; authenticating a user; and transmitting an information processing request containing authenticated user information and digital goods identification information to a digital goods managing server. The method makes it possible to provide digital goods in an easy and safe manner.
US11238481B1
A financial institution can provide a best price guarantee to debit or credit card account holders. By providing a consolidated system including automatic price monitoring of purchased products and automatic claim form generation upon identifying a lower price, the consumer is relieved of the burden typically associated with conventional price matching. An exemplary method comprises receiving, by a server, purchase information from a financial customer, wherein the purchase information comprises a purchase price and purchased product description and wherein the customer has a credit or debit card issued by the financial institution; storing, by the server, the purchase information in a first database; locating, by the server, from a second database, stored product information corresponding to the received purchased product description, wherein the stored product information comprises a lowest price datum; comparing, by the server, the lowest price datum to the purchase price; and, if the lowest price datum is less than the purchase price, generating a claim form for the financial customer.
US11238478B2
Methods and systems for commercializing vehicle data. The method includes writing, by an electronic control unit (ECU) of a vehicle, to a distributed ledger, vehicle data. The method also includes providing, by a computing device associated with a third party, a communication to the vehicle based on the vehicle data on the distributed ledger. The method also includes writing, by a processor of the computing device associated with the third party, to the distributed ledger, a record of providing the communication to the vehicle. The method also includes receiving, by the ECU of the vehicle, the communication.
US11238477B1
Systems and methods to provide utilities based on blockchain-specific populations of unique digital articles in an online gaming platform are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may execute instances of a game; manage user accounts, including a first user account having a first account inventory that includes a first unique digital article; receive a first recordation request to record ownership of the first unique digital article on a first decentralized ledger; determine a size of a set or population of unique digital articles that include the first unique digital article; determine a fraction of the set or population of unique digital articles recorded on the first decentralized ledger; receive a first reward request for a first reward; compare the determined fraction with a threshold value; based on the comparison, provide either the first reward or else provide no award or a smaller award.
US11238476B2
Disclosed are a blockchain-based platform and methods for monetizing a social media following. An example method may commence with receiving content associated with an object of a social media following. The content may be received from at least one content source. The method may further include aggregating the content received from the at least one content source. The method may continue with gamifying the aggregated content to facilitate interactions of at least one fan of the object of the social media following with the aggregated content. The method may further include awarding at least one virtual asset to the at least one fan based on the interactions with the aggregated content. The method may continue with securely storing transactions associated with the at least one virtual asset to a blockchain and facilitating exchange of the at least one virtual asset for a currency.
US11238474B2
A system includes an energy storage device geographically proximate a plurality of load centers. The energy storage device is coupled to one or more of the plurality of load centers for supplying energy to the load centers and is also coupled to an energy generation source for receiving energy from the energy generation source. The system also includes a control system that is operable to receive energy market data, monitor the plurality of load centers, the energy storage device, and the energy generation source, and control the charging and dispatching of the energy storage device based on the monitoring and the energy market data.
US11238472B2
Approaches presented herein enable evaluating and displaying feedback for an item distributed to a group of users, e.g., at a collaborative event. Specifically, at least one approach includes receiving the item (e.g., a topic, idea, product) from a first user, and distributing the item to the group of users, wherein the group of users is located within an identified geographic proximity to the first user. An assigned value (e.g., demand quantified though buy/sell data) is then received for the item from one or more users of the group of users, and displayed to the first user via a mobile device, along with a real-time location of each user of the group of users. In one approach, each user's mobile device displays a geographic distance from other users at the collaborative event.
US11238459B2
Intelligent systems for identifying transactions associated with an institution impacted by an event
A transaction processing system capable of processing transactions and implementing a flexible circuit breaker process during an event. A circuit breaker module initiates a circuit breaker event (CBE), an account identification module identifies one or more affected account IDs, and a rule generation module generates conditional rules for evaluating each transaction presented to a transaction processing module. If a transaction presented to the transaction processing module satisfies the conditional rule, the transaction is not processed. Transactions not processed are stored in memory and groups of impacted transactions are assigned to resource modules based on common characteristics. The resource module determines if impacted transactions should be allowed to process.
US11238456B2
A system, method and device for detecting keystroke entries in a field entered by keyboard in connection with an online transaction that may be fraudulent or erroneous. A score can be assigned to a keystroke based upon its distance from another keystroke. The scores of keystrokes in a string can be summed to obtain a string score. The string score can be normalized by dividing the string score by the number of keystrokes summed to obtain the normalized string score. A risk of fraud or error can be determined based upon the value of the normalized string score in comparison to a predetermined value.
US11238452B2
A signature system for verifying a signature, includes a writing device which is equipped with identification devices for determining identification data which are linked to the identity of an user of the writing instrument, and code generating devices for generating an identification code from the identification data and from further data, the writing device further including display devices for displaying the identification code; as well as a corresponding signature method.
US11238444B2
A method includes initiating, by a payor computing device, a financial transaction to send payment of a particular amount to a payee computing device using a first cryptocurrency. The payee computing device accepts a desired currency. The method further includes placing a hold on an amount of collateral cryptocurrency based on a request to process the financial transaction. The method further includes sending, by the payor computing device, a first amount of the first cryptocurrency equal to the particular amount to the cryptocurrency acceptance network computing device, converting, by a cryptocurrency exchange device, the first amount of the first cryptocurrency to an amount of the desired currency equal to the particular amount, and sending the amount of the desired currency to a payee banking computing device. The method further includes seeking a desired number of confirmations of the first amount of the first cryptocurrency from a consensus network. When the desired number of confirmations is completed, the method further includes releasing the hold on the amount of the collateral cryptocurrency.
US11238441B1
A method of customizing authentication credentials for a payment card includes providing, by a payment card configuration circuit of a financial institution computing system, a card configuration interface to a computing device of a customer, the customer having a payment card account maintained by the financial institution computing system, receiving, by the payment card configuration circuit, a request from the computing device to modify an authentication requirement for use of the payment card account, the request including an authentication credential, and assigning, by the payment card configuration circuit, the authentication credential to a payment card associated with the payment card account, wherein the authentication credential is useable to authenticate a user of the payment card.
US11238430B1
A device (12, 312, 494) operates to cause financial transfers responsive to data read from data bearing records. The device includes a reader (20, 314) that is usable to read check data from financial checks. The reader is also usable to read record document data such as an invoice or other remittance advice. At least one circuit (54, 332) of the device is operative to cause a determination to be made that check data and/or record document data corresponds to stored data. Responsive to the determination, check data and record data are made available to a payee terminal (346). The device may be operable responsive to receipt of embedded instructions from a check payment website to capture image data corresponding to an image of a financial check and to send the image data to a remote computer as indicated by the embedded instructions.
US11238416B1
Embodiments are directed to managing resources over a network. One or more resources that are unassigned. Selection models may be generated based on a one or more open appointments or one or more characteristics of one or more clients. The selection models may be employed to determine each client that is qualified to accept one or more invitations to the one or more open appointments. The one or more invitations to accept the one or more open appointments may be provided to the one or more qualified clients based on one or more notification models that define one or more communication modes to communicate the one or more invitations with the one or more candidate clients over a period of time. An open appointment may be reserved based on a qualified client accepting an invitation to the open appointment.
US11238415B2
A system and method for intelligent adherence analysis/conformance analysis coaching where a graphical user interface, which allows a supervisor to select a date range and an objective, such as a goal amount of adherence/conformance to occur at a goal frequency, is displayed; adherence/conformance data, for one or more agents, is received, agents are determined to require coaching based on a comparison of the adherence/conformance data at the goal frequency to the goal amount of occurrences of the goal amount of adherence/conformance at the goal frequency; coaching sessions are scheduled with each of the agents determined to require coaching; and an alert, which includes information indicating why the agent requires coaching, is transmitted to each of those agents.
US11238410B1
The instant disclosure discloses methods and systems for merging outputs of matching artificial intelligence (AI) engines that are configured to match jobs to candidates, candidates to candidates and jobs to jobs. The methods and systems illustrate how multiple artificial intelligence engines or algorithms executing machine learning-based models can be used to identify candidates or jobs that match other candidates or jobs.
