US11241487B2
Emerging evidence indicates that diminished activity of the vasoprotective axis of the renin-angiotensin system, constituting angiotensin converting enzyme2 (ACE2) and its enzymatic product, angiotensin-(1-7) [Ang-(1-7)] contribute to pulmonary hypertension (PH). However, clinical success for long-term delivery of ACE2 or Ang-(1-7) would require stability and ease of administration to increase patient compliance. Chloroplast expression of therapeutic proteins enables their bioencapsulation within plant cells to protect from acids and gastric enzymes; fusion to a transmucosal carrier facilitates effective systemic absorption. Oral feeding of rats with bioencapsulated ACE2 or Ang-(1-7) attenuated monocrotaline (MCT)-induced increase in right ventricular systolic pressure, decreased pulmonary vessel wall thickness and improved right heart function in both prevention and reversal protocols. Furthermore, combination of ACE2 and Ang-(1-7) augmented the beneficial effects against cardio-pulmonary pathophysiology induced by MCT administration. Experiments have also been performed which indicate that this approach is also suitable for the treatment or inhibition of experimental uveitis and autoimmune uveoretinitis These studies provide proof-of-concept for a novel low-cost oral ACE2 or Ang-(1-7) delivery system using transplastomic technology for pulmonary and ocular disease therapeutics.
US11241475B2
Provided is an agent for preventing and/or treating osteogenesis imperfecta, osteoporosis and/or osteoarthritis, the agent comprising a peptide consisting of one of the following amino acid sequences: (a) Val-Asn-Pro-Glu-Ser-Glu-Glu-Glu (SEQ ID NO: 1) and (b) Val-Asn-Pro-Glu (SEQ ID NO: 2). The agent of the present invention can be orally ingested, has osteogenic function, and has a preventive and/or healing-promoting effect on bone fractures and is therefore very useful for prevention and/or treatment of osteogenesis imperfecta, osteoporosis and/or osteoarthritis.
US11241465B2
The present invention relates to compositions of therapeutic yeast extracts for treatment of inflammatory conditions, methods of production of those extracts and methods of treating inflammatory skin/tissue afflictions.
US11241459B2
The present embodiment relates to a composition containing human adipose stem cell-derived exosomes as an active ingredient for preventing, alleviating or treating liver fibrosis. The adipose stem cell-derived exosomes according to the present embodiment carry genetic information, protein, growth factor and the like for treating liver fibrosis, and have shown excellent results in treating liver fibrosis in animal models therefor, and, being a cell-derived substance, exosomes have the advantages of being highly biocompatible and having a superb absorption rate.
US11241452B2
The present invention describes a mucoadhesive composition comprising chondroitin sulfate, xyloglucan and glycerol for use in the treatment and prevention of gastroesophageal reflux. It is also described a process for preparing such composition, a dosage form for its administration and a kit comprising the same.
US11241449B2
A galactooligosaccharide composition comprising a mixture of disaccharides, trisaccharides, a tetrasaccharide and a pentasaccharide for use in preventing or treating cognitive dysfunction and/or emotional disturbances in neuropsychiatric illnesses or ageing.
US11241448B2
The present disclosure relates to methods or dosing regimens comprising a proteasome inhibitor of formula (I), or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, for treating cancer, or preventing cancer recurrence or progression; wherein ring A, Z1 and Z2 are as defined herein.
US11241445B2
According to various embodiments of this disclosure, pharmaceutical compositions comprising solubilized estradiol are provided. In various embodiments, such compositions are encapsulated in soft capsules which may be vaginally inserted for the treatment of vulvovaginal atrophy.
US11241443B2
The present invention relates to an ophthalmic solution comprising (i) bimatoprost or its pharmaceutically acceptable salt in an amount ranging from about 0.005% to 0.015% weight by volume; (ii) a biguanide compound in an amount ranging from about 0.003% to 0.05% weight by volume; (iii) an acylated amino acid in an amount ranging from about 0.01% to 0.1% weight by volume; (iv) pharmaceutically acceptable excipients and (v) purified water.
US11241439B2
Salts and solid forms of 3-(4-((4-(morpholinomethyl)benzyl)oxy)-1-oxoisoindolin-2-yl)piperidine-2,6-dione, or a stereoisomer thereof, are disclosed. Compositions comprising and methods of using the salts and solid forms are also disclosed.
US11241437B2
Provided herein are compounds, crystalline forms, and pharmaceutical compositions of Compound 1 and/or Compound 2. Also provided are methods of treating a disease or disorder such as a cancer or infectious disease that comprises administering to a subject in need thereof one or more of the compounds or compositions of the present disclosure.
US11241434B2
The present invention provides compositions and methods for treating and preventing an Aβ-modulated disease and/or a Tauopathy. In certain embodiments, the invention provides an inhibitor of Fyn tyrosine kinase, and methods of using the same. In certain embodiments, the inhibitor of the invention inhibits Aβ oligomer induced signaling and reduces or halts the progression of Alzheimer's Disease.
US11241431B2
The present invention relates to derivatives of formula (I) wherein (R1)n, R2, R3, R4a, R4b, R5a, R5b and Ar1 are as described in the description, to their preparation, to pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, and to their use as pharmaceuticals, to pharmaceutical compositions containing one or more compounds of formula (I), and especially to their use as modulators of the prostaglandin 2 receptors EP2 and/or EP4.
US11241430B2
Provided herein are formulations, processes, solid forms and methods of use relating to 2-(tert-butylamino)-4-((1R,3R,4R)-3-hydroxy-4-methylcyclohexylamino)-pyrimidine-5-carboxamide.
US11241429B2
This invention relates to methods and formulations for treating metabolic disorders and depression. In some embodiments, the methods comprise administering a dopamine receptor agonist and an anti-depressant.
US11241427B2
Disclosed are compounds useful for alteration of NR2F6 activity. In some embodiments of the invention compounds disclosed are utilized for stimulation of NR2F6 activity, alone, or in combination with PKC activation. In other embodiments, the invention teaches use of compounds for inhibition of NR2F6 activation. Stimulation of NR2F6 within the context of the invention is useful, intra alia, for induction of immune inhibition, or stimulation of cellular proliferation without significant induction of differentiation. Inhibition of NR2F6 is desired in situations where the practitioner of the invention seeks to augment immune response, or induce cellular differentiation. In another embodiment, inhibition of NR2F6 expression is desired in situations where inhibition of cancer or cancer stem cells is needed.
US11241424B2
The present invention relates to injectable, extended-release, pharmaceutical formulations comprising a nalbuphine ester prodrug homogenously dissolved in a solution comprising a pharmaceutically acceptable oil and an oil-miscible retaining solvent, as well as manufacturing processes and medical uses of the formulations. The invention further provides methods for adjusting the duration of action of the formulations by varying the ratio of the pharmaceutically acceptable oil and the oil-miscible retaining solvent.
US11241423B2
Compounds of formula I for treating, preventing or managing cancer are disclosed. Also disclosed are methods of treating, preventing or managing cancer, such as leukemia, comprising administering the compounds. In certain embodiments, the method of treatment comprise administering a compound provided herein in combination with a second agent. Pharmaceutical compositions and single unit dosage forms comprising the compounds are also disclosed.
US11241417B2
The invention provides compositions and methods for treating neurological disorders, such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, frontotemporal degeneration, and Alzheimer's disease, among others. Using the compositions and methods described herein, a patient having a neurological disorder, such as a neurological disorder associated with TAR-DNA binding protein (TDP)-43 aggregation, may be administered an inhibitor of cytochrome P450 (CYP450) isoform 51A1 (CYP51A1), also referred to herein as lanosterol 14-alpha demethylase, so as to treat an underlying etiology of the disorder and/or to alleviate one or more symptoms of the disease. The inhibitor of CYP51A1 may be a small molecule, anti-CYP51A1 antibody or antigen-binding fragment thereof, or a compound, such as an interfering RNA molecule, that attenuates CYP51A1 expression. Patients that may be treated using the compositions and methods described herein include those that express a mutant TDP-43 isoform containing a mutation associated with TDP-43-promoted aggregation and toxicity.
US11241416B2
An edaravone suspension for human oral administration includes edaravone particles, a dispersant, and water.
US11241411B2
A modified release benzonatate solid tablet or capsule is described which comprises a benzonatate adsorbate in a matrix with a sufficient amount of one or more pharmaceutically acceptable modified release pH-independent, substances to provide a modified release profile to the benzonatate, wherein there is substantially no benzonatate release from the tablet or capsule in the buccal cavity and no more than about 25% release of the benzonatate within 1 hour as determined in an in vitro dissolution assay.
US11241406B2
Disclosed herein are compositions and methods for acutely raising nitric oxide levels in a subject. In one example, the composition can include, an effective amount of a NOS dependent source of nitric oxide; an effective amount of a NOS independent source of nitric oxide; and an effective amount of a myeloperoxidase inhibitor; wherein the composition acutely raises nitric oxide levels in a subject above a level provided by the available sources of nitric oxide in the subject prior to administration of the composition. Further presented is a method of treating a subject for a condition or disorder that is response to nitric oxide therapy, including: acutely raising nitric oxide levels in a subject by simultaneously increasing biosynthesis of nitric oxide, increasing nitrate/nitrite levels, and inhibiting myeloperoxidase activity.
US11241404B2
The present invention provides a highly palatable colon cleansing formulation that utilizes a low chloride electrolyte-replenishing base solution. When formulated with polyethylene glycol and a selected sugar alcohol, the formulation offers the advantages of superior palatability without undesirable concomitant side effects or a decrease in cleansing efficacy.
US11241401B2
A ketogenic R-beta-hydroxybutyrate mixed salt-acid composition includes enantiomerically pure R-beta-hydroxybutyric acid and one or more enantiomerically pure R-beta-hydroxybutyrate salts. The R-beta-hydroxybutyric acid is more rapidly absorbed and utilized by the body than salts or esters, enhances taste, and reduces the need to include citric acid or other edible acids. The enantiomerically pure R-beta-hydroxybutyrate salt(s) are more slowly absorbed and utilized by the body and can provide one or more electrolytes. Compositions for increasing ketone body level in a subject may contain a dietetically or pharmaceutically acceptable carrier and an R-beta-hydroxybutyrate mixed salt-acid composition. The composition contains less than 100% by molar equivalents of total enantiomerically pure R-beta-hydroxybutyrate salts and more than 0% by molar equivalents of enantiomerically pure R-beta-hydroxybutyric acid.
US11241397B2
The invention features formulations for the local delivery of therapeutically effective doses of curcumin to treat head and neck disorders and upper aerodigestive disorders. Also disclosed are use of the formulations for delivery of other phytochemicals, or the combination of phytochemicals for the treatment of said disorders. Furthermore, these formulations can be used to deliver the recommended daily allowance of vitamins and/or minerals to children or adults.
US11241395B2
In vitro methods such as in vitro diagnosis, prognosis and risk stratification of a patient having a primary disease, whereby the level of Procalcitonin (PCT) or fragment thereof in a sample of a bodily fluid of the patient is indicative for the risk of the patient to contract a further disease or medical condition. Assays for performing such methods and samples containing complex resulting from such methods.
US11241392B2
Therapeutic compositions deliver a therapeutic amount of methylphenidate in a delayed and extended release formulation. The dosage form exhibits a lag time prior to release of from 6 to 8 hours or longer, followed by a sustained release period.
US11241383B2
Alprazolam formulated as an inhaled condensation aerosol and method for treating epilepsy and/or seizures.
US11241379B2
The present invention relates to a parenteral dosage form comprising a) a ready-to-infuse, stable aqueous solution comprising diltiazem or its pharmaceutically acceptable salt, pH adjusting agent to provide a pH in the range of 3 to 5 and ethanol, and b) an infusion container filled with said aqueous solution.
US11241374B2
The present invention provides compositions, methods and kits for treating skin, which combine administration of glucosamine hydrochloride and red light having a peak wavelength of about 600 nm to about 750 nm, near infrared light having a peak wavelength of about 750 nm to about 1000 nm, or both.
US11241370B2
The invention relates to a novel method of preparing silicas and to highly-structured silicas having the following characteristics: a specific surface area CTAB (SCTAB) of between 40 and 525 m2/g; a specific surface area BET (SBET) of between 45 and 550 m2/g; an object size distribution width Ld ((d84−D16)/d50), which is measured by XDC particle size analysis after deagglomeration with ultrasound, of at least 0.91; and a pore-size distribution such that ratio V(d5−d50)/V(d5−d100) is at least 0.66. The invention also relates to the use of said silicas as polymer reinforcing fillers.
US11241361B2
A container holding device for holding one or more containers includes: a base plate having an upper surface, a bottom surface, and one or more holes each extending from the upper surface to the bottom surface and having a central symmetry axis Laxis orthogonal to the base plate; and two or more holding elements that are located around each hole beneath the bottom surface of the base plate. The holding elements are configured to: contact an outer surface of a container that is placed into the container holding device at a bottom edge of a top region of the container, such that the container hangs in the container holding device in a first position p1 in which the holding elements do not exert any force on the outer surface of the container that is radial; and contact the outer surface of the container in a shoulder region.
US11241355B2
A leg support exoskeleton is strapped on as wearable device to support its user during squatting. The exoskeleton includes a knee joint connected to a first line and a second link, which is configured to allow flexion and extension motion between the first link and the second link. A force generator has a first end that is rotatably connected to the first link. A constraining mechanism is connected to the second link and has at least two operational positions. In a first operational position, the second end of the force generator engages the constraining mechanism, where the first link and the second link flex relative to each other. In a second operational position, the second end of the force generator does not engage the constraining mechanism; the first link and the second link are free to flex and extend relative to each other.
US11241353B2
The present invention is an apparatus and method for use in a treatment for prevention of arthrofibrosis that includes a first and a second substantially L-shaped frames, each L-shaped frame having a first member and a second member extending from the first member in a substantially perpendicular direction and terminating in a first end, a fixed plate extending between the first members of the L-shaped frames, the fixed plate being parallel with the first members of the L-shaped frames, a movable plate pivotally coupled to the first ends of the first members of the L-shaped frames with, a pneumatic piston coupled to the movable plate and the fixed plate, a hand operated valve operatively coupled to the pneumatic piston and a goniometer coupled to the movable plate and one of the L-shaped frames, the goniometer adapted and configured to indicate the angle between the movable plate and the fixed plate.
US11241352B2
A contoured urinal assembly for enhancing comfort for a user during urine collection includes a bottle that has an angled neck to facilitate a user to insert the user's penis into the angled neck for urine collection. A handle is coupled to the bottle for gripping. A ring extends around the bottle and the ring is comprised of a resiliently compressible material to enhance comfort for the user. A saddle is coupled to the ring. The penis is positioned on the saddle to inhibit the penis from being abraded. Additionally, the saddle extends into the bottle to direct the penis into the bottle for urine collection.
US11241347B2
A modular system is usable to vary the conditions around a bed in a home to provide various levels of support for patients who are at home and have varying acuity of medical complications. The modular system allows the home bed to be temporarily adapted for medical care.
US11241340B2
Various implementations include an assistive hamstring device including a belt, knee sleeve, first elastic strap, second elastic strap, and third elastic strap. The first elastic strap extends between a first dorsal belt portion of the belt located adjacent a sagittal plane on a dorsal side of the person and a lateral knee portion of the knee sleeve located adjacent a lateral side of the knee. The second elastic strap extends between a side belt portion of the belt located adjacent a coronal plane of the person and a medial knee portion of the knee sleeve located adjacent a medial side of the knee. The third elastic strap extends between a second dorsal belt portion of the belt located between the first and side belt portion and an intermediate dorsal knee portion of the knee sleeve located between the lateral and medial knee portion, along the dorsal portion of the knee.
US11241335B2
A device for extracting lens material from an eye including a distal, disposable portion releasably coupleable to a proximal, reusable portion. The disposable portion includes a cutting tube having a distal cutting tip and an inner lumen having an open distal end. The disposable portion includes an aspiration pump fluidly coupled to the inner lumen of the cutting tube and a cutting tube drive mechanism configured to oscillate the cutting tube. The reusable portion includes an aspiration pump motor configured to drive the aspiration pump and a coupler for releasably operatively coupling the pump motor to the aspiration pump. Related devices, systems, and methods are disclosed.
US11241326B2
The invention relates to a dynamic correction splint (1) with two splint parts (5, 6) connected to each other via a joint (2). Spring bases (25, 26) of a spring device (27) are each coupled to a splint part (5, 6) in such a way that pivoting the splint parts (5, 6) leads to an altered biasing of the spring device (27). The spring device (27) exerts a correction moment onto the splint parts (5, 6) acting in the direction of a correction position of the splint parts (5, 6). The spring device (27) is configured and coupled to the splint parts (5, 6) in such a way that the absolute value of the correction moment increases as the correction position of the splint parts (5, 6) is approached. It is possible that a switching mechanism (40) is present. The switching mechanism (40) is actuated in a motion-controlled way by the pivoting of the splint parts (5, 6) and at its actuation changes the coupling of the splint parts (5, 6) with the spring device (27).
US11241321B2
Provided is a flexible stent with which it is possible to further improve visibility of an impermeable member which is disposed upon a stent and to further improve operability of the stent. Provided is a flexible stent 11, comprising: a plurality of ring-shaped pattern bodies 13 which have a wavy line-shaped pattern and are positioned side by side in an axial direction LD; and a plurality of connecting elements 15 which connect the adjacent ring-shaped pattern bodies 13. When viewed in a radial direction RD which is perpendicular to the axial direction LD, a ring direction CD of the ring-shaped pattern bodies 13 is or is not oblique with respect to the radial direction RD. A plurality of impermeable members 31 which are highly impermeable to radiation are disposed upon and/or positioned in proximity to struts which configure the ring-shaped pattern bodies 13 and/or the connecting elements 15. The plurality of impermeable members 31 are arrayed regularly along one or more of the ring direction CD, an axial direction LD, or a circumference direction of the flexible stent.
US11241315B2
A 3-dimensional block type bone graft includes a plurality of first channels extending horizontally in forward and backward directions and arranged at a predetermined interval in left and right directions and upward and downward directions, a plurality of second channels extending horizontally in the left and right directions and arranged at a predetermined interval in the forward and backward directions and the upward and downward directions, and a plurality of third channels extending vertically in the upward and downward directions and arranged at a predetermined interval in the forward and backward directions and the left and right directions, wherein the first channels, the second channels, and the third channels intersect perpendicularly to each other to communicate with each other so that the first channels, the second channels, and the third channels are configured in a 3-dimensional shape.
US11241310B2
A medical device system may include a delivery device including an outer sheath and an inner shaft having a coupler fixed to a distal end of the inner shaft, and a replacement heart valve implant releasably attached to the coupler, the replacement heart valve implant including an expandable anchor member and a plurality of locking mechanisms configured to engage with the coupler. The delivery device may include a plurality of collars configured to secure the coupler to the plurality of locking mechanisms. The delivery device may include a stop element configured to selectively prevent disengagement of the plurality of collars from the plurality of locking mechanisms.
US11241308B2
A fixation device for securing together leaflets of a heart valve is provided. The fixation device may comprise two plates that are disposed on either side of the tricuspid valve. The plates may be secured to one another by a locking clip, thereby securing the valve leaflets between the plates.
US11241295B2
X-ray imaging systems and methods comprising, at least, an x-ray source, an x-ray detector, and a collimator assembly. The collimator assembly comprising a computer, a display, a camera, an x-ray source to object (patient) measuring device to measure source to object distance (SOD), and a plurality of metallic barriers used to manipulate a size and shape of X-ray beams, thereby also reducing the volume of irradiated tissue in the patient. The collimator may comprise computer-controlled motorized shutters to admit radiation into the region defined by the adjustable beam-defining components of the collimator of an X-ray apparatus. In some embodiments, the plurality of metallic barriers may be a fixed cone, or a cone comprised of movable plates.
US11241290B2
An apparatus includes a wrist, an end effector, a cable pair, and a transmission. A proximal wrist portion is coupled to a distal end portion of a shaft. Actuation of the wrist moves a distal wrist portion relative to the proximal wrist portion. The end effector is coupled to the distal wrist portion, and can be actuated to move relative to the wrist. The transmission is coupled to a proximal end portion of the shaft, and can move an end of the cable pair to actuate the end effector. The end of the cable pair is routed through a transmission cable path within the transmission. The transmission includes an adjustment mechanism having an input portion that receives a force exerted by the end of the cable pair. The adjustment mechanism is configured to change a length of the transmission cable path in response to a change in the force.
US11241289B2
A packaging insert configured to engage a portion of a surgical drape for locating the drape on a surgical robot arm, the drape comprising a drive transfer element for transferring drive between the robot arm and a surgical instrument, the packaging insert comprising a body and a retention portion engageable with the drive transfer element for retaining the drive transfer element in a desired position.
US11241277B2
Disclosed herein are a skin treatment apparatus using RF energy and a skin treatment method using the same. There are provided a skin treatment apparatus using RF energy, including a first handpiece configured to include a first electrode unit coming into contact with a skin surface and to form perforations through which an agent penetrates by transferring RF energy to the skin surface through the first electrode unit, a second handpiece configured to include a second electrode unit inserted into the inside of the skin and to insert the second electrode unit into the inside of the skin into which the agent has penetrated and transfer the RF energy, and a controller configured to control parameters of the RF energy transferred to the first electrode unit and the second electrode unit, and a treatment method using the same.
US11241264B2
An apparatus and technique for infernally securing a plurality of bone segments together. The device incorporates a plate-like structure stabilizing the fracture and integrated fasteners to attach straps circumscribing the bone segments.
US11241263B1
A bone plate apparatus comprises a first plate comprising one or more openings configured for use in securing the first plate to a portion of a bone, a second plate comprising one or more openings configured for use in securing the second plate to a portion of a bone, and a linking segment. The first plate is connected to the linking segment at a first articulating joint, and the second plate is connected to the linking segment at a second articulating joint.
US11241262B2
Minimally invasive methods and devices are provided for positioning a spinal fixation element in relation to adjacent spinal anchors. In an exemplary embodiment, the device is a percutaneous access device that can be coupled to a spinal anchor, and the method includes the step of positioning a spinal fixation element through at least one sidewall opening of at least two percutaneous access devices such that the spinal fixation element extends in a lengthwise orientation that is substantially transverse to the longitudinal axis of each percutaneous access device. The spinal fixation element can then be advanced in the lengthwise orientation to seat the spinal fixation element in or adjacent to the receiver heads of at least two adjacent spinal anchors. A fastening element or other closure mechanism can then be applied to each spinal anchor to engage the spinal fixation element within the receiver heads of the adjacent anchors.
US11241260B2
A fastener retention system for retaining fasteners within apertures of an orthopedic plate includes a first pocket disposed between two of the apertures in the plate, a blocking member disposed between the two apertures and including a second pocket that forms a cavity with the first pocket, and a spring that expands from a compressed configuration within the first pocket to a decompressed configuration within the cavity.
US11241257B2
A spinal distraction system, according to one aspect, includes an adjustable spinal distraction rod comprising first and second members, the adjustable spinal distraction rod configured for non-invasive elongation of the first and second members. The system includes an anchor rod configured for mounting to a bone of a subject, the anchor rod having one or more spring-biased tabs disposed at one end thereof, and a connector having first end and a second end, the first end having a receiving cup configured for detachable mounting on the anchor rod, wherein the one or more spring-biased tabs are configured to engage with an inner surface of the receiving cup, the connector having a second end operatively coupled to an end of a first member and wherein the second member is configured for mounting to a second bone of a subject.
US11241255B2
A novel posterolateral inter-muscular approach has been developed to access the cervical spine. The approach includes elevating the splenius capitis and trapezios muscles dorsally to create a window for deep spine access, wherein the window comprises: i) an anterior superior border of the trapezius muscle; ii) an anterior inferior border of the splenius capitis muscle, and iii) a posterior superior border of the levator scapulae muscle. Preferably, a device such as an implant or an instrument is then passed through the window to manipulate the spine.
US11241253B2
Subcutaneous implantation tools and methods of implanting a subcutaneous device using the same. The tool may include a tool body having a longitudinally extending recess having a distal opening and having a tunneler at a distal end of the tool body extending from the distal opening of the recess. The tool may include a plunger slidably fitting within at least a portion of the tool body recess. The recess may be configured to receive an implantable device and the tunneler preferably extends distally from the recess at a position laterally displaced from the device when the device is so located in the recess. Movement of the plunger distally within the recess advances the device distally out of the recess and alongside of and exterior to the tunneler.
US11241251B2
A medical device is disclosed for cutting an object in a body lumen, including: a rotation structure which includes a cutting portion; a first shaft which is connected to a center shaft of the rotation structure and drives the rotation of the rotation structure; and a second shaft which is formed in a tubular shape surrounding the first shaft, wherein the second shaft is bendable at two positions including a first curved portion and a second curved portion located more distal than the first curved portion, and the second shaft is rotatable in a state in which a proximal side of the first curved portion and a distal side of the second curved portion of the second shaft are kept substantially parallel to each other.
US11241250B2
An apparatus for performing a vascular treatment includes an intraluminal member that is controllingly moved during the vascular treatment. The intraluminal member of the vascular treatment device can be connected to a motor. The intraluminal member may be configured to retain endothelium during the vascular treatment procedure.
US11241247B2
A snakelike surgical instrument, comprising a handheld structure (2); an manipulating structure (1) comprising an outer frame (13) hingedly connected to the handheld structure (2) so that the manipulating structure (1) has a rotational degree of freedom (R1′) around a first axis and an inner frame (14) hingedly connected to the outer frame (13) so that the manipulating structure (1) has a rotational degree of freedom (R2′) around a second axis, the first axis and the second axis forming an angle; an end unit (4) connected to the handheld structure (2) by means of a connecting component (3) and comprising a tool supporting base (41) and a snakelike structure (40) connected to the tool supporting base (41), the snakelike structure (40) having degrees of freedom of motion (R1, R2) in the same direction as the manipulating structure (1); and a transmission unit (5) comprising a flexible transmission structure connected to the inner frame (14) and the snakelike structure (40). A mechanical transmission mode is used by the snakelike surgical instrument, the motion of a handheld side can be directly transmitted to the end unit (4), complicated force feedback control is avoided, and control is simple.
US11241237B2
A left atrial appendage closure implant may include a support frame including a first bend extending from a proximal collar to a second bend, a first segment extending from the second bend to a third bend, a second segment extending from the third bend to a fourth bend, and a third segment extending from the fourth bend to a distal collar, wherein the support frame is actuatable from a first constrained position to a second flowering position to a third mid-deployment position to a fourth unconstrained position. An implant may include a self-expanding support frame having a circumference and a central longitudinal axis, a membrane disposed over at least a portion of the support frame, and a plurality of anchors arranged into a first row and a second row such that the first row and the second row form a staggered pattern about the circumference of the support frame.
US11241232B2
A surgical stapler includes an anvil assembly including an anvil head assembly pivotally secured to an anvil center rod. The anvil head assembly includes a housing having a post and a cut ring assembly supported about the post and movable between retracted and advanced positions. A cut ring retainer is positioned about the post and movable between a retracted position in which the cut ring retainer retains the cut ring assembly in its retracted position and an advanced position to permit movement of the cut ring assembly to its advanced position. In its retracted position, the cut ring retainer can be received in a retainer slot formed about the post. The cut ring retainer can be ring shaped and/or formed of a resilient material to facilitate movement of the cut ring retainer into and out of the retainer slot.
US11241231B2
An endovascular anastomotic connector and method of using the same. The endovascular anastomotic connector includes a vascular conduit and a supply conduit. The vascular conduit has proximal and distal ends that reside within a vascular structure. The supply conduit extends at an angle from the vascular conduit. The proximal end of the supply conduit is configured to be attached to an auxiliary device.
US11241221B2
Provided is a device for elasticity detection, comprising a processor (1), an imaging device (2), an ultrasonic transducer (3) and a puncturing device (4). The ultrasonic transducer (3) is connected to the processor (1) and is configured to detect and obtain morphology characteristic information and elasticity characteristic information of a tissue. The imaging device (2) is connected to the processor (1) and is configured to obtain a morphology image and an elasticity image of the tissue according to the morphology characteristic information and the elasticity characteristic information, respectively, under the control of the processor (1), and merge and display the elasticity image in the morphology image. The puncturing device (4) is connected to the processor (1) and is configured to determine a puncture position according to guidance of the merged image and perform a puncturing and sampling on the tissue.
US11241215B2
Various embodiments of a breast ultrasound scanning apparatus are provided. In one embodiment, a system comprises an imaging assembly comprising an ultrasound transducer, a frame housing the imaging assembly, and a membrane directly and removably coupled to the frame. In this way, the cost of performing an ultrasound scan with the imaging assembly may be reduced while the comfort for a patient being scanned with the imaging assembly is increased.
US11241213B2
Systems and methods can include a system for positioning an ultrasound probe proximal to anatomy of a patient on a radiation couch including a substantially planar base including engagement features to directly or indirectly index the substantially planar base to the radiation couch and a centrally located guide extending longitudinally along a top side of the base, a probe holder, configured to be coupled to, to translate longitudinally, and to be user-accessed and user-controlled from within, a central region of the substantially planar base, a clamp, configured to localize the probe holder at a specified location along a translation path in the central region of the substantially planar base, leg supports shaped to accommodate a patient's legs from behind, the pair of leg supports being shaped and arranged to provide a space therebetween that can accommodate an ultrasound probe holder.
US11241207B2
This disclosure generally relates to systems, methods, and devices for performing high-resolution computer tomography (CT) scans providing highly detailed images of particular regions using whole body clinical CT scanners while maintaining high imaging speeds and low dose levels. In particular, the disclosed systems use flat panel detectors in conjunction with common CT detectors to quickly produce high-resolution CT images.
US11241186B2
There is provided a method for simulating at least one wet electroencephalogram (EEG) signal from at least one dry EEG signals, comprising: receiving at least one dry EEG signal measured by dry EEG electrode(s) applied to locations on a head of a patient corresponding to at least one of temporal lobe or frontal lobe, computing at least one simulated wet EEG signal by applying a trained statistical model based on at least one dry EEG signal, the at least one simulated wet EEG signal simulating wet EEG signals measured by a wet EEG electrode applied to at least one location corresponding to at least one of: central, parietal lobe, and occipital lobe, and providing the at least one simulated wet EEG signal for adjusting feedback of a neurofeedback treatment applied by a neurofeedback device.
US11241178B2
A method for inversion counting or phlebotomist monitoring can include identifying, by processing circuitry, whether a blood collection tube is present in image data from a camera situated to capture images of a phlebotomist collecting a sample, in response to identifying the blood collection tube is present in the field of view of the camera based on the image data, identifying whether the blood collection tube includes blood therein, after identifying the blood is present in the blood collection tube, counting, based on the image data, a number of inversions performed on the blood collection tube, and in response to determining the number of inversions performed is less than a required number of inversions, issuing an alert indicating that insufficient inversions were performed.
US11241166B1
A body-mountable device is provided to facilitate communication, via in-body electrical signals transmitted via electrodes of the body-mountable device into fluid of the body, with a smart pill located in a gastrointestinal tract of a body to which the body-mountable device is mounted or with some other device located within the body. The body-mountable device can be a contact lens or other eye-mountable device such that the electrodes of the eye-mountable device can transmit in-body electrical signals via tear fluid. The body-mountable device could transmit a command to the smart pill to dispense a drug into the body. The smart pill could transmit, via in-body electrical signals, an indication of a detected property of the gastrointestinal tract to the body-mountable device. A latency of transmission of signals between the body-mountable device and the smart pill could be used to determine the location of the smart pill within the gastrointestinal tract.
US11241165B2
An apparatus for emitting a field comprising a core, a conductive winding with a first end, a second end, and an intermediate portion, where the conductive winding surrounds a portion of the core and is wound about a winding axis, a protrusion for aligning the apparatus where the protrusion is parallel with the winding axis, and a conductive connector extending from the conductive winding, wherein the conductive connector is electrically coupled with the conductive winding at the intermediate portion.
US11241148B2
A system comprises a medical instrument including a nozzle and a lens. The system further comprises a valve configured to control provision of a pressurized fluid. The system further comprises a valve control mechanism and a control system. The control system is configured to determine, based on a position of the medical instrument within a patient anatomy, whether an obstruction is on a surface of the lens. The control system is further configured to, based on a determination that the obstruction is on the surface of the lens, instruct the valve control mechanism to open the valve to release a flow of the pressurized fluid through the nozzle and over the surface of the lens.
US11241143B2
The present disclosure is directed to a medical device assembly. The medical device assembly described herein may include a medical device and a control unit. The medical device may include an imaging apparatus, an electrical wire coupled to the imaging apparatus, an illumination device, an illumination connector coupled to the illumination device, and a connector coupled to the electrical wire and the illumination connector. The control unit may include an electrical interface, a light source, and a port, wherein the port is configured to receive the connector to operatively couple the electrical wire to the electrical interface, and to operatively couple the illumination connector to the light source, the connector being removably attachable to the port.
US11241139B2
A dishwasher having a tub, a sump fluidly coupled to the tub, a discharge outlet, a drain assembly, and a check valve drain assembly including a seat assembly having a body with a first distal end and a second distal end, a fluid passage extending through the body, the body defining a valve seat having a sealing surface about the fluid passage and a flapper assembly operably coupled to the seat assembly and having a moveable portion configured to selectively move between a closed position where the moveable portion seals against the sealing surface and an opened position where the moveable portion raises to allow liquid through the fluid passage.
US11241136B2
A hardened or flexible tool created for cleaning, removing debris, preventing brush debris from being left on a surface, preventing flare ups and fires for all users of grate(s) with particular application to grates being used in grills, can be formed from a hardened material for the added cleaning ability and safety for all users of grill grates, grates, grills or the like. The handle may be of any material, shape, size, color, holes, indentions or composition and may or may not be attached by chemical bond, friction fit, snap fit, bolt on, or the like. The molding/forming, stamping, cutting creation of the device can include but is not limited to laser cutting, water jetting, molding, forming and stamping. The device can be formed from a composition which may include, but is not limited to steel, stainless steel, metal, plastic, wood, rubber, plastic and synthetics.
US11241129B2
A surface cleaning apparatus comprises a hand vacuum cleaner, a surface cleaning head and a rigid air flow conduit extending between the surface cleaning head and the hand vacuum cleaner. The hand vacuum cleaner comprises a main body and a removably mounted air treatment member. The air treatment member has an air inlet and the outlet end of the rigid air flow conduit is removably connectable in air flow communication with the air inlet.
US11241122B2
Material roll dispenser devices having adjustable support arms. Exemplary devices include those suitable for dispensing paper products such as toilet paper.
US11241107B2
A bag container dispenser includes a bag container. The container is formed of resilient material and has a bottom, a top, first and second sides, a front, a back and a removable access panel. The access panel has a top segment that includes a portion of the top and a connected front segment. The front segment has a height that extends from the bottom to the top. Stacked bags are sized and shaped to fit within the bag container. Each of the bags has a front wall, a back wall, an open top and a closure mechanism. The bags are dispensable from the container through an opening provided by removal of the access panel which may have a removable cover. A dispenser rack has a horizontal platform sized and shaped to support the bag container. Peripheral guards extend upward from the platform and constrain movement of the container during dispensing.
US11241093B2
A zero gravity chair mechanism includes a frame having a bottom wall and a pair of vertical side walls; a carriage slidable longitudinally of the bottom wall; a linear actuator for moving the carriage longitudinally of the frame; link arms connected to the carriage for movement with the carriage, front ends of the link arms being connected to chair seat support brackets for moving the brackets longitudinally of the frame, the rear of the brackets moving horizontally while the rear of the brackets move upwardly and rearwardly relative to the frame or downwardly and forwardly relative to the frame, whereby the chair moves between a horizontal position and a zero gravity position. During movement from the zero gravity to the horizontal positions, the back of the chair moves downwardly and forwardly relative to the frame.
US11241088B2
In some embodiments a portable stand for supporting portable electronic devices when the portable stand is resting on a flat surface includes a panel-shaped top piece and a panel-shaped bottom piece. The top and the bottom pieces are configured to be interlocked to form an interlocking structure with an X shape when viewed via a view substantially orthogonal to the flat surface when resting on the flat surface in a first position. The interlocking structure is configured to be interchangeably positioned in the first position for presenting a support structure for supporting a laptop computer and at least one of a second position for presenting a tablet slot for supporting a tablet computer, or a third position for presenting an e-reader slot for supporting at least an e-reader.
US11241079B2
An oral care implement and/or a cleaning element for an oral care implement. The cleaning element may include an annular cleaning component having an inner surface defining a cavity. The annular cleaning component may be formed from a plurality of arcuate portions with each of the arcuate portions extending from a first end to a second end and terminating in a distal end. A height of each of the arcuate portions may be greater at the second end than at the first end. The plurality of arcuate portions may be arranged in a ring so that the first end of each of the arcuate portions is adjacent to the second end of another one of the arcuate portions.
US11241075B2
Methods, devices, and systems of cosmetic applicator tool and container (100) are disclosed; where a triangular shaped cosmetic applicator tool (110) having a combination of rectilinear (225) and curvilinear sides (221,223), may be made of flexible material and may further comprise a tacky coating to adhere to a skin surface. Additionally, the cosmetic applicator tool and container (100) may include a storage housing (150) comprising a removable lid member (160) and a base member (170), where the base member (170) may facilitate affixing of the storage housing to a solid flat surface via providing a suction cup, and where the storage housing (150) may be configured to receive and store the cosmetic applicator tool (110) and suction cup.
US11241073B2
Provided is a cosmetic container including a refillable inner container. The cosmetic container includes an inner container in which contents are stored, a container body in which the inner container is accommodated, a discharger configured to discharge the contents accommodated in the inner container, a distributor configured to distribute the contents discharged by the discharger, and an upper cap configured to seal the container body. Here, an open portion is formed on one side of the container body, the inner container is insertable into the container body through the open portion, and the inner container is separable from the container body through the open portion.
US11241071B2
The appliance for treating the hair, having two arms to be closed over the hair to be treated, at least one of the arms carrying a refill of hair treatment product, the appliance having an electronic control circuit with an electronic memory, this circuit being designed to detect the closure of the arms and the fitting of the refill, the appliance having a steam generator for outputting steam onto the hair and at least one heated straightening plate, the appliance being designed to increment a variable in the memory during the use of the appliance after the refill has been changed and to pass into a downgraded mode of operation in which the operation of the steam generator and/or of the straightening plate is modified when the variable exceeds a first predefined threshold.
US11241069B2
A customizable bag organizer is an apparatus that organizes and supports the structure of a bag. The apparatus includes at least one organizing mechanism. The at least one organizing mechanism includes a central rod and a plurality of telescopic dividers. The central rod connects each telescopic divider. Each telescopic divider includes a fixed panel, a free panel, at least one first track and at least one second track. The apparatus includes a base plate to uphold items within each compartment defined by the plurality of telescopic dividers. In order to easily see within each compartment, the apparatus includes at least one light source, a light sensor, a portable power source, and a switch. The items within a bag are removed while maintaining the desired positions within each compartment as the apparatus includes a supplementary pouch. The supplementary pouch upholds the items, the central rod, and the plurality of telescopic dividers.
US11241063B2
A strobel for an article of footwear comprises a polymeric bladder that defines an interior cavity. The polymeric bladder is configured to retain a fluid in the interior cavity. The polymeric bladder has a peripheral flange extending around at least a portion of a perimeter of the interior cavity. The peripheral flange defines a groove extending along the peripheral flange. The polymeric bladder may include a first polymeric sheet bonded to a second polymeric sheet at the peripheral flange and joined to the second polymeric sheet at a plurality of interior welds. Methods of manufacturing a strobel and manufacturing footwear are included.
US11241062B1
In example aspects, materials are repurposed for footwear manufacturing. That is, in some instances, materials in the footwear manufacturing supply chain are potentially subject to disposal. However, aspects of this disclosure sustainably repurpose those materials (that might otherwise be disposed of) to be used in footwear articles. In some aspects, the repurposed materials may be obscured with a concealing layer.
US11241055B2
Laser finishing of apparel products allows an operating model that reduces finishing cost, lowers carrying costs, increases productivity, shortens time to market, be more reactive to trends, reduce product constraints, reduces lost sales and dilution, and more. Improved aspects include design, development, planning, merchandising, selling, making, and delivering. The model uses fabric templates, each of which can be used to produce a multitude of laser finishes. Operational efficiency is improved.
US11241047B1
A locking zipper pull is described wherein the zipper pull is locked when the pull's lever(s) are locked in a first position and can be unlocked by moving the lever(s) into a second position to allow the zipper pull to be slid along an associated zipper chain.
US11241043B2
A vapor provision apparatus including a vapor generation chamber containing a vaporizer for generating vapor from a vapor precursor material; and an air channel wall defining an air channel between the vapor generation chamber and a vapor outlet at a mouthpiece end of the vapor provision apparatus through which a user can inhale vapor during use; wherein an inner surface of the air channel wall is provided with at least one protrusion extending into the air channel to modify (redirect) a flow of air in the air channel during use. For example, the at least one protrusion may be arranged to define one or more portions of a helical wall extending into the air channel so as to impart a degree of rotation about an axis of extent of the air channel to air flowing in the air channel during use.
US11241036B1
A flying disc smoking pipe apparatus is provided wherein a flying disc, having a central opening, has a centrally mounted smoking pipe insert within the central opening, having a plurality of draw pipes extending radially from the insert to and through the flying disc shaped housing lip. The distal end of the draw pipes is flush with the outside circumference of the flying disc. A smoking bowl is provided in the top of the insert and is in direct pneumatic communications with the draw pipes. The flying disc housing facilitates passing the pipe amongst multiple users at a distance by gliding the pipe from user to user. A single user may draw smoke through a draw pipe and selectively adjust the smoke temperature by throttling air flow into other draw pipes. Multiple users may also smoke simultaneously. The flying disc smoking pipe apparatus further provides entertainment and recreation to smoking.
US11241033B2
The invention relates to a method for marking a wrapping paper for smoking articles, comprising the following steps: (A) providing a wrapping paper for smoking articles, and (B) producing register marks on the wrapping paper by treating the surface of the wrapping paper with laser radiation having an energy density y in J-m-2, to which the following applies: y=k·x, whereby x is the enthalpy of combustion per volume of the wrapping paper in J·m−2·μm−1, and k is at least −8 μm and at most −1 μm.
US11241028B1
A banana food made using ripe banana removed from bark and stalk. Cooking and stirring the ripe banana and dried banana as a mash. Adding green banana biomass to partially cooked mash of ripe banana and dried banana and further cooking the mixture of green banana biomass with the mash of ripe banana and dried banana.
US11241018B2
The subject invention aims to solve the problem of production of glucose accompanying the production of galactooligosaccharides after milk raw material is treated with lactase, by additionally adding transglucosidase to convert glucose to functional isomalto-oligosaccharide. The subject invention relates to a process for the production of a milk product enhanced with oligo-saccharides, characterized in that lactase and transglucosidase are used to treat milk raw materials. The subject invention further relates to the milk product of the process of the invention, whose oligo-saccharide content reaches a functional level. Human physiological effect assays confirm that the milk product increases intestinal probiotics, reduces harmful intestinal bacteria, improves the intestinal bacterial flora, reduces blood total cholesterol, reduces blood LDL cholesterol, increases blood HDL cholesterol, and improves the immunity, and may be used as low glycemic index (GI) dietary supplements.
US11241014B2
Disclosed are antimicrobial articles and surfaces, as well as methods of making such articles and surfaces.
US11241012B2
The present invention relates to the use of use of a tetrazolinones for combating phytopathogenic fungi on soybean, such fungi containing a G143A mutation in the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene conferring resistance to Qo inhibitors.
US11241005B2
A self-leveling crop spraying apparatus is carried by a prime mover. The crop spraying apparatus includes first and second masts, and first and second opposed pendulum arm frame members slidingly engaged to the first and second masts. A pendulum arm extends through the first and second opposed pendulum arm frame members. The first and second pendulum assemblies are coupled to opposed ends of the pendulum arm, and a carriage assembly is carried by the first and second pendulum assemblies. The carriage assembly is rotatable relative to the first and second masts and first and second opposed pendulum arm frame members.
US11241004B2
An agricultural sprayer includes at least one nozzle configure to receive a fluid and direct atomized fluid to an agricultural surface in a dispersal area. A radio-frequency (RF) transmitter is disposed to generate an RF signal that passes through the dispersal area. The RF signal is detectably changed when interacting with droplets of the atomized fluid. A first RF receiver is disposed to receive the RF signal after the RF signal passes through the dispersal area and provides an output indicative of the RF signal. A controller is coupled to the first RF receiver and is configured to detect plugging of the at least one nozzle based on the output of the first RF receiver.
US11241002B2
A remote insect monitor and associated method include a container configured to allow an insect attractant within the container to escape into ambient air proximate a landing area. At least one detection sensor generating sensor data of insects proximate the landing area, and a control module has a processor and a memory storing machine readable instructions executable by the processor to process the sensor data and count insects proximate the landing area. The remote insect monitor and associated method may also include an analyzer for analyzing an insect of interest to determine whether the insect carries a disease, wherein the control module sends an indication of whether the insect carries the disease to the remote server.
US11241001B2
A device for macerating bait, making chum, or both is provided. The device has a main housing having a top openable end and a closed bottom openable end; a removable lid attachable to the top openable end, wherein the removable lid comprises at least a fluid flow hole configured to, when placed in a fluid and towed behind the vessel, port the fluid to flow through the housing through bottom openable end and through the top openable end; a push rod disposed through the removable lid; a concentric cutting member attached to the push rod at a lower end of the push rod, wherein the concentric cutting member comprises a series of blades that are intersecting and have cutting edges on a top and bottom of the blades. A method of macerating bait is also provided.
US11240999B2
The subject of the invention relates to a fishing rod that has a handle (1), a shaft (2), with tip top guide (7), containing a spring, a reel support seat (3) running between the handle (1) and the shaft (2), and reel support rings (26, 27) located on the seat (3), as well as a trigger (11) for using top-mounted reels. The essence of the invention is that the handle (1) is connected to the seat (3) and the seat (3) to the shaft (2) with releasable connections, and the seat (3) is established to accommodate both bottom-mounted and top-mounted reels (40) and also to accommodate a trigger (11) that may be attached and removed from the seat (3) for operating top-mounted reels (40).
US11240990B2
The present invention relates to an animal waste collection and disposal apparatus that separates solid and liquid waste. The collection and disposal apparatus has a basin and a corresponding grate. The grate is placed on top of the basin and allows for any liquid waste to pass through, while retaining any solid waste on the upper surface. An absorption pad may be placed in between the basin and grate. The basin may have securement means located about at least one of its exterior edges, allowing multiple basins to be connected to one another so as to create a single, larger unit for use with larger animals.
US11240986B1
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV481649. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV481649, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV481649 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to corn seeds and plants produced by crossing plants of variety CV481649 with plants of another variety, such as another inbred line. The invention further relates to the inbred and hybrid genetic complements of plants of variety CV481649.
US11240983B1
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH011068. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH011068, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH011068 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH011068.
US11240973B2
An artificially intelligent harvest and reuse system for planting vegetables has a first mechanic arm moving a plurality of planting plates around a first conveyor, a second conveyor, a first shelf and a second shelf. The planting plates are sent to a connecting conveyor for the grown vegetables thereon to be picked up by a second mechanic arm and further sent to a root cutting apparatus then to a packaging apparatus, while the empty planting plates are further sent to an exit end of the first conveyor and a third mechanic arm places nursery foams with sprouts from a storage area onto the empty planting plates. Then the refilled planting plates are sent back to the corresponding shelf via the second conveyor and placed back into the corresponding layers neatly by the first mechanic arm on a first distributing apparatus.
US11240968B2
An indoor gardening appliance includes a liner defining a grow chamber and a grow module rotatably mounted within the grow chamber and defining a plurality of apertures for receiving a plurality of plant pods. A pollen pod is mounted to the grow module in one of the apertures and contains pollen for pollinating the plant pods to facilitate plant growth. A pollen ejection device, which may be a pressurized air nozzle or a protruding member for puncturing the pollen pod, is fixed to the liner or otherwise stationary relative to the pollen pod and is configured for engaging the pollen pod when the grow module rotates the pollen pod past the pollen ejection device to discharge and disperse pollen onto the plant pods.
US11240967B2
A control system and method are provided for accumulating bales processed by an agricultural baler. The accumulator has a base frame and a carriage laterally movable thereon. The control system includes at least one actuator mounted to the frame and configured to move the carriage relative to the frame or to move the carriage in response to a bale engaging an upstanding end of the carriage, at least one sensor configured to detect a position of one or more of the carriage and the at least one actuator relative to the frame, and a controller configured to receive position signals and control the at least one actuator to move at least the carriage relative to the frame to sequentially accumulate multiple bales on the carriage. A crop package receiving area of the carriage has a fixed lateral width during all lateral movement of the carriage.
US11240964B2
A harvester or combine includes a folding corn head with a center section and folding wing sections. A folding row separator cover at the hinge location of the folding head sections folds to an angled position so that the folding action between the wings and the center section is not impaired. A single assembly actuates the folding of the row separator as well as locking and unlocking of the wing sections relative to the center frame section. A hydraulic cylinder actuates a main link that connects to the row separator cover and to a lock pin. Actuation of the hydraulic cylinder raises and lowers the cover and disengages and engages the locking pin.
US11240960B2
Systems and methods for geospatial yield mapping by managing and modeling a system-based delay between crop location and crop sensing. The system stores a plurality of yield rate values indicative of crop yield detected by a sensor and a plurality of geospatial location values as time sequence data sets. The system then maps a yield rate value to a geospatial location value by determining an offset indicative of a total delay time from when the crop is cut from the field to when the crop is detected by the yield sensor. In some implementations, the delay value is determined as an integer multiple of a defined sampling frequency and is determined as a sum of a plurality of delay component values each indicative of a portion of the total delay time associated with a different one of a plurality of component systems of the crop harvester.
US11240959B2
An agricultural harvester includes a plurality of controllable subsystems and a forward-looking crop sensor that detects a characteristic of the crop in front of the harvester. The forward-looking sensor generates a first sensor signal indicative of the detected characteristic. The harvester further includes a component sensor that detects a characteristic of a component of the agricultural harvesting machine and generates a second sensor signal indicative of the detected characteristic. Adaptation logic receives the first and second sensor signals and determines a sensor conversion factor intermittently during operation of the agricultural harvester. Recommendation logic receives the conversion factor and generates a recommendation to change operation of a controllable subsystem, based in part on the calculated conversion factor and a value received from the forward-looking crop sensor. A control system controls the controllable subsystem based on the generated recommendation.
US11240955B2
Provided is a method for planting a mixed forest of yew trees and fig trees. Yew trees and fig trees are interplanted based on characteristics of yew trees and fig trees. A seedling bed method is used in the plain zones, and a terrace field method is used in mountain zones in order to improve land utilization rate and make full use of complementary advantages of ecological niches. In the present disclosure, ground and underground spaces on tree growing site are fully used. Fig trees grow fast and have large leaves, thus shading part of sunlight for yew trees and savings costs required for building shade shelters for yew trees. By using the method for constructing a mixed forest in the present disclosure, the constructed mixed forest not only allows for increase of biomass, but also provides higher paclitaxel content in yew trees than that in pure forest.
US11240953B2
A vacuum seed meter includes a vacuum channel and a seed disc having seed cells defined as openings through a perimeter region of the seed disc, which rotates through the vacuum channel. The seed meter includes a sensor that addresses the seed cells in a way that enables prediction of imminent seed starvation of the seed meter.
US11240952B2
A method and an apparatus for receiving manure from a vacuum truck, as that manure is collected from alleys of a dairy barn, includes receiving the manure in a mixing basin. The received manure is diluted in the mixing basin with a jet of water discharging a sufficient volume of water to form a sand-laden manure flow having a velocity of over 3 feet per second and dilute the received manure into a sand-laden manure suspension of less than seven percent manure solids. The resulting sand laden manure suspension is conducted into a vestibule of a sand settling lane to slow the flow of the sand laden manure suspension to enter a sand settling lane at a velocity of less than 1.25 feet per second. Sand is collected in the sand settling lane.
US11246251B2
A system includes a computing device with circuitry and memory with instructions for execution by the circuitry. The instructions include monitoring signals indicative of a non-uniform distance between a transfer head and a receiving substrate, and, in response to the monitored signals, actuating one or more actuators towards the transfer head or the receiving substrate to deform the transfer head or the receiving substrate.
US11246246B2
To provide an electronic control device capable of suppressing leakage of radio-frequency radiation noise, radiated from a noise source, to the outside. The electronic control device includes a radio-frequency circuit 104 at least a part of which is driven at a radio frequency, a printed circuit board 101 on which a low-frequency circuit 103 that is driven at a low frequency is mounted, a housing 100 made of metal that includes therein the printed circuit board 101 together with the radio-frequency circuit 104 and the low-frequency circuit 103, a plurality of radio-frequency connectors 106a to 106f for transmitting and receiving signals related to the radio-frequency circuit 104 mounted on the printed circuit board 101 to and from the outside of the housing, a low-frequency connector 105 for transmitting and receiving signals related to the low-frequency circuit 103 mounted on the printed circuit board 101 to and from the outside of the housing, and a partition wall 203 for suppressing propagation of radiation noise, radiated by driving the radio-frequency circuit 104, to the low-frequency connector 105.
US11246242B2
A module including a substrate; a cooling unit that cools a heat-generating component provided on the substrate; a connection terminal portion provided on the substrate; and a connection pipe that is connected to the cooling unit and that extends in a direction different from a direction of at least one of insertion and withdrawal of the connection terminal portion, wherein the connection pipe extends from a side towards the connection terminal portion.
US11246239B2
The present disclosure provides a heatsink that can improve heat radiation efficiency of a heat radiating fin and equalize a heat input in a heat receiving portion while securing sufficient volumes of the heat receiving portion, a heat insulating portion, and a heat radiating portion even in an environment in which an installation space for the heatsink, more specifically, an installation space in a width direction of the heatsink is limited. A heatsink including: a heat transport member having a heat receiving portion thermally connected to a heating element; and a heat radiating fin group which is thermally connected to a heat radiating portion of the heat transport member and in which a plurality of heat radiating fins is arranged, wherein the heat transport member has an integral internal space that communicates from the heat receiving portion to the heat radiating portion and that is filled with a working fluid, and a cross-sectional area of an internal space in a direction orthogonal to a heat transport direction of the heat transport member in the heat radiating portion is larger than the cross-sectional area in a heat insulating portion between the heat receiving portion and the heat radiating portion.
US11246236B2
A liquid cooling jacket with first and second heat receivers and a biasing spring. The first heat receiver having a first refrigerant pipe through which a refrigerant flow and a first heat conductive sheet that receives heat by being in contact with a cooling target. The second heat receiver is configured to approach and separate from the first heat receiver while facing the first heat conductive sheet. The spring biases the first heat receiver and the second heat receiver in an approaching direction.
US11246233B2
This application relates to a magnetic attachment mechanism attached to a stand for a display unit. The display unit includes a housing enclosing a display panel. The housing has a recess formed on a rear surface of the housing to accept the magnetic attachment mechanism. The magnetic attachment mechanism includes a magnetic element that is magnetically coupled to a corresponding magnetic element in the housing of the desktop display device when the magnetic attachment mechanism is inserted into the recess. The magnetic attachment mechanism also includes a latch mechanism that locks the display unit to the stand when the latch mechanism is engaged with a surface feature of the recess. The latch mechanism can be disengaged to allow for mobility of the display unit as separated from the stand.
US11246227B2
A display device that includes a housing with at least one Printed Circuit Board (PCB) and a plurality of rollers disposed in the housing. The display device also includes a display unit which, in turn, includes a display panel and a module cover. The display device further includes a driving unit that is connected to the display panel and the module cover. The driving unit moves the display panel and the module cover between a first state and a second state. In the first state, the panel and module cover are wound around at least one of the plurality of rollers, and in the second state they are unwound from the at least one of the plurality of rollers and exposed by being drawn out from the housing.
US11246224B2
A method for manufacturing a printed wiring board includes forming a conductor layer including first and second pads on an insulating layer, forming a dry film resist layer on the insulating and conductor layers, forming first and second openings exposing the first and second pads, applying first metal plating to form first and second base plating layers on the first and second pads, applying second metal plating to form a first top plating layer of a first post and portion of a second top plating layer of a second bump post, applying the second metal plating further to form second portion of the second top layer of the second post, removing the dry film resist layer, forming a solder resist layer to cover the first and second posts, and thinning the solder resist layer over entire surface to position the first and second top layers outside the solder resist layer.
US11246222B2
A 3D printed drilling template (20, 30a, 30b, 30c) including: a rigid framework able to be manipulated by an operator or an automaton, and a set of traversing (22, 32a, 32b, 32c, 33c) orifices in the framework and arranged to guide the drilling of holes into a structure on which the drilling template is mounted, wherein the drilling template (20, 30a, 30b, 30c) is designed or revised on an ad-hoc basis and manufactured by 3D printing and using a 3D printing material based on a polymer material mixed with powdered graphene.
US11246220B2
A physical quantity detector includes a housing, a circuit board, a cover, a resin member, a conductor, and a conductive member. The circuit board includes a board surface. The cover faces the board surface and defines, together with the hosing, a passage through which the target fluid flows. The conductor includes a passage side portion and a connecting portion. The conductive member electrically connects the connecting portion to the circuit board. The conductive member includes a first end in the thickness direction facing a contact target that is either one of the connecting portion or the board surface. The first end includes a contact portion in contact with the contact target and a contactless portion away from the contact target in the thickness direction.
US11246218B2
Embodiments may include inductors with embedded magnetic cores and methods of making such inductors. In an embodiment, an integrated circuit package may include an integrated circuit die with a multi-phase voltage regulator electrically coupled to the integrated circuit die. In such embodiments, the multi-phase voltage regulator may include a substrate core and a plurality of inductors. The inductors may include a conductive through-hole disposed through the substrate core and a plugging layer comprising a dielectric material surrounding the conductive through-hole. In an embodiment, a magnetic sheath is formed around the plugging layer. In an embodiment, the magnetic sheath is separated from the plated through hole by the plugging layer. Additionally, a first layer comprising a dielectric material may be disposed over a first surface of the magnetic sheath, and a second layer comprising a dielectric material may be disposed over a second surface of the magnetic sheath.
US11246215B2
A ceramic substrate of the present disclosure is a ceramic substrate including a ceramic body having a ceramic layer on a surface thereof and a surface electrode placed on a primary face of the ceramic body. Between the surface electrode and the ceramic layer is an oxide layer made of an insulating oxide having a melting point higher than the firing temperature for the ceramic layer. The oxide layer also extends on the ceramic layer not occupied by the surface electrode. The oxide layer on the ceramic layer not occupied by the surface electrode has a rough surface.
US11246212B2
A printed circuit board deformable in both length and width includes a first conductive circuit layer, a second conductive circuit layer, an elastic film, and conductive via holes. The first conductive circuit layer includes first conductive circuits. First honeycomb holes are defined on the first conductive circuits. The second conductive circuit layer faces away from the first conductive circuit layer, the second conductive circuit layer comprises second conductive circuits, second honeycomb holes being defined on the second conductive circuits, each of the second honeycomb holes corresponds to one of the first honeycomb holes. The first conductive circuits are embedded in the elastic film. Each of the conductive via holes corresponds to one first honeycomb holes.
US11246207B2
Smart switch devices, systems, and methods for modifying an existing electrical system to utilize the power state output of a physical switch as an indicator or signal for the operation of a smart home device or system or network of such devices to facilitate interoperability of physical switches with smart devices. The smart switch detects or determines the power state of a circuit and infers the corresponding state of a mechanical switch that operates the circuit. This information is then transmitted to associated smart devices, which may not be physically connected to the circuit controlled by the switch. When the mechanical switch is operated, it can control both electrically attached loads, such as a conventional light appliance, and wirelessly control unconnected smart devices.
US11246205B1
The present invention discloses a lighting system for monitoring human activity within an enclosed environment. The system comprises one or more light fixtures including a thermal sensor housed within a sensor housing coupled to each light fixture, wherein the thermal sensor is communicatively coupled to the light fixture and configured to capture a plurality of thermal images indicative of human activity surrounding a fixture within the enclosed environment, wherein each thermal image includes a grid having a plurality of pixels corresponding to a section of the enclosed environment, a processor configured to receive the plurality of thermal images from the thermal sensor, wherein the processor is in data communication with the thermal sensor and the light fixture and a wireless transceiver communicatively coupled to the processor.
US11246201B1
Methods and systems for controlling current provided to one or more LEDs for a period of time after power supplied to the LED driver is shut down are described herein. By controlling current through the one or more LEDs after shutdown, the light emitted from the one or more LEDs transitions to zero at a predictable rate with a predictable lag time. An LED based illumination system includes an energy storage element and a controlled luminous drawdown module electrically coupled between one or more LEDs and an electrical power converter employed to control current provided to the one or more LEDs during normal operation. The controlled luminous drawdown module senses a reduction in voltage at the output of the electrical power converter and operates to control current flow through one or more LEDs of the LED string until electrical energy stored in the electrical storage element is depleted.
US11246199B2
A lighting apparatus includes a light source, a driver module and a surface rim. The light source includes multiple LED modules and a power electrode. The driver module includes a driver box and a first driver circuit. The first driver circuit is stored in the driver box. The first driver circuit is electrically connected to the power electrode of the light source for providing a driving current to the LED modules. The surface rim has a central portion and a peripheral portion. The light source is disposed to the central portion. The driver box is concealed at least partially by the peripheral portion.
US11246198B2
The present disclosure provides lighting systems suitable for generating white light. The lighting systems can have a first lighting channel configured to produce a first white light having a first color point and a first spectral power distribution, a second lighting channel configured to produce a second white light having a second color point and a second spectral power distribution, and a control system configured to independently change the intensity of each of the first lighting channel and the second lighting channel. The first lighting channels can have LEDs having an emission with a first peak wavelength of between about 440 nm and about 510 nm. The second lighting channels can have LEDs having an emission with a second peak wavelength of between about 380 nm and about 420 nm. The disclosure provides methods of generating white light using the lighting systems described.
US11246192B2
A microwave oven (2) with a full glass door (12) for preventing microwave leakage from the cooking cavity (6) of the microwave oven (2) is provided. The front plate (8) of the cooking cavity (6) has a conductive material (10), such as a rubber with conductive filler. The inner glass surface (16) of the door (12) has a conductive coating that creates a ground loop with the conductive material (10) on the front plate (8) of the cooking cavity (6) to prevent microwave leakage from the cooking cavity (6).
US11246188B2
A wireless communication apparatus performs communication for which a receiving timing and a transmitting timing are defined by using time slots. The wireless communication apparatus includes a control circuitry configured to control the wireless communication apparatus. The control circuitry includes a decoding circuitry configured to start a decoding process, on data received in a first time slot, immediately after a start of a second time slot subsequent to the first time slot. When a result of the decoding process is information requesting the wireless communication apparatus to perform transmission, the control circuitry is configured to perform a transmission preparation process from an end of the decoding process to a start of a third time slot subsequent to the second time slot, within a period of the second time slot for enabling the wireless communication apparatus to perform transmission.
US11246186B2
The present disclosure relates to data transmission methods, devices, and systems. One example method includes receiving, by a relay UE, data of a remote UE, where the data includes a first identifier of the remote UE, determining, by the relay UE, a second identifier of the remote UE based on the first identifier, and sending the data of the remote UE and the second identifier of the remote UE to a base station.
US11246181B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method and apparatus of data transmission in a wireless communication system and a method and apparatus of receiving data in a wireless communication system. The method of data reception comprises transmitting a request for the RRC message to the network node based on default transmission parameters; and receiving the RRC message from the network node at a predetermined time unit. With embodiments of the present disclosure, it is possible to request the RRC message when the terminal device need this message and therefore the RRC message transmission can be reduced and in turn, the inter-node interference can be limited, and the number of LBTs required for these signal transmissions can be reduced if they are transmitted on unlicensed spectrum.
US11246180B2
Disclosed herein is a wireless mesh network comprised of ultra-high-capacity nodes that are capable of establishing ultra-high-capacity links (e.g., point-to-point or point-to-multipoint bi-directional communication links) using a millimeter wave spectrum, including but not limited to 28 Ghz, 39 Ghz, 37/42 Ghz, 60 Ghz (including V band), or E-band frequencies, as examples. The higher capacity and/or extended range of these ultra-high-capacity nodes/links may be achieved via various advanced signal processing techniques. Further, these ultra-high-capacity nodes/links may be used in conjunction with other types of point-to-point and/or point-to-multipoint links to build a multi-layer wireless mesh network.
US11246179B2
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. Methods and systems for managing bearer configuration of user equipment (UE) with Evolved-Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network-New Radio-Dual Connectivity (E-UTRAN-NR-DC) (EN-DC) capability. The UE detects connectivity issues in the UE itself and in interfaces connecting between a NR network with the UE, a LTE network, or an EPC that require disabling NR capability of the UE. The bearer configuration is determined and updated based on the detected connectivity issues. The UE signals the LTE network about the disabling of NR capability, requests enabling of data transfer through bearers of a MCG bearers associated with the LTE network in a current MCG RRC session, and prevents addition of SCG bearers associated with the NR network. The UE recovers data in the SCG bearers, lost due the issues in the NR network, through the MCG bearers. The UE can send a Tracking Area Update (TAU) to indicate the disabling of NR capability if the connectivity issues persist.
US11246177B2
An unmanned aerial vehicle system includes an unmanned aerial vehicle and a remote controller, where the unmanned aerial vehicle includes a first controller unit configured to determine whether the unmanned aerial vehicle can pair via a first communication unit with the remote controller, and when the unmanned aerial vehicle cannot pair with the remote controller, to send out via a second communication unit pairing information of the unmanned aerial vehicle and version information of a first private communication protocol of the first communication unit, and the remote controller includes a second controller unit configured to determine whether the remote controller can pair via a third communication unit with the unmanned aerial vehicle, and when the remote controller cannot pair with the unmanned aerial vehicle, to send out via a first communication interface pairing information of the remote controller and version information of a second private communication protocol of the third communication unit.
US11246173B2
Multi-user pairing of a plurality of wireless devices refers to the selection of different devices for simultaneously sharing a frequency band during a shared time interval. A method for performing wireless multi-user pairing of a plurality of user equipment (UE) is performed using a neural network model for a wireless communication network. The method includes: receiving channel state information (CSI) between each UE of a plurality of UEs and a base station with a plurality of antennas in the wireless communication network; converting the UE CSIs to an input sequence; and inputting the input sequence to system implementing the neural network model, the neural network model configured to generate pairing information for each UE based on the input sequence, the pairing information for each UE indicative of whether the UE is to share a frequency resource during a shared time interval.
US11246169B2
Embodiments of this application disclose a communication method, a related device, and a system. The method includes: receiving, by a network device, a first preamble sequence that is sent by a first terminal in a time window; sending, by the network device, a response message to the first terminal based on the first preamble sequence; receiving, by the network device, a first message sent by the first terminal, where the first message includes information used to identify the first terminal; and sending, by the network device, a second message to a second terminal and the first terminal, where the second message is used to indicate that the first terminal and the second terminal belong to a same user equipment cooperative group. According to this application, efficiency of establishing a user equipment cooperative group can be improved.
US11246166B2
A user equipment (UE) for random access operation in a wireless communication system. The UE comprises at least one transceiver configured to receive, from a base station (BS), RACH configuration information including an RACH structure corresponding to a first beam identification (ID), beam sweeping operation and mapping between downlink signals and RACH chunks and/or RACH preamble subsets. The UE comprises at least one processor configured to determine an RACH preamble based on the RACH structure configuration received from the BS. The UE comprises the transceiver further configured to transmit, to the BS, the RACH preamble over a first beam associated with the first beam ID and receive, from the BS, an RACH response corresponding to the RACH preamble over a second beam, wherein the first beam is different than the second beam.
US11246162B2
According to one embodiment, a wireless communication device includes: a receiver that configured to receives a first frame; and a transmitter that configured to transmits a second frame including a first identifier and acknowledgement information on the first frame, the first identifier being extracted from a predetermined field of the first frame and being different from a source address of the first frame.
US11246161B2
Systems, apparatus, user equipment (UE), evolved node B (eNB), computer readable media, and methods are described for multi-carrier listen before talk operations. In various embodiments, a transmitting device may assign one or more primary carriers to perform listen before talk (LBT) operations, with non-primary carriers performing a channel sensing operation at the end of the LBT operations of at least one primary channel. In various embodiments, the LBT operations at the primary carriers may use a shared random countdown number or an independent random countdown.
US11246154B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for wireless communications. A base station may transmit parameters for a configured grant and a dynamic grant. The parameters may indicate numbers of transmissions of transport blocks within a bundle of a configured grant and within a bundle of a dynamic grant. A wireless device may transmit a first transport block, within a bundle of a configured grant, a first number of times. The wireless device may transmit a second transport block, within a bundle of a dynamic grant, a second number of times.
US11246147B2
Features, methods, and functions for beam failure recovery and scheduling requests are provided, including methods for triggering, canceling, and transmitting beam recovery requests. The scheduling request may be designed to accommodate new criteria for transmission on a grant-free uplink shared channel (UL-SCH) and for putting the schedule request on hold.
US11246133B2
The application provides a signal transmission method, a terminal device and a network device. In the method, transmission of a Primary Synchronization Signal (PSS) in an SS block occupies M PRBs, a ZP CSI-RS is located on N PRBs. In a case where the ZP CSI-RS is located on a symbol occupied by the SS block, the terminal device determines that at least one first RE does not include the ZP CSI-RS or determines that the at least one first RE includes the ZP CSI-RS, the at least one first RE being at least one RE, except one or more REs overlapped with the maximum-frequency PRB in the M PRBs, in a first PRB, and/or, the at least one first RE being at least one RE, except one or more REs overlapped with the minimum-frequency PRB in the M PRBs, in a second PRB
US11246132B2
Messages are transmitted to a target device over a wireless network comprising a primary channel in which first messages are transmitted in a random access procedure, and a secondary channel in which second messages are transmitted using a dedicated access procedure, wherein each of the first messages comprises a pointer to the secondary channel, each first message comprising information about the transmitting device and the target device. For each of the first and second message, a transmission opportunity comprising a time slot for transmitting the corresponding message is selected and the primary channel is scanned to determine, based on the received first messages, whether a second message will be transmitted in the time slots selected for the first or second message in which the transmitting device or the target device is involved. The selected transmission opportunities are confirmed or amended based on a result of the scanning.
US11246127B2
Embodiments of the application provide a method for multiple resource set configuration. A device of the network obtains a configuration associated with a physical layer (PHY) channel, then the device selects a set of resources corresponding to the configuration from a plurality of resources and determines an actual resource from the selected set of resources to cause another device to transmit or receive a corresponding PHY signal on the determined actual resource.
US11246118B2
A method and apparatus for downlink transmission using preconfigured downlink resource in a wireless communication system is provided. A wireless device transmits, to a network, a message to request downlink resource for downlink transmission, wherein the message includes traffic pattern information for the downlink transmission. A wireless device receives, from the network, a configuration for the downlink resource. A wireless device receives the downlink transmission based on the downlink resource.
US11246117B2
A user equipment (UE) is described. The UE includes receiving circuitry configured to receive a radio resource control message including first information used for configuring a number of more than one code block groups (CBGs) in a transport block (TB). The receiving circuitry is also configured to receive the more than one CBGs, the more than one CBGs comprising first CBGs and second CBGs. The UE also includes processing circuitry configured to determine a number of code blocks (CBs) from the TB. A first number, a second number, a third number, and a fourth number are given based on the number of more than one CBGs and the number of CBs. The first number is a number of the first CBG(s). The second number is a number of CB(s) comprised of each of the first CBG(s). The third number is a number of the second CBG(s). The fourth number is a number of CB(s) comprised of each of the second CBG(s).
US11246113B2
A first network access node for a wireless communication system obtains a set of first radio service information (RSI) for a set of first position information in a service area. Each first RSI of the set of first RSI comprises a first RSI estimate, a first estimate type indicating how the first RSI estimate was estimated, and a first radio service type defining the first RSI estimate. The first network access node further receives a first control message from a second network access node. Corresponding methods and computer program products are also described.
US11246107B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may identify a set of carriers configured for communications between the UE and one or more transmission reception points (e.g., a set of transmission points). The UE may receive multiple communications over different carriers and determine a time difference or delay between two of the carriers (e.g., a first carrier and a second carrier). Based on the time difference and a time difference threshold, the UE may perform a throughput degradation procedure such as transmitting a report indicating the time difference, transmitting a feedback report with channel quality information determined based on the time difference, etc.
US11246105B2
A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. According to some aspects, the apparatus may identify a first power state and a second power state, wherein the first power state is associated with a first transmission or reception of one or more first beams, and the second power state is associated with a second transmission or reception of one or more second beams; and/or switch from the first power state to the second power state, wherein the apparatus is configured to use at least one of a scheduled gap or at least one intermediate power state between the first power state and the second power state to smooth a transition from the first power state to the second power state. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11246102B2
A wireless communication device and a dynamic anti-interference method for the same are provided. The device includes at least two wireless communication circuits. When the method operates in the wireless communication device, the device monitors activities of every wireless communication circuit through a clear channel assessment method for acquiring signal strength of every wireless communication circuit. The assessment allows the device to perform a corresponding anti-interference measure for each of the wireless communication circuits. For example, when the device acknowledges that a second wireless communication circuit of the device starts to work as a first wireless communication circuit transmits or receives signals, the device controls a receiver or a transmitter of the second wireless communication circuit to perform an anti-interference measure such as a gain control for a receiver or power adjustment for a transmitter.
US11246100B1
A method of selecting a path for transmitting a maximum power from a base station to a terminal includes simplifying a plurality of structures in an area by using OBBs, the area being an area in which beam search is to be performed; forming the plurality of simplified structures into a tree structure for ray tracing; performing the ray tracing by applying a ray tracing relation tree reduction (RRTR) algorithm for reducing an amount of computation of a GPU to the tree structure; and applying a linear regression (LR) algorithm for calculating the maximum power to be transmitted from the base station to the terminal based on a result of the ray tracing.
US11246091B2
A method for scanning an Access Point (AP) in a portable terminal includes determining whether a request to activate the portable terminal is detected; and upon detecting the request, immediately and additionally scanning an AP independently of a predetermined scan cycle.
US11246081B2
Embodiments include methods, for an intermediate node in a wireless mesh network, to identify a critical link in a path between a source node and a destination node in the wireless mesh network. Such methods include receiving a first message relating to a discovery of a path between the source node and the destination node. Such methods also include forwarding the first message to one or more other nodes in the wireless mesh network based on an entry in a discovery table, stored in the intermediate node, that indicates that the intermediate node is part of a critical link in the path. The first message can be a path request message or a path reply message, and the methods can include various other operations associated with each type of first message. Other embodiments include wireless devices configured to operate as intermediate nodes in accordance with these methods.
US11246079B2
Systems and methods are provided for routing path optimization in a network of moving things. A mobile access point (MAP) of a vehicle communication network may include one or more processors configured to determine a path score for each of a communication paths to a destination for a communication, based on at least one vehicle-dependent feature associated with at least one reachable mobile node, with the at least one vehicle-dependent feature including, for each reachable mobile node, one or more of expected travel route of the reachable mobile node, an expected down time of the reachable mobile node, an expected time of high utilization of the reachable mobile node, and a degree to which the reachable mobile node is presently in-range. The one or more processors may select a route for the communication based on the determined path scores for the communication paths.
US11246073B2
A method performed by a connectivity-related network entity is provided. The method includes: receiving, from a Packet Data Network (PDN) gateway and a Serving Gateway (SGW), a Short Message Service (SMS) message to be sent in a downlink; determining to use a control plane only, out of the control plane and a user plane, for transferring the SMS message; transmitting a trigger message to a user equipment to initiate establishment of connectivity with the user equipment via the control plane only and not via the user plane, wherein the user equipment starts a timer when the establishment of the control plane connectivity is initiated; receiving a response message from the user equipment; encapsulating the SMS message in a security protected Non-Access Stratum (NAS) message; and transmitting the security protected NAS message to the user equipment, in receipt of which the user equipment stops the timer.
US11246069B2
Wireless communications systems and methods related to communications in a wireless network during handover and/or dual connectivity operations are provided. A user equipment (UE) transmits, to a first base station (BS), a first communication signal based on a first time-division multiplexed (TDM) configuration. The UE transmits, to a second BS different from the first BS, a second communication signal, the second communication signal being multiplexed with the first communication signal based on the first TDM configuration. The UE transmits, to the first BS, a third communication signal based on a second TDM configuration different from the first TDM configuration. The first TDM configuration and the second TDM configuration are associated with a handover from the first BS to the second BS. The UE transmits, to the second BS, a fourth communication signal, the fourth communication signal being multiplexed with the third communication signal based on the second TDM configuration.
US11246057B2
The purpose of the present invention is to provide a method and a device for efficiently supporting multi-link transmission regardless of the type of RAT and the types of protocols. The present invention provides a method for aggregating links in an IP layer, and a method by which a multi-packet gateway transmits a packet comprises: confirming information on a link available for a terminal; scheduling a received data packet on the basis of the information on the available link; and transmitting the data packet, wherein the data packet is distributed so as to be transmitted by using the available link.
US11246055B1
Systems and methods for providing enhanced Quality of Service (QoS) network transmissions can be based on an application sub-class or a user class. Systems and methods can include inspecting the information packet having a network level QoS field having a first network level QoS portion and a second network level QoS portion, determining an application sub-class or user class associated with the information packet, tagging the first network level QoS portion of the information packet according to a first network level QoS value, tagging the second network level QoS portion of the information packet according to a traffic priority indication and to a determined application sub-class or user class, and queuing the information packet for transmission from a network element based on the tagged first network level QoS portion and the second network level QoS portion.
US11246049B2
A SS of a SS block of a SS burst set can be received. A measurement can be performed at least on the received SS of the SS block. A PBCH of the SS block that can include a first portion and a second portion of the PBCH can be received. The first portion can carry at least a part of minimum system information. The second portion can carry timing information. The timing information can include information including at least an indication of a SS block index of the SS block within the SS burst set. The SS block index can be determined at least based on the demodulating and decoding the second portion of the PBCH. A measurement report that can include a measurement quantity from the measurement on the received SS of the SS block and that can include the determined SS block index can be transmitted.
US11246048B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a channel measurement processing method and a channel measurement processing device. The method includes: receiving a channel measurement command sent by a base station; parsing the channel measurement command according to a preset rule to obtain an operation object and an operation type of the channel measurement command; where the operation object of the channel measurement command is a measurement resource or a measurement report; and, executing a first operation, corresponding to the operation type, on the measurement resource, and/or, executing a second operation, corresponding to the operation type, on the measurement report.
US11246043B2
In order to enable reducing a possibility of being unable to connect to an AP in which a failure of a network connection occurs and also lessening a decline in a communication rate, a wireless communication method includes: detecting occurrence of a failure of a network connection in a first wireless communication device, when detecting the occurrence of the failure, determining whether or not to make a first wireless connection to the first wireless communication device, when making the determination to make the first wireless connection, making the first wireless connection to the first wireless communication device, and relaying a first communication between the first wireless communication device and a network.
US11246042B2
The described technology is generally directed towards jointly optimizing coverage, capacity, and layer balance in a wireless communications network while maintaining cell edge use device performance constraints. Aspects comprise monitoring edge user devices for performance information, and modifying the network based on the performance information, including jointly optimizing by changing antenna parameter data, layer balancing, handover biasing per cell neighbor pair, modifying scheduling priorities, and optimizing sector face harmonic throughput. Balancing uplink and downlink coverages are considered in the joint optimization. Further, interference is detected, predicted (as needed) and mitigated.
US11246041B1
A wireless access point (WAP) efficiently adjusts one or more operational parameters, such as transmission power, a data rate, a modulation scheme, and/or an encoding scheme to provide some examples, to provide efficient communication with one or more communication devices. This efficient allocation of the one or more operational parameters can represent a per-station allocation of the one or more operational parameters, a dynamic allocation of the one or more operational parameters, and/or a combination of the per-station allocation and the dynamic allocation. In the per-station allocation, the WAP determines and uses one or more values for the operational parameters for each of the one or more communication devices. In the dynamic allocation, the WAP monitors one or more distances between the WAP and one or more of the one or more communication devices. The WAP can continuously monitor, periodically monitor, or monitor over a discrete period of time the one or more distances. Thereafter, the WAP determines and uses one or more values for the operational parameters for each of the one or more communication devices based upon the one or more distances.
US11246033B2
Example authentication methods and apparatus are described. One example method is applied to an identity management entity, and the identity management entity is deployed in a core network control plane of a Long-Term Evolution (LTE) network. The method includes receiving a certificate request message from terminal equipment and generating a digital certificate for the terminal equipment. An identity request message carrying the digital certificate is sent to an identity proxy entity, where the identity proxy entity is deployed in a blockchain network, and the identity request message is used to obtain a blockchain identity for the terminal equipment.
US11246031B2
A mobile device can select an identifier from a set of identifiers stored by the mobile device. The mobile device can communicate a request for a communication link with a communication system, and the request for the communication link can include the identifier. The communication link can be established based on the identifier. The mobile device can select a second identifier from the set of identifiers. The mobile device can communicate a second request for a second communication link with the communication system, and the second request can include the second identifier. The second communication link can be established based on the second identifier.
US11246020B2
Transportation infrastructure provides for vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communication over a vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication network with a V2X transceiver of a vehicle in accordance with a subscription level defining a level of access of the vehicle to data services of a cellular network. An interface controller operates as a gateway between the cellular network and the V2X communication network. A vehicle includes a transceiver for V2X communication. The transceiver provides for V2I communication over a V2X communication network with transportation infrastructure in accordance with a subscription level defining a level of access of the vehicle to a cellular network, and also provides for vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication over the V2X communication network with other vehicles in accordance with the subscription level.
US11246012B1
Systems, methods, and computer program products are provided for improving establishment and broadcasting of communication among mobile computing devices. For example, a method comprises determining a first user accesses a mobile application on a first mobile device of the first user; determining a second user accesses the mobile application on a second mobile device of the second user; and initiating the audio conversation between the first user and the second user, wherein the audio conversation is broadcasted to a third user who accesses the mobile application on a third mobile device of the third user.
US11246000B2
Disclosed is a system configured to determine filter parameters of an audio precompensation filter for the compensation of an associated sound generating system having at least two loudspeakers. The system is configured to obtain sound field models describing the sound field in at least one region of space designated the bright zone and the sound field in at least one region of space designated the dark zone. The system is also configured to obtain a target sound field in the bright zone. Further, the system is configured to determine filter parameters of the audio precompensation filter so that a criterion function is optimized under the constraint of causality and stability of the dynamics of the audio precompensation filter to enable reproduction of a desired target sound field in the bright zone, while reproducing as little sound as possible in the dark zone.
US11245996B1
An apparatus for use in treating a neurological disorder of the auditory system, including a sound processing unit, an audio stimulation unit and a somatosensory stimulation unit. The audio stimulation unit includes an input for receiving the modified audio signal from the sound processing unit. The sound processing unit includes a processor operable to analyze an audio signal and generate a modified audio signal and a plurality of actuation signals therefrom representative of the audio signal. The somatosensory stimulation unit includes an array of stimulators to apply a somatosensory stimulation to a subject, and an input for receiving the plurality of actuation signals from the sound processing unit and directing individual actuation signals in a predetermined output for delivering an audio stimulation to the subject.
US11245995B2
An earmold having an earmold shell, the earmold shell having a first end facing a tympanic membrane when the earmold is worn by a user, and a second end facing toward a surrounding of the user when the earmold is worn by the user, includes: a receiver configured to provide an audio output signal; a receiver channel coupled to an output of the receiver and extending to a receiver opening in the first end; and a vent channel coupled to the receiver channel through a first vent port, the vent channel having a vent opening in the second end; wherein the receiver channel comprises a closing element, the closing element comprising a first magnetic member, wherein the closing element is configured to cause the first vent port to be open when in a first state, and to cause the first vent port to be closed when in a second state.
US11245993B2
A hearing device, e.g. a hearing aid, is configured to be worn by a user at or in an ear or to be fully or partially implanted in the head at an ear of the user. The hearing device comprises a) an input unit for providing at least one electric input signal in a time frequency representation k, m, where k and m are frequency and time indices, respectively, and k represents a frequency channel, the at least one electric input signal being representative of sound and comprising target signal components and noise components; and b) a signal processor comprising b1) an SNR estimator for providing a target signal-to-noise ratio estimate for said at least one electric input signal in said time frequency representation; and b2) an SNR-to-gain converter for converting said target signal-to-noise ratio estimate to respective gain values in said time frequency representation. The signal processor comprises a neural network, wherein the weights of the neural network have been trained with a plurality of training signals. A method of operating a hearing aid is further disclosed. The invention may e.g. be used in audio devices, such as hearing aids, headsets, mobile telephones, etc., operating in noisy acoustic environments.
US11245991B2
A method, including determining a change in an actuator impedance based on a change in an electrical property of a system of which the actuator is apart, and determining one or more system characteristics based on the change in the actuator impedance.
US11245988B2
The present application discloses a mobile terminal, which comprises a flexible screen, a middle frame matched with the flexible screen to form an accommodation space, an exciter fixed on the middle frame, a support layer clamped between the flexible screen and the middle frame, and a steel sheet at least covering a sound generation area, wherein an area, in which the support layer is not arranged, on the flexible screen forms the sound generation area; and the exciter is fixed on the steel sheet to drive the sound generation area to generate sound through vibration. The sound generation area of the flexible screen is driven by the exciter to generate the sound, so that the mobile terminal provided by the present invention has a better sound generation effect compared with the related art.
US11245987B2
The micro-speaker includes a hollow frame, a diaphragm, a voice coil, an elastic damping piece, and a magnetic circuit assembly. The hollow frame includes a hollow portion, a top surface, and a bottom surface. The diaphragm includes a central portion and an outer peripheral portion surrounding the central portion. The voice coil is coaxially held in the hollow portion. The voice coil includes a top edge fixedly connected to the central portion and a bottom edge. The elastic damping piece includes an outer fixing member connected to the hollow frame, an inner fixing member connected to the voice coil, and an elastic piece body connected between the outer fixing member and the inner fixing member. The magnetic circuit assembly is held in the hollow portion and is in the voice coil but not in contact with the voice coil.
US11245984B1
A system for presenting audio content to a user. The system comprises one or more microphones coupled to a frame of a headset. The one or more microphones capture sound from a local area. The system further comprises an audio controller integrated into the headset and communicatively coupled to an in-ear device worn by a user. The audio controller identifies one or more sound sources in the local area based on the captured sound. The audio controller further determines a target sound source of the one or more sound sources and determines one or more filters to apply to a sound signal associated with the target sound source in the captured sound. The audio controller further generates an augmented sound signal by applying the one or more filters to the sound signal and provides the augmented sound signal to the in-ear device for presentation to a user.
US11245983B2
Provided are an audio processing device, an audio processing method, an information processing device, and a computer program that perform echo cancellation corresponding to double talk. The audio processing device includes an estimation unit that estimates a filter representing a transmission characteristic from a speaker where a reference signal is output to a microphone in which the reference signal sneaks, an adjustment unit that adjusts a step size on the basis of a filter update coefficient estimated by the estimation unit, and an update unit that updates the filter according to the update coefficient and the step size. The adjustment unit adjusts the step size on the basis of a ratio of power of the filter update coefficient to maximum power of the filter.
US11245968B2
In certain embodiments, training of a neural network or other prediction model may be facilitated via live stream concept association. In some embodiments, a live video stream may be loaded on a user interface for presentation to a user. A user selection related to a frame of the live video stream may be received via the user interface during the presentation of the live video stream on the user interface, where the user selection indicates a presence of a concept in the frame of the live video stream. In response to the user selection related to the frame, an association of at least a portion of the frame of the live video stream and the concept may be generated, and the neural network or other prediction model may be trained based on the association of at least the portion of the frame with the concept.
US11245966B2
The present disclosure is directed to a networking system that provides a user experience in which users of the networking system can interact with user-generated digital content items to select and receive information about one or more products. In particular, the systems and methods involve identifying products shown within user-generated digital content items and associating the user-generated digital content items with the identified products. In addition, where a user selects a product shown within a digital content item, the systems and methods involve selectively identifying other user-generated digital content items for the user based on a coefficient between the user and the other user-generated digital content items. Moreover, the systems and methods involve tracking user-interactions with respect to digital content items and generating and providing a creation insight including an identification of one or more products predicted to engage users of the networking system.
US11245965B2
Systems and methods are provided herein in relation to notifications about alternative viewing opportunities for recording and playback of media programs. In particular, the systems and methods provide users with information related to alternative recorded programming viewing opportunities for programs scheduled for recording by a user.
US11245961B2
Methods and supporting systems collect data associated with interactive videos user engagement and dynamically adapt an interactive video application and/or interactive video content and detect anomalous behaviors based on the data.
US11245954B2
An electronic device and an operation method thereof, according to various embodiments, may: receive first data and second data compressed in a designated compression scheme; decompress the received first data and the received second data on the basis of at least the designated compression scheme; decrypt the decompressed second data; detect success of the decryption; and reproduce the decompressed first data and the decrypted second data.
US11245953B2
Novel techniques are described for enabling headphone-driven systems to handle packetized streams of next-generation television (NGTV) content. For example, a headphone system can include an antenna and a NGTV tuner to receive and decode a packetized television content stream wirelessly from a content provider via a digital television content network. The decoded stream can be processed by the headphone system to generate an audio stream and a video stream. Audio content of the audio stream can be output via an audio transducer of the headphone system. The video stream can be transmitted, via a device interface of the headphone system, to a media playback device for outputting of video content (e.g., and audio content, in some cases) of the video stream. For example, the video stream is transmitted, via a short-range wireless network to a smartphone, tablet computer, transport vehicle display, or other playback device.
US11245946B2
Methods, systems, and machine-readable media for adapting content composites to device operations of an endpoint media device are disclosed. Blockchain data associated with a blockchain address may be processed by one or more processing devices. The blockchain data and/or the blockchain address may be mapped by the one or more processing devices to a first endpoint media device. Based at least in part on the blockchain data, a first content composite may be identified by one or more processing devices for delivery from a content provider system via one or more networks to the first endpoint media device. Transmission of the first content composite may be caused where, consequent to delivery of the first content composite to the first endpoint media device, the first endpoint media device or a second endpoint media device performs at least one operation relating to the first content composite.
US11245923B2
Disclosed herein are representative embodiments of generating representative motion information that can be used during processing of a video frame. In one exemplary embodiment disclosed herein, a reference frame comprising a group of blocks is processed, and motion information for the group of blocks is compressed at least by buffering representative motion-vector information and representative reference-frame index information for the group of blocks. The representative reference-frame index information comprises reference-frame index information of a representative block of the group of blocks, and the representative reference-frame index information represents reference-frame index information for the group of blocks during processing of a current frame.
US11245922B2
A video coder that uses a shared candidate list to encode or decode multiple blocks of pixels within a shared boundary is provided. The video coder identifies a shared boundary encompassing a plurality of blocks of pixels of a current picture in a video sequence. The video coder identifies one or more prediction candidates as a shared candidate list based on neighbors of a region defined by the shared boundary. The video coder codes one or more blocks of pixels encompassed by the shared boundary by using one or more prediction candidates selected from the shared candidate list.
US11245919B2
A motion vector correction unit including a correction method determination unit 40 and an inter-prediction unit 42 performs scaling processing on a motion vector of, for example, a peripheral block of a current predictive block in a fisheye image shot using a fisheye lens, on the basis of fisheye information, for example, a projection method of the fisheye lens and a radius of the fisheye image. The scaling processing performs scaling by transforming the motion vector of the peripheral block to a motion vector of an image having no fisheye distortion, and transforms the motion vector after the scaling to the motion vector in the fisheye image. By reducing a difference between a motion vector of the current predictive block and a predictive motion vector by performing the scaling processing, encoding efficiency of the fisheye image can be improved.
US11245912B2
A method for motion estimation is provided that includes determining a first motion vector for a first child coding unit (CU) of a parent CU and a second motion vector for a second child CU of the parent CU, wherein the first child CU, the second child CU, and the parent CU are in a CU hierarchy, wherein the first and second child CUs are smallest size CUs in the CU hierarchy, and wherein a first motion search type is used to determine the first motion vector and the second motion vector, selecting the first and second motion vectors as candidate predictors for the parent CU, selecting a predictor for a prediction unit (PU) of the first parent CU from the candidate predictors, and refining the predictor using a second motion search type to determine a motion vector for the PU.
US11245903B2
A method of quantization, adaptive block partitioning and codebook coding for neural network model compression, is performed by at least one processor and includes determining a saturated maximum value of a multi-dimensional tensor in a layer of a neural network, and a bit depth corresponding to the saturated maximum value, and clipping weight coefficients in the multi-dimensional tensor to be within a range of the saturated maximum value. The method further includes quantizing the clipped weight coefficients, based on the bit depth, and transmitting, to a decoder, a layer header including the bit depth.
US11245899B2
A versatile video coding (VVC) method includes obtaining a plurality of video sources; encoding the plurality of video sources into a bitstream including a plurality of independent layers corresponding to the plurality of video sources; generating signaling information on the plurality of independent layers and integrating the signaling information with the bitstream; and transferring the bitstream for decoding processing, wherein the signaling information is to be used in the decoding process to enable a single decoder instance to decode the plurality of independent layers similar to a single-layer bitstream. The signaling information includes at least a video parameter set (VPS), and the VPS includes a flag inbl_one_pic_per_poc_flag equal to 1, which specifies that the bitstream contains independent layers and there is one and only one coded picture with a particular picture order count (POC) value in a same coded video sequence (CVS) among all layers.
US11245898B2
Sub-picture extraction is rendered less complex by providing each slice with start position information which indicates a starting position from which onwards the picture is, along a coding path, encoded into the respective slice, relative to an onset position at which the coding path starts traversing a segment the starting position is located in. Alternatively or additionally, sub-picture extraction processes are treated like choosing one layer out of a multi-layer datastream.
US11245897B2
A picture encoding apparatus configured to hierarchically partition a block of picture data into sub-blocks; determine that a sub-block being coded belongs to an unequally-sized partitioned block; prepare a list of neighboring blocks for the sub-block of the unequally-sized partitioned block based on a size of the sub-block of the unequally-sized partitioned block and a partitioning type of at least one neighboring block of the unequally-sized partitioned block; and derive a context model that is used to encode split information of the sub-block of the unequally-sized partitioned block into a bit stream based on the prepared list of neighboring blocks.
US11245896B1
Disclosed is a deblocking filter level decision method applicable to an image encoder and used for determining deblocking filter levels of N image frames. The method includes: determining whether a current quantization parameter of a current frame of the N image frames is the same as a previous quantization parameter of any previous frame of the N image frames; if the current quantization parameter is different from the previous quantization parameter, looking up M current deblocking filter reference levels in an established table according to the current quantization parameter and then determining M current deblocking filter levels of the current frame according to the M current deblocking filter reference levels, respectively; and if the current quantization parameter is the same as the previous quantization parameter, determining the M current deblocking filter levels of the current frame according to M previous deblocking filter levels of the previous frame, respectively.
US11245890B2
A video data transmission unit transmits data generated by a video data generation unit to an HMD. A sensing data reception unit receives data transmitted from the HMD, the data including size data indicating a size of the data successfully received by the HMD. A required time specification unit specifies time it took for a round-trip communication in half-duplex wireless communication between a relay apparatus and the HMD. A generation control unit controls a size of the data generated by the video data generation unit per unit time based on the specified time, the size indicated in the size data, and a given target time regarding the round-trip communication.
US11245882B2
Example apparatus described herein include a first circuit configured to slice an input image frame into input image slices, the first circuit including first outputs configured to output the input image slices. Described example apparatus also include digital light processing controllers (DLPCs) including first inputs coupled to the first outputs, the digital light processing controllers configured to process the input image slices to produce output image slices, the digital light processing controllers including second outputs configured to output the output image slices. Described example apparatus further include a second circuit including second inputs coupled to the second outputs, the second circuit configured to combine the output image slices to generate image frame data to provide to an input of a digital micromirror device (DMD).
US11245881B2
Provided are a method and an apparatus for correcting a color convergence error. The method includes: in a dark room environment, collecting a projection light point on a projection screen projected by a projection system, to obtain a projection image; adjusting the test pattern, so that a first projection light point corresponding to the white point of a first coordinate on the test pattern after being projected by a first color light source is located in a center of the projection image; obtaining a second and/or a third projection light points corresponding to the white point of the first coordinate after being projected by a second and/or a third color light sources from the projection image; and adjusting an assembly parameter of the projection system according to a position of the second and/or the third projection light points and a position of the first projection light point.
US11245878B2
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to quad color filter array image sensors. A quad color filter array (CFA) image sensor is configured to capture image data. The quad CFA image sensor includes a quad CFA and an image sensor coupled to the quad CFA. The image sensor includes a plurality of quads including a plurality of pixels. For each quad, each pixel of the plurality of pixels is coupled to a same color filter of the plurality of color filters, a first pixel of the plurality of pixels is associated with a first exposure region of the quad and corresponds to a first aperture size, a second pixel of the plurality of pixels is associated with a second exposure region of the quad and corresponds to a second aperture size, and at least two pixels of the plurality of pixels are configured as phase detection pixels.
US11245874B2
Disclosed herein are a display system of a vehicle and a method of driving the same. The display system includes a plurality of camera modules configured to capture a front side, a rear side, a rear left side, and a rear right side relative to the vehicle and generate image data, a plurality of display panels configured to receive the image data and display front side images, rear side images, rear left side images, and rear right side images relative to the vehicle, a driver pupil detection sensor configured to sense a pupil of a driver and generate pupil position data, a driver posture detection sensor configured to sense a position of the driver, a body direction thereof, and a head height thereof and generate posture data, a calculator configured to calculate a position of a field of view of the driver on the basis of the pupil position data and the posture data and generate a display correction value on the basis of the position of the field of view, and a display correction device configured to adjust a horizontal tilt and a vertical tilt of each of the plurality of display panels on the basis of the display correction value.
US11245871B1
A video of a user is received. An image of the video is analyzed to identify a marking object in the image with a color value within a first range. A location associated with the marking object is marked. The marked location is provided to one or more other users via a collaboration medium.
US11245868B2
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.
US11245867B2
A video conference system including a first transmitter device and a receiver device is provided. The first transmitter device transmits a first video data. The receiver device includes a receiver control unit configured to assign a first identification code to the first transmitter device. The receiver control unit combines the first video data and a first identification image corresponding to the first identification code as a first combined video data and the receiver control unit outputs the first combined video data to the display device. Through the present invention, the conference participants can quickly identify which presenter is providing the video signal source corresponding to a particular frame on the split screen, and can raise questions to the right person.
US11245866B2
A display control device is disposed in a vehicle in which a camera photographing a first captured image indicating an image on a rear right side of the vehicle and a display displaying the first captured image are mounted. The display control device includes an image acquiring unit acquiring the first captured image from the camera and a display control unit controlling the first captured image displayed on the display. The display control unit causes the display to display one of a narrow angle image indicating a part of the first captured image and a wide angle image indicating an image in a range wider than the narrow angle image in the first captured image and to display the first captured image such that a size of a first region in displaying the wide angle image is larger than a size of the first region displaying the narrow angle image.
US11245862B2
Imagers and associated devices and systems are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, an imager includes a pixel array and control circuitry operably coupled to the pixel array. The pixel array includes an imaging pixel configured to produce a reset signal and a non-imaging pixel configured to produce a nominal reset signal. The control circuitry is configured to produce an output signal based at least in part on one of (a) the nominal reset signal when distortion at the imaging pixel exceeds a threshold and (b) the reset signal when distortion does not exceed the threshold.
US11245859B2
This shooting system includes a plurality of cameras capable of capturing a subject that moves on a course from different directions, and a controller that receives a setting made by the user regarding a switch order of the plurality of cameras that temporally share continuous shooting of the subject that moves on the course, and switches output videos of the plurality of cameras in accordance with the set switch order.
US11245855B2
A shooting control method includes determining a handheld gimbal is in a selfie mode, determining characteristic information of a target object, controlling a shooting device of the handheld gimbal to track and shoot the target object according to the characteristic information of the target object, determining position information of the target object in a shooting image according to the characteristic information of the target object, adjusting a control parameter of the shooting device according to the position information of the target object in the shooting image, to enable the shooting device to shoot the target object in a preset configuration to obtain the shooting image, and displaying the shooting image in real time on a display screen of the handheld gimbal.
US11245854B2
Disclosed is an intelligent photography system including an intelligent tripod head, a search camera, a shooting camera, a communication component and a control component. The search camera is mounted on the intelligent tripod head, and configured to search for a target to be shot. The shooting camera is mounted on the intelligent tripod head, and configured to take a target image. The communication component is fixed on the intelligent tripod head. The control component includes a circuit board component electrically connected with the intelligent tripod head, the search camera, the shooting camera and the communication component respectively, so that remote control of the shooting camera for shooting is realized, photographers are freed, and better effects are achieved.
US11245847B1
An information handling system for providing computer implemented services to users includes a camera and a low power manager that manages operation of the camera. The information handling system also includes a storage for storing: context data regarding an operating state of the information handling system, and management policies for managing operation of the camera. The information handling system also includes a camera settings manager that dynamically updates operation of the low power manager using the context data and the management policies.
US11245846B2
An image capturing control apparatus including an acquisition unit configured to acquire information about a zoom magnification, a combining unit configured to combine a plurality of images acquired by a series of image capturing operations to generate a combined image wider in angle of view than each acquired image, and a control unit configured to perform control to display, before starting of the series of image capturing operations, an item indicating an angle of view of a combined image which is able to be generated by the combining unit, based on the acquired information.
US11245831B2
A system for providing controls signals to a wireless remote camera comprises a signal generating device that presents forward and inverse polarity pulse trains. A transmitter data converter circuit has a forward polarity input point for receiving the inverse polarity pulse trains and an inverse polarity input point for receiving the forward polarity pulse trains, and converts the forward and inverse polarity pulse trains to a conditioned unitary pulse train. A modulator circuit modulates the conditioned unitary pulse train onto an RF carrier. A demodulator circuit demodulates the modulated output wave to produce a reproduction of the conditioned unitary pulse train. A receiver data converter circuit converts the conditioned unitary pulse train to conditioned forward polarity pulse trains and conditioned inverse polarity pulse trains. A camera control circuit produces control signals based on the conditioned forward and inverse polarity pulse trains. A wireless remote camera receives the control signals.
US11245827B2
A camera module includes a housing, a rotation holder including a reflection member, and supported on an inner wall of the housing such that the reflection member is rotatable about a first axis, perpendicular to an optical axis and parallel to a bottom of the housing, a magnet provided on a side surface of the rotation holder, parallel to an optical axis direction, and a first position detection sensor provided in the housing to face the magnet and configured to sense movement of the rotation holder in a second axis direction, perpendicular to the optical axis and the first axis, wherein the magnet is disposed to be biased in a direction, opposite to the inner wall of the housing on which the rotation holder is supported in the optical axis direction.
US11245824B2
An optical lens assembly includes at least one dual molded lens element. The dual molded lens element has a central axis, and includes a light transmitting portion and a light absorbing portion. The light transmitting portion includes an optical effective region and a lens peripheral region, and the lens peripheral region surrounds the optical effective region. A light absorbing portion surrounds the optical effective region. The light transmitting portion and the light absorbing portion are made of different plastic materials with different colors, and the light absorbing portion includes at least three gate portions surrounding the central axis, wherein all gate portions are located on the same surface of the dual molded lens element. The light transmitting portion and the light absorbing portion of the dual molded lens element are integrally formed by the injection molding.
US11245823B2
An image sensor includes a substrate. An array of photodiodes is disposed in the substrate. A plurality of spacers is arranged in a spacer pattern. At least one spacer of the plurality of spacers has an aspect ratio of 18:1 or greater. A buffer layer is disposed between the substrate and the spacer pattern. An array of color filters is disposed in the spacer pattern.
US11245822B2
A camera module, a camera assembly and an electronic device are provided. The camera module includes a casing, a mounting base, a light deflection element, an image sensor and a driving device. The casing has a light inlet. The mounting base is disposed in the casing. The light deflection element is fixed to the mounting base, and configured to deflect an incident light entering through the light inlet. The image sensor is arranged in the casing and configured to sense the defected incident light. The driving device has an arc rail, and is configured to drive the mounting base to rotate around a central axis of the arc rail along the arc rail.
US11245820B2
A camera module provided in an electronic device according to various embodiments of the present invention may comprise an image sensor that comprises a first area which receives an external light and on which an image is formed and a second area which surrounds the first area; and a shielding member that is disposed on the image sensor, corresponds to the second area, and shields electromagnetic waves which are emitted from the image sensor or emitted from the electronic component of the electronic device and introduced into the image sensor. In addition to this embodiment, various embodiments are possible.
US11245816B2
The present technology relates to an image processing apparatus, an image processing method, and a surgical system, by which a captured image can be displayed with low latency in almost real time. A DMA controller 51 of a CPU 31 divides image data, which is input via an IF card 34, by the number of GPU cards 35-1, 35-2 in a horizontal direction and allocates them. In each of the GPU cards 35-1, 35-2, the image data is subjected to time division processing in the vertical direction. With this, the use of the plurality of GPU cards 35-1, 35-2 increases the speed of processing associated with display for the image data. High-speed display is realized due to reduction in latency. The present technology is applicable to an endoscopic camera, a surgical microscope, and the like.
US11245794B2
In the field of government engagement management, for users of an employee desktop web client, it is now possible, within the web client application, to search and read articles and/or knowledge content that has been authored to external locations. Due to this integration to external, third-party applications, content and/or articles can be displayed to an agent on the employee desktop web client graphical user interface. Agents can enter free text into a specific search field and review the results in summary form, and then select an article in HTML format to progress the current interaction with the client. An additional feature extending from this capability is to add an amount of coding to external knowledge content websites that are owned and/or operated by the owner of the system such that when the website is viewed through the third-party integration module, a button or icon appears within the website that when selected takes the agent to an appropriate form. This button or icon does not appear when the website is viewed outside of the system. This functionality adds value to the agent experience and enables the agent to provide an improved service to the end client. Results may be filtered by the search engine as well. Moreover, this system and method improves the operation of the computer in that the computer running such a system in the past was not able to integrate in such a fashion in a web client format. This system and method also enables an agent to handle calls with the web client more efficiently, and allows agents on the web client to automatically classify.
US11245792B2
The present invention is a system and method of routing incoming communications to a CSR and providing guidance to the CSR based on the incoming communication using feedback information such as sentiment feedback, survey feedback, and feedback from actions taken by CSRs based on skill level. A CEC system receives an incoming communication, analyzes the communication and creates metadata based off of the analysis. The metadata is used by the RAE routing module to route the communication to an appropriate party. The metadata is also used by the GAE guidance module to determine the guidance to provide to the CSR. The CSR then performs an action based on the guidance. The CEC system continues to monitor the interaction until the interaction is completed. The communication metadata, the communication, the guidance, and the CSRs action are all provided to a RAS rules analysis module wherein the RAS analyzes the data and automatedly updates the rules (RAR and GAR) according to the analysis.
US11245788B2
Systems, methods, and devices are disclosed for detecting an active speaker in a two-way conference. Real time audio in one or more sub band domains are analyzed according to an echo canceller model. Based on the analyzed real time audio, one or more audio metrics are determined from output from an acoustic echo cancellation linear filter. The one or more audio metrics are weighted based on a priority, and a speaker status is determined based on the weighted one or more audio metrics being analyzed according to an active speaker detection model. For an active speaker status, one or more residual echo or noise is removed from the real time audio based on the one or more audio metrics.
US11245786B2
A recommendation method applied to a terminal includes a rule platform with system-level permission, the rule platform is configured to save system resources and remind a user of a function of an application. The rule platform obtains a first event and a first rule related to the first event from a rule base. The rule platform includes the rule base including a rule and each rule includes a condition. The rule platform updates a matching status of a first condition corresponding to the first event in the first rule The terminal displays a recommendation result corresponding to the first rule when a matching status of each condition in the first rule indicates that the matching is successful. The first rule is one of the rule related to the first event.
US11245775B2
A communication control device selects, based on scenario information, one or more of a plurality of reverse proxy devices that transfer information transmitted and received between an information processing device and a mounted device of a moving body. The communication control device performs operation control of the selected reverse proxy device. The communication control device selects the scenario information used for operation of the reverse proxy device based on an operation start signal transmitted from the mounted device, and transmits the scenario information to the mounted device.
US11245770B2
A system and method for content distribution are provided. A content provider generates a network topology having one or more subnetworks made up of content sources. The content provider segments content, such as applications, into segments for distribution. The content provider then distributes the content such that for each identified subnetwork, each content segment is distributed to a content source. Subsequent, client computing device requests for content can be serviced by selecting a content source in a particular subnetwork selected for delivering the requested content to the client computing device to minimize traffic flow of the requested content through the nodes of the distribution network.
US11245769B2
The present invention pertains to an Internet of things platform which includes: a middleware that includes an apparatus management unit for receiving apparatus generated information from an Internet of things apparatus so as to establish a connection to the Internet of things apparatus, a service management unit for abstracting the Internet of things apparatus into a service apparatus and for controlling the Internet of things apparatus according to a service scenario, and a data management unit for generating and storing data regarding the apparatus management unit, the service management unit and the Internet of things apparatus; and a script editor that generates the service scenario for the service apparatus.
US11245766B1
There are provided systems and methods for determining processing weights of rule variables for rule processing optimization. A service provider, such as an electronic transaction processor for digital transactions, may utilize different decision services that implement rules for decision-making of data including real-time data in production computing environments. Rules may correspond to coded statements that perform an automated decision-making service for the computing services and platforms of the service provider. When writing rules, different variables for data objects may be utilized, where each variable may perform a different operation and/or utilize a different operation for fetching and retrieving data used during rule processing. Each variable may therefore have a different data processing weights based on processing requirements of the data. Thus, optimization of rule authoring may be performed by mapping variables to other similar variables and showing a processing weight of each variable.
US11245765B2
A system and method in a building or vehicle for an actuator operation in response to a sensor according to a control logic, the system comprising a router or a gateway communicating with a device associated with the sensor and a device associated with the actuator over in-building or in-vehicle networks, and an external Internet-connected control server associated with the control logic implementing a PID closed linear control loop and communicating with the router over external network for controlling the in-building or in-vehicle phenomenon. The sensor may be a microphone or a camera, and the system may include voice or image processing as part of the control logic. A redundancy is used by using multiple sensors or actuators, or by using multiple data paths over the building or vehicle internal or external communication. The networks may be wired or wireless, and may be BAN, PAN, LAN, WAN, or home networks.
US11245763B2
A data processing method is performed at a terminal. The method includes: generating a supplementary signal frame according to a first original signal frame of a first data collector when a first frame rate of the first data collector in a terminal is less than a second frame rate of a second data collector, and determining an input time stamp of the supplementary signal frame according to the second frame rate; inputting the supplementary signal frame into a first input queue of the first data collector when a current time reaches the input time stamp of the supplementary signal frame; obtaining a second original signal frame that is currently input into a second input queue and that is of the second data collector; and performing signal fusion on the supplementary signal frame in the first input queue and a second original signal frame in the second input queue.
US11245751B1
Techniques are described to provide service or network function workload preemption. In one example, a method includes identifying a network location at which a first function can be instantiated; determining whether compute resources are available at the network location to instantiate the first function; based on determining that compute resources are available, instantiating the first function; based on determining that compute resources are not available, determining whether preemption of a second function can be performed at the network location, wherein determining whether preemption of the second function can be performed is based, at least in part, on a comparison between a setup priority of the first function and a holdover priority of the second function; and, based on determining that preemption of the second function at the network location can be performed, performing preemption of the second function and instantiating the first function at the network location.
US11245747B2
Devices, methods, and systems for monitoring a building management system are described herein. One method includes monitoring an attribute of a building, monitoring an activity related to the attribute performed by an operator, and publishing the activity performed by the operator and the attribute of the building.
US11245746B2
Methods, systems, and media for controlling information utilized to present content using a public display device are provided. In some implementations a method for presenting content on a public display device is provided, the method comprising: (a) initiating communication with one or more display devices; (b) selecting a display device; (c) establishing a communication channel with the selected display device; (d) receiving information related to an area of a screen allocated for use by the user device; (e) identifying content that is to be presented using the selected display device; (f) generating formatted content based on the area of the screen allocated for use by the user device; (g) transmitting the formatted content to the display device using the communication channel; and repeating at least (e) to (g) until (h) determining that presentation of content using the selected display device is to be inhibited.
US11245741B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a communication device may classify a plurality of packets of streaming video content based at least in part on one or more video characteristics; generate a plurality of code blocks based at least in part on classifying the plurality of packets, wherein each code block includes at least some subset of the plurality of packets having different effect on the quality of experience; and provide the plurality of code blocks for transmission. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11245735B1
A method for managing primary content and secondary content being displayed on a primary device associated with a presenter user during a collaborative session with one or more participant users includes initializing the collaborative session between a presenter user and one or more participant users, where a display of the primary device associated with the presenter user is viewable by the one or more participant users, The method also includes analyzing the user context and the content context with regards to the one or more participant users and various content in the first display of the primary device, where the various content is categorized by primary content and secondary content. Responsive to determining a negative implication is detected for the secondary content in the display of the primary device, performing a corrective action that prevents the one or more participant users from viewing the secondary content.
US11245719B2
Certain aspects and features of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods for automatically classifying hosts in real-time. For instance, classifying hosts as bots, and subsequently mitigating or blocking traffic from the hosts classified as bots can be advantageous in real-time data exchange systems. In a real-time data exchange system, data can be exchanged between a server and a target host in real-time when the target host accesses a webpage. Inhibiting data communication between servers and hosts operated by bot scripts can reduce fraudulent activity. In some implementations, hosts can be automatically classified into various groups based at least in part on the data included in requests received from the hosts.
US11245718B2
A method and system for tracking potentially fraudulent activities associated with one or more web sites is disclosed. The system includes a fraud tracking server connected to a fraud tracking database. The fraud tracking server includes a communications module to facilitate the exchange of data between the server and multiple client devices. The fraud tracking server receives data from one or more client devices that identifies a potential spoof site. The fraud tracking server also includes control logic to generate a spoof site tracking record in the fraud tracking database. The spoof site tracking record includes the data identifying the potential spoof site. After the spoof site tracking record has been created, the fraud tracking server notifies an administrator of the potential spoof site by communicating the data received and stored in the fraud tracking database to an administrator.
US11245708B2
A model-based system, method, and computer program product are provided for detecting at least potentially unwanted activity associated with confidential data. In use, behavior information associated with use of confidential data is identified, based on predetermined parameters. Additionally, a model is created utilizing the behavioral information. Furthermore, at least potentially unwanted activity associated with the confidential data is detected utilizing the model.
US11245707B2
A communication terminal communicably connected with a server, including circuitry to: detect one or more objects in any one of one or more images that are sequentially captured with an imaging unit; count a number of object detections, every time a predetermined number of objects are detected in the image; and transmit, to the server, one or more items of image data each including each one of the detected one or more objects, based on a determination that the counted number of object detections reaches or exceeds a predetermined value.
US11245701B1
At an authorization manager, an indication is obtained that a request pre-processing tool has been designated as a validator for a category of requests directed to a network-accessible service. The authorization manager determines, based at least in part on a validation result set indicated in a request of the category, that the request pre-processing tool has verified that the request meets an authorization requirement. The authorization manager approves one or more operations indicated in the request.
US11245699B2
The present disclosure pertains to systems and methods of restricting access to devices utilizing tokens. In some embodiments, a system may include a user requesting a token, ensuring the user requesting a token has the permission to request the token and is not the user approving the token. In some embodiments, the system may include the user granting the token, wherein the user granting the token is not the user receiving the token. The system ensures that the user accessing the device has the permission to access the device. Additionally, the system decreases the opportunities for insider attacks and increases the resistance to credential theft attacks. Further, the system increases the accountability for changes and the ability to review changes.
US11245695B2
A method of digital authentication and related devices are disclosed. The method includes providing a scanning application on a computing device prior to scanning a website feature, and scanning website feature, the website feature having been displayed on a web page of another computing device. The method includes sending information related to the scanned website features to a processing system; and using the information related to the scanned website features to authenticate the web page on the other computing device, and enable one or more web page components of the web page. The web page components include at least one of (a) automatically setting up a new account on the web page with user profile information, (b) completing a purchase on the web page, or (c) automatically logging the user into the website.
US11245660B1
Techniques for utilizing virtual edge switches of cloud computing networks to send, receive, and store in respective virtual memory, associations between virtual resource and virtual edge switches for better convergence in virtual application centric infrastructure networks. Each virtual memory acts as a virtual endpoint database and contains a number of records indicating associations between each virtual endpoint and the virtual edge switch attached to the virtual endpoint. Each virtual edge switch is hosted by a physical server and is configured to forward communications received from separate physical servers in the cloud computing network to the virtual endpoints attached to the virtual edge switch. The advertisement messages are configured to be sent upon a new virtual resource or a migrated virtual resource spinning-up on a physical server. The advertisement message may be configured to store additional network routing information associated with the virtual machine hosting the virtual endpoint.
US11245659B1
A social media system for athletes is disclosed. The system comprises a user interface accessible via an internet-enabled device and which allows a user, such as an athlete, to enter their life story, achievements, and legacy for other users to view and interact with. The system also allows users such as sports agents, coaches, and teachers to connect within the system and communicate with the athletes. The journal system permits a user to track their entire career while also seeking or providing mentorship and guidance for their career. Parents of minor athletes can also use the system to create profiles and enter records for their children, who may then assume control of the profile once they come of age. In this way, the system brings together athletes of all ages and in various stages of their careers to create a supportive networking environment.
US11245654B2
A system for creating a global conversation thread may include a processor that receives data associated with a plurality of conversation threads, each conversation thread comprising one or more conversations between the same people or the same roles. The processor may identify overlapping conversation threads of the plurality of conversation threads based on the data, and group overlapping conversation threads based on people or roles within the conversations. The processor may apply matching rules to identify related conversations including a targeted feature of interest, and create a global conversation thread based on the identified related conversations, the global conversation thread comprising conversation threads across different platforms.
US11245648B1
In embodiments, a method includes receiving a first user input to a chat managed by a multiple-round dialogue system, receiving a second user input to the chat, the second user input following the first user input, and embedding the first and second user inputs into first and second nodes, respectively, each node including a multi-dimensional vector. The method further includes determining, based at least in part on the first node and the second node, if a context of the second user input is the same as a context of the first user input, and, based on the determination, generating a chat reply to the second user input.
US11245639B2
A system, method and computer program product for composing persistent object instances that link resources across multiple, disparate systems. An example method includes associating resources with namespace-URLs and object instances. One of the namespace-URLs is designated as primary namespace-URL. A web-based object API is provided through which the object instance can be accessed. The web-based object API uses the primary namespace-URL as an identifier of the object instance.
US11245628B1
Request routing in a network of computing devices. Back-end nodes associated with a request router send load reports to the request router that makes routing determinations for request from clients based on the reports. To select a back-end node for processing a request, a request router determines, based on the reports and one or more factors, load probability distributions for each of a group of back-end nodes selected from available back-end nodes. A load value is then randomly selected for each back-end node in the group, based on the node's probability distribution. The node in the group with the least randomly-selected value is chosen to process the request.
US11245621B2
A managed hardware forwarding element (MHFE) that performs packet forwarding operations for a logical network is described. The MHFE receives configuration data for the logical network that defines a logical router and a set of logical switches for logically connecting several end machines that operate on different host machines to several physical machines that are connected to the MHFE. The logical router also includes multiple routing components. The MHFE also receives a first forwarding table and a second forwarding table. The first forwarding table stores linking data for each logical port of each logical switch in the set of logical switches that identifies a corresponding routing component in the logical router. The second forwarding table stores a set of routes for each routing component of the logical router. The MHFE uses the first and second forwarding tables to perform packet forwarding operations at the MHFE.
US11245619B1
Dynamic fabric systems and methods are disclosed for providing connections between endpoints of a communication network. An exemplary dynamic fabric system can include backplane lanes, a dynamic fabric device, and a control device. The dynamic fabric device can include local fabric lanes and a network interface device configurable to communicatively connect the local fabric lanes to a network. The dynamic fabric device can also include a local switch configurable forward messages to backplane lanes and an interconnect configurable to statically connect local fabric lanes and corresponding backplane lanes. The dynamic fabric device can also include a controller configurable to create or break these static connections. The control device can provide instructions to the dynamic fabric device to create or break the static connections based on changes in the number of active dynamic fabric devices installed in the dynamic fabric system.
US11245617B1
A node receives an internet protocol (IP) payload packet that includes an IPv6 transport header that has been extended with a compressed routing header (CRH). The CRH includes a list of segment identifiers (SIDs) that identify nodes that the IP payload packet is to traverse. The node determines, by referencing the list of SIDs, a next segment for the IP payload packet. The node updates a destination IP address that is included in the IPv6 transport header to a particular destination IP address of a next-hop node. The node updates a remaining segments value, included in the CRH, that identifies a number of segments left in a route of the IP payload packet. The node provides the IP payload packet to the next-hop node to allow the next-hop node to route the IP payload packet to another node in the network or to a destination device.
US11245607B2
The disclosure provides an approach for transferring files to cloud storage so as to reduce usage of on-premise storage units, and for dynamically reading ahead from cloud storage to improve read performance. In one embodiment, each storage unit in an on-premise storage system is considered independently, and a decision made to move files from a storage unit to cloud storage when utilization of that storage unit reaches an associated mid-water-mark. In particular, files may be transferred beginning with least-recently accessed and smallest files and proceeding until utilization percentage of the on-premise storage unit decreases to an associated low-water-mark. In addition, while files are being transferred to cloud storage, additional files may be written to the on-premise storage unit until an associated high-water-mark is touched, at which point any further writes are redirected to the cloud storage until usage of the on-premise storage unit is reduced to the low-water-mark or more.
US11245604B2
Embodiments may be generally direct to apparatuses, systems, method, and techniques to determine a configuration for a plurality of connectors, the configuration to associate a first interconnect protocol with a first subset of the plurality of connectors and a second interconnect protocol with a second subset of the plurality of connectors, the first interconnect protocol and the second interconnect protocol are different interconnect protocols and each comprising one of a serial link protocol, a coherent link protocol, and an accelerator link protocol, cause processing of data for communication via the first subset of the plurality of connectors in accordance with the first interconnect protocol, and cause processing of data for communication via the second subset of the plurality of connector in accordance with the second interconnect protocol.
US11245603B2
Systems are provided for facilitating the disclosed methods for performing event storage and diagnostic processing within a hybrid cloud environment. Event records are gathered and batched at an on-premises server. The event records are also appended with correlation vector data that enables the event records to be correlated with other events. The batch of event record batches are signed with a security key associated with a cloud storage container and the on-premises server is restricted to writing the batch of event records to the container. In some instances, the size of the batch is based on a duration of time for collecting records, which can be adjusted to accommodate for missing data.
US11245600B2
Methods and systems for providing data analytics and generating real-time and historical views of network events using a single processing pipeline, managed by a single code base, are presented. A computing device may receive a stream of data indicative of a plurality of events occurring on a network. The computing device may process the stream of data to generate intermediate data and batch data using the single processing pipeline. The intermediate data may be available to generate historical views and the batch data may include a plurality of intermediate data for a time interval. The computing device may generate a historical view of the events based on a subset of intermediate data and the batch data. Finally, the computing device may provide the historical view to a processing layer to enable the computing device to respond to requests for information about the network.
US11245599B2
A network monitoring device may receive flow-tap information that identifies a traffic flow characteristic and a signed URL associated with a signed URL platform from a mediation device. The network device may map the traffic flow characteristic to the signed URL in an entry of a flow-tap filter that is maintained within a data structure of the network device. The network device may analyze, using the flow-tap filter, network traffic of the network to detect a traffic flow that is associated with the traffic flow characteristic. The network device may generate, based on detecting the traffic flow in the network traffic, a traffic flow copy that is associated with the traffic flow. The network device may provide, based on the signed URL, the traffic flow copy to the signed URL platform, wherein the traffic flow copy is to be accessible to an authorized user device via the signed URL.
US11245597B2
One or more examples provide techniques for providing a multi-site wide area network in a cloud computing system. In an example, a method of providing a multi-site wide area network (WAN) in a cloud computing system includes: creating a plurality of sites; creating a compute profile in each of the plurality of sites, each compute profile having a compute cluster of virtual machines (VMs); creating a service mesh having the compute profile of each of the plurality of sites; and deploying an application to the service mesh.
US11245586B2
An enterprise management platform is configured to host a respective instance for multiple client networks. The enterprise management platform receives incoming data including one or more metrics being tracked in the incoming data by the enterprise management platform. For each metric of the one or more metrics, a determination is made that a statistic generator is to be processed for the corresponding metric, and responsive to determining that the statistic generator is to be processed, a statistic is generated using the statistic generator. For each statistic, a news score is generated, using a news evaluator, to convert the statistic generator to a news score. The news scores are then sorted and stored in a database disposed within the enterprise management platform.
US11245575B2
To provide a terminal apparatus, a base station apparatus, a communication method, and an integrated circuit which are capable of efficient communication. The terminal apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive a message for adding a data radio bearer (DRB) including information of an EPS bearer identity, and a processing unit configured to notify to a NAS layer that the DRB indicated by the message is established and an EPS bearer identity of the established DRB in a case that the message does not include first information, and not to notify to the NAS layer that the DRB indicated by the message is established and an EPS bearer identity of the established DRB in a case that the message includes the first information.
US11245559B2
A transmission method comprises: generating a transmission signal including OFDM symbols, wherein the last OFDM symbol of the OFDM symbols can be partitioned into four segments, and wherein the generating includes: computing an initial padding factor value associated with one of the four segments and computing an initial number of OFDM symbols; determining a user with a longest packet duration among plural users; determining a common padding factor value being the initial padding factor value and a common number of OFDM symbols being the initial number of OFDM symbols of the determined user with the longest packet duration; adding pre-FEC padding bits toward one of four possible boundaries of the last OFDM symbol, the one of four possible boundaries being represented by the determined common padding factor value; and adding post-FEC padding bits in remaining segment(s) of the last OFDM symbol; and transmitting the generated transmission signal.
US11245553B2
This disclosure describes methods, apparatus, and systems related to a channel estimation field (CEF) for various standards, for example, the 802.11ay standard, for single carrier (SC) MIMO channel estimation. In one embodiment, the CEF can use Golay complementary sequences. In another embodiment, the Golay complementary sequences can be defined similar to Golay complementary sequences definitions that can be found in various legacy standards, for example, the legacy 802.11ad standard. Various embodiments of the disclosure can allow channel estimation in the time domain and/or frequency domain, having small or negligible inter-stream interference. Various embodiments of the disclosure can enable an extendable structure for various M×N MIMO configurations, where M and N are positive integers.
US11245551B2
A device receives network information associated with a network and server information associated with one or more server devices, wherein the network is associated with a network device and the one or more server devices. The device generates, based on the network information and the server information, an encapsulation profile for a tunnel encapsulation path and a route profile for the tunnel encapsulation path. The device provides, to the network device, the encapsulation profile for the tunnel encapsulation path and the route profile for the tunnel encapsulation path, and provides, to the one or more server devices, the encapsulation profile for the tunnel encapsulation path. The tunnel encapsulation path is provided between the network device and the one or more server devices, via the network, based on the encapsulation profile for the tunnel encapsulation path and the route profile for the tunnel encapsulation path.
US11245536B2
Secure multi-party computations may be used to get attribution results without compromising user privacy. A content provider and an advertiser may each sign a calculation indicating that they wish to share data using a secure multi-party computation. A measurement company may sign the calculation indicating that the measurement company has evaluated the computation and that the computation will protect user privacy. A user device may confirm with the verification service that all parties have signed the calculation. The user device may transmit one-time identifiers to the measurement company, which allows impression data and conversion data stored by the content provider and the advertiser to be linked. The content provider, the advertiser, and the measurement company may perform the secure multi-party computation, which allows the advertiser to evaluate attribution results without accessing the user data stored by the content provider.
US11245530B2
One embodiment described herein provides a system and method for secure point-to-point communication. During operation, the system establishes a voice communication channel between a local client device and a remote client device and obtains an encryption key negotiated between the local client device and the remote client device. The system can then obtain a voice signal generated by a user associated with the local client device based on the encryption key and performs a key-validation operation by sending the voice signal from the local client device to the remote client device using the voice communication channel. In response to a successful validation of the encryption key, the system establishes a secure point-to-point communication channel between the local and remote client devices using the validated encryption key.
US11245514B1
Systems and methods that implement delegation on a blockchain network. A delegate blockchain transaction may be broadcasted to a blockchain network that encodes: a delegator blockchain user, a delegate blockchain user; information that indicates one or more permissions that the delegate blockchain user is authorized to perform, and an attestation that the delegator blockchain user authorizes the delegation. A delegate blockchain user may generate a blockchain transaction which is digitally signed using a delegate's private key in place of a delegator's private key.
US11245509B2
A communication apparatus has a receiver and a transmitter. The receiver, in operation receives a control signal including a Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS) Index, a channel quality indicator (CQI) trigger and information indicating uplink resource blocks. The transmitter in operation, determines whether to multiplex an aperiodic CQI report with data in an uplink signal based on the MCS Index, the channel quality indicator trigger, the information indicating uplink resource blocks, and a threshold number of resource blocks, and transmits the uplink signal.
US11245506B2
A wireless navigation system with automatic guidance to the final destination/routes capable of operating in Internet-dead zones includes a system of servers containing data of final destinations/routes, Google and/or Apple Maps API, a voice synthesizer server, a GPS/AGPS system of satellites, servers and processing stations, a set of sensors, a microprocessor, a standard mobile operating system, a supra operating system controlling the above systems and a display and sound system for displaying the final output of the system.
US11245500B2
This application discloses a method and an apparatus for determining frequency hopping for a channel, and a computer storage medium. The method includes: determining, by a terminal, a first bandwidth size corresponding to a bandwidth part, where the first bandwidth size corresponding to the bandwidth part is less than or equal to a bandwidth size of a carrier; determining, by the terminal based on the first bandwidth size corresponding to the bandwidth part, a frequency hopping step-size corresponding to an uplink channel; and determining, by the terminal based on the frequency hopping step-size corresponding to the uplink channel, a frequency domain position used for transmitting the uplink channel.
US11245488B2
An apparatus is described. The apparatus comprises a downstream wavelength selective switch having an input port, an optical path operable to carry an optical signal, an optical source providing amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) light, an optical switch having a first input coupled to the optical path, a second input coupled to the optical source and receiving the ASE light, and an output coupled to the input port of the downstream wavelength selective switch. The optical switch couples either the first input or the second input to the output. Further included is a photodiode operable to monitor the optical signal, detect an optical loss of signal of the optical signal, and output a switch signal to the optical switch such that the optical switch couples the second input receiving the ASE light to the output whereby the ASE light is directed to the input port of the downstream wavelength selective switch.
US11245484B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for authenticating time sources using attestation-based techniques include receiving, at a destination device, a time reference signal from a source device, the source and destination devices being network devices. The time reference signal can include a time synchronization signal or a time distribution signal. The destination device can obtain attestation information from one or more fields of the time reference signal and determine whether the source device is authentic and trustworthy based on the attestation information. The destination device can also determine reliability or freshness of the time reference signal based on the attestation information. The time reference signal can be based on a Network Time Protocol (NTP), a Precision Time Protocol (NTP), or other protocol. The attestation information can include Proof of Integrity based a Canary stamp, a hardware fingerprint, a Secure Unique Device Identification (SUDI) of the source device, or an attestation key.
US11245476B2
The present invention belongs to the technical field of underwater communication, and provides a novel highly robust underwater optical communication system which comprises a sending module and a receiving module. The novel highly robust underwater optical communication system realizes highly robust underwater optical communication under strong interference of sunlight and artificial light sources. The system uses a new physical method irrelevant to frequency, and can be used with existing MIMO and CDMA to obtain better communication effects. The circularly polarized light is used for signal transmission, thereby avoiding the problem of channel misalignment caused by the rotation of a platform underwater. At the same time, good polarization maintaining of a marine environment makes the signal characteristics difficult to lose.
US11245474B2
An object is to output an optical signal accurately corresponding to a data signal. A pluggable optical module (100) includes a pluggable electric connector (11), a control unit (12), an optical signal output unit (13), and a pluggable optical receptor (14). The pluggable electric connector (11) can communicate a modulation signal (MOD) and a control signal (CON1) with an optical communication apparatus (92). The optical signal output unit (13) outputs an optical signal (LS) modulated by the modulation scheme by the control signal (CON1) in response to the modulation signal (MOD). The pluggable optical receptor (14) is configured in such a manner that an optical fiber (91) is insertable into and removable from the pluggable optical receptor (14). The pluggable optical receptor (14) can output the optical signal (LS) output from the optical signal output unit (13). The control unit (12) controls the optical signal output unit (13) to output the optical signal (LS) of a modulation amplitude set corresponding to the modulation signal (MOD) in the modulation scheme specified by the control signal (CON1).
US11245471B2
An optical phased array includes a first multitude of optical transmitting/receiving elements (elements) positioned along a periphery of a first circular path. The phased array may further include a second multitude of optical elements positioned along a periphery of a second circular path concentric with the first circular path, and a third multitude of optical elements positioned along a periphery of a third circular path concentric with the first and second circular paths. The second circular path has a radius that is longer than the radius of the first circular path but shorter than the radius of the third circular. The number of the second multitude of optical elements is greater than the number of the first multitude of optical elements by N elements, and the number of the third multitude of optical elements is greater than the number of the second multitude of optical elements by M elements.
US11245470B2
At least a method and a device for transmitting data are disclosed. The method includes obtaining n FlexE signal streams, where a transmission rate of each FlexE signal stream is a first rate, distributing an ith FlexE signal stream into m signal sub-streams, where each of the m signal sub-streams carries a first identifier, which indicate that the signal sub-stream carrying the first identifier belongs to the ith FlexE signal stream, inserting a preset quantity of padding code blocks into each of the m signal sub-streams, to obtain m padded signal sub-streams, so that transmission rate of each of the m padded signal sub-streams is equal to that of a first optical module, where the rate of the first optical module is greater than the first rate/m, and less than the first rate, and sending the m padded signal sub-streams by using m first optical modules.
US11245466B2
According to the present application, a base station device is configured to manage a vertically-oriented cell and a ground cell with respective IDs used to identify each cell, to determine whether or not a counterpart terminal device is an aircraft terminal device for air-to-ground communication based on a terminal ID included in a message received therefrom, and to control communication with the counterpart terminal device such that, if the counterpart terminal device is an aircraft terminal device, the base station selects the vertically-oriented cell as a connection destination of the counterpart terminal device and transmits a connection instruction message including a cell ID of the vertically-oriented cell to the counterpart terminal device, otherwise, the base station selects the ground cell as a connection destination of the counterpart terminal device and transmits a connection instruction message including a cell ID of the ground cell to the counterpart terminal device.
US11245462B2
In an exemplary embodiment, a network node can receive signals from user devices in a wireless communication network. The network node can combine the signals received at each receive antenna of the network node based on vectors from a pre-defined set of vectors. The network node can also process the combined signals to obtain an estimate of the signals.
US11245461B2
A transmission method for transmitting a first modulated signal and a second modulated signal in the same frequency at the same time. Each signal has been modulated according to a different modulation scheme. The transmission method applies precoding on both signals using a fixed precoding matrix, applies different power change to each signal, and regularly changes the phase of at least one of the signals, thereby improving received data signal quality for a reception device.
US11245458B2
An information transmission method includes: when a beam failure recovery procedure is initiated for a first cell, initiating random access to a base station through a second cell, wherein the second cell is the first cell or another cell other than the first cell; and if the number of times random access is initiated without being able to complete the random access reaches a preset number, transmitting to the base station indication information for a problem existing in a cell group where the second cell is located, wherein the indication information is used to indicate that the cause for the problem existing in the cell group is the failure of random access caused by the initiation of the beam failure recovery procedure.
US11245452B2
Information sending, information determining and relationship determining methods and devices are provided. According to the information sending method, a base station sends M parameter sets via high-layer signaling, wherein M>=1, M is a positive integer, each parameter set includes quasi-co-location Non-Zero Power (NZP) Channel State Information Reference Signal (CSI-RS) indication information, and the quasi-co-location NZP CSI-RS indication information is used by a terminal to acquire a large-scale characteristic of a channel; and when M>1, the base station indicates, via a physical-layer control signaling, parameter set selection information of a subframe on which the physical-layer control signaling is sent.
US11245448B2
An antenna connection detection method and apparatus are provided, to detect whether a connection sequence between communications interfaces of a network side device and antenna elements is incorrect. The method includes that a network side device receives, by using antenna elements connected to a plurality of communications interfaces, reference signals sent by N terminal devices, where N is an integer greater than 0. Then, the network side device determines N channel correlation matrices based on the reference signals sent by the N terminal devices, and then determines, based on the N channel correlation matrices and a preset channel correlation matrix, whether a connection sequence between the plurality of communications interfaces and the antenna elements is incorrect, where one channel correlation matrix is used to represent correlation between transmission channels between the network side device and one terminal device.
US11245444B2
According to some embodiments, a method is performed by a user equipment for reporting channel state information. The user equipment is configured with two or more channel state information reference signal, CSI-RS, resources in a CSI-RS resource set. The method comprises: selecting at least two CSI-RS resources from the CSI-RS resource set, wherein each of the at least two selected CSI-RS resources are associated to a set of spatially multiplexed layers, wherein different sets comprise different layers; determining a preferred precoder matrix for the selected CSI-RS resources; and transmitting a CSI report indicating the selected CSI-RS resources and the preferred precoder matrices. The method may further comprise calculating a channel estimate for the selected CSI-RS resources, and determining a channel quality indicator, CQI, corresponding to a hypothetical transmission from a plurality of effective channels where layers transmitted through the effective channels mutually interfere. The CSI report may indicate the determined CQI for the selected CSI-RS resources.
US11245443B2
A single input single output (SISO) data transmission may solicit a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) rank adaptation information. A number of transmit chain for transmission may be determined, e.g., by an access point (AP). A physical layer convergence procedure (PLCP) protocol data unit (PPDU) may be transmitted, e.g., to a station (STA). The PPDU may include data and training (TRN) sequences. The number of TRN sequences may be equal to the number of transmit chains. The PPDU may include information associated with the determined number of transmit chains for transmission. Feedback may be received, e.g., from the STA. The feedback may include information that identifies a transmit chain associated with the transmitted TRN sequences and/or a channel measurement associated with the identified transmit chain. A subsequent PPDU may be transmitted based on the channel measurement associated with the identified transmit chain from the received feedback.
US11245442B1
The present invention provides a long-distance (e.g. satellite-to-ground) wireless communication method and apparatus. Two-dimensional antenna arrays are operated pairwise to produce interleaved groupings of beams which are elongated in one direction and aligned in another direction. These groupings of beams can be provided using fixed analog beamforming arrays. An active beamformer can be used to form beams which are directed within each grouping of beams. Different ports of the analog beamforming arrays can be operated to produce beams in different groupings, or different bi-sector beams within a same grouping. A simplified parametric-based channel state information precoding operation using direction of arrival for MIMO processing is also provided.
US11245437B2
A system for co-transmitting discrete power and data over a common high frequency channel includes a power transmitting node, a power receiving node, a data transmitting node, a data receiving node, a power transmitting switch, a power receiving switch, a data transmitting switch, a data receiving switch, a primary power switch, a secondary power switch, a common high frequency channel, a first control unit, and a second control unit. When the primary power switch, power transmitting switch, and power receiving switch are in an activated state, a power signal is transmitted over the common high frequency channel from the power transmitting node to the power receiving node. When the secondary power switch, data transmitting switch, and data receiving switch are in an activated state, a data signal is transmitted over the common high frequency channel from the data transmitting node to the data receiving node.
US11245436B2
A method for initialization of a group of customer premises equipment devices (CPEs) during a training that registers capabilities of the CPEs is disclosed, wherein at least one CPE registers late to the training and cannot be registered. The method includes determining capabilities of the CPEs during a joining phase of the training, wherein it is determined whether a CPE device is capable of employing vectoring, and placing in a hold status the at least one CPE that registers late by keeping a line active that is coupled to the at least one CPE. The method further includes providing another joining phase after the joining phase to register the at least one CPE that registers late.
US11245433B2
Devices and methods related to radio-frequency (RF) filters on silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substrate. In some embodiments, an RF device can include a silicon die such as an SOI die including a first side and a second side. The silicon die can further include a plurality of vias, with each via configured to provide an electrical connection between the first side and the second side of the silicon die. The RF device can further include at least one RF flip chip mounted on the first side of the silicon die. The silicon die can include, for example, an RF circuit such as a switch circuit, and the RF flip chip can include, for example, a filter such as a surface acoustic wave (SAW) filter.
US11245428B2
This disclosure provides systems, devices, apparatus and methods, including computer programs encoded on storage media, for a DPD training procedure. A base station may transmit, for a plurality of iterations, a signal to at least one UE through a plurality of transmit chains and with application of DPD. The signal transmitted for each iteration may be transmitted with a BW that extends over a plurality of subcarriers and includes pilots extending over a BW subset that increases in subcarrier size for each iteration. The base station may receive, for each iteration, feedback from the at least one UE based on the transmitted signal and apply DPD to each of the plurality of transmit chains based on the feedback. Accordingly, the base station may transmit to one or more UEs through the plurality of transmit chains and with application of the DPD pilot signals that extend over the entire BW.
US11245427B1
Disclosed is a frequency selective limiter with a switched multiplexer filter bank having a plurality of filters coupled between antenna and receiver ports, wherein the switched multiplexer filter bank is configured to enable and disable selected ones of the plurality of filters in response to control signals. First detector circuitry is coupled to the antenna port and configured to detect signal voltage at the antenna port and generate a first detector voltage. Second detector circuitry is coupled to the receiver port and configured to detect signal voltage at the receiver port and generate a second detector voltage, and a digital controller is coupled between the first detector circuitry, the second detector circuitry, and a control interface, wherein the digital controller is configured to limit interfering signals by sending control signals to the switched multiplexer filter bank in response to the first detector voltage and the second detector voltage.
US11245422B2
The device and method disclosed herein are configured for generating a polar code of length N and dimension K on the basis of an original polar code being defined by a code sequence S having Nmax bit indices sorted from least reliable to most reliable sub-channels. The device comprises a processing unit configured to: (a) generate an auxiliary code sequence having Nmax/2 bit indices by removing bit indices greater than or equal to Nmax/2 from the code sequence S; (b) remove from the auxiliary code sequence the last NR bit indices to generate a modified auxiliary code sequence; and (c) generate the polar code of length N and dimension K by puncturing the original polar code on the basis of a puncturing set defined by the last p=Nmax−N bit indices of the modified auxiliary code sequence.
US11245420B2
A memory system includes a memory device and a controller. The memory device includes a plurality of non-volatile memory groups individually storing a plurality of data segments, each data segment corresponding to a codeword. The controller is configured to perform hard decision decoding to correct an error when the error is included in a first data segment among the plurality of data segments, determine whether other data segments associated with the first data segment, among the plurality of data segments, are readable when the hard decision decoding fails, and perform chipkill decoding based on the first data segment and the other data segments when the other data segments are readable.
US11245419B2
The present technology relates to a transmission method and a reception device for securing favorable communication quality in data transmission using an LDPC code. In group-wise interleaving, the LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits is interleaved in units of 360-bit bit groups 0 to 191. In group-wise deinterleaving, a sequence of the LDPC code after group-wise interleaving is returned to an original sequence. The present technology can be applied, for example, in a case of performing data transmission using an LDPC code, and the like.
US11245418B2
The disclosure provides a method and a device in a User Equipment (UE) and a base station for wireless communication. A first node generates a first bit block, performs channel coding and then transmits a first radio signal. The first bit block comprising all bits in a second bit block and all bits in a third bit block is used for an input of the channel coding, and an output of the channel coding is used for generating the first radio signal. A Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) bit block of a fourth bit block is used for generating the third bit block. The fourth bit block comprises all bits in the second bit block and all bits in a fifth bit block, the bits in the fifth bit block are of fixed values, and the fifth bit block is composed of K bits, the K being a positive integer.
US11245416B2
Massively parallel, block-based encoding and decoding technology that includes an encoded block format uses a plurality of processing cores to perform block-based encoding and decoding operations. The encoded block format includes a header and a payload. The encoded block format's headers represent unique single-Byte and multi-Byte event parameters that occur in the original data block from which each encoded block was generated. The encoded block format's payloads represent a sequence of single-Byte and multi-Byte events using tokens that associate each event with its corresponding parameter(s). Metadata can include an array of encoded block sizes that support random access.
US11245412B2
A method of enhancing SAR ADC conversion rate by employing a new value shifted capacitor DAC. The value shifted capacitor DAC decreases largest capacitor to improve the reference voltage settling. The reduction of capacitor is added back onto the smaller capacitor DAC to maintain the same total capacitor value. The binary search outputs are re-combined and processed to produce final binary ADC outputs. The overhead of using value shifted capacitor DAC is the extra latency needed for re-combined logic.
US11245411B2
The present invention provides a receiver including an ADC, an echo-cancellation circuit and a control circuit. In the operations of the receiver, the ADC uses a clock signal to perform an analog-to-digital converting operation on an analog input signal to generate digital input signal, the echo-cancellation circuit refers to a plurality of tap coefficients to perform an echo-cancellation operation on the digital input signal to generate an output signal, and the control circuit is configured to control a phase of the clock signal inputted into the ADC. In addition, when the phase of the clock signal is adjusted, the control circuit calculates a plurality of updated tap coefficients according to the plurality of tap coefficients used by the echo-cancellation circuit in a previous time, for use of the echo-cancellation circuit.
US11245407B2
The disclosed systems, structures, and methods are directed to a low jitter phase-lock loop (PLL) based frequency synthesizer, comprising a first frequency divider, a phase frequency detector, a charge pump, a low-pass filter, a voltage control oscillator (VCO), a phase interpolator communicatively coupled in a feedback path between the VCO and the phase frequency detector, wherein the phase interpolator comprises a quadrature generator, an input conditioner, a phase rotator, a current mode logic (CML), and a second frequency divider communicatively coupled in the feedback path between the phase interpolator and the phase frequency detector.
US11245397B2
A signal transmitting and receiving apparatus including: a first on-die termination circuit connected to a first pin through which a first signal is transmitted or received and, when enabled, the first on-die termination circuit is configured to provide a first termination resistance to a signal line connected to the first pin; a second on-die termination circuit connected to a second pin through which a second signal is transmitted or received and, when enabled, the second on-die termination circuit is configured to provide a second termination resistance to a signal line connected to the second pin; and an on-die termination control circuit configured to independently control an enable time and a disable time of each of the first on-die termination circuit and the second on-die termination circuit.
US11245391B2
Described herein are multiple designs for an improved analog switch for use in transmitting high voltage signals without using high voltage power supplies for the switch. The analog switches are able to pass and block input signals in the approximate range of −100 V to +100 V. The use of translinear loops and a bootstrap configuration results in a constant on-resistance of the symmetrical switches and matches the conductance of each analog switch to the transconductance of an NMOS transistor, which can be easily stabilized with a constant gm biasing scheme. In certain embodiments, a shunt termination (T-switch) configuration is used for better off-isolation, and each of the symmetrical switches has its own translinear loop and thus flexibility of on-resistance and termination voltage.
US11245389B2
A controller comprises a pulse generation circuit, output management circuitry, and a plurality of outputs configured to connect the controller to a plurality of controlled elements. The pulse generation circuit is configured to generate quantum control pulses. For each control pulse of a plurality of control pulses generated by the pulse generation circuit, the output management circuitry is configured to determine to which of the plurality of outputs to route the control pulse such that a first of the plurality of control pulses is routed to a first of the plurality of controlled elements and a second of the plurality of control pulses is routed to a second of the plurality of control elements.
US11245387B2
A system for generating an RFPWM signal comprises a delta sigma modulator having a plurality of outputs, a phase-locked loop comprising a plurality of phase quantization outputs, at least one multiplexer having a plurality of signal inputs, a plurality of selector inputs, and at least one output, the signal inputs communicatively connected to the phase quantization outputs of the phase-locked loop and the selector inputs electrically connected to the outputs of the delta sigma modulator, and a driver having an input communicatively connected to the output of the multiplexer and an output generating an RFPWM signal. A method of generating an RFPWM signal is also described.
US11245386B2
A high-frequency module includes a semiconductor chip device that is mounted on an external circuit substrate by wire bonding. A switch forming section, a power amplifier forming section and a low noise amplifier forming section, realized by a group of FETs, which are active elements, are formed in the semiconductor chip device. Flat plate electrodes, which form capacitors are formed in the semiconductor chip device. Conductor wires that connect the external circuit substrate and the semiconductor chip device function as inductors. A group of passive elements that includes inductors and capacitors is formed. As a result, a high-frequency module that can be reduced in size while still obtaining the required transmission characteristic is realized.
US11245379B2
In an elastic wave device, an IDT electrode is disposed on a piezoelectric substrate and includes a close contact layer, which includes first and second main surfaces and side surfaces. The first main surface is in contact with the piezoelectric substrate, and at least two electrode layers are disposed on the close contact layer. The at least two electrode layers include a first electrode layer and a second electrode layer. The first electrode layer is made of a material that has a higher density than that of Al. The second electrode layer has a lower density than the first electrode layer. One of the at least two electrode layers has higher weather resistance than the close contact layer and covers the side surfaces of the close contact layer.
US11245376B2
A method of wafer scale packaging acoustic resonator devices and an apparatus therefor. The method including providing a partially completed semiconductor substrate comprising a plurality of single crystal acoustic resonator devices provided on a silicon and carbide bearing material, each having a first electrode member, a second electrode member, and an overlying passivation material. At least one of the devices to be configured with an external connection, a repassivation material overlying the passivation material, an under metal material overlying the repassivation material. Copper pillar interconnect structures are then configured overlying the electrode members, and solder bump structures are form overlying the copper pillar interconnect structures.
US11245371B2
An electronic device including an amplifier which includes a first transistor configured to receive an input signal through a gate terminal thereof and having a source terminal electrically connected to ground, a second transistor configured to transmit an output signal through a drain terminal thereof and having a gate terminal electrically connected to the ground, and a switch electrically connected to the gate terminal of the second transistor and configured to switch a voltage being supplied to the gate terminal of the second transistor in accordance with turn-on or turn-off of the amplifier.
US11245370B2
A Class-D amplifier includes a plurality of power rails, a quantizer, and a driver stage. The quantizer and the driver stage have a combined gain. For each power rail of the plurality of power rails, the Class-D amplifier senses a voltage value for the power rail and determines a ramp amplitude based on the sensed voltage value. The Class-D amplifier concurrently switches from the driver stage using a first power rail to a second power rail of the plurality of power rails and switches from the quantizer using the ramp amplitude associated with the first power rail to using the ramp amplitude associated with the second power rail so that the combined gain is constant.
US11245369B2
An integrated circuit includes a die that includes a circuit configured to generate a PWM signal in response to a first clock signal, and a first set of pads configured to provide amplified PWM signals to external filters. An amplifier stage is configured to provide the amplified PWM signals. The die includes two pads configured to be coupled to an external inductor, and a second set of pads configured to provide regulated voltages. An electronic converter circuit is configured to generate the regulated voltages to supply the amplifier stage. The electronic converter circuit includes a control circuit configured to drive electronic switches in response to a second clock signal to regulate the regulated voltages to a respective target value. The die includes a control block to synchronize the switching activity of the electronic switches with the switching activity of the amplifier stage.
US11245367B2
Described are circuits and techniques to increase the efficiency of radio-frequency (rf) amplifiers including rf power amplifiers (PAs) through “supply modulation” (also referred to as “drain modulation” or “collector modulation”), in which supply voltages provided to rf amplifiers is adjusted dynamically (“modulated”) overtime depending upon the rf signal being synthesized. For the largest efficiency improvements, a supply voltage can be adjusted among discrete voltage levels or continuously on a short time scale. The supply voltages (or voltage levels) provided to an rf amplifier may also be adapted to accommodate longer-term changes in desired rf envelope such as associated with adapting transmitter output strength to minimize errors in data transfer, for rf “traffic” variations.
US11245355B2
One embodiment can provide a photovoltaic roof tile module. The photovoltaic roof tile module can include a photovoltaic roof tile module. The photovoltaic roof tile module can include at least: a first photovoltaic roof tile and a second photovoltaic roof tile positioned adjacent to each other, and a spacer coupled to and positioned between the first and second photovoltaic roof tiles. A respective photovoltaic roof tile can include front and back glass covers, and multiple cascaded strings encapsulated between the front and back glass covers. A respective cascaded string can include a plurality of photovoltaic structures electrically coupled to each other in series, and the multiple cascaded strings can be electrically coupled to each other in parallel. The first and second photovoltaic roof tiles can be electrically coupled to each other in parallel.
US11245351B2
A renewable-energy electrical generation and distribution system including a container. At least one power source is sized to be retained within the container and deployable therefrom, the at least one power source being configured to generate energy from renewable resources. A battery is disposed within the container and in communication with the at least one power source. A power distribution system is disposed within the container and in communication with the battery and the at least one power source, the power distribution system including: at least one switch and at least one interface connected to the at least one switch and disposed external to the container, the at least one switch configured selectively turn on and off power distribution to the at least one interface based on at least one predetermined parameter.
US11245343B2
A vibration wave motor includes a vibrator, a friction member having a sliding surface, a guide member, a flexible substrate, and a fixing member configured to fix the friction member, the guide member, and the flexible substrate. The vibrator and the friction member move relative to each other in a predetermined direction. The fixing member includes a substrate-fixing portion configured to fix the flexible substrate, which includes a joint portion, an extending portion extending along the predetermined direction, a bent portion configured to reverse and turn back the extending portion, and a fixed portion to be fixed to the substrate-fixing portion. The flexible substrate is fixed on a surface of the substrate-fixing portion provided in a direction opposite to a direction in which the vibrator is brought into pressure-contact with the friction member.
US11245337B2
A switch circuit includes n switching elements (n≥2) connected in series between an input node and an output node. A control device is configured to convert DC power in a power storage device into AC power synchronized with AC power supplied from an AC power supply during a normal state and supply the AC power to the output node, by controlling a power converter, when an abnormality of at least one of the AC power supply and the switch circuit is sensed in a state where the control device outputs conduction commands for the n switching elements. The control device is further configured to produce cutoff commands for cutting off the n switching elements during execution of power conversion in the power converter, and sense a cutoff abnormality of the switch circuit based on terminal-to-terminal voltages of the n switching elements during production of the cutoff commands.
US11245333B2
Provided is a power conversion device using a magnetic coupling reactor and being capable of reducing the number of parts and reducing the size of not only the magnetic coupling reactor but also an input capacitor. The magnetic coupling reactor is connected between a semiconductor switch element group, which executes power conversion, and the input capacitor. The coupling factor of two reactors in the magnetic coupling reactor is kept to a value equal to or less than a set value, for example, 0.8. The set value takes into consideration an area in which a ripple current of the input capacitor increases rapidly in response to a rise in coupling factor. The ripple current flowing in the input capacitor is reduced by thus setting the coupling factor.
US11245331B2
An active two-terminal capacitor device with a controllable capacitance based on a capacitance value input C_I. A processor system PRS executes an algorithm which controls a power converter PCV with controllable electric switches connected to the two external terminals A, B along with a fixed value capacitor component CI. Based on sampling of at least the voltage across the capacitor component CI, the algorithm controls the power converter PCV to provide a resulting capacitance across the external terminals A, B which serves to match the capacitance value in ut C_I.
US11245325B2
A compensation filter and a method for activating a compensation filter are disclosed. In an embodiment a compensation filter includes an operational amplifier, a capacitive element, a first and a second resistive element and a current converter. The compensation filter is configured to attenuate a common mode interference in a critical frequency range.
US11245319B2
This actuator has a stationary body having either a coil or a magnet, a movable body having the other, that is, a magnet or a coil, and an elastic body that supports the movable body so as to be capable of moving with respect to the stationary body. The movable body moves reciprocally with respect to the stationary body in the vibration direction due to concerted movement of the magnet and the energized coil. The magnet can advance into and separate from the interior of the coil in the vibration direction. The elastic body is a plate-shaped elastic body one end of which is secured to a stationary unit, the other end of which is secured to the movable body, and which supports the movable body with a cantilever structure so as to be capable of oscillating reciprocally in the vibration direction.
US11245314B2
A positioning and fixing apparatus that fixes a position of a stator core includes a plurality of positioners that are displaced so as to approach or separate from the stator core, by a positioner displacing unit. One of the positioners is an engager that engages with a first tab section being an engaging section. First, the engager engages with the first tab section, and then, pressers being the remainder of the positioners position a certain region of the stator core.
US11245307B2
A fan motor housing including a circumferential motor housing having a radially outer surface and a radially inner surface and defining a primary axis including a first plurality of concentric flow channels disposed between the radially outer surface the radially inner surface, wherein the concentric flow channels extend in an axial direction parallel to the primary axis, a second plurality of concentric flow channels disposed between the radially outer surface and the radially inner surface, extending in an axial direction parallel to the primary axis, wherein the first and second pluralities of concentric flow channel are thermodynamically connected, a first plurality of radial conduits connecting the second plurality of flow channels to the radially inner surface of the motor housing, and a second plurality of radial conduits connecting the radially inner surface of the motor housing to the second plurality of flow channels.
US11245298B2
The technical scheme adopted by the present disclosure discloses an outer rotor brushless motor, which has a motor housing, a magnet, an end cover and a retainer ring, and a plurality of mounting separators all integrally molded with the motor housing are evenly distributed on the inner wall of the motor housing; between two adjacent mounting separators, a mounting groove is provided for a magnet to be mounted; the magnet is mounted within the mounting groove and is axially limited by means of the end cover and the retainer ring. The outer rotor brushless motor disclosed offers good reliability and high efficiency in assembly.
US11245294B2
A stator configured to rotate of a rotor about a central axis includes a first member having a plurality of first concavity portions located in a circumferential direction at a preset interval, each of first concavity portions having a pair of first inner side face and second inner side face whose a circumferential-directional distance therebetween with respect to the central axis becomes narrow from one radial-directional side towards the other radial-directional side with respect to the central axis; and a plurality of second members, each of which having a first protrusion extending along the first inner side face, a second protrusion extending along the second inner side face, and a teeth portion protruding from the first protrusion and the second protrusion to the other radial-direction side, wherein the plurality of second members are formed to corresponding to the plurality of concavity portions, respectively.
US11245290B2
The present disclosure relates to an apparatus and a method for performing transmission and reception of wireless power. The apparatus comprises: a transmission signal processing unit configured to generate a transmission data signal and perform a modulation and an amplification; a transmission antenna configured to convert the transmission data signal into an RF signal and transmit the RF signal; at least one reception antenna configured to receive at least one of the RF signal or an external signal received from the outside; a wireless power reception unit configured to harvest power from the RF signal received through the at least one reception antenna; and a reception signal processing unit configured to demodulate the external signal received through the at least one reception antenna. Since the RF signal, which is radiated by the apparatus itself, is received again and utilized for power charging, energy can be recycled.
US11245286B2
A power receiving device of a contactless power supply configured in a wearable electronic device having a main body coupled to a wearing member, can include: a power receiving antenna including one or more coils at least partially disposed on the wearing member; and where wires of the receiving coils extend substantially along a surface of a wearing member to form a coil turn that crosses through the surface of the wearing member or a surface of the main body in an axial direction.
US11245281B2
An electrically operated aerosol-generating system for receiving an aerosol-forming substrate is provided, including one or more electric aerosol-generating elements; one or more hybrid capacitors configured to supply power to the one or more electric aerosol-generating elements; and a voltage source configured to supply power to the one or more hybrid capacitors to charge the one or more hybrid capacitors.
US11245273B2
A battery charging system includes a first electrical connector disposed facing a first shelf, a second electrical connector disposed facing a second shelf, a first charge device coupled to the first electrical connector, and a second charge device coupled to the second electrical connector. A mobile device includes a first electrical connector, a first shelf portion and a second shelf portion, which are facing the first electrical connector, and a third shelf portion and a fourth shelf portion, which are facing the second electrical connector. Each of the electrical connectors of the battery charging system and the mobile device includes a first conductor, a second conductor, and a third conductor, with the first conductor electrically coupled to the third conductor, and the second conductor electrically isolated from and disposed between the first and third conductors, which enable the battery charging system and mobile device to easily swap batteries.
US11245270B2
A two-voltage battery for a vehicle, having at least one ground terminal, a first vehicle electrical system connection at which a low, first vehicle electrical system voltage is provided, and a second vehicle electrical system connection at which a high, second vehicle electrical system voltage is provided. At least one battery submodule having at least two battery cell blocks and a multiplicity of switching elements is provided for connecting the battery cell blocks in parallel and/or in series as desired. In a first connection arrangement, the same are connected in parallel with one another such that the first vehicle electrical system voltage is provided at the first vehicle electrical system connection. The switching elements in a second connection arrangement connect the battery cell blocks in series with one another such that the second vehicle electrical system voltage is provided at the second vehicle electrical system connection.
US11245267B2
A battery module for use in a battery system is coupled with other battery modules in the battery system in a daisy-chain configuration. And, the battery module communicates with the other battery modules through a daisy chain according to a communication interface protocol which has a predetermined number of clock pulses. The battery module includes a battery unit and a battery control circuit. When the battery module operates in a bottom mode, the battery control circuit generates an upstream clock output signal which includes the predetermined number of clock pulses plus a number of inserted clock pulses, to compensate a clock difference caused by a propagation delay of the daisy chain, such that the battery module is able to synchronously receive a downstream data signal transmitted from a target module via the daisy chain as the battery module is transmitting an upstream clock output signal.
US11245264B2
Discussed are a power converting apparatus, a photovoltaic module, and a photovoltaic system including the photovoltaic module and the power converting apparatus. The power converting apparatus is capable of converting direct current (DC) power from the solar cell module into alternating current (AC) power, outputting the AC power to a grid, and detecting a signal indicative of abnormality in grid power caused by power cut or the like, thereby preventing an islanding operation.
US11245251B2
A housing for a spark plug. The housing includes a bore along the longitudinal axis X of the housing, as the result of which the housing has an outer side and an inner side, and an electroplated or chemically applied nickel-containing protective layer situated on at least one portion of the outer side of the housing and a sealing layer situated on the nickel-containing protective layer. The sealing layer contains silicon. A first intermediate layer is applied between the housing and the nickel-containing protective layer and/or a second intermediate layer is applied between the nickel-containing protective layer and the sealing layer and/or a cover layer is applied on the sealing layer. The sealing layer may be free of chromium.
US11245243B2
A light-emitting ceramic and a light-emitting device. The light-emitting ceramic comprises a YAG substrate and light-emitting centers and diffusion particles evenly dispersed in the YAG substrate. The light-emitting centers are lanthanide-doped YAG fluorescent powder particles of 10-20 μm in grain size. The particle size of the scattering particles is 20-50 nm. The YAG substrate is a lanthanide-doped YAG ceramic. Also, the grain size of the YAG substrate is less than the grain size of the YAG fluorescent powder particles.
US11245240B2
A contact insertion machine includes a contact feeder having a feed finger configured to feed contacts of a power connector assembly in a feed direction along a feed track during a contact loading process. The contact insertion machine includes a power connector assembly holder holding a housing of the power connector assembly and movable relative to the feed track to position the housing to receive the contacts in a contact stack. The contact insertion machine includes a contact retention plate located upstream of the power connector assembly holder having a contact insertion port therethrough. The contact insertion port is aligned with the feed track downstream of the feed track. The power connector assembly holder is movable relative to the contact retention plate to position the housing to receive the contacts through the contact insertion port.
US11245237B2
According to one aspect of the present invention, a method of manufacturing a flexible printed interconnect board, including an insulating base film; a conductive pattern that is layered on one surface side of the base film; and a plurality of connection terminals that are fixed to a terminal connection area on one edge side of the conductive pattern, includes: fixing the plurality of connection terminals in parallel to a component fixing jig; and mounting the plurality of fixed connection terminals together with the component fixing jig.
US11245236B2
A modular passive RF apparatus includes a passive RF portal and a passive RF expansion module configured to be removably coupled with the passive RF portal. A male connector is configured to extend from a top surface of the passive RF portal, and a female connector is configured to extend from the first end wall of the passive RF expansion portal. The female connector is configured to slidingly engage the male connector in a direction parallel to the top surface of the passive RF portal in order to mechanically couple the passive RF expansion module with the passive RF portal, and the male connector is configured to prevent the female connector from being removed from the male connector in a direction perpendicular to the top surface of the passive RF portal.
US11245233B2
The disclosure relates to a cable concentrator and an electronic device having the same, where the cable concentrator includes main body and ground partition plate. The main body includes sidewall portions and bottom plate portion together forming accommodation portion to accommodate cable connectors. The bottom plate portion has positive terminal holes and negative terminal holes. The ground partition plate is located in the accommodation portion and divides the accommodation portion. The ground partition plate has ground bent tabs respectively corresponding to the negative terminal holes of the bottom plate portion and are electrically connected to negative terminals on a circuit board and thus grounding the negative terminals.
US11245231B2
An electrical connector assembly includes a cable assembly having a cable bundle of cables and a conductive cable shield surrounding and providing electrical shielding for the cable bundle. The cable assembly includes an electrical connector a housing holding contacts and a conductive backshell having a cavity that receives the electrical connector to provide electrical shielding for the electrical connector. The backshell has a cable channel at a rear of the backshell that receives the cable. A ground spring is coupled to the cable and positioned between the cable bundle and the cable shield. The ground spring includes spring members engaging the inner surface of the cable shield and biasing the cable shield radially outward. The ground spring is received in the cable channel and forces the outer surface of the cable shield outward against the backshell to electrically connect the cable shield to the backshell.
US11245221B2
A connection arrangement has a crimp connector and a wire fixed in place in it, the crimp connector having a first and a second clamping plate, both single pieces, which in an assembled state clamp the wire between them and fix the wire in place with a tensile strength force acting in a longitudinally axial direction. Inner surfaces of the first and second clamping plate face one another at least in the assembled state are executed in a first form in the preassembled state. The first and second clamping plate fit tightly with one another and are deformed in the assembled state with a tool into a second form differing from the first that the wire, due to the deformation of the first and second clamping plates, forms at least one wave. A related valve and a related method are also disclosed.
US11245216B2
A method of making a contact module of an electrical connector which includes a tongue and plural contacts exposed to two opposite surfaces of the tongue is characterized by the steps of: forming the contacts from a single contact carrier to have one contact thereof with a first contacting portion oriented reversely-symmetrically with respect to a second contacting portion of another contact thereof and to have two outermost contacts each with a respective integral latching portion; insert-molding the contacts with a first insulator while exposing front ends thereof and the latching portions; severing a carrier strip from the front ends of the plurality of contacts; and over-molding a second insulator to the first insulator and embedding the front ends of the plurality of contacts.
US11245208B2
A card edge connector includes an insulative housing defining a card receiving slot extending along a longitudinal direction, a plurality of terminals retained in the housing and by two sides of the card receiving slot in a transverse direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, and a metallic guiding member retained to the housing at the end of the card receiving slot. The metallic guiding member includes a main body extending in a vertical direction perpendicular to both the longitudinal direction and the transverse direction, and a curved resilient guiding section upwardly extending from a top end of the main body. The housing forms a constraining wall at the end with a step structure so as to allow the guiding section of the guiding member to be freely support upon the step structure to function as a constrained beam during confrontation with the inserted card module.
US11245196B2
An antenna includes a reflector and a waveguide assembly. The waveguide assembly includes a feed assembly and a support member that extends from behind the reflector to orient the feed assembly for direct illumination of the reflector. The waveguide assembly includes a first waveguide coupled to a first portion of a common waveguide, a second waveguide coupled to a second portion of the common waveguide, and a septum layer that includes a septum polarizer coupled between the common waveguide and the first and second waveguides.
US11245193B2
An antenna apparatus includes a ground conductor, an antenna element including an antenna that is parallel to the ground conductor and that has a first end portion and a second end portion, a feed line that is coupled to the first end portion of the antenna and that feeds the antenna through the ground conductor, and a short-circuit line that is coupled to the first end portion of the antenna and that electrically short-circuits the antenna to the ground conductor, and a dummy conductor mounted between the first end portion or the second end portion of the antenna and the ground conductor.
US11245191B2
A method of fabricating a near-field antenna for transmitting radio frequency (RF) power transmission signals includes selecting a set of dimensions for one or more cutouts to be defined through a conductive plate of the near-field antenna. The conductive plate has opposing first and second planar surfaces. The method includes forming the one or more cutouts through the first and second surfaces of the conductive plate in a predefined arrangement. Each of the one or more cutouts has the set of dimensions. The method includes coupling an insulator to the first surface of the conductive plate, and coupling a feed element to the insulator.
US11245188B2
An antenna device includes a first dipole antenna, a second loop shaped antenna, a first feed line and a second feed line. The first dipole antenna operates at a first frequency band. The first dipole antenna includes a first portion and a second portion. The second loop shaped antenna operates at a second frequency band different from the first frequency band. A first terminal of the second loop shaped antennal is coupled to a second terminal of the first portion of the first dipole antenna. A second terminal of the second loop shaped antenna is coupled to a first terminal of the second portion of the first dipole antenna. The first feed line is coupled to the second terminal of the first portion of the first dipole antenna. The second feed line is coupled to the first terminal of the second portion of the first dipole antenna.
US11245183B2
The present disclosure provides a multi-antenna system comprising at least two antenna units and a neutralization line for connecting two adjacent antenna units, and the neutralization line is provided with an inductor element. The invention also provides a mobile terminal. The multi-antenna system and the mobile terminal provided by the present disclosure could significantly increase the isolation degree between the antenna units by providing a neutralization line between the two adjacent antenna units for connecting the same and providing an inductor element on the neutralization line, thereby reducing the mutual coupling interference between antenna units and improving the antenna performance.
US11245179B2
An antenna comprising an IMD element and one or more parasitic and active tuning elements is disclosed. The IMD element, when used in combination with the active tuning and parasitic elements, allows antenna operation at multiple resonant frequencies. In addition, the direction of antenna radiation pattern may be arbitrarily rotated in accordance with the parasitic and active tuning elements. Unique antenna architectures for beam steering in Wi-Fi band applications is further described.
US11245176B2
In accordance with some embodiments, a package structure includes an RFIC chip. an insulating encapsulation, a redistribution circuit structure, an antenna and a microwave director. The insulating encapsulation encapsulates the RFIC chip. The redistribution circuit structure is disposed on the insulating encapsulation and electrically connected to the RFIC chip. The antenna is disposed on the insulating encapsulation and electrically connected to the RFIC chip through the redistribution circuit structure. The antenna is located between the microwave director and the RFIC chip. The microwave director has a microwave directivity enhancement surface located at a propagating path of a microwave received or generated by the antenna.
US11245172B1
A power combiner for combining a plurality of radio frequency signals into a combined output signal includes: a circular waveguide having a cross-section and three or more waveguides, each waveguide morphing to align with a common axis at a cross-section of the circular waveguide wherein each one of the three or more rectangular input waveguides gradually transitions from a rectangular cross-section to a cross-section resembling a pie slice of a composite circular cross section.
US11245171B2
A transmission line device includes a first multilayer substrate with a transmission line including laminated insulating base materials and a conductor pattern on the insulating base materials, and a second multilayer substrate defining a connected member to which the transmission line of the first multilayer substrate is connected. The conductor pattern includes a signal conductor pattern and a signal electrode pad electrically connected to the signal conductor pattern. The first multilayer substrate includes a resist film provided on a surface of a laminate of the insulating base materials, and the resist film includes an opening that is separated from an outer edge of the signal electrode pad in a surface direction of the laminate of the insulating base material and exposes the signal electrode pad.
US11245167B2
A coaxial filter comprises a housing that surrounds a receiving space. The housing comprises a trough-shaped housing element with sidewalls and a front wall. The housing further comprises a further trough-shaped housing element, wherein the two trough-shaped housing elements are placed on top of one another, thus forming the receiving space; or a lid arrangement which, together with the trough-shaped housing element forms the receiving space. At least one resonator inner conductor arrangement comprises a connecting bridge, with which resonator inner conductors are conductingly connected.
US11245164B2
An invention comprises: a circular waveguide that has a cylindrical section having a circular pipe conduit with a circular shaped cross section, and side wall sections joined to the both sides in an axial direction of the cylindrical section; a first rectangular waveguide that has a first rectangular pipe conduit with a rectangular shaped cross section and that is joined to one of the side wall sections so that the first rectangular pipe conduit communicates with the circular pipe conduit; a second rectangular waveguide that has a second rectangular pipe conduit with a rectangular shaped cross section and that is joined to the other of the side wall sections so that the second rectangular pipe conduit communicates with the circular pipe conduit; and a dielectric plate that is configured as a plate shape, is disposed in the circular pipe conduit, and is airtightly held to the cylindrical section, wherein the circular waveguide has a plastically deformable section that is plastically deformable so that at least the length in an axial direction of the circular waveguide can be changed.
US11245160B2
A secondary battery and a method for manufacturing the same are provided. An electrode assembly accommodated in the secondary battery having various shapes is manufactured. In particular, a method for manufacturing a secondary battery includes an electrode stack preparation step of preparing an electrode stack which includes a first unit cell having a first area and a second unit cell having a second area that is less than the first area, and which has a structure in which the second unit cell is disposed on one surface of the first unit cell. The method further includes a curved surface formation step of pressing at least a part of an independent portion, which does not overlap the second unit cell, of the first unit cell to form a curved surface on the at least the part of the independent portion.
US11245155B2
A battery module for a vehicle includes: a plurality of battery cells which are stacked; a first end plate located on an outer surface of the battery cell located on one outermost side among the plurality of battery cells; a second end plate located on an outer surface of the battery cell located on the other outermost side among the plurality of battery cells; and one or more support bars located between the first and second end plates. The one or more support bars connect the first and second end plates to each other, include an elastic body, and absorb a load generated when the plurality of battery cells is swollen.
US11245152B2
A battery pack including secondary batteries, and a case accommodating the secondary batteries, the case including: an upper case; a lower case; and plates disposed on each of the upper case and the lower case and each of the plates having holes corresponding to ends of each of the secondary batteries, wherein support protrusions are formed on the holes of the case so as to align the secondary batteries.
US11245150B2
A rechargeable battery according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes: an electrode assembly provided with a non-coated area tab that protrudes to one side of a coated area; a case provided with an opening at one side thereof to receive the electrode assembly; a cap plate coupled and welded to the opening; an electrode terminal provided in the cap plate and electrically connected to the non-coated area tab; and an insulation sheet disposed between the cap plate and the electrode assembly, and bent toward a direction crossing the cap plate at opposite ends of the inside of the cap plate and insulating the electrode assembly, wherein the insulation sheet includes a spacing portion that is distanced from a side corner of a welding line of the cap plate and the case.
US11245149B2
Disclosed are a secondary battery, a battery module and an electric vehicle. The battery module includes a plurality of secondary batteries arranged in sequence. The secondary battery includes an electrode assembly, a housing and a top cover assembly. The electrode assembly is accommodated in an accommodating chamber of the housing. The electrode assembly includes a plurality of electrode units, the plurality of electrode units being stacked in an axial direction of the accommodating chamber. The top cover assembly includes a top cover plate and an insulating member arranged on an inner side of the top cover plate, the top cover plate being connected to the housing, the insulating member being located on a side of the electrode assembly in the axial direction. A first buffer gap is provided between the insulating member and the top cover plate.
US11245147B2
Various embodiments of the present invention relate to a pouch-type secondary battery having an unsealed portion. The technical purpose to be achieved is to provide a pouch-type secondary battery having an unsealed portion, wherein when gas is generated inside the battery due to overcharging, heat exposure, etc. and the pouch is swelled by the generated gas, the gas can be quickly discharged out of the battery through the unsealed portion, thereby improving safety. To this end, the present invention provides a pouch-type secondary battery comprising: an electrode assembly; and a pouch that comprises a first sheathing portion having a recess in which the electrode assembly is received, a second sheathing portion covering the recess of the first sheathing portion, and a seal portion formed along the peripheries of the first and the second sheathing portions, wherein the seal portion further has at least one unsealed portion connected to the recess, and the unsealed portion is lower than the recess.
US11245140B2
According to one embodiment, a battery module includes an output connector, several battery cells that are coupled to the output connector, and several spray nozzles and spray cooling loop and system. The battery cells are configured to provide battery energy to a load via the output connector and are configured to draw power from an external power supply to charge the battery cells via the output connector. The spray nozzles are configured to spray coolant on the battery cells to transfer heat generated by the battery cells to the sprayed coolant.
US11245137B2
A control apparatus (2000) includes a control unit (2020). The control unit (2020) causes a charging apparatus (20) to perform charging of a lithium ion secondary battery (10), by controlling the charging apparatus (20). First, the control unit (2020) causes the charging apparatus (20) to perform the charging of the lithium ion secondary battery (10), until a voltage of the lithium ion secondary battery (10) becomes a predetermined voltage. Thereafter, the control unit (2020) causes the charging apparatus (2) to suspend the charging of the lithium ion secondary battery (10), until a predetermined time elapses. Therefore, the control unit (2020) causes the charging apparatus (20) to further perform the charging of the lithium ion secondary battery (10), after the suspending. The predetermined time is a time t [minute] that satisfies “t≥−A+B*x+C*y.” x[g/cm2] represents weight per unit area of a negative electrode of the lithium ion secondary battery (10). y [g/cm3] is density of the negative electrode. A is a constant that is equal to or more than 50 and equal to or less than 70. B is a constant that is equal to or more than 500 and equal to or less than 620. C is a constant that is equal to or more than 30 and equal to or less than 36.
US11245134B2
A Lithium energy storage device comprising a cathode, electrolyte, anode, and substrate. The materials contained in the anode and electrolyte region are electrochemically altered during initial formation and exposed to current cycles to create a lower impedance composite anode. The resulting composite anode bottom is a bi-layer comprising: i. a lithium metal layer and ii. a silicon-based interphase layer. The bi-layer acts as a barrier to inhibit Lithium ions from entering or leaving a Lithium saturated substrate, once the interphase surface is formed and the substrate is saturated with Lithium ions. This prevents cell failure from large volume changes/stresses during charge/discharge cycles and enables a significant decrease in cell impedance to enable better rechargeable cell performance.
US11245130B2
Provided herein is a lithium battery including: a cathode including a cathode active material; an anode including an anode active material; an electrolyte between the cathode and the anode; and a separator impregnated with the electrolyte, wherein the separator includes cellulose nanofibers, and wherein a differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) thermogram of the separator evinces an exothermic reaction peak, represented by a differential value (dH/dT), at a temperature in a range of about 150° C. to about 200° C.
US11245129B2
An electrode assembly includes a first sub-unit body including a plurality of stacked first unit bodies, and a second sub-unit body at a lower portion of the first sub-unit body and including a plurality of stacked first unit bodies and a second unit body at a lower portion of the first unit bodies, and each of the first unit bodies includes: first and second electrode plates of a first electrode separately arranged at a side of a first separator; a second separator on the first and second electrode plates of the first electrode; a first electrode plate of a second electrode arranged to correspond to the first electrode plate of the first electrode, with the first separator therebetween; and a second electrode plate of the second electrode arranged to correspond to the second electrode plate of the first electrode, with the second separator therebetween.
US11245126B2
The present invention provides a relative humidity and condensed water estimator for a fuel cell and a method for controlling condensed water drain using the same. Here, the relative humidity and condensed water estimator is utilized in control of the fuel cell system involving control of anode condensed water drain by outputting at least two of signals comprising air-side relative humidity, hydrogen-side relative humidity, air-side instantaneous or cumulative condensed water, hydrogen-side instantaneous or cumulative condensed water, instantaneous and cumulative condensed water of the humidifier, membrane water contents, catalyst layer oxygen partial pressure, catalyst layer hydrogen partial pressure, stack or cell voltage, air-side catalyst layer relative humidity, hydrogen-side catalyst layer relative humidity, oxygen supercharging ratio, hydrogen supercharging ratio, residual water in a stack, and residual water in a humidifier.
US11245123B2
A shutdown control method of a fuel cell is provided. The method includes applying power to a controller in a shutdown state and determining, by the controller to which the power is applied, a possibility of moisture freezing based on an estimated outdoor temperature or the temperature of a fuel cell stack. A shutdown of the fuel cell is executed by performing moisture removal from the fuel cell stack in response to determining the possibility of moisture freezing after restart.
US11245106B2
An electrode assembly and a rechargeable battery including the same are disclosed. The electrode assembly includes a plurality of unit cells overlapping in a thickness direction of the plurality of unit cells and a functional unit cell disposed with the plurality of unit cells. The functional unit cell includes a positive electrode. The positive electrode includes a positive current collector, a positive active material layer on at least one surface of the positive current collector and including a positive active material having a first reference potential, and a functional layer on the positive active material layer and including an active material having a lower reference potential than the first reference potential.
US11245097B2
A display device including a light emitting element layer, an encapsulation layer disposed on the light emitting element layer, wherein the encapsulation layer includes a hollow polymer structure, and an input sensor disposed on the encapsulation layer.
US11245086B2
Embodiments of the disclosed subject matter provide a device including one or more organic layers that include an emissive layer, a first electrode layer disposed over the one or more organic layers, a plurality of nanostructures formed as part of the first electrode layer, a substrate, a second electrode layer, where the second electrode layer is disposed on the substrate, the one or more organic layers are disposed on the second electrode layer, and the first electrode layer including the plurality of nanostructures is disposed on the one or more organic layers and within the predetermined threshold distance of the emissive layer.
US11245083B2
An organic light-emitting device and a display panel are provided. The organic light-emitting device has an anode, a cathode opposite to the anode, and a light-emitting layer between the anode and the cathode. The light-emitting layer has a host material, a light-emitting guest, and an auxiliary guest, wherein the light-emitting guest is a fluorescent dye, and the auxiliary guest is an organic substance having a thermally activated delayed fluorescence property, wherein a section in which a doping concentration of the auxiliary guest gradually increases or gradually decreases is present along a direction from the anode toward the cathode.
US11245076B2
It discloses a perovskite optoelectronic device which includes a substrate, electrode layers and functional layers. The electrode layer is deposited on the substrate, the functional layer is deposited between the electrode layers, and the functional layer at least includes a perovskite layer, wherein the perovskite layer is a perovskite material possessing a self-organized multiple quantum well structure. By adjusting material components, controllable adjustment of the structure of the multiple quantum wells and effective energy transfer between the multiple quantum wells can be implemented, and light emitting color may be near-ultraviolet light, visible light and near-infrared light; moreover, the problems of low coverage and poor stability of the existing perovskite films can be effectively solved.
US11245074B2
A RRAM and a method for fabricating the same, wherein the RRAM comprises: a bottom electrode; an oxide layer containing a bottom electrode metal, disposed on the bottom electrode; a resistance-switching layer, disposed on the oxide layer containing a bottom electrode metal, wherein the resistance-switching layer material is a nitrogen-containing tantalum oxide; an inserting layer, disposed on the resistance-switching layer, wherein the inserting layer material comprises a metal or a semiconductor; a top electrode, disposed on the inserting layer. By providing the to resistance-switching layer with a nitrogen-containing tantalum oxide, compared with Ta2O5, the RRAM of the present disclosure has a low activation voltage and a high on-off ratio, and can enhance the control capability over the device resistance by the number of oxygen vacancies.
US11245068B2
An apparatus is provided which comprises: a stack comprising a magnetoelectric (ME such as BiFeO3, (LaBi)FeO3, LuFeO3, PMN-PT, PZT, AlN, SmBiFeO3, Cr2O3, etc.) material and a transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD such as MoS2, MoSe2, WS2, WSe2, PtS2, PtSe2, WTe2, MoTe2, graphene, etc.); a magnet adjacent to a first portion of the TMD of the stack; a first interconnect adjacent to the magnet; a second interconnect adjacent to the ME material of the stack; and a third interconnect adjacent to a second portion of the TMD of the stack.
US11245067B2
Structures for a Hall sensor and methods of forming a structure for a Hall sensor. The structure includes a semiconductor body having a top surface and a sloped sidewall defining a Hall surface that intersects the top surface. The structure further includes a well in the semiconductor body and multiple contacts in the semiconductor body. The well has a section positioned in part beneath the top surface and in part beneath the Hall surface. Each contact is coupled to the section of the well beneath the top surface of the semiconductor body.
US11245042B2
A thin film transistor (10) may include a substrate (100); a buffer layer (300) on a surface of the substrate (100); an active layer (400) on a surface of the buffer layer (300) opposite from the substrate (100); a gate insulating layer (500) on a surface of the active layer (400) opposite from the substrate (100), and a gate (600) on a surface of the gate insulating layer (500) opposite from the substrate (100). A width of the active layer (400) may be smaller than a width of the gate (600), and an orthographic projection of the gate (600) on the substrate (100) may cover an orthographic projection of the active layer (400) on the substrate (100).
US11245038B2
Vertical thin film transistors (TFTs) including a gate electrode pillar clad with a gate dielectric. The gate dielectric is further clad with a semiconductor layer. Source or drain metallization is embedded in trenches formed in an isolation dielectric adjacent to separate regions of the semiconductor layer. During TFT operation, biasing of the gate electrode can induce one or more transistor channel within the semiconductor layer, electrically coupling together the source and drain metallization. A width of the channel may be proportional to a height of the gate electrode pillar clad by the semiconductor layer, while a length of the channel may be proportional to the spacing between contacts occupied by the semiconductor layer. In some embodiments, a memory device may include cells comprising a vertical thin film select transistor and a capacitor (1TFT-1C).
US11245031B2
A region of a portion directly beneath an OC pad is a sensing effective region in which unit cells of a current sensing portion are disposed. A p-type low-dose region is provided on a front surface of a semiconductor substrate and surrounds a periphery of the sensing effective region. The p-type low-dose region is fixed at an electric potential of a source pad of a main semiconductor element. The p-type low-dose region is disposed to be separated from a p-type base region of the sensing effective region by an n−-type region between the p-type low-dose region and the sensing effective region. A total dose of impurities in the p-type low-dose region is lower than a total dose of impurities in a p-type region of a front side of a semiconductor substrate in a main effective region in which unit cells of the main semiconductor element are disposed.
US11245022B2
Methods of forming and processing semiconductor devices are described. Certain embodiments related to electronic devices which comprise a dipole region having an interlayer dielectric, a high-κ dielectric material, and a dipole layer. The dipole layer comprises one or more of titanium lanthanum nitride (TiLaN), titanium yttrium nitride (TiYN), titanium strontium nitride (TiSrN), titanium magnesium nitride (TiMgN, titanium aluminum nitride (TiAlN), titanium tantalum nitride (TiTaN), hafnium carbide (HfC), hafnium nitride (HfN), hafnium oxynitride (HfON), hafnium oxycarbide (HfOC), hafnium carbide aluminum (HfCAl), hafnium aluminum nitride (HfAlN), or hafnium carbonitride (HfCN).
US11245012B2
A stacked high barrier III-V power semiconductor diode having an at least regionally formed first metallic terminal contact layer and a heavily doped semiconductor contact region of a first conductivity type with a first lattice constant, a drift layer of a second conductivity type, a heavily doped metamorphic buffer layer sequence of the second conductivity type is formed. The metamorphic buffer layer sequence has an upper side with the first lattice constant and a lower side with a second lattice constant. The first lattice constant is greater than the second lattice constant. The upper side of the metamorphic buffer layer sequence is arranged in the direction of the drift layer. A second metallic terminal contact layer is arranged below the lower side of the metamorphic buffer layer sequence. The second metallic terminal contact layer is integrally bonded with a semiconductor contact layer.
US11245006B2
A trench semiconductor device includes a layer of semiconductor material, an exterior trench pattern formed in the layer of semiconductor material, and an interior trench pattern formed in the layer of semiconductor material, at least partially surrounded by the exterior trench pattern. The exterior trench pattern includes a plurality of exterior trench portions that are each lined with dielectric material and filled with conductive material, and the interior trench pattern includes a plurality of interior trench portions that are each lined with dielectric material and filled with conductive material.
US11244997B2
A display apparatus includes a base substrate, a plurality of data lines disposed in a display area on the base substrate, wherein at least a portion of the data lines extend to a first peripheral area adjacent to the display area, a plurality of detour lines disposed in the display area, wherein at least a portion of the detour lines extend to the first peripheral area, and a data driver electrically connected to the data lines and the detour lines, wherein at least one of the data lines electrically contacts at least one of the detour lines in the first peripheral area.
US11244994B2
A thin film transistor (TFT) array substrate and an organic light emitting diode (OLED) panel are provided. The TFT array substrate includes a display area and a non-display area. The non-display area is provided with a plurality of gate traces connected to a control chip, the TFT array substrate includes: a flexible substrate includes a metal jumper-joint sublayer disposed in the non-display area, wherein the metal jumper-joint sublayer is adjacent to the display area; and a thin film transistor is disposed on the flexible substrate, wherein the thin film transistor layer includes a plurality of thin film transistors correspondingly disposed in the display area, and a gate trace of each of the thin film transistors and the gate trace of the non-display area are connected by a jumper joint arrangement through the metal jumper-joint sublayer.
US11244991B2
This disclosure relates to a production method of a display substrate, a display substrate, and a display apparatus. This production method comprises steps of: forming a thin film for a pixel defining layer used to define a light-emitting area of each sub-pixel on a base substrate; forming nanoparticles in a preset area of the thin film for the pixel defining layer, wherein the preset area is an area corresponding to a place between adjacent sub-pixels; and performing patterning treatment on the thin film for the pixel defining layer formed with the nanoparticles, with a material in the preset area being retained, to form a pattern of the pixel defining layer.
US11244990B2
Provided are a display control circuit and a driving method thereof, and a display panel and manufacturing and controlling methods thereof, in the field of display technology. The display control circuit includes: a driving sub-circuit configured to provide a control signal from the control signal terminal to the control node; a first switching sub-circuit configured to provide a data signal from the data signal terminal to the OLED; and a second switching sub-circuit configured to provide the data signal to the liquid crystal display unit. The first switching sub-circuit and the second switching sub-circuit operate at different periods of time.
US11244989B2
A display device includes a base layer, a circuit layer, a light emitting element layer, and a thin film encapsulation layer. The base layer includes a display area and a non-display area. The circuit layer includes a plurality of insulating layers, at least one of which has an opening. The light emitting element layer includes a light emitting area overlapping the display area, a valley area overlapping the opening and having a concave shape, and a peak area overlapping the non-display area and being on the circuit layer. The thin film encapsulation layer includes an organic encapsulation layer that covers the light emitting area, the valley area, and at least a portion of the peak area.
US11244987B2
An organic light emitting display apparatus is disclosed, wherein the organic light emitting display apparatus comprises a driving thin film transistor provided on a substrate and disposed in a pixel area including a plurality of sub pixels; an organic light emitting diode electrically connected with the driving thin film transistor; and a repair portion provided at one side of the organic light emitting diode, wherein the organic light emitting diode is electrically connected with the driving thin film transistor through the repair portion.
US11244985B2
The present disclosure discloses a color film assembly, a display substrate and a method for fabricating the same, and a display apparatus. The color film assembly includes a quantum dot layer, and a filter layer on a light emitting side of the quantum dot layer. The filter layer includes filter units. Each of the filter units includes a first filter structure. A light emitting surface of the first filter structure has at least one converging structure. The quantum dot layer includes quantum dot units which are in one-to-one correspondence with the filter units. Each quantum dot unit includes at least one quantum dot structure. The quantum dot structures in each quantum dot unit are in one-to-one correspondence with the first filter structures in the corresponding filter unit.
US11244979B2
A semiconductor structure for a CMOS image sensor includes a semiconductor substrate having a first side and a second side. A photodiode is disposed in the semiconductor substrate proximate to the first side. The photodiode accumulates image charge photogenerated in the photodiode in response to incident light directed through the second side. A deep trench isolation structure enclosing the photodiode. The deep trench isolation structure extends from the second side toward the first side. The deep trench isolation structure includes a light absorption region disposed at a first end of the deep trench isolation structure toward the first side.
US11244972B2
An array substrate, a method for manufacturing the same and a display device are provided. The method includes: providing a base substrate; forming a conductive material thin film on the base substrate; forming a first photoresist layer on a side of the conductive material thin film distal to the base substrate; etching the conductive material thin film by using the first photoresist layer as a mask to obtain a first etched pattern; removing third covering portions of the first photoresist layer to obtain a second photoresist layer; and etching the first etched pattern by using the second photoresist layer as a mask to obtain a gate electrode and a signal line.
US11244965B2
A thin film transistor, comprising a substrate, an active layer disposed on the substrate, and a source and drain that make electrical contact with the active layer, wherein the source and drain each comprise a first sub-electrode and a second sub-electrode that are stacked along a thickness of the active layer, and the first sub-electrode is closer to the active layer relative to the second sub-electrode. An area of an overlapping region between an orthographic projection of the second sub-electrode of at least one of the source and drain on the substrate and an overlapping region between an orthographic projection of the first sub-electrode of the at least one of the source and the drain on the substrate and the orthographic projection of the active layer on the substrate.
US11244963B2
The present disclosure provides a display substrate, a display panel and a display device, and belongs to the field of display technology. The display substrate includes a plurality of display islands and a plurality of connection parts; any two adjacent display islands are connected through one of the plurality of connection parts; the plurality of connection parts define a plurality of openings of a base substrate of the display substrate; at least part of the plurality of openings is provided therein with a torsional structure, the torsional structure is connected between two connection parts of connection parts defining the opening in which the torsional structure is located, the two connection parts extending in substantially a same direction; and the torsional structure is stretchable in a direction in which it is connected with the two connection parts.
US11244959B2
A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a substrate, an electrode stack disposed on the substrate, the electrode stack including an interlayer insulation layer and a gate electrode structure that are alternately stacked in a direction perpendicular to the substrate, a trench penetrating the electrode stack to expose sidewall surfaces of the interlayer insulation layer and the gate electrode structure, a gate dielectric layer disposed along a sidewall surface of the trench, the gate dielectric layer including a ferroelectric portion and a non-ferroelectric portion, and a channel layer disposed to adjacent to the gate dielectric layer. The ferroelectric portion is in contact with the gate electrode structure, and the non-ferroelectric portion is in contact with the interlayer insulation layer.
US11244954B2
Some embodiments include a NAND memory array having a vertical stack of alternating insulative levels and conductive levels. The conductive levels include control gate regions. High-k dielectric material is adjacent to the control gate regions and is configured as an arrangement of first vertically-extending linear segments which are vertically spaced from one another. Charge-blocking material is adjacent to the high-k dielectric material and is configured as an arrangement of second vertically-extending linear segments which are vertically spaced from one another. Charge-storage material is adjacent to the charge-blocking material and is configured as an arrangement of third vertically-extending linear segments which are vertically spaced from one another. Gate-dielectric material is adjacent to the charge-storage material. Channel material extends vertically along the stack and is adjacent to the gate-dielectric material. Some embodiments include integrated assemblies and methods of forming integrated assemblies.
US11244951B2
A memory cell includes a select device and a capacitor electrically coupled in series with the select device. The capacitor includes two conductive capacitor electrodes having ferroelectric material there-between. The capacitor has an intrinsic current leakage path from one of the capacitor electrodes to the other through the ferroelectric material. There is a parallel current leakage path from the one capacitor electrode to the other. The parallel current leakage path is circuit-parallel the intrinsic path and of lower total resistance than the intrinsic path. Other aspects are disclosed.
US11244944B2
The present disclosure relates generally to integrated circuits, and more particularly to low-bias voltage reference circuits. The voltage reference circuits are capable of providing highly-accurate and temperature-insensitive outputs. Specifically, the present disclosure provides complementary-to-absolute-temperature circuits with low process variation and tunable temperature coefficient.
US11244943B2
A monolithic three-dimensional integrated circuit may include multiple transistor levels separated by one or more levels of metallization. An upper level transistor structure may include a monocrystalline channel material over a bottom gate stack. The channel material and the gate stack materials may be formed on a donor substrate at any suitable temperature, and subsequently transferred from the donor substrate to a host substrate that includes lower-level circuitry. The upper-level transistor may be patterned from the transferred layers so that the gate electrode includes one or more bonding layers. Source and drain material may be patterned from a source and drain material layer that was transferred from the donor substrate along with the channel material, or source and drain material may be grown at low temperatures from the transferred channel material.
US11244942B2
An apparatus comprises an antifuse cell comprising first and second nodes, an antifuse element, and a transistor. The antifuse element and the transistor are coupled in series between the first and second nodes. The antifuse element comprises an antifuse gate. The transistor comprises a transistor gate comprising a substantially-annular structure substantially surrounding the antifuse gate.
US11244941B2
A first power supply rail is provided as a power supply tree configured with couplings to distribute a supply voltage to active elements of the circuit. A second power supply rail is provided as an electrostatic discharge channel and is not configured with distribution tree couplings to active elements of the circuit. A first electrostatic discharge circuit is directly electrically connected between one end of the second power supply rail and a ground rail. A second electrostatic discharge circuit is directly electrically connected between an interconnect node and the ground rail. The interconnect node electrically interconnects another end of the second power supply rail to the first power supply rail at the second electrostatic discharge circuit.
US11244931B2
A light emitting device includes a first light emitting element having a top face and a bottom face which faces the base, and a second light emitting element. A wavelength conversion member is provided on the top face and includes a light transmitting part made of an inorganic material and a phosphor layer. The light transmitting part has an upper face and a lower face. A phosphor layer is disposed between the lower face and the top face. The phosphor layer is bonded to the top face of the first light emitting element. The reflecting member covers the lateral faces of the phosphor layer. A light transmissive sealing resin is disposed on the base between the first and second light emitting elements and between the wavelength conversion member and the second light emitting element. The light transmissive sealing resin covers the lateral faces via the reflecting member.
US11244925B2
The present disclosure relates to a method of forming a semiconductor device structure. The method may be performed by forming a gate structure along a first side of a semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor substrate is thinned. Thinning the semiconductor substrate causes defects to form along a second side of the semiconductor substrate opposing the first side of the semiconductor substrate. Dopants are implanted into the second side of the semiconductor substrate after thinning the semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor substrate is annealed to form a doped layer after implanting the dopants. The doped layer is formed along the second side of the semiconductor substrate.
US11244917B2
A multi-layer pillar and method of fabricating the same is provided. The multi-layer pillar is used as an interconnect between a chip and substrate. The pillar has at least one low strength, high ductility deformation region configured to absorb force imposed during chip assembly and thermal excursions.
US11244912B2
Semiconductor packages having a first layer interconnect portion that includes a coaxial interconnect between a die and a package substrate are described. In an example, the package substrate includes a substrate-side coaxial interconnect electrically connected to a signal line. The die is mounted on the package substrate and includes a die-side coaxial interconnect coupled to the substrate-side coaxial interconnect. The coaxial interconnects can be joined by a solder bond between respective central conductors and shield conductors.
US11244907B2
Methods and structures for improving alignment contrast for patterning a metal layer generally includes depositing a metal layer having a plurality of grains, wherein grain boundaries between the grains forms grooves at a surface of the metal layer. The metal layer is subjected to surface treatment to form an oxide or a nitride layer and fill the surface grooves. The metal layer can be patterned using alignment marks in the metal layer and/or underlying layers. Filling the grooves with the oxide or nitride increases alignment contrast relative to patterning the metal layer without the surface treating.
US11244903B2
Described are methods for forming a tungsten conductive structure over a substrate, such as a semiconductor substrate. Described examples include forming a silicon-containing material, such as a doped silicon-containing material, over a supporting structure. The silicon-containing material is then subsequently converted to a tungsten seed material containing the dopant material. A tungsten fill material of lower resistance will then be formed over the tungsten seed material.
US11244900B2
A wiring structure includes first to third metal patterns on a substrate. The first metal pattern extends in a second direction and has a first width in a third direction. The second metal pattern extends in the third direction to cross the first metal pattern and have a second width in the second direction. The third metal pattern is connected to the first and second metal patterns at an area where the first and second metal patterns cross each other, and has a substantially rectangular shape with concave portions in each quadrant. The third metal pattern has a third width defined as a minimum distance between opposite ones of the concave portions in a fourth direction having an acute angle to the second and third directions, which is less or equal to than a smaller of the first and second widths.
US11244887B2
A three-dimensional stacked integrated circuit includes a plurality of interposers between respective integrated circuits of the three-dimensional stacked integrated circuit and below a lowermost integrated circuit, wherein a plurality of movement paths of a coolant are respectively provided in the plurality of interposers, and the plurality of movement paths of the coolant provided in the plurality of interposers are connected to each other. Alternatively, the three-dimensional stacked integrated circuit is configured by immersion and the system thereof is simplified by the coolant interacting with the outside in grooves provided to the edges of the interposers. In this case, a path for allowing the coolant to flow in the layer direction is not necessary.
US11244886B2
A package which comprises at least one electronic chip, an encapsulant encapsulating at least part of the at least one electronic chip, and a shielding layer on at least part of an external surface of the encapsulant configured for shielding an interior of the package with regard to cooling fluid for removing thermal energy from the at least one electronic chip.
US11244879B2
A semiconductor package including a first semiconductor device, a second semiconductor device, an insulating encapsulant, a redistribution structure and a supporting element is provided. The insulating encapsulant encapsulates the first semiconductor device and the second semiconductor device. The redistribution structure is over the first semiconductor device, the second semiconductor device and the insulating encapsulant. The redistribution structure is electrically connected to the first semiconductor device and the second semiconductor device. The supporting element is embedded in one of the insulating encapsulant and the redistribution structure.
US11244877B2
Provided is a sealing structure including a housing that houses a heat generating member or a heat dissipation member thereinside, and a resin that is filled in the housing. In a sectional view, the housing includes a first recess portion in a position facing the heat generating member or the heat dissipation member.
US11244868B2
A method for producing a component is provided, a base of which is formed by transistors on a substrate, including: forming a gate area, spacers, and a protective coating partly covering the spacers and a sidewall portion of a cavity without covering a top face of the gate area and a base portion of the cavity; forming a contact module, the gate located in beneath the module; and removing part of the coating with an isotropic light-ion implantation to form modified superficial parts in a thickness, respectively, of the contact module, of the coating, and of the base portion, and with an application of a plasma to: etch the modified superficial parts to only preserve, in the coating, a residual part of the coating, and to form a silicon oxide-based film on exposed surfaces, respectively, of the contact module, of the cavity, and of the coating.
US11244863B2
A resin membrane (8) covering a semiconductor device (5) and a dicing line (7) of a semiconductor substrate (1) is formed on a main surface of the semiconductor substrate (1). The resin membrane (8) around the first electrode (2) is removed and the resin membrane (8) on the second electrode (3,4) is removed to form a first contact hole (9) without removing the resin membrane (8) on the dicing line (7). A resin film (11) is applied to a top surface of the resin membrane (8) to form a hollow structure (12) around the first electrode (2). The resin film (11) is patterned to form a second contact hole (13) connected to the first contact hole (9) and a first opening (14) above the dicing line (7) simultaneously. After forming the first opening (14), the semiconductor substrate (1) is diced along the dicing line (7).
US11244857B2
A semiconductor structure includes a substrate, a gate structure disposed over the substrate, a dielectric material disposed over the substrate and the gate structure, a conductive structure extending within the dielectric material, and a void extending within the dielectric material and disposed over the gate structure.
US11244851B2
A method for manufacturing an SOI wafer by performing a sacrificial oxidation treatment and reducing a thickness of an SOI layer of the SOI wafer, in which: the SOI wafer on which the sacrificial oxidation treatment is performed has a film thickness distribution with a one-way sloping shape; a thermal oxidation in the sacrificial oxidation treatment is performed by combining a non-rotating oxidation and a rotating oxidation, using a vertical heat treatment furnace; whereby a thermal oxide film having an oxide film thickness distribution with a one-way sloping shape canceling the film thickness distribution with a one-way sloping shape of the SOI layer, is formed on a surface of the SOI layer; and by removing the formed thermal oxide film, an SOI wafer having an SOI layer whose film thickness distribution with a one-way sloping shape has been resolved is manufactured.
US11244845B2
A vacuum chamber having a vacuum chamber; at least one processing region arranged in the vacuum chamber; and a substrate holding arrangement for transporting and/or positioning a substrate or multiple substrates in the processing region, wherein the substrate holding arrangement has: a first drive train with a first substrate holder, the first substrate holder being configured to rotatably hold one or more substrates, a second drive train with a first support arm, wherein the first substrate holder is held rotatably by the first support arm, a third drive train with a second substrate holder, the second substrate holder being configured for rotatably holding one or more substrates, and a fourth drive train with a second support arm, wherein the second substrate holder is held rotatably by the second support arm, and wherein the first, second, third and fourth drive trains are each configured to be controllable independently of one another.
US11244841B2
Systems and methods are described for integrated decomposition and scanning of a semiconducting wafer, where a single chamber is utilized for decomposition and scanning of the wafer of interest.
US11244836B2
A semiconductor apparatus according to the invention of the present application includes a base plate, a lead frame having a first surface and a second surface being a surface opposite to the first surface, the second surface being bonded to an upper surface of the base plate, a semiconductor device provided on the first surface of the lead frame, and a mold resin covering the upper surface of the base plate, the lead frame, and the semiconductor device, wherein the mold resin is provided with a terminal insertion hole that extends from the surface of the mold resin to the lead frame and in which a press-fit terminal is inserted, and the lead frame is provided with an opening portion which intercommunicates with the terminal insertion hole and into which the press-fit terminal is press-fitted.
US11244834B2
The present disclosure describes an apparatus and a method for a chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) process that recycles used slurry as another slurry supply. The apparatus includes a pad on a rotation platen, a first feeder and a second feeder where each of the first and the second feeder is fluidly connected to a respective flow regulator and configured to dispense a first and a second slurry on the pad, a flotation module configured to provide a recycled slurry, and a detection module configured to detect a polishing characteristic associated with polishing the substrate. The flotation module further includes an inlet configured to provide a fluid sprayed from the pad and a tank configured to store chemicals that include a frother and a collector configured to chemically bond with the fluid.
US11244833B1
The present disclosure provides a self-aligned two-time forming method capable of preventing sidewalls from being deformed, comprises sequentially growing a first silicon nitride layer, a first silicon oxide layer, a titanium nitride layer, a second silicon oxide layer, a second silicon nitride layer and a polysilicon layer on a via layer from bottom to top; defining a pattern by using the polysilicon layer as a hard mask, and etching the second silicon nitride layer to an upper surface of the second silicon oxide layer to form a plurality of silicon nitride pattern structures from the second silicon nitride layer; forming sidewalls on sidewalls of the plurality of silicon nitride pattern structures; removing the silicon nitride pattern structures in the sidewalls; etching the silicon nitride layer and the titanium nitride layer by using the sidewalls as a hard mask to form a titanium nitride pattern structure.
US11244827B2
The present disclosure provides a method for manufacturing a semiconductor structure. The method includes forming a photo-sensitive layer on a first surface of a semiconductor substrate. The photo-sensitive layer has a top surface. The method also includes obtaining a first profile of the first surface of the semiconductor substrate, and obtaining a second profile of the top surface of the photo-sensitive layer. The method also includes calculating a vertical displacement profile of the semiconductor substrate according to the first profile and the second profile. An apparatus for manufacturing a semiconductor structure is also disclosed.
US11244825B2
Systems for depositing a transition metal chalcogenide film on a substrate by cyclical deposition process are disclosed. The methods may include, contacting the substrate with at least one transition metal containing vapor phase reactant comprising at least one of a hafnium precursor, or a zirconium precursor, and contacting the substrate with at least one chalcogen containing vapor phase reactant. Semiconductor device structures including a transition metal chalcogenide film deposited by the methods of the disclosure are also provided.
US11244822B2
An apparatus includes a vacuum chamber, a wafer transfer mechanism, a first gas source, a second gas source and a reuse gas pipe. The vacuum chamber is divided into at least three reaction regions including a first reaction region, a second reaction region and a third reaction region. The wafer transfer mechanism is structured to transfer a wafer from the first reaction region to the third reaction region via the second reaction region. The first gas source supplies a first gas to the first reaction region via a first gas pipe, and a second gas source supplies a second gas to the second reaction region via a second gas pipe. The reuse gas pipe is connected between the first reaction region and the third reaction region for supplying an unused first gas collected in the first reaction region to the third reaction region.
US11244818B2
A method for operating a data processing system to find peaks in a mass spectrum that includes an ordered set of measurements of the abundances of species as a function of the mass/charge ratio of the species is disclosed. The method includes selecting a candidate blob that has a plurality of blob peaks from the mass spectrum. The data processing system selects a candidate blob peak for characterization. The candidate blob peak is approximated by a first species peak using a species peak model having a plurality of parameters by fitting the species peak model to a portion of the blob that has values that are substantially free of contributions from other species peaks that overlap with the first species peak and that are not represented by the species peak model. The first species peak is then subtracted from the candidate blob.
US11244810B2
An electric field sensor includes a probe, a cylindrical probe guide, an insulating member, a preload spring and a connector. The probe serves as an inner conductor of a coaxial transmission path and has a portion forming a monopole antenna at a tip end to be in constant contact with a microwave transmission window by a pressing force of a built-in spring thereof. The probe guide is disposed at an outer side of the probe and serves as an outer conductor of the coaxial transmission path. The insulating member is disposed between the probe and the probe guide. The preload spring preloads the probe guide downward and presses the probe guide so that the tip end of the probe guide comes in constant contact with the planar slot antenna. The connector is connected to the probe and the probe guide to connect coaxial signal cables for extracting signals.
US11244803B2
To provide a plasma processing apparatus or an operating method of a plasma processing apparatus with improved yield. The plasma processing apparatus includes: a sample stage disposed in the processing chamber in a vacuum container; a plasma forming space in which plasma for processing a wafer is formed above the sample stage and a lower space communicated with the plasma forming space below; an exhaust port disposed at a bottom portion of the lower space; a heater for heating a lower portion of the vacuum container surrounding the lower space; a first vacuum gauge that detects a pressure in the processing chamber during the processing of the wafer; a second vacuum gauge for calibration communicated with an opening disposed in an inner wall of the processing chamber surrounding an outer periphery of the lower space below the first vacuum gauge; and a correction unit that is configured to correct an output of the first vacuum gauge by using outputs of the first and second vacuum gauges when a pressure in the processing chamber is at a pressure value regarded as 0 and at a plurality of pressure values higher than the pressure value.
US11244795B2
A smart speaker is disclosed with an interactive speaker grille. In one embodiment a smart speaker comprises a housing with a speaker grille comprising a plurality of openings. Circuitry coupled to the speaker grille is configured to sense direct user interaction with one or more of a plurality of regions of the speaker grille and to generate corresponding electrical signals indicative of the one or more regions of the speaker grille experiencing direct user interaction. The circuitry can include portions in the path of sound transmission to detect user interaction with regions of the grille and portions outside the path of sound transmission for controlling aspects of the smart speaker (e.g. speaker volume, radio station or media stream selection) based on the particular regions touched.
US11244793B2
Disclosed are a hybrid aluminum electrolytic capacitor and a method of producing the same. The preparation method includes impregnating a capacitive element in a fluid to improve the low-temperature property, where the fluid is prepared from a first organic solvent having a boiling point of 180° C. or more and a melting point of −50° C. or less, a small number of an inorganic or organic acid and an amine having a boiling point of 180° C. or more.
US11244788B2
A ceramic electronic device includes: a ceramic main body that has internal electrode layers inside thereof and has a parallelepiped shape in which a part of one of the internal electrode layers is extracted to a first edge face of the parallelepiped shape and a part of another internal electrode layer is extracted to a second edge face of the parallelepiped shape facing the first edge face; external electrodes that are respectively formed on the first edge face and the second edge face and extend to at least one of side faces of the ceramic main body, wherein an interval between side edge portions of the external electrodes on the at least one of side faces is shorter than center portions of the external electrodes on the at least one of side faces.
US11244787B2
A capacitor includes: a plurality of bottom electrodes; a dielectric layer formed over the bottom electrodes; and a top electrode formed over the dielectric layer, wherein the top electrode includes a carbon-containing material and a germanium-containing material that fill a gap between the bottom electrodes.
US11244786B2
This disclosure relates generally to substrates having three dimensional (3D) inductors and methods of manufacturing the same. In one embodiment, the 3D inductor is a solenoid inductor where the exterior edge contour of the winding ends is substantially the same and substantially aligned with the exterior edge contour of the exterior edge contour of conductive vias that connect the windings. In this manner, there is no overhang between the windings and the conductive vias. In another embodiment of the 3D inductor, via columns connect connector plates. The via column attachment surfaces of each of the conductive vias in each of the columns is the same and substantially aligned. In this manner, carrier pads are not needed and there is no overhand between the conductive vias.
US11244780B2
A storage choke is disclosed. In an embodiment a storage choke includes at least two coils and a core, wherein the core couples the coils to one another, and wherein the core comprises a first region comprising a first material and a second region comprising a second material that is different from the first material.
US11244774B2
A resistor includes: a first resin protruding part formed in the bottom surface of an exterior material (mold resin body), on an end opposite to a leading side of harness wires along the length of the exterior material near a through-hole piercing an upper surface and a lower surface of the exterior material, and a second resin protruding part, surrounding the circumference of a metal bush embedded in the through-hole and the entire circumference of the resistor substrate. Moreover, a concave part is formed in a region sandwiched between the first resin protruding part and the second resin protruding part.
US11244772B2
A flat cable includes: a plurality of conductors arranged in parallel; an insulating layer formed, on first surfaces of the plurality of conductors and on second surfaces that are opposite surfaces of the first surfaces, along the plurality of conductors; an exposed portion where the first surfaces at end portions of the conductors are exposed to outside; and a reinforcement plate formed on the second surfaces opposite to the exposed portion. On the second surfaces opposite to the exposed portion, the reinforcement plate is directly formed on the conductors, and on the second surfaces opposite to the first surfaces that are in continuous with the exposed portion, the reinforcement plate is formed between the conductors and the insulating layer on the second surfaces.
US11244767B1
Computerized method requiring claim adjudication to receive patient payment for a product or service provided by a healthcare provider to a patient with full financial responsibility, including receiving a patient claim; re-pricing the claim, automatically initiating a real-time payment authorization request through a payment gateway; receiving a real-time notification that the patient's funding source has verified funds availability, with the funds to be deposited in a designated account for subsequent provider payment; sending the healthcare provider the copay and plan pay pricing edits; and concurrently, sending the patient a payment e-receipt electronically, indicating the total amount due and the amount debited from the patient's funding source, the plan payment, with any difference the copay to be paid directly to the provider. Automatic real-time patient audit enabling payment e-receipts indicate claim adjudications and claim reversals as well as adjudicated copay and plan pay amounts, with the plan payment eliminating adjudication circumvention.
US11244759B2
The technology described herein is directed to a health-monitoring service that facilitates contextual grouping of sensor channels for healthcare monitoring. In some implementations, clustering algorithms and predictive models can be used to dynamically select the sensor channels associated with a mobile communication device that are monitored. In this manner, only those sensor channels that provide meaningful signals are monitored.
US11244758B2
Apparatus and associated methods relate to a Self-Validating System (SVS) which includes an Electronic Self-Validating Module (ESVM) that may be employed within a medical device, operable to receive and to transmit wireless transmissions to and from a personal electronic mobile device, the mobile device executing a Self-Validating Medical Device Remote Control (SVMDRC) application, also known as the mobile app, operable to control the ESVM, the mobile device and the ESVM further executing a pre-determined sequence of instructions at a pre-determined frequency, operable to perform a set of safety (validation) checks on the mobile device, and the ESVM. In an illustrative example, changes (updates) to the mobile device's operating system, the app, or the hardware on the mobile device may be detected by the mobile device, and may advantageously re-validate the mobile device automatically.
US11244754B2
A method which includes: Obtaining a training set which comprises: multiple data pairs each comprising: (i) a raw sensory signal acquired by a medical imaging system, and (ii) a processed image generated by the medical imaging system from the raw sensory signal; and a classification label for each of the data pairs. Based on the training set, training an artificial neural network (ANN), wherein the training comprises minimizing a global loss which is a weighted sum of: a loss between the classification labels and classification predictions by the ANN, and a similarity loss between the processed images and images generated by an intermediate layer of the ANN. The training is such that the trained ANN is configured, for a new raw sensory signal: to predict a new classification, and to generate a new image by the intermediate layer of the ANN.
US11244748B2
Features for assessing patient compliance with therapeutic usage of an inhaler, such as a nebulizer, are disclosed. Nebulizer therapy accessories include mouthpiece, mask and adaptor (i.e. an attachment to a mouthpiece or mask) that may be coupled with the nebulizer. The nebulizer therapy accessory includes at least one sensor that detects a physical parameter generated by a user's body and generates a signal. The signal is used to determine therapy compliance, which may be communicated to the patient and/or the patient's physician.
US11244743B2
According to embodiments of the present invention, similarity metrics or measures of similarity may be combined using an adaptive weighting scheme. A subset of entities from a first set of entities that have a known relationship is randomly selected. The subset is combined with a second set of entities that have an unknown relationship to each other and/or to the first set of entities. At least two different measures of similarity (similarity metrics) between the first set and the combined second set (including the subset) is determined for each entity in the second set. For each entity in the second set, the at least two different measures of similarity are compared, and a weight is assigned adaptively to each measure of similarity based on the magnitude of the measure of similarity. The weighted measures of similarity are combined to determine an aggregate adaptively weighted similarity score for each entity.
US11244738B2
Provided are multi-chip packages. A multi-chip package includes a first memory chip and a second memory chip on a printed circuit board; a memory controller electrically connected to the first memory chip and the second memory chip via a first bonding wire and a second bonding wire; and a strength control module configured to control a drive strength of each of a first output driver of the first memory chip and a second output driver of the second memory chip, wherein the memory controller includes an interface circuit configured to receive each of first test data and second test data from the first output driver and the second output driver in which the drive strength is set by the strength control module, and output detection data for detecting whether the first bonding wire and the bonding wire are short-circuited based on the first and second test data.
US11244733B2
Methods, systems, and devices for techniques to mitigate disturbances of unselected memory cells in a memory array during an access operation are described. A shunt line may be formed between a plate of a selected memory cell and a digit line of the selected memory cell to couple the plate to the digit line during the access operation. A switching component may be positioned on the shunt line. The switching component may selectively couple the plate to the digit line based on instructions received from a memory controller. By coupling the plate to the digit line during the access operation, voltages resulting on the plate by changes in the voltage level of the digit line may be reduced in magnitude or may be altered in type.
US11244729B1
A memory device to search for a voltage optimized to read a group of memory cells. In response to a read command, the memory device measures first signal and noise characteristics of the memory cells by reading the memory cells at first test voltages. Based on the first signal and noise characteristics, the memory device may determine that the optimized read voltage is outside of a range of the first test voltages. In response, the memory device determines, based on the first signal and noise characteristics, an estimate of the optimized read voltage, and measures second signal and noise characteristics by reading at second test voltages configured around the estimate. The optimized read voltage can be computed based at least in part on the second signal and noise characteristics. The memory device retrieves data from the memory cells using the optimized read voltage.
US11244728B2
According to one embodiment, the semiconductor memory medium includes a first memory cell, a first word line coupled to the first memory cell, and a row decoder coupled to the first word line. A write operation is executed multiple times on the first memory cell within a first period from after an execution of an erase operation to an execution of a next erase operation. The write operation includes at least one of program loops each including a program operation and a verify operation. In the verify operation, the row decoder applies a verify voltage to the first word line. The verify voltage is set in accordance with a number of executed write operations on the first memory cell within the first period.
US11244726B2
A semiconductor storage device includes word lines extending in first and second directions, and separated from each other in a third direction, sense amplifier circuits that partially overlap the word lines in the third direction, memory strings intersecting the word lines and extending in the third direction, memory-side bit lines extending in the first direction, separated from each other in the second direction, and including first and second adjacent memory-side bit lines, circuit-side bit lines between the word lines and the sense amplifier circuits and partially overlapping the respective memory-side bit lines in the third direction, and contact plugs extending in the third direction and respectively connecting the memory-side bit lines and the circuit-side bit lines. The contact plugs include first and second contract plugs that are electrically connected to the first and second memory-side bit lines, respectively, and are not aligned along the first or second direction.
US11244722B2
Programmable interposers for connecting integrated circuits, methods for programming programmable interposers, and integrated circuit packaging are provided. The programmable interposers are electrically reconfigurable to allow custom system-in-package (SiP) operation and configuration, field configurability, and functional obfuscation for secure integrated circuits fabricated in non-trusted environments. The programmable interposer includes, in one implementation, an interposer substrate and a programmable metallization cell (PMC) switch. The PMC switch is formed on the interposer substrate and is coupled between a signal input and a signal output. The PMC switch is electrically configurable between a high resistance state and a low resistance state.
US11244720B2
Disclosed is an operating method of an electronic device, which includes receiving input data, selecting a program voltage pattern corresponding to the input data from among a plurality of program voltage patterns for storing the input data in a memristor array circuit, and storing the input data in the memristor array circuit depending on the program voltage pattern thus selected. Each of the plurality of program voltage patterns includes a plurality of voltage pulses in which a pulse magnitude gradually increases over time.
US11244719B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a substrate including a logic circuit, a memory cell array disposed over the substrate, a first conductive group including a plurality of bit lines and a first upper source line that are coupled to the memory cell array and spaced apart from each other and a first upper wire that is coupled to the logic circuit, an insulating structure covering the first conductive group.
US11244705B2
A system includes a plurality of optical identifiers and a reader for the optical identifiers. Each optical identifier has an optical substrate and a volume hologram (e.g., with unique data, such as a code page) in the optical substrate. The reader for the optical identifiers includes an illumination source (e.g., a laser), and a camera. The illumination source is configured to direct light into a selected one of the optical identifiers that has been placed into the reader to produce an image of the associated volume holograms at the camera. The camera is configured to capture the image. The captured image may be stored in a digital format by the system.
US11244674B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for suppressing hotword triggers when detecting a hotword in recorded media are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving, by a computing device, audio corresponding to playback of an item of media content. The actions further include determining, by the computing device, that the audio includes an utterance of a predefined hotword and that the audio includes an audio watermark. The actions further include analyzing, by the computing device, the audio watermark. The actions further include based on analyzing the audio watermark, determining, by the computing device, whether to perform speech recognition on a portion of the audio following the predefined hotword.
US11244671B2
A model training method and apparatus is disclosed, where the model training method acquires first output data of a student model for first input data and second output data of a teacher model for second input data and trains the student model such that the first output data and the second output data are not distinguished from each other. The student model and the teacher model have different structures.
US11244665B1
A musical instrument mallet includes a head extending from a first end to a second end, the head having a steel core; and a foam shell surrounding the steel core; a handle attached to the head at the second end; the head is used to inflict force upon an instrument; and the steel core and foam shell create a low volume sound with the instrument.
US11244664B2
A kick drum pedal assembly includes a footboard, a beater, and a travel limiter. The beater is connected to the footboard and is configured to rotate in response to depressing the footboard. The travel limiter is configured to limit rotation of the beater. The travel limiter has an arm connected to the drum beater and a stop connected to the footboard. The arm and drum beater are confined to rotate in unison. The arm is configured to engage the stop to limit rotation of the beater to a desired forward position in response depressing the footboard.
US11244662B1
A folding marimba may include a plurality of rails, a plurality of natural bars suspended from some of the rails, and a plurality of accidental bars suspended from some of the rails. In some embodiments, the rails may be mounted to resonator panels. The rails and/or the resonator panels may be configured for hinged rotation such that the marimba is configurable in an unfolded position having a first length and a folded position having a second length that is less than the first length. For example, the second length may be about half of the first length.
US11244661B2
A sound damping device includes a sound damper and a support member. The sound damper includes a contact surface configured to contact a vibration member and includes a through-hole having a first opening formed on the contact surface. The support member is coupled to the sound damper to support the sound damper and cause the vibration member and the contact surface to come into contact with each other. The support member includes an air hole that is connected to the through-hole of the sound damper and that penetrates through the support member.
US11244660B2
An electronic device that includes a display and an eye tracker configured to collect eye tracking data regarding a gaze of one or more of a user's eyes across the display is disclosed herein. The electronic device includes processing circuitry that is operatively coupled to the display and configured to foveate one or more areas of the display according to the eye tracking data. If the eye tracking data input is lost, the processing circuitry is configured to recover from the loss of eye tracking data by changing one or more aspects of the foveated areas (e.g., size, resolution, etc.) until a threshold is satisfied. As time elapses since loss of eye tracking, the foveated areas move toward a center or a salient region of the display.
US11244655B2
A method and device for modulating a brightness-grayscale curve of a display device are provided. The method includes determining an applicable standard brightness-grayscale curve for eye perception; obtaining theoretical brightness values corresponding to respective grayscales of the display device based on the applicable standard brightness-grayscale curve for eye perception and at least one of an eye pupil change factor, an environmental factor and a factor related to the display device; modulating brightnesses of the display device according to the theoretical brightness values corresponding to the respective grayscales of the display device. The above method is a solution to the problems of low grayscale details, backlighting, high grayscale saturation, and transition-color unevenness. The problem is solved that a visible grayscale in a dimmed session is no longer distinguishable in a bright environment. And a quantifiable standard for modulation control is provided.
US11244647B2
An image processing device includes a memory that stores a program and a processor that executes the program stored in the memory to perform a process. The process includes obtaining input image data that is generated by combining, in a horizontal direction, an effective display area of first image data and an effective display area obtained by expanding an effective display area of second image data in the vertical direction, the vertical size of the second image data being smaller than the vertical size of the first image data; and generating second output image data corresponding to the second image data by reducing the vertical size of second intermediate image data among first intermediate image data and the second intermediate image data, which are obtained by dividing the input image data in the horizontal direction, based on the vertical size of the effective display area of the second image data.
US11244646B1
A display device and a display control method are provided. The display device is applicable to a display panel. The display device includes a display driver integrated circuit (IC), a gate driver in panel (GIP) circuit and a GIP check circuit. The GIP circuit includes a plurality of shift registers connected in series, and the shift registers may generate a plurality of gate driving signals to control operations of a plurality of rows of display units within the display panel, respectively. The GIP check circuit may sequentially check whether a plurality of specific gate driving signals among the gate driving signals are available. The display driver IC may generate a check result according to at least one signal from the display panel, and selectively adjust display data corresponding to an image to make the display panel display an adjusted image according to the check result.
US11244644B2
The disclosure provides a shift register including a node controller configured to control charging and discharging of a node Q and a node QB, and an output circuit including a first buffer transistor configured to output a first scan signal, a second buffer transistor configured to output a second scan signal and a third buffer transistor configured to output a carry signal in response to electric potentials of the node Q and the node QB. The first buffer transistor and the second buffer transistor have different channel region widths. The output circuit may further include a first dummy buffer transistor having a common gate and common drain connection structure with the first buffer transistor.
US11244642B2
Disclosed are a display panel, a display device, and a method for driving the same. The display panel includes a plurality of data lines extending in a first direction, and at least one signal compensation line extending in a second direction, insulated from and intersecting with the plurality of data lines, a compensation capacitor is arranged at a position where the plurality of data lines intersect with the signal compensation line, and one terminal of the compensation capacitor is connected with one of the plurality of data lines, and the other terminal of the compensation capacitor is connected with the signal compensation line.
US11244629B2
A scan driver includes: a plurality of stages, each stage including: a logic circuit configured to transfer an input signal to a first node in response to a first clock signal, and to bootstrap the first node in response to a second clock signal; a carry output circuit configured to output the second clock signal as a carry signal that is provided as the input signal for a next stage in response to a voltage of the bootstrapped first node; and a masking controller configured to receive a masking signal and the carry signal, and to output the masking signal as a scan signal provided to a pixel row corresponding to the each stage in response to the carry signal.
US11244624B2
A pixel circuit and a driving method therefor, a display substrate, and a display device are provided. The pixel circuit includes: a light-emitting control circuit, used to control a potential of a first node in response to a first scan signal from a first scan signal terminal and a data signal from a data signal terminal, output a direct current power signal provided by a direct current power terminal to a second node in response to a light-emitting control signal from a light-emitting control signal terminal, and control switching-on and switching-off between a third node and a light-emitting element; a compensation circuit, used to adjust the potential of the first node according to a potential of the second node; and a driving circuit, used to output a driving signal to the third node in response to the potential of the first node and the potential of the second node.
US11244615B2
A display with a pixel circuit for driving a current-driven emissive element includes a feedback capacitor in series between the emissive element and a programming node of the pixel circuit. During driving, variations in the operating voltage of the emissive element due to variations in the current conveyed through the emissive element by a driving transistor are accounted for. The feedback capacitor generates voltage adjustments at the programming node that correspond to the variations at the emissive element, and thus reduces variations in light emission. A reset capacitor connected to a select line is selectively connected to the gate terminal of the driving transistor and resets the driving transistor prior to programming. The select line adjusts the voltage on the gate terminal to reset the driving transistor by the capacitive coupling of the select line to the gate terminal created by the reset capacitor.
US11244609B2
A display device and an OLED display panel thereof. The OLED display panel includes a non-transparent display area including first OLED pixels, a transparent display area including second OLED pixels, a display driving chip, a first gate driving circuit group. For a same of image, a pulse width of the second gate driving signal for the second OLED pixels is substantially the same as a pulse width of the first gate driving signal for the first OLED pixels; and intersection points of a boundary line and a pixel row where the first OLED pixels in a specified row are located falls within a range of intersection points of the boundary line and a corresponding pixel row of the second OLED pixels.
US11244608B2
An image processing method, comprising the following steps: obtaining a plurality of first luminance values, wherein the plurality of first luminance values corresponds to a first subpixel group comprising a target subpixel and a plurality of adjacent subpixels; and performing a subpixel rendering conversion on a target luminance value of the plurality of first luminance values corresponding to the target subpixel according to a weighting matrix and all of the plurality of first luminance values, so that the target luminance value is converted to a rendered luminance value, wherein the weighting matrix comprises a plurality of weighting parameters corresponding to the first subpixel group, and the weighting matrix is time-variant.
US11244603B1
Light-emitting panel, driving method, fabricating method, and display device are provided. The light-emitting panel includes a plurality of light-emitting units arranged in an array. Each light-emitting unit includes a light-emission control module and at least one light-emitting element. The at least one light-emitting element is electrically connected to the light-emission control module. The light-emitting panel also includes a plurality of data lines arranged in a first direction. Each data line is electrically connected to light-emission control modules of light-emitting units that are arranged in a second direction. The second direction intersects the first direction. The light-emitting panel also includes a plurality of scan lines arranged in the second direction. Each scan line of the plurality of scan lines is electrically connected to light-emission control modules of light-emitting units that are arranged in the first direction. The light-emitting panel also includes a first power line and a second power line.
US11244600B2
A display device and a driving method thereof are disclosed, and the display device includes a first pixel connected to a first data line, a first scan line, and a first power source line, emitting light in a first period, and not emitting light in a second period following the first period; a second pixel connected to a second data line, the first scan line, and the first power source line, not emitting light in the first period, and emitting light in the second period; a current sensor sensing a current flowing through the first power source line in the first period to provide a first sensing current value, and sensing the current flowing through the first power source line in the second period to provide a second sensing current value; and a memory storing a first block target current value corresponding to the first sensing current value and a second block target current value corresponding to the second sensing current value.
US11244599B2
A display device includes a plurality of pixels respectively coupled to first scan lines, second scan lines and data lines; and a scan driver to supply first scan signals to the first scan lines and second scan signals to the second scan lines, wherein the pixel includes a first transistor having a gate electrode connected to a first node, one electrode connected to a first power line, and other electrode connected to a second node; a second transistor having a gate electrode connected to a first scan line, one electrode connected to a data line, and other electrode connected to the first node, the second transistor being turned on in a first time period of a frame when the first scan signal is applied; a third transistor having a gate electrode connected to a second scan line, one electrode connected to the second node, and other electrode connected to an initialization line, the third transistor being turned on in the first time period and at least one second time period of the frame when the second scan signal is applied; a storage capacitor having one electrode connected to the first node and other electrode connected to the second node; and a light emitting diode having an anode connected to the second node and a cathode connected to a second power line, wherein the number of the first and second scan signals applied to the pixel during the frame period is different from each other.
US11244592B2
A display device according to an embodiment is configured to include a host system subsampling and transmitting data of a first color among a plurality of colors of input image data; a timing controller interpolating the data of the subsampled first color in data received from the host system to reconstruct the image data and outputting the reconstructed image data; a display panel having a plurality of pixels connected to a gate line and a data line; and a driving circuit driving the gate line and the data line under a control of the timing controller to supply data voltages corresponding to the reconstructed image data to the plurality of pixels.
US11244590B2
A gamma voltage generator included in a display device includes a gamma reference voltage storage block configured to store gamma reference voltage values at reference gray levels, an additional offset storage block configured to store additional offset values for the gamma reference voltage values at the reference gray levels, an additional offset setting block configured to store gamma select information representing whether the additional offset values are to be applied or not, a gamma reference voltage calculation block configured to generate final gamma reference voltage values by selectively adding the additional offset values to the gamma reference voltage values depending on the gamma select information, and a gamma reference voltage generation block configured to generate gamma reference voltages corresponding to the final gamma reference voltage values.
US11244587B2
A flexible display panel and a flexible display device are described. The flexible display panel includes a bending region, a non-bending region. A number of deformation detection units are disposed in the bending region. The deformation detection units each includes a first electrode, a piezoelectric (PZT) material function layer and a second electrode which are sequentially stacked in a direction perpendicular to a light-emitting surface of the flexible display panel. The density of the PZT units and PZT function layer thickness may vary depending on their distance from the bending axis.
US11244586B2
A method of testing a display module includes preparing a display module, a first circuit connected to the display module, and a second circuit connected to the display module and connected to a guide part, disposing the first circuit on a first mounting part of a stage, disposing the second circuit and the guide part on the first circuit and a second mounting part adjacent to the first mounting part of the stage, testing the display module, and removing the guide part from the second circuit.
US11244581B2
A unitary sheet-like article has a material sheet including a first edge and an elastic sheet including an aperture and a second edge. The material sheet and the elastic sheet overlap at an overlap portion defined between the first and second edges. The material sheet and the elastic sheet are bonded together at the overlap portion. The aperture of the elastic sheet is not located on the overlap portion.
US11244579B2
A driving simulation system is configured to train a driver. The system includes a simulated driver cockpit which includes a steering wheel and at least one video display providing a simulated driving environment to the driver. The system further includes a computerized simulation control module including programming configured to operate a driving simulation through the simulated driver cockpit. The driving simulation includes driving rules. The programming is further configured to monitor performance of the driver during the driving simulation, compare the performance of the driver to the driving rules, and while the driving simulation is still in operation, provide untextualized feedback to the driver regarding performance of the driver.
US11244575B2
Providing targeted, evidence-based recommendations to improve digital content quality, in one aspect, may include partitioning digital content into a sequence of logical content modules. Quality scores for the logical content modules along a plurality of quality dimensions may be determined. User interactions with the digital content on a user interface are monitored. Raw events generated from user interaction in accessing the digital content are captured. Raw event patterns for the logical content modules are detected. The raw event patterns of user interaction are transformed into a set of dynamic states representing potential user experience and performance. The set of dynamic states are associated with a respective logical content module. The quality dimensions of the logical content modules and associated quality scores are correlated with the dynamic states.
US11244569B2
A method for safe positioning and related products are provided. Three neighbor awareness network (NAN) devices at a road junction are determined, and a NAN among an electronic device and the three NAN devices is established, where each of the three NAN devices in the NAN locates at a fixed position. Positions of the electronic device and positions of a vehicle in a same plane coordinate map are obtained, where the electronic device and the vehicle are positioned by the three NAN devices, and determine that the vehicle is approaching the electronic device according to positional variations of the electronic device and the vehicle. A distance between the electronic device and the vehicle is determined according to the positions of the electronic device and the positions of the vehicle, and reminding information is outputted when the distance is smaller than a preset threshold.
US11244565B2
A method at a computing device associated with a road user, the method including detecting actions of a second road user; checking the actions against rules associated with the computing device; determining that the actions of the second road user contravene the rules; and providing a report regarding the actions of the second road user.
US11244564B2
An emergency vehicle detection system for a vehicle includes a plurality of camera assemblies having a camera and at least one microphone. At least one processor processes image data captured by the cameras, and processes outputs of the microphones. The at least one processor processes the outputs of the microphones to detect a sound source indicative of a siren emanating from an emergency vehicle exterior of the equipped vehicle, and to determine the direction of the detected sound source. Responsive to detection of the sound source and determination of the direction of the detected sound source, the at least one processor processes image data captured by at least one of the cameras that has its field of view encompassing the detected sound source to confirm that the detected sound source is a siren emanating from an emergency vehicle.
US11244562B2
Provided are an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a recording medium that allow a pedestrian or a bicycle to cross a crosswalk pattern projected by a vehicle more safely. The information processing apparatus includes: a controller that controls a notification to be made by a notification apparatus that prompts a notification target person to cross; and an intention discriminator that discriminates an intention of crossing of the notification target person with respect to the notification. The controller controls the notification apparatus to stop the notification in a case where the intention discriminator discriminates that the notification target person has no intention of crossing.
US11244550B1
A pin-type anti-theft tag includes a safety pin, a tag body, a tag hole suitable for inserting the safety pin, at least one sensor, and a first lock body and a second lock body located in the tag body. Both the first lock body and the second lock body need to be located in a release position at the same time, so that the safety pin can be successfully removed from the tag body. The first lock body is mounted at an unlocking hole of the tag body, and a spring lock retainer is arranged at a lower portion of the first lock body. The second lock body is mounted below the tag hole of the tag body, and a pin rod of the safety pin is inserted into the second lock body along the tag hole to play a locking role.
US11244538B2
Games, lotteries, and/or sweepstakes as well as tickets, systems, technologies, and/or methods related thereto. In some embodiments, unique games and/or unique administrations of games and/or unique tickets useful for participating in games. In certain preferred embodiments, games which can be administrated or participated in contemporaneously with an event, such as a sporting event, music performance, or trade show (e.g., at the same time or during a live event). In certain of such preferred embodiments, participants in games make no payment to participate in the games.
US11244534B2
Certain embodiments of the disclosure can include methods and apparatus for electronic gaming. The methods and apparatus can include hosting and/or executing a computer game that can include one or more contestants. The methods and apparatus can include displaying the contest to contestants and noncontestants. And the methods and apparatus can include receiving a wager from a wagerer regarding an outcome of the contest.
US11244529B2
A system is provided and generally includes a server, an associate computing device, and a customer computing device. The server may receive data from the customer computing device indicating that a customer is picking up items from a predetermined location. The server may compute an estimated wait time for the customer based on one or more machine learning processes. In some examples, a number of unexpected customers that may arrive is determined. The machine learning process may compute the estimated wait time based on the number of unexpected customers. The machine learning process may be trained with historical data. The estimated wait time is transmitted to the customer computing device, and is displayed to the customer. In some examples, the server sends a list of customers waiting to be serviced to the associate computing device. The list may be prioritized based on estimated wait times for those customers.
US11244526B2
In accordance with one embodiment, an access control system is disclosed. The access control system comprises an access control panel including a touchable surface, a multi-dimensional touch sensor under the touchable surface, and a processor coupled to the multi-dimensional touch sensor. The multi-dimensional touch sensor captures a multi-dimensional motion signal including a micro-motion signal component representing neuro-mechanical micro-motions of a user touching the multi-dimensional touch sensor. The processor performs signal processing of the multi-dimensional motion signal to obtain the micro-motion signal component; and extracts unique values of predetermined features from the micro-motion signal component to form a neuro-fingerprint (NFP) that uniquely identifies the user. The NFP can be used as a gatekeeper to control entry into homes, offices, buildings, or other real properly typically protected by access control.
US11244518B2
Digital stages for presenting digital three-dimensional (3D) models are described. A service provider system, such as a content creation service provider system, supports generation of digital content based on incorporation of digital 3D models of objects into digital 3D environments. In particular, this model incorporation and digital content generation is supported by configuring 3D environments as “stages,” which are implemented using data that describes characteristics of the digital 3D stages (e.g., background imagery, environment geometry, lighting, stage cameras, and so forth) according to a schema. Due to such configuration, the service provider can expose digital 3D stages for selection, incorporate digital 3D models at predefined positions within selected stages, and present views of incorporated models via the stages from predefined cameras. The service provider system thus enables client device users to simply select predefined positions and cameras, rather enter code to program 3D environments for presenting 3D objects.
US11244515B2
In a method of mapping a real-world process control environment, a mobile device is registered at a reference location, and positions and orientations of the mobile device are tracked using an inertial measurement unit. A user input indicating that a new node is to be added to a 3D map of the process control environment is detected, and a 3D position of a real-world object relative to the reference location is determined, or caused to be determined, based on a tracked position and orientation of the mobile device. A node database is caused to add the new node to the 3D map of the process control environment, at least by causing the 3D position of the real-world object to be stored in association with the new node.
US11244512B2
Hybrid rendering is described for a wearable display that is attached to a tethered computer. In one example a process include determining a position and orientation of a wearable computing device, determining a rate of motion of the wearable computing device, comparing the rate of motion to a threshold, if the rate of motion is above the threshold, then rendering a view of a scene at the wearable computing device using the position and orientation information, and displaying the rendered view of the scene.
US11244508B2
A device may determine a view of a user of a head mounted display. The device may obtain tracking data relating to a surgical procedure. The device may obtain, from an imaging device, surgical imaging relating to the surgical procedure. The device may orient models of objects based on the tracking data and the view of the user of the head mounted display, wherein the objects includes the imaging device. The device may augment, by providing output to the head mounted display for display, the view of the user with contextual information relating to the objects based on orienting the models based on the tracking data and the view of the user, wherein the contextual information includes the surgical imaging captured by an imaging device.
US11244504B2
In one embodiment, a computing system accesses a plurality of images captured by one or more cameras from a plurality of camera poses. The computing system generates, using the plurality of images, a plurality of semantic segmentations comprising semantic information of one or more objects captured in the plurality of images. The computing system accesses a three-dimensional (3D) model of the one or more objects. The computing system determines, using the plurality of camera poses, a corresponding plurality of virtual camera poses relative to the 3D model of the one or more objects. The computing system generates a semantic 3D model by projecting the semantic information of the plurality of semantic segmentations towards the 3D model using the plurality of virtual camera poses.
US11244499B2
An example information processing apparatus stores part shape data indicating shapes of a plurality of kinds of terrain parts forming a terrain in a virtual space, and part arrangement data indicating an arrangement of the terrain parts in the virtual space. The information processing apparatus displaces each of the vertices of the disposed terrain parts, depending on the position of the vertex in the virtual space. The information processing apparatus renders an image of the virtual space including the terrain formed of the displaced terrain parts.
US11244480B2
According to one embodiment, a medical information processing apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to receive data acquired by scan for an object, and output a reconstructed image data based on the data and a trained model that accepts the data as input data and outputs the reconstructed image data corresponding to the data. The trained model is trained by learning using raw data generated based on a numerical phantom and the numerical phantom.
US11244474B1
A sample positioning system is disclosed. The system may include an imaging detector. The system may further include a controller communicatively coupled to the imaging detector and a sample stage, the controller including one or more processors configured to execute program instructions causing the one or more processors to: receive a current position of a field of view of the imaging detector; receive a target position of the sample; receive locations of reference features along a path; direct the sample stage to translate the sample along the path; direct the imaging detector to capture images of the reference features along the path; determine positioning errors of the sample stage along the path based on the images of the reference features; and adjust at least one of a velocity of the sample stage or the path to the target location based on the positioning errors during translation.
US11244461B2
The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for detecting an oil spill by using a satellite image, an apparatus for detecting an oil spill by using a satellite image, the apparatus including: a satellite image reception unit configured to receive a satellite image of a predicted oil spill area; a satellite image correction unit configured to correct the satellite image by compensating for the influences of the atmosphere and waves; a spectral angle mapper image generation unit configured to generate a spectral angle mapper image; a spectral vector distance image generation unit configured to generate a spectral vector distance image; and an oil spill area detection unit configured to derive the range of the oil spill area by combining the spectral angle mapper image and the spectral vector distance image together.
US11244447B2
A measurement device including a hardware processor that: extracts a frame image at a time of deep inspiration from a plurality of frame images of a dynamic image obtained by performing radiation imaging of a dynamic state of a chest of a subject; and performs cardiothoracic ratio measurement to the extracted frame image at the time of deep inspiration.
US11244443B2
Provided is an examination apparatus including a target image acquiring section that acquires a target image obtained by capturing an examination target; a target image masking section that masks a portion of the target image; a masked region predicting section that predicts an image of a masked region that is masked in the target image; a reproduced image generating section that generates a reproduced image using a plurality of predicted images predicted respectively for the plurality of masked regions; and a difference detecting section that detects a difference between the target image and the reproduced image.
US11244437B1
The complex motion associated with machines is a result of the superposition of various frequencies from the multiple component or elements inherent to the design of the machine. These motions can be captured remotely using position sensitive detectors which respond to specific wavelengths in the electromagnetic spectrum. Present embodiments include but are not limited to a video camera which is able to capture and record video data of an entire machine without contacting the machine, to visually study complex motions which vary both in time and spatially at different locations on the machine, wherein filters applied to the motion present in the video recording are used to identify frequencies of importance and to visualize their impact on the operation of the machine.
US11244435B2
A method and an apparatus for generating vehicle damage information are provided. The method includes: acquiring a damage area image of a target vehicle; performing image segmentation on the damage area image to obtain a first suspected damage area; inputting the damage area image to a pre-trained detection model to obtain a second suspected damage area, the detection model being configured to detect a location of the suspected damage area in the image; determining a damage image feature based on the first suspected damage area and the second suspected damage area; and inputting the damage image feature to a pre-trained classification model to generate a damage type, the classification model being configured to characterize a corresponding relationship between the image feature and the damage type.
US11244432B2
Image processing methods and systems apply filtering operations to images, wherein the filtering operations use filter costs which are based on image gradients in the images. In this way, image data is filtered for image regions in dependence upon the image gradients for the image regions. This may be useful for different scenarios such as when combining images to form a High Dynamic Range (HDR) image. The filtering operations may be used as part of a connectivity unit which determines connected image regions, and/or the filtering operations may be used as part of a blending unit which blends two or more images together to form a blended image.
US11244427B2
An image resolution processing method includes: obtaining motion information of a display apparatus; determining a motion direction and rate information of the display apparatus according to the motion information; determining, according to the motion direction, a target object that is at least one of a horizontal resolution and a vertical resolution; determining a target value according to the rate information and a standard resolution of the display apparatus; and generating a to-be-displayed image, a value of the target object in an image resolution of the to-be-displayed image being equal to the target value.
US11244424B2
Provided is a system and method for creating and providing a mosaic image based on an image tag-word by a mosaic service providing server, which includes: determining each tag-word for each image and classifying a plurality of images according to the determined tag-word; determining a target image among the plurality of images; providing a pixel image selection interface for selecting a pixel image for mosaicizing the determined target image based on the tag-words of the plurality of images; and creating a mosaic image for the target image based on the pixel image selected through the pixel image selection interface.
US11244421B2
Memories and methods for storing untransformed primitive blocks of variable size in a memory structure of a graphics processing system, the untransformed primitive blocks having been generated by geometry processing logic of the graphics processing system. The method includes: storing an untransformed primitive block in the memory structure, and increasing, by a predetermined amount, a current total amount of memory allocated for storing untransformed primitive blocks; determining an unused amount of the current total amount of memory allocated for storing untransformed primitive blocks; receiving a new untransformed primitive block for storing in the memory structure, and determining whether a size of the new untransformed primitive block is less than or equal to the unused amount; and if it is determined that the size of the new untransformed primitive block is less than or equal to the unused amount, storing the new untransformed primitive block in the memory structure.
US11244419B2
Embodiments described herein disclose a method for rendering a frame using graphics accelerated hardware comprising determining whether a command invoked in a script is a graphics command or a non-graphics command, executing the non-graphics command in a first thread, adding the graphics command to a first batch of a backlog of batches in a graphics context to be executed in a second thread, locking, in the first thread, the backlog of batches not executed yet by the second thread and adding a second batch that is empty to the backlog and swapping, in the first thread, the second batch with the first batch.
US11244408B2
Example embodiments of the present disclosure include a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program and a computer-implemented method for providing a native selling platform. In example embodiments, an operating system of a device is configured to share information with other devices and services using native functionalities of the operating system. An indication to share an image of an item is received. A sharing user interface is presented that includes a plurality of services with which the image of the item is sharable. A selection of a publication system from the plurality of services is received. In response, a listing user interface is presented that includes fields for input of parameters used to generate a listing for the item in the image. Parameters and an indication to list the item are received and are shared with the publication system to cause the publication system to create the listing for the item.
US11244406B1
A computer-implemented method for setting and tracking financial goals includes associating a user with a financial goal. The method also includes associating the user with a virtual community. The virtual community includes a number of users having similar financial profiles and similar financial goals. The method also includes tracking progress of the number of users of the virtual community towards their respective financial goals and providing to the user via a user interface a comparison of the user's progress towards the user's financial goal relative to the progress of the number of users of the virtual community towards their respective financial goals.
US11244401B2
A device and method is disclosed for automatically grouping data based on characteristics. The device and method include a communication interface for receiving data for component information, a storage medium for storing the received data, and a processor for performing an analysis on the received data to determine parameters included within the data and processing the data using correlations within the data to group or isolate data points. The correlations enable the processor to identify attributes associated with particular groups of the data.
US11244396B2
Methods and systems for a crypto-machine learning enabled blockchain based profile pricer are described herein. In one example, computer-readable instructions are stored in memory, and one or more processors execute the instructions to determine requested information for a user that can be displayed on a user interface in real-time or near real-time of the user's request. In addition, the provided data can be customized for the user based on a user profile stored in the memory as well as based on third party data stored in a database of related information. The data is communicated to the user using blockchains. At least some advantages of such an arrangement are providing requested data to a user, for display on a user interface, in a transparent, secure, and timely manner.
US11244392B2
Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for handling blockchain-based loan application. One of the methods includes: obtaining a loan application sent by the client device of the loan applicant, wherein the loan application comprises identity information of the loan applicant for identity authentication; determining that the loan application is approvable based on the identity information; performing a loan issuance logic to issue a loan to the loan applicant with a loan amount according to the loan application; and sending a request to one or more blockchain nodes of the blockchain network to store a transaction record of the loan to a blockchain, wherein the transaction record includes the identity information and the loan amount.
US11244390B2
Systems and methods for handling a telecommunications session in real-time are provided, where the telecommunications session is initiated by a calling device and intended for a receiving network. One system comprises a module, in communication with a communications network associated with the telecommunications session, configured for intercepting the telecommunications session prior to reaching the receiving network, obtaining address information associated with the calling device, determining a credit-related score for the telecommunications session based on the address information, identifying an appropriate unit of the receiving network based on the credit-related score, and routing the telecommunications session to the appropriate unit. The system also includes a memory for storing the module and a processor in communication with the memory to execute the module.
US11244388B2
Methods and systems for assessing performance and risk in financing supply chain are disclosed. The method includes accessing a behavioral data of an entity. The behavioral data comprises at least one of a primary data and a secondary data. The primary data is associated with one or more assets of the entity and comprises historical transaction data of the entity with financial institutions. The secondary data is sourced from an external system and comprises at least a credit information and a business transaction information of the entity. The method also includes generating a unified model for the entity based on the behavioral data of the entity. The method includes predicting a plurality of risk metrics based on the unified model using one or more machine learning models, and determining a credit rating of the entity based on the plurality of risk metrics and a confidence measure.
US11244387B1
A system and computer-implemented method for approving a dynamic mortgage application. The method includes determining a customer is approved for a mortgage, including calculating an amount in which the customer is approved for a mortgage loan based upon the information about the customer retrieved from a memory storage location. The method further includes determining a real estate property is mortgage ready, including calculating an appraisal value for the real estate property based upon the information about the real property retrieved from the memory storage location. The method still further includes comparing the calculated amount the customer is approved for a mortgage loan with the calculated appraisal value of the real estate property, and approving the mortgage application of the customer for the real estate property when the calculated amount the customer is approved for the mortgage loan meets or exceeds the calculated appraisal value of the real estate property.
US11244383B2
Systems and methods discussed herein are related to a rental ecosystem that implements cryptographically linked blockchain technology to provide a less costly, more convenient, and more secure rental process. A transparent ecosystem is described that verifies information about renters and landlords, thereby fostering trust between parties to a rental agreement. Auctioning technology is also described that reduces traditional frustrations, scam rates, time delays, and friction points in the rental process to benefit both tenants and landlords. Further, ecosystems described within this application offer the ability for community members to assist quality tenants by funding rental costs, potentially unfreezing millions of dollars tied up in rental deposits in the process.
US11244381B2
A method comprises a computer-implemented virtual reality (VR) system connecting VR devices in a collaborative VR session. The VR devices are associated with participants in a collaborative activity to perform an ordered procedure directed to a real-world assembly. The VR system receives session inputs from VR devices associated with the participants. The session inputs correspond to actions of the participants to modify a virtual object included in a VR expression of the VR session. The virtual object corresponds to the real-world assembly. In response to the session inputs, the VR system performs a transaction directed to the virtual object, which produces modifications of the real-world assembly corresponding to the modifications of the virtual object. A collaborative VR system can comprise a VR server and VR devices configured to perform the method. A computer program product can instruct processors of a VR system to perform the method.
